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How Thomas Bartholin the Younger Read His Rudbeck : A Forgotten Debate on Historical Method in Seventeenth-century Scandinavia

In 1689 the Danish royal antiquary Thomas Bartholin the Younger (1659–1690) published a celebrated antiquarian work on the attitudes, customs, and rituals of the pagan inhabitants of Scandinavia. It has been deemed significant both for influencing the development of the historical conception of the ‘Viking Age’ in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and for introducing a rigorous source-criti

Brotherly Letters : A Literary Study of the Correspondences of Moroccan and Tunisian Male Writers (Early 20th Century)

Den här avhandlingen analyserar en korpus av publicerade personliga brev från första halvan av 1900-talet skrivna av manliga författare från Marocko och Tunisien. Studiens övergripande syfte är att undersöka och identifiera de publicerade brevens litterära egenskaper (genius) och estetiska autonomi (egenvärde) med hjälp av en narratologisk och stilistisk metod som fokuserar påintertextualitet och This dissertation deals with a corpus of published private letters from the first half of the 20th century written by male writers from Morocco and Tunisia. The overall purpose of the study is to investigate and identify the literary properties (literary genius) of the published letters and their aesthetic autonomy using a stylistic and narratological method that focuses on intertextuality and the

Aboke-pesa : Scaling up a mutual credit currency. Teaching Case

The case presents Aboke-pesa, a local complementary currency in a poor rural area of Western Kenya.The reader gets an insight into the economic context of rural areas in the Global South, the work of introducing digital community currencies through farmers’ cooperatives, one of the most common designs of these currencies (mutual credit systems or LETS) as well as the particular challenges digital

Contact Allergy to Allergens in the Swedish Baseline Series Over-represented in Diabetes Patients with Skin Reactions to Medical Devices : A Retrospective Study from Southern Sweden

Allergic contact dermatitis is reported among individuals using continuous glucose monitoring systems and insulin pumps. The aim of this study was to describe contact allergy patterns for allergens in the Swedish baseline series and medical device-related allergens among users. Contact allergy to baseline series allergens and isobornyl acrylate was compared between diabetes patients and dermatitis

Arginase release in hemolytic uremic syndrome affects the vasculature

Hemolysis is a cardinal feature of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and during hemolysis excess arginase 1 is released from erythrocytes. Increased arginase activity leads to reduced arginine, as it is converted to urea and ornithine, and thereby reduced nitric oxide bioavailability, with secondary vascular injury. In this study we investigated arginase release in HUS patients and laboratory models

The role of dispersal limitation in the forest biome shifts of Europe in the last 18,000 years

Aim: How the ability of plants to move towards newly favourable habitats (dispersal limitation) impacts the change of biome distribution and transition under fast climate warming is still debated. Analysing vegetation change in the past may help to clarify the relative importance of underlying ecological processes such as climate, biotic interactions, and dispersal. In this study, we investigated

Äldres rätt till fri rörlighet inom EU – uppehållsrättens diskriminerande verkan

Syftet med detta bidrag är alltså att kritiskt granska äldres rätt till fri rörlighetinom EU. Utgångspunkten för denna analys är artikel 3 FEU där centralavärden för EU såsom välfärd, fri rörlighet, icke-diskriminering, socialrättvisa, socialt skydd och jämställdhet mellan kvinnor och män betonas.Vårt bidrag i detta kapitel är att visa att såsom reglerna är utformade idagriskerar de att ha en kraf

Arachidonic acid and docosahexaenoic acid levels correlate with the inflammation proteome in extremely preterm infants

Background & aim: Clinical trials supplementing the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (AA) to preterm infants have shown positive effects on inflammation-related morbidities, but the molecular mechanisms underlying these effects are not fully elucidated. This study aimed to determine associations between DHA, AA, and inflammation-r

Pattern of Risks for Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders in the Offspring of Parents With Alcohol Use Disorder

OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to clarify the components of the familial liability to alcohol use disorder (AUD) by examining parent-offspring transmission in a large Swedish population sample. METHODS: To this end, 1,244,516 offspring in intact families with a mean age at follow-up of 37.7 years (SD=6.8) were examined. Hazard ratios for offspring of parents with AUD were calculated using Cox model

Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects

The central complex (CX) is a highly conserved region of the insect brain, and its ubiquitous occurrence suggests that its neural circuits are of fundamental importance. While its overall layout has not changed since the evolution of insect flight, substantial variations exist in the internal organization of all CX components. By changing the details of a system of repeating columns and layers, th

Unraveling UVB effects : Catalase activity and molecular alterations in the stratum corneum

Aim: Ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation can compromise the functionality of the skin barrier through various mechanisms. We hypothesize that UVB induce photochemical alterations in the components of the outermost layer of the skin, known as the stratum corneum (SC), and modulate its antioxidative defense mechanisms. Catalase is a well-known antioxidative enzyme found in the SC where it acts to scavenge

A Sharp Version of the Benjamin and Lighthill Conjecture for Steady Waves with Vorticity

We give a complete proof of the classical Benjamin and Lighthill conjecture for arbitrary two-dimensional steady water waves with vorticity. We show that the flow force constant of an arbitrary smooth solution is bounded by the flow force constants for the corresponding conjugate laminar flows. We prove these inequalities without any assumptions on the geometry of the surface profile and put no re

Spin-orbit coupling induced Van Hove singularity in proximity to a Lifshitz transition in Sr4Ru3O10

Van Hove singularities (VHss) in the vicinity of the Fermi energy often play a dramatic role in the physics of strongly correlated electron materials. The divergence of the density of states generated by VHss can trigger the emergence of phases such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, metamagnetism, and density wave orders. A detailed understanding of the electronic structure of these VHss is th

Balancing urbanization, agricultural production and ecological integrity : A cross-scale landscape functional and structural approach in China

Projecting land-use allocation under various scenarios can be useful for reconciling conflicts between urbanization, food security, and ecological integrity throughout landscapes, but existing approaches often fail to capture the interactions in land systems that occur across scales and within and between hierarchical jurisdictions of societal organization. This article introduces a cross-scale fu

A Novel Type of Autosomal Dominant Episodic Nystagmus Segregating with a Variant in the FRMD5 Gene

To describe the phenotype of a novel form of autosomal dominant episodic nystagmus and to identify the potential genetic aetiology. We identified several individuals in a large Swedish family affected by episodic nystagmus. In total, 39 family members from five generations were invited to participate in the study, of which 17 were included (12 affected and 5 unaffected). The phenotype of the nysta

Spatiotemporally resolved surface temperature measurement of aluminum ignition and combustion in steam and oxygenated environments

We report micrometric imaging measurements of the ignition of micron-sized aluminum (Al) wires and the consequent combustion processes of single micron-sized Al droplets in hot steam and steam with oxygen. The specially designed flames were anchored on a modified burner where a small central H2/O2 diffusion flame in the center jet provided a hot flow (>2330 K) for Al ignition, and the diffusion fl

Activating 2D MoS2 by loading 2D Cu–S nanoplatelets for improved visible light photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, drug degradation, and CO2 reduction

Finding reliable photocatalysts capable of driving reactions using only sunlight is more needed than ever. A variety of strategies to harvest sunlight and convert it into chemical energy have been successfully utilized such as synthesizing nanostructures, using metal nanoparticles, doping, and others. In this work, we discover a facile way to anchor CuS nanoplatelets on 2D MoS2 by the solvothermal

The value of neck adipose tissue as a predictor for metabolic risk in health and type 2 diabetes

Upper-body adiposity is adversely associated with metabolic health whereas the opposite is observed for the lower-body. The neck is a unique upper-body fat depot in adult humans, housing thermogenic brown adipose tissue (BAT), which is increasingly recognised to influence whole-body metabolic health. Loss of BAT, concurrent with replacement by white adipose tissue (WAT), may contribute to metaboli