News tagged with nordic countries
How big (or small) is large?
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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Trousers have to be tried on - the variation between size labeling and actual clothing size is huge. This is shown by the report "Large? Clothing sizes and size labeling", which looks at the relationship between clothing ...
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Nordic walking taking root in Japan
Dec 27, 2006 |
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Japan's newest fitness craze, Nordic walking, has onlookers puzzled as to why people are walking with ski poles when there is no snow.
New tools for prediction of disease progression in acute childhood leukemia
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University and University Children’s Hospital in Uppsala have devised powerful new tools for typing cells from children with acute lymphatic leukemia and for prediction of how children ...
Lifelong cancer risk for patients treated for childhood cancer
May 26, 2009 |
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Childhood cancer survivors have a persistent and high risk for a second primary cancer throughout their lives, according to a new study published in the May 26 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Europe bids to tax personal fuel consumption
Oct 02, 2009 |
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A Europe-wide tax on personal or household fuel consumption was proposed on Friday as EU finance ministers met to discuss who should pay what in the fight against global warming.
Taj Cyber-Network Now Expands Across the Northern Hemisphere and Connects Half the Globe
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Taj network has expanded to the Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development (GLORIAD), wrapping another ring of light around the northern ...
Nations that launch: Where new technologies and products take-off
Oct 31, 2008 |
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A new study published in the September/October issue of the journal Marketing Science reveals the world's most innovative countries, with Japan and the Nordic countries earning top spots and the United States finishing in six ...
US Atlantic cod population to drop by half by 2050
Feb 12, 2009 |
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A University of British Columbia researcher put a number to the impact of climate change on world fisheries at today's Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago.
Link between nationality and cervical cancer
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Gynaecological screening tests for cervical cancer have been available to all women in Sweden for almost four decades. Despite this, many immigrant women have a higher risk of developing the disease than Swedish-born women, ...
U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
Mar 29, 2007 |
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A low rate of mobile telephone usage, lack of government leadership in IT and fallen quality of math and science education were blamed for the U.S. slipping to seventh place in the World Economic Forum's ranking of technology ...
Pirate Party swashbuckles into Finnish politics
Aug 19, 2009 |
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The Pirate Party, which first rose to prominence in Sweden during June's European elections, has now been officially launched in Finland, the group's leader said on Wednesday.
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