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The co-constitution of social media and the Symbolic Order – the system of norms, law, culture, and language conditioning intersubjectivity – has generated an unprecedented political ontology marked by commodified performativity under neoliberalism. This ontology displaces the experience of the political in favour of its consumption as a spectacle. This spectacle expedites the misrecognition of fa
Democratic resilience has emerged as a central theme in academic debates in response to growing threats to contemporary democracies, yet little attention has been paid to resilience capacity to external stressors. This article conceptualises electoral integrity as a key democratic resilience capacity and examines how central actors in the Swedish electoral administration make sense of, and navigat
Traits that affect organismal fitness are often highly genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that nature – after all – ‘selects’ the best genotypes at the expense of those that fall short. Explaining the extensive genetic variation of fitness-related traits is thus a longstanding puzzle in evolutionary
Antibodies are important for protection against malaria. For optimal protective activity, it is thought that antibodies need to have high affinity. A longitudinal study conducted in Uganda followed newborn infants and their mothers for nine months. The study found that antibody affinity (here measured as dissociation rate constant, kd) against the merozoite antigens AMA1 and MSP2 decreased from bi
Tactile slip is a common sensation that is interesting from the perspective of brain perception since it is susceptible to illusions. Here we create the illusion of slipping in a particular direction despite a net zero movement using a simple haptic interface consisting of only two moving parts. We further show that by superimposing net zero motions of different frequencies we can also control the
The dissertation Deductionis coloniarum rationes & causae, submitted at Uppsala University in 1668 under the presidency of Johannes Schefferus, appears to be the firstcontribution to the Swedish discourse on the subject of colonisation and colonialism. In this paper, a translation of the text is presented with a commentary and a list of sources. In an introduction to the translation, which dis
Background: Standardised language tests provide a reliable framework for assessing language deficits in individuals with aphasia, but have long been lacking for various languages, including Swedish. The purpose of this study was to examine the diagnostic accuracy and establish the norm-references of the Swedish version of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT-S). Methods: Consecutive patients with a
Building on work of Williams,Wieler proved that every irreducible Smale space with totally disconnected stable sets can be realized via a stationary inverse limit. Using this result, the first and fourth listed authors of the present paper showed that the stable C∗-algebra associated to such a Smale space can be obtained from a stationary inductive limit of a Fell algebra. Its spectrum is typicall
Transformer models pre-trained on self-supervised tasks and fine-tuned on downstream objectives have achieved remarkable results across a variety of domains. However, fine-tuning these models for clinical predictions from longitudinal medical data, such as electronic health records (EHR), remains challenging due to limited labeled data and the complex, event-driven nature of medical sequences. Whi
In 1959, the politics of assimilation led to the creation of a set of municipally organised camps for Roma people in the Stockholm area. The camps were to function as controlled settlements of transition for Roma families awaiting proper homes. This paper focuses on one such camp – the Skarpnäck Camp – which existed longer than anticipated, to the point that its continued operation was criticised
2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) is a potent mitochondrial uncoupler briefly marketed in the 1930s as a weight-reducing agent before being banned by the FDA after reports of severe toxicity. Since the early 2000s, DNP has reemerged as an illicit "fat-burner", causing characteristic metabolic disturbances with a high risk of fatal outcome. We describe two Swedish cases of DNP poisoning: one fatal after suic
Renewable energy generation is a key to a sustainable future. Efforts are continuously being made to develop new technologies that improve energy harnessing in a more sustainable way. Additionally, existing systems are being improved with modern practices to increase their resilience and efficiency. However, the transition from conventional to digital energy systems brings significant cybersecurit
This paper examines the birth of the exploitative sockenlappssystemet (the ‘Parish Lapp’ system) in central Sweden during the early eighteenth century. Based on a foundation of control and eviction instituted in earlier laws, the 1720s saw a forceful rise in royal concern over the existence of nomadic Sámi in central Sweden. His Majesty King Fredrik I specifically expressed fear of damage to the r
During a period of 40 years in the second half of the 17th century, a process of industrialization was initialized in the northern part of the Torne River valley, northern Sweden. The industrialization was the result of global demand for copper and brass, but its practice was a local and regional encounter between different groups of people with a manifold of identities, languages, economic, and s
This paper examines traces of Sámi habitation in southern and central Scandi-navia, particularly Sweden, addressing the late medieval period to the end of thenineteenth century. It begins with Swedish judicial policy against Sámi nomadismin central Sweden, followed by a discussion of medieval Sámi material culture insouthern Scandinavia. Further analysis addresses so-called Parish-Lapp indenture,w
Plants that depend on animals for reproduction often use complex floral traits to attract pollinators. Floral scent is recognized as part of the pollinator attraction module and can be shaped by plant-pollinator interactions. In recent decades, research has started to reveal the dynamic properties of floral scent, identifying patterns of spatial and temporal variation in floral scent emissions at
Objective: To investigate prevalence and clinical correlates of serum C1q and anti-C1q antibody titres in black South Africans with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: Cross-sectional study of 96 SLE patients, 49 with lupus nephritis (LN). Anti-C1q antibodies were tested by ELISA. Serum C1q was measured as a percentage of normal by immunoelectrophoresis. Disease activity was assessed usin
Robotic systems often face execution failures due to unexpected obstacles, sensor errors, or environmental changes. Traditional failure recovery methods rely on predefined strategies or human intervention, making them less adaptable. This paper presents a unified failure recovery framework that combines Vision-Language Models (VLMs), a reactive planner, and Behavior Trees (BTs) to enable real-time
Background: Large lower eyelid defects resulting from tumour removal are frequently reconstructed using a tarsoconjunctival flap from the upper eyelid together with an overlying free skin graft, the so-called Hughes procedure. One disadvantage of this technique is that the tarsoconjunctival flap occludes the eye during the revascularization of the graft, which is particularly troublesome for patie
Introduction: This study evaluated real-world cassette use and cost of levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG; 2000 mg levodopa equivalent dose [LED]) and levodopa-entacapone-carbidopa intestinal gel (LECIG; 1250 mg LED) pump treatments among patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) in Sweden. Methods: This was a non-interventional, longitudinal, retrospective, comparative study of patient
