Háskóli Íslands: Síðast bætt við

  • Skuladottir, Hafdis; Gunnarsdottir, Thora; Halldorsdottir, Sigridur; Sveinsdóttir, Herdís; Holden, Janean; Bjornsdottir, Amalia (Wiley, 2020-05-29)
    Aim: To explore the lived experience of individuals' in chronic pain of participating in a pain rehabilitation programme in Iceland. Design: Phenomenological research. Method: The Vancouver School of Doing Phenomenology. Eleven participants were ...
  • Berkesi, Márta; Bali, Eniko; Bodnar, Robert J.; Szabó, Ábel; Guzmics, Tibor (Elsevier BV, 2020-09)
    Oldoinyo Lengai, located in the Gregory Rift in Tanzania, is a world-famous volcano owing to its uniqueness in producing natrocarbonatite melts and because of its extremely high CO2 flux. The volcano is constructed of highly peralkaline [PI = molar ...
  • jueseah, alvin slewion; Knutsson, Ogmundur; Kristofersson, Dadi; Tómasson, Tumi (Elsevier BV, 2020-09)
    Artisanal fisheries employ small simple craft making fishers, processors and traders vulnerable to seasonal fluctuations. This study examines effects of seasonality on supply, trading relationships and benefits distribution in two small-scale fisheries ...
  • Kalpio, Marika; Magnússon, Jóhann D.; Guðmundsson, Haraldur G.; Linderborg, Kaisa M.; Kallio, Heikki; Haraldsson, Guðmundur G.; Yang, Baoru (Elsevier BV, 2020-09)
    The stereospecific structure of triacylglycerols (TAGs) affects the bioavailability of fatty acids. Lack of enantiopure reference compounds and effective enantiospecific methods have hindered the stereospecific analysis of individual TAGs. Twelve novel ...
  • Rozas, Elena; Beierlein, Johannes; Yulin, Alexey; Klaas, Martin; Suchomel, Holger; Egorov, Oleg; Shelykh, Ivan; Peschel, Ulf; Schneider, Christian; Klembt, Sebastian; Höfling, Sven; Martín, María Dolores; Viña, Luis (Wiley, 2020-07-08)
    Polariton condensates' propagation is strongly dependent on the particular energy landscape the particles are moving upon, in which the geometry of the pathway laid for their movement plays a crucial role. Bends in the circuit's trajectories affect the ...
  • Svedberg, Anna; Björn, Niclas; Sigurgeirsson, Benjamín; Pradhananga, Sailendra; Brandén, Eva; Koyi, Hirsh; Lewensohn, Rolf; De Petris, Luigi; Apellániz-Ruiz, María; Rodríguez-Antona, Cristina; Lundeberg, Joakim; Gréen, Henrik (Elsevier BV, 2020-09)
    Objectives: Gemcitabine/carboplatin treatment is known to cause severe adverse drug reactions which can lead to the need for reduction or cessation of chemotherapy. It would be beneficial to identify patients at risk of severe hematological toxicity ...
  • Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín (FrancoAngeli s.r.l, 2019)
    School buildings that are designed according to an open-plan approach have gained popularity in Iceland over the last two decades, both at the elementary and secondary level. Sigurðardóttir and Hjartarson (2011) claim this to be a radical shift in ...
  • Robertson, Peter A.; Mill, Aileen; Novoa, Ana; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Essl, Franz; Gallardo, Belinda; Geist, Juergen; Jarić, Ivan; Lambin, Xavier; Musseau, Camille; Pergl, Jan; Pyšek, Petr; Rabitsch, Wolfgang; von Schmalensee, Menja; Shirley, Mark; Strayer, David L.; Stefánsson, Róbert A.; Smith, Kevin; Booy, Olaf (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-06-30)
    Managing the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) is a great societal challenge. A wide variety of terms have been used to describe the management of invasive alien species and the sequence in which they might be applied. This variety and lack of ...
  • Jonsdottir-Buch, Sandra Mjoll; Gunnarsdottir, Kristbjorg; Sigurjonsson, Olafur (MDPI AG, 2020-07-20)
    Human embryonic stem cell-derived mesenchymal progenitor (hES-MP) cells are mesenchymal-like cells, derived from human embryonic stem cells without the aid of feeder cells. They have been suggested as a potential alternative to mesenchymal stromal cells ...
  • Southon, Sara B.; Beres, Stephen B.; Kachroo, Priyanka; Saavedra, Matthew Ojeda; Erlendsdóttir, Helga; Haraldsson, Gunnsteinn; Yerramilli, Prasanti; Pruitt, Layne; Zhu, Luchang; Musser, James M.; Kristinsson, Karl G. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-06-10)
    Resistance to macrolide antibiotics is a global concern in the treatment of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus [GAS]) infections. In Iceland, since the detection of the first macrolide-resistant isolate in 1998, three epidemic waves of ...
  • Abdullah, Nzar Rauf; Abdalla, Danyal A.; Ahmed, Taha Y.; Abdulqadr, Sarbast W.; Rashid, Hunar Omar (Elsevier BV, 2020-09)
    We theoretically investigate structural stability, electronic and thermal characteristic of boron and nitrogen codoped monolayer graphene using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equation. Three types of BN dimers, ortho, meta, and para ...
  • Farnsworth, Wesley; Allaart, Lis; Ingolfsson, Olafur; Alexanderson, Helena; Forwick, Matthias; Noormets, Riko; Retelle, Michael; Schomacker, Anders (Elsevier BV, 2020-09)
    We synthesize the current understanding of glacier activity on Svalbard from the end of the Late Pleistocene (12,000 yrs. before present) to the end of the Little Ice Age (c. 1920 AD). Our glacier history is derived from the SVALHOLA database, the first ...
  • Ólafsdóttir, Inga María (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, 2020-11)
    Visual attention has traditionally been studied with single-target search tasks where observers look for a single target and make a response, then the search is over and the trial ends. These studies have furthered our knowledge of visual attention ...
  • Dabiri, Zahra; Hölbling, Daniel; Abad, Lorena; Helgason, Jón Kristinn; Saemundsson, Thorsteinn; Tiede, Dirk (MDPI AG, 2020-08-24)
    Landslide mapping and analysis are essential aspects of hazard and risk analysis. Landslides can block rivers and create landslide-dammed lakes, which pose a significant risk for downstream areas. In this research, we used an object-based image analysis ...
  • Gladkykh, Ganna (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2020-11)
    This PhD thesis explores what can be considered a sustainable energy system on a global scale and what methods and tools can help sustainable energy policy design and assessment. Energy system modelling and sustainable energy system narratives are the ...
  • Skirnisson, Karl; Pálsdóttir, Guðný Rut (Agricultural University of Iceland, 2020)
    For centuries flocks of free-ranging hens, Gallus gallus, have been kept on farms in rural Iceland and egglaying hens are occasionally kept in backyards in urban areas. Studies on poultry parasites started in Iceland in the late 1940s, but have been ...
  • Ballesteros Alvarez, Josue; Dilshat, Ramile; Fock, Valerie; Möller, Katrin; Karl, Ludwig; LARUE, Lionel; Ogmundsdottir, Margret H; Steingrimsson, Eirikur (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-09-03)
    The MITF, TFEB, TFE3 and TFEC (MiT-TFE) proteins belong to the basic helix-loop-helix family of leucine zipper transcription factors. MITF is crucial for melanocyte development and differentiation, and has been termed a lineage-specific oncogene in ...
  • Saviolidis, Nína M.; Olafsdottir, Gudrun; Nicolau, Mariana; samoggia, antonella; Huber, Elise; Brimont, Laura; Gorton, Matthew; Von Berlepsch, David; Sig, Hilda; Del Prete, Margherita; Fedato, Cristina; Aubert, Pierre-Marie; Bogason, Sigurður G. (MDPI AG, 2020-09-02)
    Transitioning agri-food systems towards increased sustainability and resilience requires that attention be paid to sustainable food consumption policies. Policy-making processes often require the engagement and acceptance of key stakeholders. This study ...
  • Meloni, Davide; Ohlsson, Tommy; Pernow, Marcus (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-09-10)
    Despite the successes of the Standard Model of particle physics, it is known to suffer from a number of deficiencies. Several of these can be addressed within non-supersymmetric theories of grand unification based on SO(10). However, achieving gauge ...
  • Ramos Espla, Alfonso; Micael, Joana; Halldórsson, Halldór Pálmar; Gíslason, Sindri (Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC), 2020-05-07)
    Non-indigenous species (NIS) represent a serious problem worldwide, where ascidians are one of the most important taxa. However, little has been done to document the non-indigenous ascidians in Iceland, and over the past decade only two species ...