Humaniora är ett viktigt – men ibland underskattat – vetenskapsområde som behövs för att utbilda studenter för en komplex yrkesvardag och för att möta aktuella samhällsutmaningar. Humanistisk kompetens ger förmåga att tolka, förstå och sätta kunskap i ett kulturellt, historiskt och samhälleligt sammanhang. Humaniora hjälper oss att navigera i komplexa frågor som inte enbart handlar om effektivitet

The German transportation sector's negative contribution to climate change amongst broader social, environmental, and economic problems is applying evermore pressure to the prevailing automobility regime to bring about its transformation. However, the vision of this transition, referred to as the Verkehrswende or Mobilitätswende, is highly contested, with varying conceptions of different actors ab

This essay analyzes frequently used adjectives co-occurring with general gender-specific nouns and investigates the sociolinguistic effects that the semantic associations and gender-stereotypical descriptions in sentences have on English speakers. A mixed-methods approach was conducted, with one corpus-based, and one empirical methodology used. Previous researchers have studied gender stereotypes’

This thesis investigates the semiotic foundations of recurrent gestures through a cross-cultural study of the Two-Handed-Alternation-Sagittal (2HAS) gesture in Japanese and Swedish. Drawing on the Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM)––a cognitive-semiotic model of meaning-making––the study explores how recurrent gestures emerge from the dynamic interplay between embodiment and sedimentation.

Work in developmental pragmatics has shown that even though infants display refined mindreading abilities, older children struggle to understand language phenomena that rely on mindreading. This apparent mismatch might be partially explained by considering children's growing sensitivity to social categories such as their interlocutor's age. Based on recent work in philosophy of mind, we investigat

This article is concerned with the estimation of aggregate relationships among a potentially large number of panel data variables in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity in the form of interactive effects, an empirically very relevant scenario that has not been considered before. One of our findings is that if the regressors load on the same set of latent factors as the dependent variable, whi

ObjectivesSexual satisfaction is a crucial part of sexual health and is positively related to well-being and quality of life. However, there are at present no composite measures of sexual satisfaction available in Swedish. The New Sexual Satisfaction Scale – Short form (NSSS-S) is a measure of sexual satisfaction that has been validated in multiple languages, and the aim of the present study is toObjectivesSexual satisfaction is a crucial part of sexual health and is positively related to well-being and quality of life. However, there are at present no composite measures of sexual satisfaction available in Swedish. The New Sexual Satisfaction Scale – Short form (NSSS-S) is a measure of sexual satisfaction that has been validated in multiple languages, and the aim of the present study is to

Mycket har hänt på 100 år, våra levnadsförhållanden har förändrats, städerna har utvecklats, men på landsbygden har tiden stått still. Förr utgjorde bondgården en central del i böndernas liv men i takt med avvecklingen av lantbruken står många gårdar tomma och har tappat sin funktion. Under den rådande bostadsbristen väljer man ofta att bygga nytt istället för att utnyttja de byggnader som rA lot has happened in the last 100 years, our living conditions have changed and our cities have developed. However, in rural areas time has stood still. In the past, the farmhouse was a central part of the farmer’s life, but since the decrease of the agricultural lifestyle, many farms are empty and have lost their function. In the current housing shortage, new buildings are often built inst

This thesis presents a comparative geospatial analysis of earthquake damage caused by the 2020 Croatian earthquakes, the 5.5 magnitude Zagreb earthquake and the 6.4 magnitude Petrinja earthquake. Using only freely accessible data, including Copernicus EMS damage assessments, OpenStreetMap building footprints, and WorldPop population grids, the study explores how spatial damage patterns differed b

Studies on cortical function have been a cornerstone in research trying to understand our brains for a long time. For many years now a basic feature of cortical processing has been the idea of a functional localization, with different areas or even neurons in the cortex having clear, individual, functions. This idea has been challenged from the outset, and with new methods to study the cortex the

Although high-level evidence is currently lacking, noninferiority randomised controlled trials in predefined risk groups in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer are under way to scientifically prove the safety of urinary biomarker-guided follow-up. To facilitate recommendations for clinical use, it is essential to comply with the EU certification for in vitro diagnostics and to demonstrate cost effe

In the Comment by Goletti et al. [Phys. Rev. B 111, 117301 (2025)10.1103/PhysRevB.111.117301], concerns are raised regarding the interpretation of our experimental findings, as well as the application of basic ground-state density functional theory (DFT) models pertaining to the C(111)-(2×1) surface presented in our earlier publication [Reed et al., Phys. Rev. B 105, 205304 (2022)2469-995010.1103/

The study aimed to investigate if primary health care centers (PHCCs) offering nurse-managed hypertensive care differ from PHCCs with other types of hypertension care regarding blood pressure levels and other key indicators. In this cross-sectional study of the hypertension care given in PHCCs in Stockholm County (now called Region Stockholm), we included all 227 PHCCs in the region. To assess the

Cheaper and more sustainable batteries are key to decarbonize the global energy system, and sodium-ion batteries that use far fewer critical materials are an important option. Research now shows that rapidly improving techno-economics of sodium-ion batteries could soon make them competitive with lithium-ion phosphate batteries under a range of scenarios.

This thesis explores how foreign reporters make sense of occupational risk-taking in war through the perspective of Stephen Lyng’s (1990) edgework theory. Thereby, the study builds on semi-structured, in-depth interviews with German journalists who have reported from the ongoing war against Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Although prior research has looked at the r

This essay examines museum workers' perspectives on gender integration in exhibition creation. Museums hold a unique position of power in shaping cultural heritage, making it highly relevant to examine museums' actual praxis in exhibition creation. If history is presented without analysing it through a gender perspective, it risks perpetuating outdated and harmful gender patterns. Working

We live in an increasingly individualistic society where involuntary loneliness, especially among older adults, has become a growing issue. In Sweden, where single-person households are common, many seniors, particularly those over 65 who live alone, report feeling lonely. At the same time, children are growing up with limited contact with older generations, as everyday interactions between age gr

Available methods for differentiating human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs) into neurons are often cumbersome, slow, and variable. Alternatively, human fibroblasts can be directly converted into induced neuronal (iN) cells. However, with present techniques conversion is inefficient, synapse formation is limited, and only small amounts of neurons can be generated.