BACKGROUND Norwegian government white papers have stated that the Sami population is reluctant to seek help from healthcare services and has traditions of self-help and the use of local networks. OBJECTIVE In this article we explore healthcare professionals' discursive constructions of Sami persons with dementia and their families' reluctance to seek and accept help from healthcare services. ...

This paper focuses on the influence of season of birth on infant mortality among the Sami and non-Sami populations in northern Sweden during the nineteenth century. The source material is a set of data files from the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University, making it possible to combine age at death (in days), month of death, and month of birth over the course of the entire century. Cox regres...

In this article, the views of great medieval linguist Mahmud Zamakhshari in his work “Al-Mufassal fi sanati-l-i'rab” on Arabic language “maf'ul -– مفْعُول”, i.e. object and its variance, are compared with modern Arab scholars. Linguists such as Mustafa Ghalayini, Abbas Hasan, Antoine ad-Dahdah, Nemat Fuad, Abu Bakr Abdul Alim, methods expressing topic included analysis.

this study aims to show the changes of the image of arabic/persian other in the novels of iranian author, ahmad mahmud and arabic author¬, abd al-rahman munif. in this comparative study, we follow the both of american and russian schools in comparative literature that focus on common and uncommon points between literary works. the study has divided in two sections: “the image of other and its r...

Ferda Özbay Hoşnut1, Figen Özçay1, Barış Malbora2, Şamil Hızlı3, namık Özbek4 1Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Ankara, Turkey 2Dr. Sami Ulus Research and Training Hospital of Women’s and Children’s Health and Diseases, Ankara, Turkey 3Dr. Sami Ulus Research and Training Hospital of Women’s and Children’s Health and Dis...

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a literature examining the effects of giving birth to sons on postmenopausal longevity in pre-industrial mothers. The original paper in this lineage used a sample (n=375) of Sami mothers from northern Finland and found that, relative to daughters, giving birth to sons substantially reduced maternal longevity. We examine this hypothesis using a simila...

The Sidky Agile Measurement Index (SAMI) is a 5step value-based roadmap to agility. The SAMI is designed to help guide organizations seeking to become more agile. Each of SAMI’s 5 steps (Collaborative, Evolutionary, Integrated, Adaptive and Encompassing) aims to instill a new value in teams and organizations. This report shows how an organization that is just at Step 2 of the SAMI has realized ...