Opin vísindi is the institutional repository of research articles and doctoral theses published in open access by Icelandic universities and the National and University Library of Iceland.
Open access to research results is in accordance with article 10 from the Act on public support for research / 2003 No 3 and is compliant with requirements from international and domestic research funds. The purpose of the repository is to make results of research conducted at Icelandic universities accessible to the public online without hindrance and free of charge. Deposits to the repository are permanent and are intended to ensure long-term access to open access scientific publications from Icelandic universities. The repository Opin vísindi is connected to the research portal IRIS and open access research results submitted to IRIS are also stored and made accessible in the repository. By gathering this material in a single location, access is simplified for anyone wishing to explore the extensive scientific work carried out at Icelandic universities.

The repository is OpenAIRE / OpenAIREplus compliant and in accordance with requirements for publication of research results from projects supported by the European research programs FP7 and H2020.

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    Insights from the bone marrow: Characterization of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance through flow cytometry analysis of plasma cells 
    Óskarsson, Jón Þórir (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06)
    Introduction and aims: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy, characterized by the proliferation and accumulation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow (BM), leading to overproduction of monoclonal protein (M-protein) and/or free ...
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    "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—": A Slant Approach to Analyzing Literature after 9/11 
    Thors, Margrét Ann (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Languages and Culture, 2025-06)
    This dissertation argues for a new, “slant” approach to analyzing post-9/11 literature, defined here as any work of literature published after September 11, 2001. Existing scholarship on post-9/11 literature tends to focus exclusively on novels that ...
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    Mechanistic insights into the role of KMT2D in Kabuki syndrome 1 
    Halldórsdóttir, Sara Tholl (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06)
    Kabuki syndrome type 1 (KS1) is a Mendelian disorder of the epigenetic machinery (MDEM) caused by heterozygous pathogenic variants in the histone methyltransferase 2 D (KMT2D). KS is a multi-organ disorder with variable phenotypic presentations among ...
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    Effects of soil warming on growth processes of unmanaged subarctic grasslands 
    Tchana Wandji, Ruth Phoebe (Agricultural University of Iceland, 2025-05-30)
    High-latitude plant growth processes involve a range of physiological and biochemical mechanisms that allow plants to progress during relatively short growing seasons from unmature to fully developed organisms capable of reproducing. During the past ...
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    Clausal nominalization in Icelandic 
    Garofalo, Mirko (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2025-06)
    This doctoral dissertation is the first extensive analysis of nominalized clauses in contemporary Icelandic. Its main objective is to explain: a) the role of the demonstrative pronoun það ‘that’ (see Garofalo (2020)) when it introduces a clausal ...

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