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Impact of land use on land-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases in savannahs of Sahel
In order to improve our predictions of climate change and its consequences, it is of major importance with an increased understanding of the processes affecting the land atmosphere...
Long-run effects of policies targeted at groups with weak position on the labor market
Sweden is facing major economic challenges with many new arrivals and large groups with reduced working capacity. This project consists of five sub-projects. The first three are ab...
Real meetings - when reality varies
2020 - the year when we were forced to embrace digitalization to enable work meetings.Despite the social distancing necessary due to the pandemic many organizations have managed to...
Evaluation of health effects and cost effectiveness from a sleep intervention with weight blankets in children with ADHD and sleep problems
In October 2020, SKR´s Medical Technology Product Council (MTR-rådet) recommended all regions in Sweden to not subsidize prescribing of weight blankets due to insufficient evidence...
The ambiguous socioeconomic gradient in immigrants’ health in the context of the ‘healthy migrant paradox’
The empirical evidence on pervasive and persistent socioeconomic inequalities in health is exhaustive.Existing studies, mostly from outside Sweden, have shown rather unexpected wea...
Uncovering the social dynamics of environmental change across scales: The local, regional and global human networks influencing adoption of sustainable practices in food production systems
The production and trade of agricultural commodities are a key part of the global food supply and global economy, yet they are a key contributor to the rapid degradation of our mos...
Cancer screening, stage at diagnosis and survival among people with disabilities: Evidences from the Swedish national registers
Disability is associated with health inequities worldwide.Studies mainly conducted in the US show lower screening attendance rates, more advanced cancer stage at diagnosis and shor...
Catalytic Conversion of Waste to Value
Heavy dependence on fossil feedstocks, increasing emissions and waste generation are pressing contemporary societal challenges and scientific progress is needed more than ever to e...
Covid-19 in Swedish eldercare – Is nursing home quality associated with high mortality rates?
Sweden has had a higher rate of covid-19 related mortality than its neighbors, and a large proportion of this mortality has occurred at nursing homes.While the most important drive...
Advanced applications of Ice Cloud Imager data
The Ice Cloud Imager (ICI) will be the first operational satellite instrument operating in the sub-millimetre region.By grants from SNSA and other funding opportunities we are and...
‘Unto dust shalt thou return’ - Hayabusa2´s discovery of asteroid regolith properties
The surfaces of small asteroids recently sampled by the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions are largely covered by a regolith of decimetre-sized or smaller particles. In the past, th...
When living gets tough: Depression and suicidal behavior in older adults with home care assistance or care in residential settings
Life weariness, death wishes and suicidal thoughts are more common in older adults who live in residential settings compared to their peers who live in the community.Despite the fa...
Prediagnostic early synaptic disturbances in neurodegenerative diseases
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are neurodegenerative disorders, which show overlapping clinical symptoms with other types of dementia.SynaDeg con...
Leveraging medical records to identify patients at risk of neurodegenerative disease
Neurodegenerative diseases represent a main public health issue in our society and a great challenge in drug development. Prevention policies have therefore become essential.Key to...
Galaxy evolution with JWST and HST
The formation and evolution of galaxies in the early universe is one of the open frontiers in observational astronomy.Detailed studies of galaxies at extreme distances (high redshi...
Consistent Air-Ice-Sea Data Assimilation of Satellite Observations (CAISA)
Processes close to the Earth´s surface play a central role for both oceanographic and meteorological forecasting. Most socio-economic processes that are affected by weather and the...
Humidity, clouds and snow in the Arctic
The Arctic climate is changing and the temperatures in the region are predicted to increase much more rapidly than the global average.Water is here key; the surface consists mainly...
Linking pre-diagnosis disturbances of physiological systems to Neurodegenerative Diseases
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are progressive neurodegenerative disorders (NDs) showing growing prevalence in industria...
Chemical impact on tissue repair and regeneration – interrogating beneficial vs. toxicological functions of aryl hydrocarbon receptor signalling on tissue homeostasis
The purpose of this project is to investigate the impact of xenobiotic chemicals on the ability to repair tissue damage, focusing on the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) as a biolog...
T cells in microgravity: High resolution microscopy and deep gene expression profiling to find the T cell gravisensor
Cells of the immune system has evolved to undergo rapid dynamics of the cell cytoskeleton during cell migration and for cell-cell interaction.We hypothesize that the force and tens...