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This essay is about the indigenous people Urak Lawoi in Andaman Sea, outside the west coast of Thailand. The study shows what happens to them when they are being deprived of their territory and are being forced to abandon their culture, lifestyle and traditional economic subsistence. Urak Lawoi have until recently maintained culture, language and lifestyle apart from the rest of Thai society. Dur
Highlights: What are the main findings? A ~32-year aridity cycle is detected across China through Fourier spectrum analysis of 1950–2022 aridity data. An arid–humid climate divide is revealed by entropy-based climate stability indicators. Recent remote sensing data show a nationwide expansion of surface water bodies and localized groundwater recovery. What are the implications of the main findings
Who benefited from agricultural commercialization in colonial Africa? Using social tables for three African economies, we identify a small group of rural capitalists who captured disproportionate gains. We demonstrate how their strategies of accumulation varied across contexts and shaped divergent and often unequal development trajectories.
Introduction: Therapeutic proteins are crucial in the treatment of a wide range of diseases. However, the proteins are sensitive to chemical degradation reactions, particularly deamidation and isomerization, which can compromise efficacy and safety. Formulation excipients, such as sugars and non-ionic surfactants, are commonly used to enhance stability, yet their effects on chemical degradation re
This paper investigates the role of sound and listening in establishing newsensory connections with the environment. Climate change is affecting the wayour environment sounds and we need to expand our sense of listening to tunein to those new registers. Through the development of a digital prototype forspeculative sound co-creation, this study explores ways to engage with ourchanging environment b
In 1807, Britain outlawed the slave trade across its empire. Yet in the Cape Colony, households continued accumulating slaves for decades afterwards. New evidence from digitised tax censuses suggests the answer lies not in labour demand, but in the financial value of enslaved people as capital assets.
This paper examines whether high levels of intergenerational class mobility in twentieth-century Sweden eliminated class-origin income inequalities within adult occupationaldestinations, and whether childhood neighborhood exposure moderated these inequalities.Using longitudinal population-register, income, occupation, and geocoded residential data, thestudy follows individuals born between 1922 an
Functional p53 protein is essential for the cellular response to drug-induced DNA damage. We investigated p53 accumulation in tumour specimens from premenopausal breast cancer patients who were randomised to adjuvant chemotherapy (CMF) or postoperative radiotherapy. Of the tumours from 139 patients, 20 showed abnormal accumulation as judged with immunohistochemistry (> 10% positive tumour cells).
In this study, we have investigated the dynamic behavior of colloidal rods within their isotropic phase, employing multispeckle ultrasmall-angle x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (UA-XPCS) focusing on the understanding of the interplay between structure and dynamics at the nearest-neighbor length scale. While prior research has primarily focused on the structural aspects, our work addresses th
The Kagome lattice has emerged as a promising platform for hosting unconventional chiral charge orders at high temperatures. In the context of the correlated Kagome superconductor LaRu3Si2, a room-temperature charge-ordered state with a propagation vector of ((Formula presented.), 0, 0) is previously reported. However, understanding the interplay between this charge order and superconductivity, pa
We present a comprehensive study of the short-ranged nuclear and magnetic order in the two-dimensional spin glass, Mn0.5Fe0.5PS3. Nuclear neutron scattering data reveal a random distribution of Mn2+ and Fe2+ ions within the honeycomb layers, which gives rise to a spin glass state through inducing competition between neighboring exchange interactions, indicated in magnetic susceptibility data by a
This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields “weirding” – a creative mode of engagement with the world – as a means of coming to terms with the stranger, experiential dimensions of a planet populated by diverse non-human entities often bearing monstrous characte
Accurate forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation across heterogeneous subtropical regions is essential for carbon accounting and climate change mitigation. We developed XGBoost and random forest models using GEDI L4A Lidar samples and multi-source remote sensing features (Sentinel-1/2, topography) to predict AGB in Xijiang Forest Farm (Guangdong) and transferred them to Simao District (Yunnan)
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is essential for predicting aquatic carbon fluxes and managing water quality in boreal catchments. Traditional DOC modelling approaches are limited in their ability to represent seasonal dynamics, event-driven responses, and riparian-zone contributions. Here, we evaluate the performance of the Krycklan-HYPE model in simula
Monitoring atmospheric CO2 concentration changes across China is crucial for reducing carbon emissions and tackling global warming. Due to monitoring gap in satellite observations, this paper uses the Extremely Randomized Trees (ERT) model alongside OCO-2 satellite data and predictor variables to develop a 0.1° high-resolution monthly dataset of column-averaged dry air CO2 mole fraction (XCO2) in
The aim of this thesis is to uncover the determining factors behind the feminisation of the Swedish bank sector 1910-1939, through analysis of time-series and the Union periodical Bankvärlden. Economic and institutional explanations are tried, from a structural-analytical and gender perspective. The results show that feminisation was most rapid during the 1910’s, driven by a strong demand for labo
This paper surveys the recent literature on free trade and economic growth. While theory suggests many potential linkages, empirical evidence from cross-country and panel growth regressions remains inconclusive. Measures of single instruments of trade policy, such as the average tariff rate, are typically weak in explaining differences in growth but may underestimate the true level of protectionis
This paper examines how governance affects FDI inflows using cross-country analysis for a sample of 156 countries over the period 1996-2004. It looks into six different dimension of governance, measured by indicators constructed by Kaufmann, Kraay and Zoido-Lobatón: (1) Voice and Accountability, (2) Political Stability and Violence, (3) Government Effectiveness, (4) Regulatory Quality, (5) Rule of
