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This thesis examines the extent to which Swahili agency shaped the Portuguese arrival as a turning point in East African economic history. Situating the encounter within the longue durée of Swahili integration into Indian Ocean trade networks, it aims to challenge interpretations that portray colonial contact as a purely exogenous rupture. Drawing on a bargaining-power framework, the study thus an
In February 2023, South Africa was placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) greylist, raising concerns about the effects of this decision on the country. Existing studies focus mainly on macroeconomic indicators and legal analysis, with little evidence on how people experience greylisting. This thesis explores how key financial, regulatory and policy stakeholders perceive the economic, reg
This thesis explores the intersection of psychiatric expertise, artificial intelligence (AI), and infrastructural practices through an ethnographic study of the PERSONAE project—an initiative aiming to develop personalised, AI-driven digital treatment for depression within Danish mental healthcare. Drawing on four months of fieldwork, the analysis reveals how anticipatory logics, affective negotia
Micropollutant removal is a key component of the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and can be achieved with ozonation. During ozonation, the composition of the wastewater matrix and the targeted treatment level for individual micropollutants or groups of such compounds affect ozone consumption. In this work, it was hypothesized that nitrite scavenging, the point of dosing (befor
Part of the online anthology of the artistic research project Costume Dramaturgies – The Dramaturgy of Things in Performance. The project explores the dramaturgy of things – as costume – in performance, where dramaturgy is understood as an assembly of human and nonhuman “things.”
Disruptions in gut microbiome are implicated in cardiometabolic disorders and other health outcomes. Antibiotics are known gut microbiome disruptors, but their long-term consequences remain underexplored. Here we combined individual-level data from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register with fecal metagenomes of 14,979 adults to examine the association between oral antibiotic use over 8 years and gu
In Charlotte Østergaard’s artistic research practice, co-creation is not merely a matter of establishing horizontal forms of collaboration between people. It is an investigation of how people, textile materials and local atmospheres mutually influence and respond to each other. Here, Charlotte Østergaard provides an insight into her current research and practice.
Denna artikel undersöker hur vardagliga och samhälleliga föreställningar om vatten som resurs ges uttryck i Sverige i en tid av ökande klimatförändringar och andra utmaningar. Artikeln tar utgångspunkt i frågelistan Vatten som resurs (Folklivsarkivet, 2025), som är framtagen inom forskningsprojektet Gröna tjänster och värdeskapande vatten. Genom över hundra insamlade utsagor analyseras hur människ
Somatostatin, produced by pancreatic islet δ cells, is a key intra-islet paracrine factor that regulates the secretion of the glucoregulatory hormones insulin and glucagon from β cells and α cells, respectively. Here, we show that glutamate and glucagon released by α cells cooperatively activate neighbouring δ cells through AMPA and glucagon receptors, thereby enabling spatiotemporal feedback cont
Den torkdrabbade Östra provinsen i Rwanda upplever återkommande vattenbrist som begränsar befolkningens försörjningsmöjligheter. Denna studie undersöker säsongsvariationer i vattenanvändning, tillgång och effekter av vattenbrist i Lower Akagera-området genom en kombination av hushållsintervjuer, grundvattenövervakning och fjärranalys av dammar. Ett Normaliserat Vattenanvändningsindex utvecklThe drought-prone Eastern Province of Rwanda faces recurring water scarcity that constrains rural livelihoods. This thesis investigates seasonal water use, availability, and impacts in the Lower Akagera catchment by combining household interviews, groundwater monitoring, and remote sensing of dams. A Normalised Water Use Index (NWUI) was developed to capture seasonal groundwater abstraction and l
Användning av artificiell intelligens för att förbättra kvaliteten på MR-bilder av spädbarnshjärnan. Kliniska MR-bilder har ofta låg upplösning på grund av tids- och resursbrist på sjukhus. I det här projektet undersöks om artificiell intelligens kan användas för att förbättra upplösningen av MR-bilder - ett sätt att underlätta för både forskning och diagnostik. Magnetkameran (MR) är ett viktigtBrain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important tool for diagnosing neurological diseases and is widely used in research to study brain development and aging. However, acquiring high-resolution (HR) isotropic MRI is time- and resource-consuming, which often leads to acquisition of low-resolution (LR) anisotropic MRI instead. In recent years, deep learning has shown promising advancements in
Indoor positioning is a challenging problem due to complex environments, signal attenuation, and multi-path effects. A promising approach to this problem is channel charting on wireless networks, where high-dimensional channel state information (CSI) is mapped into a low-dimensional latent space, which preserves spatial relationships in a self-supervised manner. Channel charting can be deep learni
Uppsatsen behandlar det arbetsmiljörättsliga ansvaret i bemanningsförhållanden och hur detta fördelas mellan bemanningsföretag och kundföretag. Syftet är att analysera den rättsliga regleringen av ansvarsfördelningen samt att identifiera rättsliga och praktiska utmaningar som uppstår när arbetsmiljöansvaret delas mellan flera aktörer. De centrala frågeställningarna är hur ansvaret fördelas enligt This thesis examines the allocation of occupational health and safety responsibility in temporary agency work arrangements and how such responsibility is divided between the temporary work agency and the user undertaking. The purpose is to analyse the legal framework governing this allocation of responsibility and to identify legal and practical challenges arising when occupational health and safe
The expansive carbon reservoirs of the boreal region are becoming some of the most rapidly growing sources of greenhouse gasses under a positive feedback between intensifying fire activity and climate change. However, current regional-scale methods lack the spatial precision needed to improve understanding of the drivers of these fluxes to inform strategies aimed at maximizing landscape carbon sto
Aim: Allometric relationships, which describe plant growth patterns shaped by environmental conditions, reflect functional trade-offs and represent key functional traits that optimise adaptation, resource acquisition, stress tolerance and competition. Here, we assess how these allometric relationships and associated functional trade-offs drive ecosystem structure, functioning and competitive inter
Happé (Cognition 1993; 48: 101-19) showed that idiom understanding was linked to theory of mind in children with autism. We studied the relationship between the understanding of idioms and first order theory of mind in 26 children, aged 5.1-6.4 years, with language impairment (LI). Theory of mind was assessed by 'droodles'. Idiom understanding was assessed by videotaped sequences in which idioms w
Aim: To model the long-term cost-effectiveness of scaling up two prevention interventions against type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), i.e. community mobilisation through participatory learning and action (PLA) and mHealth mobile phone messaging, implemented in rural Bangladesh as part of the “DMagic” trial. Methods: A health-economic Markov model of the three-arm, cluster-randomised controlled DMagic
Nine children with specific and severe developmental language disorder (DLD) were assessed on language, reading and spelling tasks in grades four and five. The DLD children had earlier attended a language preschool program. Four children performed within normal limits on a standardized reading test but only one child reached a normal performance on a spelling test. The best readers and spellers in
In this paper, the problems of defining specific language impairment in children are addressed. In particular, the borderline between specific language impairment and handicaps involving disorders of pragmatics and/or cognition are scrutinized. The delineation between specific language impairment on the one hand, and language impairment concomitant with other handicaps has, to some extent, been ar
