Chemical weathering of silicate rocks is a key control on the long-term climate, via drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 . Magnesium isotopes are increasingly being used to trace weathering, but are often complicated by several coincident fractionating ...

Teacher education is constantly being renewed in response to continuous social, economic and technological changes. In 2008, teacher education in Iceland was extended from a three-year to a five-year master’s degree program and this significantly increased ...

In order to visualize the relationship between bacterial phylogeny and specialized metabolite production of bacterial colonies growing on nutrient agar, we developed IDBac-a low-cost and high-throughput matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization ...

We evaluated the clinical utility of the Swedish SCARED-R in child- and adolescent psychiatric outpatients (n = 239) and validated it against Longitudinal Expert All Data (LEAD) DSM IV diagnoses based on the Children’s Schedule for Affective Disorders ...

Á fyrsta ári þessarar aldar skrifaði þáverandi formaður Íslenskrar málnefndar, Kristján Árnason prófessor, grein í Málfregnir þar sem hann skilgreindi ágætlega tvenns konar vanda sem hann taldi íslenskt mál myndi standa frammi fyrir á nýbyrjaðri öld; ...

The origin of rejuvenated volcanism on mantle plume related oceanic islands remains controversial. One commonly cited model is decompressional melting related to plate flexure from the rapid loading of the lithosphere by the formation of a shield ...

Introduction There are growing concerns about the increase in rates of commonly used childbirth interventions. When indicated, childbirth interventions are crucial for preventing maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, but their routine use in ...

Ground-nesting species are vulnerable to a wide range of predators and often experience very high levels of nest predation. Strategies to reduce nest vulnerability can include concealing nests in vegetation and/or nesting in locations in which nests ...