Background: ADHD is a common neurodevelopmental disorder that persists into adulthood. Its symptoms cause impairments in a number of social domains, one of which is employment. We wish to produce a consensus statement on how ADHD affects employment. Methods: ...

Re-design of a given antenna structure for various substrates is a practically important issue yet non trivial, particularly for wideband and ultra-wideband antennas. In this work, a technique for expedited redesign of ultra-wideband antennas for various ...

The multinational retailer, Costco, opened its first store in Iceland during spring 2017. Not only was the opening greatly anticipated but following the store opening, Costco became one of the key issues in the Icelandic media. Our analysis focuses ...

Global climate change is one of the most significant challenges that need urgent action in this century. Energy production and consumption, particularly for heat and electricity generation, account for the highest GHG emissions from anthropogenic ...

In this article, the psychometric properties of a new scale aimed at quantifying passion are explored, i.e. passion related to becoming good or achieving in some area/theme/skill. The Passion Scale was designed to be quantitative, simple to administer, ...

The main aim of the study was to explore the associations between passion, grit and mindset in a group of young Icelandic adults. The sample consisted of 146 participants. The eight item Passion Scale was used to assess passion, and the Grit-S scale ...

In this paper we review a special pension scheme established by the Govern- ment of Iceland for elderly workers that foreseeably would not enjoy any sig- nificant pension benefits from the pension system founded on the basis of the general labour ...

This dissertation is composed of two parts. In the first part, performance evaluation and verification of safety properties are provided for real-time actors. Recently, the actor-based language, Timed Rebeca, was introduced to model distributed and ...

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are known to exhibit a large piezoresistance (PZR) effect, making them suitable for various sensing applications. Here, we report the results of a PZR investigation on randomly distributed and interconnected vertical silicon ...

In the authors' previous analysis of the calling paradigms call-by-name and call-by-value through Girard's and Gödel's embeddings into the S4 modal logic, an asymmetry remains: the two paradigms are unified by the call-by-box paradigm of the modal ...