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Paper on Charles XII as he was portrayed by Gösta Ekman the older in the film Charles XII (1925).

This chapter is an attempt to engage Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus, which remains one of the most influential works in contemporary geographical theory through a fictional or apocryphal addition that was not, but perhaps could have been a part of an early draft of their seminal work. The chapter develops the different risks of becoming-animal, -imperceptible, etcetera in

Today the majority of 13.5 MHz RFID - system operate ”passive” i.e. without the need of an integrated battery. The basic operating principle of passive RFID system is energy and data transmission using inductive coupling. An antenna of the reader generates a magnetic field, which induces a voltage in the coil of the tag and supplies the tag with energy. The goal of this project is to develop a

Hexagonal ferrites doped with metal oxides have long been used in a variety of fields such as in sensors, actuators and other hardware. They are inherently stable and exhibit different properties, such as the magnetoelectric effect, which can be tuned through choice of structure and dopants. The production of magnetoelectric hexaferrites can be costly and complicated. In this thesis a method base

The structure-agency debate in the social sciences is pervasive in policymaking; in recent policy paradigms and in their consequent macro-level policies. The present study attempts to study how in the latest two policy paradigms, neoliberalism and social investment respectively, the structure-agency debate has undergone changes in Swedish Government Official Reports, which investigate the integrat

While the concept of constituent power is central to democratic and radical political theory, its correlate—constituent rights—remains largely unexamined. This paper proposes a systematic theorization of constituent rights by revisiting Antonio Negri’s concept of constituent power through the lens of Baruch Spinoza’s principle of ius sive potentia (right or power). Although Negri draws extensively

What was the function of monarchy when the monarch had none? After the death of Sweden's King Charles XII in 1718, absolutism was abolished, and the new Constitution reduced the monarch to a mere figurehead. The monarchy nevertheless continued to be an indispensable part of the political system. This book explains the role of the king in the politics of the Age of Liberty (1718–1772), exploring th

Avian haemosporidian parasites are globally widespread with a broad repertoire of hosts. When infected, the host can either reduce (resistance) and/or limit the severity of parasitaemia (tolerance). Oxidative stress plays a pivotal role in the host's resistance and tolerance, as well as its detrimental endpoints. The rationale behind this paradox lies in the dual role of reactive oxygen species (R

Streaming applications are often described using dataflow actor models with a fixed network structure, allowing for static analysis and efficient hardware implementation. However, this fixed structure hinders scalability and design space exploration. This article investigates a representative dataflow toolchain, the StreamBlock compiler for the CAL actor language, along with its Actor Machine (AM)

Chronic psychological stress is increasingly recognized as a major public health concern, contributing to cardiovascular disease, obesity, asthma, and impaired bone health. Although the mechanisms linking stress to skeletal dysregulation are well characterized in adults, pediatric studies remain limited. Longitudinal and mechanistic studies are needed to clarify how stress affects bone accrual dur

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is one of the fastest-evolving human pathogens. Understanding HIV-1 transmission, within-host adaptation, and evolutionary dynamics is pivotal for development of interventions and vaccines. HIV-1 infection is generally caused by a single transmitted founder virus (TFV), and TFV sequences are typically obtained using single genome amplificatio

This paper uses a gender lens to analyse how bicycle-powered mobility futures can be articulated as counter-hegemonic alternatives to automobility. Drawing on interviews with transport professionals and activists, we interpret participants’ visions as efforts to rearticulate dominant understandings of everyday life, space, and time. Even though automobility continues to structure the horizon, we f

Objectives: To describe the rationale, design and data collection procedures of the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS) re-examination, which, in its further scope, aims to quantify and explain the development of atherosclerosis, pathological cardiovascular ageing, longitudinal decline in lung function and the malignant transformation of pulmonary nodules among middle-aged Swedes in th

This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least-cost paths. The results suggest that an increase in foreign tourism reduces nationalist voting, and increas

Enzymes are dynamic entities, and their conformational dynamics are intimately linked to their function and evolvability. In this context, protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are an excellent model system to probe the role of conformational dynamics in enzyme function and evolution. They are a genetically diverse family of enzymes, with a highly conserved catalytic domain, identical catalytic mec

Discovering topological quantum materials that combine nontrivial topology with large bandgaps and experimentally accessible signatures remains a central pursuit in condensed matter physics. We demonstrate, through first-principles calculations and tight-binding modeling, that pyrite-type osmium disulfide (OsS2) is a fragile topological insulator (FTI) characterized by an exceptionally large direc

Background: Health system performance assessment helps identify areas for improvement and guides policy initiatives. Although well-validated indicators exist for measuring organ donation and transplantation performance at the facility level, consensus on indicators for assessing national programmes is lacking. The aim of this study was to develop a comprehensive scorecard for evaluating national o