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Burden of selected chronic non-communicable diseases in a primary healthcare setting in Nuuk, Greenland, compared to a Danish suburb

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
Introduction Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a massive global burden and are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. In Greenland, the prevalence of NCDs has historically been low.
Marie Balslev Backe, Per Kallestrup, Kurt Rasmussen, Marit Eika Jørgensen, Michael Lynge Pedersen   +4 more
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An easterly tip jet off Cape Farewell, Greenland. II: Simulations and dynamics [PDF]

, 2009
An easterly tip jet that occurred on 21 February 2007 off Cape Farewell, Greenland, is examined. In Part I of this article aircraft observations were described.
Barstad, Batchelor, Chelton, Davies, Donlon, Doyle, Heinemann, Holton, Kristjánsson, Lock, Martin, Moore, Moore, Parish, Petersen, Petersen, Petersen, Petersen, Renfrew, Renfrew, Renfrew, Renfrew, Schwerdtfeger, Smith, Sproson, Stark, Stull, Wentz, Zhong   +28 more
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Full Dollarisation and Economic Performance Revisited

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the economic performance of fully dollarised economies compared to those with alternative monetary regimes. Using an extensive dataset covering 192 countries from 1980 to 2021, we employ a variety of econometric techniques, including joint maximum likelihood and propensity score matching, to address endogeneity and ...
John Thornton, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility of a 12 weeks supervised exercise training intervention among people with Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) or type 2 diabetes in Greenland

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Preventing and managing Type 2 diabetes (T2D) involves adopting healthy lifestyle habits such as balanced nutrition and regular exercise. Maturity Onset Diabetes of The Young (MODY) shares diagnostic characteristics with T2D, but exercise responses in ...
Laila Motzfeldt, Mathias Ried-Larsen, Freya Jørgensen Hovden, Marit Eika-Jørgensen, Michael Lynge Pedersen, Maja Hykkelbjerg Nielsen   +5 more
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Million years of Greenland Ice Sheet history recorded in ocean sediments [PDF]

, 2011
Geological records from Tertiary and Quaternary terrestrial and oceanic sections have documented the presence of ice caps and sea ice covers both in the Southern and the Northern hemispheres since Eocene times, approximately since 45 Ma.
Jessen, Catherine, Knutz, Paul, Kuijpers, Antoon, Mikkelsen, Naja, Nørgaard-Pedersen, Nils, Spielhagen, Robert F., Thiede, Jörn   +6 more
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Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society‐ and membership‐making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant
Rauna Kuokkanen
wiley   +1 more source

Abundance of whales in West and East Greenland in summer 2015

NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2019
An aerial line transect survey of whales in West and East Greenland was conducted in August-September 2015. The survey covered the area between the coast of West Greenland and offshore (up to 100 km) to the shelf break.
Rikke Guldborg Hansen, Tenna K. Boye, Rasmus S. Larsen, Nynne H. Nielsen, Outi Tervo, Rasmus D. Nielsen, Marianne H. Rasmussen, Mikkel H. S. Sinding, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen   +8 more
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Decision‐making and risk‐taking as predictors of health risk behaviors in the Millennium Cohort Study

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Facets of decision‐making and risk‐taking are implicated in adolescent health risk behaviors; however, whether they may lead to adolescent engagement in substance use, gambling, and self‐harm is unknown. Methods We used the Millennium Cohort Study to test whether a task‐based measure of decision‐making and risk‐taking predicts ...
Nicole G. Hammond, Georgia Condran, Elise E. DeVito, Marie‐Claude Geoffroy, Ian Colman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relaxation Penalties and Priors for Plausible Modeling of Nonidentified Bias Sources

, 2010
In designed experiments and surveys, known laws or design feat ures provide checks on the most relevant aspects of a model and identify the target parameters. In contrast, in most observational studies in the health and social sciences, the primary study
Greenland, Sander
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Spatiotemporal Changes in Precipitation Concentration in the Atlantic‐European Region

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This study analyses changes in precipitation concentration using ERA5 and E‐OBS datasets. Gini index as a measure of precipitation concentration revealed a gradual expansion of areas with increasing unevenness in precipitation distribution across the Atlantic‐European region since 1961.
Petr Dobrovolný, David Tichopád, Rudolf Brázdil, Jan Řehoř, Jiří Mikšovský   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source