Opin vísindi: Recent submissions

  • Broberg, Agneta Månsson; Geisler, Jürgen; Tuohinen, Suvi; Skytta, Tanja; Hrafnkelsdóttir, Þórdís Jóna; Nielsen, Kirsten Melgaard; Hedayati, Elham; Omland, Torbjørn; Offersen, Birgitte V.; Lyon, Alexander R.; Gulati, Geeta (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-09-26)
    Purpose of Review: Long-term survival has increased significantly in breast cancer patients, and cardiovascular side effects are surpassing cancer-related mortality. We summarize risk factors, prevention strategies, detection, and management of ...
  • Elias, Said; Rupakhety, Rajesh; Ólafsson, Símon (Frontiers Media SA, 2020-06-26)
    The article investigates response mitigation of a reinforced concrete (RC) chimney subjected to pulse-like near-fault ground motions using tuned mass damper (TMD) schemes. The total height of the chimney is 265 m with a mass of 11,109 ton. Three TMD ...
  • Petersen, Erna; Thorisdottir, Birna; Thorsdottir , Inga; Gunnlaugsson, Geir; Arohonka, Petra; Erlund, Iris; Gunnarsdottir, Ingibjorg (Wiley, 2020-03-11)
    Iodine is an essential nutrient for growth and development during infancy. Data on iodine status of exclusively (EBF) and partially breastfed (PBF) infants as well as breast milk iodine concentration (BMIC) are scarce. We aimed to assess (a) infant ...
  • Grove, Thomas; Senglat, Chloé; Petitguyot, Marie; Kosiba, Danny; rasmussen, marianne (Wiley, 2020-04-02)
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  • Theodore‐Oklota, Christina; Egan, Shayna; Paulich, Maggie; Evans, Christopher J.; Hartman, Deborah S.; Hoffman, Deborah L.; Bjornsson, Hans (Wiley, 2020-04-04)
    Kabuki syndrome is a genetic disorder that can affect multiple body systems and manifest as congenital abnormalities and both developmental and socio-emotional delays. The condition is largely unknown by most primary care physicians and has no available ...
  • Minnema, L. A.; Giezen, T. J.; Egberts, T. C. G.; Leufkens, H. G. M.; Gardarsdottir, Helga (Wiley, 2020-05-10)
    Background and purpose: Clinical decision making is facilitated by healthcare professionals’ and patients’ adequate knowledge of the adverse events. This is especially important for biologicals used for treating multiple sclerosis (MS). So far, little ...
  • Kjaer, Susanne K.; Nygård, Mari; Sundström, Karin; Dillner, Joakim; Tryggvadottir, Laufey; Munk, Christian; Berger, Sophie; Enerly, Espen; Hortlund, Maria; Ágústsson, Ágúst Ingi; Bjelkenkrantz, Kaj; Fridrich, Katrin; Guðmundsdóttir, Ingibjörg; Sørbye, Sveinung Wergeland; Bautista, Oliver; Group, Thomas; Luxembourg, Alain; Marshall, J. Brooke; Radley, David; Yang, Yi Shen; Badshah, Cyrus; Saah, Alfred (Elsevier BV, 2020-06)
    Background: The quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccine prevented vaccine HPV type-related infection and disease in young women in the 4-year FUTURE II efficacy study (NCT00092534). We report long-term effectiveness and immunogenicity at the ...
  • Schijns, Virgil; Fernández‐Tejada, Alberto; Barjaktarović, Žarko; Bouzalas, Ilias; Brimnes, Jens; Chernysh, Sergey; Gizurarson, Sveinbjorn; Gursel, Ihsan; Jakopin, Žiga; Lawrenz, Maria; Nativi, Cristina; Paul, Stephane; Pedersen, Gabriel Kristian; Rosano, Camillo; Ruiz‐de‐Angulo, Ane; Slütter, Bram; Thakur, Aneesh; Christensen, Dennis; Lavelle, Ed C. (Wiley, 2020-06-28)
    Therapeutic vaccination offers great promise as an intervention for a diversity of infectious and non-infectious conditions. Given that most chronic health conditions are thought to have an immune component, vaccination can at least in principle be ...
  • Ásbjörnsdóttir, Birna Guðrún; Snorradóttir, Heiðdís; Andrésdóttir, Edda; Fasano, Alessio; Lauth, Bertrand; Gudmundsson, Larus S; Gottfredsson, Magnus; Halldorsson, Thorhallur; Birgisdottir, Bryndis Eva (MDPI AG, 2020-07-03)
    Worldwide, up to 20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders, which are the leading cause of disability in young people. Research shows that serum zonulin levels are associated with increased intestinal permeability (IP), affecting ...
  • Sedona, Rocco; Hoffmann, Lars; Spang, Reinhold; Cavallaro, Gabriele; Griessbach, Sabine; Höpfner, Michael; Book, Matthias; Riedel, Morris (Copernicus GmbH, 2020-07-08)
    Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) play a key role in polar ozone depletion in the stratosphere. Improved observations and continuous monitoring of PSCs can help to validate and improve chemistry–climate models that are used to predict the evolution of ...
  • Knudsen, Gerd Toril Mørkve; Dharmage, Shyamali; Janson, Christer; Abramson, Michael J.; Benediktsdóttir, Bryndís; Malinovschi, Andrei; Skulstad, Svein Magne; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen; Real, Francisco Gomez; Schlünssen, Vivi; Jõgi, Nils Oskar; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Holm, Mathias; Garcia-Aymerich, Judith; Forsberg, Bertil; Svanes, Cecilie; Johannessen, Ane (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-07-06)
    Emerging evidence suggests that parents’ preconception exposures may influence offspring health. We aimed to investigate maternal and paternal smoking onset in specific time windows in relation to offspring body mass index (BMI) and fat mass index ...
  • Bazsalovicsová, Eva; Minárik, Gabriel; Šoltys, Katarína; Radačovská, Alžbeta; Kuhn, Jesper A.; Karlsbakk, Egil; Skirnisson, Karl; Králová-Hromadová, Ivica (MDPI AG, 2020-07-12)
    Dibothriocephalus dendriticus is one of the causative agents of the fish-borne zoonosis diphyllobothriosis. Polymorphic microsatellite markers were originally developed for future genetic studies using microsatellite library screening and next-generation ...
  • Schneiderbauer, Lukas; Sybesma, Watse; Thorlacius, Larus (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-07-01)
    We adapt the complexity as action prescription (CA) to a semi-classical model of two-dimensional dilaton gravity and determine the rate of increase of holographic complexity for an evaporating black hole. The results are consistent with our previous ...
  • Carneiro, Camilo; Gunnarsson, Tomas Gretar; Alves, Jose (Frontiers Media SA, 2020-06-04)
    For many migratory species, migration can represent a significant part of the annual cycle and the strategies used to move between the breeding and non-breeding areas vary considerably. Weather conditions are important during migration, particularly ...
  • Song, Huan; Larsson, Henrik; Fang, Fang; Almqvist, Catarina; Pedersen, Nancy L; Magnusson, Patrik KE; Valdimarsdottir, Unnur (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2020-07-14)
    Losing a co-twin by death is a severely stressful event yet with unknown impact on the surviving twin’s risk of psychiatric disorders. We identified all Swedish-born twins who lost a cotwin by death between 1973 and 2013 (n = 4,528), their 4939 non-twin ...
  • Podar, Peter T.; Yang, Zamin; Björnsdóttir, Snædís; Podar, Mircea (Frontiers Media SA, 2020-07-14)
    Geothermal hot springs are a natural setting to study microbial adaptation to a wide range of temperatures reaching up to boiling. Temperature gradients lead to distinct microbial communities that inhabit their optimum niches. We sampled three alkaline, ...
  • Bobev, Nikolay; Fischbacher, Thomas; Gautason, Fridrik F; Pilch, Krzysztof (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-07-01)
    We report on a systematic search for AdS5 vacua corresponding to critical points of the potential in the five-dimensional N = 8 SO(6) gauged supergravity. By employing Google’s TensorFlow Machine Learning library, we find the total of 32 critical points ...
  • Martin, Frida; Dube, Faruk; Karlsson Lindsjö, Oskar; Eydal, Matthías; Höglund, Johan; Bergström, Tomas F.; Tydén, Eva (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-07-09)
    Background: Parascaris univalens is a pathogenic parasite of foals and yearlings worldwide. In recent years, Parascaris spp. worms have developed resistance to several of the commonly used anthelmintics, though currently the mechanisms behind this ...
  • Eddudóttir, Sigrún Dögg; Erlendsson, Egill; Gísladóttir, Guðrún (Elsevier BV, 2020-07-15)
    Agriculture has been practiced in Iceland since settlement (landnám; AD 877). This has caused changes in vegetation communities, soil erosion, desertification and loss of carbon stocks. Little data exist regarding vegetation and ecosystems in the ...
  • Bonetto, Giulia; Kamen, Yasmine; Evans, Kimberley Anne; Karadottir, Ragnhildur Thora (Frontiers Media SA, 2020-06-11)
    Plasticity in the central nervous system (CNS) allows for responses to changing environmental signals. While the majority of studies on brain plasticity focus on neuronal synapses, myelin plasticity has now begun to emerge as a potential modulator of ...