Opin vísindi: Recent submissions

  • Kankaanpää, Tuomas; Vesterinen, Eero; Hardwick, Bess; Schmidt, Niels M.; Andersson, Tommi; Aspholm, Paul E.; Barrio, Isabel C.; Beckers, Niklas; Bêty, Joël; Birkemoe, Tone; DeSiervo, Melissa; Drotos, Katherine H. I.; Ehrich, Dorothee; Gilg, Olivier; Gilg, Vladimir; Hein, Nils; Høye, Toke T.; Jakobsen, Kristian M.; Jodouin, Camille; Jorna, Jesse; Kozlov, Mikhail V.; Kresse, Jean‐Claude; Leandri‐Breton, Don‐Jean; Lecomte, Nicolas; Loonen, Maarten; Marr, Philipp; Monckton, Spencer K.; Olsen, Maia; Otis, Josée‐Anne; Pyle, Michelle; Roos, Ruben E.; Raundrup, Katrine; Rozhkova, Daria; Sabard, Brigitte; Sokolov, Aleksandr; Sokolova, Natalia; Solecki, Anna M.; Urbanowicz, Christine; Villeneuve, Catherine; Vyguzova, Evgenya; Zverev, Vitali; Roslin, Tomas (Wiley, 2020-09-11)
    Climatic impacts are especially pronounced in the Arctic, which as a region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe. Here, we investigate how mean climatic conditions and rates of climatic change impact parasitoid insect communities in 16 ...
  • Bailey, Matthew H.; Stefansson, Olafur (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-09-21)
    The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) curated consensus somatic mutation calls using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), respectively. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer ...
  • Ara, Kazi Zubaida Gulshan; Månberger, Anna; Gabriško, Marek; Linares-Pastén, Javier A.; Jasilionis, Andrius; Friðjónsson, Ólafur H.; Hreggvidsson, Gudmundur Oli; Janeček, Štefan; Karlsson, Eva Nordberg (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-01-28)
    The genome of Rhodothermus marinus DSM 4253 encodes six glycoside hydrolases (GH) classified under GH family 3 (GH3): RmBgl3A, RmBgl3B, RmBgl3C, RmXyl3A, RmXyl3B and RmNag3. The biochemical function, modelled 3D-structure, gene cluster and evolutionary ...
  • Wallevik, Jon Elvar; Wallevik, Olafur Haralds (Elsevier BV, 2020-01)
    An increasing interest has emerged in correlating the output of the concrete mixing truck to values obtained by rotational rheometers. The output of the former has usually been the hydraulic pressure needed to turn the drum. In such research, experimental ...
  • Li, Constance H.; Stefansson, Olafur (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-08-28)
    Sex differences have been observed in multiple facets of cancer epidemiology, treatment and biology, and in most cancers outside the sex organs. Efforts to link these clinical differences to specific molecular features have focused on somatic mutations ...
  • Tayyebi, Ebrahim; Hussain, Javed; Skulason, Egill (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2020-09-21)
    The electrochemical CO2reduction reaction (CO2RR) on RuO2and RuO2-based electrodes has been shown experimentally to produce high yields of methanol, formic acid and/or hydrogen while methane formation is not detected. This CO2RR selectivity on RuO2is ...
  • Reșceanu, Alina S.; Tran, Anh Dao Katrín; Magnússon, Magnús Á. S. (University of Craiova, Department of Communication, Journalism and Education Science, Center for Scientific Research in Communication Sciences, Media and Public Opinion (CCSCMOP), 2020)
    This comparative study has a two-fold aim. On the one hand, it provides a description of the national educational framework – legislative provisions, institutional strategies and policies – and the regional and local practices regarding the presence ...
  • Gísladóttir, Karen Rut; Óskarsdóttir, Gunnhildur (EdTech Books, 2020)
    This research explores a cooperative self-study project that 14 university-based teacher educators at the University of Iceland participated in for two years. The study aimed to develop a dialogic space that would mobilize teachers’ diverse experiences ...
  • Einarsdottir, Johanna (Menntavísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2020-10-09)
    Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að varpa ljósi á mat foreldra á gæðum leikskólastarfs í samhengi við menningarbundin viðhorf sem birtast í opinberri stefnu leikskóla. Jafnframt að skoða hvort marka mætti breytingar á viðhorfum foreldra á einum ...
  • Þorkelsdóttir, Rannveig Björk; Þórðardóttir, Sólveig (The Educational Research Institute, 2020-09-02)
    Markmið þessarar rannsóknar er tvíþætt: Annars vegar að skoða félagslegan ávinning söngleikjaþátttöku og mikilvægi söngleikjaforms sem óhefðbundins náms og hins vegar að skoða hvaða áhrif söngleikjaþátttaka hefur á félagskvíða hjá nemendum ...
  • Sigfúsdóttir, Sigrún Alda; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna T.; Karlsson, Þorlákur; Bergþórsdóttir, Íris Ösp (The Educational Research Institute, 2020-07-13)
    Tilgangur rannsóknarinnar var að bera saman áhrif beinnar og óbeinnar orðaforðakennslu hjá börnum með málþroskaröskun. Einkenni málþroskaröskunar er slök færni í tungumálinu, bæði í málskilningi og máltjáningu. Beina orðaforðakennslan fólst í að ...
  • Þórsdóttir, Helga Sigríður; Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín (Menntavísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2020-04-16)
    Samvirkni er af mörgum talin vera grundvöllur farsæls umbótastarfs sem leiðir til aukins árangurs í námi nemenda. Markmið rannsóknarinnar sem hér er til umfjöllunar er að öðlast skilning og þekkingu á því hvernig samvirkni í stefnumótun í skólamálum birtist ...
  • Pálsdóttir, Sólveig Björg; Jóhannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir (Menntavísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2020-04-14)
    Greinin fjallar um hvernig staðið er að kynjajafnréttismenntun elstu barna í leikskólum. Viðtöl voru tekin við sjö leikskólakennara í elstu deildum í sex leikskólum á höfuðborgarsvæðinu ásamt því að dvelja á vettvangi til að fá innsýn í starf ...
  • Tayyebi, Ebrahim (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, 2020-10-22)
    The main target of this thesis is to use density functional theory-based simulations to study electrochemical CO2 and N2 reductions by employing a recent theoretical model of an electrochemical solid-liquid interface. This model is used to investigate ...
  • Kristinsdóttir, Kristjana; Magnusdottir, Gigja; Chenery, Belinda; Guðmundsdóttir, Vilborg; Gudfinnsdottir, Halla; Kárason, Halldór; Ludvigsdóttir, Guðbjörg; Helgason, Thordur (PAGEPress Publications, 2020-04-01)
    Spasticity is a motor impairment present in patients with both stroke and spinal cord injury. In this research, the results from the Wartenberg pendulum test, performed on stroke and spinal cord injury patients using goniometers and electromyogram ...
  • Kronish, Ian M.; Cheung, Ying Kuen; Julian, Jacob; Parsons, Faith; Lee, Jenny; Yoon, Sunmoo; Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis; Green, Paige; Suls, Jerry; Hershman, Dawn L.; Davidson, Karina W. (MDPI AG, 2019-12-30)
    Purpose: Little is known about the effectiveness of bright white light therapy (BWL) for depressive symptoms in cancer survivors, many of whom prefer non-pharmacological treatments. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of BWL ...
  • Ullah, Ubaid; Al-Hasan, Muath; Koziel, Slawomir; Mabrouk, Ismail Ben (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
    In this paper, a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna featuring circular polarization diversity, and designed on a common coplanar ground is presented. The proposed antenna design utilizes a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feeding technique with three ...
  • Vakula, Michael N.; Waller, Benjamin; Bressel, Eadric; Kim, Youngwook (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-08-25)
    Abstract Background: Balance impairments are the leading causes of falls in older adults. Aquatic-based exercises have been broadly practiced as an alternative to land-based exercises; however, the effects on dynamic balance have not been comprehensively ...
  • Óskarsson, Kristinn Ragnar; Sævarsson, Arnór Freyr; Kristjánsson, Magnús M. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-01-23)
    Protein stability is a widely studied topic, there are still aspects however that need addressing. In this paper we examined the effects of multiple proline substitutions into loop regions of the kinetically stable proteinase K-like serine protease ...
  • Turmezei, Thomas; Treece, Graham; Gee, A. H.; Sigurðsson, Sigurður; Jonsson, Helgi; Aspelund, Thor; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Poole, Kenneth E.S. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-03-05)
    Osteoarthritis is an increasingly important health problem for which the main treatment remains joint replacement. Therapy developments have been hampered by a lack of biomarkers that can reliably predict disease, while 2D radiographs interpreted by ...