The Finnish Sami population

Cancer among the Sami--a review on the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish Sami populations.

OBJECTIVES The Sami are the Indigenous people of the northernmost parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway, and of the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The present review summarizes the main results from studies on cancer morbidity and mortality among the Sami and discusses these results in relation to exposure of known risk factors. STUDY DESIGN Literature review. METHODS A systematic search over the ...

Acetabular dysplasia in the Sami population: a population study among Sami in north Norway.

OBJECTIVES The overall aim of this study was to evaluate the acetabular coverage of the femoral head as measured by the centre-edge (CE) angle of Wiberg and to evaluate any association between low back pain and hip dysplasia in a Sami-dominated area (the municipalities of Karasjok and Kautokeino) in north Norway. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional population-based study, which included questionna...

Suicidal expressions among the Swedish reindeer-herding Sami population

Aims: The objective of this study was to investigate suicidal expressions among reindeer-herding Sami in Sweden. Subjects: A total of 315 reindeer-herding Sami (167 men, 148 women) were compared with geographically matched reference populations comprising 1354 persons (652 men, 702 women). Methods: A questionnaire measuring different aspects of suicidal behaviour, such as exposure to suicide an...

Asthma Candidate Genes in the Finnish Population

Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia

We describe our work towards developing SamiTalk, a robot application for the North Sami language. With SamiTalk, users will hold spoken dialogues with a humanoid robot that speaks and recognizes North Sami. The robot will access information from the Sami Wikipedia, talk about requested topics using the Wikipedia texts, and make smooth topic shifts to related topics using the Wikipedia links. S...