Migrant Crisis, a Security Challenge for the Republic of Macedonia by Muhamet Racaj

“…The busiest western – Balkan route used for arrival in the Schengen zone, especially in Germany, Sweden and other western and Nordic countries, brings negative influence visible in the social aspect, genuine threat to the national identity (culture, language, religion) and such endangerment inevitably will lead to an increased incidence of xenophobia, nationalism and racism. …”
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Tularemia – a re-emerging disease with growing concern by Rinku Sharma, Rajendra Damu Patil, Birbal Singh, Sandip Chakraborty, Deepak Chandran, Kuldeep Dhama, Devi Gopinath, Gauri Jairath, Ajayta Rialch, Gorakh Mal, Putan Singh, Wanpen Chaicumpa, G. Saikumar

“…Human cases have been reported mainly from the United States, Nordic countries like Sweden and Finland, and some European and Asian countries. …”
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The Routledge handbook on the reception of classical architecture by Temple, Nicholas, Piotrowski, Andrzej, Heredia, Juan Manuel

“…Essays cover a wide geography and include studies in Italy, France, England, Scotland, the Nordic countries, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Germany, Poland, India, Singapore, China, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia. …”
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The Ethics of Using De-Identified Medical Data for Research without Informed Consent by Art Caplan, Prag Batra

“…Introduction A recent publication by Ludvigsson et al [1] attempted to explain and justify the nature of health registries in Nordic countries. These registries contain de-identified medical information from each of the individuals who interact with the nationally-run healthcare system and are used for research and quality improvement purposes. …”
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Trends in Antibiotic Use in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish Children by Skajaa N, Gehrt L, Nieminen H, Laake I, Englund H, Sönksen UW, Feiring B, Benn CS, Trogstad L, Palmu AA, Sørup S

“…However, there were still considerable differences in antibiotic use between otherwise quite similar Nordic countries, with a more than 2-fold difference between the countries with the lowest and highest rates. …”
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Nordic survey on assessment and treatment of fluid overload in intensive care by Emilie Zeuthen, Sine Wichmann, Martin Schønemann-Lund, Mikko J. Järvisalo, Mikko J. Järvisalo, Rebecka Rubenson-Wahlin, Rebecka Rubenson-Wahlin, Martin I. Sigurðsson, Martin I. Sigurðsson, Erling Holen, Morten H. Bestle, Morten H. Bestle

“…We aimed to elucidate how ICU physicians from Nordic countries define, assess, and treat fluid overload in the ICU.Materials and methodsWe developed an online questionnaire with 18 questions. …”
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Depressive symptoms in higher education students during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. An examination of the association with various social risk factors across multiple... by S. Van de Velde, V. Buffel, C. van der Heijde, S. Çoksan, P. Bracke, T. Abel, H. Busse, H. Zeeb, F. Rabiee-khan, T. Stathopoulou, G. Van Hal, J. Ladner, M. Tavolacci, R. Tholen, E. Wouters

“…We find substantial cross-national variation in depressive symptoms, with lowest mean levels established in the Nordic countries and France, while highest mean levels of depressive symptoms were found in Turkey, South Africa, Spain and the USA. …”
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Body mass index is associated with health-related quality of life and disease characteristics in young adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis by Anna-Kaisa Tuomi, Katariina Rebane, Ellen Dalen Arnstad, Lillemor Berntson, Anders Fasth, Mia Glerup, Troels Herlin, Hannu Kautiainen, Ellen Nordal, Suvi Peltoniemi, Marite Rygg, Veronika Rypdal, Marek Zak, Kristiina Aalto

“…All newly diagnosed patients with JIA were recruited consecutively between 1997–2000 in specific regions in the Nordic countries. Patients in this sub-study were enrolled from 434 patients who attended their 18-year follow-up visit. …”
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Haematological malignancies in patients with psoriatic arthritis overall and treated with TNF inhibitors: a Nordic cohort study by Joseph Sexton, Johan Askling, Brigitte Michelsen, Lene Dreyer, Karin E Smedby, Eva Baecklund, Rene Lindholm Cordtz, Thorvardur Jon Love, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Kalle Aaltonen, Bénédicte Delcoigne, Sella Aarrestad Provan, Pia Isomäki, Christine Ballegaard, Karin Hellgren

“…Objectives To evaluate the risk of haematological malignancies in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) overall, and in relation to treatment with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi).Methods We identified that patients with PsA starting a first TNFi from the clinical rheumatology registers (CRR) in the five Nordic countries (n=10 621) and biologics-naïve PsA patients from (1) the CRR (n=18 705) and (2) the national patient registers (NPR, n=27 286, Sweden and Denmark) from 2006 through 2019. …”
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Use of Linked Nordic Registries for Population Studies in Hematologic Cancers: The Case of Multiple Myeloma by Abildgaard N, Freilich J, Anttila P, Bent-Ennakhil N, Ma Y, Lassenius M, Ørstavik S, Toppila I, Waage A, Turesson I, Hansson M

“…Niels Abildgaard,1,2 Jonatan Freilich,3,4 Pekka Anttila,5 Nawal Bent-Ennakhil,6 Yuanjun Ma,3 Mariann Lassenius,7 Sigurd Ørstavik,8 Iiro Toppila,7 Anders Waage,9 Ingemar Turesson,10 Markus Hansson11 1Hematology Research Unit, Department of Hematology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; 2Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 3Department of Access Consulting, PAREXEL International, Stockholm, Sweden; 4Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Dermatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 5Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Hematology, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 6Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG, Zurich, Switzerland; 7Medaffcon, Espoo, Finland; 8Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG, Oslo, Norway; 9Department of Hematology, St Olav’s University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; 10Lund University Cancer Centre, University of Lund, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; 11Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, SwedenCorrespondence: Niels Abildgaard, Department of Hematology, Odense University Hospital, Kloevervaenget 10, Floor 12, 5000 Odense C, Denmark, Tel +45 6541 1155, Email niels.abildgaard@rsyd.dkPurpose: Linked health-care registries and high coverage in Nordic countries lend themselves well to epidemiologic research. …”
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PAN-EURASIAN EXPERIMENT (PEEX) PROGRAM: AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST 5 YEARS IN OPERATION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS by Hanna K. Lappalainen, Nuria Altimir, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Tuukka Petäjä, Risto Makkonen, Pavel Alekseychik, Nina Zaitseva, Irina Bashmakova, Joni Kujansuu, Antti Lauri, Päivi Haapanala, Stephany B. Mazon, Alla Borisova, Pavel Konstantinov, Sergej Chalov, Tuomas Laurila, Eija Asmi, Heikki Lihavainen, Jaana Bäck, Michael Arshinov, Alexander Mahura, Steven Arnold, Timo Vihma, Petteri Uotila, Gerrit de Leeuw, Ilmo Kukkonen, Svetlana Malkhazova, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Irina Fedorova, Hans Christian Hansson, Sergey Dobrolyubov, Vladimir Melnikov, Gennady Matvienko, Alexander Baklanov, Yrjö Viisanen, Nikolay Kasimov, Huadong Guo, Valery Bondur, Sergej Zilitinkevich, Markku Kulmala

“…Today, PEEX has an extensive researcher’s network representing research communities coming from the Nordic countries,RussiaandChina. PEEX is currently carrying out its research activities on a project basis, but is looking for more coordinated funding bases, especially inRussiaand inChina. …”
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Barnevernet – velferdsstatens romantiske effektiviseringsprosjekt by Kjersti Røsvik, Halvard Vike, Marit Haldar

“…English abstract The Child Welfare Service – the welfare state's romantic efficiency project Over the past decade there has been an interesting discussion in the Nordic countries regarding the "sustainability" of the welfare state, a discussion which has caused great engagement among professionals. …”
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Development and Validation of a Nordic Multimorbidity Index Based on Hospital Diagnoses and Filled Prescriptions by Kristensen KB, Lund LC, Jensen PB, Broe A, Rotbain E, Damkier P, Pottegård A, Andersen JH, Højlund M, Olesen M, Rasmussen L, Hansen MR, Ernst MT, Wesselhoeft R, Henriksen DP, Reilev M, Bliddal M, Hallas J

“…The NMI should be validated in other patient populations and other Nordic countries.Keywords: multimorbidity, comorbidity, pharmacoepidemiology, prognosis, risk score…”
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Labour-market marginalisation after mental disorders among young natives and immigrants living in Sweden by Magnus Helgesson, Petter Tinghög, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Fredrik Saboonchi, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz

“…Immigrants were born in Western countries (Nordic countries, EU, Europe outside EU or North-America/Oceania), or in non-Western countries (Africa, Asia or South-America). …”
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Homogeneity in prediction of survival probabilities for subcategories of hipprosthesis data: the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association, 2000–2013 by Bartz-Johannessen C, Furnes O, Fenstad AM, Lie SA, Pedersen AB, Overgaard S, Kärrholm J, Malchau H, Mäkelä K, Eskelinen A, Wilkinson JM

“…The comparison was done using mean-square error.Results: We found large variations in the sample size needed, ranging from 40 to 2,060 hips, before an estimate from a single Nordic country was more accurate and precise than estimates based on the NARA data.Conclusion: Using pooled survival-probability estimates for individual risk prediction may be imprecise if there is heterogeneity in the pooled data sources. …”
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Monitoring Soil Moisture Drought over Northern High Latitudes from Space by Jostein Blyverket, Paul D. Hamer, Philipp Schneider, Clément Albergel, William A. Lahoz

“…We did see that the STBI was unable to detect the 2018 drought recovery for some areas in the Nordic countries. This false drought detection is likely linked to the recovery of vegetation after the drought, which causes an increase in the passive microwave brightness temperature, hence the STBI shows a dry anomaly instead of normal conditions, as seen for the other drought indices. …”
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Comparing and assessing physical activity guidelines for children and adolescents: a systematic literature review and analysis by Anne-Maree Parrish, Mark S. Tremblay, Stephanie Carson, Sanne L. C. Veldman, Dylan Cliff, Stewart Vella, Kar Hau Chong, Maria Nacher, Borja del Pozo Cruz, Yvonne Ellis, Salome Aubert, Billie Spaven, Mohd Jamil Sameeha, Zhuiguang Zhang, Anthony D. Okely

“…Twenty-five countries had a national guideline and there were three international guidelines (European Union, Nordic countries (used by Iceland, Norway and Sweden), World Health Organization (WHO)). …”
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Nordic Working Life and Social Dialogue in Times of Crisis by Bertil Rolandsson, Anna Ilsøe

“…Are the institutional foundations for adaption to various crises still able to provide means and measures to address future challenges in the Nordic countries? In this special issue, we address these questions, contributing to research on the future of Nordic working life during times of uncertainties by exploring the meaning and the impact of different types of crises and responses. …”
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Exposure to specific tumour necrosis factor inhibitors and risk of demyelinating and inflammatory neuropathy in cohorts of patients with inflammatory arthritis: a collaborative obs... by Johan Askling, Eirik Klami Kristianslund, Elizabeth V Arkema, Lene Dreyer, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Gerður Gröndal, Kalle Aaltonen, Bénédicte Delcoigne, Tine Iskov Kopp, Nina Trokovic, Sella Aarrestad Provan, Heikki Relas, Jesper Lindhardsen, Karin Hellgren

“…Objective To compare incidences of neuroinflammatory events, including demyelinating disease (DML), inflammatory polyneuropathies (IPN) and multiple sclerosis (MS), in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or spondyloarthritis (SpA; including psoriatic arthritis) starting a tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi), investigating whether monoclonal TNFi antibodies (other TNFis (oTNFis)) confer higher risk than etanercept.Methods This is an observational cohort study including patients from the five Nordic countries starting a TNFi in 2001–2020. Time to first neuroinflammatory event was identified through register linkages. …”
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Multimodal classification of molecular subtypes in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia by Olga Krali, Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, Gustav Arvidsson, Anna Pia Enblad, Anders Lundmark, Shumaila Sayyab, Vasilios Zachariadis, Merja Heinäniemi, Janne Suhonen, Laura Oksa, Kaisa Vepsäläinen, Ingegerd Öfverholm, Gisela Barbany, Ann Nordgren, Henrik Lilljebjörn, Thoas Fioretos, Hans O. Madsen, Hanne Vibeke Marquart, Trond Flaegstad, Erik Forestier, Ólafur G. Jónsson, Jukka Kanerva, Olli Lohi, Ulrika Norén-Nyström, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Arja Harila, Mats Heyman, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Jessica Nordlund

“…Our study shows the power of combining DNA methylation and gene expression data for resolving ALL subtypes and provides a comprehensive population-based retrospective cohort study of molecular subtype frequencies in the Nordic countries.…”
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