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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2025-06-10)Introduction Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension (HT), accounting for up to 29% of cases of resistant HT and 14% in general practice. Familial hyperaldosteronism (FH) is a rare cause of PA. The most common ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2018-10-30)Apicomplexans comprise a group of unicellular, often highly pathogenic, obligate parasites infecting both vertebrates and invertebrates, exploiting either one (monoxenous) or two hosts (heteroxenous) to complete a full reproductive life cycle. Their ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2022-12-19)With increasing renewable energy infrastructure (REI) developments and growing nature-based tourism (NBT), their encounters are becoming more likely. To facilitate sustainable development of both, it is important to gain more knowledge on the ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, 2020-06)Aims: The overall aim of the study was to develop a midwifery intervention for women who want to review their birth experience. The aims of study I were to describe women’s birth experience up to two years after birth and explore the predictive role ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology, 2025-02)Technological change is a crucial but a vastly under-researched aspect of the development of modern fisheries. This is the first study to explore the invention and development of the pelagic trawl, one of the most effective fishing gears in the world. ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2019-01-10)The MITF, TFEB, TFE3 and TFEC (MiT-TFE) proteins belong to a larger family of basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factors that are able to bind DNA and regulate gene expression. MITF is crucial for melanocyte development and has been ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2024-11)Large earthquakes up to ~Mw7 repeatedly take place in the two transform zones of Iceland: the Tjörnes Fracture Zone (TFZ) in the north and the South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ) in the south. Of these, only the SISZ is entirely on land, and with a ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2016-10)Introduction: Nocturnal gastroesophageal reflux (nGER) is associated with respiratory symptoms and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), but a causal relationship has not been established. The aim of this project was to investigate the association between ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019-05-20)High-temperature geothermal wells are drilled in stages and constructed of several concentric steel casings that are cemented over their entire external surface for sealing and structural support purposes. The structural integrity of such casings is ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Heilbrigðisvísindasvið, Læknadeild, 2024-11)Genome instability is a common feature of most cancer types. DNA damage is an important source of genome instability wherein DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) are particularly genotoxic as both strands of the DNA molecule are severed, risking loss ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2025-03)Icelandic manuscripts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries show several linguistic, orthographic, and palaeographic features that are thought to be characteristic of Norwegian dialects. These features, commonly referred to as ‘Norwegianisms’, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences., 2017-03-13)Commercial design of a sustainable route for on-site production of ammo- nia represents a potential economic and environmental breakthrough. In an analogous process to the naturally occurring enzymatic mechanism, synthe- sis of ammonia could be achieved ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, 2023-04)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 ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022-10-21)Kítósan er líffjölliða sem virk gegn örverum og hefur jafnframt marga aðra ákjósanlega eiginleika eins og lífsamræmanleika og lífniðurbrotshæfni jafnframt því að vera óeitruð. Kítósan og afleiður þess hafa mikið verið rannsakaðar sem bakteríudrepandi ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2019-02)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 ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2022-11-01)Fyrir marga lyfjaflokka þykir staðbundin lyfjagjöf í augndropaformi ákjósanlegasta leiðin vegna einfaldleika við lyfjagjöf. Eru augndropar algengasta aðferðin til að meðhöndla augnsjúkdóma í fremri hluta augans. Staðbundin lyfjagjöf í augndropaformi ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)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, ...
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Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids promote inflammation resolution and affect natural killer cells (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2023-07)Acute inflammation can progress into chronic inflammation when its resolution is impaired. Chronic inflammation is estimated to contribute to up to half of all disease-associated deaths worldwide. Resolution of inflammation is a tightly regulated process ...
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On the Receiving End: The Role of Scholarship, Memory, and Genre in Constructing Ljósvetninga saga (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2019-10)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 ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2018)The present thesis explores how the anthropological concept of liminality can be applied to the corpus of the Íslendingasögur and how this unprecedented, interdisciplinary discussion contributes to the understanding of the sagas themselves as well as ...
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