The Majdan, the annexation of Crimea, and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have significantly affected the Ukrainian state, politics, and society over the last six years. The objective of this master thesis is now to shed light on how the assumptions of nation and identity altered and how Petro Porošenko, a leading state actor, produced representations of national identity in times of crisis and

The increasing complexity of today's omnichannels has led to challenges with logistics efficiency and customer utility. In this paper, we show how retailers address these challenges by sorting goods at multiple points across the logistics network and inside each material-handling node. As contemporary research on the omnichannel sorting phenomenon is limited and fragmented, we conduct an abductive

PurposeTo meet customers' expectations on shorter lead times, high product availability, flexibility, and variation in delivery and return options, retailers have turned their attention to warehousing and are making big investments in technology. Currently, technology providers are pushing for smart warehousing, a new and under-researched phenomenon. This study aims to conceptualize the term and e

This study focuses on the trends and the causes of variation in actual evapotranspiration (AET) around the warming hiatus over China by a comprehensive analysis applying various temporal–spatial methods. It is observed that the annual AET showed a different trend around 2000 for China as a whole. By employing segmented regression analysis for detecting warming hiatus points, high temporal inconsis

The authors discuss CCTV, which is now established as a mature and ubiquitous technology. They review existing research on CCTV as backdrop to introduce an alternative re-narration that stresses its use as an advanced information technology—a socio-technology. Central to this perspective is the recognition that system effectiveness hinges on a match of individual, organizational and technological

Crises are a major driving force behind cooperation in the European Union. This holds also for monetary and fiscal policy. During severe crises, cooperation has been enlarged and intensified. The recent covid-19 pandemic is a clear example of this pattern. The pandemic has had huge impact on the conduct of stabilization policies in the EU. Public debt has grown rapidly in many EU member states. Th

UX is now an acknowledged business process across several industries. Having grown out of Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design, UX is increasingly witnessing scholarly attention outside these historical roots. However, this popularity of UX also seems to have caused a broadening of the UX concept – where several non-UX professional roles and perspectives now shape its m

Den moderna avhandlingens föregångare var dissertationen, som var genrebunden och sällan innehöll något originellt. Men som Bo Lindberg visar var dissertationen heller aldrig en speciellt viktig habiliteringsskrift. Det var under den muntliga disputationen, som kunde pågå i många timmar, som studenten skulle uppvisa sin förmåga att tala och argumentera på latin.

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The chapter outlines the main stages of development of AI strategy in Poland, focusing on three significant documents: Considerationsfor AI Strategy in Poland (November 2018), Policy for Development of AIin Poland for the years 2019-2027 (August 2019) and the draft Policy forDevelopment of AI in Poland from year 2020 (September 2020). At themoment of writing, the latter document has been adopted b

The complement system constitutes a crucial part of the innate immunity, mediating opsonization, lysis, inflammation, and elimination of potential pathogens. In general, there is an increased activity of the complement system during pregnancy, which is essential for maintaining the host’s defense and fetal survival. Unbalanced or excessive activation of the complement system in the placenta is ass