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In some ways, it can feel like conducting empirical research has become more and more difficult. Some standards that were widely agreed upon in the past for conducting research on gender and/or sex appear to be contested today (see Fraser, 2018). Some questions that may feel uncontroversial to ask for some research participants are a source of minority stress, exclusion, and outrage for others. Ca

Today many of us strive to live as climate-friendly lives as possible, we stay informed with the ways that we can contribute and then try to alter our everyday habits accordingly. We often have an idea of what the best choice of transportation would be or that we should reduce our consumption in order to decrease our personal carbon footprint. Even with the best intentions our everyday-related dec

The European Society for Clinical Evaluation of Balance Disorders - ESCEBD - Executive Committee meets yearly to identify and address clinical equilibrium problems that are not yet well understood. This particular discussion addressed “discordances” (defined as “lack of agreement”) in clinical assessment. Sometimes thSparaere is disagreement between a clinical assessment and measured abnormality (

To systematically address non-technical engineering skills (NTES), six mandatory "Engineering Days" (Ing-dagar) were introduced in two bachelor programmes. The students were also allowed to perform voluntary activities leading to a Certification of Non-technical Engineering Competences, a certificate the students can attach to their CVs. To be certified, the student must have performed activities

The question of the European Union’s (EU) democratic legitimacy has been a crucial issue at all stages of the European integration process. With crises of economic, social and democratic nature, trust in the EU institutions is questioned by citizens, providing a vacuum between expectations and results and a ‘democratic deficit’. This context has urged European politicians to propose solutions to t

Software analytics (SA) is often proposed as a tool to support software engineering (SE) tasks. Several secondary studies on SA have been published, some published within the same calendar year. This presents an opportunity to take a meta-perspective and examine how the field of SA has been conceptualized and synthesized so far. By analyzing how SA is defined, which topics are emphasized, what sea

Purpose: Since pediatric surgeons aim to follow their patients with anorectal malformations (ARM) into adulthood the aim of this study was to investigate how pediatric surgeons deal with sexual issues related to ARM. Methods: In 2018, a questionnaire was developed by the working group “Follow-up and sexuality” of the ARM-Net consortium and sent to all consortium-linked pediatric surgeons from 31 E

This study aims to develop a framework for reshoring research, specifying the aspects encompassing a full case description. The article reports an analysis of existing case-based research focusing on manufacturing reshoring and the previous offshoring events, with the aim to advance the knowledge within the field through an accumulation process. The selected methodology to achieve this purpose is

This study has in line with its explorative purpose found a number of areas that would be interesting for further research. The innovation of functional confectionary caused problems for the consumer regarding the mix of health (functional food) and taste (confectionary). When comparing findings from the focus groups with indications from earlier research several similarities could be seen but als

Swedish exophoric demonstratives have often been seen as words that encode distance-based concepts. Based on the studies of demonstrative systems of several other languages the view of demonstratives as distance-oriented has recently been put into question. Thus, this study aims to investigate the spatiality involved in the semantics of demonstratives. Specifically, the study explores Swedish two-

Measurements of Last Interglacial stable water isotopes in ice cores show that central Greenland delta O-18 increased by at least 3 parts per thousand compared to present day. Attempting to quantify the Greenland interglacial temperature change from these ice core measurements rests on our ability to interpret the stable water isotope content of Greenland snow. Current orbitally driven interglacia

Introduction: A large body of research has established a consensus that racial discrimination in CV screening occurs and persists. Nevertheless, we still know very little about how recruiters look at the CV and how this is connected to the discriminatory patterns. This article examines the way recruiters view and select CVs and how they reason about their CV selection choices, as a first step in u

The adverse impacts to environmental and human well-being derived from the past achievements in agricultural productivity and modernised food systems now call for building up sustainable farming systems. Increasingly specialised, standardised and concentrated agrifood systems have evoked both academic and practical interest in enhancing more place-based and integrated farming styles with shared be

Some philosophers say that a whole is “nothing over and above” its parts. Most also take general extensional mereology to be treating wholes as “nothing over and above” their parts. It is not always clear, however, what exactly is meant by the phrase “nothing over and above.” Nor is it obvious why the phrase is associated with mereology, and what purpose it serves there. In the words of Peter Van