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  • Scholz, Markus; Horn, Katrin; Pott, Janne; Wuttke, Matthias; Kühnapfel, Andreas; Nasr, M. Kamal; Kirsten, Holger; Li, Yong; Hoppmann, Anselm; Gorski, Mathias; Ghasemi, Sahar; Li, Man; Tin, Adrienne; Chai, Jin Fang; Cocca, Massimiliano; Wang, Judy; Nutile, Teresa; Akiyama, Masato; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Bansal, Nisha; Biggs, Mary L.; Boutin, Thibaud; Brenner, Hermann; Brumpton, Ben; Burkhardt, Ralph; Cai, Jianwen; Campbell, Archie; Campbell, Harry; Chalmers, John; Chasman, Daniel I.; Chee, Miao Ling; Chee, Miao Li; Chen, Xu; Cheng, Ching Yu; Cifkova, Renata; Daviglus, Martha; Delgado, Graciela; Dittrich, Katalin; Edwards, Todd L.; Endlich, Karlhans; Michael Gaziano, J.; Giri, Ayush; Giulianini, Franco; Gordon, Scott D.; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Hallan, Stein; Hamet, Pavel; Hartman, Catharina A.; Hayward, Caroline; Heid, Iris M.; Hellwege, Jacklyn N.; Holleczek, Bernd; Holm, Hilma; Hutri-Kähönen, Nina; Hveem, Kristian; Isermann, Berend; Jonas, Jost B.; Joshi, Peter K.; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Kanai, Masahiro; Kastarinen, Mika; Khor, Chiea Chuen; Kiess, Wieland; Kleber, Marcus E.; Körner, Antje; Kovacs, Peter; Krajcoviechova, Alena; Kramer, Holly; Krämer, Bernhard K.; Kuokkanen, Mikko; Kähönen, Mika; Lange, Leslie A.; Lash, James P.; Lehtimäki, Terho; Li, Hengtong; Lin, Bridget M.; Liu, Jianjun; Loeffler, Markus; Lyytikäinen, Leo Pekka; Magnusson, Patrik K.E.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Matsuda, Koichi; Milaneschi, Yuri; Mishra, Pashupati P.; Mononen, Nina; Montgomery, Grant W.; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.; Mychaleckyj, Josyf C.; März, Winfried; Nauck, Matthias; Nikus, Kjell; Nolte, Ilja M.; Noordam, Raymond; Okada, Yukinori; Ólafsson, Ísleifur; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Penninx, Brenda W.J.H.; Perola, Markus; Pirastu, Nicola; Polasek, Ozren; Porteous, David J.; Poulain, Tanja; Psaty, Bruce M.; Rabelink, Ton J.; Raffield, Laura M.; Raitakari, Olli T.; Rasheed, Humaira; Reilly, Dermot F.; Rice, Kenneth M.; Richmond, Anne; Ridker, Paul M.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Rudan, Igor; Sabanayagam, Charumathi; Salomaa, Veikko; Schneiderman, Neil; Schöttker, Ben; Sims, Mario; Snieder, Harold; Stark, Klaus J.; Stefánsson, Kári; Stocker, Hannah; Stumvoll, Michael; Sulem, Patrick; Sveinbjornsson, Gardar; Svensson, Per O.; Tai, E. Shyong; Taylor, Kent D.; Tayo, Bamidele O.; Teren, Andrej; Tham, Yih Chung; Thiery, Joachim; Thio, Chris H.L.; Thomas, Laurent F.; Tremblay, Johanne; Tönjes, Anke; van der Most, Peter J.; Vitart, Veronique; Völker, Uwe; Wang, Ya Xing; Wang, Chaolong; Wei, Wen Bin; Whitfield, John B.; Wild, Sarah H.; Wilson, James F.; Winkler, Thomas W.; Wong, Tien Yin; Woodward, Mark; Sim, Xueling; Chu, Audrey Y.; Feitosa, Mary F.; Þorsteinsdóttir, Unnur; Hung, Adriana M.; Teumer, Alexander; Franceschini, Nora; Parsa, Afshin; Köttgen, Anna; Schlosser, Pascal; Pattaro, Cristian (2024-01-18)
    X-chromosomal genetic variants are understudied but can yield valuable insights into sexually dimorphic human traits and diseases. We performed a sex-stratified cross-ancestry X-chromosome-wide association meta-analysis of seven kidney-related traits ...
  • Massey, Cory A; Thompson, Samantha J; Ostrom, Ryan W; Drabek, Janice; Sveinsson, Olafur A; Tomson, Torbjörn; Haas, Elisabeth A; Mena, Othon J; Goldman, Alica M; Noebels, Jeffrey L (2021-07-09)
    Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy is a leading cause of epilepsy-related mortality, and the analysis of mouse Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy models is steadily revealing a spectrum of inherited risk phenotypes based on distinct genetic mechanisms. ...
  • Abbehausen, Camilla; de Paiva, Raphael Enoque Ferraz; Bjornsson, Ragnar; Gomes, Saulo Quintana; Du, Zhifeng; Corbi, Pedro Paulo; Lima, Frederico Alves; Farrell, Nicholas (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018)
    A combination of two elements’ (Au, Zn) X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) allowed the elucidation of differential substitution pathways of Au(I) and Au(III) compounds reacting with biologically ...
  • Ma, Q; Ciardi, B; Eide, M B; Helgason, Kári (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-07-09)
    We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations to study the contribution to the X-ray background from high-z energetic sources, such as X-ray binaries, accreting nuclear black holes, and shock heated interstellar medium. Adopting the model discussed ...
  • Zafar, T; Møller, P; Watson, D; Lattanzio, J; Hopkins, A M; Karakas, A; Fynbo, J P U; Tanvir, N R; Selsing, J; Jakobsson, Pall; Heintz, K E; Kann, D A; Groves, B; Kulkarni, V; Covino, S; D’Elia, V; Japelj, J; Corre, D; Vergani, S (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-07-19)
    Evolved asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and Type  Ia supernovae (SNe) are important contributors to the elements that form dust in the interstellar medium of galaxies, in particular, carbon and iron. However, they require at least a Gyr to start ...
  • Rickman, Olivia; Sigurbjörnsdóttir, M. Auður; Vilhelmsson, Oddur (2018-12-21)
    Nine xylanolytic bacterial strains were isolated from fen and heath soils in northern Iceland. They were found by 16S rRNA gene sequencing to belong to the genera Paenibacillus, Bacillus, Pseudomonas, and Stenotrophomonas. Using a simple, plate-based ...
  • Cuschieri, Sarah; Pallari, Elena; Hatziyianni, Amalia; Sigurvinsdottir, Rannveig; Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora; Sigurðardóttir, Árún Kristín (2022-04-01)
    Background: COVID-19 became a global pandemic within weeks, as every country including small states and islands experienced a surge in cases. Small islands are known to face several challenges in the quest to curb the viral spread, but with the absence ...
  • Freysteinsdóttir, Freydís Jóna; Jónsson, Gylfi (Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála við Háskóla Íslands, 2016-12-19)
    Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að skoða hvernig yfirfærsla á málaflokki fatlaðs fólks frá ríki til sveitarfélaga hefði gengið fyrir sig. Heildarferli yfirfærslunnar var skoðað og síðan var eitt sveitarfélag, Reykjavíkurborg, valið og skoðað nánar ...
  • Morera, Erika; Steinhäuser, Sarah Sophie; Budkova, Zuzana; Ingthorsson, Saevar; Kricker, Jennifer; Krueger, Aileen; Traustadottir, Gunnhildur Asta; Gudjonsson, Thorarinn (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-09-03)
    Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a developmental event that is hijacked in some diseases such as fibrosis and cancer. In cancer, EMT has been linked to increased invasion and metastasis and is generally associated with a poor prognosis. ...
  • Rafiei, Mohsen; Chetverikov, Andrey; Hansmann-Roth, Sabrina; Kristjánsson, Árni (2021-09)
    Visual perception is, at any given moment, strongly influenced by its temporal context—what stimuli have recently been perceived and in what surroundings. We have previously shown that to-be-ignored items produce a bias upon subsequent perceptual ...
  • Hernar, Ingvild; Graue, Marit; Strandberg, Ragnhild B.; Lie, Silje S.; Sigurðardóttir, Árún Kristín; Richards, David A.; Kolltveit, Beate-Christin H.; Haugstvedt, Anne (2021-06)
    Aim To explore young adults' experiences of outpatient follow‐up appointments, completing electronic Patient‐Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), and using the Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) scale during the Diabetes Patient‐Reported Outcome Measures ...
  • Jóhannsdóttir, Ásta (British Psychological Society, 2018-06)
    Despite Iceland’s outstanding performance on global indices measuring gender equality, young women report higher levels of depressive symptoms than young men. This suggests a more complex situation than what appears in public discourse, where Iceland ...
  • Jóhannsdóttir, Ásta; Gíslason, Ingólfur V. (SAGE Publications, 2017-06-11)
    Iceland enjoys an international reputation as one of the most gender equal countries in the world. This article analyses how young men in Reykjavík, the country’s capital, perceive masculinities as they orient themselves in surroundings where ...
  • Jóhannsdóttir, Ásrún (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, 2022)
    Abstract Globalization and technological development contribute to an increased demand for English skills in daily recreational activity in Iceland. This phenomenon, and a steadily growing exposure, has changed the status of English in Iceland from ...
  • Guðjohnsen, Ragný Þóra (University of Iceland, School of Education, Reykjavík, 2016-07)
    The aim of the study is to explore young people’s views on good citizenship by using a mixed method approach. First, by addressing if young people’s empathy levels at the age of 14 and 18 vary depending on their volunteering participation and the ...
  • Johnson, Mark D.; Wedel, Per O.; Benediktsson, Ívar Örn; Lenninger, Anna (Elsevier BV, 2019-11-15)
    New highway exposures and drilling reveal the stratigraphy and structure of the Middle Swedish end-moraine zone west of Billingen, Sweden. The material in the end moraines is primarily glaciomarine clay of Younger Dryas age that was deposited as varved ...
  • Oksman, Mimmi; Weckström, Kaarina; Miettinen, Arto; Juggins, Stephen; Divine, Dmitry V.; Jackson, Rebecca; Telford, Richard; Korsgaard, Niels Jakup; Kucera, Michal (Springer Nature, 2017-10-18)
    The transition from the last ice age to the present-day interglacial was interrupted by the Younger Dryas (YD) cold period. While many studies exist on this climate event, only few include high-resolution marine records that span the YD. In order to ...
  • Fenger, Paula; Harðarson, Gísli (Linguistic Society of America, 2018-03-03)
    The expression of number (#) within the noun phrase has been argued tovary between a high (num) and a low position, which Kramer (2014) associates with n, providing the root with a syntactic category. We argue that Linking Morphemes (L) in Dutch provide ...
  • Ásbjörnsdóttir, Birna Guðrún; Snorradóttir, Heiðdís; Andrésdóttir, Edda; Fasano, Alessio; Lauth, Bertrand; Gudmundsson, Larus S; Gottfredsson, Magnus; Halldorsson, Thorhallur; Birgisdottir, Bryndis Eva (MDPI AG, 2020-07-03)
    Worldwide, up to 20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders, which are the leading cause of disability in young people. Research shows that serum zonulin levels are associated with increased intestinal permeability (IP), affecting ...
  • Asbjornsdottir, Birna; Snorradottir, Heiddis; Andresdottir, Edda; Fasano, Alessio; Lauth, Bertrand; Gudmundsson, Larus S.; Gottfredsson, Magnus; Halldorsson, Thorhallur Ingi; Birgisdottir, Bryndis Eva (2020-07-03)
    Worldwide, up to 20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders, which are the leading cause of disability in young people. Research shows that serum zonulin levels are associated with increased intestinal permeability (IP), affecting ...