Research at Uppsala University
New biomarkers can lead to breakthrough in diabetes research
18 February 2021. With the discovery of two new biomarkers, Olof Eriksson, researcher in translational imaging, may le ...
Producing more sustainable hydrogen
12 February 2021. Hydrogen for energy use can be extracted in an environmentally friendly way from water and sunlight, ...
The professor wanting to contribute to peace on Earth
25 January 2021. Isak Svensson is, as he describes it, a product of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Si ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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"My land is my domain!" A legal geographical inquiry into the the development of property rights in Estonia
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Private property rights are the norm in Eastern Europe after the demise of the communist regimes. However, property rights are more loosely grounded here than in West Europe, partly because of recurrent ...
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"The Rose of Rhodesia" Recovered: Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen. / Edited by Stephen Donovan and Vreni Hockenjos.
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
Publication of a streamed version of the silent film "The Rose of Rhodesia" (1919) in tandem with a special issue dedicated to the film in an online academic journal. The film, which has been restored ...
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24th International Conference on Comparative Education Society in Europe. Theme of conference : Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: Polities, Policies, Performances
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
Organisationen CESE, Comparative Education Society in Europe, bildades 1961, är medlem av World Council of Comparative Education Societies, i sin tur av UNESCO accepterad som NGO. CESE anordnar sin 24e ...
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2nd Swedish Workshop on Multicore Computing, MCC-09
Research project from 2009-11-01 to 2009-11-30
Multicore computers are the main computing platform for the future, and computer system providers have switched to this new technology. In order to benefit form the performance potential of multicore systems ...
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3D analysis of chromatin texture in cell nuclei to improve cervical cancer screening
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Cervical cancer is killing a quarter million women every year. Screening based on so called PAP-smears have proven very effective to reduce cancer mortality but require much work of well trained cytotechnologist ...
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Time-laps tomography in volcanic regions – means of better understanding volcanic and earthquake processes
Research project from 2008-12-01 to 2011-12-31
The proposed project aims at developing a new generation of inversion and resolution algorithms for interpretation of massive 3D geophysical data sets. This is important, as many inversion problems today ...
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Time-laps tomography in volcanic regions – means of better understanding volcanic and earthquake processes
Research project from 2008-12-01 to 2011-12-31
4D tomografi i vulkaniska områden ...
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A 4th Swedish symposium on "The Psychology of Sustainability", 11-12 November, 2009, in Göteborg
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
A symposium on The Psychology of Sustainability is planned for 11-12 November, 2009, in Göteborg, within the series of annual meetings of the Swedish Area Group in Environmental Psychology. The Area Group ...
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A Programming Platform for Future Wireless Sensor Networks
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2015-06-30
Our goal is to provide a programming environment for Wirless Sensor Network (WSN) where sensors can be programmed as an ensemble rather than individually, focusing on the services provided by the whole ...
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A Psychological perspective on early moral judgements
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2012-01-01
Moral judgements of actions take into account not only the actions’ outcomes but also the intentions behind them. An action with an unintended harmful outcome is not necessarily judged as morally ...
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A Study of Persian Discourse Structure by. JOHN R ROBERTS in cooperation with Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz and Carina Jahani
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
This work presents a first study of Persian discourse structure(s). It also integrates syntactic analysis with discourse analysis. In order to achieve this, Role and Reference Grammar is used as the preferred ...
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A conversation analytic study of the use of picture based and graphically based communication aids (AAC) in everyday activities
Research project from 2008-07-01 to 2010-06-30
The purpouse of this project is to study the use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) aids within a dialogical view on language, communication, and cognitiion, using a conversation analytic ...
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A genomic map to sex-specific variation in lifespan
Research project from 2009-09-10 to 2013-12-31
Virtually all human diseases have a sex specific component, in terms of rate of occurrence, age of onset and/or severity. Understanding the causes to these differences may hold important clues to how many ...
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A longer useful life of a lithium-ion battery for hybrid vehicles
Research project from 2008-02-11 to 2010-12-31
Genom grundläggande materialforskning av de i batteriet ingående materialen, i kombination med grundläggande elektrokemiska analyser, simulering och modellering samt testning av små och större battericeller ...
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A novel, inter-disciplinary approach to visualize lipid rafts and plasma membrane order in living embryos
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
Lipid rafts are ordered micro-domains rich in tightly packed cholesterol and sphingolipids within the plasma membrane of cells. Lipid rafts are important in protein trafficking, endocytosis, and cellular ...
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A workshop about Micro- and Nano Technologies in Medicine
Research project from 2008-10-15 to 2009-01-15
Currently not available ...
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Ab initio Theory for Unconventional f-Electron Superconductors
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2010-12-31
f-electron materials display a fascinatingly rich variety of unusual physical phenomena, such as heavy-fermion or Kondo insulating behavior, exotic magnetic, multipolar or orbital ordering, and superconductivity ...
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Accurate and efficient non-projective dependency parsing
Research project from 2008-07-01 to 2010-03-31
The overall goal of the proposed research project is to develop accurate and efficient methods for non-projective, data-driven dependency parsing. The purpose of parsing is the automatic analysis of the ...
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Acritarchs and their potential in Neoproterozoic subdivison: a tool for discovering old oil.
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-12-31
A variety of fossil groups, such as conodonts, trilobites and ammonites are commonly used for correlation purposes in the Phanerozoic. Organic-walled microfossils such as spores, pollens and acritarchs ...
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Adaptive genetic diversity in natural populations: evolution and conservation biology
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
I propose to use parallel pyrosequencing technology to characterize the transcriptome of two species of grouse and to identify immune genes using comparative transcriptome analysis. These immune genes ...
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Adhesion optimized bioactive surgical implants with optional drug delivery function
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-05-31
Currently not available ...
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Advanced diagnostics of nuclear fuel based on tomographic techniques and high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy
Research project from 2009-07-01 to 2014-06-30
Techniques and instrumentation will be developed for applying quantitative tomographic measurements in nuclear fuel diagnostics. In this application, extremely high radiation levels are encountered and ...
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Advanced materials for clean energy and environmentally benevolent applications
Research project from 2009-09-01 to 2014-01-31
Purpose and goal: Expected results and effects: Approach and implementation: ...
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Agrarian Motherhood, Sweden c. 1790-1910
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2010-12-31
Projektet behandlar moderskap i det svenska agrarsamhället 1790-1910. Under denna tid förändrades förhållandena på landsbygden i grunden: jordbruket moderniserades, befolkningen ökade, och nya sociala ...
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Algorithms for simulation of stochastic models in molecular biology
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Intrinsic noise and spatial heterogeneity are important in many intracellular networks in molecular biology and a stochastic modeling is necessary. The mathematical model at a mesoscale of these systems ...
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Allele specific silencing of collagen type I as a tool for gene therapy in Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2010-12-31
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is caused by mutations in the genes encoding for collagen type I. The patients suffer from bone fragility and the severity can range from mild, with fractures in the youth, ...
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Altering the type of fat in the diet - a novel strategy to prevent fatty liver, abdominal obesity and related metabolic diseases?
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
Övervikt är ett gigantiskt folkhälsoproblem. Särskilt farligt är det när fett ansamlas i levern och i buken då det är starkt förknippat med rubbningar i ämnesomsättningen, diabetes och hjärtkärlsjukdom ...
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An alternative approach to refined predictions of drug interactions
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
The specific goal of this project is to predict how transport proteins influence pharmacokinetic drug/toxicant properties, tissue accumulation and subsequent tissue toxicity, particularly in the liver. ...
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Structural and epigenomic analysis of neurodevelopmental toxicity mechanisms, linking late effects to early exposure
Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31
It is well established by now that the neonatal brain growth spurt period in rodents is sensitive to environmental influences such as exogenous disturbances. This early exposure commonly leads to potentially ...
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Anmälan om utnyttjande av återvändarbidrag för beviljade postdoktorsstipendier
Research project from 2009-11-01 to 2010-10-31
Anmälan om utnyttjande av återvändarbidrag för beviljade postdoktorsstipendier ...
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