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Currently there is no coherent or sustainable water cooperation among the five states—Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories and Syria—that share the Jordan River. Why do people not cooperate on sustainable river basin management, even if it seems the most rational course from the perspective of economic benefits? I hypothesize that the political uses of citizenship, identity and securit
Peatlands are significant sources of the important greenhouse gas CH4 and generally known as sinks for atmospheric CO2 through peat accumulation. Accurate measurements of the subsurface concentrations of these gases are of pivotal importance for experimental studies improving our understanding of the dynamics and controls on the exchanges of these gases between peat soils and the atmosphere. In th
Background: To examine the association of education with body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Method: This study included 141,230 male and 336,637 female EPIC-participants, who were recruited between 1992 and 2000. Education, which was assessed by questionnaire, was classified into four categories; BMI and WC
Sixty genetic loci associated with abdominal obesity, measured by waist circumference (WC) and waist-hip ratio (WHR), have been previously identified, primarily from studies conducted in European-ancestry populations. We conducted a meta-analysis of associations of abdominal obesity with approximately 2.5 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) among 53,052 (for WC) and 48,312 (for WHR) ind
Productive agricultural soil is an essential ingredient in the agricultural landscape, which further exists in a dialectical relationship between ruality and the broader society. Soil destruction and industrial farming are common place in Scandinavia today, and resultantly, this essay problematises our ambivalent relationship with soil as part of our material base on one hand, and the consumer dri
The extensive studies on D. sechellia have made it a familiar example of chemosen-sory evolution and speciation. This specialist drosphilid species is well-known for its ability to tolerate and actively seek out its toxic host Morinda citrifolia (noni). It was originally thought that this toxic fruit was the exclusive host of D. sechellia because most drosophilids cannot tolerate and are deterred
The occurrence of wildfires is greatly dependent on an ecoregions typical climate and land cover type. To investigate whether climate or land cover primarily lead to wildfires in the conterminous United States, wildfire events from 1999- 2010 are analyzed. Wildfires are divided into years and eco-divisions, a sub-form of ecoregions. To assess whether warmer and dryer divisions are more severely a
Purpose: To contribute to the understanding of the relationship between private labels and the retailer brand in grocery retailing. Methodology: We use structured interviews as a cross-sectional method for quantitative data collection. The existence of the relationship is tested through correlation analysis and regression analysis. Theoretical perspective: Perceived quality of private labels and o
Intra locus sexual conflict (IASC) occurs when sex-specific optima for a certain trait differs, and the trait is controlled by shared genes across the sexes. Sexual dimorphism is recognized to be a sign of previous or ongoing sexually antagonistic selection in separate sexed species, while hermaphrodites have been overlooked in the past due to their monomorphic appearance. Despite this, hermaphrod
This study explores how crisis communication concerned with reputation repair can gain a deeper understanding for how the meanings of organizations’ reputa-tional crises are constructed in digital rhetorical arenas. The problem stems from a dominant organicentric perspective that has overlooked the communicative activi-ties between stakeholders that have received crisis responses from organization
Oats have been gaining huge popularity in the past three decades, due to its well-known positive effects in serum cholesterol levels, glucose homeostasis and insulinemia. A growing body of evidence shows a link between obesity, metabolic dysfunctions and gut microbiota composition. The main objective of the project is to develop an oat bran and milk based fiber-rich beverage and an oat based yogur
Syfte: Uppsatsen syfte är att utöka förståelsen kring huruvida fakulteter vid ett universitet arbetar med sin märkesidentitet med hjälp av internal branding för att differentierar sig i en värld där konkurrensen hårdnar och ackrediteringar riskerar att likforma fakulteterna. Metod: En kvalitativ studie har genomförts med ett hermeneutistiskt fenomenologiskt förhållningssätt. Den analys och slutsa
PURPOSE: Provision of adequate support is much needed to secure equal educational opportunities for students with developmental language disorder (DLD). Important perspectives on support provision and its impact on academic progress are held by school professionals, caregivers, and students with DLD. This study sought to further the current knowledge on the perceived relation between educational s
Background and purpose: Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) requires high positional accuracy to safely deliver large doses. This study evaluated an integrated surface- and image-guided radiotherapy (SGRT-IGRT) system by analysing (1) the agreement between thermo-optical and stereoscopic X-ray positioning, and (2) the impact of intra-fractional workflows on treatment accuracy and time. Materials and m
AIMS: Diagnosing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) remains challenging, particularly in older individuals. We hypothesized that machine learning (ML) approaches could improve diagnostic accuracy compared with HFpEF scores.METHODS: We evaluated the diagnostic performance of four supervised ML algorithms (random forest [RF], extreme gradient boosting [XGBoost], support vector ma
Meson-baryon systems with strangeness content provide a unique laboratory for investigating the strong interaction and testing theoretical models of hadron structure and dynamics. In this work, the measured correlation functions for oppositely charged Ξ-K and Ξ−π pairs obtained in high-multiplicity pp collisions at s=13 TeV at the LHC are presented. For the first time, high-precision data on the Ξ
Shelley King and John B. Pierce’s edition of The Romance of the Forest (1791) brings Ann Radcliffe’s (1764–1823) novel to new life. The editors’ introduction is paired with well selected source documents contemporaneous with the influential Gothic romance. My favourite example (not included by King and Pierce) for the Romantic-era writers’ admiration for Radcliffe’s aesthetics is John Keats’s lett
