Iceland s population of approximately fifty thousand inhabitants did not change appreciably from the end of the settlement period in the late twelfth century until the mid-nineteenth century because of the climate and limited technology in agriculture ...

Fra man begyndte at skrive nationale litteraturhistorier i 1800-tallet og til langt op i 1900-tallet, stod der ikke meget om børnebøger på deres sider. Det var mest, når forfattere til ”alvorlige” litterære værker for voksne også skrev børnebøger, ...

Objective Although clinical trials support equivalence of originator products and biosimilars for etanercept and infliximab, real-world studies among biologics-naïve patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) are lacking. The objectives were to compare ...

Background Tobacco consumption is the largest avoidable health risk. Understanding changes of smoking over time and across populations is crucial to implementing health policies. We evaluated trends in smoking initiation between 1970 and 2009 in random ...

The increasing global demand for renewable energy has resulted in the increased exploration of geothermal energy resources, which presents corrosion and wear challenges. The objective of the PhD project is to investigate the friction, wear and corrosion ...

Nýlega hefur sú áhersla verið áberandi í fræðilegu samhengi að trú geti leitt til ofbeldis. Dæmin sem tekin eru um þetta koma bæði úr sögu og samtíð, allt frá blóðfórnum fornaldar, heilögu stríði, krossferðum og rannsóknarrétti miðalda, til nýlegra ...

The factors affecting the self-assembly process in low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs) were investigated by tuning the gelation properties of a well-known gelator N-(4-pyridyl)isonicotinamide (4PINA). The N—H···N interactions responsible for gel ...

It is widely assumed that decreasing transcription factor DNA-binding affinity reduces transcription initiation by diminishing occupancy of sequence-specific regulatory elements. However, in vivo transcription factors find their binding sites while ...

Deception has evolved to become a fundamental aspect of human interaction. Despite the prolonged efforts in many disciplines, there has been no definite finding of a univocally “deceptive” signal. This work proposes an approach to deception ...

This article presents two essays by the renowned Icelandic manuscript collector Árni Magnússon (1663 ‒ 1730): De gothicæ lingvæ nomine [On the expression ‘the Gothic language’] and Annotationes aliqvot de lingvis et migrationibus gentium septentrionalium ...