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Fishing activity has been suggested to affect food web structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Based on changes of the mean trophic level index of fishery catch, the present study demonstrates long-term ecosystem impacts of fisheries in Lake Chaohu, a freshwater lake in Anhui Province, China. The decline of mean trophic level (MTL) in the last five decades, coupled with a dramatic increas
This paper pioneers the assessment of tourism's total global resource use, including its fossil fuel consumption, associated CO2 emissions, fresh water, land, and food use. As tourism is a dynamic growth system, characterized by rapidly increasing tourist numbers, understanding its past, current, and future contributions to global resource use is a central requirement for sustainable tourism asses
• It is well established that individual organisms can acclimate and adapt to temperature to optimize their functioning. However, thermal optimization of ecosystems, as an assemblage of organisms, has not been examined at broad spatial and temporal scales. • Here, we compiled data from 169 globally distributed sites of eddy covariance and quantified the temperature response functions of net ecosys
Bacteria play a central role in the cycling of carbon, yet our understanding of the relationship between the taxonomic composition and the degradation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) is still poor. In this experimental study, we were able to demonstrate a direct link between community composition and ecosystem functioning in that differently structured aquatic bacterial communities differed in t
This article is based on an evaluation of Children's Advocacy Centers (CAC) in six municipalities in Sweden 2006-2007. The study concerned cooperation between different authorities (police, social services, public prosecutor, forensic medicine, pediatrics and child psychiatry) responsible for children who were suspected of being exposed to sexual or physical abuse. It is anticipated that use of CA
From a paradigmatic understanding of tourism, the thing about tourism experiences is that they differ from everyday life. You experience different places, see different people, get to know different ways of doing things, and so on. To do tourism, then, is to experience a series of changes from the ordinary. Several things change in the course of the making and consumption of a tourism product. For
The purpose of this study was to examine if psychosocial intervention for family caregivers made any differences in describing symptoms of dementia in the persons they cared for. The study population comprised family caregivers of persons aged 70 years and older receiving social services and diagnosed with dementia disorders. A group of 129 family caregivers underwent psychosocial intervention inc
Understanding wood surface moisture variations is fundamental to the modelling of moisture content. Exposure to sunlight, fluctuating temperature and rain leads to superficial deterioration and reduced surface hydrophobicity. Here, the effect of weathering was studied through monitoring the surface and global moisture content of axially matched pre-weathered and planed sets of specimens exposed ou
In this article we build on the concept of incompleteness, as recently developed in both organisational and urban studies, to improve our understanding of the collective actions of grassroots organisations in creating and governing critical infrastructures in the changing and resource-scarce contexts of urban informal settlements. Empirically, the article is informed by the case of resident associ
Considerable overlap exists between post-occupancy research evaluating building design quality and the concept of ‘social value’, popularised by its recent application to issues of the public realm. To outline this potential research agenda, the paper reviews design quality research on buildings in rela- tion to users and their social context where the term ‘social context’ refers to building user
Research undertaken during the COVID‐19 pandemic has identified a number of significant factors that affect international travelers’ biosecurity behavior. Tourists’ age and gender as well as travel frequency have been found to have significant impacts on consumers’ non‐pharmaceutical intervention practices. However, despite the importance of age, gender, and travel frequency, such studies have ove
Undersköterskor uppfattar sin hälsa som sämre under Covid-19. Uppfattningen av ens hälsa kan påverkas av flera faktorer där ovisshet, utebliven återhämtning och brist på stöd är tre exempel. Syftet är att förstå hur undersköterskor i en region i Sverige upplevde sin hälsa under Covid-19. Målet med syftet är därmed att skapa förståelse för hur undersköterskors arbetsplats kan påverka deras hälsa. DAssistant nurses perceive their health as worse during Covid-19. The perception of one's health can be affected by several factors where uncertainty, lack of recovery and lack of support are three example. The purpose is to understand how assistant nurses in a region in Sweden experienced their health during Covid-19. The aim of the purpose is thus to create an understanding of how the assista
Vi lever idag i en värld där en kontinuerlig ökning av både internetanvändning och psykisk ohälsa är en verklighet för den svenska befolkningen. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka relationen mellan psykisk ohälsa, sociala behov och parasociala interaktioner (icke-reciproka beteenden och relationer med medieprofiler) bland svenskar som använder sig av livestreamingtjänsten Twitch.tv. StudienWe live in a world where a continuous increase of internet usage and mental illness is a reality for the Swedish population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between mental illness, social needs and parasocial interactions (non-reciprocal behaviors and relationships with media profiles) among Swedes who use the livestreaming service Twitch.tv. The study aimed to investiga
The subject of this paper is to determine the importance of different Active labour market policies (ALMP) on the unemployment rate in the Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland between the years 2000 and 2020. The ALMPs examined are Public employment services (PES) and administration, Training, Employment incentives, Integration of the disabled, Direct job creation and Start-up i
Byggbranschen är en av de mest klimattunga branscherna och står för cirka en femtedel av Sveriges totala utsläpp av växthusgaser. För att möta samtidens klimatkris krävs det att byggbranschens utsläpp minskar. En av de faktorer som orsakar mest utsläpp inom byggbranschen är framställningen och användandet av nyproducerad betong. Trots betongens stora inverkan på klimatet fortsätter byggbranschen aThe study focuses on the organizational work of reuse of concrete elements. Reusing concrete elements in new buildings could be one of the solutions of how the construction sector becomes more environmentally friendly. Throughout this study factors like political decisions, governmental instruments, laws and regulations as well as cooperation between organizations within the construction sector ar
Syftet med studien var att undersöka ungdomars upplevelse av samtalskontakt med kurator på Ungdomsmottagningarna (UM) i Skåne. Deltagarna var ungdomar 12-23 år. Undersökningen gjordes genom sammanställning och analys av enkätsvar som samlats in av verksamheten genom intervjuformuläret UngDOK som använts av samtliga kuratorer i UM Skåne under perioden januari 2023 till februari 2024. Studiens ansatThe objective of this study was to explore the experiences of youth in their interactions with counsellors at Youth Clinics (Ungdomsmottagningarna, UM) in Skåne, Sweden. Participants were adolescents aged 12 to 23 years. The investigation was conducted through the compilation and analysis of survey responses collected by the clinics using the interview form UngDOK, employed by all counsellors at U
In today's society human identity is largely based on social and cultural processes where consumption has an increasingly important role as an influential element. In the process of an individual's personal brand-building, which can be seen as an approach in order to highlight a person's main features, consumption has become an important instrument. Individuals are using consumption as
In the global world of today where people are more mobile some urban districts have tensions between groups of people, and urban policy need to find tools to create prerequisites for a positive development in the new city. This master thesis take the creative economy approach to describe and analyse creativity as a tool in urban districts in transition. Creativity has great potential in revitalizi
Female sex workers in Malawi are exposed to multiple occupational health and safety risks. Despite the fact that FSWs are impacting the general public’s health status, health care access is limited due to different challenges. In order to identify the barriers and receive a deeper understanding of the experiences FSWs make when accessing health care and how these experiences impact the women’s age
This thesis explores the reception system for unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) in Sweden, with a focus on preventive and responsive measures to sexual violence. The aim is to understand the professional challenges of actively working against sexual vulnerability and violence. Furthermore, it explores the interrelation between changes in laws and legislation and shifts in the public discourse, w
