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Instructions for reading at home: The shaping of domestic reading practices in the Swedish welfare state.
The purpose of the project is to create an understanding of how domestic reading practices were shaped and made possible in the Swedish welfare society. Sweden has a long-standing...
Improvisation and hope in the face of assimilation: Mongolian identities in a changing China
China’s ideological transformation from a multi-ethnic nation to a unified Chinese state essentially consisting of one people speaking one language (Mandarin Chinese) has led to a...
Monetary policies and practices: money and stateformation in early modern Sweden
Ett stabilt och begripligt penningsystem ger samhällelig stabilitet och har sedan medeltid varit en av statsmaktens tjärnuppgifter.Likväl kan det vara mycket svårt att skapa ett så...
Signaling in a world of information overload and cheap fakes
Signaling theory depicts how resource seekers indicate the quality of their hidden attributes to resource holders and is one of the foundational theories on economic interactions....
Swedish-speaking children with developmental language disorder in comparison with second language learners: A new look at grammatical challenges
The focus of this project is language processing in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and bilingual children learning Swedish as their second language (L2).DLD is...
Populating the coastal landscapes of Greece. Assessing coastal engagement in later prehistoric (7000-1100 BCE) southern Greece.
This project provides a large-scale Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis of later prehistoric (7000-1100 BCE) sites in southern Greece to determine whether coastal habitat...
Design principles for efficient metal-oxo catalysts revealed by x-rays
Metal-oxo species are essential intermediates in a number of bioinorganic reactions, with the most prominent example being photosynthetic water oxidation.Their activity inspires th...
The Making of Human Mistakes in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, 1940–1990
Current investments in artificial intelligence (AI) are massive. There is considerable optimism but also concern. Still, our knowledge of its historical development is weak. Alread...
Experimenting on Factivity. An investigation into the prosody of factive sentences
When we speak, we often mean more than what we say, that is, more than what our utterances literally mean. In these cases, there is a surplus of content which is not expressed expl...
Do we need to bother about small sex differences in cognition and behavior? Is it possible to explain these regularly recurring patterns?
Most sex differences in cognition and behavior are small, have vastly overlapping distributions, and cannot be used to differentiate between females and males. Do these sex differe...
The Border-Transgressing Self: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Autofictions of Migration
This project aims to investigate how narrative identity is constructed in autofictions of migration. As migration has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon in a globalized w...
Sex, Violence, Sexual Violence? Interrogating Lines of Distinction in War and Peace
Sexual violence (SV) occurs in both peace and war. Yet, there are both tacit and explicit understandings in scholarship, policy and in jurisprudence that conflict-related SV (CRSV)...
The mechanistic basis of heat induced fertility loss in males
Recent research highlights heat stress-related fertility loss, especially in males, as a major threat to wild and domestic animals under climate change.To counteract fertility loss...
Electrically tunable dielectric metasurfaces based on electrochromic perovskites
Displays, based on light-emitting devices, are ubiquitous in our daily life offering visual information, despite their high energy cost and poor colours under sunlight. Devices bas...
Using urban big data to redefine experienced social segregation: how it is driven by mobility, built environment, and residence
Sustainable urbanisation features diverse populations and social cohesion. However, cities nowadays face deepening social segregation.A better understanding of segregation through...
Too tired to know? The effect of sleep loss on metacognition
Insufficient sleep has negative effects on several cognitive abilities, but little is known about the extent to which sleep-deprived people are aware of their own impairments. Such...
Listening to others´ emotions: neural representations of empathy arising from emotional voices
The capacity to empathize is crucial to social relationships.Studies on empathy in relation to pain and emotional faces have referred to the “shared-neural-representations” hypothe...
Soft Cultural Heritage
The proposed project departs from an inventory of Swedish Textile Folk Art, carried out by Lilli Zickerman (1858-1949). The inventory was carried out 1914-1931 and resulted in 24,0...
Antifretting smörjfetter baserade på joniska och nanomaterial
Fretting damage is caused by small relative displacements of the contacting surfaces. The displacements occur due to vibrations and imposed operational oscillations like those foun...
Perivascular inflammation and blood-brain barrier dysregulation after CAR T cell immunotherapy
Diffuse midline gliomas are universally lethal pediatric brain tumors.Results from the ongoing clinical trial using GD2 CAR T-cell for treatment of H3K27M+ diffuse midline gliomas...