Research

Carrying feelings of hopelessness and loneliness affect the long-term risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This association between depressive feelings in midlife and dementia was discovered by a Swedish-Finnish research team in a study led by Krister Håkansson, researcher in psychology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and the Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. The results are presented this week at the world's largest conference on Alzheimer's disease, the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) that is being held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

The mathematics subject is organizing a workshop to be held 20-21 May, entitled Stochastic Analysis and Applications.

Bacteria in the ocean can harvest light energy from sunlight to promote survival thanks to a unique photoprotein. This novel finding by a team of scientists in Sweden and Spain is to be published next week in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology.

Andrei Khrennikov, Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics at Linnaeus University has been awarded a grant of 280,000 SEK from the Swedish Research Council. The funding is earmarked for the project in non-Archimedic analysis: from basic research to applications.

Mats Hammarstedt, Ali Ahmed and Lina Andersson, researchers in economics at the soon-to-be inaugurated Linnaeus University, have been awarded SEK 786 000 in project funding by the Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. The funding has been earmarked for the project examining discrimination of non-heterosexual job candidates in the recruitment process.