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(The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), 2016-06)An overview is given of experiences of MOOCs in Iceland. An open online Icelandic language course from 2004 at the University of Iceland (UI) has been popular and remains open. A work group, formed in 2013 by the president of the UI, analysed the MOOC ... -
(2022)Akademískt frelsi er órjúfanlegur þáttur háskólastarfs. Í greininni er rakið inntak og mikilvægi akademísks frelsis og sagt frá niðurstöðum rannsókna á skilningi íslenskra háskólakennara á því og ógnum þess. Tilgreindir eru tveir inntaksþættir, (a) ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2018-09-21)The geographic remoteness of the Faroe Islands makes the archipelago an ideal location for research on bacterial carriage, their clonality, and vaccine studies. However, previous studies are lacking and the limited availability of necessary data has ...
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(Háskólaútgáfan og Afríka 20:20, 2007)
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(2020-02)Objective: The aim of the current study was to examine whether health complaints and self-reported health were associated with bullying victimization in a large cohort of Icelandic children and adolescents. Methods: In this study, we used data from a ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Pedagogy, 2019-02)Children’s play in preschools is a complicated phenomenon studied extensively from different perspectives and paradigms. This study draws on the work of William Corsaro, to develop a study that used the sociology of childhood perspective, with ...
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(2021-02)The aims of this study were to assess the prevalence of, and risk factors for, Chlamydia trachomatis in at-tendees recruited prospectively from October 2018 to January 2019 at the only sexually transmitted infections clinic in Iceland (in Reykjavík), ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2017-03)Early-life risk factors, such as family disruption, maltreatment, and poverty, can negatively impact children's scholastic abilities; however, most previous studies have relied on cross-sectional designs and retrospective measurement. This study ...
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(2021-09-30)Background Global death rate in children has been declining during the last decades worldwide, especially in high income countries. This has been attributed to several factors, including improved prenatal and perinatal care, immunisations, infection ...
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(Wiley, 2020-09)The temporal and spatial scale of atmospheric turbulence can be highly dynamic, requiring sophisticated methods for adequate detection and monitoring with high resolution. Doppler light detection and ranging (lidar) systems have been widely used to ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2020-01)Adolescent substance use-the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful drugs-remains a persistent global problem and has presented ongoing challenges for public health authorities and society. In response to the high rates of adolescent substance ...
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(University of Lower Silesia, 2011)The first section of the paper is on the current educational system in Iceland, as defined by its legal framework. Then we describe its course of development for a century, suggesting a theoretical framework which might be useful in chartering the ...
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(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-09-12)There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the impacts of human arrival in new “pristine” environments, including terrestrial habitat alterations and species extinctions. However, the effects of marine resource utilization prior to industrialized ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2015-10-02)This discussion stresses that looking at countries on the margins of European colonial rule can be useful when considering the wider dynamics of the present, reflecting the persistence of colonial discourses and how racism “endures”. Iceland’s colonial ...
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(Wiley, 2019-11-09)Background Data collected by mobile devices can augment surveillance of epidemics in real time. However, methods and evidence for the integration of these data into modern surveillance systems are sparse. We linked call detail records (CDR) with an ...
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(University of Wisconsin, 1991)This study concerns a reform in elementary education in Iceland, beginning in the late 1960s. The reform has been presented as one of the key links in a chain of projects toward modernizing Iceland, and the educationists who were involved in the reform ...
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(Fjölvi, 1991)
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(MDPI AG, 2020-08-03)Overtourism has emerged as a common concept to describe the perceived negative impacts that large numbers of tourists can have on destinations. Iceland is one of the destinations which has been most associated with the concept of overtourism. Tourism ...
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