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Analysis of key challenges to implementation of FEFO in perishable food supply chain

Implementing FEFO practices has become essential for organizations globally to minimize spoilage, enhance inventory turnover, and ensure compliance with health and safety standards. To aid stakeholders in effectively adopting FEFO, it is crucial to identify and address the challenges involved in its implementation. Through an extensive literature review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Syst

Closing the price gap : Von Thünen applied to wheat markets in 18th century Spain

According to the literature, transaction costs are influenced by several factors, ranging from institutional differences to asymmetric information. However, testing these hypotheses requires rich data not usually available in historical sources. In this study, we use a large-scale census of 1749 to analyze price gaps of wheat across rural municipalities and their local markets in Old Castile. For

Svenskarnas resa från folkhem till folkaktier

Inte bara Investor och Telia – under de senaste tio åren har antalet börsnoterade svenska företag med minst 100 000 ägare växt från 8 till 28. Vad innebär det att de så kallade folkaktierna i dag utgör en så stor del av vår privatekonomi?

Periodic Splinets

Periodic splines represent a specific category of splines, defined across a series of knots on a circle, making them particularly suitable for addressing interpolation challenges associated with closed curves and representing functions defined on a circle. Although the term ‘periodic’ suggests temporal context, the periodic splines can represent any data that have a circle as their domain. This pa

Microscopic behaviour analysis using video recordings : A perspective on vulnerable road users

This thesis investigates the application of microscopic traffic data derived from video recordings to analyse the behaviour of road users, specifically focusing on pedestrians and cyclists in urban traffic environments. This research addresses the critical need for more accurate and proactive methods in the fields of traffic safety, transport system operational performance, and level of service as

Updated appropriate use criteria for amyloid and tau PET : A report from the Alzheimer's Association and Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Workgroup

INTRODUCTION: The Alzheimer's Association and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging convened a multidisciplinary workgroup to update appropriate use criteria (AUC) for amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and to develop AUC for tau PET. METHODS: The workgroup identified key research questions that guided a systematic literature review on clinical amyloid/tau PET. Building on

Forest structural diversity modulates tree growth synchrony in response to climate change

Following centuries of deforestation, many industrialized countries have experienced an increase in forest area and biomass due to changes in land- and forest-use since the mid-20th century. At the same time, the impacts of climate change on forests are aggravating, but the interplay between past land- and forest-use (i.e. land- and forest-use legacies) and climate change in tree growth remains el

Forest Productivity Decreases in Response to Recent Changes in Vegetation Structure and Climate in the Latitudinal Extremes of the European Continent

Aim: Climate change is driving increasingly frequent and intense extreme climatic events, pushing many forests worldwide beyond their physiological thresholds. Despite the major role played by forests in the global carbon cycle, climate change threatens the future potential for carbon sequestration in forests. Hence, studies of recent changes in stand productivity and the underlying drivers over l

Evidence of non-stationary relationships between climate and forest responses : Increased sensitivity to climate change in Iberian forests

Climate and forest structure are considered major drivers of forest demography and productivity. However, recent evidence suggests that the relationships between climate and tree growth are generally non-stationary (i.e. non-time stable), and it remains uncertain whether the relationships between climate, forest structure, demography and productivity are stationary or are being altered by recent c

The easyclimate R package : Easy access to high-resolution daily climate data for Europe

In recent decades there has been an increasing demand in environmental sciences for harmonized climatic data at large spatial scales and long periods. Here we present easyclimate, a software package to obtain daily climatic data at high resolution (0.0083°, ∼1 km) with R. The package facilitates the downloading and processing of precipitation, minimum and maximum temperatures for Europe from 1950

Tree Genera Classifications in Spain Using Time-Series Sentinel-2 Data Extracted from Plottosat

PlotToSat is a tool that uses the Python API of Google Earth Engine (GEE) to solve the problem of creating time-series of Earth Observation (EO) data at multiple plot locations spread out within a landscape. The current version supports Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. It is a flexible framework though that allows easy addition of EO datasets. Using PlotToSat, we generated a Normalised Difference Vegeta

Identifying Forest Structural Types along an Aridity Gradient in Peninsular Spain : Integrating Low-Density LiDAR, Forest Inventory, and Aridity Index

Forest structure is a key driver of forest functional processes. The characterization of forest structure across spatiotemporal scales is essential for forest monitoring and management. LiDAR data have proven particularly useful for cost-effectively estimating forest structural attributes. This paper evaluates the ability of combined forest inventory data and low-density discrete return airborne L

Recent increase in tree damage and mortality and their spatial dependence on drought intensity in Mediterranean forests

Context: Global change is leading to more frequent and intense tree damage and mortality events. Drought-induced tree mortality is occurring worldwide leading to broad-scale events, but the spatial patterns of tree damage and mortality, their underlying drivers and their variation over time is largely unknown. Objectives: We investigated the spatial patterns of tree damage and mortality across Med

PlotToSat : A tool for generating time-series signatures from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at field-based plots for machine learning applications

PlotToSat offers a practical and time efficient way to the challenge of extracting time-series from multiple Earth Observation (EO) datasets at numerous plots spread across a landscape. This opens up new opportunities to understand and model various ecosystems. Regarding forest ecology, plot networks play a vital role in monitoring and understanding the dynamics of forest ecosystems. These network

Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individual's Experiencesof Openness and Concealment at Work in Swede

The workplace is an important part of many people's lives. Many transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals have negativeexperiences of their workplace due to discrimination and cisnormativity. Whether or not to be open about TGD experiences, andthe degree of openness, is something many TGD individuals struggle with at work. Openness is related to well-being and job satis-faction and is there

Motion in event structure

According to a localist theory of event semantics, event types such as state changes and realisation of actions are based on motion events, which are taken to be the primary type of event. The present paper investigates some claims of this theory, their consequences and conceptual foundations. It argues that the theory suffers from two flaws. First, the theory proposes parallels between event type