Is medical research a moral obligation or an option? The relief of suffering is medicine’s noble goal and none would dispute its value. Research is the key to progress in achieving that ideal, the means to that desirable end. Of course, not everything that can be done to achieve that ideal should be done: there are other pressing needs and other ways to improve the human condition. The philosop...

Göran Karlsson, Yingchun Liu, Jonas Larsson, Marie-José Goumans, Ju-Seog Lee, Snorri S. Thorgeirsson, Markus Ringnér, and Stefan Karlsson Department of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, and The Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; Complex Systems Division, Department of Theoretical Phy...

I. Gouttevin, M. Lehning, T. Jonas, D. Gustafsson, and M. Mölder IRSTEA, Unité de Recherche Hydrologie-Hydraulique, 5 rue de la Doua, CS 70077, 69626 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France CRYOS, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland KTH, Department of Land an...

In this thesis we investigate the existence of complex-valued harmonic morphisms on Lie groups and homogeneous Hadamard manifolds. The Lie groups that we are interested in have a particular decomposition of their Lie algebra. This decomposition allows us to define harmonic morphisms to R, n ≥ 2. Any homogeneous Hadamard manifold is isometric to a solvable Lie group S with a left-invariant metri...

Ditte K. Klein, Henriette Pilegaard, Jonas T. Treebak, Thomas E. Jensen, Benoit Viollet, Peter Schjerling, and Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski Section of Human Physiology, Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, and Department of Molecular Biology, Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, University of Copenhagen; Department of Molecular Muscle Biology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, and Department of Biom...