Transforming vocational education and training in Finland: Uses of developmental work research approach by Marianne Teräs

“…Vocational education and training (VET) is under reform in many Nordic countries. This article explores uses of developmental work research (DWR) approach in reforming and transforming practices of VET. …”
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FOKUS: NORDEN OG KINA Kännetecknas av en pragmatism. Bilaterala förhällanden mellan Finland och Kina by Jyrki Kallio

“…Because the Chinese government sees stability as a crucial condition for economic growth, China's stability is more than just indirectly in the interests of Europe, the Nordic countries included. The question then becomes: how far will any individual countries – taken that they may have competing commercial interests – be ready to go in giving at least implicit support to China's measures in upholding its internal stability?…”
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Recent Development and Future Perspectives of Quality Control and Assurance for the Deep Mixing Method by Masaki Kitazume

“…The deep mixing method (DMM), an in situ soil stabilization technique, was developed in Japan and Nordic countries in the 1970s and has gained increased popularity in many countries. …”
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Disability and the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Rourke O’Brien

“…A higher proportion of working- age persons receive disability assistance in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands than in other European countries. …”
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Religious Belief, Human Rights, and Social Democracy: Catholic Reflections on Abortion in Iceland by Giorgio Baruchello

“…Terms such as “pro-life” and “pro-choice” evoke animated responses in the Anglophone world and can even win, or lose, major elections to political parties, candidates and movements. In the Nordic countries, however, the same terms and related responses are generally perceived as academic, at best, or as American, at worst. …”
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A Roadmap for Systematically Identifying Opportunities in Ecosystems Using Scientific Publications Data by Behrooz Khademi, Hannele Lampela, Kosmas X. Smyrnios

“…Using Python and VOSViewer, we show an exemplary application of the new roadmap, framed in the context of the Nordic countries’ renewable energy ecosystem.…”
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Tax Performance Assessment in Scandinavian Countries by Bunescu Liliana

“…The aim of this paper is to evaluate fiscal policy performance level in Nordic countries of Europe by quantifying the gap between their performance and an optimum benchmark value. …”
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Different selection processes, different outcomes? Comparing labor market integration of asylum refugees, resettled refugees and their reunited family members in Finland by Jussi Tervola

“…Contrary to the previous results from Nordic countries, among females, resettled refugees integrate the fastest and family reunion migrants demonstrate the slowest integration. …”
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Bringing Managers Back in: Support for Gender-Equality Measures in the Business Sector by Ragni Hege Kitterød, Mari Teigen

“…The progression of gender balance in top positions at big corporations in Nordic countries has not lived up to the expectations. …”
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What can geographers do for shrinking geographies? by Josefina Syssner

“…The paper also suggests that geographers in the Nordic countries could enrich an international research field of studies of shrinkage by (g) providing case studies or comparative studies from a Nordic context. …”
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From general transfer to deep learning as argument for practical aesthetic school subjects? by Jorunn Spord Borgen, Finn R. Hjardemaal

“…We investigate the conceptual framework and methodological possibilities and constraints concerning transfer from the PAS to other domains, and analyse the transfer arguments in arts and crafts and physical education (PE) within the context of the Nordic countries specifically. We find that there is not much research about how educational objectives, content, and teaching and working methods, assessment forms, learning processes and learning outcomes are linked together. …”
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Dressed in a Present from the Past The Transfers and Transformations of a Swedish Bridal Crown in the United States by Lizette Gradén

“…Ever since the emigration from the Nordic countries the Old world and the New world have maintained an exchange of ideas, customs, and material culture. …”
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Edward H. Huijbens, Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene (London: Routledge, 2021) by Giorgio Baruchello

“…Academia, for one, cultivates a veritable graveyard of past ‘irrationalities’ and serves as an imposing bastion of practical atheism, especially in the Nordic countries, where the intellectuals’ secular outlook is part and parcel of the broader conventional wisdom. …”
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North-West Russia in the context of European integration by Kochegarova Tamara, Simonyan Renald

“…The author focuses on the social and cultural integrity of the region and considers the traditional Nordic countries and the Baltic Sea states as interrelated components of a single region, different from other European regions in terms of economic interests, as well as its natural and sociocultural landscape.…”
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Instruments of Innovation Security by Anna A. Mikhaylova, Andrey S. Mikhaylov

“…Keywords: innovation security, innovation policy, innovation potential, region, Baltic region, BSR, Germany, Nordic countries, Russia, international cooperation JEL Classifications: D83; D85; F52; O33 …”
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Phosphorus – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 by Suvi T. Itkonen, Christel Lamberg-Allardt

“…Dietary phosphorus intake exceeds the previous Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR2012) 2–3-fold in the Nordic countries. Intake from food additives is unknown but may play a significant role because the use of phosphate additives is common in the food industry. …”
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Introduction to 2020-4 by Anders Buch

“…This issue of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies collects six research articles from the Nordic countries. The first article, Reconceptualizing Job Control in Participatory Interventions – Collective Sensemaking as a Missing Link, authored by Esben Langager Olsen, Christian Dyrlund Wåhlin-Jacobsen, and Johan Simonsen Abildgaard, investigates the connection between participatory organizational-level interventions (POLIs) and job control. …”
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Instruments of Innovation Security by Anna A. Mikhaylova, Andrey S. Mikhaylov

“…Keywords: innovation security, innovation policy, innovation potential, region, Baltic region, BSR, Germany, Nordic countries, Russia, international cooperation JEL Classifications: D83; D85; F52; O33 …”
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Characterisation of Norwegian Battery Electric Vehicle Owners by Level of Adoption by Nina Møllerstuen Bjørge, Odd André Hjelkrem, Sahar Babri

“…We assess the validity of the results and policy recommendations by analysing the results of a survey amongst the Nordic countries on investment choices concerning battery electric vehicles.…”
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Teaching History in a multicultural society – trends and tendencies in Nordic schools by KG Hammarlund

“…History curricula in the Nordic countries have for the last two decades gradually moved in this direction. …”
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