Háskóli Íslands: Síðast bætt við

  • Prajapati, Manisha; Christensen, Gustav; Paquet-Durand, Francois; Loftsson, Thorsteinn (MBPI, 2021-03)
    Cyclodextrins (CDs) have been widely used as pharmaceutical excipients for formulation purposes for different delivery systems. Recent studies have shown that CDs are able to form complexes with a variety of biomolecules, such as cholesterol. This has ...
  • Galan-Lopez, Pablo; Sanchez-Oliver, Antonio J.; Pihu, Maret; Gisladottir, Thordis; Domínguez, Raúl; Ries, Francis (MDPI AG, 2019-12-27)
    Obesity, low levels of physical fitness, and unhealthy eating patterns are responsiblefor part of the health problems of adolescents today. The current study aimed at examining theassociation between the adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD), ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Valgerður S. (Samtök áhugafólks um skólaþróun, 2019-03-10)
    Það er ástæða til að byrja á því að gera athugasemd við yfirskrift greinarinnar – að tækifæri nemenda til að hafa áhrif á nám sitt sé annað hvort menntun til lýðræðis eða ógn við námsmarkmið. Það er auðvitað ekki annað hvort eða; að ef við höfum meira ...
  • Jónsson, Ólafur Páll; Guðmundsson, Bragi; Øyehaug, Anne Bergliot; Didham, Robert James; Wolff, Lili-Ann; Bengtsson, Stefan; Lysgaard, Jonas Andreasen; Gunnarsdóttir, Bryndís Sóley; Árnadóttir, Sólveig María; Rømoen, Jørgen; Sund, Marianne; Cockerell, Emelie; Plummer, Paul; Brückner, Mathilda (Nordic Council of Ministers, 2021-03-09)
    This report presents some of the main results of research conducted on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the Nordic countries – one of Iceland’s presidency projects for the Nordic Council of Ministers initiated in 2019 under the heading ...
  • Brychta, Robert J.; Rögnvaldsdóttir, Vaka; Gudmundsdottir, Sigridur Lara; Stefansdottir, Runa; Hrafnkelsdóttir, Soffía Margrét; Gestsdottir, Sunna; Arngrímsson, Sigurbjörn Árni; Chen, Kong Y.; Jóhannsson, Erlingur (Human Kinetics, 2019-12-01)
    Introduction: Sleep is often quantified using self-report or actigraphy. Self-report is practical and less technically challenging, but prone to bias. We sought to determine whether these methods have comparable sensitivity to measure longitudinal ...
  • Safarian, Sahar; Unnthorsson, Runar; Richter, Christiaan (Informa UK Limited, 2021-02-28)
    This study develops a new simulation model by ASPEN Plus for gasification integrated with water-gas shift reactors and product recovery unit for hydrogen production. Timber and wood waste (T&WW) as a lignocellulosic biomass was also considered as the ...
  • Lárusson, Hrafnkell (Háskóli Íslands, Hugvísindasvið, Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild, 2021)
    Á árunum 1874–1915 tók íslenskt samfélag margháttuðum breytingum sem birtust m.a. í efnahags- og félagslegum umskiptum sem tengdust þéttbýlismyndun og lýðræðisþróun. Íslenska sveita-samfélagið átti undir högg að sækja eftir að hafa verið allsráðandi ...
  • Nedelciu, Claudiu (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2021-02)
    Phosphorus is an essential yet irreplaceable macronutrient for agriculture and thus plays a key role in global food security. Most of the phosphate fertilizers are produced from phosphate rock, a finite mineral resource that is mined and processed at ...
  • Gunnarsdóttir, Ingunn; Davidsdottir, Brynhildur; Worrell, Ernst; Sigurgeirsdóttir, Sigurbjörg (Elsevier BV, 2021-04)
    Sustainable energy development is a complex and multi-dimensional concept that is integral to sustainable development. This paper offers an approach to selecting comprehensive and robust indicators to monitor progress towards this international policy ...
  • Jansook, Phatsawee; Prajapati, Manisha; Pruksakorn, Patamaporn; Loftsson, Thorsteinn (Elsevier, 2019-11)
    Econazole nitrate (ECN) is a weakly basic drug with very low aqueous solubility that hampers its permeation through biological membranes and results in low ECN bioavailability. Formation of drug/cyclodextrin (drug/CD) inclusion complexes is a ...
  • Gunnlaugsson, Stefan (University of Iceland, School of Social Science, Faculty of Business Administration, 2021-02-17)
    In 1990, Iceland introduced a uniform individual transferable quota system (ITQ) to manage almost all of the nation’s fisheries. The development of Iceland’s fisheries under this management system were examined in the five articles this thesis consists ...
  • Óskarsdóttir, Edda; Gísladóttir, Karen Rut; Guðjónsdóttir, Hafdís (University of Lapland, 2019-03-15)
    The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the development of the inclusive education system in Iceland, as well as the response to the 2008 education act and 2011 National Curriculum. The idea of inclusion has been implicit in Icelandic law since ...
  • Auðardóttir, Auður Magndís; Kosunen, Sonja (SAGE Publications, 2020-05-29)
    This study aims to explore the social and ethnic background of pupils admitted to private schools at the compulsory level in Iceland so as to identify possible social class segregation between public and private schools. Additionally, we examine how ...
  • Auðardóttir, Auður Magndís; Magnúsdóttir, Berglind Rós (Informa UK Limited, 2020-09-21)
    The study explores how mothers in Iceland, a relatively new nation state that is perceived as being gender equal, classless and homogeneous, adapt and respond to international trends of consumer cultures. Building on studies about parental neighbourhood ...
  • Gunnarsdóttir, Ingunn; Davidsdottir, Brynhildur; Worrell, E.; Sigurgeirsdóttir, Sigurbjörg (Elsevier BV, 2021-05)
    Sustainable energy development is a complex multi-dimensional concept that can vary in meaning based on the context it is applied in and the perspective of the user. The role of energy in achieving sustainable development was recognized when the concept ...
  • Prajapati, Manisha; Eiríksson, Finnur Freyr; Loftsson, Thorsteinn (Elsevier, 2020)
    Tacrolimus is a macrolide lactone and potent immunosuppressant. It is highly lipophilic and has very limited aqueous solubility. Tacrolimus is highly susceptible to hydrolysis which results in very limited stability in aqueous solutions. Besides this, ...
  • Witham, Claire; Barsotti, Sara; Dumont, Stéphanie; Oddsson, Björn; Sigmundsson, Freysteinn (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-01-07)
    A 3 day exercise simulating unrest and a large explosive eruption at Katla volcano, Iceland, was conducted in January 2016. A large volume of simulated data based on a complex, but realistic eruption scenario was compiled in advance and then transmitted ...
  • Kreiling, Agnes-Katharina; O’Gorman, Eoin J.; Pálsson, Snæbjörn; Benhaïm, David; Leblanc, Camille A.; Ólafsson, Jón S.; Kristjánsson, Bjarni K. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-09-18)
    Many life-history events in aquatic invertebrates are triggered by seasonal changes in water temperature, but other ecological factors may be important as well. To rule out the confounding effects of changing water temperature, we studied the seasonal ...
  • Sigurjónsdóttir, Hrefna (Hið íslenska náttúrufræðifélag, 2020)
    The habit of the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to associate with grazing horses is spreading in Iceland. When asked I found that many thought the birds were picking parasites from the skin of the horses. I found no references to scientific papers ...
  • Fenger, Paula; Harðarson, Gísli (GLSA, 2020)
    Germanic compounds often contain an element referred to as linkers, (L). These elements are homophonous with inflectional suffixes, like plural or case markers, but do not nec- essarily have the same meaning or function as the corresponding inflectional ...