Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 August 2021. How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emission ...
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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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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Ersättning för Ann-Christine Syvänens uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 1 oktober - 31 december 2010.
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Research project from 2010-10-01 to 2013-12-31
Ersättning för Ann-Christine Syvänens uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 1 oktober - 31 december 2010. ...
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Ersättning för Lars Wallentins uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 2011-2013.
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Ersättning för Lars Wallentins uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 2011-2013. ...
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Human resources in disability and poverty- A family perspective
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The project is focusing on the phenomenon poverty and aims to investigate the connection between poverty and disability among families having special needs children/adolescents in Moldova and Ukraine. ...
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"Turning the Vicious Circle around. New Frontiers in the Fight against the Mafia"
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
This research project explores how cooperation is established in an environment marked by distrust and non-cooperation. The research focuses on the private sector in Palermo and the cooperation that has ...
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"Unseen, unheard and unnoticed": Swedish Wildlife Photography ca 1890 - 1970
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The project analyzes the development of wildlife photography in Sweden ca 1890 - 1970. With the purpose of outlining the historical development of the today generally accepted representational code in ...
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The exodus from Africa: linking human history and genomic patterns of variation
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Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31
One of the greatest challenges of the post-genomic era is to ?develop a detailed understanding of the heritable variation in the human genome? (Collins et al. 2003). The pattern of genetic variation in ...
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"Vi behöver ingen lag!" Sprickor i det svenska lutherska 1800-talet? Författare: Cecilia Wejryd
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Boken bearbetar frågan om hur och varför svensk kristenhet under 1800-talet gick från att ha haft en gemensam grundsyn på den kristna människans behov av Guds lag till att det parallellt existerade flera ...
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1. Catalogue of the Ethiopic manuscripts of the Gunda Gunde monastery /W. Witakowski 2. Studies in Ethiopian Monasticism: the intellectual legacy of the Stephanites /W. Witakowski
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Ansökan avser finansiellt stöd för 2 publikationer: 1. Katalogen skall omfatta beskrivning av den samling av 219 handskrifter i Gunda Gundeklostret som jag studerar inom det nuvarande projektet. Detta ...
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1. Esther Queen of the Jews/Tal Davidovich 2. Surviving Between Anti-Semitism and Judaism/Tal Davidovich
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Esters karaktär och berättelsen om henne har överlevt under tusentals år inte bara som en del av boken Ester i det Gamla Testamentet (GT) utan har också en regelbundet återkommande plats i judendomens ...
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The 3rd Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS) and the 35th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS)
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
IRIS (Information systems research seminar in Scandinavia) commenced in 1978 and is the oldest consecutive information systems conference in the world. The conference is organized as an annual working ...
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3d International Conference on Neurodegenerative disorders: Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
We have two times previously been organizing a biannual conference in Uppsala with support from Vetenskapsrådet. The first conference, ?Neurodegenerative disorders: immunotherapy and biomarkers? was held ...
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A CONFERENCE ON THE MOLECULES OF LIFE ? A symposium in tribute to the memory of Lennart Philipson
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
This conference explores how the molecules of life link to the phenotype of the organism. In particular, we focus on the frontiers of the three interconnected topics: developmental biology, neurobiology ...
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A Comprehensive Descriptive Study of Zoroastrian Persian Works
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Abstract The Zoroastrian Persian is a language used by Iranian Zoroastrians since the tenth A.D century to write down their works and also to translate Avestan and Parsig (Middle Persian) texts. Iranian ...
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A Forgotten Heritage of Play - tracing aspects of urbanity and masculinity through a re-contextualization of the engraved game boards at the medieval city of Vijayanagara, South India
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The project aims to study nearly 1000 permanently engraved game boards at the site of Vijayanagara, South India, once the capital of a large Hindu kingdom (c. AD 1350-1565). It builds on an earlier, by ...
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A MOLECULAR UNDERSTANDING OF LIPID BASED DRUG DELIVERY - A BRIDGE FOR POORLY SOLUBLE COMPOUNDS TO REACH PHYSIOLOGICAL TARGETS
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
With 70-90% of the new drug-like molecules synthesised at date showing poor water solubility computational tools that allow predictions of the solubility and give suggestions on how to improve this property ...
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A Programming Platform for Future Wireless Sensor Networks
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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
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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 Swedish infrastructure for chemical safety predictions with focus on human health
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The field of chemical safety predictions aims at establishing the safety of novel chemical structures in silico, using computational models based on existing in vitro and in vivo data. The field is hampered ...
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A Symposium on Restoration and Restorative Environments at the 30th International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa, 22-27 July, 2012
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Research project from 2012-05-07 to 2012-12-31
This project involves a symposium on the topic of "Restorative Environments," to be held during the upcoming 30th International Congress of Psychology in Cape Town, South Africa. The symposium aims to ...
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Ett ramverk för parallellprogrammeringsmodeller
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Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Programming modern computer systems is a complex and error prone activity. There is a need for models and languages in verification and validation. There are many varieties and for each of them fundamental ...
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A genomic map to sex-specific variation in lifespan
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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
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The iron-based rechargeable Li-ion battery has the potential to influence the development of all kinds of hybrid electric vehicles in reducing fuel consumption. The battery is environmentally benign with ...
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A neuroscience perspective on anxiety and its treatment: Sex differences, serotonergic pathways and genetic factors
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Research project from 2010-09-01 to 2016-08-31
Ångest och ångestbehandling ur ett neurovetenskapligt perspektiv: Könsskillnader, serotonerga processer och genetiska faktorer ...
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A neuroscience perspective on anxiety and its treatment: Sex differences, serotonergic pathways and genetic factors
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Research project from 2010-09-01 to 2016-08-31
Anxiety disorders like social anxiety disorder (SAD) are very common. The aim of this project is to examine underlying neurobiological processes in anxiety and its treatment with focus on 1) Women´s increased ...
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A new Si on Diamond on SiC (SODSiC) hybrid substrate - A thermal management solution for future electronic devices
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Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Project goal is a novel hybrid substrate for ICs. The substrate will consist of Si-on-Diamond-on-(polycrystalline) SiC (SODSiC) and have such a high net thermal conductivity as to alleviate current thermal ...
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A new family of single-molecule magnets: structural and magnetic characterization of self-assembled monolayers
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Research project from 2012-07-01 to 2015-06-30
The aim of the proposed project is to study the magnetism of a new family of singlemolecule magnets (SMMs), and determine how their magnetic properties are modified when interacting with the surface of ...
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A new method for extraction and upgrading of lignin
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Research project from 2012-01-31 to 2013-04-30
With the method that is presented in this application we intend to depolymerize and reduce lignin in black liquor to monomeric hydrocarbons that can be used as different green oil derivatives. Through ...
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A statistical population-genetic approach to searching for genes targeted by recent positive selection
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2012-12-31
The advent of high-throughput genotyping technologies has revolutionized evolutionary biology and genetics. These fields are now inundated by massive quantities of data, as determining dense sets of genotypes ...
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ADHD- and ODD-problems from middle childhood to adolescence. Stability, adaptation and moderating factors.
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Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Syftet med studien är att undersöka utvecklingen av ADHD- och trotsproblem (svårigheter med uppmärksamhet och hyperaktivitet/impulsivitet respektive vredesutbrott och svårigheter att följa regler och krav ...
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IMAGING THE UNIMAGINABLE?
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Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2012-12-31
There is a limit in what we can see. In this proposal, we intend to characterise the fragmentation of target molecules injected into a short-wavelength X-ray pulse from a free-electron laser (FEL). Such ...
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Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.