Digital Medievalist, 2013 With relatively few scholars and a large number of texts whose manuscript transmission has yet to be mapped, Icelandic literature would benefit from efficient ways of establishing stemmas, to facilitate the study of literature, linguistics, scribal ...
Alaric Hall, Katelin Parsons
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Running Wild: Environmental Attitudes of Long-Distance Runners in the Icelandic Highlands
Mountain Research and Development, 2021 An increasing number of sports events are taking place in wilderness and mountain areas. The Laugavegur Ultra Marathon (LUM) is one such event. It follows the 55-km (34.2-mile) route of the Laugavegur trail in the southern Icelandic highlands.
Rannveig Ólafsdóttir +2 more
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Perception, history, and science: coherence or disparity in the timing of the Little Ice Age maximum in southeast Iceland? [PDF]
, 2005 In Iceland, studies that integrate local perceptions about the landscape with scientific evidence of change have been few. This article presents a case study from southeast Iceland that has two main objectives.
Dugmore, Andrew J. +2 more
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Political Regimes and Climate Change: Learning from Past Civilisations
Global EnvironmentAs the world is threatened by new and powerful climate-driven hazards, how are states and societies likely to react? In this paper, I explore the role of regime type in determining the likelihood of state survival under extreme environmental conditions ...
Brian Grodsky
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“Nature in a garb such as she wears nowhere else”: Ida Pfeiffer’s Journey to Iceland
Nordicum-MediterraneumThis article analyses the account of Ida Pfeiffer’s itinerary in Iceland, A trip to Iceland and Scandinavia in 1845, the first travelogue written by a woman visiting this remote island, that develops a unique female gaze.
Rosella Perugi
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Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2022 This article explores migrants’ language learning experiences in two small language communities in the West Nordic Region. We provide a comparative perspective based on an online survey and ethnographic interviews conducted in Iceland and qualitative ...
Lara Hoffmann, Anna-Elisabeth Holm
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Geology of Tindfjallajökull volcano, Iceland [PDF]
, 2018 The geology of Tindfjallajökull volcano, southern Iceland, is presented as a 1:50,000 scale map. Field mapping was carried out with a focus on indicators of past environments.
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Dual current readout for precision plating [PDF]
, 1970 Bistable amplifier prevents damage in the low range circuitry of a dual scale ammeter. It senses the current and switches automatically to the high range circuitry as the current rises above a preset ...
Iceland, W. F.
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Carbon sequestration by afforestation and revegetation as a means of limiting net-CO2 emissions in Iceland. COST E21 Workshop. Contribution of forests and forestry to mitigate greenhouse effects. Joensuu (Finland). 28-30 Sep 2000 [PDF]
Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2000 Iceland has lost about 95/ of its woodlands and 50/ of its vegetative cover during the 1,100 years of human settlement. Efforts to reclaim lost woodlands and herbaceous ecosystems have been continuing since the early 20th century.
Sigurdsson B.D., Snorrason A.
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On Coset Leader Graphs of LDPC Codes [PDF]
, 2014 Our main technical result is that, in the coset leader graph of a linear binary code of block length n, the metric balls spanned by constant-weight vectors grow exponentially slower than those in $\{0,1\}^n$.
Iceland, Eran, Samorodnitsky, Alex
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