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The endangered semicolon, and why it should be celebrated

The semicolon is controversial – some find it unwieldy and unnecessary, while others believe it offers opportunities for stylistic variation. Today is Semicolon Day, so we asked Mikael Berger, a senior lecturer and linguist at Malmö University, to give us...

International guidelines introduced for the management of orofacial pain patients

Chronic facial pain can be difficult to manage, and many patients remain untreated. Now a group of researchers from different countries have agreed on international guidelines to help general dentists manage patients with jaw and facial pain.

Civil Engineering

A number of research topics are being carried out in the field of civil engineering, these include: Indoor environments, BIM application and tools, Knowledge portal for the building industry which covers, for example,new construction, rebuilding, teaching...

How Georgian villagers halted construction of power plants

Even if both the government and big business are behind a major infrastructure project, it is important to have the people on board. In a new thesis, PhD student Nick Baigent has studied how small villages in rural Georgia managed to stop the construction...

Culture and Change - Critical Studies in the Humanities, Master's Programme (Two-Year)

Tourism must become more inclusive

Tourism has been criticised for being both primarily targeted at privileged groups, and for helping to reinforce clichés in how places are perceived – thus reducing them to monocultures where the complexity that makes them interesting disappears, so finds...

International Relations

Developing a transport solution where robots and humans work together

Malmö University will lead a project that combines modern technology with human collaboration to develop intelligent and ultra-light electric vehicles – the goal is to launch a collaborative human-robot.

For many women, fitness on social media is likely to prompt anxiety rather than activity

A new year often means renewed resolutions to get fit, and images of ripped and honed bodies on social media might give you that extra push. However, among young women, observing such images often leads to anxiety and poor body image.