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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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Critical Social Metaphysics

Journal of Social Ontology
There has been considerable new work on the metaphysics of sex and gender, race, sexuality, and disability. The methodology employed in this work varies considerably. In this essay I advocate for a certain conception of doing social metaphysics.
Icelandic Icelandic
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Ecosystem recharge by volcanic dust drives broad-scale variation in bird abundance [PDF]

, 2015
Across the globe, deserts and volcanic eruptions produce large volumes of atmospheric dust, and the amount of dust is predicted to increase with global warming.
Aradóttir, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Arnalds, Ausden, Ayris, Baratoux, BirdLife International, Björnsson, Brady, Bullard, Chadwick, Curry, Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Duggen, Eger, Einarsson, Einarsson, Engelstaedter, Field, Garrison, Gathorne-Hardy, Gisladottir, Gislason, Gunnarsson, Gunnarsson, Gunnarsson, Helgadóttir, Hooper, Jakobsson, Jickells, Johannesdottir, Kålås, Langmann, Lequy, McGovern, McTainsh, Nriagu, Olgun, Oskarsson, Paradis, Pelzer, Prospero, Prospero, Reynolds, Ridley, Sankey, Shinn, Siebert, Sigurdsson, Suchodoletz, Thorarinsdottir, Thorarinsson, Thordarson, Verhulst, Vitousek, Webley, Wilson, Wilson   +67 more
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Describing Inflectional Patterns of Nouns in Old Icelandic

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022
The Database of Old Icelandic Inflections (DOII) is a project at The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (SÁM) at the University of Iceland with the goal to describe the inflectional patterns of Old Icelandic. DOII uses the same structure as
Ellert Thor Johannsson, Finnur Ágúst Ingimundarson   +1 more
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Icelandic Literature in the U.S.: On the Question of National Borders in Literature [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2016
Literature has been central to Icelandic culture in the history of the nation. Icelandic immigrants in the U.S. created an original literature in their native tongue that, on the one hand, continued a rich Icelandic literary tradition going back to sagas
Andrey V. Korovin
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The Role of Visual Factors in Dyslexia

Journal of Cognition, 2023
What are the causes of dyslexia? Decades of research reflect a determined search for a single cause where a common assumption is that dyslexia is a consequence of problems with converting phonological information into lexical codes.
Árni Kristjánsson, Heida Maria Sigurdardottir   +1 more
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Assessing Impact to Infrastructures Due to Tephra Fallout From Öræfajökull Volcano (Iceland) by Using a Scenario-Based Approach and a Numerical Model

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018
Mt. Öræfajökull is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Iceland with potential for a VEI6 eruption and the generation of many severe associated hazards. It is not a frequently erupting volcano with two eruptions in the last 1100 years, in 1362 and 1727–
Sara Barsotti, Dario Ingi Di Rienzo, Dario Ingi Di Rienzo, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Bogi Brynjar Björnsson, Sigrún Karlsdóttir   +5 more
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Obesity, Physical Function, and Training Success in Community-Dwelling Nonsarcopenic Old Adults

Journal of Aging Research, 2019
Objectives. Obesity-related physiological changes can limit improvements of obese subjects after training. The aim was to investigate obesity, muscular strength, and physical function in community-dwelling nonsarcopenic old adults. Methods. Nonsarcopenic
O. G. Geirsdottir, M. Chang, P.V. Jonsson, I. Thorsdottir, A. Ramel   +4 more
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A geomorphological overview of glacial landforms on the Icelandic continental shelf [PDF]

, 2009
The availability of a bathymetric database that covers about 80% of the Icelandic shelf has made it possible to produce a geomorphological map of the glacial landforms.
Clark, C.D., Spagnolo, M.
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Validation of a Genetic Risk Score Combined with Clinical Variables for Predicting Pulmonary Fibrosis in early Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a severe extra‐articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study aimed to externally validate a genetic risk score (GRS) and a combined risk score for predicting the risk of RA‐associated PF in an independent cohort of early‐RA patients. Methods This study utilized an inception cohort of 1118 patients
Mikael Brink, Austin Wheeler, Bryant R. England, Solbritt Rantapää‐Dahlqvist   +3 more
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