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This work enhances conventional constitutive models for dynamic strain ageing (DSA) based on McCormick’s ageing-time evolution, which incorrectly predicts continuous hardening even within loading stages without plastic flow. An adapted evolution equation is proposed that ties ageing-time progression to the yield surface, ensuring that DSA develops only when dislocations are energetically inclined
Background/Objectives: To map the literature and describe the meaning, use, and experience of power mobility for children with complex non-ambulant cerebral palsy (Gross Motor Classification System (GMFCS) levels IV–V and Manual Abilities Classification System (MACS) levels III–V). Methods: Included searches in five electronic databases, grey literature, and hand searches with no restrictions on d
The danger for Europe is not only that the Islamic regime in Iran survives its current crisis. The greater danger is that it survives because of a deal with the United States - one that gives the regime time, money, diplomatic space and the illusion of renewed legitimacy, allowing it to do what it has always done: rebuild, adapt and expand its operations abroad.
This cross-country study examineed perceptions of maintenance for coated wooden cladding in residential buildings across Norway, Sweden, and Germany. As timber cladding gains popularity in European homes, understanding expectations around cleaning, recoating, and replacement intervals becomes increasingly important. An online survey gathered responses from over 3,000 participants aged 18–89, rando
Bio-based insulation materials, such as wood fibre, are gaining attention for their low embodied energy, biogenic carbon storage, and potential to leverage moisture-heat interactions to reduce building energy demands. An unexplored phenomenon that might influence their thermal behaviour is moisture sorption hysteresis, where moisture content depends on whether the material is adsorbing or desorbin
The ability to achieve controlled distributions of precipitates is one of the cornerstones of alloy optimization, in which small-angle scattering (SAS) serves as a powerful technique to characterize these distributions. One method of analyzing SAS data involves form factor intensity models, where modeled distribution parameters are obtained by solving a nonlinear least-squares (NLS) problem. HowevThe ability to achieve controlled distributions of precipitates is one of the cornerstones of alloy optimization, in which small-angle scattering (SAS) serves as a powerful technique to characterize these distributions. One method of analyzing SAS data involves form factor intensity models, where modeled distribution parameters are obtained by solving a nonlinear least-squares (NLS) problem. Howev
The paper investigates how alternative food network (AFN) consumers are formed as market actors through socio-material processes of agencing. Drawing on ethnographic studies of REKO markets in Sweden—a digitally mediated model of direct-to-consumer local food exchange—the study challenges essentialist understandings of consumers as fixed entities with stable preferences. Instead, it conceptualises
This paper empirically investigates characteristics for three omnichannel delivery options to be environmentally sustainable in urban, suburban and rural areas. It is guided by two research questions: Which are the most CO2-efficient delivery options for different product types in urban, suburban and rural areas? Which carbon emission factors are most important to address in the different contexts
Purpose of review – Aging is associated with impaired B lymphopoiesis and T lymphopoiesis, contributing to immunosenescence and poor immune recovery. Although this decline can be attributed to intrinsic hematopoietic stem cell aging, growing evidence indicates that lymphoid failure reflects constraints operating across multiple levels of the hematopoietic system. This review frames age-associated
Drug use disorder (DUD) is distributed unevenly over geographical areas of Sweden. We explore, using geographically weighted regression, the proportion of this variation associated with community levels of genetic risk, social deprivation and urbanicity. In the 5983 Demographic Statistical areas (DeSOs) within Sweden, we predict DeSO prevalence from mean genetic risk for DUD, measured by the famil
Language-based assessments (LBAs), quantitative estimates of scientific constructs based on language, have advanced methods in the psychological and social sciences for more than a decade. LBAs based on individuals’ prompted descriptions analyzed with large language models to produce scores of their psychological states and traits have shown strong convergence with the corresponding rating scales
As competition has shifted from individual firms to entire networks, supply chain management has become central to operations research. The extensive body of related work has advanced both supply chain practice and management mathematics theory. Yet, sustainable supply chain management has not received the same depth of treatment. In this editorial, we argue that sustainability cannot simply be ad
This open access book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the political economy of legal and governance reform in Central Asia, with a focus on the interaction between formal institutions and informal practices. It addresses a central question: why decades of market-oriented reforms have not produced fully credible, rule-based economic systems. Drawing on original empirical research, the vol
The prevailing assumption that a centrally planned system is inherently prone to chronic shortages and systemic wastefulness, whereas a market-based system ensures a more efficient allocation of resources, underpinned post-Communist economies’ strategic decisions to transition from central planning to market coordination (Kornai 2000; Rose 2001). The transformation process, which became popularly
This chapter examines why extensive rule-of-law and anti-corruption reforms in Central Asia—despite decades of institutional redesign, legal transplantation, and governance reform—have failed to produce meaningful changes in everyday governance practices. Focusing on Uzbekistan as a paradigmatic case, this chapter argues that these reform failures cannot be explained by weak institutions or poor e
This study examined how professional identity (PI) shapes ethical resistance to corruption within Kazakhstan’s higher education sector, addressing the persistent gap between formal anti-corruption reforms and everyday academic practice. Using a mixed-method design, the research demonstrated that PI functions primarily as an internal ethical anchor rather than as a trigger for overt confrontation.
Executive Summary: This article examines how Uzbek migrant workers in Russia create and sustain forms of protection, care, and support under conditions of legal precarity, labor exploitation, and limited institutional trust. Drawing on longitudinal multisited ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2026 in Moscow and Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, it introduces the concept of migrant secur
