Aalborg University

EMS response time and patient outcomes in high-acuity emergency responses: a Danish matched cohort study

Emergency medical services (EMS) provide prehospital care. To reduce response times, ambulances may use lights, sirens, and traffic exemptions, increasing risks for EMS personnel and other road users. Additionally, predefined response time targets may lead to inefficient resource...

Operationalising sustainability through planetary boundaries in strategic environmental assessment: regional raw material planning in Denmark

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) aims to embed sustainability into planning but often does not include clear benchmarks for sustainability. This paper tests a model integrating planetary boundaries into an objectives-led SEA framework. The model is tested in Danish region...

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices about severe mental illness and willingness-to-pay for a new integrated care model across 6 European countries: a study protocol

Background People with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) experience a 15–20-year shorter life expectancy than the general population, with increased premature deaths from somatic illnesses, and twice to more than four times the general population’s all-cause mortality risk. Integrated...

Technology-mediated emergence of a competing logic in a mature field: The case of Bitcoin

Emerging technologies, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, are enabling new configurations of practices, roles, and meaning systems within mature fields that can disrupt institutionalized field arrangements and alter the centrality of institutional logics. Given the g...

The Promise of Augmented Reality in Everyday Life

Augmented Reality (AR) is increasingly positioned as the next frontier in personal computing, yet how it would actually integrate into everyday life remains poorly understood. We investigate the promise of everyday AR by analyzing (1) 184 practitioner-created vision videos and (2...

Situated Observation in School Psychology: A Practice-Based Framework for Context-Sensitive Assessment and Consultation

Assessment practices in school psychology are increasingly shaped by demands for evidence‑based practice alongside calls for culturally responsive and context‑sensitive approaches. Although observation is widely used in practice, it is often marginalized within research and evalu...

Association of Long-Term Residentially Assigned Speciated Atmospheric Mercury Emission Flux with All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality

Abstract Mercury (Hg) is a persistent global pollutant, but population evidence on residentially assigned species-specific atmospheric Hg emission flux and mortality is limited. We analyzed UK Biobank cohorts for all-cause/other-cause (N = 322,666), cardiovascular disease (N = 34...

The influence mechanism of firm green technology cooperation: a supply chain perspective with evidence from chinese cases

To address growing environmental challenges, focal firms are increasingly pursuing green technology cooperation within their supply chains. However, limited research has yet proposed a theoretical framework for green technology cooperation among firms from the perspective of supp...

Integrating temperature and CO2-concentration impact on crops into an input–output framework

Abstract Environmental Input–Output Analysis (IOA) incorporates feedbacks in coupled economic-environmental systems, driven by an exogenous demand and fixed input–output coefficients with a linearity assumption. For some environmental problems, or over longer time periods, the IO...

Left Atrial Appendage Closure Versus Oral Anticoagulation for Prevention of Stroke or Systemic Embolism in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: An Updated Meta‐Analysis of 7004 Patients Across Six Randomized Trials

ABSTRACT Introduction Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) is an emerging alternative for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who are unsuitable for long‐term oral anticoagulants (OACs). However, its efficacy and safety relative to OACs remain uncertain. M...

Circular Transformation in the Silk Sector: A Fuzzy Delphi–DEMATEL Analysis of Critical Factors

ABSTRACT The circular transformation in the silk industry is crucial for enhancing resource efficiency and minimizing waste. Despite growing interest in circularity within the textile sector, the silk industry remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by systematically...

Beyond snapshots: a Bergsonian approach to including lived experiences in social work research

Qualitative methods have significantly advanced the inclusion of lived experience in social work research. This article explores how Henri Bergson's concepts of durée and intuition can contribute to a distinct vocabulary for engaging the temporal, ambiguous, and textural dimensio...

PD-1 and PD-L1 Expression in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Paired Immunohistochemical Study

Background/Objectives: The significance of the PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint pathway in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is highlighted by side effects from checkpoint inhibitor therapies including autoimmune enterocolitis reminiscent of IBD. Methods: This exploratory study examin...

Resistance indicators in sewage microbiota mirror clinical antibiotic use with temporal lag linked to host

Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) offers a promising window into community pathogens but extending it to antibiotic resistance (AR) is complicated by ecological and physical processes within sewer systems. The epidemiological meaning of antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) abundanc...

Considering Autism in Binge-Type Eating Disorders: Broadening Beyond an Anorexia Nervosa-Focused Model

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Research on Autism in eating disorders (EDs) has historically focused on anorexia nervosa (AN), with comparatively limited attention given to binge-type EDs such as bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED). This review summarises emerging evidence o...

The effects of different guiding methods on ski-specific body posture of severely visually impaired and blind skiers

Abstract Physical activity for blind or severely visually impaired people requires specific support. In alpine skiing, the required support is commonly provided by a human guide. The aim of the current study was to investigate possible differences between common guiding strategie...

Engineering and Kinetic Profiling of a Thrombin-Activable Prodrug Antibody Targeting P-Selectin.

Antibody prodrugs represent a promising therapeutic format that provides advantages compared to conventional monoclonal antibody therapeutics. In this study, we engineered an antibody prodrug using an anti-P-selectin antibody as a model system, incorporating N-terminal heavy chai...

Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs underlie ~5% of herpes simplex encephalitis in adults.

Inborn errors of type I interferon (IFN-I) immunity account for ∼7-8% of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) cases in young children, but the pathogenesis of HSE in adults is largely unknown. We report that IFN-I autoantibodies (auto-Abs) in serum/plasma samples drawn before, durin...

The Longitudinal Association Between Organized Leisure Sports and School-Related Social Well-Being

Background/Objectives: Previous research has found positive associations between physical activity and leisure-time sport participation and subjective well-being among children and adolescents. However, most of this evidence is cross-sectional. In this study, we add to this discu...

Sexual and relational challenges in men and women affected by prostate cancer: a Project SEXUS study

OBJECTIVES: To examine, in a nationally representative Danish study, a comprehensive range of sexual characteristics, dysfunctions and relational challenges among men with prostate cancer (PCa) aged ≥50 years and women married to such men, compared with unaffected men and women....