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A new resource for Icelandic sagas. Digitizing normalized editions and enhancing textual data

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
This article accounts for a new project which aims to digitize and make available normalized scholarly editions of Old Icelandic texts. The project is based on a print publication of Icelandic family sagas.
Ellert Johannsson, Finnur Ingimundarson
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Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier ...
Nicolas Bau, Simone Dietrich, Katharina Fleiner, Alice Iannantuoni   +3 more
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Varieties of Democracy Aid Approaches: The Role of Donors' Domestic Ideology

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the end of the Cold War, DAC donors increased their efforts of democracy promotion in developing countries. Among other instruments, DAC donors increasingly use democracy aid to improve democracy abroad. However, DAC donors differ in their allocation and delivery strategy of democracy aid.
Jean‐Baptiste Puginier
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Long‐Term Variability and Spatial Differentiation of the Frost‐Free Period in Iceland

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Warming in Iceland (May–September) is expressed as fewer Tmin < 0°C days in the interior and more Tmin > 0°C days along the coasts. ABSTRACT Climate change in subarctic regions leads to significant transformations in thermal conditions; however, the long‐term variability of the frost‐free season (FFS)—and consequently, the growing period—remains poorly
Katarzyna Piotrowicz, Katarzyna Szyga‐Pluta, Alicja Szklarczyk, Ewa Przedpełska‐Wąsowicz   +3 more
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Incorporating Crowdsourced Data Into Operational Products: A Perspective From a National Meteorological Service

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Future advances in the fields of meteorology and climate science will require scientists to increasingly strive towards the provision of new high‐resolution services. In this context, the development of new products and services along the weather chain may greatly benefit from the adoption of second‐and‐third‐party data (23PD) as a source of high ...
Irene Garcia‐Marti, Christopher W. Brown, Alessandro Spinuso, Gijsbert Kruithof, Theo Brandsma, Jan Willem Noteboom   +5 more
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A new, ~4500‐year varve record and high‐resolution tephrochronology from lake Hämälänlampi, eastern Finland, provides age constraints for the Furnas C and the Glen Garry/Askja A‐2000 eruptions

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The northern European distal cryptotephra framework is constantly developing both in terms of identification of new tephra horizons and improved age constraints for the already well‐established tephra marker horizons. However, many prehistoric tephra layers have only been dated by the radiocarbon method, with its inherent problems.
Maarit Kalliokoski, Veera Erola, Saija Saarni   +2 more
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Pulmonic Ingressive Speech in Icelandic

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
Pulmonic ingressive speech – utterances spoken on the in-breath – is a common feature of many languages including Icelandic. This paper presents findings from a survey-based study on the use of ingressive speech in Icelandic.
Emily Beyer, Kirsten Wolf
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Smaller hamstrings autograft size after primary ACL reconstruction is associated with higher odds for graft failure: A meta‐analysis on autografts sizes covering 46,268 patients

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To investigate the association between autograft size and graft failure for hamstrings tendon (HT), patellar tendon (PT) and quadriceps tendon (QT) autografts. Methods Medline, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Amed and Web of Science were searched at four separate time points, with the most recent search in February 2025.
Rebecca Hamrin Senorski, Johan Högberg, Kevin Teow, Anna Nordenholm, Janina Kaarre, Thorkell Snaebjörnsson, Volker Musahl, Kristian Samuelsson, Eric Hamrin Senorski   +8 more
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Psychiatric Comorbidity, Tic Severity and Quality of Life in Adults with Tourette's Syndrome

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Psychiatric comorbidities are common in adults with Tourette's Syndrome (TS), and appear to influence both tic severity and quality of life (QOL). Objective To assess the association between psychiatric comorbidities, tic severity and QOL in TS.
Andreas Hartmann, Christelle Nilles, Yulia Worbe, Davide Martino, Naoual Serari, Catherine Deans, Isabella Davenport, Julian Fletcher, Emmanuel Roze, Tamara Pringsheim   +9 more
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Two Sagas from New Iceland: Reference and Allusion in Gimli Saga and Icelandic River Saga

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
When Manitoba’s Icelandic settler community composed its local history books two of the titles included the term saga: Gimli Saga (1975), authored by The Gimli Women’s Institute, and Icelandic River Saga (1985), authored by local historian Nelson ...
Andrew McGillivray, Ella Brown-Terry
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