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In an attempt to learn more about the behavior and evolution of various forms of CM and SM, the European Competence Network on Mastocytosis (ECNM) initiated a mastocytosis registry in 2012. In this article, the set up and start phase of this registry are described New publication in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice
There were 309 cases of NIHF at birth corresponding to an incidence of 1.6 per 10 000, lower than in previous studies. NIHF was more frequent in mothers aged ≥35 years and with a history of stillbirth. Preterm delivery occurred in 77.7% in the NIHF group, including 31.7% before 32 weeks of gestation. Multiple births and Caesarean sections were reported more frequent in the NIHF group. NIHF was ass
A nationwide study of individuals residing in Sweden. Urolithiasis was defined as having at least one registered diagnosis of urolithiasis in the Swedish National Patient Register between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2015. Cox regression analysis was used to estimate the relative risk (hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI)) of incident urolithiasis compared to individuals with
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/urolithiasis-second-generation-immigrant-children-younger-18-years-age-sweden - 2025-10-01
In order to provide responsible access to health data by reconciling benefits of data sharing with privacy rights and ethical and regulatory requirements, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) metadata should be developed. According to the H2020 Program Guidelines on FAIR Data, data should be “as open as possible and as closed as necessary”, “open” in order to foster the reusabil
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/fair-open-possible-closed-necessary-show-all-authors - 2025-10-01
Clinical and histological parameters were obtained from the Swedish Melanoma Registry for patients diagnosed with thin CMM between 1990 and 2017. Patients were followed until the end of 2017. MSS as well as CMSS for different thickness groups were calculated using the Kaplan–Meier method and Cox regression analyses were used to calculate for survival differences between thickness groups. New publi
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/survival-31-670-patients-thin-melanomas-swedish-population-based-study - 2025-10-01
Communication ability and method were related to each other and to age, gross motor function, and manual ability. Aided communication methods were more frequently used among older children. The more functional the communication was, the less use of unaided communication occurred. Different communication methods were used across all Communication Function Classification System (CFCS) levels. Speech
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/communication-ability-and-communication-methods-children-cerebral-palsy - 2025-10-01
Parents of children participating in screening studies may experience increased levels of anxiety. The aim of this study was to assess parental anxiety levels after 5 years of participation in the Diabetes Prediction in Skåne study. Associations between parental anxiety about their child developing type 1 diabetes and clinical, demographic, and immunological factors were analyzed. New publication
The Quality of Dyadic Relationships is a self‐assessment scale used to evaluate various aspects of relationship quality. Psychometric evaluation by the developers of the instrument has led to a nontested amended version. Further psychometric testing is thus warranted, and the aim of this study was to evaluate homogeneity, construct validity (in terms of concurrent, discriminant and known‐groups va
Mona Hemmaty at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”On the Margins. Migrants, Status Mobility and Recent Turns in Swedish Migration Politics” today, 26 April at 10:15 in the Kulturen Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, Barcelona Centre for International AffairsAbstractMany people believe that changes in Swedish migrat
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mona-hemmaty-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-01
Henriette Frees Esholdt has written the article "Virgins, Terrorists, and Ten Children: Immigrants' Humorous Play with Ethnic Stereotypes in Bonding with Danes in the Workplace" published in the journal Symbolic Interaction. The article explores immigrants' self‐directed ethnic humor in collegial relationships drawing on fieldwork in a multi‐ethnic workplace, an industrial kitchen in Denmark.It em
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/immigrants-humorous-play-ethnic-stereotypes-can-have-bonding-effect - 2025-10-01
Matthias Abelin at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”A Swedish Dilemma: Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance” today, Friday 10th May at 10:00 in the Eden Auditorium in Lund. Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and deeply humanitarian; and as more or less premodern, semi-authoritarian and potential
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/matthias-abelin-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-01
Doxa, a new student association at the Department of Sociology, hosted their first public event on 14th May. A panel discussion featuring researchers from Lund University and Denmark covered the implications of surveillance capitalism, a phenomenon expected to grow extensively in just a few years. Other than strengthening the sense of community among students at the department, Doxa wants to contr
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-student-association-starts-out-addressing-surveillance-capitalism - 2025-10-01
The building is the same, but the address has changed. From 1 July the Department of Sociology's address is Sandgatan 11. To make it easier for emergency services to find the right building in the Paradis area in Lund, several university buildings are changing addresses. On 1 July, the Department of Sociology's address was changed from Paradisgatan 5 to Sandgatan 11, with entrances A, B and C.The
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/department-sociology-gets-new-address - 2025-10-01
Sébastien Tutenges has studied overt and covert techniques used in bars and nightclubs to sell more alcohol, and noticed that they are most prevalent in low-priced venues with young patrons. Other than obvious methods to increase drinking – alcohol advertisements, special offers like Happy Hour, and large pitchers or shot glasses which speeds up consumption – bartenders can covertly affect patrons
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-bars-and-nightclubs-make-you-drink-more - 2025-10-01
Professor Anders Kjellberg has contributed to “Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame”, a four-volume collection covering collective bargaining in EU member states since the year 2000. The literature explores how collective bargaining has been weakend or significantly changed in all 28 EU states. The main policy issue addressed by the authors is how the trend of collective bargaining’
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comprehensive-work-collective-bargaining-eu - 2025-10-01
The events leading up to Cyprus gaining independence from Great Britain in 1960 were not the result of instrumental rational calculations, argues sociologist Chares Demetriou in a recently published paper. Instead, a complicated series of interactions between several actors clouded the colonizer's judgement, ultimately leading to the inadvertent independence of Cyprus. A relatively late colonial a
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/british-strategy-dividing-cyprus-ultimately-enabled-its-independence - 2025-10-01
Anna Berglund at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”Ambiguous hopes: an ethnographic study of agricultural modernisation in a Rwandan village” on Friday 4th October. For her PhD project, Anna Berglund spent 13 months in a Rwandan village studying the consequences of agricultural modernization policies. The Rwandan government has since 2006 tried to tra
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-berglund-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-10-01
It could have been a Friday the 13th disaster, but Henrik Möller managed to dodge all bad luck and successfully defended his doctoral thesis ”SPECTRAL MATTER: Materiality, Economy, and Culture of Burmese Jade in Contemporary China” on December 13. Henrik Möller states that his research project “examines intersections of material, economic and cultural aspects of carving, trade, and consumption of
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/henrik-moller-defends-his-doctoral-thesis - 2025-10-01
With only a few weeks remaining of its first semester, the maiden voyage of the Master’s program in Cultural Criminology at Lund University is ending. How does this unique criminology master’s program provides nuance to deviance? “I have found the course to be fantastic so far,” says Jack Lowe, one of the 14 students currently in the Master’s program in Cultural Criminology. Having received his ba
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/focusing-seduction-crime-deviance-and-control - 2025-10-01
Lisa Eklund has co-authored the article ”Reacting to social discrimination? Men's individual and social risk behaviors in the context of a male marriage squeeze in rural China”, published in Social Science & Medicine. In China, a shortage of marriageable women is resulting in many single men, some of which engage in risky and potentially hazardous activities. The study by Lisa Eklund, senior lectu
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/marriage-squeezed-men-china-suffer-social-discrimination - 2025-10-01
