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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Reykjavík, 2017-01)This study is an enquiry into young children’s learning processes as they participate in preschool groups. The aims of the study are two‐fold: to explore the multiple factors affecting children’s learning processes while participating in two different ... -
(Viðskiptafræðideild og hagfræðideild Háskóla Íslands, viðskiptafræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Seðlabanki Íslands., 2008)Inflation was a growing problem during the 1960’s and the 1970’s in Iceland. Inflation represents a problem for any entity that tries to write up a budget, whether an individual, a company or a governmental entity. Many governmental entities do not ...
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(Viðskiptafræðideild og hagfræðideild Háskóla Íslands, viðskiptafræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Seðlabanki Íslands., 2016)Markmið greinarinnar er að kynna rannsókn á því hvernig íslensk orkufyrirtæki standa að yfirfærslu þekkingar eldri starfsmanna til þeirra yngri áður en þeir fyrrnefndu hætta störfum. Efnið hefur lítið verið rannsakað hér á landi og er rannsókninni ætlað ...
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(Laeknabladid/The Icelandic Medical Journal, 2017-01-05)Background: Non-specific low-back pain is a worldwide problem. More specific diagnosis could improve prognosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) became available in Akureyri Hospital in 2004 but its utilisation in diagnosing low-back pain has not been ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2016-01)Both the construction and use of buildings cause significant environmental pressures. The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions imposed by buildings have been studied rather extensively, but less is known about other impacts. Still, climate change is only ...
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(Springer Nature, 2016-10-20)The point of departure of the paper is that there are profound social, cultural, technological, scientific and environmental changes which occur at most local but also at global levels of the modern world. From these will stem huge challenges in all ...
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(Lagastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2016)Í þessari bók eru saman komnar allnokkrar greinar, er varða efni, sem á einn eða annan hátt snertir lög og lögfræði, en þó með mismunandi nánum tengslum við hefðbundnar greinar lögfræðinnar. Um margt er efnisvalið með frjálslegra sniði en venjan er ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Education, Reykjavík, 2016-07)The aim of the study is to explore young people’s views on good citizenship by using a mixed method approach. First, by addressing if young people’s empathy levels at the age of 14 and 18 vary depending on their volunteering participation and the ...
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(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-07-10)Distinct preference of species for habitats is most often driven by long term differences in demographic rates between habitats. Estimating variation in those rates is key for developing successful conservation strategies. Stochastic events can interact ...
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(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-06-15)Introduction The interaction between fatness, fitness, and C-reactive protein (CRP) in adolescents is not well characterized but may be important to prevent low grade inflammation. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2017-02-10)A repeated crossover experiment comparing learning among students handing in pen-and-paper homework (PPH) with students handing in web-based homework (WBH) has been conducted. The system used in the experiments, the tutor-web, has been used to deliver ...
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(Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála, Háskóli Íslands, 2011-12)Fyrirtæki og stofnanir þurfa að laga sig að breyttum aðstæðum þegar þjóðar - búskapurinn verður fyrir skyndilegu áfalli eins og raunin varð á Íslandi haustið 2008. Margt bendir til þess að skipulagsheildir beiti gjarnan uppsögnum ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2017-02-08)Anthropogenic CO2 emissions, which are resulting in ocean acidification and a decrease in the saturation state for calcium carbonate (Ω), are a particular threat to calcifying marine biota. The aim of this thesis is to fill important knowledge gaps ...
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(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016-07-14)Large volcanic eruptions on Earth commonly occur with a collapse of the roof of a crustal magma reservoir, forming a caldera. Only a few such collapses occur per century, and the lack of detailed observations has obscured insight into the mechanical ...
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(BioMed Central, 2015-04-30)Electronic cigarette (EC) use is currently subject to a debate concerning safety, regulation need, and probable contribution to smoking cessation. An important gap in this debate is the lack of distinction between minors and adults. This is problematic ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2016-11)Assuring sufficient quality of drinking water is of great importance for public wellbeing and prosperity. Nations have developed regulatory system with the aim of providing drinking water of sufficient quality and to minimize the risk of contamination ...
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(Norwegian University of Science and Technology Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management Programme for Teacher Education, 2016-08-31)The rationale for this study is that drama was included in the national curriculum framework in Iceland for the first time in 2013. As a result, there were considerable tensions connected with how Icelandic schools could or should embrace this newcomer ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences, 2017-01)Lake Victoria is of immense ecological and socio-economic significance for the riparian communities. However, the lake is faced with human induced pressures such as overfishing, introduction of alien species, increased eutrophication and climate change ...
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(West University of Timisoara, 2016-05-01)Emerging challenges for scientific communities are to efficiently process big data obtained by experimentation and computational simulations. Supercomputing architectures are available to support scalable and high performant processing environment, ...
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(EDP Sciences, 2011)Stream ecosystem metabolism plays a critical role in planetary biogeochemical cycling. Stream benthic habitat complexity and the available surface area for microbes relative to the free-flowing water volume are thought to be important determinants ...
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