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The paper treats encounters between Swedes and Germans within the framework of lodges and secret societies in Swedish-Pomerania during the 1760-ies.

Granskningsgruppen tillsattes på initiativ från Socialstyrelsens generaldirektör Kerstin Wigzell i mars 2000. Uppdraget var att granska Socialstyrelsens arbete ut ett patient-/klient-/anhörigperspektiv. Detta innebär att gruppmedlemmarna med utgångspunk

Stance in human communication is a linguistic concept relating to expressions of subjectivity such as the speakers’ attitudes and emotions. Taking stance is crucial for the social construction of meaning and can be useful for many application fields such as business intelligence, security analytics, or social media monitoring. In order to process large amounts of text data for stance analyses, lin

In the late 19th century Meru smallholders established the first irrigation furrows on Mount Meru, Tanzania with the intent to prolong farming seasons and improve harvests. Soon neighbouring estate holders followed suit. Since then there has been a continuous construction of furrows by both smallholders and estates in the area. Smallholders’ furrows were from the onset managed as de facto communal

Packaging serves a lot of purposes, and would be hard to do without. Packaging protects the goods during transport, saves costs, informs about the product, and extends its durability. A transport package is required to be strong and lightweight in order to be cost effective. Furthermore, it should be recycled because of environmental and economical concerns. Corrugated board has all of these featu

This article discusses the Marxist heritage in queer theory and argues for a historical materialist understanding of queer theory.

Households play a crucial role in the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). As waste generators, their decisions at the point of disposal hold a key to a success of WEEE collection. This article presents main findings from a national survey in Thailand about the reported disposal behaviors in the past and the stated disposal preferences in the future. The survey covered t

The problem of controlling a system with constant but unknown parameters is considered. The analysis is restricted to discrete time single-input single-output systems. An algorithm obtained by combining a least squares estimator with a minimum variance regulator computed from the estimated model is analysed. The main results are two theorems which characterize the closed loop system obtained under

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