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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 ... -
(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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(Elsevier, 2022-02)A new synthesis method was developed and optimized by a full factorial design for conjugating hydroxycinnamic acids (HCA-s) to chitosan. Cinnamic acid and tert-butyldimethylsilyl protected HCA-s were converted to their corresponding acyl chlorides ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, 2022-03)Í dag eru uppsjávartegundir, hliðarstraumar frá vinnslustærri fisktegunda og annar meðafli uppistaðan í því hráefni sem unnið er í fiskmjöl og lýsi. Fiskmjöl og lýsi eru helst notuð sem fóður í fiskeldi, en þar sem verð á fiskmjöli hefur lækkað síðasta ...
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(American Physical Society (APS), 2022-05-02)Controlled creation of localized magnetic textures beyond conventional π-skyrmions is an important problem in the field of magnetism. Here, by means of spin dynamics simulations, Monte Carlo simulations, and harmonic transition state theory we demonstrate ...
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(American Physical Society (APS), 2022-06-27)We provide a theoretical background for electric-field-assisted thermally activated writing and deleting of magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin transition-metal films. We apply an atomistic spin model, which includes the exchange interaction, the ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2023-10-10)Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is an asymptomatic disorder caused by the accumulation of monoclonal immunoglobulin secreting cells in the bone marrow. The main clinical implication of MGUS is that it’s the precursor of multiple ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2023-01-06)Injuries involving major arteries and the thorax are major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Studies on the epidemiology of vascular trauma are scarce and preventive measures are of utmost importance, such as improved roads and safer vehicles. ...
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