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This chapter analyses an unexplored field of study: male sex workers. Indeed, while their female counterparts have been widely researched, there is a lack of attention on men who sell sex. For this reason, we aim to (re)shape the representations, theories, rhetoric, organisation, and types of male sex work as a complex, uncomfortable, and controversial phenomenon. First we engage with a social his

A collection of ancient Byzantine hymns featuring women as pivotal characters, now in a new translation.At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485–565) was a composer of songs for festivals and rituals in late antique Constantinople. Most of his songs include dramatic dialogues or monologues woven with imagery from or

A de novo alpha-synuclein A53T (p.Ala53 Th; c.209G > A) mutation has been identified in a Swedish family with autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). Two affected individuals had early-onset (before 31 and 40 years), severe levodopa-responsive PD with prominent dysphasia, dysarthria, and cognitive decline. Longitudinal clinical follow-up, EEG, SPECT and CSF biomarker examinations suggested an

In this study, we evaluate the performance of 395 private equity funds by European private equity firms between 1989 and 2018, using real cash flow data gathered from Preqin. The evaluation involves using absolute- and relative performance measures. We adopt the public market equivalent framework to measure relative performance, which compares the returns of a private equity fund with a reference

The aim of this essay is to present Antonis Samarakis’ first published literary work Ζητείται ελπίς through a thematic analysis with an explanatory approach. The essay points out the most important themes of the social conscience that Samarakis always focused on through his social orientation. In the final part of this essay, the modes of expression in the thematic analysis are examined through th

This Master degree thesis aims to assess the UN-mediation attempts in Cyprus during 1999-2004. Performing a qualitative case study, I employ mediation theory to examine the UN good offices efforts, in order to see if the chosen mediation strategy can explain the failure to solve the dispute. Results show that the timing for mediation was favourable, and the context of the conflict indicated that a

Allegations of human rights violations have haunted Frontex, the border agency of the EU, from its very existence in 2004. Although in 2011, the agency became subject to a comprehensive human rights “overhaul”, such infringements continue to take place. This thesis sets out to explore this puzzle by applying principal-agent theory. The argument is that Frontex’s establishment represents an outlier

4th September 2013, Wednesday QMOD 2019 Preliminary Program 13th October, Sunday 16:00-18:00 QMOD-ICQSS Registration 18:00-19:00 Welcome Reception 19:00-21:00 Welcome Dinner 14th October, Monday 08:30-09:00 Conference Opening 09:00-10:00 Plenary Session 1 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions 1 1 2 3 4 5 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 Parallel Sessions 2 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break 15

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/sites/ses.lu.se.en/files/qmod_2019_preliminar_program.pdf - 2025-11-10

Guest lecture with Jonas Grethlein: Hope - From Homer to the Climate Crisis Guest lecture with Jonas Grethlein: Hope - From Homer to the Climate Crisis Publicerad den 4 oktober 2024 While philosophers such as Darrel Moellendorf have identified hope as an important resource for fighting climate change, Greta Thunberg and other activists reject hope, which they argue is an obstacle to the necessary

https://www.ark.lu.se/article/guest-lecture-with-jonas-grethlein-hope-from-homer-to-the-climate-crisis/ - 2025-11-10

With her 1953 debut Anna Rydstedt (1928-1994) immediately became part of a strong tradition of Swedish women poets, a tradition represented by authors such as Karin Boye and Edith Södergran. The debut was a furious attack on those who had thwarted her attempts to become a minister in the Church of Sweden. Rydstedt’s poetry is always existential, both in its content and process. Writing, for her, i

Taking stance towards any topic, event or idea is a common phenomenon on Twitter and social media in general. Twitter users express their opinions about different matters and assess other people’s opinions in various discursive ways. The identification and analysis of the linguistic ways that people use to take different stances leads to a better understanding of the language and user behaviour on