Society & Culture Alcohol, food and housing, that’s what we put our money on during the pandemic. We have spent less than usual on clothes and shoes, restaurant visits and travel. It shows the Consumption Report 2021. In 2020, consumption in Sweden decreased by 4.7 percent compared with 2019. It is a historic race, larger than during the financial crisis in 2008. During the first quarter of 2021, the decline continued, for to turn upwards in the second and third quarters. In total, private consumption of households increased by 4.9 per cent during the first three quarters of 2021. Shopped less abroad In 2020, there was the clearest reduction in consumption abroad, consumption of foreign tourists in Sweden, hotels and restaurants, clothing and shoes, as well as transport and vehicles, according to the Consumption Report published by the Center for Consumer Research at the University of Gothenburg in collaboration med Center for Retailing
Consumption that decreased during the pandemic: Household consumption abroad (-44%)
When Idaho nurse Joan West received a fundraising mailer from U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, she saw a way to address her regret for having voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and her worry about the future of American democracy: She wrote a $500 check.Ms. Cheney, of Wyoming, is the most high-profile of the nine congressional…
Using data from the WFC3/UVIS instrument on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the horizontal winds in Jupiter’s most distinctive feature, the Great Red Spot. By analyzing the long-term data from the boundaries of the giant storm, known as the high-speed ring, they’ve found that the wind speed has…
Representative cases showing pneumonia extents and patterns on chest X-ray (CXR) and CT images. (A and B) A 65-year-old female with breakthrough infection 2 months after a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine (fully vaccinated). The patient had a history of hypertension. (A) CXR obtained at admission showing no abnormal opacification in both lung zones.…
Relative Abundance, Group 1. Relative abundance of the top 30 species of participants with normal sperm concentration and motility on SA versus participants with at least one abnormality in sperm concentration or motility on SA. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51686-4 You may have heard about the gut microbiome and its influence on a person's
The world’s forests may hold more secrets than previously thought: a new global estimate of tree biodiversity suggests that there are about 9,200 tree species yet to be discovered. Most of these species are likely in the tropics, according to the new research, which was published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of…
On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory University researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, Georgia, about an hour southeast of Atlanta. She was after something most people try desperately to avoid while in the woods: ticks. “Sometimes you gotta get back in
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