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This editorial reflects on recent developments at Historical Life Course Studies over the past two years. It highlights the successful completion of two special issues, including one on infant mortality and another on histories of health published in honour of Angélique Janssens. The editorial notes encouraging trends in submissions, citations, and online visibility, and announces an upcoming spec

Monitoring and characterizing melt pool dynamics in additive manufacturing is essential for understanding complex thermal and material behaviors that govern layer formation. Melt pool characteristics, such as size, shape, and dynamics, directly influence microstructure evolution, mechanical properties, and dimensional accuracy of the printed part. Therefore, accurate and efficient methods for melt

Peatlands store a substantial amount of carbon in the terrestrial ecosystem. They are both long-term sinks of organic carbon and a major natural source of atmospheric methane. The accumulation of carbon is a result of net primary production surpassing decomposition rates over millennia, whereas methane production is intricately linked to the anaerobic decomposition of carbon mass. Warming-induced

The stability of therapeutic proteins is crucial for maintaining their efficacy and safety. Misfolded or aggregated proteins can accelerate aggregation by a seeding effect, altering protein stability and interactions. Heat-induced aggregates can pose a risk because they can have perturbed structures that expose aggregate-prone regions. This study explored seeding by heat-induced protein aggregates

Background: Black carbon (BC) is an air pollutant of growing concern due to its adverse impacts on health and climate. Growing evidence suggests that BC could have a number of negative impacts on morbidity and mortality, but more evidence is needed. Objective: The objectives of this study are to quantify any associations between BC exposure and cause-specific (cardiovascular and cancer) mortality

The tourism industry is likely to face significant challenges stemming from climate change and fluctuations in travel costs. This study investigates the potential impacts of these factors on tourism demand in Fjord Norway, and shows that both environmental conditions and travel expenses play a substantial role in influencing tourism demand. However, tourists exhibit a higher sensitivity to variati

Throughout the past decade, neural network-based vision has been increasingly integrated into robots. It is well-known, however, that neural networks can be unreliable, especially when faced with inputs that differ from their training data. With the goal of making neural network-based vision more reliable for robotic applications, this thesis explores uncertainty estimation, and adaptability.A

First sphere engineering has enabled potent artificial phosphatases, but strategies that generate enzyme-like second-sphere effects with simple disordered materials remain limited. Here we demonstrate that partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol (PVA80, 80% hydrolyzed) acts as a minimalist soft matter scaffold that amplifies the hydrolytic activity of hydrated Zn(II). Rather than functioning a

Det här är den andra rapporten i det treåriga forskningsprojektet Kommunikativa organisationer 2.0. Rapporten baseras på tidigare forskning samt intervjuer med 47 personer inom tre olika organisationer. I denna rapport fokuseras chefer och medarbetare i ett verksamhetsnära perspektiv. I rapportens första del ges en övergripande bild av tidigare forskning om ledarskap och det hybrida arbetslivet. D

The socioeconomic health gradient has widened since the mid-21st century, but the role of childhood neighborhoods remains underexplored. Most neighborhood studies on health are cross-sectional, and longitudinal research is lacking.We analyze how socioeconomic neighborhood conditions in childhood influence cause-specific deaths in adulthood. We use uniquely detailed geocoded longitudinal microdata

This thesis contributes to the development of the proposed NNBAR experiment at theEuropean Spallation Source (ESS), which aims to search for free neutron-antineutron oscillations with unprecedented experimental sensitivity. Achieving this goal requires both an intense beam of cold neutrons and a detector capable of reconstructing the pionic final state expected from antineutron annihilation on a c

The aim of this paper is to explore the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of the Takituduh Bunun (Austronesian: Central Taiwan) motion prefix u-, glossed as MOT. One central function of this prefix is to encode translocative motion. It can attach to a general locative marker, location nouns, nouns that denote places, and place names to derive a verbal constituent that encodes translocative m

Background and aims Secondary prevention medications after myocardial infarction (MI) are crucial for reducing mortality and cardiovascular events, however, adherence is often suboptimal. This study aimed to investigate predictors of adherence, and clinical outcomes among STEMI and NSTEMI survivors in Sweden. Methods This nationwide cohort study included patients hospitalized with MI between 2017

There is increasing evidence that over-production of reactive species (RS) constitutes a significant physiological cost for migrating birds. The current view entails that RS during migration originate primarily from increased metabolic activity associated with prolonged flights and refueling. In this review, we argue that there is another substantial, yet mostly overlooked, source for RS in migrat

The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on platinum is limited by a substantial overpotential, which hampers the efficiency of fuel cell technologies. While adsorbate binding energies have been widely used to explain ORR kinetics, we here illustrate a more complex role of platinum surface oxides, which are often ambiguously defined in the literature. We use operando total reflection X-ray absorption f

Under electrochemical polarization, many electrocatalysts can undergo oxidation that alters their reactivity and can lead to restructuring and dissolution. In this context, the structure-property relationships of electrocatalysts, as well as their kinetics and dynamic behaviour, are still poorly understood. This knowledge gap mainly relies on the limitations of many traditional spectroscopic and s