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Restaurant practices – time, planning, knowledge and dreams

This paper contributes to research on restaurant work, which plays an important role in culinary arts research. The aim of this study was to make visible and elucidate the daily work practices in eight small restaurants in a seasonal tourist destination on the Southeast coast of Sweden. The central methods used were observations and participant observations and interviews, along with an e-mail que

Gammalt folk, hederligt folk eller bara folk – blir ordet folk ett pronomen?

The Swedish word folk (‘people’) is normally considered an ordinary noun. Some sources, however, state that folk is turning into a generic pronoun. This article investigates this assumption. Occurrences of folk in a corpus made up of 45 plays from the period 1730–1997 are analyzed with respect to both syntactic and semantic characteristics, and it is shown that folk is indeed more and more often u

Visual event-related potentials to novel objects predict rapid word learning ability in 20-month-olds

In an event-related potentials (ERP) study, twenty-month-old children (n = 37) were presented with pseudowords to map to novel object referents in five presentations. Quicker attenuation of the visual Negative central component (Nc) to novel objects predicted a larger difference in N400 amplitude between congruous and incongruous presentations of pseudowords at test. Furthermore, better initial re

The QUASAR reproducibility study, Part II : Results from a multi-center Arterial Spin Labeling test-retest study

Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) is a method to measure perfusion using magnetically labeled blood water as an endogenous tracer. Being fully non-invasive, this technique is attractive for longitudinal studies of cerebral blood flow in healthy and diseased individuals, or as a surrogate marker of metabolism. So far, ASL has been restricted mostly to specialist centers due to a generally low SNR of the

Preparing higher education students for the new landscape of governance

Studies have demonstrated that neoliberal governance dismantles professionals? will to critique, counteracting efforts to improve quality by preventing professionals in all sectors of the labour market from grounding work in their professional convictions. Managing attempts at governance has therefore become an important professional competence. This paper investigates how higher education prepareStudies have demonstrated that neoliberal governance dismantles professionals’ will to critique, counteracting efforts to improve quality by preventing professionals in all sectors of the labour market from grounding work in their professional convictions. Managing attempts at governance has therefore become an important professional competence. This paper investigates how higher education prepare

A Conceptual View of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems as Services

This paper brings forward a conceptual view, based on practical experiences from designing information systems as services. Viewing information systems (IS) as services is beneficial but still an unexplored approach in organizations. The aim of this exercise is to contribute to the knowledge base of IS designers and modelers. In the paper, we present an analysis of Enterprise Resource Planning (ER

A Comprehensive Decision Support System for Enhanced Emergency Decision Management and Training

Emergency decision makers face a challenge taking rapid and high-risk decisions during an emergency situation, especially when the emergency is cross-border and requires multi-agency cooperation. The emergency decision makers use emergency management (EM) system and sometimes decision support systems (DSS) when responding to a crisis. To date the emergency decision makers have not had access to a

Lär studenter hur IT-tekniken påverkar deras yrken

Digitaliseringen är inte bara en teknikfråga, utan bör handla om hur verktygen ska användas. Det menar Carola Aili, lektor i pedagogik vid Lunds universitet, i en kommentar till Darja Isaksson som tidigare intervjuats i Curie. Studenterna behöver kompetens att hantera frågor om IT-stöd i sin kommande yrkesutövning.

Healthcare Matching - A Value Creating Service

Background: Long waiting times have been a significant problem in theSwedish health care system. A lack of matching of pathways of care has ledto long waiting times for patients, increasing medical risk and contributingtowards less effective capacity utilisation. There are different pathways into theelective healthcare system in Sweden, some via referral from a physician andothers via referral wri

Money and Debt : Empirical Studies in Northern Europe 1840-2015

This dissertation firstly produces new financial series on money and bankassets which are consistent with current definitions for the UK for the crisisrich period 1840-80 and new monetary aggregates for Ireland from prefamine to independence (1840-1921). By employing the new data, cyclicaland seasonal analysis are conducted to shed light on the business cyclesand financial crises of the period. Se