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    Are symptoms of insomnia related to respiratory symptoms? Cross-sectional results from 10 European countries and Australia 
    Björnsdóttir, Erla; Lindberg, Eva; Benediktsdóttir, Bryndís; Gislason, Thorarinn; Garcia Larsen, Vanessa; Franklin, Karl; Jarvis, Debbie; Demoly, Pascal; Perret, Jennifer L; Garcia Aymerich, Judith; Arenas, Sandra Dorado; Heinrich, Joachim; Torén, Kjell; Jögi, Rain; Janson, Christer (BMJ, 2020-04-28)
    Objectives To compare the prevalence of different insomnia subtypes among middle-Aged adults from Europe and Australia and to explore the cross-sectional relationship between insomnia subtypes, respiratory symptoms and lung function. Design Cross-sectional ...
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    Hydrothermal and Cold Spring Water and Primary Productivity Effects on Magnesium Isotopes: Lake Myvatn, Iceland 
    Pogge von Strandmann, Philip A. E.; Burton, Kevin W.; Opfergelt, Sophie; Eiríksdóttir, Eydís Salóme; Murphy, Melissa J.; Einarsson, Árni; Gíslason, Sigurður R. (Frontiers Media SA, 2020-04-30)
    Lake Myvatn, Iceland, is one of the most biologically productive lakes in the northern hemisphere, despite seasonal ice cover. Hydrothermal and groundwater springs make up the dominant source to this lake, and we investigate their Mg isotope ratio to ...
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    An evaluation of the cost-competitiveness of maritime fuels – a comparison of heavy fuel oil and methanol (renewable and natural gas) in Iceland 
    Helgason, Rafn; Cook, David; Davidsdottir, Brynhildur (Elsevier BV, 2020-07)
    Alternative fuels have been proposed to ensure compliance with the increasingly more stringent emission standards proposed by the International Maritime Organization. In addition, the Icelandic government aims to introduce 10% renewable energy into the ...
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    The effect of systemic antibiotics on clinical and patient‐reported outcome measures of oral implant therapy with simultaneous guided bone regeneration 
    Payer, Michael; Tan, Wah Ching; Han, Jie; Ivanovski, Saso; Mattheos, Nikos; Pjetursson, Bjarni Elvar; Zhuang, Longfei; Fokas, George; Wong, May C. M.; Acham, Stephan; Lang, Niklaus P.; Hafner, Erika; Jakse, Norbert; Kirnbauer, Barbara; Stagnell, Sami; Simon, Simone; Truschnegg, Astrid; Feng, Gui; Meng, Xin; Shi, Jun‐Yu (Wiley, 2020-02-17)
    Objectives: The aim of the present superiority study was to determine the effect of systemic antibiotics primarily on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and post-surgical complications in patients undergoing oral implant therapy with simultaneous ...
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    Social trauma and its association with posttraumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder 
    Bjornsson, Andri; Harðarson, Jóhann P.; Valdimarsdóttir, Auður G.; Guðmundsdóttir, Karen; Tryggvadóttir, Arnrún; Þórarinsdóttir, Kristjana A.; Wessman, Inga; Sigurjónsdóttir, Ólafía; Davíðsdóttir, Sóley; Þórisdóttir, Auður Sjöfn (Elsevier BV, 2020-05)
    The key characteristic of a traumatic event as defined by the Diagnostic and Mental Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) seems to be a threat to life. However, evidence suggests that other types of threats may play a role in the development of PTSD and ...
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    The grey zones of technological innovation: negative unintended consequences as a counterbalance to novelty 
    McKelvey, Maureen; Saemundsson, Rognvaldur (Informa UK Limited, 2020-06-28)
    The purpose of this article is to better understand the challenges of avoiding the dark side of technological innovation. Specifically, we analyse 10 public investigations started as a reaction to a major crisis in regenerative medicine at the Karolinska ...
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    Smoking-by-genotype interaction in type 2 diabetes risk and fasting glucose 
    Wu, Peitao; Rybin, Denis; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Feitosa, Mary F.; Franceschini, Nora; Li, Yize; Lu, Yingchang; Marten, Jonathan; Musani, Solomon K.; Noordam, Raymond; Raghavan, Sridharan; Rose, Lynda M.; Schwander, Karen; Smith, Albert Vernon; Tajuddin, Salman M.; Vojinovic, Dina; Amin, Najaf; Arnett, Donna K.; Bottinger, Erwin P.; Demirkan, Ayse; Florez, Jose C.; Ghanbari, Mohsen; Harris, Tamara B.; Launer, Lenore J.; Liu, Jingmin; Liu, Jun; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.; Murray, Alison D.; Nalls, Mike A.; Peyser, Patricia A.; Uitterlinden, André G.; Voortman, Trudy; Bouchard, Claude; Chasman, Daniel; Correa, Adolfo; de Mutsert, Renée; Evans, Michele K.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Hayward, Caroline; Kao, Linda; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Kooperberg, Charles; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Province, Michael M.; Rankinen, Tuomo; Redline, Susan; Ridker, Paul M.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Siscovick, David; Smith, Blair H.; van Duijn, Cornelia; Zonderman, Alan B.; Rao, D. C.; Wilson, James G.; Dupuis, Josée; Meigs, James B.; Liu, Ching-Ti; Vassy, Jason L. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-05-07)
    Smoking is a potentially causal behavioral risk factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D), but not all smokers develop T2D. It is unknown whether genetic factors partially explain this variation. We performed genome-environment-wide interaction studies to ...
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    Conceptualizing community in disaster risk management 
    Räsänen, Aleksi; Lein, Haakon; Bird, Deanne; Setten, Gunhild (Elsevier BV, 2020-05)
    Community resilience is often assessed in disaster risk management (DRM) research and it has been argued that it should be strengthened for more robust DRM. However, the term community is seldom precisely defined and it can be understood in many ways. ...
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    Symptoms of anxiety and depression in surgical patients at the hospital, 6 weeks and 6 months postsurgery: A questionnaire study 
    Sveinsdóttir, Herdís; Zoëga, Sigridur; Ingadottir, Brynja; Blondal, Katrin (Wiley, 2020-09-16)
    Aims: To describe prevalence of symptoms of anxiety and depression in surgical patients at three time points: at hospital postsurgery (T1), 6 weeks (T2) and 6 months (T3) postdischarge from hospital; and detect situations and experiences that predict ...
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    Less physical activity and more varied and disrupted sleep is associated with a less favorable metabolic profile in adolescents 
    Rögnvaldsdóttir, Vaka; Brychta, Robert; Hrafnkelsdóttir, Soffía M.; Chen, Kong Y.; Arngrímsson, Sigurbjörn Árni; Johannsson, Erlingur; Gudmundsdottir, Sigridur Lara (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-05-15)
    Background: Sleep and physical activity are modifiable behaviors that play an important role in preventing overweight, obesity, and metabolic health problems. Studies of the association between concurrent objective measures of sleep, physical activity, ...
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    Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure 
    Shah, Sonia; Gudbjartsson, Daniel; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Stefansson, Kari (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-01-09)
    Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving ...
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    Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies eight new susceptibility loci for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma 
    Sarin, Kavita Y.; Lin, Yuan; Daneshjou, Roxana; Ziyatdinov, Andrey; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Rubin, Adam; Pardo, Luba M.; Wu, Wenting; Khavari, Paul A.; Uitterlinden, Andre; Nijsten, Tamar; Toland, Amanda E.; Ólafsson, Jón H.; Sigurgeirsson, Bárður; Þórisdóttir, Kristín; Jorgensen, Eric; Whittemore, Alice S.; Kraft, Peter; Stacey, Simon; Stefansson, Kari; Asgari, Maryam M.; Han, Jiali (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-02-10)
    Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most common cancers in the United States. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cutaneous SCC. Here, we report the ...
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    Genome-wide association identifies seven loci for pelvic organ prolapse in Iceland and the UK Biobank 
    Ólafsdóttir, Thorhildur; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; sulem, patrick; Stefánsson, Ólafur A.; Medek, Helga; Olafsson, Karl; Ingþórsson, Orri; Guðmundsson, Valur; Jonsdottir, Ingileif; Halldorsson, Gisli; Kristjansson, Ragnar; Frigge, Michael L.; Stefánsdóttir, Lilja; Sigurðsson, Jón K.; Oddsson, Asmundur; Sigurðsson, Ásgeir; Eggertsson, Hannes P.; Melsted, Páll; Halldórsson, Bjarni; Lund, Sigrún Helga; Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Gudmundsson, Julius; Holm, Hilma; Tragante do O, Vinicius; Asselbergs, Folkert; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Gudbjartsson, Daniel; Jónsdóttir, Kristín; Rafnar, Thorunn; Stefansson, Kari (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-03-17)
    Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a downward descent of one or more of the pelvic organs, resulting in a protrusion of the vaginal wall and/or uterus. We performed a genome-wide association study of POP using data from Iceland and the UK Biobank, a total ...
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    Layered Double Hydroxides with Intercalated Permanganate and Peroxydisulphate Anions for Oxidative Removal of Chlorinated Organic Solvents Contaminated Water 
    Dietmann, Karen Maria; Linke, Tobias; Miguel; Pérez Pavón, José Luis; Rives, Vicente (MDPI AG, 2020-05-20)
    The contamination by chlorinated organic solvents is a worldwide problem as they can deeply penetrate aquifers, accumulating in the sub-surface as lenses of highly hazardous pollutants. In recent years, so called in situ oxidation processes have been ...
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    Page curve for an evaporating black hole 
    Gautason, Fridrik F; Schneiderbauer, Lukas; Sybesma, Watse; Thorlacius, Larus (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-01)
    A Page curve for an evaporating black hole in asymptotically flat spacetime is computed by adapting the Quantum Ryu-Takayanagi (QRT) proposal to an analytically solvable semi-classical two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory. The Page time is found to ...
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    Holographic interfaces in N = 4 SYM: Janus and J-folds 
    Bobev, Nikolay; Gautason, Fridrik F; Pilch, Krzysztof; Suh, Minwoo; van Muiden, Jesse (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-01)
    We find the holographic dual to the three classes of superconformal Janus interfaces in N = 4 SYM that preserve three-dimensional N = 4, N = 2, and N = 1 supersymmetry. The solutions are constructed in five-dimensional SO(6) maximal gauged supergravity ...
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    An Object-Oriented Color Visualization Method with Controllable Separation for Hyperspectral Imagery 
    Liu, Danfeng; Wang, Liguo; Benediktsson, Jon Atli (MDPI AG, 2020-05-21)
    Most of the available hyperspectral image (HSI) visualization methods can be considered as data-oriented approaches. These approaches are based on global data, so it is difficult to optimize display of a specific object. Compared to data-oriented ...
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    Do negative intrusive thoughts at diagnosis predict impaired quality of life, depressed mood and waking up with anxiety 3, 12 and 24 months after radical prostatectomy? – a longitudinal study 
    Bock, David; Angenete, Eva; Asplund, Dan; Bjartell, Anders; Carlsson, Stefan; Hugosson, Jonas; Stinesen Kollberg, Karin; Lantz, Anna; Nilsson, Hanna; Prytz, Mattias; Steineck, Gunnar; Thorsteinsdottir, Thordis; Wiklund, Peter; Haglind, Eva (Informa UK Limited, 2020-04-28)
    Objective: To evaluate the effect of intrusive thoughts at diagnosis on quality of life, depressed mood and waking up with anxiety up to two years after radical prostatectomy. Method: The Laparoscopic Prostatectomy Robot Open (LAPPRO) trial was a ...
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    Training Schedule and Sleep in Adolescent Swimmers 
    Gudmundsdottir, Sigridur Lara (Human Kinetics, 2020-02-01)
    Insufficient sleep duration may affect athletic performance and health. Inconsistent sleep pattern also has negative health effects, but studies on athletes’ intraindividual sleep variability are scarce. The aim of this research was to compare total ...
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    Beta-adrenergic receptor blockers and liver cancer mortality in a national cohort of hepatocellular carcinoma patients 
    Udumyan, Ruzan; Montgomery, Scott; Duberg, Ann-Sofi; Fang, Fang; Valdimarsdottir, Unnur; Ekbom, Anders; Smedby, Karin E.; Fall, Katja (Informa UK Limited, 2020-05-03)
    Background: β-adrenergic signaling has been implicated in the pathology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the evidence from clinical studies is limited. In this national population-based cohort study, we investigated the possible association of ...