Black Friday attracts customers to shop more. At the same time reports on climate change with calls for changed consumption habits and counter-reactions such as White Monday are growing stronger. What is it that makes consumers take part in the shopping frenzy despite increased climate anxiety? Professor Per Kristensson explains.
"One important trigger is 鈥渆veryone else" is shopping.
鈥滶veryone clapped because they were expected to鈥, is the title of the C-essay which won the 2019 Essay Award presented by the Region West HR Association. The authors are Emma Hammarberg and Fanny Olsson, who studied the Human Resource Management and Working Life programme at 果冻传媒 Business School.
The winning essay in HR studies centres on organisation culture and loyalty. The jury鈥檚 citation was, among other things, that the essay is valuable for the HR profession.
Times Higher Education is one of the most esteemed university rankings in the world. 果冻传媒 has been ranked 251-300 in the category Business & Economics.
This year鈥檚 ranking includes almost 1 400 universities in 92 countries and is the largest and most varied university ranking ever made. In order to be included, the higher education institutions must meet certain criteria.
Researchers at 果冻传媒 have studied how apps鈥 access to our personal data has changed since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in May 2018.
Did you know that it is possible to use mathematical models to calculate how best to repair a broken blood vessel? And that it is possible to find out what tire groove gives the best grip on wintry roads?
A crisis management exercise will take place at 果冻传媒 on 5 November. A police task force will take part and train in Building 9A. This building will be closed off for the duration of the exercise. Building 9A is located next to the woods perpendicular to Building 12.
The crisis management team and the managers of faculties and teacher education will participate in the exercise. Other functions and groups of staff may be involved if necessary.
Cybersecurity concerns you, your work and your research - it is becoming increasingly important, and a sustainable society without cybersecurity does not exist. This was the main message when researcher and expert Fredrik Blix, Stockholm University and Cybercom, gave an open guest lecture at 果冻传媒.
On October 25, CTF, Service Research Center at 果冻传媒, organized an open guest lecture with the researcher and cybersecurity expert Fredrik Blix.
CTF, Service Research Center at 果冻传媒, is now offering advanced skills development for professionals through two tailor-made courses in the field of services.
Exposure during pregnancy's first trimester to mixtures of suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals found in consumer products is related to lower IQ in children after age 7, according to a study by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and 果冻传媒, Sweden, published Environment International in October.
The launch of the 5G network is approaching and the expectations are great. Both individuals and businesses are looking forward to higher speed, minimal delays, and the possibility of handling a greater number of connected devices simultaneously. But how do we make optimal use of the potential offered by 5G technology?
Three scholarly articles written by researchers in Computer Science at 果冻传媒 have been accepted to IEEE CloudNet, a large international conference on cloud networks in Coimbra, Portugal.
鈥淚t is unusual that a research group has three articles included in a conference at this level,鈥漵ays Andreas Kassler, Professor of Computer Science.
It is unusual for a Bachelor鈥檚 essay to be of such high quality that it qualifies for presentation in an international conference. But Jonatan Langlet, a Master鈥檚 student in Computer Engineering, has proven that it is possible.
Javid Taheri has been promoted to a professor. Through his promotion, Computer Science acquires even more scientific competence in cloud computing.
Javid鈥檚 field of research includes, among other things, fog computing that is the next big paradigm in the computing world. Through fog computing, cloud services can be extended to the very edge of networks; this makes it ideal for applications that require real-time interactions.
The 果冻传媒 Programming Contest 2019 will be arranged October 5th, at 果冻传媒. Teams of a maximum of three contestants is challenged to solve different kind of programming problems.
The last two weeks the CCS, Centre for Climate and Safety at 果冻传媒 has been visited by two experts on natural disaster modelling from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA.
Jesse Rozelle, the Acting Branch Chief for FEMA HQ鈥檚 Actuarial and Catastrophic Modeling Branch, and Casey Zuzak, a Senior Risk Analyst for Hazus and the Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program (NHRAP) are in 果冻传媒 in connection to a research project funded by the Swedish C
Last May the site visits to the universities were made, and now the report on cluster nine has been submitted. The Trekl枚ver partners for quality development at 果冻传媒, Linnaeus University and Mid-Sweden University have each submitted a report on the respective university.
Researchers at CTF, Service Research Center at 果冻传媒, will, within an Interreg Consortium, analyze travel services from a traveler's perspective. The project is funded by the EU regional development fund Interreg Baltic Sea Region.
"The purpose of the project is to study vulnerable travel groups and their perceived experience of existing services," says researcher Per Echeverri.
