Serum total sialic acid (S-TSA) is a recently identified risk marker for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular mortality. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of three sialic acid rich glycoproteins (orosomucoid, haptoglobin, and alpha1-antitrypsin) on the relationship between S-TSA and carotid atherosclerosis. The mean S-TSA was 0.045 g/l higher among cases than controls (P

This article examines extreme-right online media as a site of discursive struggle over definitions of the causes, consequences and remedies of the European economic crisis. The authors focus on two Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Sweden, which have seen a rise in extreme-right activities across different arenas and in different media in the turbulent years since the collapse of global financia

Appropriate evaluation and experimental design are fundamental for empirical sciences, particularly in data-driven fields. Due to the successes in computational modeling of languages, for instance, research outcomes are having an increasingly immediate impact on end users. As the gap in adoption by end users decreases, the need increases to ensure that tools and models developed by the research co

This study focuses on Muslim fertility in Europe. Evidence from 25 countries suggests that the Muslim total fertility rate is on average 47% higher than the national level. However, we find a significant difference in the level of fertility of native-born Muslims and immigrant Muslims. The native-born have a 19% higher total fertility rate, while immigrants have 62% higher fertility. Our main rese

This article examines the involvement of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC) in both shaping and implementing the European Agenda on Migration (European Agenda), launched by the European Union in May 2015. The migration policies which have since been adopted have increasingly enabled the outsourcing to private security contractors of various border control operations, including those re

Michael Halliday has written extensively on the nature and functionality of language, and one of his favoured approaches to language is that it is social. He describes language as “the creature and creator of human society”. One of the functions of language is to express and form social identity. This paper seeks to adopt Halliday’s systemic functional linguistic theory on the bread-of-life discou

Appropriate evaluation and experimental design are fundamental for empirical sciences, particularly in data-driven fields. Due to the successes in computational modeling of languages, for instance, research outcomes are having an increasingly immediate impact on end users. As the gap in adoption by end users decreases, the need increases to ensure that tools and models developed by the research co

Guest lecture with Jonas Grethlein: Hope - From Homer to the Climate Crisis Guest lecture with Jonas Grethlein: Hope - From Homer to the Climate Crisis Publicerad den 4 oktober 2024 While philosophers such as Darrel Moellendorf have identified hope as an important resource for fighting climate change, Greta Thunberg and other activists reject hope, which they argue is an obstacle to the necessary

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Doctoral student Contact details Email: gabriel [dot] zachen [at] geol [dot] lu [dot] seOrganisation Department of Geology Visiting address: Sölvegatan 12, Lund Room number: 306 Service point: 16 WebpageGabriel Zachéns profile in Lund University research portalThousands of tonnes of material from space, from space dust to meteors, fall to Earth every year. Of this material, a fraction survives the

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With her 1953 debut Anna Rydstedt (1928-1994) immediately became part of a strong tradition of Swedish women poets, a tradition represented by authors such as Karin Boye and Edith Södergran. The debut was a furious attack on those who had thwarted her attempts to become a minister in the Church of Sweden. Rydstedt’s poetry is always existential, both in its content and process. Writing, for her, i

Litteraturlista LUNDS UNIVERSITY Department of Archaeology and Ancient History Course Literature – ARKN04, Archaeology of Religion, 15 hp Established by the Board of the Department: 2011-10-11 Instructions: Literature of about 2000 pages is read by a selection of articles and titles in the following list. Andrén, A. & Carelli, P. 2006. Odens öga – mellan människor och makter i det förkristna Norde

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Senior lecturer Contact details Email: maria [dot] hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se Phone: +46 46 222 46 28 Mobile: +46 70 635 32 44Organisation Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) Visiting address: Ekologihuset, Sölvegatan 37, Lund Room number: E-F313 Service point: 50 WebpageMaria Hanssons profile in Lund University research portalOther affiliations Project manager Centre for En

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Allegations of human rights violations have haunted Frontex, the border agency of the EU, from its very existence in 2004. Although in 2011, the agency became subject to a comprehensive human rights “overhaul”, such infringements continue to take place. This thesis sets out to explore this puzzle by applying principal-agent theory. The argument is that Frontex’s establishment represents an outlier

This Master degree thesis aims to assess the UN-mediation attempts in Cyprus during 1999-2004. Performing a qualitative case study, I employ mediation theory to examine the UN good offices efforts, in order to see if the chosen mediation strategy can explain the failure to solve the dispute. Results show that the timing for mediation was favourable, and the context of the conflict indicated that a

In this study, we evaluate the performance of 395 private equity funds by European private equity firms between 1989 and 2018, using real cash flow data gathered from Preqin. The evaluation involves using absolute- and relative performance measures. We adopt the public market equivalent framework to measure relative performance, which compares the returns of a private equity fund with a reference