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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Pedagogy, 2021-10-04)Teachers learn important things together through talking. Conversationbased continued professional development (CPD) for teachers has been insufficiently researched. In the context of current policy and practice - that remains top-down and controlling ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Diversity, 2023-03)Many students experience mathematics as meaningless and irrelevant to their lives outside the school system. In response, mathematics educators have called for more emphasis on meaning making and dialogue in the classroom, and some have argued that ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2023-01-06)The volcanic island of Surtsey, off the south coast of Iceland, was formed by shallow ocean-emergent basaltic volcanism in 1963-1967. There were several episodes of activity, migrating between five vents (Surtur, Surtla, Surtungur, Syrtlingur and Jólnir) ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2023)The semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC) might be the key to next-generation of power electronic devices. Its favourable material properties can outperform existing silicon (Si) devices enabling better energy efficiency in power electronics. However, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)Until relatively recent times, the late medieval Icelandic romances, or frumsamdar riddarasögur (indigenous riddarasögur) have been considered to be of little critical value. Some of the defining features of the genre, such as exotic settings, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023-04-05)Abstract The theoretical aim of this project is to get a better understanding of the so called weight effects illustrated in examples like the following (? = a questionable example, * = a bad example, ** = an even worse example; brackets enclose the ...
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(American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2023-03-14)Hjalli-Ölfus is the westernmost segment of the east-west transform South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ), which is the eastward extension of the ∼ENE-trending transtensional Reykjanes Peninsula (RP). Historically, the area has shown an interactive behavior ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2023-03-30)Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer today, with approximately 2.3 million new cases for the year 2020. Regardless of gender, these diagnoses represent 11.7% of all cases. For women, breast cancer falls under roughly one-third of cancer ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Diversity, 2021-04-15)This thesis aims to explore how power relations are reproduced through parental choices and practices in Iceland, with a focus on classed and gendered dimensions. The thesis can be viewed as two separate yet connected parts. In the first part, I ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2018)The present thesis explores how the anthropological concept of liminality can be applied to the corpus of the Íslendingasögur and how this unprecedented, interdisciplinary discussion contributes to the understanding of the sagas themselves as well as ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2021-05)Background: The progress of labor is traditionally assessed clinically with subjective abdominal and vaginal examinations. Until recently no adequate objective tools have been available for this purpose. During the last 20 years transabdominal and ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)Responding to the rapid growth of interest in the intersections between folklore and Old Norse literature in the field of Old Norse studies in recent years, this study aims at renewing and expanding the discussion on the relation between the fairy tale ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2022-06-22)Iron-sulfur clusters are integral to the biochemistry of living organisms and a lot of effort has been devoted to research their structure and function. However, describing these polynuclear iron-sulfur clusters with computa tional chemistry poses a ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)The Icelandic case marking system has for decades proved an important testing ground for theories on case and productivity. This is in part because Icelandic has the rare property of marking argument function redundantly, with both rich morphological ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science, 2022-12)The main purpose of this research is to contribute towards a theory of knowledge worker productivity (KWP). When it comes to KWP there is no single integrated body of knowledge which can be used for analytical and empirical testing and applied to real ...
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(Soc. Sci. Islandica, 1976)The seismicity of the Tjörnes Fracture Zone is distributed over a zone 150 km long and 80 km wide. Teleseismic locations of earthquakes within this zone show a diffuse pattern of epicenters that does not easily lend itself to tectonic interpretation. ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, 2019-05-24)This is an empirical study on changes and reform attempts in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (ELCI), focusing on the role of pastors in the processes. The aim is to understand the role pastors played, how and why they contributed to or ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022-02)Sýklódextrín eru hjálparefni sem notuð eru lyfjaform svo sem vatnslausnir (t.d. stungulyf) og föst lyfjaform (t.d. töflur), til að auka leysanleika, stöðugleika og aðgengi lyfjanna. Í þessu verkefni var notkun sýklódextrína sem hjálparefni í augndropum ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022-09)gamma-Cyclodextrin (gCD) has been recently used as pharmaceutical excipient in topical formulation for ocular delivery. The high corticosteroid concentration in various ocular tissues has been reported after topical application of aqueous eye drops, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2023-02)Today, society is reliant on nonrenewable fossil fuels and petrochemical derivatives. As the global population increases, energy and materials are rapidly diminishing, and a drastic, responsive change is needed to achieve a more sustainable world. It ...
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