OBJECTIVES:: Brain tumour has few established determinants. We assessed to which extent risk of brain tumour was related to metabolic syndrome factors in adults. METHODS:: In the Me-Can project, 580 000 individuals from Sweden, Austria, and Norway were followed for a median of 10 years after baseline measurement. Data on brain tumours were obtained from national cancer registries. The factors of m

Windstorms have caused severe damage on several occasions in Sweden during the last century. A general concern about future projections of climate extremes has raised questions on the variations and impacts of windstorms. The main objective with this work was to reach a deeper understanding of the variability and possible trends in ­windstorms, and related storm impacts in forests. This was achiev

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Ever since IT started to become important and strategic assets in organizational practices, systems acquisitions have been a challenging and complex endeavor. There are seemingly never ending reports of unsuccessful IT acquisitions and lack of systems acquisition competence (beställarkompetens in Swedish). The aim of this thesis is to shed deeper light on what systems acquisition competence is abo

Artikeln utgör en presentation av forskningsprojektet Regeringsformen och förvaltningen – styrning och rättslig reglering, för vilket Vetenskapsrådet har beviljat medel. Projektet syftar till att undersöka styrningen av den svenska förvaltningen ur ett rättsligt perspektiv. Huvudfokus är styrningen och den rättsliga regleringen idag, men för att förstå den, studeras den ur ett utvecklingsperspekti

Omdöme ”Teckenspråkiga döva” är en rik avhandling. Den innehåller spännande och djuplodande empiriskt material. Fredäng täcker samtidigt in ett stort fält från individnivå med familj och skola till lokalföreningar och riksorganisation och till hur samhället ställer sig i olika frågor. Det är sannolikt att de sociala typer som Päivi Fredäng tar upp, om hur döva ser på sig själva och sin dövhet l

Chronic mitral regurgitation is often accompanied by left atrial and ventricular remodeling and elevated natriuretic peptide levels. Our aim was to examine the relation between severe preoperative left atrial enlargement and changes in hemodynamics and natriuretic peptide levels after mitral valve surgery.

Microglia respond to focal cerebral ischemia by increasing their production of the neuromodulatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor, which exists both as membrane-anchored tumor necrosis factor and as cleaved soluble tumor necrosis factor forms. We previously demonstrated that tumor necrosis factor knockout mice display increased lesion volume after focal cerebral ischemia, suggesting that tumor nec

The aim of this paper is to compare the socio-spatial patterns of innovation and knowledge linkages of a biopharmaceutical and an agro-food biotech cluster. Dissimilarities can be expected based on differences in terms of historical technological regimes and sectoral innovation system dynamics between the agro-food and pharmaceutical industries in general and particularly the distinctive analytica

Reality-Based Learning, RBL, is a teacher-driven initiative introducing the core business administration subjects to first-year business students by means of making business plans. This paper empirically accounts for the development of RBL over three years. RBL is scrutinized for pros and cons by a proposed education development framework. When the educational change is dissected and related to pr

The ultimate goal of resource monitoring is to analyse the spatial distribution of the balance between supply and demand of a certain resource. Remote sensing techniques are commonly used for the assessment of the supply of resources. By integrating remote sensing with the related techniques of geographical information systems and spatial modelling, the demand as well as the accessibility of resou