Umfjöllun um undur og ógnir borgarsamfélagsins er að finna í rituðum heimildum af ýmsu tagi og frá öllum tímum. Hér birtist þýðing Ásdísar Rósu Magnúsdóttur á dagbókarbrotum frá París frá tímum hundrað ára stríðsins svokallaða, sem hófst árið 1337. Í ...

Síaukin áhrif ensku á íslenskt málsamfélag hafa valdið mörgum áhyggjum af stöðu og framtíðarhorfum íslensku og hafa nýlegar rannsóknir sýnt að slíkar áhyggjur eru sennilega ekki tilefnislausar. Mikilvægt þykir fyrir lífvænleika íslensku að hún sé bæði ...

Economists usually sing with the same nose when they answer questions about the role of technology in economic growth. They generally agree that sustained long-term growth in productivity, which began in Western Europe some two centuries ago, could not ...

Large volume effusive eruptions with relatively minor observed precursory signals are at odds with widely used models to interpret volcano deformation. Here we propose a new modelling framework that resolves this discrepancy by accounting for magma ...

This paper discusses parallels between the conditioning of phonological processes at the word- and phrase-level. The approach taken here is a direct reference approach in which apparent mismatches between morphosyntactic domains and phonological domains ...

Low levels of education have serious social, economic and cultural ramifications in rural areas. In many countries, regional universities have explicitly been built to educate the local population, create professional jobs and stimulate innovation. ...

This paper proposes three feature extraction (FE) methods based on density estimation for hyperspectral images (HSIs). The methods are a mixture of factor analyzers (MFA), deep MFA (DMFA), and supervised MFA (SMFA). The MFA extends the Gaussian mixture ...

Í greininni eru könnuð viðhorf framhaldsskólakennara til viðfangsefna er lúta að gagnrýninni og skapandi hugsun í upprifjunaráföngum í stærðfræði. Byggt er á viðtalsrannsókn þar sem fimm kennarar úr þremur framhaldsskólum tóku þátt. Tekin voru viðtöl ...

Agriculture is one of the primary threats to biodiversity but agricultural land can also provide key resources for many species and, in some parts of the world, agricultural land supports important populations of species of conservation concern. In ...