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- Kattge, Jens, et al.
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TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access
- 2020
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Ingår i: Global Change Biology. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1354-1013 .- 1365-2486. ; 26:1, s. 119-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Plant traits-the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants-determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and landscape management, restoration, biogeography and earth system modelling. Since its foundation in 2007, the TRY database of plant traits has grown continuously. It now provides unprecedented data coverage under an open access data policy and is the main plant trait database used by the research community worldwide. Increasingly, the TRY database also supports new frontiers of trait-based plant research, including the identification of data gaps and the subsequent mobilization or measurement of new data. To support this development, in this article we evaluate the extent of the trait data compiled in TRY and analyse emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness. Best species coverage is achieved for categorical traits-almost complete coverage for 'plant growth form'. However, most traits relevant for ecology and vegetation modelling are characterized by continuous intraspecific variation and trait-environmental relationships. These traits have to be measured on individual plants in their respective environment. Despite unprecedented data coverage, we observe a humbling lack of completeness and representativeness of these continuous traits in many aspects. We, therefore, conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements. This can only be achieved in collaboration with other initiatives.
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- Leebens-Mack, James H., et al.
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One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nature. - : Nature Publishing Group. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 574:7780, s. 679-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000-500,000 species(1,2) of great diversity and have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Here, as part of the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative, we sequenced the vegetative transcriptomes of 1,124 species that span the diversity of plants in a broad sense (Archaeplastida), including green plants (Viridiplantae), glaucophytes (Glaucophyta) and red algae (Rhodophyta). Our analysis provides a robust phylogenomic framework for examining the evolution of green plants. Most inferred species relationships are well supported across multiple species tree and supermatrix analyses, but discordance among plastid and nuclear gene trees at a few important nodes highlights the complexity of plant genome evolution, including polyploidy, periods of rapid speciation, and extinction. Incomplete sorting of ancestral variation, polyploidization and massive expansions of gene families punctuate the evolutionary history of green plants. Notably, we find that large expansions of gene families preceded the origins of green plants, land plants and vascular plants, whereas whole-genome duplications are inferred to have occurred repeatedly throughout the evolution of flowering plants and ferns. The increasing availability of high-quality plant genome sequences and advances in functional genomics are enabling research on genome evolution across the green tree of life.
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- Lundgren, Markus, et al.
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Analgesic antipyretic use among young children in the TEDDY study : No association with islet autoimmunity
- 2017
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Ingår i: BMC Pediatrics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2431. ; 17:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The use of analgesic antipyretics (ANAP) in children have long been a matter of controversy. Data on their practical use on an individual level has, however, been scarce. There are indications of possible effects on glucose homeostasis and immune function related to the use of ANAP. The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of analgesic antipyretic use across the clinical centers of The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) prospective cohort study and test if ANAP use was a risk factor for islet autoimmunity. Methods: Data were collected for 8542 children in the first 2.5 years of life. Incidence was analyzed using logistic regression with country and first child status as independent variables. Holm's procedure was used to adjust for multiplicity of intercountry comparisons. Time to autoantibody seroconversion was analyzed using a Cox proportional hazards model with cumulative analgesic use as primary time dependent covariate of interest. For each categorization, a generalized estimating equation (GEE) approach was used. Results: Higher prevalence of ANAP use was found in the U.S. (95.7%) and Sweden (94.8%) compared to Finland (78.1%) and Germany (80.2%). First-born children were more commonly given acetaminophen (OR 1.26; 95% CI 1.07, 1.49; p = 0.007) but less commonly Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) (OR 0.86; 95% CI 0.78, 0.95; p = 0.002). Acetaminophen and NSAID use in the absence of fever and infection was more prevalent in the U.S. (40.4%; 26.3% of doses) compared to Sweden, Finland and Germany (p < 0.001). Acetaminophen or NSAID use before age 2.5 years did not predict development of islet autoimmunity by age 6 years (HR 1.02, 95% CI 0.99-1.09; p = 0.27). In a sub-analysis, acetaminophen use in children with fever weakly predicted development of islet autoimmunity by age 3 years (HR 1.05; 95% CI 1.01-1.09; p = 0.024). Conclusions: ANAP use in young children is not a risk factor for seroconversion by age 6 years. Use of ANAP is widespread in young children, and significantly higher in the U.S. compared to other study sites, where use is common also in absence of fever and infection.
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- Andersson, Lena Stina, 1978-
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The Entrance, the Floor, and the Tile : Unfolding Material Histories at Museum Renovation Sites in Berlin, Stockholm, and London
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What can building materials and renovation processes tell us about museums? This dissertation addresses processes of architectural and material change within national museums in northern Europe; it also provides a material history of the museum and the renovation site, through an analysis of the relationship between these places. Renovation is used as a general concept for material change, which includes many different actions. The research was structured through three case studies in Berlin, Stockholm, and London, each a delimited architectural and material renovation project in which actors from the construction industry, museum institutions, as well as global actors meet. This research has aimed to unfold reasons behind why national museum buildings change, exploring museum practices, international agreements, commodity chains, local development plans and ambitions, and hidden labour and labourers—processes which take place over decades and even centuries and are motivated by a range of global, national, and local ambitions. The first case that I discuss is the Museumsinsel in Berlin, and the Pergamonmuseum entrance in the period following the Second World War; a time of material destruction, evolving internationalisation, and global governance within the museum sector. The second case lies in the renovation work that was conducted in the 1960s at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and more specifically a floor and the necessary changes to labour that this work facilitated. The third and last case study lies in an analysis of the trajectories of building materials and their commodity chains at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Here, I examine the significant roles played by building materials throughout the history of this museum, finally focusing on the tile produced for the Exhibition Road Courtyard. The research employed historiographical methods such as microhistory and archival research, as well as ethnographic methods and site visits. Through the dissertation, I argue for the need for new architectural histories that address renovation in new ways; I also propose that, if better and more critical descriptions and more informed architectural decisions are to be made, renovation must be studied as a process that includes institutional, historical, and material activities and agencies.
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Architecture in effect : vol 1. Rethinking the social in architecture: making effects
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Architecture in Effect presents research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies. The book compromises a wide-ranging collection of essays emerging from a multi-year research collective that has brought together partners from Sweden, the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, Rethinking the Social, is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, After Effects. Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of historical and current images on the making of realities. The task of these books is to present a wide range of research topics that combine historical, material, and critical research approaches that respond to our current crises and challenges. Ultimately, this enables new modes of knowledge production within architecture to be advanced in its relation to societal transformation.
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Architecture in Effect Vol #1(2) : Rethinking the Social in Architecture – Making Effects.
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Architecture in Effect is a substantial double volume that compiles 50 essays emerging from the architectural research environment of Sweden and drawing on a complex matrix of international collaborations. A central premise of the collected research is to question the relationship between the built environment and societal norms and to interrogate architecture’s role in these co-constitutive processes. The Architecture in Effect project is concerned with how contemporary political and environmental conditions place specific demands on society and on the everyday life of individuals. Architectural researchers have the capacity to both initiate and criticize architectural production and culture amidst existing and emerging societies. Architecture in Effect is published by Actar Barcelona New York (2019). Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects Volume 01 Edited by Sten Gromark, Jennifer Mack, Roemer van Toorn That architecture serves as the setting for social actions, activities, and content is not a new idea. That the architectural project can precipitate crucial social change, even transgression, is a far more modern and disputed claim. Spatial design in society has recently shifted away from universal solutions toward satisfying specific market orientated interests. The time is now to reclaim architecture’s role in promoting political, economic, ecological, and cultural transformations. The radicality of architecture is renewed in the exploration of novel and unforeseen possibilities: making effects.
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- Boric, Bojan
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The Ghost Boulevard
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 1947, Soviet architect Alexey Shchusev developed a large-scale urban renewal project for the post-war city of Chisinau, the then-capital of the SSR of Moldova. Part of the master plan was the construction of Boulevard D. Cantemir, which would cut through the city’s historic fabric. Only two sections of the boulevard were built before the project was abandoned. During the period of radical institutional political and economic shift towards a market economy in the early 1990s, initiatives to build the boulevard re-emerged through red lines, zoning documents, and planning regulations. The lack of political consensus caused planning paralyses over the city, creating a legal void where different actors competed to appropriate spaces. The power of the red lines has prompted various kinds of materializations of the boulevard. The real battle takes place in the sphere of the imaginary, and memory management is one of the main planning tools. Exploring the trajectory of the “Ghost Boulevard,” I reveal conflicting political and economic agendas and the many forces that constitute complex processes of planning today.
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- Botvinik-Nezer, Rotem, et al.
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Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nature. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0028-0836 .- 1476-4687. ; 582, s. 84-88
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Data analysis workflows in many scientific domains have become increasingly complex and flexible. Here we assess the effect of this flexibility on the results of functional magnetic resonance imaging by asking 70 independent teams to analyse the same dataset, testing the same 9 ex-ante hypotheses(1). The flexibility of analytical approaches is exemplified by the fact that no two teams chose identical workflows to analyse the data. This flexibility resulted in sizeable variation in the results of hypothesis tests, even for teams whose statistical maps were highly correlated at intermediate stages of the analysis pipeline. Variation in reported results was related to several aspects of analysis methodology. Notably, a meta-analytical approach that aggregated information across teams yielded a significant consensus in activated regions. Furthermore, prediction markets of researchers in the field revealed an overestimation of the likelihood of significant findings, even by researchers with direct knowledge of the dataset(2-5). Our findings show that analytical flexibility can have substantial effects on scientific conclusions, and identify factors that may be related to variability in the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results emphasize the importance of validating and sharing complex analysis workflows, and demonstrate the need for performing and reporting multiple analyses of the same data. Potential approaches that could be used to mitigate issues related to analytical variability are discussed. The results obtained by seventy different teams analysing the same functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset show substantial variation, highlighting the influence of analytical choices and the importance of sharing workflows publicly and performing multiple analyses.
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- Brolund de Carvalho, Sara, Adjunkt, 1974-, et al.
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‘You can simply say no’ : Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis
- 2024
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Ingår i: Radical Housing Journal. - : Radical Housing Journal. - 2632-2870. ; 6:1, s. 201-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Narratives about the ‘failure’ of large-scale post-World War II housing are now guiding major physical, social, and economic changes in neighborhoods all over Europe. This is true even in Denmark and Sweden, which have long been known for their welfare states and benevolent housing policies. Today, however, both countries have enacted new national anti-segregation measures that call for major physical and social changes to neighborhoods built in the postwar era, even as the opinions of local communities and residents of such neighborhoods have been only sparsely heard – if at all. By working with the method ‘witness seminars’, we – as the research collective Aktion Arkiv – foreground residents’ perspectives and their collective resistance: the effects and affects of top-down changes. While sharing their lived experiences and actions, residents say that architects and planners can ‘simply say no’ and thereby refuse to participate in these actions.
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- Fanni, Maryam, Associate Professor, et al.
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“You Can Simply Say No” : Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Stigmatizing narratives are now justifying major changes to the built environment, as we see again and again in large-scale, postwar housing estates all over Europe. Negative narratives and representations support renewal and demolition projects that often do not take residents’ views into account. Whose cultures and heritage will be privileged, and based on what narratives?This is our call to action: to locate alternative means and words and stories of describing the same neighbourhoods to create a messy, yet more diverse and hopeful perspective through the missing scale of individual residents and groups' experiences.In this paper, we present residents’ own narratives – as they respond to, fight against, and reimagine recent, repressive housing policies in Sweden and Denmark. The policies claim to solve urban segregation in areas built during the 1960s and 1970s and give them the stigmatizing names ‘parallel societies’, ‘ghettos’ or ‘vulnerable areas’.
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- Field, Dawn, et al.
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The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification.
- 2008
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Ingår i: Nature biotechnology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1546-1696 .- 1087-0156. ; 26:5, s. 541-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the quantity of genomic data increasing at an exponential rate, it is imperative that these data be captured electronically, in a standard format. Standardization activities must proceed within the auspices of open-access and international working bodies. To tackle the issues surrounding the development of better descriptions of genomic investigations, we have formed the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC). Here, we introduce the minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification with the intent of promoting participation in its development and discussing the resources that will be required to develop improved mechanisms of metadata capture and exchange. As part of its wider goals, the GSC also supports improving the 'transparency' of the information contained in existing genomic databases.
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- Gromark, Sten, 1951, et al.
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Architecture in Effect vol #1(2) Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects - Editors’ Introduction
- 2019
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Ingår i: Architecture in Effect vol #1(2) Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects. ; , s. 18-35
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Architecture in Effect is a substantial collection of essays emerging from the Swedish research environment of the same name. While it takes its point of departure from within the specific context that is Sweden, it includes contributions from authors based in the Nordic context, in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. A central premise of the collected research is that the built environment and societal norms are co-constitutive and that architecture as a discipline and as a professional practice plays a fundamental role in this relationship. Contemporary political and environmental conditions place specific demands on society and on the everyday life of individuals. There persists, as such, an obligation for actors within the discipline of architecture to contribute to a rethinking of the situated knowledges within architecture by engaging in trans-, cross-, and inter-disciplinary studies. Architectural researchers have the capacity to guide and criticize thinking on architecture and its vital material relations amidst existing and emerging societies. The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, Rethinking the Social , is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, After Effects . Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of historical and current images on the making of realities – and how such themes are intertwined with the development of architecture. The collected essays draw on historical and contemporary architectural situations, as seen from socially oriented perspectives and through the use of innovative methodologies and theories. A special feature included in the collection is a heteroglossary, a lexicon that defines productive concepts for architectural research that the contributing authors activate across the two volumes. Professor Dana Cuff, UCLA, USA, has provided a perceptive foreword for the double book project. The task of these books is to present a wide range of research topics that combine historical, material, and critical research approaches that respond to our current crises and challenges. Ultimately, this enables new modes of knowledge production within architecture to be advanced in its relation to societal transformation.
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- Gromark, Sten, et al.
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Rethinking the social in architecture: making effects : editors' introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Architecture in effect. - Barcelona, New York : ACTAR. - 9781940291994 ; , s. 19-35
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Architecture in Effect presents research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies. The book compromises a wide-ranging collection of essays emerging from a multi-year research collective that has brought together partners from Sweden, the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, Rethinking the Social, is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, After Effects. Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of historical and current images on the making of realities. The task of these books is to present a wide range of research topics that combine historical, material, and critical research approaches that respond to our current crises and challenges. Ultimately, this enables new modes of knowledge production within architecture to be advanced in its relation to societal transformation.With the contributions ofAlberto Altés Arlandis, Mariana Alves, Thordis Arrhenius, Anders Bergström, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Katarina Bonnevier, Brady Burroughs, Ragnhild Claesson, Fran Cottell, Hélène Frichot, Hannes Frykholm, Catharina Gabrielsson, David A. Garcia, Charlotte Geldof, Katja Grillner, Sten Gromark, Sophie Handler, Maria Hellström Reimer, Ben Highmore, Katja Hogenboom, Ebba Högström, Nel Janssens, Mark Jarzombek, Sepideh Karami, Daniel Koch, Thérèse Kristiansson, Mattias Kärrholm, Jennifer Mack, Jesper Magnusson, Helena Mattsson, Marianne Mueller, Katrin Paadam, Christina Pech, Karin Reisinger, Jane Rendell, Helen Runting, Gunnar Sandin, Meike Schalk, Miriam von Schantz, Bettina Schwalm, Erik Sigge, Erik Stenberg, Tijana Stevanović, Apolonija Šušteršič, Roemer van Toorn, Fredrik Torisson
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- Jelenkovic, Aline, et al.
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Zygosity Differences in Height and Body Mass Index of Twins From Infancy to Old Age : A Study of the CODATwins Project
- 2015
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Ingår i: Twin Research and Human Genetics. - : Cambridge University Press. - 1832-4274 .- 1839-2628. ; 18:5, s. 557-570
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A trend toward greater body size in dizygotic (DZ) than in monozygotic (MZ) twins has been suggested by some but not all studies, and this difference may also vary by age. We analyzed zygosity differences in mean values and variances of height and body mass index (BMI) among male and female twins from infancy to old age. Data were derived from an international database of 54 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins), and included 842,951 height and BMI measurements from twins aged 1 to 102 years. The results showed that DZ twins were consistently taller than MZ twins, with differences of up to 2.0 cm in childhood and adolescence and up to 0.9 cm in adulthood. Similarly, a greater mean BMI of up to 0.3 kg/m(2) in childhood and adolescence and up to 0.2 kg/m(2) in adulthood was observed in DZ twins, although the pattern was less consistent. DZ twins presented up to 1.7% greater height and 1.9% greater BMI than MZ twins; these percentage differences were largest in middle and late childhood and decreased with age in both sexes. The variance of height was similar in MZ and DZ twins at most ages. In contrast, the variance of BMI was significantly higher in DZ than in MZ twins, particularly in childhood. In conclusion, DZ twins were generally taller and had greater BMI than MZ twins, but the differences decreased with age in both sexes.
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- Kajita, Heidi S., et al.
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Between Technologies of Power and Notions of Solidarity : A Response to the Danish “Ghetto Plan” and Swedish “Utsatta Områden”
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last decades, a significant paradigm shift about notions of solidarity as a core value of the “classless society” within Nordic welfare states has occured. Global economic shifts, climate change, and forced migration challenge earlier conceptions of the boundaries of welfare state communities. This is reflected in the rise of assimilation policies with the Swedish categorization “utsatta områden” (vulnerable areas); and in the drastic example of the Danish so-called “ghetto plan”. Officially entitled, “A Denmark without Parallel Societies – No Ghettos in 2030,” the plan applies to designated “hard ghettos” by reducing their stock of family dwellings, by enforcing mandatory childcare for families on social benefits, and by requiring longer sentences for local crimes.To support its initiatives, the “ghetto plan” uses infographics along with photographs of deteriorating concrete and children with certain words (like “vulnerable” and “reform”). In response, we study evolving notions of solidarity by closely examining documents related to the “ghetto plan” and “vulnerable areas” with particular focus on the pairings of images and words that government actors use to present statistical findings, social orientations, and spatial hierarchies. These documents are positioned as political tools connecting tech-nologies of graphic design, architecture, and planning to concepts like “parallel society,” “segregation,” and “mixed city,” often simplifying complex conditions in ways that causally link the built environment and social problems. How do images and words work in parallel to create the sense of inevitability Between Technologies of Power and Notions of Solidarity: A Response to the Danish “Ghetto Plan” and Swedish “Utsatta Områden”that underscores documents such as the “ghetto plan”? How do extreme practices of coercion and demolition become normalized when translated into visually appealing action plans? The presentation critically concludes by calling for an ontological reframing of solidarity that values, nourishes and adds to ‘what is there’.
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- Kajita, Heidi Svenningsen, et al.
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Between Technologies of Power and Notions of Solidarity : A Response to the Danish Ghetto Plan and Swedish Vulnerable Areas Documents
- 2022
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Ingår i: Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring. - Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers. ; , s. 148-159
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- Recently, a dramatic paradigm shift in notions of solidarity has occurred within Nordic welfare states. With this transformation, the universal notion of welfare for all, which has guided numerous welfare policies in the Nordic countries since World War II, is losing ground. We study the expression of this shift in official, government-sponsored documents that support and recommend the reshaping and redefinition of social housing estates in Denmark and municipal estates in Sweden.
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- Kajita, Heidi S., et al.
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Hertopia : Women’s Swedish Welfare Landscapes of the 1960s and 1970s
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The welfare landscapes of the expansive modernist housing areas constructed in Sweden during the 1960s and 70s were developed using government-sanctioned ideas about universal citizens who would live, work, and play in identical ways. Designers developed housing blocks with modular room dimensions that would accommodate homogeneous furnishings, as well as standardized common landscapes like laundry spaces, playgrounds, traffic plans, and town centres. While these plans for collective living were envisioned to support women’s new roles in the labor market, women were at the same time imagined as housewives occupying auxiliary, specific roles in the areas of domestic work and leisure activities.When the national government’s modernist ideals about landscapes did not materialize into real built environments, tales about women’s everyday problems and travails came to the forefront. Moreover, reports about women’s difficulties in these common spaces became representative of the larger ‘problem of the suburb.’ These notions also became fixed in time, with few follow-up reports commissioned. We re-visit these popular historical views on the suburbs’ ‘failed landscapes.’ And from a feminist perspective, our research in widely divergent parts of Sweden (from Botkykra to Tibro to Helsingborg to Malmö to Skärholmen to Södertälje), we show that women residents’ affective and caring practices (Fraser, Hardt, Muehlebach, Tronto) challenge binary perspectives about welfare landscapes and, in particular, divisions such as work/pleasure, communal/individual, and unsafe/safe. Since the time of their construction, women’s individual and communal actions for local childcare and allotments, maintenance of playgrounds, and access to consumer goods became specific, local iterations of enduring and re-productive communities.Connecting government reports, building norms, media accounts from the mid-20th century, and interviews conducted with long- time women residents of five housing areas, we explore discrepancies between ideals, stigma, and tenants’ own accounts of their experiences and changes. How have working-, housewife-, and activist women co-opted and complicated concepts underpinning the welfare state’s supposedly unsuccessful utopias?
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- Lannen, Patrizia, et al.
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Absorbing information about a child's incurable cancer.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Oncology. - : S. Karger AG. - 0030-2414 .- 1423-0232. ; 78:3-4, s. 259-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: To assess parents' ability to absorb information that their child's cancer was incurable and to identify factors associated with parents' ability to absorb this information.PATIENTS AND METHODS: An anonymous mail-in questionnaire study was performed as a population-based investigation in Sweden between August and October of 2001. 449 parents who lost a child to cancer 4-9 years earlier (response rate 80%) completed the survey. 191 (43%) of the bereaved parents were fathers and 251 (56%) were mothers.RESULTS: Sixty percent of parents (n = 258) reported that they were able to absorb the information that their child's illness was incurable. Parents were better able to absorb this information when the information was given in an appropriate manner (RR 1.6; CI 1.3-2.0), when they shared their problems with others during the child's illness course (RR 1.4; CI 1.1-1.8) and when they had no history of depression (RR 1.3; CI 1.0-1.8). Parents who reported that they were able to absorb the information were more likely to have expressed their farewells to the child in their desired manner (RR 1.3; CI 1.0-1.5).CONCLUSIONS: Parents who received information that their child's illness was incurable in an appropriate manner are more likely to absorb that information. Whether or not parents are able to absorb the information that their child's cancer is incurable has implications in terms of preparation for the child's impending death.
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- Lewin, Harris A., et al.
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The Earth BioGenome Project 2020 : Starting the clock
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). - 0027-8424 .- 1091-6490. ; 119:4
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Life Among Urban Planners : Practices, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City
- 2020
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new dwelling units as quickly and with as little avoidable damage as possible. Life Among Urban Planners considers planning professionals in relation to the social contexts in which they operate: the planning office, the construction site, and even in the confrontations with those affected by their work. What roles do planners have in shaping the daily practices of urban life? How do they employ, manipulate, and alter their expertise to meet the demands asked of them? The essays in this volume emphasize planners' cultural values and personal assumptions and critically examine what their persistent commitment to thinking about the future means for the ways in which people live in the present and preserve the past.Life Among Urban Planners explores the practices and politics of professional city-making in a wide selection of geographical areas spanning five continents. Cases include but are not limited to Bangkok, Bogotá, Chicago, Naimey, Rome, Siem Reap, Stockholm, and Warsaw. Examining the issues raised around questions of expertise, participation, and the tension between market and state forces, contributors demonstrate how certain planning practices accentuate their specific relationship to a place while others are represented to a global audience as potentially universal solutions. In presenting detailed and intimate portraits of the everyday lives of planners, the volume offers key insights into how the city interacts with the world.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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A "Border Concept" : Scandinavian Public Space in the 21st Century
- 2020
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Ingår i: Architecture of Coexistence. - Berlin : Architangle. ; , s. 172-183
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In July 2000, the Öresund Bridge opened between Sweden and Denmark, symbolizing the new borderless Europe and allowing a regional way of life. In 2015, this same bridge instead became the site of intense xenophobic attention. When asylum seekers fleeing the Syrian Civil War began crossing from Denmark to Sweden en masse, the border was hastily closed, clarifying that – for some – migrant publics were never included in the imaginary of this “public” transit space. In this chapter, I examine three new public spaces in Sweden and Denmark that – in contrast to the bridge – explicitly include migrants as part of the public both creating and using them. Traveling, like the migrant, from arrival to settlement, I begin with Sandi Hilal’s Living Room for refugees in the northern Swedish city of Boden, where the right to hospitality is reclaimed in a private space made public. I then investigate Disorder Collective’s renovation of two public squares in a stigmatized Malmö neighborhood, where migrant children are included in an interactive design process. Crossing to Copenhagen, I conclude with Superkilen, which relies on the “extreme participation” of diverse local residents to create a park. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the refugee as a “border concept,” I argue that, as designers and migrants collaborate in these works, they also redraw the borders of both publics and public spaces for the Scandinavian 21st century.
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- Mack, Jennifer
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An awkward technocracy : Mosques, churches, and urban planners in neoliberal Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: American Ethnologist. - : Wiley. - 0094-0496 .- 1548-1425. ; 46:1, s. 89-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, an ostensibly secular-majority society, urban planners facilitate the construction of new churches and mosques for minority religious groups. In this work, they typically perceive themselves as neutral professionals relying on a technical education. But since the 1980s, Swedish civil servants, including planners, have transformed from experts to managers, and their interactions with clients for mosques and churches often reveal their opinions and preferences, including for modernism and secularism. These awkward encounters challenge the planners' technocratic understanding of their work, forcing them into a new kind of productive labor: as uncomfortable arbiters of difference and its public presence. This is a result of neoliberal governance, which has ambiguously expanded the types of European civil servants asked to manage minority groups, as well as the professional roles they must play. [urban planning, neoliberalism, secularism, mosques, churches, immigration, Sweden]
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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An Incomplete Guide to Stockholm Architecture
- 2019
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Social in Architecture. - Barcelona : ACTAR. ; , s. 248-255
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor, et al.
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Att bygga om Sverige
- 2015
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - 0004-2021. ; , s. 82-87
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- Mack, Jennifer
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Be-longing
- 2000
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Ingår i: Thresholds. - Cambridge, MA. ; 20, s. 5-
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Breaking the Rules, Making the Ruler : Syriac Single-Family Homes and the Limits of Welfare State Planning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Life Among Urban Planners. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. ; , s. 137-159
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish town of Södertälje is arguably the capital of the diasporic Syriac Christians, who have arrived from across the Middle East for decades. While Syriacs have usually resided in standardized apartments in high rises, this paper examines the controversial, Syriac-dominated neighborhoods of custom-designed, single-family houses now under construction, drawing on ethnographic research among both planners and residents. While Swedish planners have long imagined immigrants to have a valuable “voice” during renovations of older neighborhoods, Syriac participation in new areas has radically exceeded such expectations, blurring the boundary between resident and planner. Here, both residents and planners navigate the limits of the plan, where not only neighborhood aesthetics, but also questions of nationalism, class, and professionalism are at stake.
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- Mack, Jennifer
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Children of the New World : Migration, Welfare, and Design in Sweden, 1970 to 1995
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How did discourses about design, children, and migration in Sweden evolve, intersect, and dissemble from 1970 to 1995, a period when non-European migration to Sweden increased dramatically? Late welfare state ideals for children’s spaces were represented in the reports commissioned by the Swedish national government and released in the series known as the State’s Public Invesigations (Statens Offentliga Utredningar), covering topics from social services to laundry rooms. Research about spaces for children (such as playgrounds, youth clubs, and schools) represented a frequent topic of inquiry in these efforts, with the seminal report “Children’s Outdoor Space” (Barns utemiljö), published in 1970, comprising a key document. Intriguingly, however, designs for and discourses about the architecture and landscape architecture of children’s spaces were initially separated from simultaneous discussions about migrant children.In the mid-20th century, “problem youth” – children of the working class said to loiter unproductively on street corners – were to be disciplined through membership in condoned, municipal clubs offering “appropriate” activities (ungdomsgårdar). During the 1970s, however, when labor migration increased, and in the 1980s, Sweden’s “decade of the migrant” according to its Migration Board, these designs and discourses began to evolve to include children not born in Sweden. Newspaper articles and government research about “migrant youth” then became pervasive, reflecting the new forms of anxiety about children as espoused by civil servants and politicians. Even if government reports posited spaces for play and education, among others, as the design of spaces to produce particular, desired futures, children arriving to this new Swedish world brought new needs, including help with their traumas of the past from war and other catastrophes, and often had uncertain futures (owing to migration status). Their “welfare landscapes” took on new dimensions.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Det nya förortscentrum : Äta, be, handla
- 2016
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Ingår i: Utvandrat och invandrat. - Stockholm : Historiska Media. ; , s. 174-187
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Det nya periferin
- 2018
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - 0004-2021. ; , s. 62-67
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Form follows faith : Swedish architects, expertise and new religious spaces in the Stockholm suburbs
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Islamic Architecture. - : Ingenta. - 2045-5895 .- 2045-5909. ; 4:2, s. 401-416
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2007, the City of Stockholm initiated the Järva Lift to remodel several ‘segregated’ suburbs, originally constructed during the state-sponsored ‘Million Programme’ (1965–1974). Recognizing the area’s large immigrant population, the Lift proposed several new mosques; Spridd’s Multicultural Centre, Johan Celsing’s Rinkeby Mosque and a new building for the Stockholm Large Mosque Organization with collaboration from Tengbom are now planned. Here, I explore how these projects travel, both across domains of design expertise and through the planning regimes of the Swedish capital. Many constituents have origins in Somalia, yet architects from countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have been asked to submit sketches, and Swedish architects have ultimately been hired to create or reshape designs that appeal to the local planning bureaucracy. Intriguingly, all three Swedish firms – ranging from boutique to corporate – have never before designed a mosque. Clients request intricate façade details or distinct interior spaces for men and women, moves that are considered ‘un-Swedish’ for formal and social reasons respectively. In response, two mosques are described as merging Muslim and Scandinavian design traditions, and one architect proposes the eventual disappearance of a mobile panelling system designed to separate worshippers of different genders. Has bureaucratic expertise trumped the design knowledge that a more seasoned mosque architect might bring?.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Formen följer tron
- 2016
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - 0004-2021. ; , s. 42-45
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