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Myriad debates in electoral politics have drawn attention to the importance of and risks to genuine democracy brought about by factors such as campaign spending, incumbency, political party affiliation and political dynasties. However, only a few studies utilize integrative and multivariate approaches to understanding the contribution of these factors, and this is even rarer for studies on the Phi

In this paper I discuss the challenge of visualising ongoing and repeated state violence and impunity in Thailand. Human rights activists commonly assume that photographs hold political power. This assumption can be doubted. Even if there are material traces of the violence, they cannot guarantee visibility, and, as Ariella Azoulay points out, photography of violence risks depoliticizing by equati

In this position paper we argue for a radical departure from today's approach to software engineering, centered on target-specific tools and general processes such as modeling and agile practices. The old principle of right tool for each problem shall be applied to software engineering as well: to address ever higher complexity, we need to raise dramatically the level of abstraction; as general so

While process improvement is an increasingly important topic for organizations, academic institutions find it hard to teach the topic in a cross functional real world project manner. This paper describes a unique course which is theoretically sound, academically rigorous, multi-disciplinary, and practically relevant while providing the students with a transformational learning opportunity. The cou

This paper presents a comparison of horizontal equity in health care utilization in 10 European countries and the US. It does not only extend previous work by using more recent data from a larger set of countries, but also uses new methods and presents disaggregated results by various types of care. In all countries, the lower-income groups are more intensive users of the health care system. But a

Local pseudorandom generators are a class of fundamental cryptographic primitives having very broad applications in theoretical cryptography. Following Couteau et al.’s work at ASIACRYPT 2018, this paper further studies the concrete security of one important class of local pseudorandom generators, i.e., Goldreich’s pseudorandom generators. Our first attack is of the guess-and

In this paper, we report the results from an experimental reproductive ethics study exploring questions about reproduction and parenthood. The main finding in our study is that, while we may assume that everyone understands these concepts and their relationship in the same way, this assumption may be unwarranted. For example, we may assume that if ‘x is y’s father’, it follows that ‘y is x’s child

Both inside and outside the academy, identifications of Islam as a terrorist threat have gained traction during the on-going War on Terror. William Cavanaugh’s conceptualization and critique of what he calls “the myth of religious violence” claims to offer a critique of these identifications. This critique has been influential across a variety of disciplines. In this article, I assess both his mor

We have developed and built a full-scale, compact APPLE X undulator prototype, intended for use at single-pass machines and fourth-generation storage rings where a small round vacuum chamber can be accommodated. It uses permanent magnets and features a very compact mechanical structure. The undulator is a photon source with full polarization control. The compactness of its structure reduces the ov

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka den historiska upprinnelsen till statschefens rättsliga immunitet som går att återfinna i 5 kap 8 § RF. Motsvarande immunitet går att hitta i nästan alla moderna konstitutionella monarkier, och i förarbetena som ledde upp till bestämmelsen finner man att ett av motiven bakom att ha kvar den är att den är nära förbunden med monarkins begrepp. Genom att göraThe aim of this thesis is to examine the historical origin of the head of state's legal immunity, which can be found in Chapter 5, Section 8 in the Swedish constitution. This immunity can be found in almost all modern constitutional monarchies, and legislative history and government inquiries have stated that one of the motives was that it was in close association with the concept of monarchy.

Kraven gällande maximalt tillåtna gångavstånd till en utrymningsväg saknar förmodligen en direkt vetenskaplig grund. De är dock resultatet av många års byggande där historien visat vad som fungerat. Exakt vad som givit upphov till gångavstånden är fortsatt okänt och det skulle således kunnat vara en praktisk fråga gällande vad som var möjligt att bygga, lika väl som hur stora avstånd städpersonal The allowed travel distance has probably not been determined scientifically. Yet it indirectly takes a number of factors into account and should therefore not only be seen as a distance that takes a certain time to walk, but also as a certain level of safety. Longer travel distances do extend the walking time but it also makes it possible for a series of factors to increase the risk. The factors t

BACKGROUND: Genes continuously duplicate and the duplicated copies remain in the genome or get deleted. The DAL5 subfamily of transmembrane transporter genes has eight known members in S. cerevisiae. All are putative anion:cation symporters of vitamins (such as allantoate, nicotinate, panthotenate and biotin). The DAL5 subfamily is an old and important group since it is represented in both Basidio

The geometric and electronic structure of condensed phase organic conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS blends has been investigated by periodic density functional theory (DFT) calculations with a generalized-gradient approximation (GGA) functional, and a plane wave basis set. The influence of the degree of doping of the PEDOT polymer on structural and optical parameters such as the reflectivity, absorbanc