Research at Uppsala University

• Preconception health and care

  Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2015-07-31

  Preconception Health and Care International Conference, Uppsala 2016-02-17, 18 and 19Preconception care is defined as a set of interventions that aim to identify and modify biomedical behavioural and ...

• SWE-2012-131: The Gendered Political Economies of Coca versus Cocaine in Chapare, Bolivia

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  This project explores local understandings of the radically higher degree of transfer of surplus value from peasant families through illicit versus licit commercialization of coca and the gendered dimension ...

• "...raised all of these stones": Multiple runic inscription monuments in Viking Age Scandinavia

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  This project is a systematic study of runestones and monuments with multiple runic inscriptions. These inscriptions can either be apportioned on different sides of one stone or over a series of interrelated ...

• 2-categories, 2-representations and applications

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  The main aim of this project is to further develop general tools which, given some mathematical object, provide a recipe for how to construct an interesting 2-categorical upgrade of this object, how to ...

• 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software

  Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-30

  ISPASS is the premier conference for researchers targeting computer system performance. ISPASS is supported by the most prominent organization for computer engineering: IEEE. For the first time since its ...

• 3D Nanoplatform

  Research project from 2015-06-01 to 2017-06-30

  Purpose and goal: The project was aimed at developing technologies for the future´s 3D nano-printers, especially positioning tables with nanometer-controlled movements. The goal was to prepare for business ...

• 4GDH-solutions for Swedish million-homes-programme residential areas

  Research project from 2015-06-01 to 2017-06-30

  District heating faces many challenges, such as lower heat demand in refurbished residential buildings from the million homes programme. How can present district-heating systems develop to fourth generation ...

• The 9th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers

  Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-30

  The 9th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML2016), takes place at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, during June 20-24 2016, after previous symposia of this series held in 1993 in Kyoto ...

• A Collection of French Music at the Swedish Royal Court from 1690-1726: A cataloging and digitization project

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  The purpose of this project is to catalogue and digitize a collection of French baroque music from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, today preserved in Uppsala University Library. The ...

• A Colonial Arena: Landscape, People and Globalization in Inland Northern Sweden in the Early Modern Period

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  Projektet ska studera integreringen av norra Sveriges inland i en globaliserad ekonomi och i globala kulturella processer under tidigmodern tid, ca 1600-1750. Syftet är att undersöka hur detta tog sig ...

• A European DNA bank for deciphering the missing heritability of Alzheimer’s disease

  Research project from 2015-12-01 to 2018-11-30

  Genetic factors account for up to 80% of the risk in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The advent of genomic approaches (such as genome-wide association studies, GWASs) has led to the characterization of 26 genetic ...

• A Framework for Parallel Programming Specifications

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  This project is a direct continuation of the project "A framework for parallel programming models", to accommodate and verify a spectrum of high-level modeling languages. We formally established correctness ...

• 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 ...

• A development platform for matrix based drug delivery

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  In this project we will establish and develop synthetic methods to construct in vivo targeting biomaterials using motives from, or extracellular matrix (ECM) components as macromolecular building blocs ...

• A flexible automated cell tracking system optimized on an application basis by user-controlled feedback

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  Obtaining quantitative data from live cell images is the key to understanding molecular and cellular processes. Automated microscopes enable the collection of images at a rate which outpaces researchers ...

• A longer useful life of a lithium-ion battery for hybrid vehicles

  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 ...

• A model of oligotrophic bacteria with streamlined genomes for microbiology

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  There is a current gap between molecular and ecological microbiology as the abundant and ecosystem-relevant microbes are scarcely characterized in regards to their metabolism, cell-division, expression ...

• A neuroscience perspective on anxiety and its treatment: Sex differences, serotonergic pathways and genetic factors

  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 ...

• A neuroscience perspective on anxiety and its treatment: Sex differences, serotonergic pathways and genetic factors

  Research project from 2010-09-01 to 2016-08-31

  Ångest och ångestbehandling ur ett neurovetenskapligt perspektiv: Könsskillnader, serotonerga processer och genetiska faktorer ...

• A new approach to assess volcanic terranes for geothermal energy potential: VOLTAGE

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  The sources of volcanic geothermal energy are a poorly understood phenomenon. This is especially true in Indonesia, one of Earth?s most populous countries and most volcanically active areas. Despite ~130 ...

• A new family of single-molecule magnets: structural and magnetic characterization of self-assembled monolayers

  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 ...

• A new perspective on French Historical Phonology - What loan words in Breton can tell us.

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

  The project will attempt to shed new light on the history of French. In spite of at least 150 years of research, there are still many unsolved problems in French language history. This is particularly ...

• A new platform for Island studies: Workshop at Uppsala univeristy Campus Gotland, April 7-8, 2016

  Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2016-04-15

  The study of islands and islanders and their integration into the global community has rendered increasing international interest in the recent past and created a new academic discipline: island studies ...

• A probabilistic study of graphs and trees

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  The overall purpose is to develop the study of graphs through the combined use of probabilistic methods (e.g. renewal theory, Galton-Watson processes, Brownian motion, contraction method and Stein´s method ...

• A study in scarlet An art-theoretical study of the practices that surrounded the rock paintings from Stone Age Fennoscandia

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

  The aim of this project is to deepen the knowledge about rock paintings from Stone Age Fennoscandia by discussing this material within an art-theoretical framework. One might object that it is impossible ...

• A study of the construction of the child's best interests and good parenting in custody reports and district court rulings

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  I Sverige har antalet vårdnadstvister ökat med 40 procent sedan år 2006. Av föräldrabalken framgår att domstol ska fatta beslut utifrån barnets bästa. Såväl forskning som erfarenheter från professionella ...

• ACCESS AND EXCESS; Point of Care Diagnostics and Prepackaged Drugs for Integrated Fever Management for Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea in Private Sector Drug Shops in Uganda

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  The main child killer diseases, malaria and pneumonia both present with fever and rapid breathing and overlaps with diarrhea. Without diagnostic tests health workers treat presumptively. In Uganda we have ...

• AIMday®

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31

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• Abdominal aortic aneurysm: Aetiology, prevention and therapy

  Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is an important health problem. Most patients have no symptoms prior to rupture, the only way to decrease mortality is to screen and treat healthy individuals. This is feasible ...

• Academic Writing in English as a Foreign Language: the Use of Formulaic Langauge and Disciplinary Variation

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-02-06

  Formulaic sequences (e.g. it can be seen that, put forward, come into play) are pervasive in academic language and offer an important means of differentiating written texts by discipline. This project ...

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