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Voices of the Forests : Eviction, control, and the birth of the ‘Parish Lapp’ system in early modern Sweden

This paper examines the birth of the exploitative sockenlappssystemet (the ‘Parish Lapp’ system) in central Sweden during the early eighteenth century. Based on a foundation of control and eviction instituted in earlier laws, the 1720s saw a forceful rise in royal concern over the existence of nomadic Sámi in central Sweden. His Majesty King Fredrik I specifically expressed fear of damage to the r

An Industrial Revolution in an Indigenous Landscape : The Copper Extraction of the Early Modern Torne River Valley in its Global Context

During a period of 40 years in the second half of the 17th century, a process of industrialization was initialized in the northern part of the Torne River valley, northern Sweden. The industrialization was the result of global demand for copper and brass, but its practice was a local and regional encounter between different groups of people with a manifold of identities, languages, economic, and s

Spaces of Resilience and Resistance : Sámi Habitation in Southern and Central Sweden During the Late Medieval and the Early Modern Period

This paper examines traces of Sámi habitation in southern and central Scandi-navia, particularly Sweden, addressing the late medieval period to the end of thenineteenth century. It begins with Swedish judicial policy against Sámi nomadismin central Sweden, followed by a discussion of medieval Sámi material culture insouthern Scandinavia. Further analysis addresses so-called Parish-Lapp indenture,w

Generalist-pollinated Arabis alpina exhibits floral scent variation at multiple scales

Plants that depend on animals for reproduction often use complex floral traits to attract pollinators. Floral scent is recognized as part of the pollinator attraction module and can be shaped by plant-pollinator interactions. In recent decades, research has started to reveal the dynamic properties of floral scent, identifying patterns of spatial and temporal variation in floral scent emissions at

Clinical and Serological Correlates of Serum C1Q and Anti-C1Q Antibodies in South Africans With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Objective: To investigate prevalence and clinical correlates of serum C1q and anti-C1q antibody titres in black South Africans with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: Cross-sectional study of 96 SLE patients, 49 with lupus nephritis (LN). Anti-C1q antibodies were tested by ELISA. Serum C1q was measured as a percentage of normal by immunoelectrophoresis. Disease activity was assessed usin

A Unified Framework for Real-Time Failure Handling in Robotics Using Vision-Language Models, Reactive Planner and Behavior Trees

Robotic systems often face execution failures due to unexpected obstacles, sensor errors, or environmental changes. Traditional failure recovery methods rely on predefined strategies or human intervention, making them less adaptable. This paper presents a unified failure recovery framework that combines Vision-Language Models (VLMs), a reactive planner, and Behavior Trees (BTs) to enable real-time

Refining laissez-faire treatment of periocular tumour defects by exploring the impact of defect localization and geometry on the healing process

Background: Large lower eyelid defects resulting from tumour removal are frequently reconstructed using a tarsoconjunctival flap from the upper eyelid together with an overlying free skin graft, the so-called Hughes procedure. One disadvantage of this technique is that the tarsoconjunctival flap occludes the eye during the revascularization of the graft, which is particularly troublesome for patie

Levodopa Intestinal Gel Infusion Therapies in Advanced Parkinson’s Disease : A Swedish Study on Real-World Use and Costs

Introduction: This study evaluated real-world cassette use and cost of levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG; 2000 mg levodopa equivalent dose [LED]) and levodopa-entacapone-carbidopa intestinal gel (LECIG; 1250 mg LED) pump treatments among patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) in Sweden. Methods: This was a non-interventional, longitudinal, retrospective, comparative study of patient

ESR Essentials : diffusion-weighted MRI—practice recommendations by the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology

Abstract: Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) offers critical insights into tissue microstructure through the assessment of water molecule random displacements and plays a central role in the assessment of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases. To successfully implement and use DWI in clinical practice, guidelines for acquisition, interpretation of image contrast and of artefacts should be followed,

GGS-groups acting on trees of growing degrees

We consider analogues of Grigorchuk-Gupta-Sidki (GGS-)groups acting on trees of growing degree; the so-called growing GGS-groups. These groups are not just infinite and do not possess the congruence subgroup property, but many of them are branch and have the p-congruence subgroup property, for a prime p. Among them, we find groups with maximal subgroups only of finite index, and with infinitely ma

The Identification of Haptic Invariants in Humans and Their Applications to Robotics

When searching for an object in my pocket, I can clearly perceive the edges, shape, and hardness of the items I touch — regardless of which part of my fingers makes contact and despite large sensorimotor noise. What accounts for these perceptual invariants? Vincent Hayward introduced key elements to investigate this question, by (i) analyzing mechanical spatiotemporal invariants emerging from the

Making an impression : Participant-led voice synthesis reveals the acoustic signatures of trait impressions

Listeners rapidly form trait impressions from voices, inferring multiple person characteristics within milliseconds. We employed a novel method, Self-Steered Sound Synthesis (S4), to identify and compare the acoustic signatures underlying these impressions. Participants interactively used S4 to synthesise voices expressing six person characteristics - age, masculinity, health, attractiveness, domi

Selective privatisation and changing civic spaces in India : The government takeover of an erstwhile NGO-run child helpline

Much scholarship has critiqued the fact that non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as a result of global neoliberalism and consequential state retreat, have become private service providers of children’s protection rights. But how can we explain the situation when neoliberal states also undergo autocratisation and take back service provision from NGOs, while at the same time preserving the privat

Open-Air Combustion Synthesis with Rapid Plasma Processing of Large-Area Transparent Conducting Oxides

A vacuum-free, high-throughput synthesis of indium tin oxide (ITO) via Combustion Oxidation with Rapid Plasma Processing (CORP) utilizes a solution-based exothermic combustion reaction to generate the oxide with tunable control of either amorphous or crystalline phases. A subsequent open-air, forming gas plasma treatment is used to introduce oxygen vacancies and promote crystallization. The evolut

Vem är Stolt och trygg?: En diskursanalys av regeringens handlingsplan för inkluderingen av HBTQI+ identiteter

This thesis researches a perceived paradox between the Swedish government's reluctance to identify their foreign policy as feminist, and the simultaneous production of an inclusion plan that implements feminist and queer perspectives. The application of a feminist perspective on Fairclough's three-dimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis aims to investigate how nationalist and femi

Free Energy and Fluctuations in the Random Normal Matrix Model with Spectral Gaps

We study large n expansions for the partition function of a Coulomb gas (Formula presented.) where Q is a radially symmetric confining potential on the complex plane C. The droplet is not assumed to be connected, but may consist of a number of disjoint annuli and possibly a central disk. The boundary condition is “soft edge”, i.e., Q is smooth in a C-neighbourhood of the droplet. We include the fo

The Borders Within : Socio-economic Rights and Non-discrimination in EU Law. An Introduction to the Special Section

This editorial introduces the Special Section on 'The Borders Within: Socio-Economic Rights and Non-discrimination in EU Law' whose purpose is to provide a comprehensive and non-fragmented understanding of socio-economic rights, the right to non-discrimination and their meaning for welfare in EU Member States. Under EU law the boundaries between national socio-economic policies and the enjoyment o

Antibiotic treatment for infection with Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli infection inducing a hemolytic uremic syndrome

Abstract: Background: Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) inducing hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) with multiple organ involvement is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The treatment has mostly been focused on kidney, respiratory and cardiovascular supports and not against the bacteria that cause STEC-HUS. The use of bactericidal therapy has been shown to be antibiotic Background: Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) inducing hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) with multiple organ involvement is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The treatment has mostly been focused on kidney, respiratory and cardiovascular supports and not against the bacteria that cause STEC-HUS. The use of bactericidal therapy has been shown to be antibiotic dependent

Hugo Valentin och Förintelsen

Paper om den svensk-judiske historikern Hugo Valentin och dennes texter om förintelsen från tidigt 1940-tal till tidigt 1960-tal.