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Cognitive Testing Practices for Basic Military Training in the Nordic Countries: A Scoping Review

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Nordic countries have a long tradition of using general mental ability (GMA) tests as part of their military conscription process, a practice that began in the mid‐20th century. These Nordic tests were developed with a dual purpose—to filter out individuals unfit for military service and to rank individuals' GMA for military roles—and they
Emelie Wahlkrantz, Jeanette Melin
wiley   +1 more source

Declining melanoma incidence among younger adults in Sweden: insights from histopathological subtypes and the role of immigration. [PDF]

Acta Oncol
Girmay Y, Mikiver R, Lapins J, Isaksson K, Helgadottir H.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

More of the Same? Institutional Stability and Change in Contemporary Welfare States

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While there has been a longstanding debate on welfare state retrenchment and convergence, welfare states have mostly been perceived to continuously diverge along previously established lines. This stability is commonly ascribed to institutional legacies and policy feedback.
Sebastian Sirén, Riccardo Corti
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in early-onset cancer incidence rates in the Nordic countries (2003-2022): a population-based study. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Eur
Johansson AL, Kønig SM, Cardoso R, Møller H, Ursin G, Skog A, Persson Å, Birgisson H, Kristjánsdóttir L, Tanskanen T, Dahl-Olsen ED, Bray F, Friis S, Lambe M.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

International Cocoa Trading Arrangements Between Industrialised and Developing Countries 1951–1999: A Structural Gravity Analysis

The World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a state‐of‐the‐art structural gravity model, we investigate the impact of various (post‐)colonial cocoa trading arrangements on the cocoa trade between developing cocoa producer countries and rich industrial cocoa consumer nations in the time period 1951–1999. We find that in particular the trading arrangements of the European (Economic)
John Brown, Xenia Matschke, Juan René Rojas Rodríguez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

mSphere Legacy: Fritz about Fritz. [PDF]

mSphere
Götz F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Introduction to the Special Issue on English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Three decades after Kachru's characterization of English as a source of both “agony and ecstasy,” debates about its global spread remain ambivalent. Despite significant advances in world Englishes scholarship, celebratory and critical stances toward English continue to coexist, sharpened by the political polarization of our times, and renewed ...
Josep Soler
wiley   +1 more source

English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice: Past and Present

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This opening article of the special issue “English worldwide and linguistic justice” starts from the premise that more interdisciplinary work is needed that bridges sociolinguistic research with linguistic justice theories to provide deeper, more nuanced understandings of the position and functions of English around the world today.
Josep Soler, Thomas Ricento
wiley   +1 more source

Associations of body mass index and metabolic health with stroke risk in a large prospective cohort with time updated covariates. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hultstrand O, Jernberg A, Darehed D, Glader EL, Eriksson M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multilingualism, Linguistic Justice and the EU Communication Deficit on Social Media

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines multilingualism on Twitter/X among European Union (EU) institutions, bodies and agencies using a dataset of nearly 400,000 tweets from corporate accounts, Commissioners and Presidents of European institutions. Employing advanced language detection tools, it assesses how far EU communication reflects its stated commitment ...
Michele Gazzola, Fernando Mendez, Carlos Mendez, Constantinos Djouvas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source