Food is one of the most traded goods, and the conflict in Ukraine, one of the European breadbaskets, has triggered a significant additional disruption in the global food supply chains after the COVID-19 impact. The disruption to food output, supply chains, availability, and affordability could have a long-standing impact. As a result, the availability and supply of a wide range of food raw materia

Learning a language is a long-term undertaking. In this endeavor, motivation is served by patterns of regulation that steer and control behavior. Regulation can be focused on possibilities and opportunities (an approach pattern), or the implications of failure (an avoidance pattern). Responding to calls for work with a focus on regulation (Papi et al., 2019), and with the aim of developing insight

The main source of this article is based on the correspondence between former concentration camp prisoners: Melchior, Dziedzicka, Karier and Krzyzanowska, who were evacuated to Sweden in 1945, and Lakocinski, the founder of the Polish Research Institute in Lund and the editor of the influential weekly "Polak" magazine, addressed to Polish immigrants in Sweden. In 1945-46, the members of the Polish

Fast fashion-branschen står inför utmaningar som kräver åtgärder för att bli en mer hållbar bransch. Produktionen av kläder och textilier är en stor källa till föroreningar och koldioxidutsläpp samtidigt som arbetarna inom produktionens arbetsförhållanden ofta är ohållbara. Det påpekas att för att branschen ska bli mer hållbar krävs det att hållbarhetsmetoder implementeras i hela försörjningskedja

An ERP implementation is an intricate process that requires comprehensive planning, designing and execution. The implementation encompasses virtually all aspects of an organization’s business processes, as well as the organizational culture. A successful ERP implementation are affected by numerous modules that needs to be thoroughly considered for an optimal solution. User involvement is one of th

The purpose of this paper has been to study whether or not the Swedish language has any significant impact on immigrant integration and their psychic well-being in Swedish society. By adhering to the theoretical framework of Diaz, Gordon, and Heckmann for integration, and Antonovsky’s theory of salutogenesis, we’ve established our results using qualitative semi-structured interviews to get our emp

Despite the increasing popularity of studies on teachers’ national curriculum adaptations, there is no comparative study elucidating teachers’ adaptations in centralized and decentralized educational contexts through sense-making theory lenses. This paper presents a comparative case study of Turkish and Swedish senior classroom teachers’ curricular adaptations concerning sense-making theory. We ge

Along with aptitude, motivation is the primary determiner of learning outcomes in second language (L2) learning. Widely regarded as an activity especially suited to girls, empirical studies from different sociocultural contexts have, with few exceptions, revealed systematic gender differences in L2 motivation. In particular, gender differences are most apparent in relation to establishing an affin

This book provides industry insights and fresh ideas for the advancement of the most vital global industry - food. Drawing on their industry and academic expertise the authors have identified three controlling aspects of food business operations that can unleash long term success: consumer health and wellbeing; product and process sustainability; and harnessing advances in digitalization. If devel

In Sweden students’ encounters with English in and out of school are very different. Spending around 20 hours per week in English-mediated environments outside of school, they are often engaged in richly meaningful activities. Consequently, many young people believe they learn as much of their English as a result of participation in English-mediated leisure time activities as they do from textbook

In this article, hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccinations is investigated as a phenomenon touching upon existential questions. We argue that it encompasses ideas of illness and health, and also of dying and fear of suffering. Building on a specific strand within anti-vaccination studies, we conjecture that vaccine hesitancy is, to some extent, reasonable, and that this scepticism should be studied

Demotivation (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2011) and non-participation (Norton, 2001) characterise negative responses to classroom practice of a generally chronic nature. In this article, focus is directed to negativity that emerges within the context of a particular language developing activity, and which can be understood as a situated response to the activity's demands. In conceptualizing negative re

Syftet med min lecture recital är att utforska vilka konstnärliga medel jag har för att förbereda två operaarior inför en provsjungning och hur jag kan använda mig av dem i mitt arbete samt undersöka hur jag kan gestalta mina operaarior på en provsjungning utan regi, rekvisita och kostym. För att ta reda på det har jag studerat olika källor i form av litteratur, partitur och libretton där den viktThe purpose of my lecture recital is to explore which artistic tools I have in order to prepare two opera arias for audition and how to use them in my work, as well as exploring how I can present my opera arias at an audition without staging, props and costume. In order to obtain this information, I have studied various sources such as literature, sheet music and librettos, with the most important

Background: Women with mild breast cancer-related arm lymphedema (BCRAL) mostly receive treatment with compression garments and instructions in self-care to prevent the progression of lymphedema. However, wearing a compression garment may be experienced as negative and may affect health-related quality of life (HRQOL) more than the lymphedema itself. The aim of this study was to investigate if the

The Royal Society’s results exaggerated the efficacy of mandated lockdowns.A recent Royal Society report on the Covid-19 pandemic produced by a team led by Mark Walport, a professor of medicine at Imperial College London, captivated the press. The report concludes that non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including mandatory lockdowns, “can provide powerful, effective and prolonged reductions

This thesis investigates the issue of computer vision-based detection of oncoming cars during night-time, a critical road safety issue for automated high-beam assist. We propose a holistic image classification approach that uses deep learning methods to detect light artifacts from an oncoming car’s headlights before the car is entirely visible. We explore six different model architectures, includi