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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 ... -
(2020-07)INNGANGUR Krabbameinager í kviðarholi er oft afleiðing krabbameins í ristli eða endaþarmi og er illlæknanlegt ástand. Lifun sjúklinga með krabbameinager hefur að meðaltali verið undir tveimur árum eftir kerfislæga krabbameinslyfjameðferð með eða án ...
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(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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(2021-05)INNGANGUR Fjöldi fólks með sykursýki 2 hefur vaxið undanfarna áratugi á Íslandi. Í þessari rannsókn var notaður Lyfjagagnagrunnur Embættis landlæknis til að meta algengi og nýgengi sykursýki 2 og sett fram spá um algengi sykursýki 2 eftir 10 og 20 ár. ...
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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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(Frontiers Media SA, 2018-11-13)Mt. Öræfajökull is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Iceland with potential for a VEI6 eruption and the generation of many severe associated hazards. It is not a frequently erupting volcano with two eruptions in the last 1100 years, in 1362 and ...
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(MDPI AG, 2020-08-24)Landslide mapping and analysis are essential aspects of hazard and risk analysis. Landslides can block rivers and create landslide-dammed lakes, which pose a significant risk for downstream areas. In this research, we used an object-based image analysis ...
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(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-10-02)Crangonyx islandicus is a groundwater amphipod endemic to Iceland, considered to have survived the Ice Ages in subglacial refugia. Currently the species is found in spring sources in lava fields along the tectonic plate boundary of the country. The ...
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(MDPI AG, 2020-03-30)The benefits of fractional snow cover area, as an additional dataset for calibration, were evaluated for an Icelandic catchment with a low degree of glaciation and limited data. For this purpose, a Hydrological Projections for the Environment (HYPE) ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022)Archaeology has been fundamentally entangled in colonial power dynamics and nationalist schemes. This entanglement is clearly evident in Iceland, as our discipline has been, and continues to be, a vital tool in shaping and reshaping the Icelandic ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2019-05)Iceland's performance on the Gender Gap Index has been outstanding in the last nine years. It now has a reputation for being one of the most gender equal countries in the world. However, local feminist activists argue that challenges to full gender ...
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(2021-10)Introduction Infections due to COVID-19 can lead to life threatening pneumonia. Accompanying severe disease are more prominent pulmonary changes on Computed Tomography (CT) scan of the chest. The goal of this study was to describe pulmonary CT changes ...
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(2016-01-04)Tilgangur: Sýklalyfjanotkun er ein helsta orsök sýklalyfjaónæmis hjá bakteríum og er mikilvægt að draga úr ónauðsynlegri notkun eins og hægt er. Sýklalyfjanotkun, og þá sérstaklega notkun breiðvirkra sýklalyfja, er mikil hér á landi. Markmið rannsóknarinnar ...
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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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(2021-09)INTRODUCTION: This study aims to explore maternal and perinatal outcomes of migrant women in Iceland. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This prospective population-based cohort study included women who gave birth to a singleton in Iceland between 1997 and 2018, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021-08)This work investigates the Icelandic folktale figure known as the kraftaskáld (power poet, hereafter anglicized as kraftaskald). Prominent in Icelandic folklore of the Post-Reformation period of the sixteenth through early twentieth centuries, these ...
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(2020-12-28)This contribution is a collective re-analysis of three research projects in Iceland focused on parenting with a disability which draws upon data spanning a twenty-year period. The core purpose of these projects is to understand why parents with primarily ...
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