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Public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure provide excellent capabilities for scalable Web applications and Hadoop-based processing. Recent ad- ditions to public clouds to support connected devices and IoT have the potential to similarly disrupt emerging home- grown and/or proprietary approaches. While early public cloud IoT success stories have focused on smaller-scale

Sediments from the small lake Ilsø situated in the Illerup/Alken Enge Valley were studied in order to investigate past landscape development at the time of a probably ritual human mass burial following battle during the Roman Iron Age (ad 1–400). A pollen record from Ilsø and a number of other records from Jutland were combined using the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm to reconstruct local vege

Sustained international diplomatic efforts culminated in the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement by 196 countries in December 2015. This paper provides an overview of the key provisions of the agreement that are most relevant to the tourism sector: much strengthened and world-wide participation in greenhouse gas emission reduction ambitions, an enduring framework for increased ambitions over ti

This study investigates the influence of pedestrian crowdedness on e-bike navigation behaviour in a controlled field experiment. The dataset includes a total of 1520 trajectories, including 18 pedestrians and one e-bike at a time. Based on the e-bike navigation through the pedestrians, the so-called “hindrance” concept was used to classify the data into two phases: passing (same-direction encounte

Land degradation in drylands has been investigated extensively over recent decades and several remote sensing based techniques attempt to decouple the human influence from the natural climate variability, but are contested in literature. We introduce a novel approach termed SeRGS-TREND that is designed to monitor land degradation by suppressing the impact from climate variability and highlight veg

The Swedish Strategic Innovation Agenda for Geoenergy develops a strategy for highlighting the need for geoenergy research, development and innovation in relation to the business community and authorities. Sweden has a strong global position in the field. Geothermal energy is the third­largest renewable energy source in Sweden, along with wind power. Currently, approximately 18 TWh of renewable he

This project looks into the perception of the benefits and drawbacks of Internet usage by elderly people, born from the mid 1920s to the early 1940s, also known as the ‘silent generation’ (Lustria et al. in Health Informatics Journal 17(3):224–243, [1]). As governmental services are gradually becoming online, elderly people are required to use the Internet in order to complete the compulsory task(

We are seeing today an increased interest in ethics, the environment, and social responsibility at the same time as the individual is expected, in different ways, to realize him-/herself through consumption. These interests coincide with the establishment of ethical markets for re-use and second-hand. In this paper we investigate and map out the ethical shopping spaces in Helsingborg, and how thes

Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present a community-sourced database of temperature-sensitive proxy records from the PAGES2k initiative. The database gathers 692 records from 648 locations, including all continental regions and major ocean basins. The records

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the critical success factors (CSF) for lean and six sigma and an analysis of these CSF as compared to previously popular change methods. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a literature search and comparative analysis complemented with examples from previous case studies. Findings – With only slight variations, the critical suc

Den biologiska mångfalden fortsätter att minska trots att det såväl nationellt som internationellt finns en målsättning om att förlusten av den biologiska mångfalden ska hejdas. Idag anses en av de största miljöpolitiska utmaningarna vara att stoppa utarmningen av biologisk mångfald. Skogen utgör livsmiljö för hälften av alla landlevande arter i Sverige och ett hållbart skogsbruk är således livsavBiodiversity is in decline despite international and national goals of preventing this development. Preserving biodiversity is one of today’s greatest environmental policy challenges. Currently, half of all land living species in Sweden live in the forest, therefore a sustainable forestry industry is vital to ensure biodiversity. In fact, half of all red-listed species live in the forest. One of t

The aim of this study was to explain and understand how the child perspective is used in child welfare investigations. The study was based on five interviews with social workers in a municipality in the southern part of Sweden. The main outcome of this study was that the concept child perspective is a multifaceted and complex concept, all the social workers had a different view on the child perspe

Dagens smartphones – inte så klimatsmarta I dagens slit-och-släng-samhälle köper folk de senaste modellerna bara för att vara trendiga, men lämnar sin gamla telefon i byrålådan. Vid tillverkning av mobiltelefoner krävs även många olika material och utvinning av dem bidrar till stor miljöpåverkan. Återvinningsföretaget Sysav står nu i ett vägskäl mellan hur de ska välja tjänstetelefoner till företThe cell phone industry is one of the most linear sectors, which means high resource consumption in the production of telephones and difficulties in repair. In addition, only 10-12% take-back of used units takes place, the rest are often forgotten in drawers or handled incorrectly. An interesting area of research is how companies can make their choices to reduce the life cycle environmental impact

I got the opportunity to do this Bachelor project together with the consumer electronics company Bang & Olufsen. They gave me a task to design a sustainable Bluetooth speaker. After having many interviews with different experts, within Bang & Olufsen, and reading multiple pieces of literature concerning ecological design, I could define the term sustainability. I used my findings as a base

Problemställning: Vad händer vid låga relativa luftfuktighetsnivåer och vilka nivåer bör man åstadkomma? Syfte: Skapa en förståelse av vad som sker vid låga relativa luftfuktighetsnivåer och hur människan påverkas vid dessa nivåer. Vidare ska det även skapas en förståelse för vid vilka RF-nivåer befuktning eventuellt kan vara en lämplig åtgärd med beaktande av de fuktrelaterade risker som kan uppProblem: What happens at low relative humidity levels and what levels should be achieved? Purpose: Create an understanding of what happens at low relative humidity levels and how humans are affected at these levels. Furthermore, an understanding of which RH-levels humidification may be an appropriate measure considering the moisture related risks that may occur. Method: The thesis is a literatur

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the CSR communication in the natural crisis, with investigation of SAS, a Nordic aviation company who suffers huge negative impact during the pandemic. Methodology /Approach: The paper presents a case study where it uses thematic approach to identify the CSR communication content, then by the light of semiotic analysis, the semiotic analysis is conducted to inte

Denna studie utforskade andlighet och alkoholism ur ett existentiellt, psykologiskt och sociologiskt perspektiv. Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta aktiva medlemmar i Anonyma Alkoholister (AA) syftade studien till att undersöka vilken betydelse medlemmar i AA tillskriver andligheten i tolvstegsprogrammet. Materialet analyserades med tematisk analys utifrån en fenomenologisk ansats. AnalysThe present study explored spirituality and alcoholism from an existential, psychological and sociological perspective. The aim of the study was to examine what the spiritual aspects of the twelve-step program meant to members of Anonymous Alcoholics (AA). The sample consisted of eight active members of AA, all located in Sweden. Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews, then anal

The purpose of this thesis is to study how work-related stress and the risk of burnout within the social services is perceived by professional caseworkers, who are a social worker that is employed by a government agency. In the study, we interviewed twelve caseworkers working in different municipalities in Sweden. When asking the questions, we used a qualitative method using semi-structured interv

The purpose of this study was to find the dynamics between professionals’ discretion and how it is expressed in the residential care homes for children and young people. Six qualitative semi structured interviews were conducted with professionals' who work in direct contact with children and youths on residential care. The interviews were presented and analyzed based on the theories of street-

I denna text diskuteras hur fosterbarnsvården utvecklats från en enskild angelägenhet till en kollektiv angelägenhet. Under denna period fortsatte ett sen tidigare etablerat fördömande av den utomäktenskaplig sexualiteten. Detta leder till att många mödrar lämnar bort sina oäktingar till fosterhem, dels för att slippa försörjningen, dels för att undkomma skammen. Detta kan göras på grund av en anoOver the last two centuries, foster care in Sweden has undergone immense changes. Various societal and political views have shifted from individual to collective responsibility on this issue. Extramarital relations are both religiously and civilly condemned. To avoid being shamed, extramarital mothers often left their children in foster care. This was possible due to their newfound right to remain