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Background: Insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion are hallmarks of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and may influence risks of complications including dementia. We investigated dementia risk across T2D subgroups defined by beta-cell function and insulin sensitivity. Methods: We used Homeostasis Model Assessment-2 indices of beta-cell function (HOMA2-B) and insulin sensitivity (HOMA2-S) to classif

This study clarifies when Bayesian analysis provides a practical advantage, particularly in large-area searches, hazardous or inaccessible environments, and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenarios where direct source approach is not feasible. We present a PyMC-based Bayesian framework for localizing a single unshielded gamma-emitting source and estimating its activity, with the ability to switch

Entrepreneurship represents a potential pathway for refugees’ social and economic integration, yet existing research provides limited insight into the roles of entrepreneurial dispositions and perceptions of host-country institutions in shaping refugees’ readiness to initiate start-up activities. Drawing on survey data from Ukrainian refugees in Sweden (n = 92), this study examines the effects of

Kan man leva på en ödegård? Uppenbarligen har man inte kunnat det eftersom flera medeltida gårdar efter pesten och den medeltida agrarkrisen förblev öde. Svaret på frågan är avhängigt inte bara arealer, klimat och jordar utan i lika stor utsträckning sociala förhållanden och odlingssystem. Den kan alltså omformuleras till: På vilka villkor kan en given yta tjäna som underlag för ett hushåll?Detta

This chapter provides a critical review of geographical research on informal education. We trace how understandings of informal education have been enriched in recent years through geographical concepts and original research. We use this chapter to call on geographers to move from what have tended to be isolated studies of informal education in a national context – whether in the global North (pre

This paper addresses the positive synchronization of interconnected systems on undirected graphs. For homogeneous positive systems, a static feedback protocol design is proposed, based on the Linear Regulator problem. The solution to the algebraic equation associated to the stabilizing policy can be found using a linear program. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the positivity of each agent's

This chapter critically examines the pervasive belief that economic progress naturally leads to increased leisure time. While early 20th-century thinkers like John Maynard Keynes predicted a future of abundant free time driven by productivity gains, work hours in many high-income countries have stagnated or increased since the 1980s. The chapter argues that this paradox is not the result of indivi

Identification of genomic rearrangements by microarrays or short-read sequencing frequently lacks information about the exact architecture and breakpoints of variants due to technical limitations. Independent verification of complex structural variants (SVs) is often performed using custom targeted assays, making confirmation of clinically relevant findings time consuming and laborious. In this st

During the first half of the twentieth century, the industrialization of Sweden was completed. A substantial proportion of the population resided in cities. What did the life courses of these people actually look like? In this book, four researchers have studied a random sample of men and women in Gothenburg, tracing their movements through the various phases of life, and between residences, worki

Whilst there has been much written about the cinematic work of Charlie Kaufman, his 2020 debut novel has been entirely ignored by professional research. This thesis aims to analyse how perception is utilised in the novel to comment on the unreliability of its protagonist’s senses in comprehending the real world. It considers the philosophy of perception in Antkind as comparable to Kant’s categoris

This thesis will explore Ernest Hemingway’s depiction of the crisis of masculinity in The Sun Also Rises (1927) with a focus on how the novel portrays the change in gender norms following World War I. For the main body of the thesis, I will use R.W. Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity and expand slightly in my discussion section with Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity. I wil

I denna studie undersöks hur känslor översätts genom visuella och multimodala resurser från den tecknade serien Heartstopper av Alice Oseman till Netflix-adaptionen av samma namn. Detta görs genom en tematisk och multimodal analys, med fokus på socialsemiotik. Teorier som används är Hutcheons adaptionsteori och Bolter & Grusins remediation, tillsammans med Jenkins teorier om transmedialt berät

Denna studie undersöker hur föräldrarörelsen Ki-DS Bättre Digital Barndom skapar och mobiliserar medborgarengagemang i digitala miljöer. Utifrån Dahlgrens teori om civic culture och Papacharissis begrepp affektiva offentligheter undersöks hur oro om barns digitala vardag leder till en gemensam handling. Studien baserar sig på en kvalitativ innehållsanalys och en fallstudie av Ki-DS kommunikation p

Denna studie undersöker hur mobilanvändning förhandlas icke-verbalt i livekonsertsammanhang och hur digitala teknologier omformulerar normer för närvaro, uppmärksamhet och social ordning i fysiska offentliga rum. Trots mobiltelefonens synlighet i samtidens vardagsliv har tidigare forskning inom medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap främst fokuserat på digitala plattformar och medierat innehåll, snaraThis study examines how smartphone use is negotiated in live concert settings and how digital technologies reshape norms of presence, attention, and social order in physical public spaces. While smartphones are highly visible in contemporary everyday life, previous research within media and communication studies has primarily focused on digital platforms, technological affordances, or mediated con

Denna uppsats undersöker hur maskulinitet formas och värderas i feminiserade kulturella sammanhang i digitala medier, med fokus på BookTok och TikTok. Utgångspunkten är att läsning i samtiden ofta associeras med femininitet och att manliga aktörer därför blir särskilt synliga i kvinnodominerade litterära communityn. Studien analyserar hur manliga BookTok-kreatörer, Lukesreads och Tayrosen, iscensä

Uppsatsen undersöker hur radikalnationalism och alternativhögern konstrueras som extremism och (potentiellt) säkerhetshot i en statsnära experttext, CATS/FHS-rapporten Från Nordiska motståndsrörelsen till alternativhögern – samt hur denna inramning bemöts i ett alternativmedialt motnarrativ. Med Daniel C. Hallins sfärmodell som övergripande lins och kompletterande begrepp från säkerhetiseringsteorThis thesis examines how radical nationalism and the alt-right are constructed as extremism and as a (potential) security threat in a state-adjacent expert document—the CATS/FHS report From the Nordic Resistance Movement to the Alt-Right, and how this framing is contested in an alternative-media counter-narrative. The analysis uses Daniel C. Hallin’s sphere model as its main lens, complemented by

Syftet med studien är att undersöka om eller hur det är möjligt att interaktionen mellan människor och AI-verktyget ChatGPT kan likna ett mellanmänskligt socialt samspel i form av socialitet. För att möjliggöra detta har kvalitativa intervjuer med regelbundna användare utförts samt intervjuer med personer som arbetar i nära relation till ChatGPT inom forskning, utbildning eller journalistik. Uppsa