A significant amount of small pelagic species and side streams obtained from industrial fish processing are currently converted to fishmeal and fish oil, and primarily used in feed production. The demand for fish and seafood products and fishmeal ...

Background and aim: Multiple myeloma is a malignant chronic B-cell disorder characterized by a monoclonal proliferation of plasma cells in the bone marrow. Almost all multiple myeloma cases are preceded by the premalignant state, monoclonal gammopathy ...

Until relatively recent times, the late medieval Icelandic romances, or frumsamdar riddarasögur (indigenous riddarasögur) have been considered to be of little critical value. Some of the defining features of the genre, such as exotic settings, ...

Ljósvetninga saga takes place in Northern Iceland during the tenth and eleventh centuries and focuses on the political maneuverings of the chieftain Guðmundr inn ríki Eyjólfsson and his son Eyjólfr. Most of the academic debate surrounding Ljósvetninga ...

Rannsóknin fjallar um opinbera stefnumótun á Íslandi í byrjun 21. aldar. Sjónum er beint að vísinda- og tæknistefnu Íslands frá því að stofnað var til Vísinda- og tækniráðs árið 2003 og þar til það var lagt niður árið 2023. Ráðinu var ætlað að bæta ...

The work in this thesis is focused on understanding the emergent properties of amorphous magnetic materials. Amorphous materials lack long-range structural ordering, characteristic of crystalline materials. Instead, these materials exhibit medium-to-short ...

This thesis focuses on the external evaluation of compulsory schools in Iceland. Aligned with that focus, the aim of the research conducted for the thesis was twofold: first, to shed light on the origin of the external evaluation of compulsory schools ...

Lung cancer is the third most common type of cancer and the prime cause of cancer-related deaths in Iceland. As surgical resection is the only well-defined and well-studied curative treatment, the aim is to offer surgery to as many patients as possible ...

In this thesis, we explore the role of symmetries in hydrodynamics by studying certain properties of relativistic and non-relativistic fluids. In the first part of the thesis, we examine the theory of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (Maxwell ...

Background: Few studies have focused on women’s expectations and experience of childbirth pain and what predicts a positive childbirth pain experience. Moreover, few studies have explored childbirth pain from a salutogenic perspective and from the ...