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Skogsbad (Shinrin-Yoku) är ett exempel på en naturbaserad intervention för hälsa och välbefinnande och är en väl utforskad metod. Den terapeutiska versionen av skogsbad, Shinrin-Ryoho, är inte lika studerad. Detta projekt syftade till att undersöka fenomenet skogsbad i Japan, som uppstått ur det samhälleliga behovet av stresshantering, stödjandet av psykisk hälsa och behoven hos en åldrande befolkForest bathing (Shinrin-Yoku) is an example of a nature-based intervention for health and wellbeing and is a well-researched practice. The therapeutic version of forest bathing, Shinrin-Ryoho, is not as studied. This project aimed to explore the phenomenon of forest bathing in Japan, arisen from the societal need of stress coping, supporting mental health and the needs of an aging population. The

Generating electricity from sunlight is a promising approach to achieve sustainable energy production. The efficiency of current solar cells is around 20% which is quite good; however, even higher efficiencies are desired. One promising design employs III–V semiconductor tandem and triple-junction nanowire (NW) arrays with geometrically enhanced absorption and lower weight, capturing a broader por

Contemporary efforts made toward creating a personality inventory free of the evaluative method variance, partially explained by social desirability, used the evaluative neutralisation method (Bäckström & Björklund, 2013; 2020; Bäckström et al., 2009; 2014; 2023). However, recent developments in the interpretation of the social desirability bias seem to suggest that there is perhaps reason to

Affective touch is widely implicated in infant regulation, relational experience, and development, but the evidence supporting these accounts has been generated through diverse empirical approaches. This systematic review examined how affective touch was conceptualised, operationalised, and measured in early-development research, what recurrent empirical configurations emerged, and where correspon

As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technologies become increasingly accessible, emerging forms of GAI sexual content (GAI-SC), including pornography, deepfakes, sexual conversations, and other sexually explicit material, have been produced, circulated, and discussed across online environments. Existing research has examined aspects of this technology; however, limited sociological researc

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) has long been analysed through various approaches towards its protagonists’ journeys and outcomes of survival and death. In contrast, this paper situates their journeys and outcomes under a single psychoanalytical approach to answer the question of what psychological factors contribute to Marlow’s survival and Kurtz’s death. This paper pursues an answer thr

Autobiographical remembering is reconstructive and frequently occurs in social interaction, yet it remains unclear whether the relationship between narrator and listener shapes how memories are expressed and subsequently remembered. This study examined autobiographical memory sharing with friends versus strangers and evaluated the use of a large language model (GPT-5.5) for coding narrative data.

Treated wastewater reuse is increasingly promoted as a climate adaptation strategy for water–scarce agricultural settings, yet its health risks are often assessed through approaches that foreground pathogens, contaminants, and modelled exposure pathways while overlooking everyday social practices related to water. This thesis explores how local practices, understandings, and systemic drivers of wa

Recent years have seen a surge to develop first-row transition metal complexes with photophysics and photochemistry similar to those of noble metals, such as ruthenium and iridium. The reason for this is obvious, looking at their relative abundance. Iron stands out as the most abundant transition metal on earth, and is positioned right above ruthenium in the periodic table.The aim of this thesis h

Satellite imagery is a potent tool for estimating human wealth and poverty, especially in regions lacking reliable data. This study compares a range of poverty estimation approaches from satellite images, spanning from expert-based to fully machine learning-based methodologies. Human experts ranked clusters from the Tanzania DHS survey using high-resolution satellite images. Then expert-defined fe

Marginal zone B cells (MZB cells) are innate like B cells that are predominantly located alongside memory B cells in the microanatomical region of the spleen of humans and mice termed the marginal zone. They circulate in humans but not mice, and in humans can be identified in blood and other lymphoid tissues, including the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, where they, as in spleen, form a zone surro

We aimed to describe the increased rate of Acinetobacter baumannii infections during the COVID-19 pandemic and define its significance within the last five years. This study was performed in a tertiary hospital with 280 beds and included all patients infected with A. baumannii in the intensive care unit between January 1, 2018, and June 30, 2022. A. baumannii-infected patients in the intensive car

PurposeEngagement of non-academic stakeholders is an important element of education for sustainability, but is rarely mentioned in contemporary agricultural education literature. This article investigates the process of engagement of non-academic stakeholders into higher education programs on agriculture. Non-academic stakeholders refer to private firms that are focused on the acquisition of knowl

We introduce a novel approach for energy-efficient scheduling of data-dependent stream programs with packet types on multicore architectures with voltage and frequency scaling. To have the given application meet specific throughput demands while minimizing energy consumption, we enhance the existing crown scheduling by packet-type dependent parameters. Formulation as an integer linear program gene

BACKGROUND: Electrocardiographic abnormalities are common in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and are included in the 2010 Task Force Criteria. Their time course, however, remains uncertain. In this retrospective observational study, we aimed to assess the long-term evolution of electrocardiographic characteristics and their relation to ventricular arrhythmias. METHODS AND RESULTS:

The anisotropic optical absorption edge of β-Ga2O3 follows a modified Beer-Lambert law having two effective absorption coefficients. The absorption coefficient of linearly polarized light reduces to the least absorbing direction beyond a critical penetration depth, which itself depends on polarization and wavelength. To understand this behavior, a Stokes vector analysis is performed to track the p

There are limited molecular data and few biomarkers available for studies of field-grown plants, especially for plants grown during extremely long days. In this study we present quantitative proteomics data from 3 years of field trials on potato, conducted in northern and southern Sweden and analyze over 3000 proteins per year of the study and complement the proteomic analysis with metabolomic and

District heating (DH) is an efficient urban heating solution. Numerous external factors (energy efficiency, fuel-price increases, heat -pump competition and policy changes) are challenging. It is relevant to explore long-term cost-competitiveness of DH. A model has been developed testing three, future DH pathways: (i) phase out of biomass (aligned to the cascading principle of the EU Taxonomy), (i

With incredible speed Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping many aspects of society. This has been met with unease by the public, and public discourse is rife with questions about whether LLMs are or might be conscious. Because there is widespread disagreement about consciousness among scientists, any concrete answers that could be offered the public would be contentious. This paper offers th