Based on eleven themes, this paper synthesizes in-depth case studies that present historical accounts on the development ‘success’ for a number of more economically advanced countries. The coverage includes Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), non-Nordic advanced countries (Ireland, Japan, and Switzerland) and transition economies (Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland), along...

NABO is a pan-Nordic project about the social inclusion of young persons in their respective societies. The was launched under Swedish presidency Nordic Council Ministers 2018 ...

BACKGROUND Several studies suggest that a healthy diet with high emphasis on nutritious, low-energy components such as fruits, vegetables, and seafood tends to be more costly for consumers. Derived from the ideas from the New Nordic Cuisine--and inspired by the Mediterranean diet, the New Nordic Diet (NND) has been developed as a palatable, healthy and sustainable diet based on products from th...

A change of paradigm is on the way in scholarly communication and research. The reasons for this development are manifold and particularly of an economical and technical character. They have created a paradoxical situation, where it has become technically less expensive to publish, but at the same time more difficult in terms of organisation and economics. The primary changes have happened and ...

Cross-disciplinary and cross-sectorial collaboration is a key success factor for turning the promise of digital pathology into actual clinical benefits. The Nordic symposium on digital pathology (NDP) was created to promote knowledge exchange in this area, among stakeholders in health care, industry, and academia. This article is a summary of the third NDP symposium in Linkφping, Sweden. The No...

On September 26-27, 2015, the 8th European Congress for Integrative Medicine convened the Global Summit on Integrative Medicine and Healthcare in Greater Copenhagen and Helsingør, Denmark at the Culture Yard just across from Kronborg Castle, which is home to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. This article is a summary of the author's presentation about integrative medicine within the Nordic region, ...

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 ...

eHealth indicator and benchmarking activities are rapidly increasing nationally and internationally. The work is rarely based on a transparent methodology for indicator definition. This article describes first results of testing an indicator methodology for defining eHealth indicators, which was reported at the Medical Informatics Europe conference in 2012. The core elements of the methodology ...

The Chrysididae are a group of cleptoparasitic and parasitoid aculeate wasps with a large number of rare and endangered species. The taxonomy of this group has long been confusing due to the similarity of species and extensive intraspecific variation. We present for the first time a comprehensive dichotomous key for all 74 species found in the Nordic and Baltic countries. In addition to diagnos...

The Goat Registration System has been developed since 1991 and today 227 Angora herds are on the system, including 25 Swedish and 7 Norwegian herds. The Nordic Angora goat population consists of many small herds (a total of 4,277 Angoras). This is one of the reasons why we have developed a genetic indexation system over the past 2 years, enabling us to compare animals from different herds and t...