This study aimed to evaluate the association between psychological demands and control on work and the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders among nursing workers. This cross-sectional study involved 491 nursing workers from a University hospital in Rio Grande do Sul. Brazilian versions of the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire and the Job Content Questionnaire were used. Among the particip...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the degrees of changes in the gait and feet when walking on a treadmill using Nordic poles and without Nordic poles for 30 minutes. [Subjects] The participants of this study were 30 young adult males. The subjects were divided into a Nordic pole walking group of 15 subjects and a normal walking group of 15 subjects. [Methods] The subjects in bo...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are among the main causes of morbidity and mortality in Norway. The objective of this article is to provide an overview of literature that describes the effect of a Nordic diet in line with the authorities’ dietary advice on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. METHOD Electronic literature searches were undertaken in the PubMed, Cochrane and Embase datab...

This paper reports on a recent initiative undertaken under the language technology programme of the Nordic Research Training Academy (NORFA) to create a network of Nordic research institutes working with multimodal interfaces. In the paper we present the objectives of the network and give an overview of multimodal research and resources in the Nordic

Regulatory reform in the Nordic electricity-supply markets has resulted in a single integrated Nordic electricity market. This paper performs an econometric study of market power in the spot market of Nord Pool, the joint Nordic power exchange. I use a dynamic extension of the Bresnahan-Lau model, and weekly data for the period from 1996 through April 1999. To my knowledge, this is the first st...

Obstetrics and gynecology training in the Nordic countries is of a high standard, but the current curriculum varies in the different countries. The Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology (NFOG) Educational Committee organized a course in Copenhagen (8–9 November 2013) to assess the possibilities of harmonizing and further improving the Nordic training in obstetrics and gyne...

Proceedings in the form of extended abstracts of the Joint Nordic Spring Meeting '92including the 3rd Nordic Conference on Surface Science, the Nordic Symposium on Com-puter Simulation, and 3rd Nordic Symposium on Superconductivity. In addition thereare contributions from workshops on the Physics of Small Clusters, on Soft CondensedMatter Physics and from an Electronic Propertie...

The Nordic study group on myeloproliferative disorders (NMPD) is a pan-Nordic organisation that has conducted Nordic clinical trials since 2001. NMPD decided in 2006 to write new guidelines, based on already existing national guidelines from the Nordic countries, Italy (1) and Great Britain (2). The first version was published in 2007. The aim has been to write a document that can be used in al...