Opin vísindi: Recent submissions

  • Þorsteinsson, Gísli; Gunnarsdóttir, Rósa; Niculescu, Andrei (ICI Bucharest, 2015-03-10)
    The purpose of this paper is to explore the usefulness of the mobile application NeedIT in fostering ideation and idea generation in a school context. After having been used and tested in three public schools a research was undertaken in an elementary ...
  • Ragnarsdottir, Hanna; Kulbrandsstad, Lars Anders (Nettverket for språknemndene i Norden, 2015)
    Forskning i forskellige multikulturelle samfund og skoler i de seneste årtier har vist, at mange indvandrere og indvandrerbørn er marginaliserede. Dette har været et incitament for en række publikationer i de seneste årtier om skoleudvikling, læseplaner, ...
  • Aufaristama, Muhammad; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg; Ólafsdóttir, Rósa (IOP Publishing, 2016-01-19)
    Iceland is well known for its volcanic activity due to its location on the spreading Mid Atlantic Ridge and one of the earth’s hot spot. In the past 1000 years there were about 200 eruptions occurring in Iceland, meaning volcanic eruptions occurred ...
  • Gíslason, Sigurður Reynir; Stefansdottir, Gerdur; Pfeffer, Melissa; Barsotti, Sara; Jóhannsson, Th.; Galeczka, Iwona Monika; Bali, Eniko; Sigmarsson, Olgeir; Stefansson, Andri; Keller, Nicole Simone; Sigurðsson, Á.; Bergsson, Bergur H.; Galle, B.; Jacobo, V.C; Arellano, S.; Aiuppa, A.; Jónasdóttir, Elín Björk; Eiríksdóttir, E.S.; Jakobsson, Sigurður; Guðfinnsson, Guðmundur; Halldórsson, Sæmundur Ari; Gunnarsson, H.; Haddadi, B.; Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg; Thordarson, Thorvaldur; Riishuus, Morten; Högnadóttir, Thórdís; Dürig, Tobias; Pedersen, Gro; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Gudmundsson, Magnus Tumi (European Association of Geochemistry, 2015)
    The effusive six months long 2014-2015 Bárðarbunga eruption (31 August-27 February) was the largest in Iceland for more than 200 years, producing 1.6 ± 0.3 km3 of lava. The total SO2 emission was 11 ± 5 Mt, more than the amount emitted from Europe ...
  • Till, Jessica L; Guyodo, Yohan; Lagroix, France; Morin, Guillaume; Menguy, Nicolas; Ona-Nguema, Georges (Elsevier BV, 2017-03)
    The oriented chains of nanoscale Fe-oxide particles produced by magnetotactic bacteria are a striking example of biomineralization. Several distinguishing features of magnetite particles that comprise bacterial magnetosomes have been proposed to ...
  • Guðmundsdóttir, Eva María; Hrafnkelsson, Jón; Rafnsson, Vilhjalmur (Springer Nature, 2017-08-16)
    Background: To evaluate cancer incidence among licenced commercial pilots in association with cosmic radiation. Methods: Cohort study where ionizing radiation dose of cosmic radiation was estimated from airline data and software program and cancer ...
  • Jónasson, Jón Torfi; Óskarsdóttir, Gunnhildur (2015)
    Abstract This paper investigates the importance for pupils’ learning of being generally visibly active participant in a classroom discussion. A class of six year-old pupils was taught about the human skeletal system and other organs. To determine ...
  • Weng, Lu-Chen; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Müller-Nurasyid, Martina; Smith, Albert Vernon; Thériault, Sébastien; Weeke, Peter E.; Barnard, John; Bis, Joshua C.; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Kleber, Marcus E.; Martinsson, Andreas; Lin, Henry J.; Rienstra, Michiel; Trompet, Stella; Krijthe, Bouwe P.; Dörr, Marcus; Klarin, Derek; Chasman, Daniel I.; Sinner, Moritz F.; Waldenberger, Melanie; Launer, Lenore J.; Harris, Tamara B.; Soliman, Elsayed Z.; Alonso, Alvaro; Paré, Guillaume; Teixeira, Pedro L.; Denny, Joshua C.; Shoemaker, M. Benjamin; Van Wagoner, David R.; Smith, Jonathan D.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Sotoodehnia, Nona; Taylor, Kent D.; Kähönen, Mika; Nikus, Kjell; Delgado, Graciela E.; Melander, Olle; Engström, Gunnar; Yao, Jie; Guo, Xiuqing; Christophersen, Ingrid E.; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Geelhoed, Bastiaan; Verweij, Niek; Macfarlane, Peter; Ford, Ian; Heeringa, Jan; Franco, Oscar H.; Uitterlinden, André G.; Völker, Uwe; Teumer, Alexander; Rose, Lynda M.; Kääb, Stefan; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Arking, Dan E.; Conen, David; Roden, Dan M.; Chung, Mina K.; Heckbert, Susan R.; Benjamin, Emelia J.; Lehtimäki, Terho; März, Winfried; Smith, J. Gustav; Rotter, Jerome I.; van der Harst, Pim; Jukema, J. Wouter; Stricker, Bruno H.; Felix, Stephan B.; Albert, Christine M.; Lubitz, Steven A. (Springer Nature, 2017-09-12)
    It is unclear whether genetic markers interact with risk factors to influence atrial fibrillation (AF) risk. We performed genome-wide interaction analyses between genetic variants and age, sex, hypertension, and body mass index in the AFGen Consortium. ...
  • Brynjarsdóttir, Eyja (Cornell University, 2007-08)
    This thesis explores the prospects of a distinction between subjective and objective properties in terms of how they are instantiated. While there are many ways in which the subjective can be separated from the objective, the one that interests ...
  • Jónsson, Hákon; sulem, patrick; Kehr, Birte; Kristmundsdóttir, Snædís; Zink, Florian; Hjartarson, Eiríkur; Hardarson, Marteinn; Hjorleifsson, Kristjan; Eggertsson, Hannes; Guðjónsson, Sigurjón Axel; Ward, Lucas D.; Arnadottir, Gudny; Helgason, Einar A.; Helgason, Hannes; Gylfason, Arnaldur; Jónasdóttir, Aðalbjörg; Jónasdóttir, Áslaug; Rafnar, Thorunn; Besenbacher, Soren; Frigge, Michael L.; Stacey, Simon N.; Magnússon, Ólafur T.; Þorsteinsdóttir, Unnur; Másson, Gísli; Kong, Augustine; Halldórsson, Bjarni; Helgason, Agnar; Gudbjartsson, Daniel; Stefansson, Kari (Springer Nature, 2017-09-21)
    Understanding of sequence diversity is the cornerstone of analysis of genetic disorders, population genetics, and evolutionary biology. Here, we present an update of our sequencing set to 15,220 Icelanders who we sequenced to an average genome-wide ...
  • Schmidt, Anja; Leadbetter, Susan; Theys, Nicolas; Carboni, Elisa; Witham, Claire S.; Stevenson, John A.; Birch, Cathryn E.; Thordarson, Thorvaldur; Turnock, Steven; Barsotti, Sara; Delaney, Lin; Feng, Wuhu; Grainger, Roy G.; Hort, Matthew C.; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Ialongo, Iolanda; Ilyinskaya, Evgenia; Jóhannsson, Þorsteinn; Kenny, Patrick; Mather, Tamsin A.; Richards, Nigel A. D.; Shepherd, Janet (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-09-23)
    The 2014–2015 Bárðarbunga-Veiðivötn fissure eruption at Holuhraun produced about 1.5 km3 of lava, making it the largest eruption in Iceland in more than 200 years. Over the course of the eruption, daily volcanic sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions exceeded ...
  • Gylfadottir, Sigridur Sif; Kim, Jihwan; Helgason, Jón Kristinn; Brynjólfsson, Sveinn; Höskuldsson, Ármann; Jóhannesson, Tómas; Harbitz, Carl Bonnevie; Løvholt, Finn (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-05)
    A large rockslide was released from the inner Askja caldera into Lake Askja, Iceland, on 21 July 2014. Upon entering the lake, it caused a large tsunami that traveled about ∼3 km across the lake and inundated the shore with vertical runup measuring up ...
  • Blöndal, Þórunn (Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki, 2015-09)
    This thesis is an exploration of two interactional processes, syntactic completion and otherextension. The aim of the study is to explore what – if anything – triggers the use of these phenomena, to scrutinise their form and their interactional ...
  • Frímannsdóttir, Ingibjörg B (ERJournal, 2015)
    Today’s students demand another approach to learning than the approach taken for students entering the school system 20 to 30 years ago. Modern students’ expectations and demands with regard to how and when they want to study are not the same as they ...
  • Jónsson, Eyþór Ívar (Henley Management College/Brunel University, 2008-01)
    This thesis is an empirical investigation which focuses on the role of the board in small and medium sized enterprises in Iceland and the relationship between boards and organisational performance. The research will support the claim that there ...
  • Palsson, Frosti (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2017-09)
    In remote sensing, acquired optical images of high spectral resolution have usually a lower spatial resolution than images of lower spectral resolution. This is due to physical, cost and complexity constraints. To make the most of the available imagery, ...
  • Mantovan, R.; Fallica, R.; Mokhles Gerami, A.; Mølholt, T. E.; Wiemer, C.; Longo, M.; Gunnlaugsson, Haraldur; Johnston, K.; Masenda, H.; Naidoo, D.; Ncube, M.; Bharuth-Ram, K.; Fanciulli, M.; Gíslason, Hafliði Pétur; Langouche, G.; Olafsson, Sveinn; Weyer, G. (Springer Nature, 2017-08-15)
    The underlying mechanism driving the structural amorphous-to-crystalline transition in Group VI chalcogenides is still a matter of debate even in the simplest GeTe system. We exploit the extreme sensitivity of 57Fe emission Mössbauer spectroscopy, ...
  • Jonsdottir-Buch, Sandra Mjoll (University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2017-09-15)
    Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are promising candidates for cellular therapy due to their ability to regenerate bone and cartilage and modulate immune responses. The use of MSC in cellular therapy is problematic due to the need for fetal bovine serum ...
  • Vavitsas, Konstantinos; Rue, Emil Østergaard; Stefánsdóttir, Lára Kristín; Gnanasekaran, Thiyagarajan; Blennow, Andreas; Crocoll, Christoph; Guðmundsson, Steinn; Jensen, Poul Erik (Springer Nature, 2017-08-15)
    Background There are an increasing number of studies regarding genetic manipulation of cyanobacteria to produce commercially interesting compounds. The majority of these works study the expression and optimization of a selected heterologous pathway, ...