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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2025-01)Biological invasions are a global phenomenon representing one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Addressing species introductions, often marked by context dependency, requires the incorporation of multiple perspectives and disciplines to develop ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2024-12)Kítósan er náttúruleg fjölliða með víðtækt notagildi. Hún er örveruhemjandi, óeitruð og hefur lífsamrýmanleika auk þess að vera niðurbrjótanleg. Þessir eiginleikar gera fjölliðuna áhugaverða til notkunar í lyfja- og læknisfræðilegum tilgangi. Rannsóknir ...
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(2024-12)To stay within the 1.5 degree warming limit, changes to lifestyle and personal consumption are necessary to mitigate the effects of climate change. From a consumptive perspective, the emissions from affluent countries and individuals are greatly exceeding ...
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(University of Iceland, Faculty of Physical Science, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, 2024-11-29)The world population is rising dramatically over the next 80 years, potentially reached to 11 billion people before stabilizing at the end of the century. This population growth will need higher food production, which can be accomplished more efficiently ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Civil and Environmental engineering, 2024-12)The thesis explores the connections between the urban environment, travel behaviour and wellbeing with a mixed methods approach, focusing on the Nordic countries. Despite being hailed as climate leaders, Nordic countries’ travel footprints are exceeding ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Diversity, 2024-12-06)Several factors render disabled people disproportionately affected in times of disaster. Research shows that they are often overlooked in emergency responses and that general aid and support to the public are often inaccessible or do not meet their ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, 2024-12-03)In daily life, people often see groups of similar objects compressed into a single percept. For instance, many people standing together form a crowd, and individual cars moving along the road form traffic. The general impression of traffic speed or ...
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(University of Iceland, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, 2024-11-29)Behaviour is a fascinatingly flexible phenotype with immense diversity of manifestations. Despite this diversity, observation of animals makes it evident that individuals show consistent differences from one another in the way they behave. However, ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið, Líf- og umhverfisvísindadeild, 2024-12)Places are mobile and becoming, they are constantly changing and dynamic. Places on the margins sometimes seem to take on another image and are thought of as static and homogenous. In the thesis, I look at Western-Barðastrandarsýsla county, Iceland ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Science, Faculty of Sociology, anthropology and folkloristics, 2024-12)
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2024-11)Polypharmacy is a well-known term within the healthcare setting. The term describes the usage of multiple medicines, and the most widely accepted definition of it refers to the usage of five or more medications. Living with multimorbidity and ...
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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 Psychology, 2024-11-13)Perception of the world around us can never be limited to only one stream. The perception of the world is multimodal. Understanding how humans perceive and integrate information from multiple sensory modalities is essential for developing effective ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, 2024-11-01)Despite the significant increase in seaweed production in the last decades, seaweed remains a fairly underutilised resource in Europe. However, the interest in seaweed has been growing in Europe, with predictions indicating that seaweed production could ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2024-10)The thesis contains material from papers studying polynomial approximations of holomorphic functions in several variables. These approximations are weighted, in the sense that the norm used to assess the approximation is weighted, and polynomials used ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2024-10)Hypopituitarism (HP) can occur following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) with an estimated a prevalence of 13 – 48%. As HP can be treated with hormonal replacement therapy and symptoms of HP may overlap with symptoms of mTBI, HP represents a potentially ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið, Raunvísindadeild, 2024-09)Variational density functional calculations provide an improved description of electronic excitations with large change of the electron density compared to the frequently used adiabatic linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), ...
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(2024-10)In an era where smartphone ownership is ubiquitous among adolescents, with many engaging online almost incessantly, there is a paradoxical trend. Only a minority are utilizing mobile health (mHealth) applications and significantly few to tackle mental ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, 2024-10-23)Background: Various theories regarding the link between emotion dysregulation and Oppositional Defiant Disorder symptoms are presented in the current literature. Firstly, with ODD now being viewed as a multi-dimensional construct placing irritability ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2024-10-02)This study investigates for the first time the heat flux distribution in Tanzania, the only East African country intersected by the eastern and western branches of the East African Rift System (EARS). The main goal of the project is to evaluate the ...