This study aimed to evaluate the association between psychological demands and control on work and the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders among nursing workers. This cross-sectional study involved 491 nursing workers from a University hospital in Rio Grande do Sul. Brazilian versions of the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire and the Job Content Questionnaire were used. Among the particip...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the degrees of changes in the gait and feet when walking on a treadmill using Nordic poles and without Nordic poles for 30 minutes. [Subjects] The participants of this study were 30 young adult males. The subjects were divided into a Nordic pole walking group of 15 subjects and a normal walking group of 15 subjects. [Methods] The subjects in bo...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are among the main causes of morbidity and mortality in Norway. The objective of this article is to provide an overview of literature that describes the effect of a Nordic diet in line with the authorities’ dietary advice on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. METHOD Electronic literature searches were undertaken in the PubMed, Cochrane and Embase datab...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Although heart failure negatively affects the health-related quality of life of Spanish patients there is little information on the clinical factors associated with this issue. METHODS Cross-sectional multicenter study of health-related quality of life. A specific questionnaire (Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire) and a generic questionnaire (EuroQoL-5D) were...

This paper reports on a recent initiative undertaken under the language technology programme of the Nordic Research Training Academy (NORFA) to create a network of Nordic research institutes working with multimodal interfaces. In the paper we present the objectives of the network and give an overview of multimodal research and resources in the Nordic