The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is a distributed organization of IT-experts working at various national HPC centers throughout the Nordic region. The mission of NeIC is to facilitate the development of high-quality e-Infrastructure solutions in areas of joint Nordic interest. It is owned by the research councils and national e-Infrastructure provider organisations from Denmark,...

1 Scandinavian Studies in Law 50 Years ................................................. 14 2 The Themes of the Article ...................................................................... 15 3 Scandinavian or Nordic Law? Terminology and Basic Legal Setting ................................................................................. 15 4 The Classification of Scandinavian Law Within the ...

All the Nordic countries have a basis for their surveillance and disease control in ruminants in national legislation and regulations listing notifiable diseases of concern to the countries. The Nordic countries are a disease-free zone comparing to other parts of the world and the aim of the surveillance is to keep that status and be able to document it. Following is a short summary from each c...

The European decision support systems ARGOS and RODOS rely on the ECOSYS model for prognoses of ingestion doses. ECOSYS needs an update of various parameter values to provide reliable estimates. This paper reports on some results of a Nordic initiative to derive parameter values that are specific to Nordic conditions, as well as to improve generic parameter values in ECOSYS, taking into account...

The study shows that Nordic daily newspapers—like their American peers—will have to change their content to conform more to the tastes of readers or—at the very least—find a more reader-friendly way to present the news. The authors compare national surveys of Nordic and U.S. editors charged with the practical aspects of choosing, justifying, editing, and publishing the news. In a search for val...

Using GLOBE classification and findings, this paper compares the family characteristics and work cultures of family businesses in Anglo, Germanic, and Nordic cultures. Results indicate differing patterns in terms of the involvement of the family in the family business and other key organizational dimensions. While all three regions share their weak family orientation, the Nordic and Germanic re...

Loss of physical strength and hypertension are among the most pronounced detrimental factors accompanying aging. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of a supervised 8-week Nordic-walking training program on systolic blood pressure in systolic-hypertensive postmenopausal women. This study was a randomized control trial on a sample of 24 subjects who did not take any hypertension ...

The aim of this study was to compare the performance of hospital care in four Nordic countries: Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Using national discharge registries and cost data from hospitals, cost efficiency in the production of somatic hospital care was calculated for public hospitals. Data were collected using harmonized definitions of inputs and outputs for 184 hospitals and data enve...

Deadline for Nordic colleges to send in nominations to the editorial board: 15th March 2015. For further information about the award please, contact the editorial offi ce at www.sjphc.org The fi nal decision of who is going to be awarded Paper of the Year is judged by the full editorial board of the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. A specifi c focus is put on explicit criteria: Impa...

My advisor made some changes to my research paper. Since it will be posted on OPENSIUC, he wanted to make some technical changes to the paper. I have already gotten this paper accepted, and the changes on this paper are minor, but necessary. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A great amount of appreciation is given to the educators in the Kinesiology graduate school departments. In particular, Dr. M. Daniel B...