This Bachelor’s thesis consists of an empirical study using a gravity regression model to determine if Ukrainian bilateral export flows were affected by the 2014 war through an increase in political and social risk functioning as trade resistance. There is an empirical research gap on this issue that this thesis attempts to mitigate. The study was conducted using PPML with fixed effects to solve t

An online survey of 691 clinicians who use hypnosis was conducted in 31 countries to gain a broad real-world picture of current practices, views, and experiences in clinical hypnosis. Among 36 common clinical uses, stress reduction, wellbeing and self-esteem-enhancement, surgery preparations, anxiety interventions, mindfulness facilitation, and labor and childbirth applications were the most frequ

The climate crisis calls for a new generation of social policy compatible with planetary limits and economic postgrowth circumstances. This article analyses how some of the pillars of such a new generation of social policy may be conceptualized by highlighting commonalities between the most recent IPCC report and the sustainable welfare literature. Methodologically triangulating content analysis o

Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskor i vården kommer möta patienter som av olika anledningar har skadat sig själva. Alla personer som söker vård ska behandlas med respekt och värdighet. Men personer som söker vård för självförvållade skador upplever ett negativt bemötande vilket leder till att de blir avskräckta att söka vård i framtiden. Ett bristande bemötande kan innebära ett onödigt vårdlidande för personBackground: Nurses in healthcare will encounter patients who for various reasons have harmed themselves. All persons seeking healthcare must be treated with respect and dignity. But patients who seek care for self-inflicted injuries often experience negative encounters, which discourages them from seeking healthcare in the future. A lack of nursing care can mean unnecessary suffering for the patie

In this paper, we argue for the importance of conducting replication studies over various schools and countries when addressing topics about learning and instruction and propose educational technology to be a tool for this endeavor. We present an example of a cross-cultural replication study that makes use of educational technology in the form of a digital game-based automated feedback system. The

Whipple´s disease is a rare multisystem condition affecting < 1/1.000.000 per year. The condition often presents with polyarthritis, diarrhea, and intestinal malabsorption. Endocarditis is seen in a minority of these patients, and is typically culture negative, as the causative agent Tropheryma whipplei does not grow in ordinary culture media. We present the case of a 78-year-old man with a histor

In a typical Nigerian village, the majority of the population comprises old people who are mostly economically unproductive due to reduced or loss of physical strength brought about by ageing and ill health. Many of these rural old people still work, and do so outside the formal sector, and are particularly susceptible to the effects of climate variability and change. Few studies have reported on

Soils are essential for life and civilization. They have a long history of political attention, documented at least since Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Soil played a key political role in the founding of the USA but gradually lost its clout in the last hundred years. The recent IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land may symbolize a return of soils to the political arena. The renewed

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained popularity in recent years due to their ability to solve complex problems in areas such as image recognition, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, the computational cost and memory requirements of CNNs are significant challenges for their widespread deployment, particularly in edge devices where power and area budgets are li

As the greenhouse gas emissions keep on increasing the need for solutions to help reduce emissions across all sectors has never been greater. The European Union has pointed out green hydrogen as a step in increasing the sustainability of the energy sector in Europe. Goals has been set to boost the development of hydrogen technology since the green hydrogen production today is only existing in an i

The main objective of this study is to examine whether monetary policy and lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic together with social distancing, have had a significant impact on the economy. In terms of monetary policy, this study primarily focuses on the use of quantitative easing by the Swedish Riksbanken and European Central Bank. The purpose is to observe to what extent Sweden has managed to mode

The subject of this paper is to determine the importance of different Active labour market policies (ALMP) on the unemployment rate in the Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland between the years 2000 and 2020. The ALMPs examined are Public employment services (PES) and administration, Training, Employment incentives, Integration of the disabled, Direct job creation and Start-up i

Sanitation work in India is largely carried out by the historically marginalized Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, without proper devices or safety gear, as so-called ‘manual scavenging’. To counter manual scavenging, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have turned to courts and litigation as a form of resistance. This brought about some successes: manual scavenging was repeatedly outlawed

Natural apatite samples with different F/Cl content from a variety of geological locations (Durango, Mexico; Mud Tank, Australia; and Snarum, Norway) were irradiated with swift heavy ions to simulate fission tracks. The annealing kinetics of the resulting ion tracks was investigated using synchrotron-based small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) combined with ex situ annealing. The activation energies

IntroductionNine in ten of the world’s 1.74 million adolescents living with human immunodeficiency virus (ALHIV) live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and poor viral suppression are important problems among adolescents. To guide intervention efforts in this regard, this review presented pooled estimates on the prevalence of adherence and how it is affecte

Company cars are commonly defined as cars given by an employer to an employee for the purpose of covering transport needs related to a specific job, such as to visit clients. However, company cars are commonly understood as a form of additional income, for instance in terms of opportunities to drive a specific (larger) car model, and because the car can also be driven privately or by family member

Ventilation/perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (V/P SPECT) is the recommended method for proper diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), according to the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) guidelines. Adequate V/P SPECT acquisition starts with ventilation and continues immediately with perfusion. The whole procedure takes 20min by using an optimal combination of nuclide