Regulatory reform in the Nordic electricity-supply markets has resulted in a single integrated Nordic electricity market. This paper performs an econometric study of market power in the spot market of Nord Pool, the joint Nordic power exchange. I use a dynamic extension of the Bresnahan-Lau model, and weekly data for the period from 1996 through April 1999. To my knowledge, this is the first st...

Obstetrics and gynecology training in the Nordic countries is of a high standard, but the current curriculum varies in the different countries. The Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology (NFOG) Educational Committee organized a course in Copenhagen (8–9 November 2013) to assess the possibilities of harmonizing and further improving the Nordic training in obstetrics and gyne...

Proceedings in the form of extended abstracts of the Joint Nordic Spring Meeting '92including the 3rd Nordic Conference on Surface Science, the Nordic Symposium on Com-puter Simulation, and 3rd Nordic Symposium on Superconductivity. In addition thereare contributions from workshops on the Physics of Small Clusters, on Soft CondensedMatter Physics and from an Electronic Propertie...

The Nordic study group on myeloproliferative disorders (NMPD) is a pan-Nordic organisation that has conducted Nordic clinical trials since 2001. NMPD decided in 2006 to write new guidelines, based on already existing national guidelines from the Nordic countries, Italy (1) and Great Britain (2). The first version was published in 2007. The aim has been to write a document that can be used in al...

Introduction: High death and injury rates at work are continually reported by the Ministry of Labour, Thailand, despite promotion occupational safety, health, environment (OSHE) management system across all enterprises. To identify gap between OSHE workers’ perception in terms safety climate Thai organizations, Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire-Thai Version (T-NOSACQ) was used this study. Met...

This study investigated the relation between working conditions, in terms of physical and psychological demand, and upper-limb and neck musculoskeletal disorders (ULNMD) in female staff working in direct contact with the elderly in nursing homes. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 105 nursing homes in France. Data on nursing-home working conditions were collected by questionnaire from oc...

BACKGROUND Ayurveda is one of the most ancient and widely practiced forms of medicine today, along with Traditional Chinese Medicine. It consists of determining an individual's constitution or Prakriti and current imbalance(s) through the use of multimodal approaches. Ayurveda practitioners may choose to include either a self-reported or structured interview constitutional questionnaire as part...

BACKGROUND In patients with COPD progressive dyspnoea leads to a sedentary lifestyle. To date, no studies exist investigating the effects of Nordic Walking in patients with COPD. Therefore, the aim was to determine the feasibility of Nordic Walking in COPD patients at different disease stages. Furthermore we aimed to determine the short- and long-term effects of Nordic Walking on COPD patients'...

BACKGROUND School meals, if both nutritious and attractive, provide a unique opportunity to improve health equality and public health. OBJECTIVE To describe the study rationale, data collection, and background of participants in the study 'Prospects for promoting health and performance by school meals in Nordic countries' (ProMeal). The general aim was to determine whether overall healthiness...