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Oxygen-defective electrostrictors for soft electromechanics

Electromechanical metal oxides, such as piezoceramics, are often incompatible with soft polymers due to their crystallinity requirements, leading to high processing temperatures. This study explores the potential of ceria-based thin films as electromechanical actuators for flexible electronics. Oxygen-deficient fluorites, like cerium oxide, are centrosymmetric nonpiezoelectric crystalline metal ox

New opportunities for time-resolved imaging using diffraction-limited storage rings

The advent of diffraction-limited storage rings (DLSRs) has boosted the brilliance or coherent flux by one to two orders of magnitude with respect to the previous generation. One consequence of this brilliance enhancement is an increase in the flux density or number of photons per unit of area and time, which opens new possibilities for the spatiotemporal resolution of X-ray imaging techniques. Th

Habitat opening fostered diversity : impact of dispersal and habitat-shifts in the evolutionary history of a speciose afrotropical insect group

The opening of habitats associated with the emergence of C4 grasslands during the Neogene had a massive influence on the evolution of plant and animal communities. Strikingly, the impacts of grassland expansion on species diversification in Africa, where the largest surface of grasslands and savannas in the world is located, are not well understood. To explore the impact of habitat opening, we inv

Correcting angular distortions in Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging

Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (BCDI) has emerged as a powerful technique for strain imaging and morphology reconstruction of nanometre-scale crystals. However, BCDI often suffers from angular distortions that appear during data acquisition, caused by radiation pressure, heating or imperfect scanning stages. This limits the applicability of BCDI, in particular for small crystals and high

Survival of patients with ruptured gastrointestinal stromal tumour treated with adjuvant imatinib in a randomised trial

Background: Patients with ruptured gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) have poor prognosis. Little information is available about how adjuvant imatinib influences survival. Methods: We explored recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) of patients with ruptured GIST who participated in a randomised trial (SSG XVIII/AIO), where 400 patients with high-risk GIST were allocated to ad

Gender Inequalities: Progress and Challenges

Gender equality and women’s empowerment are essential for sustainable development. This chapter offers an overview of gender inequalities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, delving into the historical context of such disparities. The chapter highlights the significant progress made through the implementation of legal frameworks and policies. However, despite the progress made, gender ine

Contextualizing supply chain risk governance in critical infrastructure sectors : insights from the Swedish food system

PurposeCritical infrastructure (CI) sectors and their resilience are vital for societies to function. In many countries, vital societal functions (VSFs) and CIs depend on inter-organizational and international supply chains (SCs) which combine public and private actors with often competing interests and unclear responsibilities that create discontents. While collaborative supply chain risk managem

Vävarens hus/As Imagination Bodies forth - Just in Time

Publikation som gjordes i samband med utställningen Just in time, men ingen traditionell utställningskatalog. Innehåller texter av Gunnar Olsson, Professor emeritus i ekonomisk geografi vid uppsala universitet, som relaterade till utställningen samt några tryck gjorda av bilder från en videoverker "Different Trains". Ett bland flera resultat av det konstnärliga projektet "Mapping and projecting".

Cross-border and Multi-modal Cold Chain Risk Assessment: Applying FMECA on a new Thai-Laos route

Cross-border multi-modal and railway transportation often faces different risks and problems creating delays, sometimes driven by technical or administrative discontents between countries. For cold supply chains, the risks of such delays get even more important to understand and handle, due to the perishable characteristics of the goods. While some previous research has dealt with risk assessment

MNE innovation in the pursuit of SDGs in emerging markets

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine how different innovation efforts can support multinational enterprises’ (MNEs’) pursuits of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in emerging markets and under what circumstances they are applied. Design/methodology/approach: The article comprises in-depth case studies on two high-profile Swedish MNEs: a telecom firm and a fast-fashion firm, with dat

Relationship between occupational stress and presenteeism status among workers in small and medium-sized enterprises

This study aimed to identify characteristics of workers experiencing health problems without a decline in labor productivity to address presenteeism. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted on 554 workers in Japan, with a median age of 43 years. Participants reported any health problems in the past month, along with job stressors, stress responses, social support, and job and life satisfaction us

Genital Malformations in Children With VACTERL – Has Time Come to Include “G” in the Acronym?

Background: Genital malformations are frequently diagnosed in patients with VACTERL, but are currently not included in the acronym. This study aimed to analyze the frequency of genital anomalies in patients with esophageal atresia (EA) and/or anorectal malformation (ARM), with a subgroup analysis of children fulfilling the VACTERL criteria. Method: This was a cross-sectional retrospective analysis

The regulatory basis of migratory behaviour in birds : different paths to similar outcomes

Animal migration is a fascinating phenomenon that has puzzled mankind since the time of ancient Greece. It is a process widespread across a varied range of taxa and it shines especially in birds which, because of their mobility, display an amazing diversity of routes and strategies. With the advances in tracking devices and improvements of sequencing technologies, recent work provides support for

Stimuli-induced adjustment of spatial distribution of fluorescence resonance energy transfer dyads in smart polymers

Smart polymers have received much attention due to their different responses to the induced stimuli. Polymers with fluorescent properties are also appealing for their potential applications in fluorescence chemosensors, optoelectronics, molecular thermometers, organic light-emitting diodes, molecular imaging, storage data security, drug delivery carriers, and encryption. Fluorescence resonance ene

Interparticle cycloaddition reactions for morphology transition of coumarin-functionalized stimuli-responsive polymer nanoparticles prepared by surfactant-free dispersion polymerization

Stimuli-responsive polymer nanoparticles were synthesized by surfactant-free dispersion polymerization of styrene and 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) in three different contents of divinylbenzene intraparticle crosslinking agent. Incorporation of the hydrophilic DMAEMA comonomer during the polymerization yielded pH-responsive nanogels with a higher size than the polystyrene nanopartic