Háskóli Íslands: Recent submissions

  • Jonsdottir, Inga Jona; Rafnsdóttir, Gudbjörg LINDA; Ólafsdóttir, Thorhildur (Emerald, 2020-06-10)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of public sector line managers’ work-related wellbeing and health in relation to job strain, gender and workplace social support. Design/methodology/approach - An on-line survey was ...
  • Ghosh, Dipankar (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2020)
    Nature has been successful in self-assembling simple building blocks to complex functional architectures and the concept of supramolecular chemistry has enabled chemists to mimic nature's self-assembly principles. The understanding of the assembly/reassembly ...
  • Kjaran, Jón; Lethonen, Jukka (Informa UK Limited, 2017-12-12)
    The Nordic countries have often been depicted as progressive societies regarding sexual diversity and gender equality. These progressive changes in sexual minority issues, however, have not brought about radical changes in educational policies ...
  • Safarian, Sahar; Unnthorsson, Runar; Richter, Christiaan (Springer Nature, 2020-05)
    In this paper, technical, economic and environmental assessments are carried out for power supply chain by using timber and wood waste (T&WW) gasifcation in Iceland. The Icelandic municipalities were clustered into 35 subgroups based on various number ...
  • Safarian, Sahar; Unnthorsson, Runar; Richter, Christiaan (Scientific Research Publishing, Inc., 2020-06)
    Energy recovery from waste biomass can have significant impacts on the most pressing development challenges of rural poverty and environmental damages. In this paper, a techno-economic analysis is carried out for electricity generation by using timber ...
  • Frater, Paul (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2020-06)
    Age and length (i.e. composition) data are, along with abundance indices, some of the most basic yet informative data collected in fisheries science. Measurements on age and length have been collected since the study of fish and fish stocks began in ...
  • Sigurdardottir, Arun K.; Kristofersson, Gisli; Gustafsdottir, Sonja Stelly; Sigurðsson, Stefán B; Arnadottir, Solveig A; Steingrimsson, Jon; Gunnarsdottir, Elin (Informa UK Limited, 2019-11-29)
    Little is known about self-rated health (SRH) of older people living in more remote and Arctic areas. Iceland is a high-income country with one of the lowest rates of income inequality in the world, which may influence SRH. The research aim was to study ...
  • Júlíusdóttir, Ólöf (University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, 2019-08-16)
    Gender disparity in business leadership positions has received increasing attention in the world. Globally, women are still vastly underrepresented in the higher levels of organisations. Despite women representing half of the capable work force ...
  • Jónsdóttir, Svanborg R.; Gísladóttir, Karen Rut; Guðjónsdóttir, Hafdís (Informa UK Limited, 2015-01-02)
    Teacher education is constantly being renewed in response to continuous social, economic and technological changes. In 2008, teacher education in Iceland was extended from a three-year to a five-year master’s degree program and this significantly increased ...
  • Costa, Pedro; Brandt, Luca; picano, francesco (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-11-29)
    We present a direct comparison between interface-resolved and one-way-coupled point-particle direct numerical simulations (DNS) of gravity-free turbulent channel flow laden with small inertial particles, with high particle-to-fluid density ratio and ...
  • Guðmundsdóttir Beck, Sólveig (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2020-05)
    Innovations introduced in connection with the New Enterprises in Iceland in the second half of the 18th century have long been considered largely unsuccessful, but a more detailed analysis of the reception of particular innovations has been lacking. ...
  • Elias, Said; Rupakhety, Rajesh; Olafsson, Stefan (Hindawi Limited, 2019-11-19)
    This study presents analysis of a benchmark building installed with tuned mass dampers (TMDs) while subjected to wind and earthquake loads. Different TMD schemes are applied to reduce dynamic responses of the building under wind and earthquakes. The ...
  • Thorhallsson, Albert Th.; Benediktsson, Bardi; Bjornsson, Ragnar (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2019-10-15)
    Molybdenum nitrogenase is one of the most intriguing metalloenzymes in nature, featuring an exotic iron-molybdenum-sulfur cofactor, FeMoco, whose mode of action remains elusive. In particular, the molecular and electronic structure of the N2-binding ...
  • Jónsdóttir, Svanborg R.; Macdonald, Allyson (Emerald, 2019-04-23)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct a means of assessing the feasibility of implementing innovation and entrepreneurial education (IEE) in schools. The study focuses on teaching IEE in middle school (Grades 5–7). Design/methodology/ ...
  • Sultan, Muhammad Taha; Maraloiu, Adrian Valentin; Stavarache, Ionel; Gudmundsson, Jon Tomas; Manolescu, Andrei; Teodorescu, Valentin Serban; Ciurea, Magdalena Lidia; Svavarsson, Halldor (Beilstein Institut, 2019-09-17)
    Multilayer structures comprising of SiO2/SiGe/SiO2 and containing SiGe nanoparticles were obtained by depositing SiO2 layers using reactive direct current magnetron sputtering (dcMS), whereas, Si and Ge were co-sputtered using dcMS and high-power impulse ...
  • Jack, Róbert (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2018-02-04)
    Ein leið til að sinna mannkostamenntun er að lesa bókmenntir og greina og ræða mannkosti í þeim með nemendum. Í þessari grein er fjallað um forsendur þess að nota Íslendingasögur til mannkostamenntunar með nemendum á unglingsaldri. Rætt er um mikilvægi ...
  • Jónsdóttir, Svanborg R. (Menntavísindastofnun, Menntavísindasvið, Háskóli Íslands, 2018-09-14)
    Creative thinking and creative action are considered important competencies in the world today. In Iceland, creativity was presented as one of six fundamental issues in education in 2011. One approach to enhance creative thinking and creative ...
  • Jakobsdóttir, Sólveig (EADTU, 2018-10)
    At the University of Iceland, School of Education (UISE), a group of faculty members has been examining its teacher education programme, which has been offered online with face-to-face sessions since the early 90’s as well as being offered as campus-based. ...
  • Guðjónsdóttir, Hafdís; Jónsdóttir, Svanborg R. (Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices, 2016)
    One of the challenges for teachers in the modern world is the continuous search for pedagogy to meet diverse groups of students in inclusive schools. Developing inclusive schools sometimes creates tensions for students and teachers, but at the same ...
  • Eriksen, Bjørn O.; Schaeffner, Elke; Melsom, Toralf; Ebert, Natalie; van der Giet, Markus; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Indridason, Olafur Skuli; Karger, Amy; Levey, Andrew S.; Schuchardt, Mirjam; Sørensen, Liv Karin; Palsson, Runolfur (Elsevier BV, 2019-12-23)
    Rationale & Objective: Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) estimation based on creatinine or cystatin C level is currently the standard method for assessing GFR in epidemiologic research and clinical trials despite several important and well-known ...