(a.) Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scandinavian forensic psychiatrists, lawyers and criminologists have analyzed and discussed the present situation and have found that there is still a need and justification for forensic psychiatry.
(2) At the Second Scandinavian Congress on Image Analysis in 1981 Kohonen provided evidence that the map of signals has the same topological order as the map of reactions.
(3) We present our management protocol as well as a survey of the routine management of acute epiglottitis in children in the five Scandinavian countries.
(4) In Scandinavian countries a sophisticated system for rehabilitating the hearing impaired has evolved and communication aids are recommended extensively.
(5) My assembly report, Braking Point , showed the big advantages of making 20mph the default speed limit for urban areas and, as the previous mayor's road safety ambassador, I pressed for the adoption of the zero-casualty approach applied in Scandinavian countries.
(6) This investigation of 28 tumours from 22 patients of Scandinavian origin shows that at the electron microscope level there is no difference between malignant cells in the invasion nodulus of superficially spreading melanoma and nodular melanoma.
(7) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
(8) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
(9) Because this concept has important implications for preventive cardiology, the results of several prevention trials, including the Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study (CONSENSUS), Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD), and Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) are awaited eagerly.
(10) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
(11) These results support the Scandinavian experience that herniography has a useful role in the management of patients who may have occult hernias as the underlying cause of abdominal wall symptoms.
(12) In the Scandinavian countries few regulations govern hospital infection control.
(13) At three months, patients with moderate to severe strokes (less than 40 on the Scandinavian Stroke Scale) in the ancrod group showed average improvement by a factor of 3 over the placebo group.
(14) It can have Scandinavian levels of public spending while the Bank of England provides Royal Bank of Scotland with a lender of last resort guarantee.
(15) Since up until now no uniform recommendations regarding indication for therapeutic abortion following irradiation have been drawn up in Western Germany, it is advisable to fall back on those recommendations drawn up by Scandinavian countries on the basis of thorough radiobiological knowledge and experience.
(16) The results showed that average intake of NSP by a Japanese in the above years did not exceed 13 g per day, which is as low as the corresponding intake by the Scandinavians and the British whose risk of colon cancer is known to be high.
(17) The results obtained by the new continuous-flow system were compared with those measured by the kinetic method according to the Scandinavian recommendation (10).
(18) Abnormal lactose tolerance tests were found in 81% of 98 blacks, 12% of 59 whites of Scandinavian or Northwestern European extraction, and three of nine non-European whites.
(19) The trial comprised eight Scandinavian neurologic centres and was designed as a double-blind cross-over study with 4 weeks' run-in, four weeks washout, and 8 weeks of either treatment.
(20) We consider a class of Markov models, referred to by Cox (1981, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 8, 93-115) as "observation-driven" models in which the conditional means and variances given the past are explicit functions of past outcomes.
Viking
Definition:
(n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radioactive gas was released from the medium solution used in the Viking Labeled Release (LR) experiment when interacted with the clays, at rates and quantities similar to those measured by Viking on Mars.
(2) The Viking scheme, first unveiled in 2009, expects to exploit Shetland’s highly-exposed location and substantial winds coming off the north Atlantic, after it is built on about 50 square miles of moorland north of Lerwick on the island group’s main island.
(3) It became clear at some point between the exhibition packed with people (mid-week) politely jostling each other to examine the tiny fragments of a culture that disappeared over a thousand years ago and the gift shop mugs and tea cloths depicting charts of the seas – North, Baltic, Atlantic – across which the Vikings sailed.
(4) 23) Minnesota Vikings Last year: 10-6 Needs: Wide receiver, defensive tackle, linebacker, cornerback Pick: Cordarrelle Patterson, wide receiver, Tennessee Receiver remains a priority for Minnesota, despite the arrival of Greg Jennings in free agency.
(5) The Radisson hotel chain suspended its sponsorship deal with the Vikings and former players like Cris Carter and Scott Fujita lined up to question the team’s motives while Peterson insisted that he was not a child abuser.
(6) Lady Clark, the judge in the 2013 case, had also found against Viking Energy because it did not have an electricity generating licence – a technical issue which was later dropped by the protesters.
(7) We don't have Vikings any more, invading countries and stealing the pretty women.
(8) Manchester Craft and Design Centre, 17 Oak Street, Manchester, M4 5JD; Mon-Fri 9am–5pm; 07850 894 752; ministryofcraft.co.uk The Viking Loom Independent but with huge in-store stock, this is an Aladdin's cave of all things crafty.
(9) The present results suggest that, if the large dense-cored vike those membrane-bound particles in other paraneurons, contain peptides, monoamines and ATP, the turnover of these products as secretory materials is much slower in this cell than in such endocrine paraneurons as adrenal chromaffin cells and gut endocrine cells.
(10) It had all the edge of a Viking River Cruise – and much the same clientele I should imagine – and felt more like a salsa theme park than authentic Cuba.
(11) The owners Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf said in a statement published on the team’s website: “While we were trying to make a balanced decision yesterday, after further reflection we have concluded that this resolution is best for the Vikings and for Adrian.
(12) Johnny 'Drama' Chase High Using his Viking Quest skills to help get Aquaman positive reviews from some bloggers at ComicCon.
(13) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(14) Ironically, the hull was discovered under the Viking Ship Museum, in Roskilde, Denmark, when an extension was being built in 1997.
(15) One NFL coach, speaking anonymously to Sports Illustrated after Sam came out, said: “I don’t think football is ready for [an openly gay player] just yet.” On Twitter, Chris Kluwe, a former Minnesota Vikings punter who has become an outspoken critic of attitudes to homosexuality within the NFL, said: “At least one team finally showed some balls.
(16) With all the original timbers fitted into a steel frame that will recreate its full length and form, the ship will be the centrepiece of Viking, an exhibition opening at the Danish national museum in June , before being transported to London to launch the British Museum's new exhibition space in 2014 .
(17) Only the Vikings' war room really knows which way it's leaning on this one.
(18) At just over 36 metres, it was four metres longer than Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose built 500 years later, and six metres longer than the Viking ship spectacularly recreated as Sea Stallion, which sailed from Scandinavia around Scotland to Dublin in 2007.
(19) This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound – a story brought over by the vikings.
(20) My goal is always to teach my son right from wrong and that’s what I tried to do that day.” Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf made the decision after consulting with Spielman and coach Mike Zimmer and the players who were available to the media on Monday lined up to support it.