Háskóli Íslands: Recent submissions

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    Discriminatory Power of Women’s Handball Game-Related Statistics at the Olympic Games (2004-2016) 
    Saavedra, Jose M; Þorgeirsson, Sveinn; Chang, Milan; Kristjansdottir, Hafrún; García-Hermoso, Antonio (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-06-13)
    Sports performance analysis has been a growing field of study in the last decade. However, the number of studies in handball is small. The aims of this present study were (i) to compare handball game-related statistics by the match outcome (winning and ...
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    Hemoglobin Concentrations Predict Physical Function After A 12-Week Resistance Exercise Training and Subsequent Changes After 11 Months of Follow-Up Among Community Dwelling Older Adults 
    Chang Gudjonsson, Milan; Geirsdóttir, Ólöf G.; Briem, Kristin; Jónsson, Pálmi V.; Thorsdottir, Inga; Ramel, Alfons (OMICS Publishing Group, 2018-12)
    Background: Hemoglobin transports oxygen in blood yet its concentrations generally decrease with age. The aim of the study was to examine whether hemoglobin is connected with physical function in older age people. Design: Intervention study. Setting: ...
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    Nemar í grunnskólakennaranámi: spurningakönnun meðal grunnskólakennaranema á fyrsta ári í B.Ed.-námi skólaárið 2018–2019 
    Bjornsdottir, Amalia; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður; Jónsdóttir, Halla (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2019-12)
    Haustið 2018 hófst rannsókn meðal kennaranema á fyrsta námsári í B.Ed.-námi við Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands. Lagðar voru fyrir spurningakannanir, tvisvar haustið 2018 og einu sinni á vormisseri 2019, þar sem grunnskólakennaranemar voru inntir ...
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    Nemendur í Menntunarfræði leikskóla að loknu BA/BS/B.Ed.-prófi haustið 2019: spurningakönnun meðal nema í M.Ed.-námi skólaárið 2019–2020 
    Bjornsdottir, Amalia; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2020-03)
    Haustið 2019 var rannsókn gerð meðal nema á fyrsta námsári í grunnnámi til bakkalárprófs á flestum námsleiðum við Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands. Ákveðið var að sambærileg könnun yrði lögð fyrir nema sem eru í tveggja ára meistaranámi leikskólakennaranám ...
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    Nemar í kennslufræði grunnskóla að loknu BA/BS/B.Ed.-prófi: spurningakönnun meðal nema á fyrra námsári í M.Ed.-námi haustið 2019 
    Bjornsdottir, Amalia; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2020-02)
    Haustið 2019 var rannsókn gerð meðal nema á fyrsta námsári í grunnnámi til bakkalárprófs á flestum námsleiðum við Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands. Ákveðið var að sambærileg könnun yrði lögð fyrir nema sem eru í tveggja ára kennaranámi í kennslufræði ...
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    Nemar í leikskólakennaranámi: spurningakönnun meðal leikskólakennaranema á fyrsta ári í B.Ed.-námi skólaárið 2018–2019 
    Bjornsdottir, Amalia; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður; Jónsdóttir, Halla (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2019-12)
    Haustið 2018 hófst rannsókn meðal kennaranema á fyrsta námsári í B.Ed.-námi við Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands. Tvær spurningakannanir voru lagðar fyrir haustið 2018 þar sem kennaranemar voru inntir eftir bakgrunni sínum, viðhorfum til námsins, ...
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    Nemar á fyrsta misseri í Íþrótta- og heilsufræði haustið 2019: spurningakönnun meðal nema: skýrsla rannsóknarhóps 
    Bjornsdottir, Amalia; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2020-05)
    Haustið 2019 var lögð spurningakönnun fyrir nýnema sem hófu nám á Menntavísindasviði. Það haust voru 90 nýnemar skráðir á námsleiðina íþrótta- og heilsufræði við Deild heilsueflingar, íþrótta og tómstunda, 55 karlar og 35 konur. Könnunin var lögð ...
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    Nemar í grunnskólakennaranámi: Spurningakönnun meðal grunnskólakennaranema á öðru ári í B.Ed.-námi skólaárið 2019–2020 
    Bjornsdottir, Amalia; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2020-05)
    Haustið 2018 hófst rannsókn meðal kennaranema á fyrsta námsári í B.Ed.-námi við Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands. Tvær spurningakannanir voru lagðar fyrir haustið 2018 þar sem kennaranemar voru inntir eftir bakgrunni sínum, viðhorfum til námsins, ...
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    Nemar í leikskólakennaranámi: Spurningakönnun meðal leikskólakennaranema á öðru ári í B.Ed.-námi skólaárið 2019–2020 
    Bjornsdottir, Amalia; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2020-05)
    Haustið 2018 hófst rannsókn meðal kennaranema á fyrsta námsári í B.Ed.-námi við Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands. Tvær spurningakannanir voru lagðar fyrir haustið 2018 þar sem kennaranemar voru inntir eftir bakgrunni sínum, viðhorfum til námsins, ...
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    Alteration progress within the Surtsey hydrothermal system, SW Iceland – A time-lapse petrographic study of cores drilled in 1979 and 2017 
    Prause, Simon; Weisenberger, Tobias Björn; Cappelletti, Piergiulio; Grimaldi, Carla; Rispoli, Concetta; Jónasson, Kristján; Jackson, Marie D.; Gudmundsson, Magnus Tumi (Elsevier BV, 2020-02-15)
    The evolution of hydrothermal alteration in glassy and variably palagonitized tuff, erupted as tephra in 1963 – 1964 on Surtsey, an island built in the offshore extension of Iceland’s southeast rift zone, is documented through a comparative petrographic ...
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    The Jan Mayen microcontinent and Iceland Plateau: Tectono-magmatic evolution and rift propagation 
    Blischke, Anett (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2020-05-15)
    This study focused on the tectono-magmatic reconstruction of the Jan Mayen microcontinent (JMMC) and Iceland Plateau Rift (IPR) in context to the breakup and opening processes of the Northeast Atlantic region. Joint interpretation of densely spaced ...
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    Loanwords and native words in Old and Middle Icelandic (12th c.-1550) 
    Tarsi, Matteo (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2020-05-18)
    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. ...
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    Genetic and lifestyle risk factors for MRI-defined brain infarcts in a population-based setting 
    Chauhan, Ganesh; Adams, Hieab H.H.; Satizabal, Claudia L.; Bis, Joshua C.; Teumer, Alexander; Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan; Hofer, Edith; Trompet, Stella; Hilal, Saima; Smith, Albert Vernon; Jian, Xueqiu; Malik, Rainer; Traylor, Matthew; Pulit, Sara L.; Amouyel, Philippe; Mazoyer, Bernard; Zhu, Yi-Cheng; Kaffashian, Sara; Schilling, Sabrina; Beecham, Gary W.; Montine, Thomas J.; Schellenberg, Gerard D.; Kjartansson, Olafur; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Knopman, David S.; Griswold, Michael E.; Windham, B. Gwen; Gottesman, Rebecca F.; Mosley, Thomas H.; Schmidt, Reinhold; Saba, Yasaman; Schmidt, Helena; Takeuchi, Fumihiko; Yamaguchi, Shuhei; Nabika, Toru; Kato, Norihiro; Rajan, Kumar B.; Aggarwal, Neelum T.; De Jager, Philip L.; Evans, Denis A.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Rice, Kenneth; Lopez, Oscar L.; Liao, Jiemin; Chen, Christopher; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Wong, Tien Y.; Ikram, Mohammad K.; van der Lee, Sven J.; Amin, Najaf; Chouraki, Vincent; DeStefano, Anita L.; Aparicio, Hugo J.; Romero, Jose R.; Maillard, Pauline; DeCarli, Charles; Wardlaw, Joanna M.; Hernández, Maria del C. Valdés; Luciano, Michelle; Liewald, David; Deary, Ian J.; Starr, John M.; Bastin, Mark E.; Muñoz Maniega, Susana; Slagboom, P. Eline; Beekman, Marian; Deelen, Joris; Uh, Hae-Won; Lemmens, Robin; Brodaty, Henry; Wright, Margaret J.; Ames, David; Boncoraglio, Giorgio B.; Hopewell, Jemma C.; Beecham, Ashley H.; Blanton, Susan H.; Wright, Clinton B.; Sacco, Ralph L.; Wen, Wei; Thalamuthu, Anbupalam; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Chong, Elizabeth; Schofield, Peter R.; Kwok, John B.; van der Grond, Jeroen; Stott, David J.; Ford, Ian; Jukema, J. Wouter; Vernooij, Meike W.; Hofman, Albert; Uitterlinden, André G.; van der Lugt, Aad; Wittfeld, Katharina; Grabe, Hans J.; Hosten, Norbert; von Sarnowski, Bettina; Völker, Uwe; Levi, Christopher; Jimenez-Conde, Jordi; Sharma, Pankaj; Sudlow, Cathie L.M.; Rosand, Jonathan; Woo, Daniel; Cole, John W.; Meschia, James F.; Slowik, Agnieszka; Thijs, Vincent; Lindgren, Arne; Melander, Olle; Grewal, Raji P.; Rundek, Tatjana; Rexrode, Kathy; Rothwell, Peter M.; Arnett, Donna K.; Jern, Christina; Johnson, Julie A.; Benavente, Oscar R.; Wasssertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; Lee, Jin-Moo; Wong, Quenna; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Rich, Stephen S.; McArdle, Patrick F.; Geerlings, Mirjam I.; van der Graaf, Yolanda; de Bakker, Paul I.W.; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Srikanth, Velandai; Thomson, Russell; McWhirter, Rebekah; Moran, Chris; Callisaya, Michele; Phan, Thanh; Rutten-Jacobs, Loes C.A.; Bevan, Steve; Tzourio, Christophe; Mather, Karen A.; Sachdev, Perminder S.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Worrall, Bradford B.; Dichgans, Martin; Kittner, Steven J.; Markus, Hugh S.; Ikram, Mohammad A.; Fornage, Myriam; Launer, Lenore J.; Seshadri, Sudha; Longstreth, W.T.; Debette, Stéphanie (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019-01-29)
    Objective: To explore genetic and lifestyle risk factors of MRI-defined brain infarcts (BI) in large population-based cohorts. Methods We performed meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and examined associations of vascular risk factors ...
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    Self-reported health and quality of life outcomes of heart failure patients in the aftermath of a national economic crisis: a cross-sectional study 
    Ketilsdóttir, Auður; Ingadottir, Brynja; Jaarsma, Tiny (Wiley, 2018-10-18)
    Aims: There are indications that economic crises can affect public health. The aim of this study was to describe characteristics, health status, and socio-economic status of outpatient heart failure (HF) patients several years after a national economic ...
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    Adopting the developmental research cycle in working with teachers 
    Kristinsdóttir, Jónína Vala (Svensk Förening för Matematik Didaktisk Forskning, 2017-05-30)
    This collaborative inquiry aims at learning to understand how teachers in schools and a mathematics teacher educator develop their work through participating in a developmental research project. Seven primary teachers worked at improving their ...
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    Working relationally to promote user participation in welfare services for young disabled children and their families in Iceland 
    Ingólfsdóttir, Jóna Guðbjörg; Jóhannsdóttir, Þuríður; Traustadottir, Rannveig (Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS, 2018-06-19)
    Despite the avowed aims of the Icelandic legislation to provide family-centred and inclusive services, families raising disabled children commonly express their experiences of fragmented services provided more on the terms of the service providers ...
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    Exogenous female sex steroids may reduce lung ageing after menopause: A 20-year follow-up study of a general population sample (ECRHS) 
    Triebner, Kai; Accordini, Simone; Calciano, Lucia; Johannessen, Ane; Benediktsdóttir, Bryndís; Bifulco, Ersilia; Demoly, Pascal; Dharmage, Shyamali C.; Franklin, Karl A.; Garcia-Aymerich, Judith; Gullón Blanco, José Antonio; Heinrich, Joachim; Holm, Mathias; Jarvis, Debbie; Jõgi, Rain; Lindberg, Eva; Martínez-Moratalla, Jesús; Muniozguren Agirre, Nerea; Pin, Isabelle; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Raherison, Chantal; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Schlünssen, Vivi; Svanes, Cecilie; Hustad, Steinar; Leynaert, Bénédicte; Gómez Real, Francisco (Elsevier BV, 2019-02)
    Objectives: Menopause involves hypoestrogenism, which is associated with numerous detrimental effects, including on respiratory health. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is often used to improve symptoms of menopause. The effects of HRT on lung function ...
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    MiR-203a is differentially expressed during branching morphogenesis and EMT in breast progenitor cells and is a repressor of peroxidasin 
    Briem, Eiríkur; Budkova, Zuzana; Sigurðardóttir, Anna Karen; Hilmarsdóttir, Bylgja; Kricker, Jennifer; Timp, Winston; Magnusson, Magnus Karl; Traustadottir, Gunnhildur Asta; Gudjonsson, Thorarinn (Elsevier BV, 2019-02)
    MicroRNAs regulate developmental events such as branching morphogenesis, epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reverse process mesenchymal to epithelial transition (MET). In this study, we performed small RNA sequencing of a breast epithelial ...
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    Validity and reliability of an iPad with a three-dimensional camera for posture imaging 
    Ágústsson, Atli; Gíslason, Magnús Kjartan; Ingvarsson, Páll E.; Rodby-Bousquet, Elisabet; Sveinsson, Thorarinn (Elsevier BV, 2019-02)
    Background: It is important to quantify a static posture to evaluate the need for and effectiveness of interventions such as physical management, physiotherapy, spinal orthosis or surgical treatment on the alignment of body segments. Motion analysis ...
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    Impact of dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans from Schisandra chinensis on the redox status and activation of human innate immune system cells 
    Kortesoja, Maarit; Karhu, Elina; Olafsdottir, Elin Soffia; Freysdottir, Jona; Hanski, Leena L. (Elsevier BV, 2019-02-01)
    Redox signaling has been established as an essential component of inflammatory responses, and redox active compounds are of interest as potential immunomodulatory agents. Dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans isolated from Schisandra chinensis, a medicinal ...