Aarhus University

The Lost Futures of Gender Diversity in STEM: Developing a diffractive methodology to study acts of disappearance

Gender segregation in STEM labour markets remains a problem despite the immense attention to the issue in recent years. This article studies diversity initiatives aiming to amend the lack of women in STEM by helping girls and young women to develop STEM career aspirations. Inspir...

Governance Irony: Why Information-Heavy Compliance Directives Mechanically Fail in Large Language Models

Pour the complete rule-set into a system “to be covered” and adherence can collapse: with the relevant rule buried among competing directives, one language model’s compliance fell from 100% to 0% (another from 100% to 60–88%), while a short positive recipe held near 100% — length...

Nature and Nurture in a Language Model: Installable Value Fields, Intrinsic Capacity, and the Forward-Consolidation Boundary

Behavioural Friction Theory decomposes the forces that govern a bounded decision system into four cognitive fields — Safety, Meaning, Ability, Effort. Are these fields intrinsic to a substrate, or the generic product of its exposure to experience? This paper uses a large language...

Patient preferences for the multidisciplinary management of endometriosis and adenomyosis: a mixed-methods survey-based study

Background: Endometriosis and adenomyosis are common, debilitating conditions frequently associated with delayed diagnosis and fragmented care-based pathways. In Denmark, two highly specialized centres provide advanced endometriosis treatment. However, it remains unclear whether...

The Physics of Learning: How Race-Architecture Constraints Explain What We Know About Teaching, Communication, and Understanding

Three of learning science's most robust traditions, cognitive load theory, desirable difficulties, and psychological safety, are each empirically excellent and mechanically thin. This paper argues they are local consequences of one substrate-universal constraint, bounded-capacity...

Optimal, Not Perfect: A Test-Bed Architecture for Rule-Governed, Automatically-Auditable AI Advisory Systems, with Counselling as the Leading Case

Can two separate evidence streams be composed into a rule-governed AI advisory system — with counselling as the leading case — that is, on specifiable axes, more consistent and more verifiable than either stream alone could specify? The question is narrower than whether a machine...

Optimal, Not Perfect: A Test-Bed Architecture for Rule-Governed, Automatically-Auditable AI Advisory Systems, with Counselling as the Leading Case

Can two separate evidence streams be composed into a rule-governed AI advisory system — with counselling as the leading case — that is, on specifiable axes, more consistent and more verifiable than either stream alone could specify? The question is narrower than whether a machine...

Do coups create economic crises? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

While most of the literature considers economic crisis as a precursor to coup attempts, theoretical considerations suggest that coups may also cause crises. Estimating effects of different types of coups on crisis risk across 32 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean betwee...

Persistent influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Late Holocene hydroclimate in southwestern Greenland

Abstract Understanding how global climate forcing shapes regional hydroclimate on decadal to millennial timescales is critical for predicting the response of continental ice sheets to future warming. Because instrumental observations capture only a short interval, longer-term per...

Behavioural Friction Theory: Toward a Common Currency for Behavioural Science

Behavioural science has produced robust findings across dozens of research traditions, yet lacks the integrative architecture needed to connect them — a common unit or map for relating constructs across domains and anticipating cross-field interactions. Behavioural Friction Theor...

Losing Autonomy to Gain It: How Boards and Investors Enhance Entrepreneurial Motivation

Abstract For entrepreneurs, attracting investors and creating a board are significant events where they must relinquish control over their ventures. Existing literature highlights this autonomy loss as a central concern for entrepreneurs, suggesting a trade-off between attracting...

Observers exhibit greater caution and faster evidence accumulation when identifying joint versus individual actions

Coordination requires anticipating and adapting to others' actions in real time. While research has shown that observers predict observed solo actions, little is known about how predictive processes change when observing joint actions. We tested whether, for joint actions, observ...

Fluorescence-Gated Flow Cytometry Approach for Measuring Lipid Flippase Activity in Mammalian Cells

Abstract P4‑ATPase lipid flippases establish transbilayer lipid asymmetry in eukaryotic membranes, with increasing evidence indicating a role for interacting partners in regulating flippase activity. However, assessing interactor‑dependent effects on flippase activity in mammalia...

Exploring teacher retention in Denmark as an entangled phenomenon: unpacking variations within and across municipalities

Drawing on agential realism and critical cultural geography, this article sets out to explore teacher retention in Denmark as an entangled phenomenon with particular focus on unpacking variations in retention rates within and across municipalities and on gaining insights into tem...

The chemical composition of narwhal tusk and tooth is impacted by geographical locality

Abstract The possible relationship between diet and geographical locality is important for understanding the putative effects of climate change on animal behaviour and survival. Narwhals have two maxillary teeth, one of which may become a tusk. In these teeth, various chemical el...

What makes you feel nostalgic? A self-generated approach to nostalgia-evoking cues

Nostalgia is often characterised as a predominantly positive, mixed-valence emotion that arises when recalling autobiographical memories from one’s personal past. Nostalgic recollections may emerge involuntarily in response to environmental stimuli, such an old photograph or musi...

A genome-wide map of the genetic network in monocytes that regulates type I interferon induction by the cGAS-STING pathway

Type I interferons (IFNs) are induced by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) of the innate immune system to protect against foreign pathogens and malignant transformation, and their production must be tightly regulated to balance antiviral defense with tissue homeostasis. To def...

Circulating biomarkers reflecting type III, IV and VI collagen remodeling are present in lung tissue of patients with pulmonary fibrosis and non-fibrotic controls

Abstract Background The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a dynamic network that provides structural support and maintains tissue homeostasis. Collagens are the main structural components of the ECM, occupying distinct tissue compartments and serving specialized roles. Dysregulated E...

PPAD-Membership for Problems With Exact Rational Solutions: A General Approach via Convex Optimization

Abstract. We introduce a general technique for proving membership of search problems with exact rational solutions in PPAD, one of the most well-known classes containing total search problems with polynomial-time verifiable solutions. In particular, we construct a “pseudogate,” c...

The chromosomal genome sequence of Loripinus fragilis (R.A.Philippi, 1836) (Lucinida: Lucinidae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences

<ns5:p> We present a genome assembly from an individual <ns5:italic>Loripinus fragilis</ns5:italic> (Mollusca; Bivalvia; Lucinida; Lucinidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 1 987.46 megabases. Most of the assembly (92.76%) is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolec...