Early Denmark and Denmark Academy

Early History of Computing in Denmark

This paper describes how the predecessors to modern computers, the family of equipment we describe as The Punch Card Machines entered the Danish and Nordic Market and paved the way for the relatively rapid take-off by the Nordic market of the 'real' computers; also the paper spreads light on the competitive situation, the key applications and the heavy influence of public regulations on market ...

Centenarian Hotspots in Denmark

Background: The study of regions with high prevalence of centenarians is motivated by a desire to find determinants of healthy ageing. While existing research has focused on selected candidate geographical regions, we explore the existence of hotspots in the whole the Denmark, which is a small and homogeneous country. Methods: We performed a Kulldorff spatial scan across the whole of Denmark, s...

Job Polarisation in Denmark ?

Smart Grid in Denmark

Death in Denmark.

Does it matter that the hearts of 'brainstem dead' patients may persist in beating spontaneously? Hostile reactions, to the Danish inclusion of cardiac criteria in the determination of death, betray reductionist views of human life at the core of 'brainstem' conceptions of death. Such views (whether centred on neurological function or on abstractions concerning 'personhood') supplant the richne...