Essays about: "mathematical practices"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the words mathematical practices.

  1. 11. The process of setting science-based supply chain greenhouse gas emission targets - An exploratory study of IKEA Component’s scope 3 target setting process

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistik

    Author : Caroline Vernet; Pernilla Agné; [2017]
    Keywords : greenhouse gas; scope 3; green supply chain management; Science-based targets; carbon management; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Background: The world is facing global warming because of excessive release of greenhouse gases. The Science Based Target Initiative encourages companies to do their fair share in limiting the temperature increase to 2 degrees above preindustrial temperatures. This is called setting science-based targets. READ MORE

  3. 12. Modeling the potential impact of climate change on the distribution of Western Corn Rootworm in Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Tetiana Svystun; [2015]
    Keywords : Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; Western corn rootworm; temperature requirements; impact model; population establishment; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The Western Corn Rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is an important insect pest of corn, which has been introduced into Europe from Northern America in 1980s. Since then, its distributional range is continuously expanding over the Central and South-Eastern Europe. READ MORE

  4. 13. Understanding the Role of Mathematical Anxiety, Disaffect and Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Subject of Mathematics : A Qualitative Study of Swedish Student Teachers’ Experiences and Feelings towards Mathematics Education

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Stephanie Shamoon; [2014]
    Keywords : student teacher; mathematics; mathematical anxiety; emotions; subjectivity; discursive practices; Sweden; PISA; lärarstudent; matematik; matematisk ångest; känslor; subjektivitet; diskursiva praktiker; Sverige; PISA;

    Abstract : Alongside the international consensus about the importance of mathematical competencies in today’s knowledge society, the awareness about children’s and adult’s mathematical anxiety has increased. Within this, relatively limited, field of research it has moreover been revealed that the level of mathematical anxiety is considerably higher among students within teacher education programs compared to other university students. READ MORE

  5. 14. Barriers to convert to organic farming and the role of risk : an empirical application on Swedish data

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Åsa Sterte; [2011]
    Keywords : Organic farming; profitability; income risk; price risk; yield risk; barriers;

    Abstract : To understand the motives, and perhaps more importantly the barriers, for farmers to convert from conventional to organic farming is of great interest for policy makers as well as for academics. In Sweden and in other EU countries, proposed targets of the area in organic farmland have failed to be reached in spite of different kinds of policy measures. READ MORE