The blurred distinction between freedom of expression and hate speech in ever more polarised public debates across Europe and beyond has prompted research on hate speech, particularly focusing on right-wing populist politicians. Little is known, however, about how this distinction is construed by ordinary citizens. Deploying the concept of retrogressive mobilisation, this study examines how cases

North Middle Sweden took part in a pilot “Regions in Industrial Transition”, launched by the European Commission to test new approaches to dealing with industrial transition. By focusing on specific challenges related to industrial transition, the pilot sought to develop new tools for regions and cities.

The self-employed and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) account for the greatest share of employment and make up the largest number of economic units worldwide. However, some countries exclude these economic units from certain obligations under their national labour laws in the belief that such obligations may impair enterprise growth and prosperity. This study considers the ways i

Debt-based trade and economic exchanges are becoming more and more widespread phenomena in the context of most post-Soviet Central Asian societies, especially in Uzbekistan. In the absence of viable state economic support, a functional banking system and an effective legal system, trust-based economic exchanges serve as an alternative means for conducting micro-level businesses in Uzbekistan. This

A mobile stroke unit (MSU) is an advanced ambulance equipped with specialized technology and trained healthcare personnel to provide on-site diagnosis and treatment for stroke patients. Providing efficient access to healthcare (in a viable way) requires optimizing the placement of MSUs. In this study, we propose a time-efficient method based on a genetic algorithm (GA) to find the most suitable am

The pre-tetramerization loop (PTL) of the human tumor suppressor protein p53 is an intrinsically disordered region (IDR) necessary for the tetramerization process, and its flexibility contributes to the essential conformational changes needed. Although the IDR can be accurately simulated in the traditional manner of molecular dynamics (MD) with the end-to-end distance (EEdist) unhindered, we sough

Despite the vast research on the topic in recent years, fully homomorphic encryption schemes remain time-inefficient. The main bottleneck is the so-called bootstrapping, whose purpose is to reduce noise that has accumulated after having performed homomorphic operations on a ciphertext. This thesis is about bootstrapping, and how to do it more efficiently. More specifically, a new algorithm, here c

Sustainability and migration are typically treated as discrete policy spheres in international, national, and local fora, separated in governance structures and institutions. This results in policy incoherence that hinders just transitions toward more sustainable societies cognizant of mobile realities. This explorative effort identifies the (dis)connections between policy domains using data colle

Cotranslational protein folding depends on general chaperones that engage highly diverse nascent chains at the ribosomes. Here we discover a dedicated ribosome-associated chaperone, Chp1, that rewires the cotranslational folding machinery to assist in the challenging biogenesis of abundantly expressed eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1A (eEF1A). Our results indicate that during eEF1A synth