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  • Valsdóttir, Kristín (Univeristy of Iceland, School of Education, 2019-01)
    This research is about the learning journeys of artists at the Icelandic University of the Arts studying to become arts educators. This entails looking at their background and former experience and how that affects and shapes the educational practices ...
  • Hong, Danfeng; Chanussot, Jocelyn; Yokoya, Naoto; Kang, Jian; Zhu, Xiao Xiang (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-08)
    Due to the ever-growing diversity of the data source, multimodality feature learning has attracted more and more attention. However, most of these methods are designed by jointly learning feature representation from multimodalities that exist in both ...
  • Akiyama, Yu; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Rasmussen, Marianne; Iversen, Maria R.; Iwata, Takashi; Goto, Yusuke; Aoki, Kagari; Sato, Katsufumi (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-02-05)
    Central place foraging theory (CPF) has been used to predict the optimal patch residence time for air-breathing marine predators in response to patch quality. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) forage on densely aggregated prey, which may induce ...
  • Kristinsson, Sigurdur (Elsevier BV, 2016-12)
    Surrogate motherhood has been prohibited by Icelandic law since 1996, but in recent years, Icelandic couples have soughttransnational surrogacy in India and the United States despite uncertainties about legal parental status as they return to Iceland ...
  • Rögnvaldsdóttir, Vaka; Brychta, Robert; Hrafnkelsdóttir, Soffía M.; Chen, Kong Y.; Arngrímsson, Sigurbjörn Árni; Johannsson, Erlingur; Gudmundsdottir, Sigridur Lara (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-05-15)
    Background: Sleep and physical activity are modifiable behaviors that play an important role in preventing overweight, obesity, and metabolic health problems. Studies of the association between concurrent objective measures of sleep, physical activity, ...
  • Hrafnkelsdóttir, Soffía Margrét; Brychta, Robert J.; Rögnvaldsdóttir, Vaka; Gestsdottir, Sunna; Chen, Kong Y.; Jóhannsson, Erlingur Sigurður; Guðmundsdóttir, Sigriður Lára; Arngrímsson, Sigurbjörn Árni (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-04-26)
    Objective Few studies have explored the potential interrelated associations of screen time and physical activity with mental health in youth, particularly using objective methods. We examined cross-sectional associations of these variables among ...
  • Sigmundsson, Hermundur; Eriksen, Adrian D.; Ofteland, Greta Storm; Haga, Monika (Frontiers Media SA, 2017-09-08)
    This study explored whether there is a gender difference in letter-sound knowledge when children start at school. 485 children aged 5-6 years completed assessment of letter-sound knowledge, i.e., large letters; sound of large letters; small letters; ...
  • Kristinsdóttir, Kristjana (Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2020-09-08)
    Ísland var lén í Danmörku. Rekstur þess og stjórnsýsla var sambærileg við önnur lén innan danska ríkisins. Vestmannaeyjar voru ekki hluti af léninu Íslandi. Í rannsókninni er leitast við að sýna fram á hver staða Íslands var innan danska ríkisins og ...
  • Guðmundsdóttir, Linda Sólveigar; Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís (Lambda Nordica, 2017-10-18)
    This article examines LGBQ migrants’ experiences of living in Iceland, with a focus on LGBQ migrants from the Global South. LGBQ migrants may belong to various communities, for example, to their ethnic community, the queer community and to the wider ...
  • Parsons, Katelin Marit (2023)
    Library institutions did not exist in early modern Iceland, meaning that private ownership was central to the preservation of pre-modern manuscripts and literature. However, personal collections are poorly documented in comparison to the activities of ...
  • Smárason, Birgir Örn; Ögmundarson, Ólafur; Arnason, Jon; Bjornsdottir, Rannveig; Davidsdottir, Brynhildur (Central Fisheries Research Institute, Trabzon, Turkey, 2017)
    This study utilized Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to quantify the environmental impacts of 1 kg of live-weight Arctic char, cultivated in an Icelandic land-based aquaculture farm. The functional unit included assessments of three different feed types; ...
  • Emami, Nargessadat; Heinonen, Jukka; Marteinsson, Björn; Säynäjoki, Antti; Junnonen, Juha-Matti Kalevi; Laine, Jani; Junnila, Seppo (MDPI AG, 2019-01-14)
    Traditionally, the emissions embodied in construction materials have not been considered important; however, they are becoming crucial due to the short time-frame in which the emissions should be reduced. Moreover, evaluating the environmental burden ...
  • Knudsen, Ann Kristin; Allebeck, Peter; Tollånes, Mette C; Skogen, Jens Christoffer; Iburg, Kim Moesgaard; McGrath, John J.; Juel, Knud; Agardh, Emilie Elisabet; Ärnlöv, Johan; Bjørge, Tone; Carrero, Juan J; Cederroth, Christopher R.; Eggen, Anne Elise; El-Khatib, Ziad; Ellingsen, Christian Lycke; Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad; Gissler, Mika; Hadkhale, Kishor; Havmoeller, Rasmus; Johansson, Lars; Juliusson, Peter Benedikt; Kiadaliri, Aliasghar A; Kisa, Sezer; Kisa, Adnan; Lallukka, Tea; Mekonnen, Teferi; Meretoja, Tuomo J; Meretoja, Atte; Naghavi, Mohsen; Neupane, Subas; Nguyen, Truc Trung; Petzold, Max; Plana-Ripoll, Oleguer; Shiri, Rahman; Sigurvinsdottir, Rannveig; Skirbekk, Vegard; Skou, Søren T; Sigfúsdóttir, Inga Dóra; Steiner, Timothy J; Sulo, Gerhard; Truelsen, Thomas Clement; Vasankari, Tommi Juhani; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Vollset, Stein Emil; Vos, Theo; Øverland, Simon (Elsevier BV, 2019-12)
    Background The Nordic countries have commonalities in gender equality, economy, welfare, and health care, but differ in culture and lifestyle, which might create country-wise health differences. This study compared life expectancy, disease ...
  • Sandberg, Ole (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2021-05-23)
    Claims about human nature are unavoidable in political theory. A theory about which social arrangements are best for human beings must make some claims about the nature of the human beings - how they behave, what they desire, etc. These anthropological ...
  • Mímisson, Kristján (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2020-03)
    Every person’s life can be approached from various angles. Biographies are thus never complete narratives that tell entirely of a person’s life—all the events occurred, all the relations entered, all the emotions sensed, or all the opinions uttered—but ...
  • Eymundsdóttir, Hrafnhildur (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Food Science and Nutrition, 2020-06)
    Aims: The aim of this thesis was to evaluate lifestyle factors and the associations with cognitive function and the development of dementia among older adults with special considerations for vitamin D, physical activity and body mass index. Additionally, ...
  • Bessarab, Pavel; Müller, Gideon Philipp; Lobanov, Igor S.; Rybakov, Filipp N.; Kiselev, Nikolai S.; Jónsson, Hannes; Uzdin, Valery M.; Blügel, Stefan; Bergqvist, Lars; Delin, Anna (Springer Nature, 2018-02-21)
    The skyrmion racetrack is a promising concept for future information technology. There, binary bits are carried by nanoscale spin swirls–skyrmions–driven along magnetic strips. Stability of the skyrmions is a critical issue for realising this technology. ...
  • Sigurjónsson, Hafþór Ægir; Cook, David; Davíðsdóttir, Brynhildur; Bogason, Sigurður G. (Elsevier, 2021-11)
    The climate impacts of deep enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) have been understudied in the academic literature. Using life-cycle analysis (LCA) conducted in accordance with ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards, this paper explores the climate change ...
  • Roos, Eirik; Bjerkeset, Ottar; Svavarsdóttir, Margrét Hrönn; Steinsbekk, Aslak (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017-12-16)
    Background: The discharge process from hospital to home for patients with severe mental illness (SMI) is often complex, and most are in need of tailored and coordinated community services at home. One solution is to discharge patients to inpatient ...
  • Foxler, Daniel E.; Bridge, Katherine S.; James, Victoria; Webb, Thomas M.; Mee, Maureen; Wong, Sybil C. K.; Feng, Yunfeng; Constantin-Teodosiu, Dumitru; Petursdottir, Thorgunnur Eyfjord; Bjornsson, Johannes; Ingvarsson, Sigurður; Ratcliffe, Peter J.; Longmore, Gregory D.; Sharp, Tyson V. (Springer Nature, 2012-01-29)
    There are three prolyl hydroxylases (PHD1, 2 and 3) that regulate the hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs), the master transcriptional regulators that respond to changes in intracellular O(2) tension. In high O(2) tension (normoxia) the PHDs hydroxylate ...