Pure Holsteins (n = 380) were compared to Normande/Holstein crossbreds (n = 245), Montbeliarde/Holstein crossbreds (n = 494), and Scandinavian Red/Holstein crossbreds (n = 328) for 305-d milk, fat, and protein production during first lactation. Scandinavian Red was a mixture of Swedish Red and Norwegian Red. Cows were housed at 7 commercial dairies in California and calved from June 2002 to Jan...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE No prospective surveillance systems have been available for monitoring the outcome of cruciate ligament surgery in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden). In the present paper we describe the Scandinavian ACL registries including their main function, similarities, and preliminary baseline results. METHODS The Scandinavian registries were established in 2004 (Norway) ...

The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of some of the most important issues faced by acute inpatient facilities in three Scandinavian countries, including reflections and critical remarks for discussion in this field. Information was drawn from scientific articles and official reports published in recent years, as well as the authors' own knowledge of acute facilities in their home coun...

An agarose technique able to demonstrate tuberculin-induced migration inhibition of human peripheral leucocytes is described. The inhibition was well correlated to the sensitivity of the cell donor as expressed by the delayed intracutaneous reaction to tuberculin. [The SCIa indicates that this paper has been cited in over 250 publications since 1971, making it the most-cited paper published in ...

This special issue on Scandinavian Researcher Career Retrospectives (RCR) includes five articles from within the Nordic information systems (IS) research community. Two of the papers are from Finland (Iivari and Nurminen), two from Sweden (Flensburg and Lundeberg), and one from Denmark (Bjørn-Andersen with Clemmensen). Each of these articles illuminates the history of Scandinavian IS research, ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether the magnitude of income-related health inequalities varies between welfare regimes (Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, Bismarckian, Southern and Eastern). Specifically, it examined whether the Scandinavian welfare state regime has smaller income-based health inequalities than the other welfare state regimes. METHODS The first (2002) and s...

Introduction to the special issue, Sharia and Scandinavian Welfare States

The aim of this article was to investigate the effect macroscale circulation types on total cloud cover in Poznań-Ławica (western Poland) years 1951–2015. analysis preceded by characteristics long-term, annual, and seasonal changes genera (data regarding observations covered period 1971–2015). six (Arctic oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, East Atlantic, Atlantic/West Russian, Scandinavia...

AIM The aim of the study was to assess the self-reported oral health behaviour of Scandinavian and Polish medical students studying in Poland. METHODS Three hundred and fifty subjects took part in the questionnaire survey. They were the 4th to 6th year Scandinavian and Polish medical students attending the same medical school. Test-retest reliability demonstrated an accepted level of kappa > ...