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Acoustophoresis, the manipulation of microscopic particles by acoustic forces, has found growing use in biomedical applications ranging from blood-cell separation to single-cell positioning in microfluidic chips [1,2,3,4]. Existing multimodal control algorithms for such devices were developed under the assumption that particles do not influence one another. This simplification holds when only one
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disorder, which gradually breaks down cartilage and underlying bone. The disorder is commonly present in the hip joint, where it can cause anatomical changes that may result in painful movement. Early identification of osteoarthritis may facilitate treatment for slowing the disease progression. This master’s thesis aimed to develop a pipeline for applying su
Denna studie undersöker det relativt unga forskningsfältet manosfären utifrån en rad infallsvinklar: vad som motiverar män att ansluta till den radikala rörelsen, vad manosfären erbjuder sina anhängare, vilket budskap samt vilka ideal som förmedlas och slutligen vilka faktorer som leder till att vissa män lämnar onlinegemenskapen. Studien utgår från en kvalitativ metod och använder sig av empirisk
A key limitation of current hearing devices is the lack of user feedback to determine what speech content is actually being registered by the brain. To provide an objective measure of this cognitive processing for future brain-steered hearing devices, this study develops a brain-to-language model capable of decoding semantic-like information directly from non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG)
People form part of the biosphere - the biosphere being the whole intertwined network of life on Earth. While there is convergence on the need for societal change for just sustainability and a healthy biosphere, the pathways to achieve these transformations remain relatively unclear. Through legal interpretation, conceptual and thematic analysis of academic and grey literature, we seek to answer t
Denna avhandling undersöker hur legitimiteten i Europeiska Unionens (EU) stöd för LGBTIQ-jämlikhet bör bedömas och hävdas mot bakgrund av ytterhögerns främjande av en konkurrerande vision för europeiskt samarbete som är rotad i anti-genderpolitik. Med utgångspunkt i agonistisk och queer-teori konceptualiseras EU:s stöd för LGBTIQ-jämlikhet som ett försök att skapa en europeisk pro-LGBTIQ-konsensusThis dissertation examines how the legitimacy of the European Union’s (EU) support for LGBTIQ equality should be assessed and asserted amid the far right’s promotion of a rival vision for European cooperation rooted in anti-gender politics. Drawing on agonistic and queer theory, the EU’s support for LGBTIQ equality is conceptualised as an effort to forge a European pro-LGBTIQ consensus, termed sex
On November, 12-13, 2025, the Stockholm University unit for digital human science1 organized the second Huminfra2 conference with the aim to showcase the variety of infrastructural tools, resources and initiatives aimed at supporting digital and experimental research in the Humanities as well the Social Sciences and Law (together constituting digital human science (DHS)). Topics of interest includ
Narratives in Medicine: Human Dimensions in a Tech-DrivenHealthcare and SocietyMats Arvidson, Ph. D., Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, Lund UniversityThe Transboundary Body: Illness Narrative, Intermediality, and MedicalTechnologyThis paper explores how contemporary treatment technologies reshape the possibilities of illness narrative across lived experience, philosophy, and film. Emerging
Accounts given by former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps bear witness to the ubiquity of same-sex sexual activity in the camps, both consensual and non-consensual. They also demonstrate that while some witnesses describe this activity as common, few claim to have experienced it themselves due to homophobia and persistent social stigma. Anna Hájková's 2025 book, People without History Are Dus
This dissertation explores the intimate relationship between irony and romantic subjectivity, by drawing on feminist psychoanalytical theory, via an examination of the shiftings of irony, and humor, in the works of the Swedish romanticist P. D. A. Atterbom (1790–1855). It looks at the critical role played by irony in the formation of Romantic subjectivity, and explores irony’s potential to undermi
Abstract in French:Au cours des dernières décennies, les études alévies se sont affirmées comme un champ interdisciplinaire, à la croisée de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie, de la sociologie, des sciences politiques et des sciences des religions. Si cette consolidation institutionnelle et académique représente une avancée majeure, certains aspects clés de l’histoire alévie restent sujets à débat, eOver recent decades, Alevi Studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary field drawing on history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and religious studies. While this institutional and scholarly consolidation marks significant progress, key aspects of Alevi history remain contested, particularly interpretations shaped by early 20th-century nation-building paradigms. Dominant binaries such
Abstract in French:Cette introduction situe le numéro spécial Passés Alévis contestés dans les efforts en cours visant à repenser la tradition alévie, en mettant au premier plan la pluralité, le dynamisme et le caractère situé des imaginaires liés à l’histoire des Alévis. Cette introduction soutient que les cadres épistémologiques façonnés par des paradigmes orientalistes et nationalistes, ainsi qThis introduction positions the special issue Alevi Pasts Contested as an intervention in the ongoing effort to rethink Alevi tradition by foregrounding the plurality, dynamism, and situated character of imaginations related to the history of the Alevis. It argues that epistemological frameworks shaped by Orientalist and nationalist paradigms, as well as ethnographic and diaspora research, have pr
Reading engagement is widely recognised as critical for literacy development, yet its dynamic nature poses challenges for empirical analysis. This study examines reading engagement as a situated event within shared reading (SR) sessions involving 40 students, organised into four groups, in vocational upper-secondary education. The data consists of two video-recorded SR sessions per group, resultin
