Objectives To determine and compare the incidence of cancer among the 8 Arctic States and their northern regions, with special focus on 3 cross-national indigenous groups - Inuit, Athabaskan Indians and Sami. Methods Data were extracted from national and regional statistical agencies and cancer registries, with direct age-standardization of rates to the world standard population. For comparison...

Northern Norway is a vast, elongated area, stretching from south of the polar circle to Cape North. It covers 113 000 square kilometres, 45% of the total area of Norway, and is in length about the same as all Italy. It is, however, inhabited by only 463 000 persons, 10% of the total population of Norway. This makes the area one of most sparsely populated in Europe, with a mean of only 4 persons...

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Master of Science Degree Programme in Electrical Engineering LÖF, ATTE: Testing of low voltage network automation Master of Science Thesis, 59 pages, 21 Appendix pages January 2013 Major: Power systems and market Examiner: Professor Sami Repo

*Corresponding author: [email protected] Amr Abdel Hady Nasef Mohamed Nasef Abdelatif Hisham Abdel-Ghani Ashraf Abdelkafy Mohamed El-Sayed Abdel-Wanis Nariman Abol Oyoun Ijaz Ahmad alaa azmi ahmad Khaled Al Saleh Nuri Aydin Ufuk Aydinli Ahmed Azeem Laszlo Bucsi Jacques Caton Hitendra Doshi Ziyad El Qirem Ossama El Shazly Yasser Elbatrawy Mohammad El-Sharkawi Essam ElSherif Khaled Emara Mehme...

OBJECTIVE Self-reported ethnic discrimination has been associated with a range of health outcomes. This study builds on previous efforts to investigate the prevalence of self-reported ethnic discrimination in the indigenous (Sami) population, and how such discrimination may be associated with key health indicators. STUDY DESIGN The study relies on data from the 2003/2004 (n=4,389) population-...

BACKGROUND In recent decades many indigenous communities, policy makers and researchers worldwide have criticized the academic community for not being aware of the specific challenges these communities have faced and still are facing with regard to research. One result of the decades of discourse in indigenous communities is the development in many Western countries of indigenously sensitive et...

OBJECTIVES To describe the method, data collection procedure and participation in The Population-based Study on Health and Living Conditions in Areas with both Sami and Norwegian Settlements - the SAMINOR 2 questionnaire study. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional and semi-longitudinal. METHODS In 2012, all inhabitants aged 18-69 and living in selected municipalities with both Sami and Norwegian se...