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Under tusentals år har människor fascinerats av fabler. I korta berättelser skildrar fabellitteraturen dråpliga scener och situationer, oftast med talande djur som aktörer. Fablerna ger sin läsare moraliska råd och tankeställare: om hur man maximerar en fördel, om hur man undviker en fara, om hur det går till här i världen. Den klassiska fabeltraditionen nådde Sverige under medeltiden och hade s

Background: The function of the brain is dependent on cooperation of nerve cells in multiple regions, which is performed through network interactions. A possible expression for this cooperation could be creative output such as visual art. Cognitive disorders influence the foundations for the network interactions which should then also influence creativity.Aim: The thesis investigates this by exami

AIM: Risk assessment tools for periodontitis lack sufficient precision to predict disease progression. The aim of this exploratory study was to evaluate proteolytic activity (PA) in gingival crevicular fluid in relation to clinically assessed progression risk, microbial community composition and host proteome.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Samples were collected from 109 patients with periodontitis and st

This work investigates a new regularization method for conditional variational autoencoder networks in unsupervised anomaly detection. The proposed regularization takes advantage of the network’s ability to embed images into a lower-dimensional latent space according to clusters of known classes. Previous literature has predominantly implemented cluster locations as learnable parameters of the mod

Background: Dietary vitamins play a role in antioxidant defense and immunoregulation. However, prospective studies exploring the association between vitamin intakes during pregnancy and the child’s risk of type 1 diabetes are limited. Objectives: This population-based prospective cohort study aimed to investigate the association between maternal intake of vitamins A, C, D, and E during pregnancy a

Wastewater has been recognized as a source of valuable energy and water resources, and high-salinity wastewater in particular provides an opportunity to harness salinity gradient energy. In this study, cation-selective graphitic carbon nitride/silk nanofiber (C3N4/SNF) nanofluidic membranes with different SNF amounts were fabricated and characterized. The C3N4/SNF membrane (with 10 wt% SNF) displa

Jewelry design is a complex and craft-based practice involving diverse activities, processes, and interactions with a range of actors to create jewelry that meets clients’ individual needs. However, how jewelry design, as a practice, is carried out is not very well described and, therefore, is not fully understood. Investigating how designers manage their work, what inspires them, how they relate

Objective: We investigated the risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and drug use disorder (DUD) in the offspring of parents with major depression (MDD) or bipolar disorder (BD), including how parent and offspring sex impact familial transmission. Method: Offspring born in Sweden during 1970–1990 in intact families with parental MDD or BD (n = 1,218,920) were examined using Swedish population regist

The upcoming revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) will require reporting of the whole life-cycle global warming potential (GWP) for new buildings from 2028 at the European level. In the Nordic countries, several frontrunners have already introduced national climate declaration requirements for new buildings. The focus was primarily on embodied emissions from building ma

Background: Characterizing the immune landscape of thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) is essential for patient stratification for emerging immunotherapeutic approaches and for optimizing follow-up strategies. In this study, we examined the expression patterns and clinical significance of five immune-related markers in a large cohort of TETs. Material and methods: Expression of TIM3, OX40L, GTF2I, XPO

When the dimensions of structures shrink to the order of the inelastic mean free path of the energy-carrying quasi-particles, the character of energy transport changes from diffusive to ballistic. However, the point of transition remains a matter of debate. Here, we leverage the fluence-dependent transport efficiency to distinguish ballistic and diffusive electron transport in an approach not rely

Social epidemiologists frequently aim to quantify how social, spatial, or organizational contexts shape individual outcomes, an aim commonly addressed through the use of multilevel models. These models readily estimate the magnitude of group-level differences, but it is more difficult to formalize the uncertainty in the relative ordering of predicted group-level outcomes, which is often considered

Intermittent hypoxia (IH), the defining physiological feature of obstructive sleep apnea, has been strongly linked to cardiovascular morbidity, yet the early myocardial effects of short-term IH remain poorly characterized. In this study, we investigated whether brief IH exposure elicits adaptive anti-apoptotic signaling or early injurious activation of intrinsic apoptotic pathways in the murine he

Varför är Sverigedemokraterna intresserade av historia när så få andra politiska partier i vår samtid verkar vara det? Vilken historia är det som lockar och hur görs den till politiska poänger? Svaren finns i deras nationalistiska ideologi. Här ses historien genom ett särskilt prisma där nationalismen avgör hur händelser och personer framträder. Genom att konstruera existensen av en nationell ödes

We demonstrate that the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) and the Festina-Lente conjecture (FLC) yield novel bounds on any hypothetical fifth force and millicharged particles (mCPs), as well as on the scale of inflation and on the effective Higgs quartic interaction. In particular, we find that combining the FLC with inflation leads to stronger bounds on mCPs than what the simple application of the FL