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Doctoral dissertations
 

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  • Frick, Elísabet Alexandra (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2023-03-30)
    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 ...
  • Auðardóttir, Auður Magndís (University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Diversity, 2021-04-15)
    This thesis aims to explore how power relations are reproduced through parental choices and practices in Iceland, with a focus on classed and gendered dimensions. The thesis can be viewed as two separate yet connected parts. In the first part, I ...
  • Heiniger, Anna Katharina (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 ...
  • Hjartardóttir, Hulda (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2021-05)
    Background: The progress of labor is traditionally assessed clinically with subjective abdominal and vaginal examinations. Until recently no adequate objective tools have been available for this purpose. During the last 20 years transabdominal and ...
  • Werth, Romina (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)
    Responding to the rapid growth of interest in the intersections between folklore and Old Norse literature in the field of Old Norse studies in recent years, this study aims at renewing and expanding the discussion on the relation between the fairy tale ...
  • Benediktsson, Barði (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2022-06-22)
    Iron-sulfur clusters are integral to the biochemistry of living organisms and a lot of effort has been devoted to research their structure and function. However, describing these polynuclear iron-sulfur clusters with computa tional chemistry poses a ...
  • Nowenstein, Iris Edda (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)
    The Icelandic case marking system has for decades proved an important testing ground for theories on case and productivity. This is in part because Icelandic has the rare property of marking argument function redundantly, with both rich morphological ...
  • Óskarsdóttir, Helga Guðrún (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Eng., Mechanical Eng. and Computer Science, 2022-12)
    The main purpose of this research is to contribute towards a theory of knowledge worker productivity (KWP). When it comes to KWP there is no single integrated body of knowledge which can be used for analytical and empirical testing and applied to real ...
  • Björnsdóttir, Steinunn Arnþrúður (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, 2019-05-24)
    This is an empirical study on changes and reform attempts in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (ELCI), focusing on the role of pastors in the processes. The aim is to understand the role pastors played, how and why they contributed to or ...
  • Prajapati, Manisha (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022-02)
    Sýklódextrín eru hjálparefni sem notuð eru lyfjaform svo sem vatnslausnir (t.d. stungulyf) og föst lyfjaform (t.d. töflur), til að auka leysanleika, stöðugleika og aðgengi lyfjanna. Í þessu verkefni var notkun sýklódextrína sem hjálparefni í augndropum ...
  • 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 ...

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