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Nationhood in a Pandemic, Nordic Gold or Nordic Noir? The Interplay between National Identity, Political Trust, Affective Polarization, and Attitudes to Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden in 2020-2021
Covid-19 is testing our societies in the midst of a democratic recession, driven by escalating political distrust, polarization, and anti-immigrant sentiments.The solution, accordi...
Live and wet markets in Asia: the importance for food security and disease emergence
In South and Southeast Asia, markets often sell animal products as well as live animals. Many people depend on these markets for their livelihood or food supply.The mix of humans,...
Key microbial odorants for innovative codling moth control
Phytophagous insects typically feed on only a few plants and shifts to new hosts promote speciation and biodiversity. Host plant finding depends on olfactory cues.It is, however, y...
Alien Structure: Language and Reality
What sorts of languages can there be? And more specifically, what sorts of semantic differences can there be between languages?Can there be alien languages – languages whose expres...
Stroke prophylaxis with Apixaban in CKD5 patients with atrial fibrillation (SACK)
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a frequent cardiovascular complication in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), which more than double the risk of stroke.Currently there is a knowl...
Nomination of Professor Martin Shepperd, Brunel University, UK
Professor Martin John Shepperd, PhD, Dept. of Computer Science, Brunel University London, UKJan-Dec 2022 (12 months on 0.75 FTE)The purpose of this visit is fourfold.One, contribu...
Older adults’ contribution to informal caregiving: temporal trends, profiles and adverse health consequences
In Sweden, ageing demographics and policy changes in eldercare have led to an increased number of older people living the last part of their life at home. Many of these individuals...
Effect of anthropogenic noise on fish in the wild
Anthropogenic (man-made) noise (AN) has dramatically changed the acoustic environment in our marine and freshwater ecosystems.Noise from e.g shipping, boating, and energy productio...
From Shapes to Action (SHACT) – The Narrative Turn in Prehistoric Image-Making in Northern Europe
In this three-year project, we shall investigate the emergence of prehistoric pictorial storytelling in northern Europe. Storytelling with pictures did hardly occur in image-making...
Translation of bladder cancer molecular subtypes into clinical practice to personalize treatment decisions from non-muscle invasive to metastatic disease
Several negative pharma-industry sponsored phase III bladder cancer studies have recently been reported (DANUBE/IMvigor010/IMvigor211/ KEYNOTE361), despite exceptional long-term re...
Promoting preparedness for family caregiving in a specialised palliative home care context - a randomized controlled web-based intervention trial
For family caregivers of patients with life-threatening illness, preparedness for caregiving is crucial for maintaining health and quality of life during care and after the death o...
Complicated plastics: addressing taboo waste streams to promote user dignity and sustainable consumption
The growing use of ‘complicated plastics,’ particularly menstrual products, is on one side critical for human dignity, education and mobility, while on the other side creates chall...
The Family Talk Intervention in clinical practice when a parent with dependent children or a child is severely ill: An effectiveness-implementation study
When a family with dependent children is affected by severe illness this affects the entire family. Still, there is little research evaluating support to such families.This interve...
Hydro-territorial Rights and Rural Sustainability in the Global South
Land and water are key natural resources around which questions of rural sustainability are structured.In indigenous and rural societies of the Global South, not only do these reso...
Pesticides as agricultural drivers of antibiotic resistance
More than 2 million tons of pesticides are used in agriculture each year and select for pesticide resistance in bacteria present on crops, in soil and in manure, including in human...
The interface of signalling and flow in regulation of vascular architecture and function in genetic disease
We study central signalling components and shear forces in the rearrangement of the heterogenous endothelial cell population into arteries, capillaries, and veins with a focus on g...
IMPROVE – Promoting equitable reproductive health: IMplementing best practice postpartum contraceptive services through a quality imPROVEment initiative for and with immigrant women in Sweden
Postpartum care represents a key opportunity to improve women’s sexual, reproductive health and rights (SRHR), as it facilitates women’s choice of effective contraceptive methods....
Violence and coercion in psychiatric inpatient care: improved prevention through implementation of the proactive program Safewards
Violence and coercive interventions in psychiatric inpatient care are major problems that affect ward safety and security for patients and staff.A mainly reactive approach is consi...
Explaining COVID-19 mortality among immigrants in Sweden: A social determinants of health perspective
Immigrants from low- to high-income countries have experienced excess COVID-19 mortality in Sweden to an extent that contrasts sharply with the immigrant mortality advantage observ...
Ageing in place – from policy to practice. Consequences of the de-institutionalisation of Swedish eldercare for older people and their family members
In recent decades, there have been drastic reductions in municipal institutional care for older people in Sweden, driven by cost containment measures and by an ageing in place poli...