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Interdisciplinary dialogues between political history, environmental history, and the history of science and technology have significantly expanded in recent years. In this context, research on engineers as a key professional group in the material construction of the state has addressed both the political and material dimensions of their work, particularly during the Francoist dictatorship. Howeve

Two-photon correlations and Hong-Ou-Mandel visibility from an imperfect single-photon source

We study the single-photon purity of a resonantly driven single-photon source in the realistic scenario where the excitation laser pulse can leak into the detection path. We find that the duration of the excitation pulse strongly influences the quality of the single-photon source. We calculate the influence of this on the effective parameters describing the most relevant properties, including the

Managing Change: How Middle Managers Navigate Organizational Change Through Sensemaking

Managing change is becoming increasingly crucial for organizations to survive in today’s contemporary work environment. However, change is “riddled” with ambiguity and uncertainty, affecting managers, employees, and organization as a whole. Middle managers, who are located in a peculiar position in the hierarchy are often tasked with having to interpret and guide others through change. This proces

CEO or Octopus? Negotiating Identity Across Institutional Logics: Understanding the Complex Role of Principals in Sweden’s Decentralised and Diverse School System

I Sveriges decentraliserade och diversifierade skolsystem verkar rektorer i skärningspunkten mellan pedagogiska ideal, organisatoriska krav och föränderliga styrformer. Denna uppsats undersöker hur rektorer i kommunala, privata och ideellt drivna grundskolor tolkar och utövar sina professionella roller inom dessa institutionellt mångfacetterade sammanhang. Genom intervjuer med svenska rektorer i dIn Sweden’s decentralised and diverse school system, principals operate at the intersection of pedagogical ideals, organisational demands, and shifting governance structures. This thesis examines how principals in public, private, and NGO-run elementary schools interpret and enact their professional roles within these institutionally diverse settings. By interviewing Swedish principals in these di

Getting on board with organisational ideology: Mechanisms of alignment in a North American non-profit organisation

Organisational ideology is present to certain degrees in every workplace. Yet the research field around employee alignment on organisational ideologies is sparse and underdeveloped. Harnessing the power of an organisational ideology – particularly where that ideology leaves room for individual employees to express their spiritual identity in the workplace – has been found to bring many benefits. T

Understanding youths’ contributions and perspectives in ecotourism. A pathway to achieve development? A qualitative case study of the indigenous community San José de Uchupiamonas, Bolivian Amazon, exploring youths’ contributions and perceptions of ecotourism’s impact on learning and culture.

This thesis explores the dynamics of youths’ contributions in the ecotourism sector in the indigenous village San José de Uchupiamonas, located in the Bolivian Amazon. It examines the contributions that the youths of the community make to ecotourism. It also explores what knowledge they have gained from the sector, as well as how they perceive ecotourism to have influenced their culture. Through a

The debt diaries : Turning participatory ethnography into action research

This article examines how piloting a diary method became pivotal in transforming a participatory ethnography on household debt in Greece and Spain into full-fledged Action Research —driven and shaped by the diary-writing participants themselves. We analyse the evolving dynamics between researchers and diary authors, as an initial phase of solitary diary writing prompted the collaborative developme

Urban political ecologies of housing decarbonisation : Towards radical housing repair

Housing has a rich and decades-long body of scholarship, yet geographers have only recently begun to dissect environmental and power relations in/through the home, an urgent task due to growing carbon reduction and energy efficiency targets at the heart of climate-related housing action. This paper elaborates four interconnected conceptual pathways to unpack the uneven socionatural power relations

Element Design for Active Learning: A Design Thinking Approach to Assignment Development for Political Science, Media, and Communication Education

Hundreds of active learning assignments are reported in the political education literature. However, the adaptability of these assignments to new courses can be limited by different learning outcomes, course themes, or institutional contexts. To assist educators in developing assignments that align with their teaching needs, this study introduces the concept of element design. Element design refer

A spectroscopy-based machine learning framework on photoacoustic imaging data for automatic 3D delineation of melanoma tumors

The incidence of melanoma is rising, increasing the need for efficient diagnostics. Excisional biopsy and histopathology remain the “gold standard” but often require multiple surgical incisions due to limitations in making a visual assessment of melanoma borders either by eye or using dermatoscopy. This challenge partly arises from the inability to non-invasively produce the necessary spectral con

Development of ankle and knee range of motion after isolated gastrocsoleus lengthening in children with cerebral palsy : a register-based longitudinal cohort study

Background and purpose — Outcome after gastrocsoleus lengthening in cerebral palsy (CP) is reported to be influenced by type of lengthening, age, CP subtype, and preoperative range of motion (ROM). We examined the development of ankle and knee ROM after 3 types of isolated gastrocsoleus lengthening. Methods — This is a register-based longitudinal cohort study based on data from the Swedish Cerebra

Th2 predominance and decreased NK cells in patients with hereditary angioedema

Background: In this study we included patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE) caused by decreased levels of C1 inhibitor (HAE-C1INH). An increased risk of autoimmune disorders, particularly systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), has been reported in HAE-C1INH. This suggests that complement consumption affects adaptive immunity. Objective: To investigate lymphocyte subpopulations in relation to dise

Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)

The idea that some people completely lack inner speech is of both scientific and popular interest. In a recent study, Nedergaard and Lupyan compared self-reporting high and low inner-speech-prevalence groups and found that participants in the low-prevalence group performed worse on a verbal working memory test and responded more slowly and less accurately during rhyme judgments. These results repr

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Labor Market Attachment : Sequence Analysis

Objectives: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder in women of fertile age which may also affect the labor market attachment. We investigated labor market attachment trajectories among working age women diagnosed with PCOS. Methods: A cohort of 157,356 women born in 1975–1977 were followed annually between the ages of 30 and 39, using data from Swedish administrative registers.

ELEMENTS OF GREEN FUNCTION AND DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY

If there were no Coulomb interaction among electrons, it would be relatively straightforward to solve the many-electron Schrödinger equation. It is, however, precisely this interaction that is at the heart of numerous fascinating phenomena in condensed matter physics such as superconductivity, Kondo physics, magnetism, etc. Due to the large number of electrons in a material being of the order of A

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Patricio Guzman’s 1997 documentary film La memoria obstinada contains highly interesting narrative elements. These performative devices, also called re-enactments, are remarkably effective in historiographical, psychological, and cultural terms. These stylistic devices present in the Chilean director's cinematographic work manage to materialize memory within the sociocultural context to which

Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, whether in warm or cold phases, that persist for two or more consecutive years (multi-year), are relatively rare. Compared with single-year events, they create cumulative impacts and are linked to extended periods of extreme weather worldwide. Here we combine central Pacific fossil coral oxygen isotope reconstructions with a multimodel ensemble of transi

Inflammatory Immune Markers Associated With Thyroid Peroxidase Autoantibodies in Children Diagnosed With Both Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease

Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is associated with other autoimmune endocrine diseases such as type 1 diabetes (T1D) and celiac disease (CeD). Thyroid peroxidase autoantibodies (TPOA) are biomarkers of AITD but may also occur in patients with other autoimmune diseases. We examined cross-sectional correlations between TPOA and an array of immune markers in a cohort of 90 children with exclusively