Published 28 October 2016 The time is ripe for a life cycle review of LED, say Associate Professors Thomas Lindhqvist & Mikael Backman. Photo: Peter Liljenberg Associate Professors Thomas Lindhqvist and Mikael Backman at the IIIEE have just initiated new research in the framework of the Lighting Metropolis project where they hope to confirm or dismiss some of the biggest concerns and speculations

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Published 3 November 2016 Professor Oksana Mont Photo: Kennet Ruona On 2 November, Prof. Oksana Mont states the importance of differentiating between the concepts of reusing and recycling in the article "Varje dag skrotas tusentals datorer i onödan" written by Inrego for Dagens Nyheter."Reusing is better for the environment than recycling", says Prof. Oksana Mont in Dagens Nyheter.Read the full ar

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Published 8 November 2016 On 9 November, two trial lectures will take place for the position as “Professor in sustainable urban governance - for the transition to low-carbon and resource efficient economies." The trial lectures will be held in Palaestra at Lund University at 08:30 - 10:00.As part of the recruitment process for the position as Professor in sustainable urban governance - for the tra

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Published 15 November 2016 On 15 November, the yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" will be announced and a prize ceremony will take place during the evening. Former IIIEE Director Thomas B. Johansson and the Vice Chancellor of Lund University, Torbjörn von Schantz, will open the ceremony.During the evening the current IIIEE Director, Professor Lena Neij, will give a talk and share her view on the

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Published 15 November 2016 IIIEE alumna Niina Kautto soon on her way to Antarctica. Former IIIEE PhD student Niina Kautto has been selected as one of 78 women travelling to Antarctica soon as part of a new leadership programme called Homeward Bound. It is a state-of-the-art leadership and strategic initiative that aims to amplify the influence and impact of women with science backgrounds to lead t

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-niina-kautto-soon-her-way-antarctica-part-homeward-bound - 2025-07-25

Published 25 November 2016 1 December 2016 On 1 December at 10:00 - 12:00 the seminar Advancing Sustainable Cities - Implementing Agenda 2030, will take place at Malmö Live, Dag Hammarskjölds torg 4 in Malmö. This seminar is part of the Sustainable City Development Conference, 30 November - 2 December 2016.The seminar is arranged by the Lund University Urban Arena and will explore interlinkages be

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Published 17 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / Arek Socha 1) We found 15 national/regional registries of congenital heart disease worldwide. 2) Registry coverage ranged from 25 to 100% of all eligible cases. 3) The best registries contain demographic, clinical, physical, and laboratory data. 4) Regular verification is essential for quality data and valid statistical findings. Read the paper at https

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/national-and-regional-registries-congenital-heart-diseases-strengths-weaknesses-and-opportunities - 2025-07-25

Published 18 September 2021 Quantitative bias analyses allow researchers to adjust for uncontrolled confounding, given specification of certain bias parameters. When researchers are concerned about unknown confounders, plausible values for these bias parameters will be difficult to specify. Read the paper at https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2021/09000/The_Importance_of_M…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/importance-making-assumptions-bias-analysis - 2025-07-25

Published 18 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / Colin Behrens The benefits of using data from national registers as endpoints in epidemiological studies include faster, less resource-intensive access to nationwide data and considerably lower loss to follow-up, compared to manual data collection in a limited geographical area. Read the paper at https://www.dovepress.com/validating-acute-myocardial-inf

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/validating-acute-myocardial-infarction-diagnoses-national-health-registers-use-endpoint-research - 2025-07-25

Published 19 September 2021 The integrative data approach is an effective way to conduct cancer research assessing multilevel factors on cancer outcomes among small populations. Read the paper at https://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/30/8/1506.long

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/integrating-electronic-health-record-cancer-registry-and-geospatial-data-study-lung-cancer-asian - 2025-07-25

Published 19 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / www_slon_pics This first publication of the Austrian Society of Esophageal Surgery shows that the outcome of esophageal surgery for cancer in Austria compares well with that of renowned international centers. However, a more comprehensive approach including as many national centers as possible will improve outcome research, offer quality management, and

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/esophageal-resection-austria-preparing-national-registry - 2025-07-25

Published 20 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / geralt The CARTR Plus registry is a robust resource for ART data in Canada. It provides easily accessible aggregated data for Canadian fertility clinics, and it contains data that are internationally comparable. Read the paper at https://academic.oup.com/hropen/article/2020/3/hoaa022/5848715

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Published 20 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / geralt Parameters representing adjusted treatment effects may be defined marginally or conditionally on covariates. The choice between a marginal or covariate-conditional parameter should be driven by the study question. However, an unappreciated benefit of marginal estimators is a reduction in susceptibility to finite-sample bias relative to the unpena

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/decreased-susceptibility-marginal-odds-ratios-finite-sample-bias - 2025-07-25

Published 21 September 2021 Confounding, selection bias, and measurement error are well-known sources of bias in epidemiologic research. Methods for assessing these biases have their own limitations. Read the paper at https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2021/09000/Multiple_bias_Sensi…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/multiple-bias-sensitivity-analysis-using-bounds - 2025-07-25

Published 21 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / Brian Merrill Monitoring survival in cancer is a common concern for patients, physicians, and public health researchers. The traditional cohort approach for monitoring cancer prognosis has a timeliness problem. In this paper, we propose a survivorship-period-cohort (SPC) model for examining the effects of survivorship, period, and year-of-diagnosis coho

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/survivorship-period-cohort-model-cancer-survival-application-liver-cancer-taiwan-1997-2016 - 2025-07-25

Published 22 September 2021 Life-course epidemiology is useful for describing and analyzing complex etiological mechanisms for disease development, but existing statistical methods are essentially confirmatory, because they rely on a priori model specification. Read the paper at https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/190/9/1898/6189737

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/data-driven-model-building-life-course-epidemiology - 2025-07-25

Published 22 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / Ronny Overhate Although the need for addressing matching in the analysis of matched case-control studies is well established, debate remains as to the most appropriate analytical method when matching on at least 1 continuous factor Read the paper at https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/190/9/1859/6162924

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/matched-versus-unmatched-analysis-matched-case-control-studies - 2025-07-25

Published 23 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / Gerd Altmann In the causal mediation framework, several parametric-regression–based approaches have been introduced in the last decade for estimating natural direct and indirect effects. For a binary outcome, a number of proposed estimators use a logistic model and rely on specific assumptions or approximations that may be delicate or not easy to verify

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/parametric-regression-based-causal-mediation-analysis-binary-outcomes-and-binary-mediators-moving - 2025-07-25

Published 23 September 2021 Foto från snd.gu.se Improvements in the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) have resulted in longer survival and an increased focus on optimising daily functioning with the condition. Patient- reported outcome measures (PROMs) are valuable tools in evaluating the health- related quality of life of persons with chronic diseases. Read the paper at https://bmjopenrespres.bmj

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/acceptability-patient-reported-outcome-measures-proms-cystic-fibrosis-data-registry - 2025-07-25

Published 24 September 2021 Photo: Pixabay / Arek Socha Confounding by comorbidities is of concern in many epidemiological studies. To take this into account a common strategy is to calculate each participant’s Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and use this for adjustment in regression analyses. Various CCI adjustment strategies are possible, and it is unclear, which is preferable. Read the paper a

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/methodical-considerations-adjusting-charlson-comorbidity-index-epidemiological-studies - 2025-07-25