BACKGROUND In Northern Norway, traditional medicine (TM) is shaped by both Christianity and traditional Sami nature worship. The healing rituals may include prayer and the use of tools such as moss, water, stones, wool and soil. Examples of TM modalities offered is cupping, blood-stemming, laying on of hands, healing prayers, and rituals. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevale...

Serum Calcium, Phosphorous and Alkaline Phosphatase levels in Different Trimesters of pregnancy Authors: Mohammad Gharedaghi Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Mashhad University of Medical Siences Nayere Ghomian Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gyneocology, Mashhad University of Medical Siences Hassan Rahimi Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Mashhad University of Medical Siences Mahm...

This paper explores the concept of being and performing masculinity in Karim Raslan’s short story Go East. Torn between being a man in his own terms and performing socially endorsed masculine roles and sexual desires, the protagonist, Mahmud, negotiates and transgresses gender borders, resulting in his inability to sexually perform with women and incapacity for emotional and physical intimacy w...

BACKGROUND Adolescents, influenced by modern youth culture, may have a diet containing too little iron and other vital nutrients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Adolescents from Finnmark county, situated well above the arctic circle in Norway, from a Sami culture, and from a coastal culture, were examined to study hemoglobin, iron stores, dietary composition, food habits and life-style. A short interv...

Kompetensi pedagogik merupakan kompetensi yang sangat penting untuk dimiliki seorang pendidik. Oleh karena itu tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis pendidik dari sudut pandang atau perspektif berbeda bersumber kitab Tadzkirah as-Sami’ wa al-Mutakallim fi Adabi al-‘Alim al-Muta’allim karya Ibnu Jama’ah memiliki relevansi dengan undang-undang Nomor 14. Tahun 2005 tentang Penelitian menggunak...

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...

G. G. Batrouni, H. R. Krishnamurthy, K. W. Mahmud, V. G. Rousseau, and R. T. Scalettar INLN, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS; 1361 route des Lucioles, 06560 Valbonne, France Physics Department, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India Lorentz Institute, Leiden ...

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