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(Wiley, 2014-08-25)Iceland’s increased involvement in global economic markets in the early 2000s came to a sudden halt in autumn 2008 when Iceland became at the time the worst case of the global financial crisis. The discussion focuses on anxieties in relation to the ... -
(Informa UK Limited, 2014-11-02)Racialization does not always take place through discourses of blackness as emphasized in American research, or exclusively in relation to immigration, as emphasized in the European context. As an affective process, racialization is entangled with ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, 2021-12-10)Our eyes are the primary gates to the visible world around us. Yet, whatever we perceive involves a translation of the patterns of the photons hitting our retinas into mental representations. It could be argued that visual perception is merely an ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021-12-16)Hyperspectral images (HSIs) acquired by hyperspectral imaging sensors contain hundreds of spectral bands. The abundant spectral information provided by an HSI makes it possible to discriminate different materials in a scene. Therefore, HSIs have ...
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(American Chemical Society, 2021-10-19)Cyclic guanosine monophosphorothioate analogue 1a is currently showing potential as a drug for the treatment of inherited retinal neurodegenerations. To support ongoing preclinical and clinical work, we have developed a diastereoselective synthesis via ...
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(University of Iceland, 2021-11-05)Our world is struggling with the negative impacts of greenhouse gases, with CO2 constituting more than ¾ of them. The ammonia production through the Haber-Bosch process which is vital for the sustain of human beings by ensuring food security, accounts ...
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(Elsevier B.V., 2021-09-01)Here we describe the first synthesis of a new type of polysaccharides derived from chitosan. In these structures, the 2-amino group on the pyranose ring was quantitively replaced by an aromatic 1,2,3-triazole moiety. The 2-amino group of chitosan and ...
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(Routledge, 2021-11-09)The aim of this study is to analyse working-class mothers’ narratives of social interactions among parents at their children’s schools. A special focus is paid to the emotions that arise in such interactions and their role in the reproduction of class. ...
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(Springer Nature, 2021-10-30)Morphometric analyses are based on multiparametric datasets that describe quantitatively the shapes of objects. The stochastic nature of fracture-formation processes that break up magma during explosive eruptions yields mixtures of particles that have ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2021-10)In this study, the magmatic evolution and the eruptive history of the Paka volcanic complex are investigated and its geothermal reservoir is assessed. The study comprises two parts. The first part deals with the eruptive history, magma evolution, and ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Food Science and Nutrition, 2020-06)Aims: The aim of this thesis was to evaluate lifestyle factors and the associations with cognitive function and the development of dementia among older adults with special considerations for vitamin D, physical activity and body mass index. Additionally, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021-10-06)The present dissertation concerns formal aspects of Polish borrowing in 21st-century Wymysorys – a minority Germanic language spoken by a few dozen people in the town of Wilamowice in Poland. By drawing on modern borrowing theories and his own empirical ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Íslensku- og menningardeild, 2021)Saga Nonna fjallar um bernskuminningar Jóns Sveinssonar (1857–1944), Nonnabækurnar svokölluðu, ímyndir aðalsöguhetjunnar og aðdráttarafl bókanna. Nonnabækurnar eru tólf talsins. Sjö þeirra fjalla um bernskuævintýri Nonna og eru þær meginviðfangsefni ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2021-10-08)Kransæðasjúkdómur dregur fleiri til dauða á hverju ári en nokkur annar sjúkdómur á heimsvísu. Sjúkdómurinn einkennist af framvindu æðakölkunar, sem er flókið og margþætt ferli. Á undanförnum 14 árum hafa rannsóknir með víðtækri erfðamengisleit leitt ...
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(Háskólaútgáfan, 2021-10-12)The small-scale study presented here was the first test of three instruments in a sample of Icelandic children: IS-FORM, IS-PSEUDO, and the Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD-symptoms and Normal-behavior (SWAN) rating scale. Participants in this study ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2021-10)Climate warming in sub-Arctic regions leads to shifts in plant communities and retreating glaciers. Mosses and lichens contribute to important ecosystem processes in these environments, including nitrogen fixation via their microbiome. The first objective ...
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(Rannsóknasetur í safnafræðum við Háskóla Íslands, 2021-10-06)Í þessari skýrslu eru reifaðar niðurstöður könnunar sem var lögð fyrir forstöðumenn viðurkenndra safna í desember 2020 um þátt rannsókna í starfi þeirra. Þetta er í annað sinn sem könnunin er lögð fyrir, en hún var sett fram í fyrsta skipti árið 2014. ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2021-08)The consumption activities of urbanites contribute to an ever-increasing share of greenhouse gas emissions and resource depletion. As urban form influences behaviours, the search for the most sustainable type of urban form is a research topic of interest. ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Subject Education, 2021-10)This thesis introduces results from a design-based, task design research study in mathematics education, within which silent video tasks were defined, developed, and implemented in upper secondary school mathematics classrooms. It discusses a research ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2021-09)Oxytocin is a uterotonic neuropeptide. It has been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the first line treatment to prevent and treat postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). PPH is the main cause of maternal deaths (27.1%) in many low-income ...