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Tankar om manlighet : en intervjustudie med manliga studenter
No full textThis paper is a qualitative analytic study of the views regarding masculinity of six male university students. The author means to view the gender issue from a male point of view and analyze the empiric result using well known theory on the subject. The main questions of the essay are: What, according to my respondents, is masculine and non masculine? Does the university influence this view, and if so how? How is it to be a man in the society of today? The paper is based around interviews of the six subjects, recorded and transcribed and analyzed in a systematic outline. From this outline relevant themes has been constructed and compared with the theory. The author's conclusion is that the respondents views on masculinity is very similar to those presented by the theory, a reflection of classic and modern views on the subject, the strong, courageous, self dependent man in control of himself and his surroundings. Two themes, sexuality and power, both closely linked to masculinity were hardly mentioned at all, however. The former was mainly due to lack of questions regarding the subject. The latter can be explained by theory. R. W. Connell says that the link between power and masculinity can be viewed as harsh critique by many (heterosexual) men, who therefore prefer not to talk about it. The author also concludes that the respondents views has been influenced by their years of university studies and experience and that it is in the interaction with other people that the views are formed. A final conclusion is that views on masculinity are cultural creations that change over time and at the present there are both ups and downs to being a man, mainly ups
Give me your wired and your highly skilled: measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders
No full textThis paper links finance theory to labor economics in the context of migration and immigration policy. Using event analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the firm profits, in particular the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) of 1998 nearly doubled the available number of H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers in FY 1999. The empirical results show that top H-1B visa user industries enjoyed significant and positive excess returns with the passage of the Act, while industries with little need for H-1B visas experienced no significant changes. Several robustness checks support the results.Skilled immigrants, immigration policy, employers, shareholders, event study, H-1B visa
Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila
No full textThe fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a key model organism in neuroscience, in large part due to the concentration of collaboratively generated molecular, genetic and digital resources available for it. Here we complement the approximately 140,000 neuron FlyWire whole-brain connectome1 with a systematic and hierarchical annotation of neuronal classes, cell types and developmental units (hemilineages). Of 8,453 annotated cell types, 3,643 were previously proposed in the partial hemibrain connectome2, and 4,581 are new types, mostly from brain regions outside the hemibrain subvolume. Although nearly all hemibrain neurons could be matched morphologically in FlyWire, about one-third of cell types proposed for the hemibrain could not be reliably reidentified. We therefore propose a new definition of cell type as groups of cells that are each quantitatively more similar to cells in a different brain than to any other cell in the same brain, and wevalidate this definition through joint analysis of FlyWire and hemibrain connectomes. Further analysis defined simple heuristics for the reliability of connections between brains, revealed broad stereotypy and occasional variability in neuron count and connectivity, and provided evidence for functional homeostasis in the mushroom body through adjustments of the absolute amount of excitatory input while maintaining the excitation/inhibition ratio. Our work defines a consensus cell type atlas for the fly brain and provides both an intellectual framework and open-source toolchain for brain-scale comparative connectomics. © The Author(s) 2024.TRUEsciescopu
