The evolution of stem cell venture ideas.

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Sustainable purchasing in food retail: inter-organisational management to green food supply chains

Despite the perceived role of retailers to realize corporate supply chain responsibility, retailers face a number of structural and managerial challenges to effectively influence the sustainability parameters in upstream supply chain. At the same time, research that touches upon implementation of sustainable sourcing by food retailers is limited leaving aside the inter-organisational managerial im

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. Implementation of the Rights of the Child in International Perspective

Explaining agricultural growth. The case of Sweden 1700-1850

Industrial Districts and Globalisation: Learning and Innovation in Local and Global Production and Innovation Systems. Paper

Magic, Health and the Mediation of the Body’s Geography.

This chapter examines some of the ways in which spas strive to offer their patrons a series of mass produced experiences that are framed in terms of personal wellness and serenity. In order to do this, the text begins by briefly examining the manner in which spas are organised as conceived spaces in their own promotional material. In the process, this material is placed in a historic context and i

Factors for adopting Applications as Services - a ten year recap of the provider perspective

Higher education in time of crises: Sweden introduces tuition fees for foreign students.

En modell av det inledande utrymningsförloppet

The purpose of the present study was to develop a new model of the initial part of an evacuation process, i.e., the pre-movement phase. A new method for estimating the pre-movement time was also going to be proposed. In the initial part of the study an inventory of existing models of human behaviour during fire evacuation was performed. This was followed by a literature review about helping behavi

Unintended Consequences and the Development of Indigenous Irrigation in East Africa

Increased abdominal obesity, adverse psychosocial factors and shorter telomere length in subjects reporting early ageing; the MONICA Northern Sweden Study

Background: The rate of biological ageing is individual and represents the steady decrease in physiological and mental functions. Adverse social factors have been shown to influence this process. Self-perceived early ageing (SEA) might be a useful indicator of early biological ageing and increased mortality risk. The aim of this population-based study was to identify markers of SEA, including telo

Metadata för det digitala biblioteket : Objektbeskrivning av elektroniska resurser

Cataloguing electronic documents makes new demands on libraries. This thesis discusses the metadata formats Dublin Core and MARC which are, individually or in combination, commonly used for object description in the digital library. The formats are studied with particular emphasis on characteristics such as underlying reasoning (ambitions during the development of the formats), flexibility (possi

A Myth of Tibet. Reverse Orientalism and Soft Power

On the Justifications of Piracy: Differences in Conceptualization and Argumentation Between Active Uploaders and other file-sharers

This chapter is, in part, about law and legal change. Law – especially intellectual property law – is greatly challenged in a digital society where media is distributed in global networks, for example via BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay. New norms for behavior set up under new pre-conditions in an online environment have emerged alongside the legal, emphasizing some sort of norm-pluralism

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A Critical Rethinking on Motivation

Planning as War by Other Means

Spaces for Public Orientation? : Longitudinal Effects of Internet Use in Adolesence

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