Opin vísindi

Browsing by Subject "Europe"

Browsing by Subject "Europe"

Sort by: Order: Results:

  • Icon
    Asthma and COPD overlap (ACO) is related to a high burden of sleep disturbance and respiratory symptoms: Results from the RHINE and Swedish GA2LEN surveys 
    Mindus, Stephanie; Malinovschi, Andrei; Ekerljung, Linda; Forsberg, Bertil; Gislason, Thorarinn; Jõgi, Rain; Franklin, Karl A.; Holm, Mathias; Johannessen, Ane; Middelveld, Roelinde; Schlünssen, Vivi; Svanes, Cecilie; Torén, Kjell; Lindberg, Eva; Janson, Christer (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-04-02)
    Background The term Asthma and COPD Overlap (ACO) describes a condition where asthma and COPD overlap. We aimed to investigate associations between ACO and insomnia and respiratory symptoms, and to investigate the prevalence of ACO and the characteristics ...
  • Icon
    Landscape change in the Icelandic highland: A long-term record of the impacts of land use, climate and volcanism 
    Eddudóttir, Sigrún Dögg; Erlendsson, Egill; Gísladóttir, Guðrún (Elsevier BV, 2020-07-15)
    Agriculture has been practiced in Iceland since settlement (landnám; AD 877). This has caused changes in vegetation communities, soil erosion, desertification and loss of carbon stocks. Little data exist regarding vegetation and ecosystems in the ...
  • Icon
    Net-works: The technological development and economic significance of the pelagic trawl 
    Bates, Sylvía Marsibil (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology, 2025-02)
    Technological change is a crucial but a vastly under-researched aspect of the development of modern fisheries. This is the first study to explore the invention and development of the pelagic trawl, one of the most effective fishing gears in the world. ...
  • Icon
    Parasites in the changing world – Ten timely examples from the Nordic-Baltic region 
    Deksne, Gunita; Davidson, Rebecca K.; Buchmann, Kurt; Kärssin, Age; Kirjušina, Muza; Gavarāne, Inese; Miller, Andrea L.; Pálsdóttir, Guðný Rut; Robertson, Lucy J.; Mørk, Torill; Oksanen, Antti; Palinauskas, Vaidas; Jokelainen, Pikka (Elsevier BV, 2020-08)
    The world is changing, and parasites adapt. The Nordic-Baltic region in northern Europe – including the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – is facing new parasitological ...
  • Icon
    Postglacial relative sea-level changes in northwest Iceland: Evidence from isolation basins, coastal lowlands and raised shorelines 
    Brader, Martin D.; Lloyd, Jeremy M.; Barlow, Natasha L.M.; Norddahl, Hreggvidur; Bentley, Michael J.; Newton, Anthony J. (Elsevier BV, 2017-08)
    Relative sea-level (RSL) data provide constraints on land uplift associated with former ice loading and can be used to differentiate between contrasting ice unloading scenarios. Isolation basin, coastal lowland and geomorphological evidence is employed ...
  • Icon
    Status Quo of the Air-Conditioning Market in Europe: Assessment of the Building Stock 
    Pezzutto, Simon; De Felice, Matteo; Fazeli, Reza; Kranzl, Lukas; Zambotti, Stefano (MDPI AG, 2017-08-23)
    This study fills in knowledge gaps for the European air-conditioning (AC) market, which is fundamentally important to raising awareness about primary energy utilization. In contrast to space heating (SH) and domestic hot water (DHW) preparation, the ...
  • Icon
    Sustainable Resource Management In European Steel Supply Chains 
    Torres de Miranda Pinto, Julian (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019-06-11)
    Steelmakers should consider diverting capital to the end-of-life services that promote circularity as a new strategy towards resource ownership retention and raw material selfsufficiency. These hold the key to curbing steel supply concerns in the ...