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The present paper argues that if the so-called mindfulness movement is to reach its full potential it needs to emancipate from its religious context and ally itself fully with psychological science. The argument that mindfulness meditation needs a religious context for ethical reasons is untenable. Although mindfulness skills may well be used for un-ethical purposes, this applies equally to both r

This study aims to describe the challenges that faculty faced in the transition to distance education in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. The study presents the results from a nationwide questionnaire, answered by 1,963 individuals, concerning the transition among university faculty in Sweden. The results highlight the main obstacles and describe the practices in teach

In this contribution, a recently conducted measurement campaign in a suburban scenario for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Air-to-Ground (A2G) radio channel is introduced.The downlink signals in an in-service Long Term Evolution (LTE) network were collected and utilized to extract the Channel Impulse Responses (CIRs). A high-resolution parameter estimation algorithm derived based on the Space-Al

SKINNY is a lightweight tweakable block cipher which received a great deal of cryptanalytic attention due to its elegant structure and efficiency. Despite the cryptanalytic efforts the security margins are remaining high. This has led to SKINNY being used as a component of multiple submissions in the NIST Lightweight Competition, an effort to standardize a lightweight AEAD scheme. Inspired by the

Dercum’s disease is a rare disease characterized by chronic pain (>3 months) in the adipose tissue, generalized overweight, and a number of associated symptoms. The pain is often disabling and resistant to traditional analgesics. Liposuction of Dercum’s disease was first described in 1987, and two prospective controlled studies have demonstrated that it can give pain relief and improve quality of

To maintain the quality of the feathers, birds regularly undergo moult. It is widely accepted that moult affects flight performance, but the specific aerodynamic consequences have received relatively little attention. Here we measured the components of aerodynamic drag from the wake behind a gliding jackdaw (Corvus monedula) at different stages of its natural wing moult. We found that span efficie

A short peripheral intravenous catheter or cannula (PIVC) is frequently used to deliver chemotherapy in oncology practice. Although safe and easy to insert, PIVCs do fail, leading to personal discomfort for patients and adding substantially to treatment costs. As the procedure of peripheral catheterization is invasive, there is a need for greater consistency in the choice, insertion and management

This paper addresses how to identify attack relations on the basis of lay arguers’ acceptability-judgments for natural language arguments. We characterize argument-based reasoning by three Bayesian network models (coherent, decisive, and positional). Each model yields a different attack relation-estimate. Subsequently, we analyze to which extent estimates are consistent with, and so could potentia

Dementia diagnosis is important for many different reasons. Firstly, to separate dementia, or major neurocognitive disorder, from MCI (mild cognitive impairment), mild neurocognitive disorder. Secondly, to define the specific underlying brain disorder to aid treatment, prognosis and decisions regarding care needs and assistance. The diagnostic method of dementias is a puzzle of different data piec

The history of treating meniscal lesions has been characterized by firm belief in "radical" surgery, with serious long-term consequences for the individual and society. The menisci play a critical protective role for the knee joint through shock absorption and load distribution. Currently, the consensus in surgical treatment of meniscal tears is to preserve as much functional meniscal tissue as po

Five hundred and sixty-one managers in Central and Eastern Europe were asked how much they relied on each of eight sources of quidance in handling eight relatively routine work events. A previous study indicated particularly strong reliance on one's own experience and training in the Czech Republic and Hungary. Managers from Poland and Slovakia relied more on superiors, while in Romania and Bulgar

This study investigates the impact of Germany’s new birth certificate law (Civil Status, § 22 (3) PStG) concerning children born intersex and the intersex people in general. Thus, the research will focus on the interplay between the existing societal norm of the binary gender model and the law that requires a newborn intersex child to be registered as a 'blank' from the perspective of diff

Uppsatsen utforskar intersektionalitet ur ett rättsligt perspektiv samt ställer frågan om en intersektionell diskrimineringsgrund med beaktande av internationell rätt kan genomföras i den svenska diskrimineringslagen. Inom aktuell socio-legal rättsforskning har en teori om intersektionalitet som organiserat kring noder utvecklats. Teorin används för att identifiera hur intersektionalitet bör impleThe thesis explores intersectionality from a legal perspective and asks the question of whether an intersectional basis of discrimination considering international law can be implemented in the Swedish Discrimination Act. In recent socio-legal research, a theory of intersectionality organized around nodes has been developed. The theory is used to identify how intersectionality should be implemente

Using the most recent data from 1996 to 2016, I examine the more current relationship between housing wealth and private consumption. I extend the Life-Cycle Hypothesis and separate wealth into housing wealth from financial wealth. The main method em-ployed is the Engle-Granger two-step method. Combined with the use of quarterly data, the method allows investigation of the long-term and short-term

In this work we carry out a thorough analysis of applying a specific field within machine learning called generative adversarial networks, to the art of natural language generation; more specifically we generate news text articles in an automated fashion. To do this, we experimented with a few different architectures and representations of text, evaluated the results and used the information retri