Back in 2000, when the imminent completion of the human genome fired the imagination of many biotech entrepreneurs and the internet bubble had yet to burst, many people were considering the logical next step after the genome. After establishing the three billion letters of DNA code that we all have in common, the hunt was on for the much smaller number of letters that are variable between indiv...

* The Bidens study group: Berit Schei (principal investigator), Department of Public Health and General Practice/Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, NTNU/St. Olav’s University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Elsa Lena Ryding (co-principal investigator), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Mirjam Lukasse (coordinator), NTNU/Department of Health, Nutrition and Management, Oslo and Akershu...

Landslides and debris flows have caused both fatalities and considerable economic loss in Iceland during the past centuries. In a recently started project we plan to study known landslides in eastern and central-north Iceland using satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) and survey many other slopes in search for other active landslides that may exist. Our initial results show that a landslide i...

This paper presents an overview of the usage of unit record equipment and punched cards in Iceland and introduces some of the pioneers. The usage of punched cards as a media in file processing started 1949 and became the dominant machine readable media in Iceland until 1968. After that punched cards were still used as data entry media for a while but went completely out of use in 1982.

Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Bok 570, 3900 Nuuk, Greenland (MPH, KLL, RGH) RUWPA, University of St Andrews, The Observatory, Buchanan Gardens KY16 9LZ, United Kingdom (MLB, DLB, TAM) Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98105, USA (KLL) Húsavik Research Center, University of Iceland, Hafnarstétt 3, 640 Húsavik,...

Vincent Sacksteder, IV,1,* A. A. Pervishko,2 and I. A. Shelykh2,3,4 1Division of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom 2Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University 637371, Singapore 3Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi-3, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland 4National Research University for Information Technology,...

GARETH J. WALDRON,1 STEFAN B. SIGURDSSON,2 ERNESTO A. AIELLO,3 ANDREW J. HALAYKO,4 NEWMAN L. STEPHENS,4 AND WILLIAM C. COLE1 1Smooth Muscle Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1; 4Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2; 2Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of I...

The spatial distribution of polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) was investigated in dab (Limanda limanda) bile fluids collected from Iceland and the North Sea. Concentrations of various PFCs, including perfluorinated sulfonates (C(4)-C(6), C(8) PFSAs), perfluorinated carboxylic acids (C(9)-C(14) PFCAs) and n-methyl perfluorooctane sulfonamidoethanol (MeFOSE), were quantified. Perfluorooctane sulfo...

While there is abundant geomorphologic evidence for landslides in Iceland, it is in most cases unknown whether or not these landslides are actively creeping. Here we use Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to assess its monitoring capabilities on three landslides that are known to be creeping and to survey large areas in East and Central-North Iceland in search for other creeping l...

Wind gusts are parameterized in a numerical weather prediction model using a new method based on considerations of turbulence and atmospheric stability in the planetary boundary layer. This method was recently introduced by Brasseur and has already been successfully applied to various atmospheric situations, amongst those several in the complex terrain in Iceland. In this study, the method is a...