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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022)Ráðskonur eiga sér langa sögu í íslensku samfélagi. Meginmarkmið rannsóknarinnar er að rannsaka störf og félagslega stöðu ráðskvenna sem störfuðu á einkaheimilum í sveit á Íslandi á tímabilinu 1950–2000. Í bakgrunnskafla er einnig fjallað stuttlega um ... -
(Joklarannsoknafelag Islands, 2021-12-08)Due to poor preservation and lack of proximal tephra thickness data, no comprehensive isopach map has existed for the tephra layer from the major eruption of the Katla volcano in 1918. We present such a map obtained by combining existing data on the ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2022-05-24)Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Iceland and worldwide. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular developmental process where epithelial cells assume mesenchymal-like phenotypes through degradation of the ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2022-05-27)Oral anticoagulants (OACs) are among the most commonly used medication worldwide. Vitamin K antagonists, such as warfarin, were the only available oral anticoagulants for over 60 years. However, in the 2010s, novel direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-11)The climate impacts of deep enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) have been understudied in the academic literature. Using life-cycle analysis (LCA) conducted in accordance with ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards, this paper explores the climate change ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022-05-03)This thesis explores the meaning of medicine and considers ethical challenges that arise when medicine's limits are tested as it enters new grounds. The methodology and argumentation used in the thesis can be described as a two-step process. In the ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2022-05)Sepsis is a leading cause of admission to intensive care units (ICU) worldwide and mortality rates remain high despite advances in organ support. Awareness of the syndrome has increased substantially in the past 20 years, after the publication of several ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-06)Recognising the well-known limitations of economic growth as a litmus test of progress and the call by Target 19 of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 to “develop measurements on progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-11)Target 19 of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 17 calls for the use of alternative measures of economic welfare in addition to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is an example of such a measure, including ...
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(University of Iceland, 2022-03-18)Difficult eating behaviours such as fussy eating are consistently found in young children, and those with neurodevelopmental disorders (ND) such as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and depression. ...
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(University of Iceland, 2022-04)This doctoral thesis contributes to the discussion on teaching the values aspect of environmental and sustainability education (ESE). Although fostering values is promoted within ESE, and a shift in values seen as essential for a sustainable future, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022)Archaeology has been fundamentally entangled in colonial power dynamics and nationalist schemes. This entanglement is clearly evident in Iceland, as our discipline has been, and continues to be, a vital tool in shaping and reshaping the Icelandic ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022)This compilation thesis is situated at the intersection of the scholarly fields of medieval masculinities and the bioarchaeology of identities. The aim is to explore bodily aspects of medieval masculinities through the analysis of human skeletal ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2021-08)Glaciers have been an increasingly studied topic in the ecosystem services (ES) literature, with 6 multiple scientific studies affirming a critical and diverse contribution to human well-being. 7 However, the literature to date on glacier ES has lacked ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2022-07)Environmental life cycle costing (ELCC) is a tool which aggregates five categories of monetary costs across a project's life cycle: investment, operation, maintenance, end-of-life, and externalities. This paper summarises the results from the first two ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022-04)Abstract This dissertation focuses above all on Clemente Rebora’s epistolary: that of 1916, 1920-1923 and 1913-1914 respectively. In Chapter I, the analysis concerns the period, following a war accident and its very serious consequences on his ...
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(American Physical Society (APS), 2022-04-07)It is demonstrated by means of the optimal control theory that the energy cost of the spin-orbit torque induced reversal of a nanomagnet with perpendicular anisotropy can be strongly reduced by proper shaping of both in-plane components of the current ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11-12)As a global project of engineering and imagining the world, international development shaped subjectivities and societies, engaging with what Ann Laura Stoler (2008) has referred to as ‘imperial ruins’: what was left after colonialism. Ironically, ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2014-08-13)The paper claims that crisis is a fruitful way to analyse the interrelationship of local and global, neoliberalism and the nation-state, which scholars have explored for the past few years. During the Icelandic financial crash of 2008, the failed ...
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(Iceland Glaciological Society / Jöklarannsóknarfélag Íslands, 2021-12-08)The 23-day long eruption of the ice-covered Katla volcano in 1918 began on October 12 and was over by November 4. Seismicity preceding and accompanying the onset had already started by 11:30 on October 12, while the eruption broke through the glacier ...