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‘As If There Was No Fear’: Exploring Nostalgic Narrative in Bo Carpelan’s Novel Berg

Humanities, 2018
This article addresses nostalgic experience and aims at a definition of nostalgic narrative through textual analysis. The target text is Bo Carpelan’s Berg (2005).
Nanny Jolma
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Nordic welfare financiers made global portfolio investors : institutional change in pension fund governance in Sweden and Finland [PDF]

, 2010
Pension funds have lately emerged as an essential field of study in various disciplines within social sciences. Political economists, economic geographers and some social policy researchers have studied the role of pension funds very broadly for instance
Roumpakis, Antonios, Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
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The rise of the welfare state in international society [PDF]

, 2015
In this article I seek to develop a case for viewing the welfare state as a primary institution in international society. This is with particular reference to Norden (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), where in the course of the 1930s, and ...
Schouenborg, L.
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Mitt i stridsvimlet

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap
Amid the Heat of Battle. Modernism, Fascism and the Values of Literature in the Interwar Period This article deals with Finland-Swedish modernism during the interwar years (1920’s and 1930’s) from a historical and conceptual perspective.
Fredrik Hertzberg
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The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 in an international perspective [PDF]

, 2005
This paper compares the boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 with the average boom-bust pattern in industrialized countries as calculated from an international sample for the period 1970-2002. Two clear conclusions emerge.
Jonung, Lars, Schuknecht, Ludger, Tujula, Mika   +2 more
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Mortality by country of birth in the Nordic countries – a systematic review of the literature

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Immigration to the Nordic countries has increased in the last decades and foreign-born inhabitants now constitute a considerable part of the region’s population.
Helena Honkaniemi, Jennie Bacchus-Hertzman, Johan Fritzell, Mikael Rostila   +3 more
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A Strange Romance : Malin Kivelä, Du eller aldrig (2006) as a Case Study of Late Modern Multilingualism in Finland-Swedish Literature

, 2022
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Venesection conducted by physicians, barber-surgeons, bell-ringers and indigenous healers in Finland over 500 years. A narrative literature review with a limited genealogical search

Proceedings (European Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Venesection was was a common medical procedure from ancient times to the 19th century, frequently performed by physicians and barber-surgeons. In Finland, priests, church bell-ringers, and indigenous healers also performed venesection for a variety of ...
Jarmo Kuronen
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'Glokal' litteraturhistoria – på väg mot en omvärdering av finlandssvensk barnlitteratur

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2011
This article considers the conditions and possibilities of writing a methodologically innovative glocal history of post-war Swedish-language children’s literature in Finland.
Österlund, Mia, Lassén-Seger, Maria, Franck, Mia   +2 more
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Notable seasonal variation observed in the morphology of the reindeer rumen fluke (Paramphistomum leydeni) in Finland

Rangifer, 2009
Although numerous Paramphistomum species have been described from the rumen and reticulum of domestic and wild ruminants, information about rumen flukes in reindeer is sparse and their nomenclature is somewhat conflicting.
Sven Nikander, Seppo Saari
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