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As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary Chin
In this chapter i start for this idea of an inner void thar can be filled out by faith in God. I explore what is at stake for young well-educated urbanites, such as Tingting who convert to Christianity and become part of uinregistred house-churches tha operate in the shadow of state control.
Human pluripotent stem cell-derived in vitro models, combined with advances in high-content live-cell calcium imaging, provide a powerful platform for disease modeling and drug screening. However, most calcium imaging analysis tools have been developed for in vivo applications with suboptimal features for processing data from cultured neurons. Here, we present LUMIN (Live-cell User Module for Imag
Flygtningebørn og deres familiers modtagelse i danske daginstitutioner er forbundet med en række dilemmaer for det pædagogiske personale, såvel som for børnenes forældre. Et igangværende etnografisk feltarbejde belyser, hvordan disse dilemmaer, relateret til bl.a. tillid og mistillid, medfølelse og offergørelse, struktur og fleksibilitet, inklusion og eksklusion, udspiller sig i praksis og får betFlygtningebørn og deres familiers modtagelse i danske daginstitutioner er forbundet med en række dilemmaer for det pædagogiske personale, såvel som for børnenes forældre. Et igangværende etnografisk feltarbejde belyser, hvordan disse dilemmaer, relateret til bl.a. tillid og mistillid, medfølelse og offergørelse, struktur og fleksibilitet, inklusion og eksklusion, udspiller sig i praksis og får bet
Today file sharing via downloadable torrents might seem technologically redundant, even if numerous BitTorrent sites (as The Pirate Bay) are still operational. Nowadays, these foremost cater to moving images (TV series and feature films) since such content in its entirety is not provided by one single platform. This is, however, the case with music, and commercial services such as Apple Music and
Recognising the need for PQC signature schemes with different sizes and performance trade-offs than the ML-DSA and SLH-DSA standards, in 2023, NIST launched a competition for additional signature algorithms. Among the current candidates in this competition is CROSS, a code-based scheme derived from the syndrome-decoding problem and suitable for memory-constrained devices. This paper presents a fau
This chapter addresses ten “themes” (or conclusions). It starts with conclusions on the various themes that the author has addressed in many articles, books, and reports over the decades. Each conclusion constitutes a section heading, followed by some of the arguments in a much shorter form than when the conclusions were reached originally – over the decades. Therefore, much of the text is heavily
The potential to source thermal energy from buried infrastructure such as tunnels and metro stations may offer significant potential to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of heating and cooling, and reduce the costs associated with dedicated drilling for traditional ground-sourced systems. However, this remains a niche approach with few commercial schemes globally, partly due to high initial cost
We study a generalisation of the one-dimensional Rademacher random walk introduced in Bhattacharya and Volkov (ALEA Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 20(1):33–51, 2023) to Z2 (for d≥3, the Rademacher random walk is always transient, as follows from Theorem 8.8 in Engländer and Volkov (Coin Turning, Random Walks and Inhomogeneous Markov Chains, World Scientific and Volkov, Singapore, 2025)). This wal
Uncertainty often seems to be articulated as doubts about the interior make-up of things. Suspecting that persons, objects, institutions and ideologies are not what they seem, critical voices accuse them of emptiness and they are thus laid open to new investments of meaning and value. Ethnographies of contemporary China describe how state discourse on population quality constructs ‘the people’ in
In the context of an international trend of claims for historical justice, several aspects of Swedish contemporary history were re-evaluated in the 1990s. One of the most well-known examples is the heated political and scholarly debate on involuntary sexual sterilization, sparked by a series of critical newspaper articles in August 1997 that attracted international media attention and resulted in
Persistent physical symptoms (PPS) are common, disabling, and associated with high health care use, yet effective and scalable psychological treatments remain limited. Internet-administrated self-help programs may improve access to care. Asynchronous Internet-administered Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (I-EAET) with therapist guidance has been shown to reduce somatic symptoms in PPS, b
Insect diapause is a pre-programmed alternative developmental pathway induced to survive adverse environmental conditions and is characterized by an absence of development, metabolic suppression and increased stress resistance. While the hormonal regulation of diapause induction has been studied extensively, clear molecular hypotheses on how low-temperature driven diapause termination is controlle
Shared ground heat exchanges could provide low-carbon heating for up to 80% of homes in the UK, research suggests.
Background Insulin resistance is common in adults with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), yet the extent to which longitudinal metabolic improvement is driven by OSA phenotype, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment, or changes in body weight remains unclear. We examined 1-year changes in insulin resistance across OSA and non-OSA subgroups in the non-diabetic RICCADSA cohort. Methods In
Episodic memories are leveraged to predict upcoming input. Latent Cause Theory (Gershman et al., 2017) predicts that after moderate prediction errors, existing memories will be updated by integrating new information, while after large prediction errors, a new latent cause is inferred, and the unpredicted event is encoded as a separate trace. To date, no study has directly compared memory updating
Rapid and deep energy system decarbonisation is essential to a safe future. Thermal energy storage may hold the key to significant carbon reduction of the heating, cooling and electricity sectors, but the UK remains largely locked in to a fossil-fuel based heating regime. Global urbanisation trends mean cities are crucial to the net-zero transition. This thesis provides a sociotechnical analysis o
China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid? Fragile Elite explores the contradictions of being an elite student through ethnographic research conducted at two top universities in China. It uncovers the intimate psychological strains students suffer under the pressure imposed on
