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On the 9th of April a one-day conference is held, with the title "The Politics of Global Water Crisis". Karin Aggestam presents a talk on "Water Conflict and Blue Peace in the Middle East?". Se attached flyer for more information. Attached flyer:The Politics of Global Water Crisis
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/one-day-conference-global-water-crisis - 2025-12-18
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Christer Jönsson has published the article "Relationships between Negotiators: A Neglected Topic in the Study of Negotiation" in the latest issue of the journal International Negotiation. The abstract of the article:“Negotiation can be seen as a dynamic social process. Perspectives emphasizing the social context and dynamics of negotiations have been largely neglected in
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/christer-jonsson-social-relationships-between-negotiators - 2025-12-18
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have authored the article Gendering Agency in Transitional Justice, publicerad in Security Dialogue (2015) vol. 46 no. 2: 165-182 Abstract:Mainstream transitional justice and peacebuilding practices tend to re-entrench gendered hierarchies by ignoring women or circumscribing their presence to passive victims in need of pro
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-gendering-agency - 2025-12-18
Erik Ringmar's article, "On the Ontological Status of the State" (1996) is included in the anthology Historical International Relations, published by Sage. The volume, to quote the blurb, "is comprehensive, well organized and encompasses many of the classic articles in the field by leading European and American scholars." Länkar:Historical International RelationsOn the Ontological Status of the St
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmars-article-selected-prestigious-anthology - 2025-12-18
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam has written the article "Desecuritisation of water and the technocratic turn in peacebuilding", published in International Environmental Agreement: Politics, Law and Economics (2015). Abstract:This article addresses the research gap of water desecuritisation and advances an interdisciplinary approach within the issue area of peacebuilding. It draws upon thr
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-security-water-and-technocratic-peacebuilding - 2025-12-18
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Moira Nelson has written a post titled "Breaking down barriers" on the research blog Policy Network. Links:Breaking down barriersMoira Nelson
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/moria-nelson-women-and-labour-market - 2025-12-18
The Spanish journal Revista Down (a journal devoted to the topic of Down's syndrome) has in their latest issue Niklas Altermark's article "The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability" as main theme, and has invited a number of researchers to discuss the article. One of the commenters is Mara Dierssen, one of the world’s foremost scholars on intellectual disability and biology.Links:Al
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/niklas-altermarks-article-main-theme-journal-issue - 2025-12-18
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Åsa Knaggård’s article ”The Multiple Streams Framework and the problem broker” has been published by the European Journal of Political Research. In the article she discusses John Kingdon’s framework and introduces the concept of ‘problem broker’. Links:The Multiple Streams Framework and the problem brokerÅsa Knaggård
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knaggard-policy-process - 2025-12-18
The Chinese National Twin Registry (CNTR) currently includes data from 61 566 twin pair from 11 provinces or cities in China. Of these, 31 705, 15 060 and 13 531 pairs are monozygotic, same‐sex dizygotic and opposite‐sex dizygotic pairs, respectively, determined by opposite sex or intrapair similarity. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/chinese-national-twin-registry-gold-mine-scientific-research - 2025-12-18
Application to epidemiological record data in a large-scale biobank (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Japan) shows that a combination of kurPCA and RAMP effectively detects known errors or inconsistent patterns. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/outlier-detection-questionnaire-data-biobanks - 2025-12-18
Socioeconomic status has a negative impact on swimming ability in Swedish children, a new BlueHealth study has found. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/new-study-highlights-disparity-swimming-skills - 2025-12-18
A pan-European enterprise to provide a catalogue (https://bio.tools) of tools and databases that can be used in these workflows. bio.tools not only lists where to find resources, but also provides a wide variety of practical information. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/biotools-registry-software-tools-and-data-resources-life-sciences - 2025-12-18
This Glossary, rooted primarily in the Canadian context but drawing on lessons from elsewhere, describes environmental public health regulatory practice in relation to health equity, including approaches that practitioners can use to contribute to addressing the social determinants of health. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/glossary-health-equity-context-environmental-public-health-practice - 2025-12-18
Mediation analysis is a powerful tool for understanding mechanisms, but conclusions about direct and indirect effects will be invalid if there is unmeasured confounding of the mediator–outcome relationship. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/approximate-sensitivity-analysis-unmeasured-mediator-outcome-confounding - 2025-12-18
Over the past decade, several large registries of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have been established. These registries are collecting a wealth of longitudinal data on thousands of patients with this rare disease. The data collected in these registries will be complementary to data collected in clinical trials because the patient populations studied in registries have a broader
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-registries-idiopathic-pulmonary-fibrosis - 2025-12-18
The Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) is a large, prospective, long-term, population-based cohort study and a unique research platform and network to obtain substantial knowledge about several important risk and prognostic factors in major chronic diseases. A random sample of 45,000 participants between 45 and 74 years of age from the general population of Hamburg, Germany, are taking part in an ex
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rationale-and-design-hamburg-city-health-study - 2025-12-18
Surgical quality registries are important tools for both performing research and improving clinical practice. The Swedish National Knee Ligament Registry (SNKLR) has collected patient-reported and surgical data on more than 90% of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions in Sweden. There has year-by-year been an increasing number of publications using data from SNKLR and the Scandinavi
Self-selection into prospective cohort studies and loss to follow-up can cause biased exposure-outcome association estimates. Previous investigations illustrated that such biases can be small in large prospective cohort studies. The structural approach to selection bias shows that general statements about bias are not possible for studies that investigate multiple exposures and outcomes, and that
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/bias-self-selection-and-loss-follow-prospective-cohort-studies - 2025-12-18
Comorbidity in stroke is common, but comprehensive reports are sparse. We describe prevalence of comorbidity and the prognostic impact on mortality and functional outcome in a large national ischemic stroke cohort. New publication in SAGE Journals
Multiple asthma patient registries have been established globally to provide valuable information on current clinical management, including treatment patterns, adherence, and the long-term outcomes that are important to patients, providers, and other decision makers. New publication in Immunology
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/step-right-direction-harmonizing-measures-use-asthma-patient-registries - 2025-12-18
