Doktorsritgerðir- HÍ: Recent submissions

  • Sripetch, Suppakan (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022-09)
    gamma-Cyclodextrin (gCD) has been recently used as pharmaceutical excipient in topical formulation for ocular delivery. The high corticosteroid concentration in various ocular tissues has been reported after topical application of aqueous eye drops, ...
  • Castro Ruiz, Angel Andrés (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2023-02)
    Today, society is reliant on nonrenewable fossil fuels and petrochemical derivatives. As the global population increases, energy and materials are rapidly diminishing, and a drastic, responsive change is needed to achieve a more sustainable world. It ...
  • Hilmarsdóttir, Guðrún Svana (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, 2022-03)
    Í dag eru uppsjávartegundir, hliðarstraumar frá vinnslustærri fisktegunda og annar meðafli uppistaðan í því hráefni sem unnið er í fiskmjöl og lýsi. Fiskmjöl og lýsi eru helst notuð sem fóður í fiskeldi, en þar sem verð á fiskmjöli hefur lækkað síðasta ...
  • Rögnvaldsson, Sæmundur (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2023-10-10)
    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 ...
  • Jóhannesdóttir, Bergrós Kristín (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2023-01-06)
    Injuries involving major arteries and the thorax are major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Studies on the epidemiology of vascular trauma are scarce and preventive measures are of utmost importance, such as improved roads and safer vehicles. ...
  • Sigurjónsson, Jóhann Örn (University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Pedagogy, 2023-01)
    The doctoral research project underpinning this dissertation was aimed at developing a deeper understanding of cognitive activation in mathematics teaching in Iceland and in a Nordic context through classroom video observations and student perceptions. ...
  • Rathinam, Sankar (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 ...
  • Egilsson, Björn Rúnar (Háskóli Íslands, Menntavísindasvið, 2022-10)
    The transition to primary school has been identified as a critical event in the lives of children that can have long term implications for their learning and development. The transition to primary school is also widely regarded as an emotional period ...
  • Baldursdóttir, Anna Heiða (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022-12-20)
    Viðfangsefni doktorsritgerðarinnar er að draga fram heimildasöfn (e. archives) og greina þá efnismenningu (e. material culture) sem þau búa yfir, eða með öðrum orðum að kanna samband manna og hluta. Rannsóknaraðferðin krefst þess að víða sé leitað fanga ...
  • Li, Siqi (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2022-12)
    Post-eruptive deformation following volcanic eruptions may originate from continued magma movements, or reflect delayed and continued Earth adjustment due to co-eruptive events, often referred to as viscoelastic relaxation. Post-eruptive deformation ...
  • Tverijonaitė, Edita (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 ...
  • Nguyen, Han Van (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022-12-08)
    Optical remote sensing (RS) uses optical sensors to create images of the Earth's surface. Those imaging sensors are mounted on spaceborne or airborne vehicles and capture visible, near-infrared, and shortwave infrared radiation reflected from the Earth's ...
  • Sigfúsdóttir, Ólöf Gerður (University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, 2022-10-14)
    Unlike collecting, preserving, educating and displaying, research is rarely thought of as a core activity in museums. However, it is one of the formal requirements museums must fulfil according to international standards. It is also the most ambiguous ...
  • Yucheng, Jia (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022-12-05)
    Literary translation means not only transition from a source text to a target text, but also reconstruction of contexts in the target text as much close as to those with the source text. Although the accepted view that there is no absolute in literary ...
  • Oppong Boakye, Gifty (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science, 2022)
    The increasing global demand for renewable energy has resulted in the increased exploration of geothermal energy resources, which presents corrosion and wear challenges. The objective of the PhD project is to investigate the friction, wear and corrosion ...
  • Jiang, Mengxu (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2022)
    The research focused on the multiphoton dynamics and energetics for the HI, CH3I, CH3Br, and C2H2 molecules by using one- and two-color mass-resolved (MR) resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) and/or velocity map imaging (VMI) in association ...
  • Melton, Zachary J. (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023-01-12)
    This thesis examines the evolution of the Viking image in U.S. popular culture, from the publication of Antiquitates Americanæ, a scholarly work on the Vinland sagas, by Danish philologist Carl Christian Rafn in 1837, to the Unite the Right Rally in ...
  • Nawaz, Muhammad Sulaman (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2022-12)
    Neurodevelopmental disorders on the impulsivity-compulsivity spectrum are chronic disabling conditions with an early onset. High rates of comorbidity have been reported between Tourette syndrome (TS), Tics disorder (Tics), obsessive compulsive ...
  • Isenmann, Vanessa Monika (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022)
    The dissertation addresses informal Icelandic writing practices in online communication, often referred to as computer-mediated communication (CMC). Specifically, the dissertation studies the linguistic practices of native Icelandic speakers on Facebook ...
  • Lorenzo Soler, Laura (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 ...