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The Importance of Impoundment interception in Simulating Riverine Dissolved Organic Carbon

Modeling of riverine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) dynamics is of great importance for the global carbon budget. Impoundment interception changes the travel time of water and DOC from upslope contributing areas, exerting substantial influence on riverine DOC dynamics in the catchments with many impoundments. However, the impact of impoundment interception representation on riverine DOC modeling h

Feeling the changing climate : An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city

I tidigare forskning inom strategisk kommunikation har klimatförändringar undersökts utifrån ett rationellt sätt att kommunicera olika politiska, företagsmässiga eller vetenskapliga intressen. Dessa studier förhåller sig ofta till känslor som antingen psykologiska effekter av planerad kommunikation eller som redan existerande faktorer vilka påverkar förståelsen av frågan. I dessa studier anses denPrevious research has studied the strategic communication of climate change as a rational and purposeful means of communicating about climate change in accordance with political, corporate or scientific interests. These studies often consider emotions either as the psychological effects of planned communication, or as pre-existing attachments that influence an individual's understanding of the iss

Waning infant pertussis during COVID-19 pandemic

Measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have been associated with reduction in other respiratory infections. Results of a national Swedish cohort study of infant pertussis during April 2020–September 2021 were compared with those during January 2014–March 2020. The number of pertussis cases decreased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, from an average of 21 infant cases per quarter of a

SARS‐CoV‐2 and pregnancy outcomes under universal and non‐universal testing in Sweden: register‐based nationwide cohort study

ObjectiveTo assess associations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and pregnancy outcomes considering testing policy and test-positivity-to-delivery interval.DesignNationwide cohort study.SettingSweden.PopulationFrom the Pregnancy-Register we identified 88 593 singleton births, 11 March 2020–31 January 2021, linked to data on SARS-CoV-2-positivity from the Pu

Smart cities at the intersection of public governance paradigms for sustainability

As a research domain, the smart city keeps growing, despite the remaining contradictions and ambiguity related to its conceptual aspects. We propose to dig deeper into the complex socio-technical nature of the smart city and examine the concept through the lens of different public governance paradigms, therefore aligning it with the sustainability outcomes. Embracing interrelated dimensions of hum

From electrification to decarbonization: Insights from Portugal's experience (1960-2016)

Deep electrification powered by renewable sources has emerged as a pivotal strategy for achieving ambitious CO2 emission reduction targets. However, the true impact of electrification on decarbonization remains inadequately measured because the whole energy chain has not yet been fully considered. This study combines Societal Exergy Accounting and Logarithmic Mean Divisia decomposition analysis to

Prerequisites for digital participation : the case of digital health technology and people with impairments

Digital healthcare services and digital health information, here called eHealth services, have the potential to reach people with diverse needs as both a complement to and a substitution for traditional healthcare. The access to and use of digital health information and digital healthcare services that are accessible and usable for people with impairments is a complex phenomenon.This potential is

Is the city planned and built for me? : citizens’ experiences of inclusion, exclusion and (un)equal living conditions in the built environment

This paper is based on a study where four go-along interviews with a total of sixteen participants were conducted in three Swedish cities. The purpose of this study was to find out how different aspects and qualities of the built environment affected different persons in terms of experiences of inclusion and exclusion and strategies used to deal with obstacles in the environment. The study highlig

The End of Law and Other Miracles : On the Limitations of Apocalyptic Political Theologies

This article explores various attempts to critique the law with reference to an authority or idea that is seen as transcending law in its existing forms. As heuristic tools, I use a distinction be-tween prophetic and apocalyptic discourses, the former referring to discourses that remain scep-tical to the possibility of suspending law in any absolute sense; the latter describing discourses that art

Patterns of company misconduct, recidivism, and complaint resolution delays : A temporal analysis of UK pharmaceutical industry self-regulation within the European context

Interfirm self-regulation through trade associations is common but its effectiveness is debated and likely varies by time, country, and industry. This study examines self-regulation of pharmaceutical marketing, characterized by delegation of major regulatory responsibilities to trade associations' self-regulatory bodies. In addressing critical research gaps, this study first analyzes 1,776 complai

Experimental Validation of Single BS 5G mmWave Positioning and Mapping for Intelligent Transport

Positioning with 5G signals generally requires connection to several base stations (BSs), which makes positioning more demanding in terms of infrastructure than communications. To address this issue, there have been several theoretical studies on single BS positioning, leveraging high-resolution angle and delay estimation and multipath exploitation possibilities at mmWave frequencies. This paper p

Controlling the broadband enhanced light chirality with L-shaped dielectric metamaterials

The inherently weak chiroptical responses of natural materials limit their usage for controlling and enhancing chiral light-matter interactions. Recently, several nanostructures with subwavelength scale dimensions were demonstrated, mainly due to the advent of nanofabrication technologies, as a potential alternative to efficiently enhance chirality. However, the intrinsic lossy nature of metals an

Fate and biological uptake of polystyrene nanoparticles in freshwater wetland ecosystems

Little is known about the fate and uptake of nanoplastics (NPs) in natural ecosystems, mainly due to analytical limitations in measuring NPs in complex environmental matrices. Our aim was to quantitatively assess the transport, fate and biological uptake of NPs in freshwater ecosystems by using replicated wetland mesocosms and gold-doped polystyrene nanoparticles. We showed that 97% of the NPs wer

Regional Brain Net Water Uptake in Computed Tomography after Cardiac Arrest – A Novel Biomarker for Neuroprognostication

Background: Selective water uptake by neurons and glial cells and subsequent brain tissue oedema are key pathophysiological processes of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) after cardiac arrest (CA). Although brain computed tomography (CT) is widely used to assess the severity of HIE, changes of brain radiodensity over time have not been investigated. These could be used to quantify regional bra

Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics : A critical appraisal

There has been widespread debate about whether the way in which we measure economic activity is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. One aspect of this debate is to move away from measuring a nation's income (GDP) towards monitoring a nation's assets (their inclusive wealth), as a better indicator of sustainable economic development. We provide the first critical comparison of the approach

Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience : Challenges and Opportunities for the Control Systems Community

Climate change poses an existential threat to humanity. It is now indisputable that the primary cause of this threat is human activity resulting in high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which began during the Industrial Revolution and have continued to rapidly accelerate. The first warnings of impending and irreversible climate change were sounded decades ago, when governmental and intergovernmenta

Beauville Structures for Quotients of Generalised GGS-groups

A finite group with a Beauville structure gives rise to a certain compact complex surface called a Beauville surface. Gül and Uria-Albizuri showed that quotients of the periodic Grigorchuk–Gupta–Sidki (GGS-)groups that act on the p-adic tree, for p an odd prime, admit Beauville structures. We extend their result by showing that quotients of infinite periodic GGS-groups acting on pn-adic trees, for