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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, 2024-12-03)In daily life, people often see groups of similar objects compressed into a single percept. For instance, many people standing together form a crowd, and individual cars moving along the road form traffic. The general impression of traffic speed or ... -
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-03-19)Background Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure ...
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(Háskólinn í Reykjavík, 2012-12-09)Structural Operational Semantics (SOS) is one of the most natural ways for providing programming languages with a formal semantics. Results on the meta-theory of SOS typically (but not solely) say that if the inference rules used in writing the semantic ...
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(Geological Society of America, 2021-05-19)Glaciovolcanic deposits at Tongariro and Ruapehu volcanoes, New Zealand, represent diverse styles of interaction between wet-based glaciers and andesitic lava. There are iceconfined lavas, and also hydroclastic breccia and subaqueous pyroclastic deposits ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Pedagogy, 2021-10-04)Teachers learn important things together through talking. Conversationbased continued professional development (CPD) for teachers has been insufficiently researched. In the context of current policy and practice - that remains top-down and controlling ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-11-14)Background: Rare missense mutations in the gene encoding coatomer subunit alpha (COPA) have recently been shown to cause autoimmune interstitial lung, joint and kidney disease, also known as COPA syndrome, under a dominant mode of inheritance. Case ...
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(Dove Medical Press Ltd., 2019-05-16)Background: COPD is a common cause of morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to explore patients’ experiences, self-reported needs, and needs-driven strategies to cope with self-management of COPD. Patients and methods: In this phenomenological ...
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(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-07-01)We report on a systematic search for AdS5 vacua corresponding to critical points of the potential in the five-dimensional N = 8 SO(6) gauged supergravity. By employing Google’s TensorFlow Machine Learning library, we find the total of 32 critical points ...
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(MDPI AG, 2018-10-17)Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are at high risk for high levels of sedentary behaviour. To inform the development of programmes to reduce sedentary behaviour, insight into the correlates is needed. Therefore, the aim of this study is ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-05)The 2+1 dimensional quantum Lifshitz model can be generalised to a class of higher dimensional free field theories that exhibit Lifshitz scaling. When the dynamical critical exponent equals the number of spatial dimensions, equal time correlation ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science, 2022-05-11)High enthalpy geothermal fluid utilization has a potential for growth for green and sustainable energy production. Geothermal energy production is often limited by the corrosive nature of the geofluids utilized. For successful, safe and economic ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2020-05)This paper reports the results of corrosion study for carbon steel, austenitic stainless steel, as well as titanium and nickel-based alloys which were tested in a simulated superheated geothermal environment (SSGE) in flow-through reactors to investigate ...
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(BMJ, 2019-08)ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of a high-intensity and a low-intensity smoking cessation treatment programme (HIT and LIT) using long-term follow-up effectiveness data and to validate the cost-effectiveness ...
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Cost-Efficient Bi-Layer Modeling of Antenna Input Characteristics Using Gradient Kriging Surrogates (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)Over the recent years, surrogate modeling has been playing an increasing role in the design of antenna structures. The main incentive is to mitigate the issues related to high cost of electromagnetic (EM)-based procedures. Among the various techniques, ...
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(Wiley, 2020-01-16)(Coumarin-4-yl)methyl (c4m) and p-hydroxyphenacyl (pHP)-based compounds are well known for their highly efficient photoreactions, but often show limited solubility in aqueous media. To circumvent this, we synthesized and characterized the two new c4m ...
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(Emerald, 2019-12-18)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Sourtoe Cocktail, a custom in Dawson City, Canada’s Yukon, in which participants drink a shot of alcohol with a dehydrated human toe in it. Springing from a local legend, the thrill-inducing ...
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(Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Press Publications, 2017-07-30)What makes countries competitive? What economic policies effectively influence country competitiveness? The aim of this research paper is to analyse country competitiveness empirically, in order to explore the factors that make countries competitive. ...
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(Faculty of Economics, University of Split, 2018-06-30)In a study of employed adult business people, comparisons of preferred leader behaviour prototypes (as defined by the Leader Behaviour Description Questionnaire XII) were carried out between Iceland, a culturally homogeneous nation, and Lithuania a ...
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(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018-04-23)For decades, researchers have lacked the ability to rapidly correlate microbial identity with bacterial metabolism. Since specialized metabolites are critical to bacterial function and survival in the environment, we designed a data acquisition and ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-04)The global spread of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) posed significant threats to public health, and serious concerns have been raised about the adverse impact of the pandemic on population mental health. However, most existing studies have focused on ...
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