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The initial Swedish discourse of transnational adoption as a win-win situation has changed over its more than 60-year-long history. This article aims to trace and present some themes in this history, with a particular focus on the public debate and the different narratives that representatives of the adoption triangle—the adoptees, the adoptive parents, and the biological parents—tell when dealing
We propose a novel hybrid approach that integrates Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) with Bayesian optimization to address the dynamics and parameter estimation of a modified time-delay-type Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model incorporating immune memory. This approach leverages a neural network to produce continuous multi-wave infection profiles by learning from both data and th
Objective. Despite the growing interest in understanding the role of triggers of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), solutions beyond questionnaires to identify a broader range of triggers remain lacking. This study aims to investigate the relation between triggers detected in wearable-based physiological signals and the occurrence of AF episodes. Approach. Week-long physiological signals were co
Background: Tau-PET is a diagnostic tool with high sensitivity and specificity for discriminating Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia from other neurodegenerative disorders in well-controlled research environments. The role of tau-PET in real-world clinical practice, however, remains to be established. The aim of the TAP-TAU study is therefore to investigate the impact of tau-PET in clinical practic
Flight behaviours of birds have been extensively studied from different angles such as their kinematics, aerodynamics and, more generally, their migration patterns. Nevertheless, much is still unknown about the daily foraging flight activity and behaviour of breeding birds, and potential differences among males and females. The recent development of miniaturized accelerometers allows us a glimpse
Th e performance of a mean field th eory (MFT) neu ralnetwork technique for finding approximate solutions to optimi zationproblems is invest igat ed for the case of th e minimum cut graph bisection problem, which is NP- complete. We address the issues of solut ionquality, programming complexity, convergence tim es and scala bility.Both standard random gr aphs an d mor e st ruct ured geomet ric gra
Lately, interest has increased in using Virtual Reality (VR) in residential care facilities to increase accessibility to nature experiences. It is widely acknowledged that nature benefits health, and various theories exist regarding its restorative effects. Studies of virtual natural environments often start from predetermined mediating mechanisms and health outcomes. However, virtual nature is fu
The paper traces the common roots of climate change and diversity loss to the phenomenon of general-purpose money, viewed as a recent addition to the biosemiotics of the planet. Money is the driver of increasing greenhouse gas emissions as well as the homogenizing processes of globalization. From an evolutionary perspective, the money sign can be understood as emerging from the human capacity for
The stability of drug is a critical factor in quality control, drug efficacy, safety, storage, and production conditions. The rearrangement of paclitaxel, which involves opening of the oxetane ring and migration of acetyl group occurred on heating a powder of purified paclitaxel. Subsequently, the unusual migration of benzoyl groups progressed rapidly in organic solvents. These rearrangement deriv
Denna uppsats ämnar att undersöka medvetenhet kring informationssäkerhet hos beslutsfattare i deras användning av SaaS-applikationer i affärsverksamhet. Denna undersökning görs med hjälp av fem semistrukturerade telefonintervjuer med beslutsfattare inom olika branscher. Tre delområden för informationssäkerhet har identifierats i litteraturgenomgången. Dessa faktorer är: sekretess, tillgänglighet o
Trots att det finns stora möjligheter för att finna synergier mellan övergångsrättvisa och företagande och mänskliga rättigheter har de två forskningsfälten fram tills nyligen sällan undersökts ihop. Denna uppsats har som övergripande mål att bidra till en bättre förståelse för hur de två fälten interagerar när stater rör sig från pågående väpnade konflikter till post-konfliktfaser. I synnerhet ämThe fields of transitional justice and business and human rights have until recently seldom been examined jointly, despite the fact that their approaches reflect plenty of opportunities for potential synergies. This thesis bears the overarching aim of contributing to a greater understanding of how the two fields interact when states are transitioning from active armed conflict to post-conflict pha
Statutory standard weekly working time reductions (SWRs) have been associated with a number of positive effects. Some of which include work-sharing, increased gender equality, and fewer workplace injuries. This paper exploits the timing of the introduction of the SWRs to the 40-hour workweek in Sweden (1973) and Norway (1977) to estimate effects on hours worked, employment, female employment, wage
Chocaya Basin ligger i den nordvästra delen av dalen Cochabamba i Bolivia, där ett halvtorrt klimat råder. Den ökande befolkningen är beroende av lokala akviferer för dricksvatten och jordbruk, där brunnar används för att utvinna vattnet. Låg nederbörd, främst under torrperioden, och uppförandet av nya hus eller fabriksbyggnader, påverkar infiltrationen av vattnet i jorden och därmed akviferernas The Chocaya Basin is situated in the north-western part of the Valley of Cochabamba, Bolivia, where a semi-arid climate prevails. The increasing population is dependent on local aquifers for drinking water and irrigation. Wells are used to extract water. Scarce amount of rainfall, mainly during the dry season, and constructions of buildings, are reducing the infiltration of water in the soil and c
The economic crisis and its negative effects on different industries is a very important and extensively analyzed topic today; this paper reflects these issues and aims at exploring two specific topics – the change in default risk in different industries during the economic downturn and the extent of this change as of before and after the crisis. The industries in the research have been categorize
In 14 pigs the infrarenal vena cava was replaced with a peritoneal tube graft or a collagen-coated double velour graft. With 111In-labelled platelets dynamic in vivo imaging of platelet aggregation over the graft was carried out using a scintillation camera. After removal, the grafts were examined by autoradiography for an evaluation of the platelet aggregation pattern. Measurements of activity in
Nitrogen (N) is often considered to be the major factor limiting tree growth in northern forest ecosystems. An increased N availability, however, increases the demand for other nutrients such as base cations and phosphorous (P) which in turn may change which nutrient is the limiting factor. If P or base cations become limiting, N will start to leach which means a risk of increased eutrophication o
A gas chromatographic method was developed to quantify the phytotoxin prehelminthosporol, which is a sesquiterpene metabolite of the plant pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana. The toxin was extracted from mycelium or culture filtrates, pre-cleaned using solid phase extraction, and analyzed by gas chromatography as a trimethylsilyl-derivative. The detection limit of the method was 5 ng mul(-)1 (signal t
Corporate sustainability research and practice are beginning to move beyond eco-efficiency. In our search to conceptualise sustainable development in terms that make sense to business, a growing range of frameworks, tools and management systems have emerged to support efforts to improve the social and environmental performance of companies. One of the challenges for business is to sort through the
Using tools and ideas from narratology, reader-response theory and cognitive poetics, and focusing on the representation of perception, this essay studies identity in four short stories by Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover", "The Inherited Clock", "Dead Mabelle" and "Foothold". The supernatural or uncanny element in the stories is seen as part of a defamilia
