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Uncertainty often seems to be articulated as doubts about the interior make-up of things. Suspecting that persons, objects, institutions and ideologies are not what they seem, critical voices accuse them of emptiness and they are thus laid open to new investments of meaning and value. Ethnographies of contemporary China describe how state discourse on population quality constructs ‘the people’ in
In the context of an international trend of claims for historical justice, several aspects of Swedish contemporary history were re-evaluated in the 1990s. One of the most well-known examples is the heated political and scholarly debate on involuntary sexual sterilization, sparked by a series of critical newspaper articles in August 1997 that attracted international media attention and resulted in
Persistent physical symptoms (PPS) are common, disabling, and associated with high health care use, yet effective and scalable psychological treatments remain limited. Internet-administrated self-help programs may improve access to care. Asynchronous Internet-administered Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (I-EAET) with therapist guidance has been shown to reduce somatic symptoms in PPS, b
Insect diapause is a pre-programmed alternative developmental pathway induced to survive adverse environmental conditions and is characterized by an absence of development, metabolic suppression and increased stress resistance. While the hormonal regulation of diapause induction has been studied extensively, clear molecular hypotheses on how low-temperature driven diapause termination is controlle
Shared ground heat exchanges could provide low-carbon heating for up to 80% of homes in the UK, research suggests.
Background Insulin resistance is common in adults with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), yet the extent to which longitudinal metabolic improvement is driven by OSA phenotype, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment, or changes in body weight remains unclear. We examined 1-year changes in insulin resistance across OSA and non-OSA subgroups in the non-diabetic RICCADSA cohort. Methods In
Episodic memories are leveraged to predict upcoming input. Latent Cause Theory (Gershman et al., 2017) predicts that after moderate prediction errors, existing memories will be updated by integrating new information, while after large prediction errors, a new latent cause is inferred, and the unpredicted event is encoded as a separate trace. To date, no study has directly compared memory updating
Rapid and deep energy system decarbonisation is essential to a safe future. Thermal energy storage may hold the key to significant carbon reduction of the heating, cooling and electricity sectors, but the UK remains largely locked in to a fossil-fuel based heating regime. Global urbanisation trends mean cities are crucial to the net-zero transition. This thesis provides a sociotechnical analysis o
China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid? Fragile Elite explores the contradictions of being an elite student through ethnographic research conducted at two top universities in China. It uncovers the intimate psychological strains students suffer under the pressure imposed on
We evaluated the Extended Strengths and Weaknesses Assessment of Normal Behavior—General Instrument (E-SWAN-G), designed to capture core strengths and difficulties across the mental health spectrum. A youth version was completed by 603 parents and an adult version by 607 adults, each comprising 60 items. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported 13 identical first-order factors across
Abstract in Spanish:La picantey redlexiva novela Hot Milk(Leche caliente, 2016) de Deborah Levy sigue a una joven, Sofı́a, que viaja de Inglaterra a Almerı́a (España) en busca de una cura para las numerosas dolencias de su madre, Rosa. Sofı́a comienza a nadar en el Mediterráneo, donde lepicanrepetidamente medusas que, según descubre, han aumentado de forma abundantedebido a la sobrepesca (3). EDeborah Levy’s salty, ruminative novel Hot Milk (2016) follows a young woman, Sofia, as she travels from England to Almería, Spain in search of a cure for her mother Rose’s many ailments. Sofia begins swimming in the Mediterranean, where she is repeatedly stung by medusas who have, she learns, grown abundant from overfishing (3). These medusas sting her “into desire” (72) and into a queer sexual a
