This article examines the expanding role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and associated human rights concerns, including whether new EU legislation takes all relevant human rights concerns into account. AI presents promising ways to fulfil the right to health through improving diagnostics, treatments, and resource allocation, but its use also comes with risks concerning privacy, bias

This chapter will explore how various forms of intelligence cooperation may constitute breaches of the substantive obligations of a state under international law (primary norms), and how both states – the one directly engaged in human rights violations and the other one providing some form of assistance through its intelligence agency – could be held to account by other states under international

Industry body’s decision to accept Novo Nordisk back reflects systemic failures

The rise of globalisation and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks whether States possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of i

This chapter discusses the relationship between the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) and human rights treaties. It identifies alternative approaches in the issue and discusses their relative strengths and weaknesses. The positivist approach, the dogmatic approach, and the fragmentation approach to the relationship between the VCLT and human rights treaties were rejected. Instead, th

This thesis examines the legal conformity of Special Tax Zones (STZs) with the principle of non-discrimination under European Union (EU) law, especially when these zones are exempt from State aid rules. STZs are most of the time geographic tax regimes that provide advantages to companies according to their location or their needs in the context of regional development difficulties. Although freque

This thesis conducts a comparative legal analysis of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), examining their divergent regulatory approaches to governing digital platforms, with Apple’s App Store as a case study. The study investigates how the DMA’s ex ante structural remedies and the AML’s ex post behavioural enforcement shape platform behaviour, compli

The present thesis aims to assess the efficacy of the GDPR in managing personal data breaches in healthcare. To fulfil its purpose, we have analysed the legal basis for processing sensitive personal health data and we have set the following research question: To what extent does the GDPR prevent personal health data breaches as well as mitigate their impact on data subjects? In order to conduct

Recent research in organo-metallic cages composites (MOCs); discrete, self-assembled coordination compounds; has highlighted their significant potential in host-guest chemistry and catalysis. New studies focus on synthesizing multifunctional MOCs by combining more than one ligand. However, due to the unpredictable nature of coordination-driven self-assembly, intricate strategies were imperative to

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health concern, driven by the overuse of antibiotics and a lack of new drug development. To address this challenge, alternative antibacterial targets involved in essential bacterial functions are being explored. In this study, three compounds were synthesized using N-acetylglucosamine as the starting material. One of these compounds serves as a ke

The mosquito Aedes aegypti is a known vector for many diseases, which leads to the use of harmful insecticides. Painless is a membrane protein that plays a role in sensing noxious heat mechanical stimuli, and by determining its structure, it could potentially be a target repellents as an alternative to insecticides. By expressing Painless an additional eGFP HisTag in yeast cells, the protein can

Introduction: Conventional packaging extends cucumber’s shelf life while reducing food waste, however concerns regarding micro(nano) plastics (MNPs) contamination remain. At the same time, edible food coatings are increasingly gaining attention as a promising more sustainable alternative. Background: Despite the preservation advantages of low-density polyethylene (LDPE)packaging, its breakdown

Achieving pure protein with high enzymatic activity for research and practical teaching purposes is essential. In this study the protein BoGal36A was purified using cells or lysate obtained from three different expression methods. The expression was performed using bioreactor, shaking flasks and a prepared lysate of cells grown in shaking flasks at Lund protein Production Platform (LP3; (kindly pr

This research explores the lived experiences of a group of Chinese diasporas in Stockholm, Sweden, who migrated through unanticipated opportunities rather than long-term planning. In contrast to dominant Chinese cultural values prioritizing stability, careful life planning, and risk aversion, these individuals made bold, transformative decisions to embrace uncertain immigration journeys without pr

This is an ethnographic study of a Swedish Fountain House and the members and counselors who curate the culture and community within the specific field of this Fountain House (F.H). To provide an analysis of individuals who have dealt with or are dealing with mental health and illness coming together within a rehabilitation organization, a focus on subjectivity and intersubjectivity is expound

Beyond Westphalia Human rights are often framed within a territorial perspective. The phrase can easily conjure up images of citizens struggling for their rights with their own governments rather than with distant foreign governments. The idea of human rights gained prominence in the wake of the establishment of a Westphalian world order of 1648, with territorially distinct States exercising sover