The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges an intimate relationship between global financial markets, everyday life and human labour. Taking seriously the materiality of mortgage contracts as a means of forging new embodied practices of financialisation, we urge for

In the movement towards building greener and more sustainable cities, real estate developers are increasingly embracing not only green building construction but broader strategies and action related to urban greening. To date, their motivations and role in this broader urban greening dynamic remains underexplored, yet essential to dissect how greening is sustained and real estate development legit

Catalonia, like the rest of Spain, is a homeownership society. The most recent official statistics (2011) state that 74 per cent of the population are homeowners, 20 per cent are tenants and 2 per cent live in social housing. Related to tenure status, the state of housing in Catalonia – the second wealthiest autonomous community in Spain – has undergone noteworthy shifts in the first decades of th

Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untoldstories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and exploreshow individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle towardhousing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa García-Lamarca’sactivist research engagement in Barcelona’s housing movement, in particularwith its most prominent c

This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability.Aligned with critical environmental justice studies, the book highlights the contradictions of urban sustainability in relat

Tidal interaction between a star and a close-in massive exoplanet causes the planetary orbit to shrink and eventually leads to tidal disruption. Understanding orbital decay in exoplanetary systems is crucial for advancing our knowledge of planetary formation and evolution. Moreover, it sheds light on the broader question of the long-term stability of planetary orbits and the intricate interplay of

In an effort to develop new potent anticancer agents, two Schiff base rhenium(I) tricarbonyl complexes, containing the ubiquitous aminoquinoline scaffold, were synthesized. Both aminoquinoline ligands and Re(I) complexes showed adequate stability over a 48-h incubation period. Furthermore, the cytotoxic activity of the precursor ligands and rhenium(I) complexes were evaluated against the hormone-d

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) and MSC-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as innovative therapeutic agents for the treatment of sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Although their potential remains undisputed in pre-clinical models, this has yet to be translated to the clinic. In this review, we focused on the role of microRNAs contained in MSC-derived EVs, the E

Background and aim: To date, few studies have focused on the health effects of pesticide exposure among avocado farmworkers. We examined the association of exposure to insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides with cognitive and mental health outcomes among these avocado workers from Michoacan, Mexico. Materials and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 105 avocado farmworkers between Ma

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone malignancy, often detected in children and adolescents and commonly associated with TP53 alterations along with a high number of chromosomal rearrangements. However, osteosarcoma can affect patients of any age, and some tumors display less genetic complexity. Besides TP53 variants, data on key driving mutations are lacking for many osteosarcomas, partic

I denna artikel ställs frågan om inte den lojalitetsplikt, som utmejslats allt tydligare på senare tid genom HD:s praxis och som dessutom blir starkare i tider av kris, tillsammans med 36 § avtalslagens oskälighetsstandard vid ändrade förhållanden, idag kan leda till slutsatsen att det (åtminstone i kristider) föreligger en omförhandlingsskyldighet – vad som skulle kunna kallas ansvar för culpa in

COVID-19 patients often display dysfunctions of the nervous system, indicating an effect of SARS-CoV-2 on neural cells. Yang et al. now show that human stem-cell-derived dopaminergic neurons are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, triggering inflammation and senescence. The study further identifies three FDA-approved drugs capable of reversing these cellular phenotypes.

Background: The application of a bioresorbable calcium sulfate/hydroxyapatite (CaS/HA) ceramic at the interface of fenestrated screws and osteoporotic bone significantly enhances the immediate mechanical anchorage compared with non-augmented controls. However, the anchoring effectiveness of different screw augmentation techniques in spines with varying vertebral bone mineral density (BMD) remains

Piezoelectric actuators embedded in compliant structures have many potential applications, which call for effective design approaches. Existing optimization driven design methods focus on the piezoelectric actuator location or the macro topology of the host compliant structure while ignoring the possibility to exploit the use of multiple materials and hierarchical material design. In this study, a

Background: Human breast cancer most frequently originates within a well-defined anatomical structure referred to as the terminal duct lobular unit (TDLU). This structure is endowed with its very own lobular fibroblasts representing one out of two steady-state fibroblast subtypes—the other being interlobular fibroblasts. While cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are increasingly appreciated as co

The discovery of collective effects in small collision systems has spurred a renewed interest in hadronization models, and is also a source for collective effects all the way to large collision systems, where they are usually ascribed to the creation of a Quark–Gluon Plasma. In this topical mini-review, the microscopic model for string interactions, based on the Lund string hadronization model, de

John L. Schellenberg has suggested that we should guide the evolution of religion towards the goal of discovering the truth about transcendent reality. I argue that we need some way of discerning progress if this project is to be practically feasible. I explore what discernible progress would require in some possible future scenarios. Focus lies on scenarios involving improved cognitive contact wi