Production forests are faced with the challenge of adapting to environmental change and simultaneously helping mitigate it and host rich biodiversity. This leads to new conflicts and trade-offs for forest management. Many management options have been proposed to achieve these goals while minimizing the loss of timber production. In this thesis, I explore the status and future of forest landscapes

Detta examensarbete ger en ̈oversiktsbild av projektet Solstice. Det berättar om projektets ursprung, det nuvarande stadiet projektet befinner sig i samt dess framtida potential. Konsekvensen av detta ̈ar en mycket mångfacetterad rapport som ̊aterspeglar hur nyutvecklad energiteknik avser att avfossilisera energimarknaden och minska effekterna av klimatförändringarna. Solstice ̈ar en produkt som kThis thesis provides an overview of the project Solstice. It tells its origin, the present stage and its potential future. The consequence of this is a very multifaceted thesis which tells the story of a newly developed energy technology that aims to defossilize the energy market and mitigate the effects of climate change. Solstice is a product that concentrates sunlight and via a newly developed

Metal microstructured optical elements for grating-based X-ray phase-contrast interferometry were fabricated by using an innovative approach of microcasting: hot embossing technology with low melting temperature (280 °C) metal alloy foils and silicon etched templates. A gold-tin alloy (80 wt% Au/20 wt% Sn) was used to cast micro-gratings with pitch sizes in the range of 2 to20 μm and depth of the

When looking at language historically, one Ànds that many words are derived from more complex constructions. For instance, in English, never used to be ›not ever‹ (Old English ne æfre), and maybe means ›it may be that‹; a rather bizarre case is ampersand (the name of the character ›&‹), which apparently is derived from ›and per se and‹. In today’s English, we accept these words as fully legitiOn-Going Change in English Modality: Emancipation Through Frequency The English modal expressions BE going to, HAVE got to, and want to are often contracted to gonna, gotta, and wanna in spoken language. These contracted forms have gained both in frequency and conventionality in recent times.In this article, I present an investigation into the status of the contractions between phonetic reduction

Multiple scattering represents a challenge for numerous modern tomographic imaging techniques. In this Letter, we derive an appropriate line integral that allows for the tomographic reconstruction of angular resolved scattering distributions, even in the presence of multiple scattering. The line integral is applicable to a wide range of imaging techniques utilizing various kinds of probes. Here, w

Solutions of macromolecules exhibit viscoelastic properties and unlike Newtonian fluids, they may break time-reversal symmetry at low Reynolds numbers resulting in elastic turbulence. Furthermore, under some conditions, instead of the chaotic turbulence, the result is large-scale waves in the form of cyclic spatial and temporal concentration variations, as has been shown for macromolecular DNA flo

Dual-phase x-ray grating interferometry (DP-XGI) is a recently developed imaging technique that can retrieve structural information in the sub-micro scale over areas in the millimeter range. This is performed by use of the scattering signal, which is sensitive to structures that lie below the intrinsic spatial resolution of the imaging system. A quantitative understanding of the microstructure is

Generating functional and perfusable micro-vascular networks is an important goal for the fabrication of large and three-dimensional tissues. Up to now, the fabrication of micro-vascular networks is a complicated multitask involving several different factors such as time consuming, cells survival, micro-diameter vasculature and strict alignment. Here, we propose a technique combining multi-materia

Introduction: Bedwetting, also known as enuresis, is the second most common chronic health problem among children and it affects their everyday life negatively. A first-line treatment option is the enuresis alarm. This method entails the child being awoken by a detector and alarm unit upon urination at night, thereby changing their arousal mechanisms and potentially curing them after 6–8 weeks of

Using the configuration constrained, cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky model, we point to a mechanism that could explain why identical bands are much more likely to occur in superdeformed than in normal-deformed nuclei. The role of the high-N orbitals in the superdeformed configuration is stressed, and correlated with the observed peaks in the fractional change distribution of the script J sign(2) moment

Background: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become a safe procedure. However, complications occur, including uncommon complications such as valve malposition, which requires the implantation of an additional rescue valve (rescue-AV). The aim was to study the occurrence and outcomes of rescue-AV in a nationwide registry. Methods: The Swedish national TAVI registry was used as the

Polycotylid and elasmosaurid plesiosaurs inhabited the Kristianstad Basin during Late Cretaceous (uppermost lower Campanian Belemnellocamax mammillatuszone) around 80 million years ago. The setting represents one of the most famous Mesozoic fossil sites in Scandinavia. The Kristianstad Basin fossils are generally fragmentary and isolated due to high-energy environments in a protected shallow innerPolycotylid and elasmosaurid plesiosaurs inhabited the Kristianstad Basin during Late Cretaceous (uppermost lower Campanian Belemnellocamax mammillatuszone) around 80 million years ago. The setting represents one of the most famous Mesozoic fossil sites in Scandinavia. The Kristianstad Basin fossils are generally fragmentary and isolated due to high-energy environments in a protected shallow inner

The study objective in this article was to present the state-of-the-art on teachers’ professional development to enhance educational quality for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in primary and secondary education. A systematic review was conducted, following the PRISMA guidelines. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies were eligible for inclusion. Fifteen studies were id

Background: Evidence based medicine (EBM) should be an endeavor within all healthcare professions. Knowledge and understanding of science are important prerequisites of EBM. Objective: The aim was to examine and compare perspectives on science and perceived inhibiting and facilitating factors for the assimilation and implementation of scientific information among clinically working specialist- and

For the problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on a two-dimensional unidirectional flow of finite depth the following results are obtained. (i) Bounds are found for the free-surface profile and for Bernoulli's constant. (ii) If only one parallel shear flow exists for a given value of Bernoulli's constant, then there are no wave solutions provided the vorticity distribution is subje

Two-dimensional steady gravity waves with vorticity are considered on water of finite depth. The dispersion equation is analysed for general vorticity distributions, but under assumptions valid only for unidirectional shear flows. It is shown that for these flows (i) the general dispersion equation is equivalent to the Sturm-Liouville problem considered by Constantin & Strauss (Commun. Pure Ap

PURPOSE: To investigate the role of adiposity in the associations between ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and head and neck cancer (HNC) and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort.METHODS: Our study included 450,111 EPIC participants. We used Cox regressions to investigate the associations between the consumption of

The European Spallation Source (ESS) infrastructure is being constructed in Lund, and will be one of the most powerful research facilities of its type in the world. The ESS linear accelerator (linac) utilizes different accelerating sections where a wide variety of techniques should be employed to accelerate a beam of protons to 2 GeV kinetic energy through Radio Frequency (RF) cavities before bein