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Amongst other factors, host behaviour critically determines the patterns with which blood parasites occur in wild host populations. In particular, migratory hosts that sequentially occupy distant sites within and across years are expected to show distinct patterns of blood parasitism depending on their population-specific schedules and whereabouts. Here, we monitored haemosporidian parasitism in t

Lignin is one of the main components of plant cell walls, which provides mechanical support for plants and also contributes to resisting against plant pathogenic fungi. In the fruit industry, the lignin content can affect the quality of fruit. The biosynthesis of lignin involves a variety of enzymes, of which caffeoyl-CoA 3-O-methyltransferase (CCoAOMT) is a class of methyltransferases that plays

Biografisk artikel om Claes Ludvig Ennes (1727-1791), lundastudent, skald, präst och informator till Carl Michael Bellman.

Det här kapitlet fokuserar på relationen mellan arbetsliv och övrigt liv och ett antal digitala strategier som används för att hantera denna. Tidigare forskning har visat att kvinnor i jämförelse med män möter en större utmaning i hanterandet av denna gränsdragning, givet att kvinnor, traditionellt sett, har haft ansvaret för barn samt utfört mer av det obetalda arbetet i hemmet (Hochschild &

Infection patterns of avian haemosporidians result from the evolution of their associations with hosts, and can be shaped by multiple biotic factors. However, at the level of parasite species, few studies have investigated the details of the temporal dynamics of infection patterns in wild bird communities. We hereby studied a wild bird community in southern Sweden to investigate two generalist par

Background: The integration of first- and second-generation bioethanol processes has the potential to accelerate the establishment of second-generation bioethanol on the market. Cofermenting pretreated wheat straw with a glucose-rich process stream, such as wheat grain hydrolysate, in a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process could address the technical issues faced during the biolo

During the last two decades, survival rates after cardiac arrest have increased while the fraction of patients surviving with a severe neurological disability or vegetative state has decreased in many countries. While improved survival is due to improvements in the whole chain of survival, improved methods for prognostication of neurological outcome may be of major importance for the lower disabil

Pedagogical development programmes (PDPs) are important for developing teaching skills for university teaching staff. Due to participants’ different teaching roles, their professional development needs and interests may also be different. However, little is known regarding the immediate needs of university teaching staff when they enter PDPs and how these may differ according to their roles. This

Adaptive control is often used for friction compensation in trajectory tracking tasks because it does not require torque sensors. However, it has some drawbacks: first, the most common certainty-equivalence adaptive control design is based on linearized parameterization of the friction model, therefore nonlinear effects, including the stiction and Stribeck effect, are usually omitted. Second, the

Learning robot motions from demonstration requires models able to specify vector fields for the full robot pose when the task is defined in operational space. Recent advances in reactive motion generation have shown that learning adaptive, reactive, smooth, and stable vector fields is possible. However, these approaches define vector fields on a flat Euclidean manifold, while representing vector f

Power sector decarbonisation is crucial for meeting global climate targets under the Paris Agreement as well as ensuring sustainable growth. Electricity and heat account for approximately 40% of energy‐related emissions and demand is only expected to increase, facilitating low‐carbon transitions in other sectors, from transport to industry. In response to the limitations of feed-in tariffs and ren

Achieving a robust ignition with minimal spark plug wear is challenging in heavy duty engines fueled with gaseous fuels like biogas and hydrogen. Thermal energy deposition from the spark to the gas was studied in a 10.9 milliliter custom-built spark calorimeter. An AC capacitive ignition system was used along with a dual-nickel standard J-gap spark plug and the influence of multiple physical and e