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Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally1,2, yet their impacts are still increasing3. An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data4,5. On the basis of a global dataset of 45 pairs of events that occurred within the same area, we show that risk management generally reduces the impa

As the negative impacts of hydrological extremes increase in large parts of the world, a better understanding of the drivers of change in risk and impacts is essential for effective flood and drought risk management and climate adaptation. However, there is a lack of comprehensive, empirical data about the processes, interactions and feedbacks in complex human-water systems leading to flood and dr

INTRODUCTION: Depression is common, increasing among adolescents and carries risk of disability, lower educational achievements, cardiovascular disease, substance abuse, self-harm and suicide. The effects of evidence-based treatments with medication or psychotherapy are modest. Aerobic exercise is a promising intervention for adolescents with depression, but available studies are hampered by metho

AbstractBackgroundRecently, increasing attention has been paid to team processes in peripartum care settings with the aim to improve fetomaternal outcomes. However, we have yet to understand how the perception of teamwork in peripartum care is shaped in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment.MethodsThe aim of this study was to approach the question using qualitative social-scientific methodolog

På Världskulturmuseet i Göteborg har man sedan museet öppnade i december 2004 haft en utställningsinriktning där man i den mån det ansetts möjligt exponerat föremål fritt. Syftet är främst att öka upplevelsen för besökaren. Efter två års verksamhet kan man ur bevarandehänseende konstatera att denna modell i en del fall har haft negativ påverkan på föremålen. Förutom en ökad utsatthet för damm har

Även om Egypten på 1600- och 1700-talet var ett otillgängligt land för européerna så var det inte okänt eller främmande. I stället ingick Egypten som en viktig referenspunkt i den europeiska religiösa kulturen och historiesynen. Via kyrko­målningar och i predikan återgavs Bibelns be­rättelser om Moses i vassen, Josefs drömtydning och flykten från Egypten. Den forntida egyptiska civilisationen hyll

This paper examines the role of student facial attractiveness on academic outcomes under various forms of instruction, using data from engineering students in Sweden. When education is in-person, attractive students receive higher grades in non-quantitative subjects, in which teachers tend to interact more with students compared to quantitative courses. This finding holds both for males and female

Rapporten undersöker hur de olika utbildningstraditionerna i Sverige och USApåverkar undervisning och lärande. Rapporten lyfter fram svenska akademikers erfarenheter av att undervisa vid amerikanska universitet inom ramen för STINT Teaching Sabbatical-programmet och syftar till att ge en utgångspunkt för framtida diskussioner.

The spectral functions of the one-band half-filled one-dimensional Hubbard chain are calculated using the exchange-correlation potential formalism developed recently. The exchange-correlation potential is adopted from the exact potential derived from the Hubbard dimer. Within an approximation in which the full Green's function is replaced by a noninteracting one, the spectral functions can be calc

he case that constitutes the subject for this paper is a voluntourism project organized in the Faroe Islands that has gained worldwide attention. Unskilled volunteers were called to perform maintenance works while popular hiking trails remained closed for regular tourists. The idea turned into a successful marketing campaign for the Faroe Islands. Our study is anchored in theories on tourism desti

As the modern society becomes larger and increasingly diverse, its problems become more elusive and solutions far-fetched. This puts pressure on relevant education. Geographical knowledge, whose raison d’être has always been to deal with complexity, should therefore be in high demand, but isn’t. In this presentation we want to investigate why this is the case, by outlining three major problems geo

The case that constitutes the subject for this paper is a voluntourism project organized in the Faroe Islands that has gained worldwide attention. Unskilled volunteers were called to perform maintenance works while popular hiking trails remained closed for regular tourists. Thousands applied to build and mark trails in exchange for bed and board, while the idea was a successful marketing campaign

The article presents a theoretical framework for analyzing domestic innovative capability in relation to industrial espionage, drawing on material from the Soviet military aerospace sector, 1946–1990. It employs a structured comparative case study of six Soviet aircraft systems, which are compared to their closest Western equivalent. Three ideal types are used to categorize each case: copycat (mos