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Environmental changes and their effects are among the most pressing topics of today's ecological research. Shrublands, although widespread across the globe, remain understudied in this respect. We conducted a global meta-analysis of 81 shrubland sites subjected to experimental warming, shifts in precipitation (e.g. increased precipitation and drought), and nitrogen addition to quantify seven types

Human pose forecasting is the task of predicting articulated human motion given past human motion. There exists a number of popular benchmarks that evaluate an array of different models performing human pose forecasting. These benchmarks do not reflect that a human interacting system, such as a delivery robot, observes and plans for the motion of the same individual over an extended period of time

Vowel-based voice analysis is gaining attention as a potential non-invasive tool for COPD classification, offering insights into phonatory function. The growing need for voice data has necessitated the adoption of various techniques, including segmentation, to augment existing datasets for training comprehensive Machine Learning (ML) modelsThis study aims to investigate the possible effects of seg

Avoiding severe global warming requires large-scale removals of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Forest regeneration offers cost-effective carbon removals, but annual rates vary substantially by location and forest age. Here we generate grid-level (~1-km2) growth curves for aboveground live carbon in naturally regrowing forests by combining 109,708 field estimates with 66 environmental covariates. Acro

Quantifying the spatial and temporal patterns of drought characteristics is crucial, given the increasing frequency and intensity of drought events over the past 20 years in China. However, the patterns of drought frequency and duration in different regions and their differences remain unclear. Traditional indices for detecting and quantifying droughts, such as the Standardized Precipitation Evapo

Time-frequency (TF) postprocessing methods are often used to form concentrated TF representations (TFRs) for nonstationary signals. Regrettably, most such techniques are sensitive to noise and tend to underestimate weak components when dealing with transient signals, resulting in sidelobes and low-resolution TFRs. In this work, we introduce a generalized group delay (GD) weighted sparse TF (GWSTF)

Aim: This study investigated how human activities and local environmental variables shape tree assemblages (species composition in a defined location), comparing their effects on edible and inedible tree species. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) Environmental filtering impacts spatial beta-diversity more than dispersal limitation; (2) human activities significantly influence regional tree beta-di

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a severe condition affecting millions worldwide, leading to numerous annual deaths. The absence of significant symptoms in its early stages promotes high underdiagnosis rates for the affected people. Besides pulmonary function failure, another harmful problem of COPD is the systemic effects, e.g., heart failure or voice distortion. Howeve

The extreme 2018 hot drought that affected central and northern Europe led to the worst wildfire season in Sweden in over a century. The Ljusdal fire complex, the largest area burnt that year (8995 ha), offered a rare opportunity to quantify the combined impacts of wildfire and post-fire management on Scandinavian boreal forests. We present chamber measurements of soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes, soil mic

The most limiting factor in heart transplantation is the lack of donor organs. With enhanced prediction of outcome, it may be possible to increase the life-years from the organs that become available. Applications of machine learning to tabular data, typical of clinical decision support, pose the practical question of interpretation, which has technical and potential ethical implications. In parti

With the continuous increase of rapid urbanization and population growth, sustainable urban land-use planning is becoming a more complex and challenging task for urban planners and decision-makers. Multi-objective land-use allocation can be regarded as a complex spatial optimization problem that aims to achieve the possible trade-offs among multiple and conflicting objectives. This paper proposes

An important issue in simultaneous localisation and mapping is how to match and merge individual local maps into one global map. This is addressed within the field of robotics and is crucial for multi-robot SLAM. There are a number of different ways to solve this task depending on the representation of the map. To take advantage of matching and merging methods that allow for deformations of the lo

Objectives: Mental health consequences and behavior change has been described in elite athletes following the vast impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world of sports. However, most study samples have been of limited size, and few studies have assessed student-athletes. This study aimed to analyze perceived mental health impact, measured as clinical degree of depression and anxiety, worry about

Remote sensing-based models are an adequate tool to estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake by terrestrial ecosystems, and to upscale the results from ecosystem to regional or global scales. In this study we compare three models driven by Sentinel-2 derived vegetation indices together with eddy covariance (EC) measured CO2 flux and radiation data in order to estimate gross primary production (GPP) in

The global temperature rise is proportional to the cumulative amount of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. This observation is consistent between climate models and historical observations. It has also given rise to the concept of a carbon budget, which sets a threshold for the amount of CO2 that can be emitted into the atmosphere while still fulfilling political goals such as the Paris Agreement.Te

Brevmall Vice-chancel lor Regulations for Purchasing at Lund University1 1. Definitions and references to other decisions 1.1 Purchasing is defined as the entire process from demand to termination of an agreement: - procurement of goods, research equipment, services and building contracts - contract management - call-offs and orders from contracts - delivery checks - meetings, follow-ups and negot

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/sites/medarbetarwebben.lu.se/files/2021-05/regulations-for-purchasing-at-lund-university.pdf - 2026-05-20

Hålla tarmbakterier i schack hos unga möss Efter födseln exponeras ett spädbarn för den yttre miljön för första gången. Detta innebär exponering för ett stort antal bakterier och virus. Spädbarn är mer benägna att bli infekterade av bakterier och virus än vuxna. Hos vuxna kan antikroppen Immunoglobulin A (IgA) hjälpa till att hålla bakterier och virus i schack genom att omsluta dem och agera som The period after birth, when an infant is initially exposed to vast amounts of environmental and microbial antigens, sets the stage for proper immune system development ensuing lifelong immunity. Simultaneous to this first-time exposure, the nursing mother provides immune protection via antibodies in the breast milk. Secretory Immunoglobulin A, as provided by the mother or produced intrinsically i

“Den kulturella medborgarskapet hos lyssnare av The Joe Rogan Experience - En kvalitativ studie om lyssnarens engagemang” är skriven av Ebba Lee och Elvin Ekstedt och är författad i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Institutet för kommunikation och medier på Lunds universitet. Denna studie undersöker lyssnarkulturen som har vuxit fram kring podcasten “The Joe Rogan Experience”, med utgångspun

Rätten till domstolsprövning är en grundläggande rättighet som enligt art. 6.1 EKMR ska gälla samtliga mål som rör den enskildes civila rättigheter. I Sverige är detta gällande rätt sedan EKMR:s inkorporerande i svensk lag i och med en lagändring av 2 kap. RF. Det framgår i dagsläget genom 2 kap. 19 § RF att ingen författning får stiftas i strid mot EKMR. I FL finns även en allmän bestämmelse om öThe right to judicial review is a fundamental right which according to art. 6.1 ECHR shall apply to all cases concerning an individual's civil rights. In Sweden, this is established law since the ECHR's incorporation into Swedish law with a change of the chapter two in The Instrument of Government. It states that no law may be enacted in violation of the ECHR. In The Administrative Procedu

Virtual 3D reconstructions of live sport events are on the horizon and to produce a high quality experience for viewers it is important that the movements of the 3D models look natural. Today, state of the art pose estimators produce data that con-tains noise, resulting in jittery animations with pose errors. The goals for this thesis were to evaluate the performance of a Long Short-Term Memory (L