During the twentieth century, a number of actors and institutions acrossthe global north set out to develop hierarchical social taxonomies of their national populations. Mainly used for the making of statistics, these divisions soon came to be influential in policy and public debates. Using mainly Swedish examples, this article offers new ways of understanding social taxonomies, thereby adding ins

Despite their detrimental circumstances, the number of refugee-owned businesses is on the rise—a situation referred to as “the paradox of refugee entrepreneurship.” However, a key question is how refugees, having undergone extreme life disruption due to war, conflict, and forced displacement, fare as entrepreneurs in their host country. Extant studies do not address this question, as they primaril

An argumentative text on the contribution of C02-emissions caused by academic flying.

Following the quantitative turn in linguistics, the field appears to be in amethodological “wild west” state where much is possible and new frontiers arebeing explored, but there is relatively little guidance in terms of firm rules orconventions. In this article, we focus on the issue of variable selection in regression modeling. It is common to aim for a “minimal adequate model” and eliminate “no

We review reduction and contraction in modalizing expressions of the type V-to- Vinf from the perspective of production, perception and mental representation.A corpus study of spoken American English shows reduction/contraction asa continuous process which is subject to phonological and communicative constraints. Generally, reduction (articulatory ease) is restricted by a tendencyto retain cues to

The guiding question of this paper is how (horizontal) connections are established when new items enter the network of constructions. It presents a quantitative, corpus-based study of the development of to-contraction (e.g. want to > wanna) in American English since the 19th century. From a plethora of earlier forms, gonna, wanna and gotta emerge, first as representations of phonetic reduction, bu

Frequently used linguistic structures become entrenched in memory; this is often assumed to make their consecutive parts more predictable, as well as fuse them into a single unit (chunking). High frequency moreover leads to a propensity for phonetic reduction. We present a word recognition experiment which tests how frequency information (string frequency, transitional probability) interacts with

Pesticides represent one of the greatest threats to bees and other beneficial insects in agricultural landscapes. Potential exposure is generated through compound- and crop-specific patterns of pesticide use over space and time and unique degradation behavior among compounds. Realized exposure develops through bees foraging from their nests across the spatiotemporal mosaic of floral resources and

De som både jobbar och hjälper äldre anhöriga riskerar försämrad hälsa såväl som ekonomi. Villkoren för dem som utför obetalt omsorgsarbete måste förbättras, skriver Maria Stanfors i en ny SNS-rapport.

PurposeIn this paper, the authors attempt to understand how labour market attachment during the ages of 30–59 influences individuals' transition out of the labour market.Design/methodology/approachUsing high-quality Swedish register data, the authors follow individuals born in 1950 and observe their labour market attachment during mid-life and their exit from the labour market.FindingsThe authors

AIM: Breath-holding spells (BHS) are common in children, but evidence-based clinical guidelines are lacking. We investigated a large population-based cohort of BHS patients, to propose a refined description of typical BHS and guidelines for its management.METHODS: In a cross-sectional retrospective study, patients diagnosed with BHS in Southern Sweden 2004-2018 were recruited. Disease characterist

Purpose: Bone marrow is the primary site of skeletal metastases in prostate cancer. 18F-sodium fluoride (NaF) can be used to detect malignant activity, but also identifies irrelevant degenerative cortical uptake. Normal radiotracer activity in solely the marrow has yet to be described and could be a first step towards automated tumor burden calculation as SUV thresholds. We aimed to investigate no

Objective: Analyze the outcomes of endovascular complex abdominal and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair using the Cook fenestrated device with the modified preloaded delivery system (MPDS) with a biport handle and preloaded catheters. Methods: A multicenter retrospective single arm cohort study was performed, including all consecutive patients with complex abdominal aortic aneurysm repair an