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Climate change is increasing the risk for extreme weather events such as heatwaves, including in northern countries like Sweden, which until recent years has had limited experiences of coping with extreme heat. Based on predictions that Sweden will be more frequently exposed to heatwaves in the future, it is imperative to increase the societal resilience and adaptation measures. This paper present
Following COVID-19, the responsibility principle guiding emergency preparedness and crisis management in Scandinavian countries has once again faced criticism. In order to make sense of the current discussions surrounding this principle, this study uses Bacchi's framework of “What's the problem represented to be” to explore its development and perceived problems and effects in Denmark, Norway, and
In the present article, practices of inclusion of different types of volunteers in the response to a large-scale forest fire in Sweden are studied. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three types of voluntary actors. The volunteers were organized to different degrees, from members of organizations and participants in emergent groups to organizationally unaffiliated individuals. Organize
Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer, arising from melanocytes, and its global incidence continues to rise. Although multiple somatic mutations contribute towards melanoma development, but the BRAF mutation is the most prevalent. The FDA approval of targeted therapies for BRAF-mutant melanoma greatly increased overall survival in considerable number of patients. However, the majority of p
Increased risk of wildfires is often highlighted in media coverage of climate change in the Nordic countries. How an increased risk is reflected in the concerns and adaptive measures within the most likely affected communities is nevertheless not known. This study investigates concerns and adaptation to wildfires in a rural community in south-eastern Sweden. The comparatively dry study area has a
In this article, we examine public policy change at the local level of governance in the aftermath of an extraordinary event. Using the case study of a Swedish municipality after the sweeping forest fire of 2014, we contend that policy entrepreneurship, like its market counterpart, may under certain conditions take on a wider range of behaviors that are not underpinned by the proactive quest for o
September 2015 saw a sharp increase in the influx of refugees in the Øresund region. In this study, resilience defined as flexible adaptation was taken as a baseline to guide interviews with societal infrastructure actors and NGOs engaged in managing the situation. Different actors had different organisational preconditions that influenced their ability to adapt to the new situation. Among the str
With the rapid development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry, the large-scale retirement of batteries has introduced multiple environmental risks and challenges to industrial sustainability. Smart circular business models (SCBMs) utilizing 10R circular strategies (i.e., Refuse, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Refurbish, Remanufacture, Repurpose, Recycle, and Recover) present a promising soluti
Risk analyses are seen as a vital tool for crisis prevention and developing capability to respond to future crises. In Sweden, all municipalities are required to perform risk and vulnerability analyses as a basis for their crisis management work. The aim of this paper is to study how and why a risk and vulnerability analysis can become a part of an organisational process for learning how to preven
This study evaluated the friction, wear, and airborne brake wear particle (BWP) emissions of aluminum-based metal matrix composite brake discs fabricated from recycled aluminum alloy reinforced with silicon carbide particles (Al–SiCp MMC). The study further conducted a comparative analysis of the friction, wear, and BWP emissions of Al–SiCp MMCs against those of a commercial gray cast iron (GCI) b
This study takes the perspective of civil society and aims to examine how different volunteers are framed both by others and themselves, and how terms such as ‘mixed blessing’ (used to describe volunteers as both a blessing and a curse) affect how volunteers are perceived during a crisis. Our objective is to further understand the consequences this may entail regarding how voluntary resources are
Remembrance, commemoration, and specific dates play an important role in many societies and cultures. They can be about positively connotated events with societal impacts, such as reunifications or the gaining of independence, but also disastrous or other devastating events on a national or international scale. In disaster risk areas, there are various ways such events are addressed. While for som
Quantum Chromodynamics predicts a phase transition from hadronic matter to quark–gluon plasma (QGP) at high temperatures and energy densities, where quarks and gluons (partons) are no longer confined within hadrons. The QGP forms in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Anisotropic flow coefficients, quantifying the azimuthal expansion of produced matter, probe QGP properties. Flow measurements
In this chapter we study the policy change behind the organizational restructuring of the fire and rescue services that is currently taking place in Sweden by using the multiple streams framework (MSF). We study the large forest fires in 2014 and 2018 and explain differences between the focal power of the events at the local and national levels as well as the effects the events had on subsequent p
Rural areas globally are undergoing significant social-ecological change, including emigration, demographic aging, and habitat fragmentation. These regions, often dependent on climate-sensitive livelihoods, face heightened challenges from climate change, which threatens essential infrastructures such as sanitation, transport, and communications. There is growing attention to adaptation needs in ur
Atserias and Müller (JACM, 2020) proved that for every unsatisfiable CNF formula ℓ, the formula Ref(ℓ) stating that 'ℓ has small Resolution refutations"-does not have subexponential-size Resolution refutations. Conversely, when ℓ is satisfiable, Pudlák (TCS, 2003) showed how to construct a polynomial-size Resolution refutation of REF(ℓ) given a satisfying assignment of ℓ. A question that had remai
The transport system is a large system of systems which currently faces challenges because of the climate-change-induced need to decrease the use of fossil fuels. The aim of mitigating climate change is realized in many parts of the transport system, concurrently and at high pace, which brings with it many challenges for the resilience of the system. By resilience, we mean the ability of a system
Climate debates often frame individual behaviour and systems change as distinct pathways to action. We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems, and that this agency should be actively leveraged to achieve meaningful climate change mitigation.
Sensitive and frequent digital remote memory assessments via mobile devices hold the promise to facilitate the detection of cognitive impairment and decline. However, in order to be successful at scale, cognitive tests need to be applicable in unsupervised settings and confounding factors need to be understood. This study explored the feasibility of completely unsupervised digital cognitive assess
Background:Reports on sex differences in radiological characteristics of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are few. Sex-related differences in hematoma location, volume, and imaging markers may contribute to variations in clinical presentation and outcome. We aimed to assess sex differences in non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) features in an unselected ICH cohort.Methods:This observational stud
