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(Læknafélag Íslands / Icelandic Medical Association, 2017-06-06)Inngangur: Samkvæmt niðurstöðum rannsóknar á eitrunum á Íslandi frá 2001-2002 leita flestir sem þarfnast meðferðar vegna eitrunar á bráðamóttökur Landspítala. Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að afla áreiðanlegra upplýsinga um bráðar eitranir sem koma ... -
(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2017-06)The development and expansion of agriculture throughout the world has been a major driver of biodiversity loss in recent decades. Icelandic agriculture is currently not as intense and widespread as in many other western countries, and the effects of ...
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(Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, University of Iceland, 2017-05-19)The cyclically-repeated song of the male humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is an important social display on their breeding grounds, functioning in male-male interactions and/or as a reproductive display to attract females. The songs are gradually ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2017-04)This article contributes to cross-cultural management literature, by providing empirical data from two underresearched countries, to serve in the future as benchmark cultural shift research. Furthermore, it illustrates not only the insufficiency of ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2017-01)This article integrates the employment strain model with the social stress model in order to reveal the mechanisms that explain the relation between precarious employment and mental well-being. This model is applied to the case of temporary agency ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-05)The 2+1 dimensional quantum Lifshitz model can be generalised to a class of higher dimensional free field theories that exhibit Lifshitz scaling. When the dynamical critical exponent equals the number of spatial dimensions, equal time correlation ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2017-07-14)The 10th century Eldgjá flood lava eruption, southern Iceland, was the most voluminous eruption on Earth in the last 1100 years, erupting up to 21.0 km3 of transitional alkali basaltic magma of rather uniform composition. While 19.7 km3 was erupted as ...
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(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-05-24)Taxa in the genus Melanelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) belong to a group of saxicolous lichens with brown to black foliose thalli, which have recently undergone extensive changes in circumscription. Taxa belonging to Parmeliaceae are prolific producers ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-05-09)Macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, is an important source of high quality protein and occurs naturally in rivers as well as commercial farms in South and South-East Asia, including Bangladesh. This study investigated the genetic ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-06-08)Appendicitis is one of the most common conditions requiring acute surgery and can pose a threat to the lives of affected individuals. We performed a genome-wide association study of appendicitis in 7,276 Icelandic and 1,139 Dutch cases and large groups ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2017-06)The 6-month long eruption at Holuhraun (August 2014–February 2015) in the Bárðarbunga-Veiðivötn volcanic system was the largest effusive eruption in Iceland since the 1783–1784 CE Laki eruption. The lava flow field covered ~84 km2 and has an estimated ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-06-13)The persistence of common, heritable psychiatric disorders that reduce reproductive fitness is an evolutionary paradox. Here, we investigate the selection pressures on sequence variants that predispose to schizophrenia, autism, bipolar disorder, major ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, 2017-06)Background: Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) can have serious and far-reaching consequences for the health and well-being of both men and women. In order to develop a holistic program for Icelandic survivors of CSA it is important to base such a program ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 2017-02-03)Background and aims: Worldwide chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain is a prevalent problem constituting a considerable societal burden. The aim was to investigate the prevalence of chronic MSK pain conditions in Iceland and the potential impact on physical ...
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Magma fragmentation and tephra dispersal in explosive eruptions: The 1991 and 1845 Hekla eruptions (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, 2017-07-12)Iceland is one of the most volcanically active terrestrial regions on Earth. Hazards posed from volcanic eruptions to local population and life stock is well known in Iceland and the wider effects from volcanic activity have been elevated in recent ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences., 2017-03-13)Commercial design of a sustainable route for on-site production of ammo- nia represents a potential economic and environmental breakthrough. In an analogous process to the naturally occurring enzymatic mechanism, synthe- sis of ammonia could be achieved ...
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(Læknafélag Íslands / Icelandic Medical Association, 2017-01-05)Hnútar í skjaldkirtli eru algengt vandamál og nýgengi þeirra hefur aukist mikið. Kerfisbundin nálgun við uppvinnslu er nauðsynleg til að greining fáist fljótt en ekki síður til að koma í veg fyrir ofgreiningu og ofmeðhöndlun sjúklinga. Það er mikilvægt ...
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(Læknafélag Íslands / Icelandic Medical Association, 2017-01-05)Inngangur: Þótt brátt hjartadrep sé fyrst og fremst sjúkdómur eldra fólks getur það valdið ótímabærum dauða, heilsubresti og skertum lífsgæðum hjá yngra fólki. Árin 1980-1984 voru nýgengi, áhættuþættir, staðsetning hjartadreps, ástand kransæða og ...
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(Læknafélag Íslands / Icelandic Medical Association, 2017-02-03)Inngangur: Opna hjartaaðgerð getur þurft að gera í alvarlegum tilfellum hjartaþelsbólgu. Tilgangur þessarar rannsóknar var að kanna árangur skurðaðgerða við hjartaþelsbólgu á Íslandi en slík rannsókn hefur ekki birst áður. Efniviður og aðferðir: ...
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(Læknafélag Íslands / Icelandic Medical Association, 2017-02-03)Inngangur: Rof á ristli er alvarlegt sjúkdómsástand með háa dánartíðni. Áður fyrr var meðferðin fyrst og fremst skurðaðgerð en á undanförnum árum hafa rannsóknir sýnt sambærilegan árangur með stuðningsmeðferð. Tilgangur þessarar rannsóknar var að ...
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