The contribution of this chapter to our volume is fourfold. First, we look at why we should study legislative debates and how scholars may benefit from representation, legislative politics, party politics, and electoral studies by incorporating debates in their analysis. In so doing, we unpack their functions in liberal democracies. Second, the chapter offers a state of the art of the burgeoning f

The Swedish Riksdag is often regarded as an ideal type for Scandinavian or Nordic parliamentarism. This relates to institutional features and party cohesion, but more often so to descriptive representation in terms of gender—an aspect where Sweden's parliament has consistently occupied the top position among European parliaments during the last decades. However, and despite an unlikely-case-char

Cardinality and rank functions are ideal ways of regularizing under-determined linear systems, but optimization of the resulting formulations is made difficult since both these penalties are non-convex and discontinuous. The most common remedy is to instead use the ℓ1- and nuclear norms. While these are convex and can therefore be reliably optimized, they suffer from a shrinking bias that degrades

The lack of methods to evaluate mechanical function of donated hearts in the context of transplantation imposes large precautionary margins, translating into a low utilization rate of donor organs. This has spawned research into cyber-physical models constituting artificial afterloads (arterial trees), that can serve to evaluate the contractile capacity of the donor heart.The Windkessel model is a

Putins invasion av Ukraina var – till skillnad från vad vissa menat – högst väntat och Putins agerande är i linje med den ryska säkerhetspolitiska strategin. Putin är varken galen eller oförutsägbar. Det är också för tidigt att säga att den ryska invasionen är misslyckad eftersom att mycket tyder på att den ryska strategin går ut på att utmatta motståndaren. Det skriver statsvetaren Ardavan KhoshnPutin's invasion of Ukraine was - contrary to popular belief - highly anticipated and Putin's actions are in line with Russia's security policy strategy. Putin is neither crazy nor unpredictable. It is also too early to say that the Russian invasion has failed because there are many indications that the Russian strategy is to exhaust the opponent. This is what political scientist Ardavan Khoshnood

Land subsidence is an increasing human-induced disaster that not only damages building and transportation structures but also diminishes the water storage capacity of the aquifers. Land subsidence is a very complex phenomenon impacted by various geo-environmental and hydrological factors. Application of the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is becoming a common approach to detect la

A cohesive society is not only characterised by the availability of basic services and facilities, but also promotes economic equality and inclusion, democracy, and social solidarity. Forced displacement due to disasters and conflict constantly disrupt the path to a sustainable and cohesive society. Displaced communities often struggle with a lack of access to livelihood and a lack of financial in

Våra öden förändrades 2015. Vi stod på gator, på tågstationer, i föreningslokaler och fanns där för våra medmänniskor. Vi kom från olika bakgrunder och politiska läger men förenades av en tro på ett bättre Sverige och på rätten att söka en fristad från förtryck, förföljelse och krig. Och det gör vi fortfarande.Den här antologin samlar olika sorters röster – aktivister, flyktingar, jurister och for

En del av det systemskifte Sverige genomgått senaste decennierna har inneburit att mer ansvar för social trygghet flyttats från det offentliga till civilsamhället. En rad forskare har menat att civilsamhället därmed riskerar att bli en svagare politisk röst. I detta kapitel diskuterar vi med avstamp i den ideella organisationen Helamalmö hur civilsamhället genom att skapa social trygghet också kan

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted consumer food shopping. This paper aims to conceptualise, illustrate and explain how and why online grocery shopping has changed during the pandemic. Taking a shopping-as-practice approach and drawing on ethnographic interviews with 31 Swedish households, we analyse how online grocery shopping was performed during the pandemic.Our findings show that onlin

Panel: No cripness – no peace: Rethinking feminist knowledge regimes with Cripistemologies. Mikael Mery Karlsson, Lund University,Christine Bylund, Ume. University, Julia Bahner, University of Leeds, ElisabetApelmo, Malm. University Feminists are constantly rethinking knowledge regimes within as well asoutside the academy. We have not entered the university only to gain accessto an already existinPanel: No cripness – no peace: Rethinking feminist knowledgeregimes with Cripistemologies. Mikael Mery Karlsson, Lund University, Christine Bylund, Ume. University, Julia Bahner, University of Leeds, ElisabetApelmo, Malm. University Feminists are constantly rethinking knowledge regimes within as well as outside the academy. We have not entered the university only to gain accessto an already existi

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression via mRNA targeting, playing important roles in the pancreatic islets. We aimed to identify molecular pathways and genomic regulatory regions associated with altered miRNA expression due to glycemic status, which could contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D). To this end, miRNAs were identified by a combinatio

This article introduces the concept of the exit spiral to conceptualize processes in which poorly functioning hospital clinics or wards enter a phase of decline due to widespread dissatisfaction among staff, prompting turnover contagion. In describing and analyzing cases amassed during observations and interviews, the article provides tools to identify, analyze and halt exit spirals. Once a hospit