2 Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway Grete Brochmann*1, Anniken Hagelund*2 Abstract During the 1990s and more so after the turn of the century, the authorities and the public in Scandinavia have become increasingly concerned about the pressure on welfare inflicted by the immigration of people with low skill levels from countries in the South. A large proportion of these newcomers have ...

In a Scandinavian company developing a healthcare information system (IS) at three Scandinavian sites they succeeded in taking agile processes into use across the three sites. After a fourth development site in India was added the use of agile development processes gradually came to an end and plan-driven processes took over. In this paper we report from a month-long study where our analysis of...

also implies that there will not be a paper version of the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care in your mailbox anymore. You now have to make sure that you, if not already, have signed up for an e-mail version of the journal using the link below. With this change a fantastic and important era with a paper journal from the Nordic countries has ended. Nevertheless, the Scandinavian Journal...

The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate how nursing students in Indonesia and Scandinavia characterize a healthy person. Two hundred thirty-two nursing students from Indonesia, 50 students from Sweden, and 119 students from Norway participated by answering an open-ended question. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify patterns of health in a cultural and national con...

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in volume 23 (2015).

IgA pemphigus is a rare neutrophilic acantholytic skin disorder with only approximately 70 cases reported in the indexed literature to date. Here we describe two patients with IgA pemphigus (subcorneal pustular dermatosis type and intraepithelial neutrophilic type) that to our knowledge are the first Scandinavian patients with this disease. Initially, both patients were misdiagnosed as subcorne...

Although Scandinavian neuroscience has a proud history, its status during the Nazi era has been overlooked. In fact, prominent neuroscientists in German-occupied Denmark and Norway, as well as in neutral Sweden, were directly affected. Mogens Fog, Poul Thygesen (Denmark) and Haakon Sæthre (Norway) were resistance fighters, tortured by the Gestapo: Thygesen was imprisoned in concentration camps ...

Based on repetitive visits to three Scandinavian newspaper organizations, this paper presents trajectories of evolution for three Scandinavian news sites from 1996 to 1999. Genre awareness is an explanation of how users and designers create and maintain web site awareness beyond the individual site. In the paper genre is elaborated in terms of content, form and rationale. From the data it is co...

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is an enzyme involved in metabolic pathways of importance for nucleotide synthesis and methylation of DNA, membranes, proteins and lipids. The MTHFR gene includes a common polymorphism (rs1801133 or C677T), which is associated with enzyme activity. The T-allele of the C677T polymorphism has been associated with earlier age at onset of schizophrenia in...