Background: Evidence abounds on the independent roles of social class and smoking in relation to obstructive airway diseases, but data are sparse on the impact of their interaction. We evaluated whether and to what extent social class and smoking interact in relation to risk of respiratory diseases in adults. Methods: Data from the population-based studies, West Sweden Asthma Study (WSAS, n = 23,7

Purpose: As social infrastructures, public libraries are increasingly recognised as providing more than access to books and information; librarians’ work is importantly centred around practices of care. However, the ways in which they provide care is poorly researched, let alone conceptualised. This paper explores how this important part of librarians’ daily work is practiced through the lens of i

Livsmedelsstrategin beskriver en vision som innebär att den svenska livsmedelskedjan år 2030 ska vara globalt konkurrenskraftig, innovativ, hållbar och attraktiv. Men i verkligheten präglas den av främst små och medelstora företag med begränsade investeringar och lågt fokus på FoU. Samtidigt finns det ett större utbud av livsmedelsprodukter på marknaden som gör det svårt för konsumenterna att välj

AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Delivery by Caesarean section continues to rise globally and has been associated with the risk of developing type 1 diabetes and the rate of progression from pre-symptomatic stage 1 or 2 type 1 diabetes to symptomatic stage 3 disease. The aim of this study was to examine the association between Caesarean delivery and progression to stage 3 type 1 diabetes in children with pre-symp

Utställningen visar några av resultaten från ett pågående forsknings- och bokprojekt som handlar om hur vi bor och hur vi hanterar avfallet på de platser vi bor. Arbetet i sin helhet innefattar observationer och intervjuer i 27 miljöer där vi hanterar avfall runt om i Sverige.Utställningen är ett samarbete mellan Anna-Sara Fagerholm, doktorand i universell utformning och Donald Boström, fotograf o

In the Milanković judgment, the First Section of the European Court of Human Rights was called upon to assess whether the applicant’s criminal convictions based on the doctrine of command responsibility violated the principle of legality laid down in art. 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court answered in the negative, finding itself in line with the jurisprudence of the ad hoc cr

The international health emergency caused by the Covid-19 outbreak is unpreceden‐ ted. The purpose of this article is to compare the legal approaches adopted by France and Italy in order to deal with the epidemiological crisis that threatens the health of citizens as well as the essential principles of the rule of law. The choice of the legal basis for the current emergency measures is analysed af

Decentralized Cloud Storage (DCS) is considered to be the future for sustainable data storage within Web 3.0, in which we will move from a single cloud service provider to creating an ecosystem where anybody could be a cloud storage provider. Currently, the cloud storage market is highly dominated by centralized players like Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Box, etc. Decentralized projects like Storj, Fil

In this thesis, we address three main security problems related to cryptography andcloud storage. To tackle the challenge posed by a quantum computer, we needencryption that is resistant to quantum computers. This category of cryptographyis called post-quantum cryptography. In the first paper, we solve a challengein one of the lattice-based cryptographic protocols called Nth-degree Truncatedpolyno

In which watershed is your field site located? What is the bedrock underneath yourinterlocutors like? What species other than humans are living in your study areas? The question of ‘where is the ecology’ is not new in political ecology, but the imperative to take ecology seriously remains difficult and at the same time crucial when conducting critical research at a time of climate crisis, extracti

Sugar beet molasses is a low-value byproduct from the sugar industry. It contains significant amounts of sucrose (approx. 50% (w/w)), which can be used for many different applications, for example, as feedstock for the production of fuel (as ethanol) and biobased chemicals such as 5-hydoxymethyl furfural (HMF). To produce platform chemicals, sucrose is hydrolyzed into its monomeric C6 sugars: gluc

Revegetation of the tailings dumps produced by various industrial activities is necessary to prevent dust storms and erosion and represents a great challenge for ecological restoration. Little is known about the microbial colonisation and community structure of revegetated tailings following site exploitation. Here, we report the sequencing of 16S rRNA and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) fungal

Although current Hg emissions from industrial activities may be accurately monitored, evidence of past releases to the atmosphere must rely on one or more environmental proxies. We used Hg concentrations in tree cores collected from poplars and willows to investigate the historical changes of Hg emissions from a dredged sediment landfill and compared them to a nearby control location. Our results