Markmið verkefnisins var að taka saman yfirlit um vöxt og stærð íslenska hestsins, byggt á íslenskum rannsóknum og nýlegum skrokkmálum og bera saman við rannsóknir á erlendum hestakynjum. Skoðuð voru skrokkmál byggð á mælingum sýndra kynbótahrossa á tímabilinu 1990 til 2009 (hæð, lengd, brjóstdýp... (1,290 characters more)

Rannsóknin var gerð til meta hvort mismunandi gleið höfuðjárn hafi áhrif á heildarþrýsting undir hnakknum og þyngdardreifingu hans. Einnig var lagt mat á áhrif gangtegunda á þrýstingsdreifingu hnakksins. Níu heilbrigðir hestar voru notaðir í rannsóknina og þrýstingsmælingar voru teknar með sérhan... (1,629 characters more)

SoilCritZone, an FP6 Specific Support Action, organised a series of four workshops to discuss the future of soil research in Europe. These workshops included participants from the European, African, Chinese and US soil communities. In these workshops the community formulated research questions b... (2,289 characters more)

Opportunities for forest recreation are relatively new in Iceland, as are the forests. No framework for planning and management exists for recreational forests in Iceland and data necessary for constructing such a framework are lacking. In order to provide the necessary data, a self-administered... (1,780 characters more)

The objective of this research was to design, apply and and test an observational method using a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) for data collection. The aim was to design a flexible program for the PDA, which could be adapted to different settings, groups and focus in research. In this research... (2,319 characters more)