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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06)Introduction and aims: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy, characterized by the proliferation and accumulation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow (BM), leading to overproduction of monoclonal protein (M-protein) and/or free ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Languages and Culture, 2025-06)This dissertation argues for a new, “slant” approach to analyzing post-9/11 literature, defined here as any work of literature published after September 11, 2001. Existing scholarship on post-9/11 literature tends to focus exclusively on novels that ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06)Kabuki syndrome type 1 (KS1) is a Mendelian disorder of the epigenetic machinery (MDEM) caused by heterozygous pathogenic variants in the histone methyltransferase 2 D (KMT2D). KS is a multi-organ disorder with variable phenotypic presentations among ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2025-06)This doctoral dissertation is the first extensive analysis of nominalized clauses in contemporary Icelandic. Its main objective is to explain: a) the role of the demonstrative pronoun það ‘that’ (see Garofalo (2020)) when it introduces a clausal ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06-10)Introduction Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension (HT), accounting for up to 29% of cases of resistant HT and 14% in general practice. Familial hyperaldosteronism (FH) is a rare cause of PA. The most common ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2025-06-23)This study evaluates a novel methodological approach for analyzing tourism mobility patterns in time and space within regions characterized by core-periphery mobility patterns, with Iceland and its key nature-based destinations serving as the study ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2025-06)Sound is an important mode for communication and mediates a variety of interactions within and between species. Sociality is thought to promote complexity in communication systems. Cetaceans are highly vocal and social and thus provide excellent models ...
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(Félag raungreinakennara, 1992)Stærðfræði teygir sig inn á mörg svið daglegs lífs. Hlutverk hennar í viðskiptum og tækni er alþekkt, en færri vita að stærðfræðileg lögmál leynast í myndlist og tónlist. Í þessari grein verða rakin ævaforn tengsl tónlistar og stærðfræði.
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2025-06)This doctoral research explores the entanglements of placemaking, mobilities and the making of margins in the context of tourism. The research examines how places come to be and are transformed in relation to various mobilities within as well as through ...
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Investigating DNA methylation dynamics in normal and epigenetic machinery deficient neurodevelopment (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06-19)Epigenetic machinery (EM) factors are essential for modulating chromatin states and regulating gene expression. The Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery (MDEM), caused by the mutations in the EM, often result in shared phenotypes, including ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Science, 2025-04)The topic for this thesis lies in the scope of random planar maps. We investigate scaling limits of some models of discrete planar maps which are by construction “tree-like”. Specifically, we consider some models of “Halin-like” maps and series-parallel ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06-02)Autophagy is a cellular degradation process, important for maintaining cellular homeostasis. It has been shown to be involved in cancer initiation and development, either in a tumour-suppressive or promotive manner. The protein ATG7 is known to be ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, 2025-06)The rapid growth of immigration to Iceland in the past two decades has increased diversity in schools, sparking interest in educational research on multiculturalism and inclusion. This doctoral study investigates how schools, teacher education, and ...
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(2023)Library institutions did not exist in early modern Iceland, meaning that private ownership was central to the preservation of pre-modern manuscripts and literature. However, personal collections are poorly documented in comparison to the activities of ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, 2025-05)Food systems face urgent sustainability challenges that are set to escalate as the world population expands, becomes more affluent, and urbanizes at a fast rate. These challenges are deeply rooted in food systems; the technology, ways of working, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, 2025-04-23)The global population is aging, and policymakers emphasize the importance of enabling older people to continue living in their private homes for as long as possible, even as they experience health decline and physical or cognitive impairment. While most ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, 2023-05)Introduction. Despite being an international priority linked to eliminating extreme poverty, family planning remains underutilized, partially due to barriers to access. Common barriers to family planning include distance, finances, provider bias, long ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025)Aim The overall objective of the thesis was to investigate health literacy (HL), focusing on community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older in sparsely populated areas of northern Iceland, from a participatory occupational justice perspective. The ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2025-06)Magmatic dikes form an integral part of volcanic systems and transport magma from depth towards the surface. Dike propagation through the Earth’s crust is affected by the mechanical properties of the crust, which is important to better understand ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, 2025-05)Analyzing plant data for precision and robust agriculture is a key component of adapting to climate change. Plant data is multi-modal, experiments are directly restricted by plant growth, and the data analysis is often supported by image capturing. ...