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Australia's social media ban is now in force. It requires platforms to take reasonable steps to stop users under 16 from holding accounts. Drawing on five focus groups with fifteen young people aged 12--16, this paper examines how children understood the ban's effectiveness, impact, and legitimacy as they encountered the platforms charged with enforcing it. Participants widely saw the ban as unfai

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, an airborne bacterium that impacts the lungs, affecting one third of the global population, and was declared a global health emergency by the WHO. Multi-drug resistant variations of the pathogen diminish decades of drug discovery, development, and research. This complex and multi-factorial challenge calls for new approaches in anti-microbial dr

The aim of this review is to provide an overview of proteomic studies in animal models of diabetes and to give some insight into the different methods available today in the rapidly developing field of proteomics. A summary of 31 papers published between 1997 and 2007 is presented. For instance, proteomics has been used to study the development of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, diabetic complica

Rhythmic behaviors (in short RBs), such as applauding, dancing or rocking a baby to sleep are part of humans everyday life. Recently there has been a growing interest in the RBs of other species, as a way of tracking the evolutionary roots of human musicality. RBs have been initially studied in arthropods, insects, anurans and songbirds, where a single behaviour is tied to reproductive function. E

Macrodomains recognize intracellular adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-ribosylation resulting in either removal of the modification or a protein interaction event. Research into compounds that modulate macrodomain functions could make important contributions. We investigated the interactions of all seven individual macrodomains of the human poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) family members PARP9, PARP14

Barley, Hordeum vulgare, is a commercially important crop plant mostly used as animal feed but also as human food where it serves as an important source of _-glucan and other nutrients. As populations are growing worldwide, early flowering cultivars can play a vital role to increase the production of barley to meet the increasing demand of this crop. We analyzed five early flowering mat-e mutants

Violent Jihadist Ideology in South Asia: Socio-Political Implications Islamic Reformism and malayāḷḷi ummah in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Kerala, South West Indian Ocean MUHAMMED NIYAS ASHRAF | SASNET | LUND UNIVERSITY 2 ISLAMIC REFORMISM AND MALAYĀḶI UMMAH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL KERALA, SOUTH WEST INDIAN OCEAN Author: Muhammed Niyas Ashraf Series Editor: Andreas Johansson SASNET Publicat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sites/sasnet.lu.se/files/rapport_ashraf_2020.pdf - 2026-07-24

Learn about what makes a Graduate School education unique and world-class. United in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. Who we areOur beginningsGraduate School was founded in 2007 in response to the Faculty of Social Sciences' need to offer interdisciplinary programmes in areas not covered by specific departments. Because of our unique organisational

https://graduateschool.sam.lu.se/about/about-graduate-school - 2026-07-23

Forskare Kontaktinformation E-post: peter [dot] olsson [at] mgeo [dot] lu [dot] se Mobil: +46 72 236 31 54Organisation Miljö- och geovetenskapliga institutionen (MGeo) Besöksadress: Geocentrum II, Sölvegatan 12, Lund Hämtställe: 16 WebbplatsPeter Olssons profil i Lunds universitets forskningsportalAndra roller Medlem i Strategiskt forskningsområde BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Cha

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/peter-olsson - 2026-07-23

Microsoft Word - Document2 HuMeNS* Advanced Study Group on neuroscience of knowledge acquisition *Humanities, Medicine, Natural Science, Social Science Background and Goal The HuMeNS Advanced Study Group has been formed as a result of the members' mutual interest in carrying out interdisciplinary studies on the microstructure of human cognition, in particular studies on changes in the brain's cell

https://www.pi.lu.se/sites/pi.lu.se/files/humens_2013-14_description.pdf - 2026-07-24

Disjoined action in a conjoined world: An analysis of human development governance in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Prepared by, Kent Buchanan Kent1018@gmail.com A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Lund University International Master’s Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science For the degree of Master of Science Lund University Centre for Susta

https://www.lumes.lu.se/sites/lumes.lu.se/files/buchanan_kent_thesis_2011.pdf - 2026-07-24

Background: It has been observed that patients with allergic asthma/rhinitis have increased apoptosis of peripheral blood cells. This study was designed to explore the idea that the markers of apoptosis may help predict the response of allergen immunotherapy. Methods: The Allergy Department of University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden, recruited a total of 58 young adults (<35 years) with a history of bi

Background: The cause of postspinal headache and its specific characteristics are unknown, and whether lumbar dural puncture (LP) triggers brain-stem compression in patients with brain oedema is still controversial. Methods: Hydrostatic effects of distal opening of the dural sac towards the atmosphere are described and applied to the normal brain and the brain with disrupted BBB. Analogue analyse

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two prevalent neurodegenerative disorders for which the causes are unknown, except in rare familial cases. Several changes in neuropeptide levels as measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) have been observed in these illnesses. Somatostatin (SOM) levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are consistently decreased in AD and FTD. Neuropeptide Y (N

Popular Abstract in Swedish Människans utveckling och fysiologiska anpassning till upprätt kroppställning är beroende av en rad blodtrycksreglerande mekanismer. Vid ortostatisk hypotension sjunker blodtrycket i samband med uppresning från liggande till stående. Detta beror på en sviktande cirkulationsanpassning så att organismen inte förmår att upprätthålla ett tillräckligt högt blodtryck. SymtomeOrthostatic hypotension (OH) is believed to be an important cause of cerebral hypoperfusion, leading to chronic fatigue, blurred vision, unsteadiness, dizziness and sometimes syncope. It may also result in episodes of confusion, falls and fractures. The coupling between OH and organic dementia is not clear. Our findings in a large group of patients with Alzheimer's disease, vascular- and frontotem

Dichloromethane extract of the stem bark of Rheedia acuminata yielded three benzophenones with antioxidant activity, the new one named acuminophenone A (1), guttiferone K (2) and isoxanthochymol (3), along with the known xanthones formoxanthone C (4) and macluraxanthone (5). The structures were established through interpretation of their spectroscopic data, the stereochemistry of compounds (1) and

New system technologies are continuously improving the performance of vehicles regarding comfort, stability, environmental stresses, and safety. Novel sensors are developed and used together with advanced control algorithms and faster and more accurate actuators to help the driver to maneuver the vehicle in a safer way. The physical traction limit set by the friction between the tires and the road

BACKGROUND. Endometrial carcinomas seem to carry a different prognosis depending on the presence or absence of concomitant complex atypical hyperplasia (hyperplasia). The molecular genetic profile of these two pathogenetic types, based on the genes reportedly mutated in these cancers, remains to be defined. Although microsatellite inability is reported in approximately 25% of endometrial carcinoma

Preeclampsia (PE) complicates 3-8% of all pregnancies and manifests clinically as hypertension and proteinuria in the second half of gestation. The pathogenesis of PE is not fully understood but recent studies have described the involvement of cell-free fetal hemoglobin (HbF). Hypothesizing that PE is associated with prolonged hemolysis we have studied the response of the cell-free Hb- and heme de