Crangonyx islandicus is a groundwater amphipod endemic to Iceland. Genetic analysis suggests that the species has been diverging in Iceland for at least 4.8 Myrs indicating it has survived in a subglacial refugia as Iceland was repeatedly covered by ...

This thesis discusses two aspects of semi-classical black holes. First, a recently improved semi-classical formula for the entanglement entropy of black hole radiation is examined. This entropy is an indicator of information loss and determines ...

Life on earth is found everywhere where water is found, meaning that life has adapted to extremely varied environments. Thus, protein structures must adapt to a myriad of environmental stressors while maintaining their functional forms. In the case ...

Enhanced understanding and knowledge concerning a nation’s environmental sustainability performance is necessary to ensure the longterm flourishing capacities of economies and critical to the maintenance of human well-being, particularly through the ...

Bakgrunnur: Unglingsárin eru tími mikilla breytinga og þroska hvað varðar líkamlegt og andlegt atgervi. Á þessum árum eykst tíðni andlegra kvilla og svefntruflana, sem geta haft alvarlegar afleiðingar fyrir unglinga og fylgt þeim inn í fullorðinsárin. ...

Í ritgerðinni er leitað svara við því hvernig nafn höfundarins, Williams Faulkners, varð til og þróaðist á íslenskum menningarvettvangi frá því að það bar fyrst á góma í íslenskum prentmiðli 8. maí 1933 og þar til sjöunda og síðasta þýðing Kristjáns ...

The advent of ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) in recent years has expanded the scope of fisheries management, where policies are aimed not only at maximizing production (or biological yield) but also maintaining an optimal balance between ...

Nature has been successful in self-assembling simple building blocks to complex functional architectures and the concept of supramolecular chemistry has enabled chemists to mimic nature's self-assembly principles. The understanding of the assembly/reassembly ...

Gender disparity in business leadership positions has received increasing attention in the world. Globally, women are still vastly underrepresented in the higher levels of organisations. Despite women representing half of the capable work force ...

Purpose and aims: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that leads to damage in the central nervous system. Although the cause of MS is still unknown, the generally accepted view is that environmental and life-style factors influence the ...