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Cation-Dependent Hot Carrier Cooling in Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

Lead halide perovskites (LHPs) nanocrystals (NCs), owing to their outstanding photophysical properties, have recently emerged as a promising material not only for solar cells but also for lighting and display applications. The photophysical properties of these materials can be further improved by chemical engineering such as cation exchange. Hot carrier (HC) cooling, as one of the key photophysic

Bio-Inspired Urea Dosing and NOx Conversion : using a Biomimetic Effervescent Injector

Transport of people and freight on-road have a big impact on the total energy use in the world. The majority of these transports is propelled with diesel engines and the reason is simply that the diesel engine is better than the gasoline engine due to lower fuel consumption. But the cost of this is the increase in dangerous nitrogen oxides (NOx). Around 10 000 people dies everyyear due to emission

A comparison of cycling cultures in Stockholm and Copenhagen

This study focuses on two central Scandinavian cities – Copenhagen and Stockholm – that are generally thought to be culturally close but have deviated with respect to cycling policies and infrastructure. Based on a survey including inhabitants of Copenhagen (n¼1110) and Stockholm (n¼1191), this study investigated whether cyclists in Copenhagen and Stockholm experience thetransport systems in the t

The mortality increase in cardiac surgery patients associated with shrunken pore syndrome correlates with the eGFR cystatin C /eGFR creatinine -ratio

Shrunken pore syndrome (SPS) is a condition in which estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based upon cystatin C is lower than eGFR based upon creatinine. It has been associated with increased mortality even in the presence of normal GFR in both a cardiac surgical population and a general population. No systematic studies of the variation in eGFR cystatin C /eGFR creatinine -ratio used fo

Spatial statistical modelling of insurance risk : a spatial epidemiological approach to car insurance

Spatial models, such as the Besag, York and Mollie (BYM) model, have long been used in epidemiology and disease mapping. A common research question in these subjects is modelling the number of disease events per region; here the BYM models provides a holistic framework for both covariates and dependencies between regions. We use these tools to assess the relative insurance risk associated with the

Branddynamiska metoder som stöd för räddningstjänsten : Sammanfattande slutrapport

There are great opportunities to use fire science-based models in fire service activates. However, it is necessary to applied and evaluated such models in a fire service context. This report summarises a project where the aim has been to investigate how fire dynamics is used and can be used to support fire service in preventative, investigative and operational activities. In general, there is room

Mobile-powered head-mounted displays versus cave automatic virtual environment experiments for evacuation research

Different virtual reality (VR) experimental tools and equipment are available for evacuation research, ranging from highly immersive systems such as cave automatic virtual environments (CAVEs) to head-mounted displays (HMDs). In particular, mobile-powered HMDs are an extremely cost-efficient solution, for which the research potential for evacuation studies needs to be assessed. This study compares

Enkätstudie om användning av värmekamera vid brand i byggnad

Thermal cameras can be used in building fires, for example, to locate people or find concealed fires. In this report, the result from a questionnaire study, on the use of thermal cameras in the fire service, is presented. The questionnaire consisted of 20 questions and it was answered by a total of 88 people from fire services in Sweden. The questions can be divided into the following three areas:

Proteomic and genomic profiling of pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer remains the most fatal human tumor type. The aggressive tumor biology coupled with the lack of early detection strategies and effective treatment are major reasons for the poor survival rate. Collaborative research efforts have been devoted to understand pancreatic cancer at the molecular level. Large-scale genomic studies have generated important insights into the genetic driver

Pesticide exposure among Bolivian farmers : associations between worker protection and exposure biomarkers

The use of pesticides has increased during the past decades, also increasing the risk of exposure to toxic pesticides that can cause detrimental health effects in the future. This is of special concern among farmers in low-to-middle-income countries that may lack proper training in the safe use of these chemicals. To assess the situation in Bolivia a cross-sectional study in three agricultural com

The big two dictionaries : Capturing agency and communion in natural language

Four studies developed and validated two dictionaries to capture agentic and communal expressions in natural language. Their development followed the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) approach (Study 1) and we tested their validity with frequency-based analyses and semantic similarity measures. The newly developed Agency and Communion dictionaries were aligned with LIWC categories related t

Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel

In this article, we describe the record linkage procedure to create a panel from Cape Colony census returns, or opgaafrolle, for 1787–1828, a dataset of 42,354 household-level observations. Based on a subset of manually linked records, we first evaluate statistical models and deterministic algorithms to best identify and match households over time. By using household-level characteristics in the l

‘Already existing’ sustainability experiments : Lessons on water demand, cleanliness practices and climate adaptation from the UK camping music festival

Experimentation has become a popular term amongst those interested in fostering more sustainable social futures. But the ways in which researchers and policy makers have thought about experimentation have generally been with reference to new infrastructural and governance conditions. Focusing on intentional interventions downplays the capacity for change stemming from peoples’ already existing pra

Climbing the ladder : an evaluation of three different anguillid eel climbing substrata and placement of upstream passage solutions at migration barriers

Conservation programmes for endangered, long-lived and migratory species often have to target multiple life stages. The bottlenecks associated with the survival of juvenile anguillid eels migrating into inland waters, the survival and growth of the freshwater life stage, as well as the recruitment and survival of silver eels, migrating back to the ocean to spawn, must be resolved. In this study, w

A comparative study between D2Q9 and D2Q5 lattice Boltzmann scheme for mass transport phenomena in porous media

Characterization of different transport phenomena through porous media represents a key factor to improve mechanical or electrical properties of materials. Porous materials have several applications in different fields such as geological sciences, energy sciences or biological applications. Considering the difficulty to carry out experimental studies in porous media, these transport phenomena are

Unveiling Excitonic Dynamics in High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells to Direct Morphological Optimization for Suppressing Charge Recombination

Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs)-based organic solar cells (OSCs) have recently drawn considerable research interests; however, their excitonic dynamics seems quite different than that of fullerene acceptors-based devices and remains to be largely explored. A random terpolymer of PBBF11 to pair with a paradigm NFA of 3,9-bis(2-methylene-(3-(1,1-dicyanomethylene)-indanone)-5,5,11,11-tetrakis(4-hexylp