The main concern of this paper is the extent to which students’ expec-tations of first language studies reflect the idea that linguistic proficiency produces social and cultural capital (Bourdieu 2008 and earli-er work). The participants consisted of ...

Phenological changes in response to climate change have been recorded in many taxa, but the population-level consequences of these changes are largely unknown. If phenological change influences demography, it may underpin the changes in range size and ...

The development and expansion of agriculture throughout the world has been a major driver of biodiversity loss in recent decades. Icelandic agriculture is currently not as intense and widespread as in many other western countries, and the effects of ...

Inherited retinal degeneration (RD), a rare neurodegenerative group of retinal blinding disorders and is characterized by a progressive loss of retinal photoreceptor cells that are responsible for vision. The symptoms of RD include onset of night ...

As high latitude regions continue a decades-long trend of warming at roughly twice the rate of the global average, an understanding of their climatic histories becomes increasing important for predicting their future. Organic molecular proxies preserved ...

Seismicity in Iceland is related to the Mid-Atlantic plate boundary and primarily consolidated in two complex fracture zones. Liquefaction was observed after the Mw 6.3 Ölfus earthquake in 2008 at the site Arnarbaeli. The site consists of a thick silty ...

Economic changes and a booming tourism industry in Iceland have triggered a rise in temporary workforce, where employees are brought to Iceland from Eastern Europe and other less economically developed countries. Major societal and economic shifts are ...

Bakgrunnur Ágrip Börn sem verða fyrir súrefnisskorti í fæðingu og börn sem fæðast fyrir fulla meðgöngu eiga á hættu að lifa ekki af eða hljóta varanlegan heilaskaða. Hættan á þessum fylgikvillum hefur ekki minnkað á síðustu áratugum þrátt fyrir miklar ...

This thesis addresses the coexistence and interplay of loanwords and their corresponding endogenous synonyms during the Old and Middle Icelandic period (12th c.–1550), i.e. in a period with no ideologically rooted nor overtly expressed language purism. ...

We investigate quantum entanglement in a non-relativistic critical system by calculating the logarithmic negativity of a class of mixed states in the quantum Lifshitz model in one and two spatial dimensions. In 1+1 dimensions we employ a correlator ...