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(2021-10-31)At the international level, Iceland is faring well on gender assessments concerning economic status, political position, education, and health. However, despite the ambitious goal of the Icelandic Government to fully reach gender equality, the gender ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science, 2024-09)The objective of this research is to investigate the potential of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) within computational fluid dynamics (CFD) utilizing high-performance computing (HPC). Turbulent flow, a complex phenomenon prevalent in both ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences, 2024-10)Rannsóknin fjallar um opinbera stefnumótun á Íslandi í byrjun 21. aldar. Sjónum er beint að vísinda- og tæknistefnu Íslands frá því að stofnað var til Vísinda- og tækniráðs árið 2003 og þar til það var lagt niður árið 2023. Ráðinu var ætlað að bæta ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2026-09-16)Wiedemann-Steiner heilkenni (WDSTS) er sjaldgæfur erfðasjúkdómur sem veldur greindarskerðingu sem enn reynist ólæknandi og lítið er vitað um sjúkdómsmyndun þess. Orsakir WDSTS eru arfblendnar stökkbreytingar í geni sem táknar fyrir ensíminu ...
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(European Association of Geochemistry, 2024-04-30)The ability of engineered enhanced weathering to impact atmospheric CO2 has been challenging to demonstrate due to the many processes occurring in soils and the short time span of current projects. Here we report the carbon balance in an Icelandic ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2024-09)Battling climate change and rising temperatures is a major task of this century. To achieve current climate goals the large-scale removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is needed. Enhanced Rock Weathering ERW is one of the most promising methods ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2024-04)Establishment of melanocytes, the pigment-producing cells, starts from the multipotent neural crest cells. Melanoblasts, the melanocyte precursor cells, follow a tight schedule during their development requiring proliferation, migration, and invasion ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science, 2024-06)The global climate crisis poses one of the most pressing challenges of our time, affecting diverse sectors and demanding urgent attention from scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders. Addressing the multifaceted environmental, political, societal, ...
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(Wiley, 2022-12-16)Although fostering values is promoted within environmental and sustainability education (ESE) and a shift in values seen as essential for a sustainable future, recent international findings indicate this aspect of ESE is being neglected (UNESCO, 2019). ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2021-04-06)Although fostering values is promoted within sustainability education (SE), many educators appear concerned or conflicted about how, or whether, to approach values education. An interdisciplinary research project sought to draw on insights from character ...
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Citizenship, character, sustainability: Differences and commonalities in three fields of education (Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-26)An adequate response to the environmental and sustainability issues we now face cannot be limited to single perspectives, disciplines, or ways of knowing, and instead requires an interdisciplinary approach. Despite the connections between the fields ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Health Promotion, Sport and Leisure Studies, 2024-10)Background: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) describes various health and performance complications of problematic low energy availability (LEA). Sex and sport-specific aetiology and risk factors, in addition to the degree of LEA resulting ...
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(University of Iceland, School ef Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2024-08)Atlantshafs laxinn dvelur fyrstu ár lífsferils síns í straumvatni, en hverfur síðan til sjávar þar sem hann dvelur í 1 – 2 ár uns hann kemur aftur í uppeldisána sína. Líkt og fyrir allar lífverur er framboð á fæðu einn af mikilvægustu þáttum fyrir ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics, 2023-03-27)Dishonesty and distrust are serious social and economic challenges facing societies with billions of US dollars lost each year due to income-tax evasion, insurance fraud, and substantial monitoring costs. The overarching aim of this thesis was ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2024)For their sensitivity to environmental variables, their impact on early developmental processes and their importance to the establishment of multiple phenotypes, epigenetic mechanisms have been increasingly studied during the last decades. Like ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2024-06-27)This thesis explores two topics in three-dimensional gravity, the $\ttb$ deformation and zeta functions of three-dimensional quotient manifolds. The $\ttb$ deformation is an irrelevant deformation of a two-dimensional translationally invariant ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2024)The current thesis presents three published articles on inflectional change in Insular Nordic (Icelandic and Faroese). Papers I and II deal with change in Icelandic, while Paper III focuses on Faroese. The three articles are related through employment ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2024-06)The ΛCDM model is the most widely accepted model of cosmological structure formation and evolution. It includes a form of Cold Dark Matter (CDM), which is non-quantum, nonrelativistic and collisionless. It settles into extended and dense self-gravitating ...
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(Springer, 2024-06)The size of deep-seated magma chambers is an important parameter for understanding pre-eruptive signals such as surface deformation. The constantly inflating Hekla volcano in Iceland has had relatively simple eruptive behaviour during the historical ...
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(Springer, 2023-10)We would like to thank Geist et al. (2023) for the opportunity to further discuss the arguments presented in our paper “Long or short silicic magma residence time beneath Hekla volcano, Iceland?” (Sigmarsson et al. 2022). The disagreement centres around ...