Lund University

Managers’ experiences of implementing palliative care in nursing homes: a qualitative follow-up study after an educational intervention for the staff

BACKGROUND: It is crucial to implement knowledge-based, high-quality palliative care for the increasing number of frail older people with multimorbidities in nursing homes. The manager's role in a successful implementation is often taken for granted despite scarce evidence. There...

Strengthening the engagement of mass media stakeholders in community-based health promotion interventions - the Danish Project SoL

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background</bold>: The potential positive effects of mass media stakeholders in health promotion have long been recognized. Health promotion interventions may benefit from exposure in mass media by attracting public attention and political support. M...

The relationship between language prediction and action prediction in toddlers and adults

Prediction plays a key role in both action processing and language comprehension, yet it remains unclear whether individual differences in action prediction are related to individual differences in language prediction. Using eye-tracking, we examined predictive looking behaviour...

Want It Like You Mean It: Revisiting Goal Self-Concordance Through the Dissociation of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation in Relation to Meaning in Life

Abstract The Self-Concordance Model posits that autonomously motivated goal pursuit is a primary driver of well-being, yet standard measurement practices often conflate the presence of autonomy with the absence of external pressure via relative difference scores. Using a high-pow...

Staggered school start times for reducing peak travel demand: A case study of implementation processes and stakeholder impacts

In Sweden, peak-hour travel demand is ranked as the most important operational cost driver for public transport, linked to school and work hours. Achieving a more balanced demand throughout the day is therefore crucial for resource efficiency and promoting environmentally friendl...

Association between urbanicity–cooking fuel type and self-reported respiratory symptoms as a proxy for acute respiratory infection symptoms among children under two years across ten East African countries

Abstract Introduction Evidence remains limited on how urbanicity modifies the relationship between household cooking fuel type and respiratory symptoms in young children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study examined the prevalence of cough and dyspnea across te...

Economic Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Sweden: Current Estimates and Future Projections

ABSTRACT Aims Overweight and obesity are major public health challenges and well‐established risk factors for cardiovascular disease, cancer and premature mortality. We estimated the economic burden of overweight and obesity in Sweden in 2023 and projected the future economic bur...

Changes in appetitive traits and binge-eating following lifestyle intervention in 7–14-year-olds: a 3-year follow-up

Lifestyle interventions tend to reduce disordered eating short-term in children, but little is known about long-term changes. This study aimed to investigate changes in appetitive traits and episodes of overeating and binge-eating up to three years after a 10-week multicomponent...

Genome-wide association study of image-based emphysema scoring in the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS) suggests two new risk loci in smokers

Abstract Background Despite the high prevalence and clinical significance of emphysema, few genetic risk loci have been consistently replicated. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of CT-based emphysema, with a particular focus on non-smoking-related genetic deter...

Concordance between plasma biomarkers of phosphorylated tau and tau-PET: A narrative review

Plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau) and tau positron emission tomography (PET) are key biomarkers for detecting tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD), offering both diagnostic and prognostic value. However, the concordance between plasma p-tau (p-tau217/p-tau181/p-tau231) posit...

Time Averaged CCE

ABSTRACT A popular approach to interactive effects panel data models is the common correlated effects (CCE) estimator of Pesaran (Estimation and inference in large heterogeneous panels with a multifactor error structure. Econometrica 74 , 967–1012, 2006). The current paper propos...

The Zooplankton International Geospatial dataset: A global repository of spatiotemporal freshwater zooplankton community composition data from lakes and reservoirs to support ecological research

Abstract Zooplankton transfer substantial energy in aquatic food webs and are used as indicators of environmental change. Syntheses of zooplankton community dynamics globally require datasets that span a wide range of environmental gradients; however, these datasets are limited d...

Terminology for describing the 24-h cycle of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep: a scoping review

Abstract Background Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep are three behaviours which occupy the 24-h cycle and interact to influence a multitude of health outcomes. Different terms are currently used to describe these behaviours collectively (e.g., movement behaviours...

The Search for Life Elsewhere: Avoiding Hype and Fostering Public Understanding

The search for life beyond Earth presents unique challenges for science communication due to its interdisciplinary nature, the potential for groundbreaking discoveries, and the inherent uncertainties involved. The Lorentz Center workshop Breaking News: We Found Extraterrestrial L...

Accelerating biomass loss from forest disturbances across Europe

Abstract Forest disturbances are rising globally due to climate change and land-use pressures, weakening the terrestrial carbon sink. However, declines in aboveground biomass from tree cover loss remain poorly quantified, limiting our understanding of the role of disturbances in...

Synchrotron‐Based X‐Ray Tomography of Strontium Phosphate Chemical Gardens

ABSTRACT While self‐organized precipitation processes result in alluring, complex structures, such as chemical gardens, many questions about the mechanism of growth remain unanswered. One of the reasons for this is the limitations in characterization techniques. Traditional techn...

Enhanced dynamic range spatio-spectral metrology of few-cycle laser pulses

Accurate spatio-temporal and spatio-spectral metrology is critical to the characterization and use of ultra-short, highpower lasers.The emergence of few cycle pulses, with bandwidths of tens or hundreds of nanometers, poses a significant challenge to existing metrology techniques...

On the life history of the honey bee superorganism

Abstract The Western honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) forms large colonies which represent organisms in their own right, known as superorganisms. Although this species is among the most extensively studied insects, competing explanations persist regarding fundamental characteristics...

Multiscale carrier-envelope phase characterization of 2-µm pulses delivered by a 200-kHz optical parametric amplifier

Abstract Light fields with a central wavelength of 2 µm are very well suited for strong-field-driven charge carrier control: Their photon energy lies far below the band gap of many materials, while their oscillation period remains significantly shorter than the coherence time of...

“Gender Equality is Not a Neutral Topic and There is a Tension in That”: Approaching Gender Mainstreaming in Neoliberal Sweden

This article examines how Swedish public sector gender administrators position themselves in relation to gender equality as a political project. Since the 1990s, Sweden’s adoption of gender mainstreaming alongside neoliberal reforms has led to increased bureaucratization of gende...