The polarization of electromagnetic waves (the direction of transversal vibration of its electric field vector) provides essential information about the emitting sources and scattering objects. Its measurement, i.e., optical polarimetry, has a history ...

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer today, with approximately 2.3 million new cases for the year 2020. Regardless of gender, these diagnoses represent 11.7% of all cases. For women, breast cancer falls under roughly one-third of cancer ...

The reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the atmosphere is currently one of the main challenges facing humanity. One solution is carbon capture from concentrated sources and directly from the atmosphere, and long term storage in rocks. Basaltic ...

The main target of this thesis is to use density functional theory (DFT)-based simulations to study electrochemical CO2 reduction reactions (CO2RR) on transition metal oxides (TMOs) employing thermochemical model and computational hydrogen electrode. ...

Converting CO2 into value-added products via hydrogenation is of interest due to its potential to reduce and reuse excess atmospheric CO2 and deal with global warming. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are of great interest in this conversion process due ...

The population dynamics of marine fish are driven by many top-down and bottom-up processes operating across multiple life-history stages. The majority of teleosts produce large quantities of offspring which experience high mortality rates early in ...

As industries expand in sub-Arctic and Arctic waters there are increased conflicts between these industries and cetaceans. The aim of this work was to investigate the issue of cetacean bycatch/entanglement in Iceland, with a particular focus on the ...

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is an asymptomatic disorder caused by the accumulation of monoclonal immunoglobulin secreting cells in the bone marrow. The main clinical implication of MGUS is that it’s the precursor of multiple ...

Shear wave velocity is a fundamental parameter in soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. The Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) method is a relatively new non-invasive technique to evaluate the near-surface shear wave velocity ...

Bakgrunnur: Þegar sami einstaklingur þjáist af tveimur eða fleirum langvinnum sjúkdómum er það kallað fjölveikindi (e.multimorbidity). Á undanförnum árum hefur rannsóknum á fjölveikindum fleygt fram og algengi þeirra verið metið svo mikið að fjölveikindi ...