University of Amsterdam

Elective admissions and treatments in the final three months of life: a nationwide retrospective study of older adults

PURPOSE: Research on potentially inappropriate care at the end of life in older adults rarely distinguishes between acute and elective care. As elective care is plannable, it allows for timely deliberation on its appropriateness. This study aimed to explore elective hospital care...

Computational Gallerte : Compressions of culture

In Capital , Marx describes ‘abstract human labor’ as a jelly-like, amorphous substance: Gallerte , often translated as ‘gelatinous blob’. Turning from questions of consumption (or outputs) in debates on ‘AI slop’ to the ‘sloppy’ side of AI production (or inputs), this essay draw...

Prompt Learning for Textual Heterogeneous Information Networks

Heterogeneous information networks (HINs) play an indispensable role in a wide range of domain-specific applications, from recommender systems to conversational platforms. Textual heterogeneous information networks (HINs) are graphs with abundant textual information. Currently, m...

Protest and handcuffs: The repressive effect of arrests

How does arresting protesters shape subsequent mobilization? Arrests account for approximately 14% of government responses to protest and differ theoretically from other repressive tactics, yet their effects on future mobilization remain understudied. We argue that arrests raise...

Parents in the making: A critical encounter between bioethical theory and “Homegrown” accounts of moral parenthood

In this paper, we explore questions of moral parenthood by setting up a critical encounter between accounts developed by bioethicists and the perspectives of prospective PACT (Pre-conception Agreement-Based Co-parenting Together-apart) parents. This particular approach attends to...