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Siden starten af det 20. århundrede har Shanghai haft status som Kinas mest vestliggjorte by. På grund af Shanghais placering som Kinas vigtigste havneby og indgangsport til Kina for den øvrige verden har byen været hjemsted for den handelsmæssige og den intellektuelle elite

In this editorial, the author states that the importance of casting off blinders applies to topics and disciplines as much as to individuals. There is no disagreement in psychology that we are mostly ignorant of the various neurophysiological and cognitive substrates and limitations of our conscious experience, but there are other background processes that determine what, how, and even whether we

Existing tests of reference-dependent preferences assume universal loss aversion. This paper examines the implications of heterogeneity in gain-loss attitudes for such tests. In experiments on labor supply and exchange behavior, we first measure gain-loss attitudes and then study a canonical treatment effect that distinguishes different models of reference dependence. We document substantial heter

This paper addresses the positive synchronization of interconnected systems on undirected graphs. For homogeneous positive systems, a static feedback protocol design is proposed, based on the Linear Regulator problem. The solution to the algebraic equation associated to the stabilizing policy can be found using a linear program. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the positivity of each agent's

We develop a theory and perform an experiment to study the effect of performance thresholds on effort and risk-taking in economic decisions. We find that effort unambiguously increases compared to the ``status quo" level, but that optimal effort varies non monotonically with the threshold level. The effect of a threshold on risk-taking in instead ambiguous, as risk taking increases for thresholds

We study attitudes toward offering monetary payments for vaccination. We develop the Policy Lab, an experimental paradigm to characterize policy preferences in which participants decide whether to implement actual interventions to influence others' real-world behavior. In two studies with representative samples of the Swedish population (N=2,010) and one with Swedish policymakers (N=2,008), partic

This chapter critically examines the pervasive belief that economic progress naturally leads to increased leisure time. While early 20th-century thinkers like John Maynard Keynes predicted a future of abundant free time driven by productivity gains, work hours in many high-income countries have stagnated or increased since the 1980s. The chapter argues that this paradox is not the result of indivi

Identification of genomic rearrangements by microarrays or short-read sequencing frequently lacks information about the exact architecture and breakpoints of variants due to technical limitations. Independent verification of complex structural variants (SVs) is often performed using custom targeted assays, making confirmation of clinically relevant findings time consuming and laborious. In this st

Traditionella, rörbaserade dagvattensystem räcker inte längre till i förtätade städer för att möta krav på vattenkvalitet och översvämningsskydd vid extrem nederbörd. Därför efterfrågas naturbaserade och multifunktionella lösningar, här omnämnda som blå-grön infrastruktur, som kan hantera flera samhällsutmaningar samtidigt.Implementeringen av sådana lösningar försvåras dock av många och ibland sam

This dissertation examines the Fireburn revolt of 1878 on St. Croix in the Danish West Indies as both a historical event and a site of ongoing meaning-making. Rather than approaching Fireburn solely as a moment of post-emancipation labor unrest, the study investigates how the revolt has been archived, mediated, represented, and remembered across time and space, from the late nineteenth century to

Översatt sammanfattning:Livsmedelsproduktion och konsumtion bidrar i hög grad till utsläppen av växthusgaser. Eftersom det råder bred enighet om att en övergång till hållbara kostvanor och hållbara livsmedelssystem är nödvändig är en strategi att fokusera på nya livsmedel, såsom tidigare outnyttjade resurser, och att integrera dessa i den vardagliga kosten.Marina makroalger (tång), som inte kräverFood production and consumption are significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. As a transition to sustainable diets and sustainable food systems is widely agreed upon, one strategy is to focus on novel foods, such as previously unused resources, and their integration into everyday diets.Marine macroalgae (seaweed), which require no freshwater, agricultural land, or fertilizers, are posi