Háskóli Íslands: Recent submissions

  • Torsteinsdóttir, Sigurbjörg; Scheidegger, Stephan; Baselgia, Silvia; Jónsdóttir, Sigríður; Svansson, Vilhjálmur; Björnsdóttir, Sigríður; Marti, Eliane (Springer Nature, 2018-11-03)
    Background: Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) is an IgE-mediated dermatitis caused by bites of Culicoides spp., which occurs frequently in horses imported from Iceland to continental Europe. IBH does not occur in Iceland because Culicoides species ...
  • Ala-Mantila, Sanna; Heinonen, Jukka; Junnila, Seppo; Saarsalmi, Perttu (Informa UK Limited, 2017-09-14)
    The evidence for connections between subjective well-being and spatial factors remains inconclusive, especially with respect to the immediate living environment. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between individual-level subjective ...
  • Sæþórsdóttir, Anna; Hall, C. Michael (MDPI AG, 2018-07-04)
    It is of vital importance that nature-based tourist destinations maintain their natural resources in a sustainable way. Nature and wilderness are the main attractions for tourism in Iceland. The Central Highlands are uninhabited with little visible ...
  • Falk, Martin; Hagsten, Eva (MDPI AG, 2018-07-26)
    Recently, several winter seasons in the European Alps have been unexpectedly warm. In the Austrian mountains, December 2015 was the warmest since weather records began, with a temperature deviation of +6.6 °C compared to the long-term average. By use ...
  • Ragnarsson, Sigurður; Kristjánsdóttir, Erla S.; Gunnarsdóttir, Sigrún (SAGE Publications, 2018-04)
    Many organizations attribute their success to the use of servant leadership. However, very few studies have been conducted with the emphasis of understanding what it is like for people to work in servant leadership organizations and how it is practiced. ...
  • Anderson-Berry, Linda; Achilles, Tamsin; Panchuk, Shannon; Mackie, Brenda; Canterford, Shelby; Leck, Amanda; Bird, Deanne (Elsevier BV, 2018-09)
    The Bureau of Meteorology has a mandate to issue warnings for weather and climate events that are likely to result in harm and loss. This service has been delivered in an end-to-end (science to service) context and warnings messages have typically been ...
  • Steinhaeuser, Sarah Sophie (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2019-08)
    The microenvironment is increasingly being recognized as a key player in supporting cancer progression. Therefore, investigating heterotypic interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment is important for improving our understanding ...
  • Loftsdóttir, Kristín (Informa UK Limited, 2017-12-14)
    Migration has become a key issue in the contemporary European context, with depictions of Europe as under ‘attack’ due to the mass movement of uprooted populations, especially from Africa and the Middle East. The current sentiment of Europe in crisis ...
  • Dharmawan, I A; Ulhag, R Z; Endyana, C; Aufaristama, Muhammad (IOP Publishing, 2016-01-19)
    We present a numerical simulation of non-Newtonian fluid flow in a twodimensional fracture network. The fracture is having constant mean aperture and bounded with Hurst exponent surfaces. The non-Newtonian rheology behaviour of the fluid is described ...
  • Ramírez-González, Lucía Magali; Aufaristama, Muhammad; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Thordarson, Thorvaldur; Proietti, Nicolas Marino; Kraft, Gilles; McQuilkin, Jamie (IOP Publishing, 2019-04-29)
    This study used optical remote sensors to identify surface hydrothermal alteration and thermal anomalies in Krýsuvík geothermal field. Multispectral Landsat and ASTER satellite images were used to identify hydrothermal alteration minerals and thermal ...
  • Aufaristama, Muhammad; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg; Ulfarsson, Magnus; Erlangga, I G D; Thordarson, Thorvaldur (IOP Publishing, 2019-08-14)
    In the beginning of December 2017, Mt. Agung eruption powered down to minor ash emissions and on the middle of December, aerial photographs of the crater were taken by Indonesia Centre of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) showing a ...
  • Aufaristama, Muhammad; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Ulfarsson, Magnus; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg; Thordarson, Thorvaldur (MDPI AG, 2019-02-26)
    The Holuhraun lava flow was the largest effusive eruption in Iceland for 230 years, with an estimated lava bulk volume of ~1.44 km3 and covering an area of ~84 km2. The six month long eruption at Holuhraun 2014–2015 generated a diverse surface environment. ...
  • Loftsdóttir, Kristín (Hugvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2015)
    Greinin fjallar um birtingarmyndir kynþáttahyggju í íslenskum samtíma og leggur til að hugtakið „sakleysi“ geti hjálpað til við að skilja samtíma kynþáttafordóma á Íslandi, þar sem þeim er ekki algjörlega hafnað sem hluta af íslensku samfélagi en oft ...
  • Loftsdóttir, Kristín; Hipfl, Brigitte (ATGENDER, 2012)
  • Loftsdóttir, Kristín (De Gruyter, 2017)
    The discussion draws from recent writing on the meaning of ‘whiteness’ in the Nordic countries, emphasizing the importance to understand racialization in different localities. Racism is entangled with affective meanings related to discourse of the ...
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    Bjarnason, Ingi Þorleifur; Menke, William; Flóvenz, Ólafur G. (American Geophysical Union, 1994-09-10)
    The central question discussed by Gudmundsson [this issue] can be succinctly stated: "Is the temperature of the shallowest upper mantle of Iceland at the peridotite solidus" (nominally, 1200°C). The traditional view, as developed by numerous authors ...
  • Kristinsson, Ari Páll (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2019-08-15)
    Greint er frá hugmyndum Haugens (1966 o.v.), Ammons (2003, 2015 o.v.) og Spolskys (2004, 2009, 2018) um málstöðlun, málstefnu og málstýringu þær bornar jafnharðan að íslenskum úrlausnarefnum og sýnt hvernig þær nýtast við athuganir á íslenskri málsögu, ...
  • Frímann Jökulsdóttir, Tinna; Ingason, Anton; Sigurjónsdóttir, Sigríður; Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2019-08-15)
    Síaukin áhrif ensku á íslenskt málsamfélag hafa valdið mörgum áhyggjum af stöðu og framtíðarhorfum íslensku og hafa nýlegar rannsóknir sýnt að slíkar áhyggjur eru sennilega ekki tilefnislausar. Mikilvægt þykir fyrir lífvænleika íslensku að hún sé bæði ...
  • Guðmundsdóttir Beck, Þórhalla; Whelpton, Matthew (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2019-08-15)
    Brent Berlin og Paul Kay ullu straumhvörfum í merkingarlegum rannsóknum á litaheitum með útgáfu bókar sinnar Basic Color Terms árið 1969. Fram að þeim tíma hafði verið talið að hvert mál hefði sína eigin hugtakaskiptingu, og í sambandi við litaheiti ...
  • Axelsdóttir, Katrín (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2019-08-15)
    Í beygingu nafnsins Þórarinn hafa á síðari öldum komið upp fjórar nýjungar í þágufalli við hlið hinnar hefðbundu myndar Þórarni. Þetta eru myndirnar Þórarin, Þórarini, Þórarinum og Þórarininum. Hér er reynt að leita skýringa á þessum nýjungum. Þórarin ...