question: What is this description of a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Nordic countries that Sharmi Albrechtsen explored in her book A Piece of Danish Happiness?
answer: Law of Jante
context: Title: Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
  Passage: SCIA, the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, is a biennial scientific conference organized by the national pattern recognition societies in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden).  The conference is officially sponsored by the International Association of Pattern Recognition which is the international umbrella organization for the national pattern recognition societies.  The conference series was established by pattern recognition, image analysis and computer vision pioneers in the universities of the Nordic countries, but has become an international conference acknowledged by the researches in the fields of computer vision, image analysis, pattern recognition and multimedia.  Like European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) from Europe and International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRIA) from Russia, it is considered an important conference in pattern recognition in Northern and Eastern Europe.
  Title: Sharmi Albrechtsen
  Passage: Sharmi Albrechtsen is a Canadian born American-Indian journalist and author known for her blog Happy Danes on the official site, Blogging Denmark.  She has written a book, A Piece of Danish Happiness, which explores why the Danish people are considered the happiest in the world, according to some sources, including the 2012 Gallup Poll taken by the United Nations.  Albrechtsen attributes this happiness to the cultural Laws of Jante, a state of “Hygge” meaning being together comfortably, Denmark’s welfare system, and factors intrinsic to being happy.  Her writing infuses her personal story, and in 2012, she told her story to Oprah Winfrey during a televised Lifeclass in Toronto.
  Title: Niche apportionment models
  Passage: Mechanistic models for niche apportionment are biological models used to explain relative species abundance distributions.  These niche apportionment models describe how species break up resource pool in multi-dimensional space, determining the distribution of abundances of individuals among species.  The relative abundances of species are usually expressed as a Whittaker plot, or rank abundance plot, where species are ranked by number of individuals on the x-axis, plotted against the log relative abundance of each species on the y-axis.  The relative abundance can be measured as the relative number of individuals within species or the relative biomass of individuals within species.
  Title: Scandinavian studies
  Passage: Scandinavian studies is an interdisciplinary academic field of area studies, mainly in the United States and Germany, that covers topics related to Scandinavia and the Nordic countries, including languages, literatures, histories, cultures and societies.  The term Scandinavia mainly refers to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, although the term "Scandinavian" in an ethnic, cultural and linguistic sense also refers to the peoples and languages of the Faroe Islands and Iceland, and the Scandinavian-speaking (that is, Swedish-speaking) minority in Finland.  Scandinavian studies does not exist as a separate field within Scandinavia or the Nordic countries themselves, as its scope would be considered far too broad to be treated meaningfully within a single discipline.  The closest related field in Scandinavia would be the more narrow discipline of "Nordic linguistics", which covers North Germanic languages.  A major focus of Scandinavian studies is the teaching of Scandinavian languages, especially the three large languages Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
  Title: Nordic Innovation
  Passage: Nordic Innovation is an institution that works to promote cross-border trade and innovation between the Nordic countries.  Among the institution's goas are removng barriers and building relations through Nordic cooperation.  Nordic Innovation works under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and is located in Oslo.  The institution is seen as a key player in implementing the Nordic trade, industry and innovation partnership programme.Nordic Innovation has an ambition to establish the Nordic countries as a world-leading region for innovation and sustainable growth.  Nordic Innovation works with both private and public stakeholders, and has projects and partners in all the Nordic countries.
  Title: Mark and recapture
  Passage: Mark and recapture is a method commonly used in ecology to estimate an animal population's size.  A portion of the population is captured, marked, and released.  Later, another portion is captured and the number of marked individuals within the sample is counted.  Since the number of marked individuals within the second sample should be proportional to the number of marked individuals in the whole population, an estimate of the total population size can be obtained by dividing the number of marked individuals by the proportion of marked individuals in the second sample.  The method is most useful when it is not practical to count all the individuals in the population.  Other names for this method, or closely related methods, include capture-recapture, capture-mark-recapture, mark-recapture, sight-resight, mark-release-recapture, multiple systems estimation, band recovery, the Petersen method, and the Lincoln method.
  Title: Foreningen Norden
  Passage: Foreningen Norden (Norwegian and Danish), Föreningen Norden (Swedish), Norræna félagið (Icelandic), Norrøna Felagið (Faroese), Peqatigiiffik Norden (Greenlandic) and Pohjola-Norden (Finnish), "The Nordic Associations", sometimes referred to as "The Norden Associations" are non-governmental organisations in the Nordic countries promoting civil cooperation between the Nordic countries.  Established since 1919, there are Nordic Associations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark (inclusive Southern Schleswig), Finland, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland.  Since 1965 these national branches are grouped in an umbrella organisation Foreningene Nordens Forbund (FNF), "The Confederation of Nordic Associations".  The co-operation between the Nordic countries include projetcs such as Nordjobb, Nordic Library Week and Norden at the Cinema.
  Title: The Nordic Institute in Finland
  Passage: The Nordic Institute in Finland (NIFIN) - is a Nordic cultural institute under the aegis of the Nordic Council of Ministers located in Helsinki.  Nifin aims to provide people in Finland with knowledge about the other Nordic countries’ languages and cultures.  The Institute also aims to spread knowledge about the Finnish language and culture to the other Nordic countries.  In collaboration with the other Nordic Houses and Institutes, Nifin also coordinates cultural co-operation with the neighbours in the Baltic countries and North-West Russia.
  Title: Nordic Summer University
  Passage: The Nordic Summer University (NSU) is a Nordic research network funded through the Nordic Council of Ministers, organizing study circles in the social and human sciences, mainly for PhD students or post-doctoral scholars from the Nordic countries.  The activity is organized in a maximum of ten study circles.  Separate winter seminars are held for each study circle, and a more extensive summer conference is organised for all the study circles, in a different location within the Nordic countries each year.
  Title: Law of Jante
  Passage: The Law of Jante (Danish: "Janteloven" , ] ; Norwegian Bokmål: "Janteloven" , ] , Nynorsk: "Jantelova" ; Icelandic: "Jantelögin" ;,Faroese: "Jantelógin" Swedish: "Jantelagen" , ] ) is the description of a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Nordic countries that negatively portrays and criticises individual success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate.  The Jante Law as a concept was created by the Dano-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose, who, in his novel "A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks" ("En flyktning krysser sitt spor", 1933, English translation published in the USA in 1936), identified the Law of Jante as ten rules.  Sandemose's novel portrays the small Danish town Jante (modelled upon his native town Nykøbing Mors as it was at the beginning of the 20th century, but typical of all small towns and communities), where nobody is anonymous.
citations: Law of Jante Sharmi Albrechtsen