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Analysis of the debates in the Swedish press concerning the controversies around the open-air art exhibition "Sculptura-97" in Falkenberg.

Due to the increasing share of older people worldwide, the United Nations has directed an initiative towards a "decade of healthy ageing" to promote "age-friendly environments". This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of how to promote social participation and everyday mobility in later life. The ambition is to increase the knowledge about how to create more age-friendly environments and so

Monoamine and acetylcholine neurotransmitters from the autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulate insulin secretion in pancreatic islets. The molecular mechanisms controlling neurotransmitter signaling in islet β cells and their impact on diabetes development are only partially understood. Using a glucose-intolerant, MafA-deficient mouse model, we demonstrate that MAFA controls ANS-mediated insulin s

Human cathelicidin antimicrobial protein hCAP18/LL-37 is an effector molecule of the nonspecific innate immune system. hCAP18/LL-37 is present in leukocytes and is expressed in skin and other epithelia, where it is upregulated in association with inflammation and injury. In addition, antimicrobial proteins including cathelicidins have been proposed to play a role in the nonspecific defense against

Forskningsämnet förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap studerar förlag, bokmarknad, försäljningssystem, digitalisering av böcker, läsning, litteraturens plats i samhället samt sociala, ekonomiska och praktiska aspekter av böcker och litteratur. Ämnets frågor, metoder och teorier härstammar från en rad olika discipliner, exempelvis litteraturvetenskap, bokhistoria och kulturstudier, digital humaniora, medPublishing Studies as a research field include publishers, book markets, sales systems, book digitization, reading, the role of literature in society, and the social, economic, and practical aspects of books and literature. Its topics, methods and theories originate from various disciplines, including comparative literature, book history, cultural studies, digital humanities, media and communicati

Anders Bjartell är forskargruppsledare för den här forskargruppenTranslational research on prostate cancer: Identification of molecular targets for development of new therapies in chemo- and hormone resistant prostate cancer. This includes: 1) In vitro studies and animal models. 2) Development and validation of biomarkers in tissue, blood and urine including circulating tumor cells. 3) Biobanking. 4) Clinical studies on imaging biomarkers for prognosis, predict

Näthinnan (Retina) är en del av det centrala nervsystemet och består till största delen av specialiserade nervceller. Vid degenerativ näthinnesjukdom, t.ex retinitis pigmentosa, åldersrelaterad makuladegeneration, näthinneavlossning och glaukom förstörs nervceller vilket resulterar i idag icke behandlingsbar synnedsättning. Traditionellt undersöks ofta sjukdom och behandling inom CNS experimentellTraditionally, experimental neuronal research is conducted on single cells after disruption of the tissue. A more pertinent approach to the complex CNS is to consider cells, extracellular matrix, and cell junctions as a tissue continuum through which mechanical and biochemical information is bidirectionally communicated. Our research is focused on retinal cell interactions in health and disease, a

Avdelningen består av etnologi (se ämnesbeskrivning nedan)The research in ethnology has two primary orientations, both of which work with historical as well as contemporary perspectives. The first orientation focuses on practices of everyday life – that is to say the study of what people do in their daily lives and how such activities constitute the grounds for different cultural patters of thought and societal values. Research in this area of study prob

I över femtio år har Teaterhögskolan i Malmö utbildat skådespelare som verkat på svenska och internationella scener, i film, radio och tv. Skolan har ett gediget rykte som en av Nordens ledande teaterutbildningar med ett tydligt metodiskt förhållningssätt, en medveten pedagogisk progression och en konsekvent syn på teaterns kunskapskärna som handlingsbaserad. Teaterhögskolan har funnits i Malmö, sFor over fifty years Malmö Theatre Academy has trained professional actors working in theatre, film, radio, and TV nationally and internationally. It has a solid reputation as one of the Nordic region's leading theater educations with a clear methodological approach, a conscious pedagogical progression, and a consistent view of the theater's core knowledge as action based. The academy is based in

The building sector is responsible for more than 40% of the energy use and 32% of carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union (EU). Previous research has shown that the present rate of energy retrofit and refurbishment in Europe is far below (< 50%) than that is required to meet the EU’s building related energy efficiency goals for 2020.Appropriate policy interventions for deep renovation is pe

Botswana has figured widely as the exceptional African growth success story and has been frequently cited in scholarship that supports the view that African and other less developed economies are capable of rapid economic growth as long as the internal institutional framework and development policies are right. A shortcoming of the literature on African economic performance to date is that it has

We examine energy and CO2 intensities (energy use / GDP and CO2 emissions / GDP) in Sweden and Spain during the last two hundred years. The first aim is to establish reliable and comparable time-series. We include all energy that involves some human effort in its capture. Therefore, not only do we include modern energy carriers such as coal, oil, and electricity, but also we aim to account for fir

Vid avdelningen bedrivs forskning inom följande huvudområden: Konstruktioners säkerhet och tillförlitlighet. Träkonstruktioner, speciellt inverkan av miljöbetingade påverkningar. Betongkonstruktioner, speciellt avseende tillförlitlighet samt spricktillväxt. Datorstöd och informationsteknologi i projektering och byggande.

Sepsis är ett allvarligt, systemiskt svar på infektion och orsakas ofta av bakterier. Dödligheten kan vara upp till 30%. Snabb och korrekt diagnostik är central då dödligheten ökar med 8% för varje timme som går utan att patienten får adekvat behandling. Sepsis är tämligen okänt för allmänheten, och svårfångat pga hastig progress och olikheter i ursprung. Forskningen kring sepsis är underfinansierSepsis is a severe, systemic response to infection, often caused by bacteria. Approx. 30 million cases occur worldwide each year causing up to 8 million deaths. The mortality is as high as 30%. Rapid and accurate diagnosis is crucial, as mortality increases with 8% every hour that appropriate treatment is delayed. Sepsis is fairly unknown to the general public, and complicated by its rapid progres