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Today, Sweden has one of the highest female labour force participation rates in the developed world, but how deep are the roots of women’s involvement in gainful employment? In this article, I present new estimates of women’s labour force participation rate between 1870 and 1960, the time when the country shifted from a predominantly agrarian economy to an industrial and services-based society. Th
This article assesses how Swedish parliamentary democracy works today, almost one hundred years into its history. Our main research question is whether the transformation of the Swedish party system since the 1980s—and especially since 2010, when the populist-radical-right Sweden Democrats entered parliament—has altered the way parliamentary democracy works. We provide new evidence on Sweden’s cha
This work aims to degrade a typical antibiotic Norfloxacin (NOR) in saline water with a novel green carbon black based Ti/SnO2-Sb electrochemical catalysis system (TSSC), with Ti/SnO2-Sb as anode (TSSA) and a novel carbon black air diffusion electrode as cathode (CBAC). An electrochemical system with TSSA and a platinum carbon (Pt/C) cathode was used as control (TSSP). The removal ratio, degradati
Some bacteria have the unique capacity of synthesising ice-nucleation-active (INA) proteins and exposing them at their outer membrane surface. As INA bacteria enter the atmosphere, they may impact the formation of clouds and precipitation. We studied members of airborne bacterial communities for their capacity to catalyse ice formation and we report on the excretion of INA proteins by airborne Pse
Low energy buildings are usually characterized by a very well insulated building envelope and an efficient ventilation system that makes use of the heat in the exhaust air. Internal heat gains from residents and their use of appliances can cover the heating demand to a certain extent. The magnitude of internal heat gains that cover demand are often modelled in a simplified way and thus can be asso
In this study, we examine the development of age at leaving the parental household in Sweden between the years 1830-1959. We utilize individual-level longitudinal data from two geographically and socioeconomically different regions: the county of Scania in the very south of Sweden, and Västerbotten to the north. We use descriptive and multivariate analyses to investigate how determinants, such as
Owing to their very large piezoelectric coefficients and spontaneous polarizations, (Sc,Y) x Al1−xN alloys have emerged as a new class of III-nitride semiconductor materials with great potential for high-frequency electronic and acoustic devices. The thermal conductivity of constituent materials is a key parameter for design, optimization, and thermal management of such devices. In this study, tra
We all know that conflict creates displacement. Life becomes untenable in different ways, and people are forced to move; the majority ending up as internally displaced people within the nation-state, while others wind up in refugee camps in neighboring countries, and a very few seek asylum in faraway places. The recent war in Ukraine and the conflict in Syria since 2011 seemingly fit into this cla
Building on the base of the existing telescopes of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and ALMA, the next-generation EHT (ngEHT) aspires to deploy ∼10 more stations. The ngEHT targets an angular resolution of ∼15 microarcseconds. This resolution is achieved using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at the shortest radio wavelengths ∼1 mm. The Submillimeter Array (SMA) is both a standalone radio
One of the core pathological features of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the loss of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway which lies at the heart of many of the motor features of this condition as well as some of the cognitive problems. The importance of this pathological event is evident through the clinical benefits that are seen when patients with PD are treated with dopaminergic agents, at least
Bloggpost på nutritionsfakta.se.EAT-Lancetkommissionen lanserade 2019 sin ”the great food transformation”, en modell för hälsosamma matvanor för en växande global befolkning som skulle hålla livsmedelssystemet inom planetens gränser.En uppföljande svensk studie har tagit fram ett eget index för att mäta följsamheten till EAT-Lancetkosten, med en poängsättning som gör det möjligt att se hur väl en
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a broad area of management study and practice that has become increasingly important for business practitioners and academics alike. While the majority of authors who have written on the subject, including ourselves, are proponents of CSR in general, there is an emerging viewpoint that it is simply not enough for corporations to singlehandedly address CSR t
Bike sharing systems can be found in an ever-increasing number of cities around the world. In many of these cities, bike sharing system have been very successful. In Lund, one of the objectives of the bike sharing system, Lundahoj, was to get car commuters to change travel mode to bike sharing in combination with public transport and thus decrease the emission of green house gases. The aim of this
Ny version av miljöledningssystem som påverka stora delar av världen! Tänk om alla företag med miljöledningssystem enligt ISO 14001 inte klarar av implementeringen till den nya versionen av standarden för att de inte vet skillnaderna mellan den nuvarande- och nya versionen, vad skulle det innebära för miljön? Internationella organisationen för standardisering (ISO) har tagit fram en ny version aISO 14001 is the most commonly used international standards for implementation of environmental management systems and is embraced by businesses for managing environmental issues. A new revision of the ISO 14001 standard was introduced 2015. Companies that have been certified according to the older version of the standard have three (3) years to adapt to the new version of the standard to maintain
De narkotikarelaterade dödsfallen i Sverige är näst högst per capita i hela EU. Samtidigt har Sverige en väldigt strikt strafflagstiftning gällande just narkotikabrott. Oavsett om det här är ett samband eller inte väcker det många frågor om hur lagstiftningen egentligen fungerar. I den här undersökningen utreds hur det paternalistiska inslaget i den svenska narkotikalagstiftningen har konstrueratsThe number of drug related deaths in Sweden is second to worst in all of EU. The legislation on drug related crimes is simultaneously very strict. This certainly raises some questions regarding the legislation, regardless of whether there is an actual correspondence between these two facts. This essay will focus on the construction and justification of the paternalistic element in the Swedish drug
Antikroppar är en del av kroppens egna försvar mot främmande ämnen, såsom mikroorganismer, virus, bakterier och parasiter. De används för att upptäcka och identifiera dessa ämnen och gör så genom att interagera med specifika molekyler, antikroppens antigener, som finns närvarande på ämnets yta. När antikroppen identifierat och satt sig på ytan kan vita blodkroppar och komplementproteiner elimineraThe possibilities with monoclonal antibodies to be used as drugs against several diseases is of great interest to many pharmaceutical companies. However, efficient production is hindered by advanced and difficult purification steps in the downstream processing. Chromatographic systems have proven to be a powerful methodology promoting high purity, nevertheless associated with high costs. Therefore
Industrin står för en fjärdedel av Sveriges totala utsläpp av växthusgaser. Därför är det av högsta prioritet att branschen ställer om sin produktion från fossil till förnybar. En viktig strategi för att uppå klimatmålen är att elektrifiera produktionen. En storskalig elektrifiering kräver att elproduktionen matchar elbehovet samt att elledningarna är rustade för det önskade uttaget av effekt. SkåThe industry accounts for a quarter of Sweden’s total emissions of greenhouse gases. Thus, it is a high priority that the industry exchanges its dependency on fossil fuels to renewable ones. One important strategy to meet the national climate goals is to electrify the production. An excessive electrification requires that the electricity production matches the electricity demand and that the elect
Software acquisition is very important for any type of company nowadays, including start-up companies. This study examined which software applications are acquired by start-ups, in what ways, with what motivations, and for what purposes they are used. The study was done by first conducting a survey amongst 50 start-up companies in the Netherlands and Sweden and by then doing four follow-up intervi
