The goal of the current study is to throw light on a rather neglected part of Icelandic literary and cultural history: Imagery in early Icelandic hymn poetry. More specifically, it is an investigation into the poet Ólafur Jónsson á Söndum’s (c1560–1627) ...

In response to Stephen Neale (2016), I argue that aphonic expressions, such as PRO, are intentionally uttered by normal speakers of natural language, either by acts of omitting to say something explicitly, or by acts of giving phonetic realization to ...

Advances in remote sensing (RS) missions in recent decades have greatly increased the volume of data that is continually acquired and made available to end users, who can utilize it in a variety of Earth observation (EO) applications. land cover (LC) ...

The functioning of food value chains entails a complex organisation from farm to fork which is characterised by various governance forms and externalities which have shaped the overall food system. VALUMICS food value chain case studies: wheat to bread, ...

The importance of school engagement (i.e., the willingness to engage in learning) for school success, such as good academic achievement and low dropout rates, has been well established. At the same time, intentional selfregulation (ISR; i.e., the ...

Social, political and technological developments bring about change in the global society. However, it is often argued that education does not develop as rapidly and in line with these changes. This study explores how school leaders perceive their ...

Scientific computing applications involving complex simulations and data-intensive processing are often composed of multiple tasks forming a workflow of computing jobs. Scientific communities running such applications on computing resources often find ...

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is categorized by alteration of vital pathways such as β-catenin (CTNNB1) mutations, WNT signaling activation, tumor protein 53 (TP53) inactivation, BRAF, Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) inactivation, KRAS, dysregulation ...

A substantial diversity of secondary metabolites from marine invertebrates has been described; however, only a few studies have investigated secondary metabolites of marine invertebrates collected in Icelandic waters. The unique marine environment ...

Many life-history events in aquatic invertebrates are triggered by seasonal changes in water temperature, but other ecological factors may be important as well. To rule out the confounding effects of changing water temperature, we studied the seasonal ...