Opin vísindi: Recent submissions

  • Baldursdottir, Bergthora; Whitney, Susan L.; Ramel, Alfons; Jónsson, Pálmi V.; Mogensen, Brynjólfur; Petersen, Hannes; Kristinsdóttir, Ella K. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-02-11)
    Background: Asymmetric vestibular function, decreased plantar sensation, postural control and functional ability have been associated with fall-related wrist fractures. Objective: To investigate whether multi-sensory training (MST) improves postural ...
  • Björnsson, Eyþór; Þorleifsson, Guðmar; Helgadóttir, Anna; Gudnason, Thorarinn; Gudbjartsson, Tomas; Andersen, Karl; Grétarsdóttir, Sólveig; Ólafsson, Ísleifur; Tragante, Vinicius; Ólafsson, Ólafur Hreiðar; Jónsdóttir, Birna; Eyjólfsson, Guðmundur I.; Sigurðardóttir, Ólöf; Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur; Gudbjartsson, Daniel; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Holm, Hilma; Stefansson, Kari (American Medical Association (AMA), 2020-01-01)
    Importance: Genetic studies have evaluated the influence of blood lipid levels on the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), but less is known about how they are associated with the extent of coronary atherosclerosis. Objective: To estimate the ...
  • Mímisson, Kristján (University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2020-03)
    Every person’s life can be approached from various angles. Biographies are thus never complete narratives that tell entirely of a person’s life—all the events occurred, all the relations entered, all the emotions sensed, or all the opinions uttered—but ...
  • Padden, Ciara; Jack, James (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017-03-31)
    Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been reported as experiencing higher levels of stress and poorer physical health than parents of typically developing children. However, most of the relevant literature has been based on ...
  • Gudbjartsson, Daniel; Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur; sulem, patrick; Helgadottir, Anna; Gylfason, Arnaldur; Sæmundsdóttir, Jóna; Björnsson, Eyþór; Norðdahl, Guðmundur L.; Jónasdóttir, Áslaug; Jónasdóttir, Aðalbjörg; Eggertsson, Hannes; Grétarsdóttir, Sólveig; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Indridason, Olafur Skuli; Palsson, Runolfur; Jónasson, Friðbert; Jonsdottir, Ingileif; Eyjólfsson, Guðmundur I.; Sigurðardóttir, Ólöf; Ólafsson, Ísleifur; Danielsen, Ragnar; Matthíasson, Stefán E.; Kristmundsdóttir, Snædís; Halldórsson, Bjarni V.; Hreiðarsson, Ástráður Benedikt; Valdimarsson, Einar M.; Gudnason, Thorarinn; Benediktsson, Rafn; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Holm, Hilma; Stefansson, Kari (Elsevier BV, 2019-12-17)
    Background: Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a causal risk factor for cardiovascular diseases that has no established therapy. The attribute of Lp(a) that affects cardiovascular risk is not established. Low levels of Lp(a) have been associated with type 2 ...
  • Ágústsson, Atli; Sveinsson, Thorarinn; Pope, Pauline; Rodby-Bousquet, Elisabet (Informa UK Limited, 2018-07-16)
    Objective: The aim of this study was to clarify the association of scoliosis and windswept hips with immobility, lying position, and time in lying, in adults with cerebral palsy (CP). Methods: This cross-sectional study included 830 adults (469 males ...
  • Erestam, Sofia; Bock, David; Erichsen Andersson, Annette; Bjartell, Anders; Carlsson, Stefan; Stinesen Kollberg, Karin; Sjoberg, Daniel; Steineck, Gunnar; Stranne, Johan; Þorsteinsdóttir, Þórdís; Tyritzis, Stavros; Wallerstedt Lantz, Anna; Wiklund, Peter; Angenete, Eva; Haglind, Eva (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-03-18)
    Background: Little is known concerning what may infuence surgeon satisfaction with a surgical procedure and its associations with intraoperative factors. The objective was to explore the relationships between surgeons’ self-assessed satisfaction with ...
  • Kristjansson, Alfgeir; Þórisdóttir, Ingibjörg E.; Steingrimsdottir, Thora; Allegrante, John; Lilly, Christa L.; Sigfúsdóttir, Inga Dóra (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-05-28)
    Research on the impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) on scholastic achievement in the offspring has shown conflicting findings. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of MSDP on scholastic achievement in a birth cohort of ...
  • Einarsson, Páll (Frontiers Media SA, 2018-05-08)
    Networks of seismographs of high sensitivity have been in use in the vicinity of active volcanoes in Iceland since 1973. During this time, 21 confirmed eruptions have occurred and several intrusions where magma did not reach the surface. All these ...
  • Thorsson, Bolli; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Sigurðsson, Sigurður; Guðmundsson, Elías Freyr; Bots, Michael L; Aspelund, Thor; Arntzen, Kjell Arne; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B; Gudnason, Vilmundur (BMJ, 2018-05-01)
    Objectives Population statistics for carotid plaque and cardiovascular risk factors reported in scientific journals are usually presented as averages for the population or age and sex adjusted, rather than sex and age groups. Important population ...
  • Grétarsdóttir, Helga M.; Björnsdóttir, Elín; Bjornsson, Einar (S. Karger AG, 2018-06-15)
    We describe a case of acute liver injury and migratory arthralgia in a patient receiving bicalutamide treatment for prostate cancer. A 67-year-old male with metastatic prostate cancer presented with a 6-day history of migratory arthralgia. He had been ...
  • Clark, Chase M.; Costa, Maria Sofia; Sanchez, Laura M.; Murphy, Brian T. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018-04-23)
    For decades, researchers have lacked the ability to rapidly correlate microbial identity with bacterial metabolism. Since specialized metabolites are critical to bacterial function and survival in the environment, we designed a data acquisition and ...
  • Spittler, Nathalie (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2019-12)
    A holistic understanding of the underlying dynamics of sustainable energy system development and its effects on socio-economic and environmental aspects, in different national contexts, is necessary for improved decision making with regards to sustainable ...
  • Kwiatkowski, Grzegorz (AIP Publishing, 2019-06-07)
    Critical parameters defining the local nucleation field in amorphous ferromagnetic microwires with positive magnetostriction are obtained analytically through scaling procedures. An exact value of the nucleation field is obtained numerically as a ...
  • Levi, Gianluca; Biasin, Elisa; Dohn, Asmus O.; Jónsson, Hannes (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2020)
    Copper(I) bis-phenanthroline complexes represent Earth-abundant alternatives to ruthenium-based sensitizers for solar energy conversion and photocatalysis. Improved understanding of the solvent- mediated excited-state structural dynamics can help ...
  • Kristjánsdóttir, Helga (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009)
    Autoimmune diseases occur in up to 3-5% of the general population and represent a diverse collection of diseases with regards to clinical manifestations. The unifying factor of autoimmune diseases is tissue and organ damage as a result of an immune ...
  • Imsland, Freyja (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2015)
    Domestic animals have rich phenotypic diversity that can be explored to advance our understanding of the relationship between molecular genetics and phenotypic variation. Since the advent of second generation sequencing, it has become easier to ...
  • Magnússon, Gunnlaugur (Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Educational Sciences and Mathematics., 2015)
    This thesis has two overarching aims. The first is to generate further knowledge about Swedish independent schools, specifically regarding the organisation and provision of special support and how these relate to special educational traditions and ...
  • Karlsson, Vífill (University of Iceland, Faculty of Economics, 2012)
    Iceland s population of approximately fifty thousand inhabitants did not change appreciably from the end of the settlement period in the late twelfth century until the mid-nineteenth century because of the climate and limited technology in agriculture ...
  • Östman, Erik; Stopfel, Henry; Chioar, Ioan-Augustin; Arnalds, Unnar B.; Stein, Aaron; Kapaklis, Vassilios; Hjörvarsson, Björgvin (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018-02-12)
    The modification of geometry and interactions in two-dimensional magnetic nanosystems has enabled a range of studies addressing the magnetic order1,2,3,4,5,6, collective low-energy dynamics7,8 and emergent magnetic properties5, 9,10 in, for example, ...