Aalborg University

AccLock: Unlocking Identity with Heartbeat Using In-Ear Accelerometers

The widespread use of earphones has enabled various sensing applications, including activity recognition, health monitoring, and context-aware computing. Among these, earphone-based user authentication has become a key technique by leveraging unique biometric features. However, e...

Return Temperature Prediction in District Heating Networks Using Primary Side Measurement Data

District heating networks are essential for decarbonizing the heating sector, yet their efficient operation is often hindered by high return temperatures, which indicate reduced efficiency or substation faults. Modeling return temperature is therefore critical but challenging due...

Demographic and clinical differences between individuals with and without DXA scans in Denmark

This study utilized two Danish registry-based cohorts to compare characteristics of DXA scanned individuals with not DXA scanned individuals. DXA scanned individuals had more comorbidities and used more medications, but there were signs of insufficient DXA scanning, particularly...

Qualifying the debate on interdisciplinarity considering 50 years of educational experimentation at Aalborg University

Considering 50 years of pedagogical experimentation with problem- and project-based learning at Aalborg University, this paper investigates how interdisciplinarity as an educational principle has been realized in the university's teaching and learning practices. In order to analy...

Places of Opportunity? The Role of Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Advantage on Upper Secondary Education Attainment Among Young Descendants of Immigrants in Denmark

ABSTRACT The integration of immigrants and their descendants has long been central to European and OECD policy agendas, with educational attainment considered a key indicator of integration success. Yet, persistent native‐immigrant gaps in educational attainment remain evident, i...

Operationalizing fear of cancer recurrence care: a modified Delphi study establishing a consensus-based clinical pathway for Danish cancer survivors

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is a prevalent concern among cancer survivors. Although evidence-based FCR guidelines exist, their implementation requires further operationalization. This study aimed to establish expert consensus on a clinical pathway to o...

Coated or chewable Aspirin and a hybrid air pollution mitigation strategy in patients with atherosclerotic disease: Rationale and Design of the COATED-AIR Randomized Trial.

BACKGROUND: Although enteric-coated aspirin is widely used instead of chewable formulations in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD), its effects on cardiovascular and gastrointestinal outcomes remain uncertain. Separately, air pollution is a driver of car...

Household consumer purchases and chronic disease

Chronic disease risk stratification remains costly and often provides limited insight into modifiable exposures. Consumer purchases are routinely generated, low-burden measures of household lifestyle that can be linked to health outcomes with consent. In this Danish cohort study,...

Distinct Determinants of Hospitalisation and In-Hospital Mortality After Acute Stroke: Insights into Stroke–Heart Syndrome (SHS-PARTICLES Study)

Background/Objectives: Stroke–heart syndrome (SHS) involves myocardial injury, cardiac dysfunction, and arrhythmias after acute stroke, playing a key role in prognosis. Most evidence comes from acute ischaemic stroke (IS), while cardiac involvement after haemorrhagic stroke (HS)...

The climate responsibility of cultural influencers

In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that visibility and influence should raise, not lower, the bar for climate responsibilit...

Quality in Palliative Care for Patients With Pre-existing Severe Mental Disorders – A Questionnaire Study With Danish Health Care Professionals

Background Patients with severe mental disorders (SMDs) face disparities in end-of-life care, yet knowledge about the quality of palliative care is limited. Aims This study examined healthcare professionals’ perspectives on palliative care for patients with SMDs. Methods Question...

Feminist service design: Experimenting with a diffractive approach to journey mapping

Developing scaling strategies for citizens’ assemblies requires situated knowledges. Local governments are increasingly using service design methods to foreground situated knowledges; however, the design research community calls for greater reflection on their application to enab...

How the nurse–patient relationship is enacted in Danish intensive care units: An ethnographic study of conscious mechanically ventilated patients

Introduction The nurse–patient relationship is crucial for conscious mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). While critical illness, immobilisation, and communication barriers challenge this relationship, the knowledge of its enactment in practice remai...

Considering ADHD in the context of eating disorders through a neuro-affirming lens

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Research on neuro-affirming eating disorder (ED) care has expanded rapidly but has focused primarily on Autism. Attention to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in ED populations has increased only recently. This review summarizes emerging research...

Personal Narrative Assessment to Guide Clinical Practices in the Assessment and Support of Children With Developmental Language Disorder: A Tutorial

Purpose: This tutorial demonstrates how personal narratives elicited using the Global TALES (Talking About Lived Experiences in Stories) protocol can be analyzed using the four components of the Linguistic Underpinnings of Narrative in Aphasia (LUNA) framework for discourse analy...

Keyphrase identification using minimal labeled data with hierarchical contexts and transfer learning

Interoperable clinical decision support system (CDSS) rules provide a pathway to interoperability, a well-recognized challenge in health information technology. Building an ontology facilitates creating interoperable CDSS rules, and identifying the keyphrases (KP) from the existi...

Oral Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus PB01 Supplementation Enhances Early Wound Closure in Diabetic Rats

Abstract Impaired wound healing is a major complication of diabetes mellitus, characterized by delayed wound closure and prolonged inflammation. Current therapies focus largely on local wound management and do not address systemic factors contributing to defective repair. Probiot...

Real-Time Prediction of Lower-Limb Joint Kinematics, Kinetics, and Ground Reaction Force Using Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning

Walking is a key movement of interest in biomechanics, yet gold-standard data collection methods are time- and cost-expensive. This paper presents a real-time, multimodal, high sample rate lower-limb motion capture framework, based on wireless wearable sensors and machine learnin...

Pattern of Failure in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma After Radiotherapy in a Low‐Incidence Population: A DAHANCA Study

BACKGROUND: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is uncommon in many populations. Most existing clinical evidence comes from endemic areas, where Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated subtypes predominate. We analyzed patterns of failure in a population-based cohort from Denmark, a low-i...

Cardiac Electro-structural Remodeling and Arrhythmia Risks Across the Spectrum of Obesity Defined by the New Lancet framework

Abstract Background Obesity is linked to higher arrhythmia risk, yet BMI overlooks its complexity. Recently, the Lancet Commission has introduced a new obesity framework. We aimed to compare arrhythmia risks across distinct obesity categories. Methods Participants from the UK Bio...