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There is a strong mortality gradient by socioeconomic status in most of today’s developedcountries, which has spurred both scientific and policy interest. Despite its importance, westill do not have a full understanding of the causes of this gradient, nor about when itemerged. In this paper we study socioeconomic differences in adult mortality for men andwomen in Sweden over an almost 200-year per
Groundwater depletion, driven by population growth and climate change, poses a critical challenge to global water security, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. This chapter explores groundwater artificial recharge with unconventional water (GARUW) as a transformative strategy to replenish stressed aquifers. A spectrum of unconventional resources, including treated wastewater, stormwater, d
Hydrogen related accidents often lead to a jet fire scenario due to the lower ignition energies and higher pressures associated with hydrogen and its storage. Fire barriers can be used for protection against jet fires. Barriers are capable of limiting flame extension by diverting the flames in a safer manner, eliminating the impingement risk on the unexposed side and thereby reducing required safe
There is a general consensus that children and adolescents should ideally travel to school actively and independently. Yet, in many parts of the world, real and perceived traffic risks represent a major barrier to walking, cycling, or the use of scooters. As the perspectives of children and adolescents on perceived dangers are insufficiently understood, this quantitative-qualitative study compares
Germany remains the only large country in the world without a general speed limit on highways. One of the main arguments for this policy is that lower speeds represent a travel time cost that is not outweighed by benefits, such as a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. As transport decision making in the European Union is based on cost-benefit analysis (CBA), this paper compares the value of tra
Active school travel has been associated with a wide range of psychological and physiological benefits. However, many parents (particularly those of primary school children) are concerned about their children’s safety due to traffic and urban infrastructure. In this research, we collected information about the geographical school routes, the transportation mode, and the accompaniment status of chi
INTRODUCTION: Women are increasingly entering the dementia research workforce, but they frequently fail to attain senior leadership positions in academia. Discrepancies in academic research outputs were investigated to guide equity-focused policy recommendations.METHODS: Bibliometrics was conducted on 400,482 original research articles (2003-2022) followed by surveying the AD/ADRD research communi
In an era of global change, understanding available water resources is increasingly important. In Sweden, this challenge has intensified due to climate change driven pressures and rising water demand, yet suitable tools for assessing water storage remain limited. This study presents a novel approach for evaluating surface water storage using a modified Australian Water Resources Assessment Landsca
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with high mortality and long-term disability. Inflammation is central to TBI pathophysiology, yet early dynamics of inflammatory mediators in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) remain incompletely understood, and commonly used assay platforms have rarely been directly compared. We aimed to characterize the inflammatory response in blood and CSF du
Achieving meaningful curriculum internationalization requires moving beyond siloed, ad-hoc efforts, such as relying solely on the International Office, especially when it comes to addressing the key issue of engaging faculty in internationalization efforts. Instead, faculty involvement in curriculum internationalization is best garnered through planning that leverages institutional synergy.To guid
Timber structures often combine multiple lateral load-resisting systems whose interaction under serviceability loading remains insufficiently understood. This study presents a full-scale experimental investigation into the lateral response of a single-storey timber mock-up comprising lightweight timber frame wall diaphragms, a roof diaphragm, and a centrally positioned moment-resisting frame. Two
Objective To examine associations of common mental disorders (CMDs) with lifestyle habits and cardiovascular risk factors among participants in targeted health dialogues in Sweden. Methods A cross-sectional study included 8903 40- and 50-year-olds between September 20, 2021, and January 10, 2024. CMDs included depressive, anxiety, and stress-related disorders. Associations between CMDs and lifesty
A B S T R A C T: In Sweden, the number of single women increased during the 19th century. Legal changes partly aimed at giving women more ways to earn a living were enacted, which gradually opened up the artisan trades to female entrants. By using establishment censuses, this paper examines how the number of women engaged in the artisan trades changed in four towns in southern Sweden during the se
Event classifiers are the most fundamental observables to probe the event topology of hadronic and nuclear collisions at relativistic energies. Over the last five decades, significant progress has been made to establish suitable event classifiers to probe different physics processes occurring in elementary (Formula presented) to heavy-ion collisions in a broad range of center of mass energies. One
Background: – Adverse muscle composition (AMC), defined by low muscle volume and increased muscle fat infiltration, has been associated with comorbidity and poor function in chronic kidney disease (CKD), and increased mortality in metabolic disorders and the general population. We investigated whether MRI-derived muscle composition is associated with all-cause mortality in a UK Biobank (UKB) imagi
Background: Homologous recombination (HR) deficiency (HRD) is prevalent in ovarian, prostate, and specific subgroups of breast cancer, particularly triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Tumor HRD status can be inferred through DNA-based, RNA-based, functional, or image-based approaches. A comprehensive evaluation of the concordance and discordance among HRD prediction methods derived from these di
Background and Objectives – Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) deficiency is a potentially treatable neurodegenerative genetic disorder. It represents a common cause of mitochondrial disease. Most published reports are limited to single cases, and population-based data are lacking. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence, incidence, and life expectancy and to explore genot
Background: Guidelines discourage prediction of neurological outcome in comatose patients within the first 72 h after cardiac arrest. Increasing evidence suggests that patients with the most severe brain injury and those with no or minimal brain injury may be identified before 72 h using novel methods. We present a protocol for the EARLY-NEURO study, which aims to evaluate whether good and poor ou
In ultra high-energy collisions, nuclei with very low binding energies are not expected to survive the dense and hot final state environment. The traditional view has therefore been that nuclei form via coalescence after the hot environment has dissipated. However, statistical thermal models, where hadrons are produced from a fireball at thermal equilibrium, can describe the relative abundances of
