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Broader Familial Cancer Risk in Relatives of Testicular Cancer Patients: Insights From Two Mediterranean Populations

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Familial clustering of testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT) is well‐established, whereas the risk of non‐testicular cancer among relatives remains inconsistent across studies. Objective To evaluate the overall and site‐specific cancer risk among first‐degree relatives and grandparents of TGCT patients compared to cancer‐free controls.
Csilla Krausz   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Icelandic Secondary School Students’ Attitudes Towards Literature in the English Classroom. A Qualitative Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The focus of this qualitative study is to explore the views and opinions of students towards secondary school English classes in general, the teaching of English literature, and how important they think literature is to language learning.
Helga Benediktsdóttir 1990-
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Refining the timing of Middle Pleistocene (MIS 12 to MIS 6) ice advances into northern central Europe: sedimentological analysis and single‐grain luminescence dating of glaciotectonic complexes and tunnel‐valley fills

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
We summarize the current state of knowledge on the age of the Middle Pleistocene ice advances into northern central Europe and provide 25 new single‐grain feldspar luminescence ages of Elsterian and Saalian glacigenic sediments to constrain the age of the ice advances and their tentative correlation with marine isotope stages/substages.
Niklas von Soest   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Open Secret of Icelandic Otherworldly Communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study examines supernatural references in medieval Icelandic literature in light of modern Icelandic practice of otherworldly communication. Literary motifs are not merely fantastical story elements; rather they reflect a type of reality for ...
Robinson, Chip
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Deutsch-isländische Beziehungen: Festschrift für Hubert Seelow zum 70. Geburtstag [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
German-Icelandic relations – the title of this volume summarizes what characterizes Hubert Seelow's work, and also what has shaped his personal life. In honor of his seventieth birthday, this commemorative publication takes a look at Icelandic and German
Rohrbach, Lena; https://orcid.org/
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Lodge moraines: a common yet underreported end‐moraine type—a review

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Lodge moraines are a distinct genetic type of end moraine formed by submarginal accretion of subglacial till; they are some of the largest end moraines in the world. Although underreported in the literature, they are of equal importance to push, dump and hummocky end moraines. End moraines are formed at glacier ice margins and show the extent of former
Mark D. Johnson   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transmission – transformation – memory: Reflections on modern recreating pre-modern Nordic myths [PDF]

open access: yes
This article treats various general aspects of transformations in Viking Age and medieval Scandinavian mythology as they appear in written narratives and visual pictures.
Glauser, Jürg
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A history of the unconsoled: the plays of Guttormur J. Guttormsson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
An investigation of Guttormur J. Guttormsson’s (1878-1966) personal library housed in the Icelandic Collection of the University of Manitoba yields an interesting entry point into a dialogue with his published plays, a collection entitled Tíu leikrit ...
Thordarson, Elin
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Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Thesis Abstract. The purpose of this thesis is to examine Old English and Old Icelandic literary examples of monstrosity from a modern theoretical perspective.
McLennan, Alistair
core   +1 more source

70 years of Scottish National Accounts: 1948–2018

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive time series of historical National Accounts for Scotland (onshore and offshore) from 1948 to 2018. It includes a detailed breakdown by income component and industrial sector using methods that are forward and backward compatible.
Graeme Roy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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