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Immigrant Experiences of Learning Icelandic and Connecting with the Speaking Community
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2017 The Icelandic language has a central role in defining Icelandic nationality. Given its importance in defining Icelandic nationality and as a precondition for citizenship, the article studies what learning the Icelandic language means for the growing ...
Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, Pamela Innes
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Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Icelandic Population
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 Background During the current worldwide pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) was first diagnosed in Iceland at the end of February. However, data are limited on how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, enters and spreads in a population ...
D. Gudbjartsson +39 more
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Early Spread of SARS-Cov-2 in the Icelandic Population
medRxiv, 2020 BACKGROUND Limited data exist on how SARS-CoV-2 enters and spreads in the general population. METHODS We used two strategies for SARS-CoV-2 testing: targeted testing of high-risk individuals (n=4,551) and a population screening (n=5,502).
D. Gudbjartsson +39 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +3 more
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 . Iceland is a highly active source of natural dust. Icelandic dust has the potential to directly affect the climate via dust–radiation interaction and indirectly via dust–cloud interaction, the snow/ice albedo effect and impacts on biogeochemical cycles.
Clarissa Baldo +12 more
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The Predicament of Nature: Keiko the Whale and The Cultural Politics of Whaling in Iceland [PDF]
, 2006 This cultural analysis reconsiders the modernist narrative about the politics of whales and whale hunting in order to explore Icelandic responses to the return of the killer whale Keiko (star of the Free Willy movies) to Icelandic waters in 1998 ...
Brydon, Anne
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Faces and words are both associated and dissociated as evidenced by visual problems in dyslexia
Scientific Reports, 2021 Faces and words are traditionally assumed to be independently processed. Dyslexia is also traditionally thought to be a non-visual deficit. Counter to both ideas, face perception deficits in dyslexia have been reported. Others report no such deficits. We
Heida Maria Sigurdardottir +2 more
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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2020 This paper describes an interactive exhibition about the vocabulary of the Icelandic language. The exhibition is called Óravíddir – Orðaforðinn í nýju ljósi (e. Vastness – The Vocabulary in a New Light) and was opened at the Culture House in Reykjavík,
Eva María Jónsdóttir +2 more
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Archives of Surgery, 2006 Icelandic surgeons provide a wide range of modern surgical services with excellent results. How can a nation of fewer than 300,000 persons accomplish this? The main reasons are a thriving economy, a high standard of living and education, and the training of surgeons.
Gunnar H, Gunnlaugsson +2 more
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Development and Guiding Principles of the Icelandic Model for Preventing Adolescent Substance Use
Health Promotion Practice, 2019 Adolescent substance use—the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful drugs—remains a persistent global problem and has presented ongoing challenges for public health authorities and society.
A. Kristjansson +5 more
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