Diagnoses for psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and various depressive disorders are steadily climbing in Sweden and other developed nations. This is particularly worrisome in populations of school chil

Success factors for effective labour market projects

Success factors for effective labour market projects. A comparative study of fifteen Social Fund financed projects.Research report 2014/7, 96 p. For decades, the Swedish municipalities have had a major

Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 79, Issue 2, pp. 419-436. Abstract Children of immigrant background, despite problems with acculturation, poverty, and discrimination, have better mental health th

The global population has increased dramatically since the year 1900 from approximately 1,6 billion to today's 8 billion. The UN estimates that world population will reach 11 billion by the year 2100.

Hydrogeology Journal 25(4) pp. 1077-1091, doi: 10.1007/s10040-016-1504-x Abstract This study developed methodology for statistically assessing groundwater contamination mechanisms. It focused on microbiahumanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières in 2010. The factors included hydrogeological settings, land use and socio-economic characteristics. The results showed that the residuals of a conventional probit regression model had a significant positive spatial autocorrelation (Moran’s I =3.05, I-stat = 9.28); therefore, a spatial model was developed that had better goodness-of-fit to the observations. The mostsignificant factor in this model (p-value 0.005) was the distance from a water source to the nearest Tukul area, an area with informal settlements that lack sanitation services. It is thus recommended that future remediation and monitoring efforts in the city be concentrated in such low-income regions. The spatial model differed from the conventional approach: in contrast with the latter case, lowland topography was not significant at the 5% level, as the p-value was 0.074 in the spatial model and 0.040 in the traditional model. This study showed that statistical risk-factor assessments of groundwater contamination need to consider spatial interactions when the water sources are located close to each other. Future studies might further investigate the cut-off distance that reflects spatial autocorrelation. Particularly, these results advise research on urban groundwater quality.

After years of falling fertility, most countries of the EU have reached stabilization; however, at very different levels across Europe. Examining this difference may help in understanding the underlyi

Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell

In recent debates about the ethics of eating animals, some have advanced the claim that if people cause animals to exist and give them good lives in order to be able to eat them, then even if the anim

Offentliga samtal: Tolerans, till vilket pris?

Det finns studier som pekar ut Sverige som ett av världens mest toleranta länder och tolerans betraktas ofta som en nödvändig förutsättning för en fungerande demokrati. Men vad menas egentligen med to

Det finns studier som pekar ut Sverige som ett av världens mest toleranta länder och tolerans betraktas ofta som en nödvändig förutsättning för en fungerande demokrati. Men vad menas egentligen med to, professor i statsvetenskap vid Uppsala universitet. Tolerans är en nödvändig förutsättning för en fungerande demokrati. Trots detta missuppfattas toleransbegreppet ofta i både politiska och vetenskapliga diskussioner, både avsiktligt och oavsiktligt. Hur formar egentligen individers tolerans och varför kan individuella rättigheter anses som viktigare än grupprättigheter i en värld där den politiska toleransen hotas? Om detta handlar Sten Widmans presentation. , professor i islamisk teologi och filosofi vid Uppsala universitet. När människor dras till våldsbejakande islamitisk extremism bottnar oftast lockelsen i andra faktorer än religiösa visar djupintervjuer med återvändare. Samtidigt används religiösa legitimitetsgrunder hos de som ansluter sig till våldsbejakande extremism. Hur långt bör det demokratiska samhällets tolerans sträcka sig, ska dessa tankegångar ses som religiösa tolkningar bland många andra så länge de inte har omsatts i handling?, fd lärare och grundare av Toleransprojektet, Segerstedtinstitutet , Generalsekreterare vid World Values Survey. , projektkoordinator på Myndigheten för stöd till trossamfund Folke Tersman

The following paper traces the emergence of a Swedish military-industrial complex through its heydays to its eventual decline,  to identify factors which distinguish the Swedish case. The paper argues