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Black Feathers and Poison Wine Decadent Aesthetics in Davíð Stefánsson’s Poetry
LeaDavíð Stefánsson (1895-1964) is a poet whose work marks a turning point in early twentieth-century Icelandic literature. This essay offers five new English translations from his first collection Black Feathers (Svartar Fjaðrir,1919) and introduces a new ...
Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir
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Wordmongers : post-medieval scribal culture and the case of Sighvatur Grímsson [PDF]
, 2009 The subject matter of this thesis is manuscript and scribal culture in the age of print. Its first part explores the flourishing scholarship of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and beyond over the past 25-30 years, as well as recent trends and ...
Ólafsson, Davíð
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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Teodoras Bieliackinas on Icelandic literature. [PDF]
, 2019 Teodoras Bieliackinas (1907–1947) yra pirmoji tiesioginė moderniosios Lietuvos jungtis su Islandija. Islandijoje jis praleido paskutinįjį savo trumpo gyvenimo dešimtmetį, tapo pirmuoju profesionaliu Lietuvos islandistu ir apskritai skandinavistu ...
Steponavičiūtė, Ieva
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Ashwagandha: Is It Safe? Part 2: A Preclinical Evidence Review
Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The preclinical evidence for the safety of ashwagandha (Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal, AS) is reviewed, and its preparations (extracts) and constituents, from the general toxicity in animal models to in vitro and cell culture studies, which may elucidate mechanisms of action and explain clinical case reports.
Elizabeth M. Williamson, Thomas Brendler
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Diagnosing the 11‐year solar cycle's influence on the East Atlantic pattern
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.A previously unidentified solar‐cycle response in the East Atlantic pattern is found in late winter at lag +3 years with larger amplitude than the NAO response. A statistically significant NAO response to the solar cycle is seen in late winter at lag 0 years.
Stergios Misios +4 more
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Old Norse—Icelandic Literature and German Culture [PDF]
, 2011 The perception of Old Norse literature in post-medieval times moves between an aesthetically motivated international interest and its constriction initially to national and then nationalistic concerns.
Zernack, Julia
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how income inequality and financial globalization shape sustainable industrialization across 87 countries over 2000–2022, using the SDG 9 composite index as the outcome and the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) to capture heterogeneous effects.
Özge Kozal, Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates
The Economic Journal, EarlyView., 2018 The negative consequences of long‐term exposure to particulate pollution are well established but a number of studies find no effect of short‐term exposure on health outcomes. The high correlation of industrial pollutants complicates the estimation of the impact of individual pollutants on health.
Timothy J. Halliday +2 more
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English or Icelandic? A False Dichotomy in a Modern Global Society [PDF]
, 2011 This essay is a discussion regarding the effects that English, as the language of globalization, has on Icelandic society, culture and language. Iceland is a small country which strongly identifies itself with the Icelandic language therefore the ...
Ólöf Ásdís Baldvinsdóttir 1967-
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