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By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 2 April 2020 Right now, everything is focused on managing the coronavirus. However, even before COVID-19, viral pandemics around the world were increasing and the ’ordinary’ influenza virus and common cold virus cost society enormous amounts of money each year. Swedish virus researchers say they could improve the world
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/virus-war - 2025-03-16
By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 2 April 2020 Jennie Paldanius and Maria Hedberg are answering questions about digital education. On 18 March, the University switched to digital education. However, already a few days prior to this, the course ‘Go online (CoVid-19)’ for LU teaching staff was launched. Now there are close to 20 people working on
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/your-navigators-digital-education - 2025-03-16
By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 2 April 2020 Annika Mårtensson chats with colleague Louise Larsson. Like learning to fly as the plane takes off. Across the entire University, teaching staff are grappling with the transition to digital education and assessment at record speed in the unique situation caused by the coronavirus. The initial pha
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/imposed-distance-education-puts-pressure-university-teaching-staff - 2025-03-16
By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 2 April 2020 Hervé Corvellec believes that, in the future, higher education institutions that achieve ‘excellence in minimal carbon dioxide’ will be the most attractive. Photo: Kennet Ruona Currently, a worthy and fast-moving academic career requires extensive travel with high carbon dioxide emissions. Because
By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 2 April 2020 Maria Nilsson and her husband and fellow researcher John Ward looks at a find. Photo: Anders Andersson The archaeology team gets up with the sun at five o’clock each morning. They then work for seven hours under the burning sun in the middle of nowhere in Egypt’s desert landscape among venomous sco
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/leading-archaeological-super-team-banks-nile - 2025-03-16
By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 2 April 2020 Airtravel to Stockholm decreased 2019 among Lund University staff. Photo: Eugene Sergeev/Mostphotos In 2019, the number of flights for business travel decreased by nearly 10 per cent at the University. At the same time, train travel increased by 20 per cent. “There are many deliberate individual
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fewer-flights-lund-university-staff-2019 - 2025-03-16
By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 2 April 2020 The dog Kevin is both a family member and a research object. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg-Bärg Giving up research has never been an option for Ronald Kröger, professor in biology with a specialisation in fish lenses and dog noses. “I conduct research with all of my heart!” He is, however, at least as depe
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nose-noses - 2025-03-16
Published 8 April 2020 The Recruitment Committee has decided to reschedule interviews for candidates for the position of vice-chancellor of Lund University. Moreover, instead of proposing a new vice-chancellor at its June meeting, the University Board will decide on a proposal at the board meeting in September. The reason is uncertainty concerning the coronavirus. The Recruitment Committee deems i
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-interviews-deferred-due-coronavirus - 2025-03-16
Published 22 April 2020 Deadline for submitting your income tax return is May 4th. Here you can find some advice and webinars on how to declare your income. Do not miss the deadline and learn how to file your tax return. You will find information on how to submit your income tax return at the Swedish Tax Agency. They will hold webinars in English on how to declare income tax next week.Read more an
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-declare-taxes-sweden - 2025-03-16
Published 27 April 2020 Lund University, like other higher education institutions in the Nordic countries, uses the Zoom service from Sunet/NORDUnet, with servers in Denmark. NORDUnet’s Zoom service observes GDPR and other European data legislation and all data is stored and processed within the EU. LU-Zoom differs from the widely available free version of Zoom. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Age
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/zoom-lu-and-security - 2025-03-16
Published 31 May 2018 New population study from Lund University Risk of bladder cancer by disease severity in relation to metabolic factors and smoking; a prospective pooled cohort study of 800,000 men and womenPrevious studies on metabolic factors and bladder cancer (BC) risk have shown inconsistent results and have commonly not investigated associations separately by sex, smoking, and tumor inva
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/risk-bladder-cancer-disease-severity-relation-metabolic-factors-and-smoking - 2025-03-16
Published 17 May 2022 Registries are one way to provide longitudinal, observational data, giving rise to a range of possibilities in terms of audit and research. They allow examining approaches to management, which would not be feasible by a trial or where there was no trial data (currently or likely ever) available. In this Perspective, we will discuss aspects of their design, analysis, and use i
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/perspectives-pain-registries - 2025-03-16
Published 19 May 2022 Epidemiologists commonly use an adjusted hazard ratio or incidence density ratio, or a standardized mortality ratio, to measure a difference in all-cause mortality rates. They seldom translate it into an age-, time-, or probability-based measure that would be easier to communicate and to relate to. Several articles have shown how to translate from a standardized mortality rat
Published 20 May 2022 Results of randomized trials and observational studies can be difficult to communicate. Results are often presented as risk or survival functions stratified by the treatment or exposure (1, 2). However, a contrast between the stratified risk functions is often of primary interest. Here we propose a “twister” plot to visualize contrasts in risk over the duration of a study. Th
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/twister-plots-time-event-studies - 2025-03-16
Published 23 May 2022 Psychosocial constructs can only be assessed indirectly, and measures are typically formed by a combination of indicators that are thought to relate to the construct. Reflective and formative measurement models offer different conceptualizations of the relation between the indicators and what is sometimes conceived of as a univariate latent variable supposed to correspond in
Published 24 May 2022 Mendelian randomization (MR) is often used to estimate effects of time-varying exposures on health outcomes using observational data. However, MR studies typically use a single measurement of exposure and apply conventional instrumental variable (IV) methods designed to handle time-fixed exposures. As such, MR effect estimates for time-varying exposures are often biased, and
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/mendelian-randomization-repeated-measures-time-varying-exposure - 2025-03-16
Published 25 May 2022 Lifetime risk measures the cumulative risk for developing a disease over one’s lifespan. Modeling the lifetime risk must account for left truncation, the competing risk of death, and inference at a fixed age. In addition, statistical methods to predict the lifetime risk should account for covariate-outcome associations that change with age. In this paper, we review and compar
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/comparison-statistical-methods-predict-residual-lifetime-risk - 2025-03-16
Published 30 May 2022 The Diet, Cancer and Health—Next Generations (DCH-NG) study is a large population-based cohort study that was established as a resource for transgenerational research. The cohort is an extension of the Diet, Cancer and Health (DCH) cohort. The aim of this paper was to describe the study design and methods and to investigate the representativeness of participants by comparing
Published 1 June 2018 Karin Larsson's presentation from the GIS seminar is now available Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/what-gis-and-what-can-it-be-used - 2025-03-16
Published 1 June 2022 Recruiting participants to a clinical study is a resource-intensive process with a high failure rate. The Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE) provides recruitment support service which helps researchers recruit participants by searching patients’ Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The current study aims to evaluate the performance of SHARE in participant recruitment. Rea
