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Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant background

The role of mammalian Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) as a mechanosensor is controversial. Here, we report that purified human TRPA1 (hTRPA1) with and without its N-terminal ankyrin repeat domain responded with pressure-dependent single-channel current activity when reconstituted into artificial lipid bilayers. The hTRPA1 activity was abolished by the thiol reducing agent TCEP. Thus

Vi firar att det har gått 50 år sedan Sverige tillsammans med fem andra länder grundade det Europeiska Sydobservatoriet (ESO). Detta observatorium har gett oss enorma mängder vetenskaplig data samt tusentals fantastiska bilder av vårt underbara universum.Här tittar vi på vilka stjärnor och stjärnbilder som finns på vår natthimlen, vi lär oss lite om de stjärnor, stjärnhopar och nebulosor som finns

When different polling organisations conduct political party preference polls at different times, different parties might be reported. If the estimated voter shares of these polls are combined into a time series we obtain a compositional time series, but with varying number of parts, thus prohibiting the use of standard compositional time series analysis tools. We discuss the problem and suggest a

The veil of ignorance approach is tested as a basis for empirically determining the shape of the social welfare function for income. An experiment is carried out where the participants choose between different societies that differ with respect to per capita income and the distribution of income. The answers are analysed using logistic regression analysis. According to the results the respondents

“The Future is distributed: a vision of sustainable economies” is a collection of case studies on distributed economies, a concept describing sustainable alternatives to the existing business models. The authors of this publication are international Masters students of the Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management Programme at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

The situation for minorities in the Middle East in the midst of transformations are complicated. Not least after the so called Arab Uprisings. In this conference we focused on the situation for Christians in the Middle East. Scholars, journalists and activists from Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libanon and Palestine/Israel met in Lund for discussions and seminar during December 5-7. The conference was co-or