Genusforskning inom arkeologin

”Genusforskning inom arkeologin” är den andra skrif ten i en serie om genusforskning som ges ut i samarbete mellan Högs kole ver kets jämställdhetsråd och Nationella se kre ta ri a tet för genusforskning. Författare är fi l. dr. Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh. Krav på ge nus per spek tiv i ut bild ning och forsk ning mö ter ofta en mot frå ga: vad är ge nus och vad är ge nus forsk ning? Något givet och entydigt svar på frågan kan inte ges, ef ter som det bland dem som ägnar sig åt ge nus forsk ning inte fi nns någon enig het om hur begreppen skall de fi nie ras. Det utmärkande är tvärtom att ge nus forsk ning en inte kan sam las under en snäv defi nition. Be grepp som kön/genus, kön- eller ge nus per spek tiv, köns forsk ning, köns teo re tisk forsk ning och ge nus forsk ning ut veck las och för änd ras i takt med att ny forskning växer fram inom olika ämnen. Syftet med den här skriftserien är att ge en oriente ring om ge nus forsk ning inom olika discipliner. Inom arkeo lo gin har ge nus per spek ti vet givit upphov till nya frå ge ställ ning ar som kan bidra till att ge en rikare och mer nyanserad bild av för his to rien

Introduction to “Binary Binds”: Deconstructing Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Archaeological Practice

YesGender archaeology has made significant strides toward deconstructing the hegemony of binary categorizations. Challenging dichotomies such as man/woman, sex/gender, and biology/culture, approaches informed by poststructuralist, feminist, and queer theories have moved beyond essentialist and universalist identity constructs to more nuanced configurations. Despite the theoretical emphasis on context, multiplicity, and fluidity, binary starting points continue to streamline the spectrum of variability that is recognized, often reproducing normative assumptions in the evidence. The contributors to this special issue confront how sex, gender, and sexuality categories condition analytical visibility, aiming to develop approaches that respond to the complexity of theory in archaeological practice. The papers push the ontological and epistemological boundaries of bodies, personhood, and archaeological possibility, challenging a priori assumptions that contain how sex, gender, and sexuality categories are constituted and related to each other. Foregrounding intersectional approaches that engage with ambiguity, variability, and difference, this special issue seeks to “de-contain” categories, assumptions, and practices from “binding” our analytical gaze toward only certain kinds of persons and knowledges, in interpretations of the past and practices in the present

Thermal pretreatment of swine waste to improve biodegradability in the anaerobic digestion process. Effect on the physicochemical characteristics of the substrate

In anaerobic digestion (AD) processes, hydrolysis is considered the limiting stage in the degradation of solid wastes. Such is the case of swine manure digestion, which due to the complex physical and chemical structure of the lignocellulosic material that composes it, an energy wastage has been observed in terms of methane production. Among the strategies used to improve the hydrolysis stage, it is possible to mention the thermal pretreatment of the substrate, which can significantly improve the biodegradability of the material used as raw material in AD. In this study, the effect of temperature (60–177 °C) and exposure time (30–60 min) on the physicochemical properties of the substrate such as pH, volatile organic acids (VOAs), total inorganic carbonates (TIC), volatile solids (SV), total solids (ST), soluble chemical oxygen demand (CODs) and biochemical methane potential (BMP) were determined. The temperature factor had a higher level of significance compared to the exposure time on the parameters of pH, VOAs, and TIC before and after the biogas generation process. However, the effect was different for CODs, where time was more significant than treatment temperature. As for the parameters of total and volatile solids content (ST and SV), the factors evaluated (temperature and exposure time) did not show significant effect. Also, the pretreatments showed an increase in biochemical methane potential, outperforming the untreated substrate by up to 70.4 % (121.74vs.71.44 mLCH4 gVS-1). The best combination of heating temperature and operating time was 120 °C and 45 min, which promoted the hydrolysis step that was reflected in an increase in CODs and improvement in methane production by 42 % over the untreated substrat

Orthokeratinized Odontogenic Cyst of the Mandible with Heterotopic Cartilage

Cartilaginous metaplasia is a rare but well-documented phenomenon occurring in the wall of odontogenic keratocyst. The mural cartilage not associated with odontogenic keratocyst has been reported only once in a maxillary teratoid cyst of congenital origin to our knowledge. A case presented is a 38-year-old man with intraosseous keratinizing epidermoid cyst in the mandible, the wall of which contained a nodule of mature hyaline cartilage. The present lesion likely represents a previously undescribed, histologic hybrid consisting of orthokeratinized odontogenic cyst and cartilaginous heterotopia

Viking Mortuary Citations

Introducing the European Journal of Archaeology’s special issue ‘Mortuary Citations: Death and Memory in the Viking World’, this article outlines the justification and theoretical framework underpinning a new set of studies on Viking-age mortuary and commemorative practice as strategies of mortuary citation. The contributions to the collection are reviewed in relation to strengths and weaknesses in existing research and broader themes in mortuary archaeological research into memory work in past societies

Applications of sensory and physiological measurement in oral‐facial dental pain

Dentists regularly employ a variety of self‐report and sensory techniques to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of tooth‐related disease. Many of these techniques leverage principles borrowed from psychophysics, the quantitative measurement of the relationship between stimuli and evoked sensations, which falls under the larger umbrella of quantitative sensory testing (QST). However, most clinicians fail to meet the bar for what could be considered quantitative sensory testing, and instead focus on qualitative and dichotomous “yes/no” aspects of sensory experience. With our current subjective measurements for pain assessments, diagnosis and treatment of dental pain in young children and individuals (any age) with severe cognitive impairment rely extensively on third‐party observations. Consequently, the limitation of inadequate pain diagnosis can lead to poor pain management. In this review, it discusses mechanisms that underlie acute and chronic dental pain. It details the measurement of somatosensory responses and pulpal blood flow as objective measures of tooth health and pain. It proposes that bridging these varied methodologies will significantly improve diagnosis and treatment of orofacial pain and pathology. It concludes that improving the precision of sensory measurements could yield important improvements in diagnostic challenges in pulpal pathology for noncommunicative and cognitively impaired individuals.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146659/1/scd12323.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146659/2/scd12323_am.pd

Genuskonstruktioner i nordisk vikingatid : förr och nu

Genuskonstruktioner i nordisk vikingatid