Demographic dynamics between 5500 and 3500 calBP (3550-1550 BCE) in selected study regions of Central Europe and the role of regional climate influences. by Ralph Großmann, Mara Weinelt, Johannes Müller

“…With their rich Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age archives, the Circumharz region, the Czech Republic/Lower Austria region, and the Northern Alpine Foreland are well-suited for research on potential links between human activities and climate fluctuations of this period with pronounced archaeological changes. …”
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The composition of a linked database on administrative healthcare and employment data in Austria by Florian Endel, Jürgen Holl, Michael Wagner-Pinter

“…We present a linked dataset, matching individual information from both administrative ambits for Austria’s second largest province Lower Austria. Methods The linkage procedure is based on a previously published proof of concept [Endel et al. 2016, European Journal of Epidemiology 31, p. …”
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Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Vaccination Program against <i>Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae</i> Based on Lung-Scoring at Slaughter by Wolfgang Sipos, Vojislav Cvjetković, Branimir Dobrokes, Sabine Sipos

“…Here, the effects of specific vaccination on lung health in a chronically diseased farrow-to-finish farm in Lower Austria experiencing an acute episode were monitored by means of an app-based electronic tool, enabling the scorers to document lung pathologies real-time at slaughter. …”
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Residential suburbanisation in the hinterland of Bratislava – a case study of municipalities in the Austrian border area by Renáta Farkas, Michal Klobučník

“…The main aim of the paper is to investigate the characteristics of cross-border suburbanisation, which is a significant spatial phenomenon in the municipalities of northern Burgenland and the south-eastern part of Lower Austria. The analysis has a spatio-temporal dimension, as it depicts the time-space characteristics of the phenomenon – both for a single time point, as well as for a time series from the approximate beginning of the onset of suburbanisation up to the present. …”
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Sequential Reasoning in Electricity: Developing and Using a Three-Tier Multiple Choice Test by Hildegard Urban

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Sequential Reasoning in Electricity: Developing and Using a Three-Tier Multiple Choice Test by Hildegard Urban

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Emergence of <i>Parafilaria bovicola</i> in Austria by Alexandra Hund, Johannes Reithofer, Bita Shahi Barogh, Maria Sophia Unterköfler, Josef Harl, Hans-Peter Fuehrer

“…Overall, in 57 of 86 samples, <i>P. bovicola</i> was confirmed by PCR in cattle from Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria, Salzburg, Carinthia, and Tyrol. …”
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Sequential Reasoning in Electricity: Developing and Using a Three-Tier Multiple Choice Test by Hildegard Urban

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Influence of Sex on Suicidal Phenotypes in Affective Disorder Patients with Traumatic Childhood Experiences. by Alexandra Bernegger, Klemens Kienesberger, Laura Carlberg, Patrick Swoboda, Birgit Ludwig, Romina Koller, Nestor D Kapusta, Martin Aigner, Helmuth Haslacher, Michaela Schmöger, Siegfried Kasper, Alexandra Schosser

“…The tested sample consisted of 258 patients (111 males and 147 females, in-patients and out-patients at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna and University Hospital Tulln, Lower Austria). Psychiatric diagnoses were derived from the SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) interview. …”
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Assessment of Sweet Sorghum as a Feedstock for a Dual Fuel Biorefinery Concept by F. Weinwurm, F. Theuretzbacher, A. Drljo, D. Leidinger, L. Wannasek, A. Bauer, A. Friedl

“…In cooperation with a biogas plant in lower Austria, the potential of sorghum as a resource for fuel and energy production was evaluated. …”
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Evaluation of the Influences of Different Roof Shapes on the Flow Properties and Performance of Small Wind Turbines by Alexander Hirschl, Daniel Österreicher

“…The experiment was conducted on the Lichtenegg energy research park (Lower Austria) and its results make it possible to better identify all effects that affect the turbine output power…”

The Effect of COVID-19 on Loneliness in the Elderly. An Empirical Comparison of Pre-and Peri-Pandemic Loneliness in Community-Dwelling Elderly by Theresa Heidinger, Lukas Richter, Lukas Richter

“…This study provides a direct comparison of reported loneliness before and during the pandemic using 1:1 propensity score matching (PSM) on a pre- and a peri-pandemic sample of elderly (60+ years) individuals from Lower Austria, a county of Austria (Europe). Differences on a loneliness index computed from the short De Jong Gierveld scale were found to be significant, evidencing that loneliness in the elderly population had in fact risen slightly during the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated safety measures. …”
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A forensic re-analysis of one of the deadliest European tornadoes by A. M. Holzer, T. M. E. Schreiner, T. M. E. Schreiner, T. Púčik

“…The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to demonstrate how a windstorm catastrophe that happened 100 years ago, such as the Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, tornado on 10 July 1916, can be successfully re-analyzed using a forensic approach, and (2) to propose a repeatable working method for assessing damage and reconstructing the path and magnitude of local windstorm and tornado cases with sufficient historical sources. …”
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Revision of the thylacocephalan biota from the Upper Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte, Austria by Thomas Laville, Petra Lukeneder, Alexander Lukeneder

“…Known for over 140 years, the Upper Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte is an exceptional early Carnian marine assemblage discovered in the Northern Calcareous Alps of Lower Austria. The Polzberg biota is composed of a diverse marine fauna, including two species of thylacocephalans, an enigmatic group of fossil euarthropods that was highly diversified during the Triassic and thus representing a major component of many marine faunas throughout the Triassic. …”
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A review of the Cochylimorpha perfusana (Guenée, 1845) species group (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in Europe, with the description of a new species from the Southern Carpathians (Roma... by Zoltán Kovács, Sándor Kovács, Peter Buchner, Jari Junnilainen

“…Cochylimorpha perfusana is widely distributed in mountain areas of Europe (Alps, Carpathians and Pirin Mountains), C. callosana is widespread only in the north-western Balkan Peninsula and north-eastern Italy, and local in eastern France, Corsica and Hungary, the other two seem to be endemics, C. dorsimaculana to Wachau and Retz in Lower Austria and C. bucegiana sp. nov. to the Southern Carpathians in Romania. …”
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Sensitivity of honeybee hygroreceptors to slow humidity changes and temporal humidity variation detected in high resolution by mobile measurements. by Harald Tichy, Wolfgang Kallina

“…Microclimatic parameters (absolute humidity, temperature, wind speed) were measured from an automobile traveling through different landscapes of Lower Austria. Landscape type affected extremes and mean values of humidity. …”
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Clinical Efficacy of Two Novel, Differentially Administered (IM, ID) Vaccines against <i>Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae</i> and PCV2 in Swine under Field Conditions by Wolfgang Sipos, Sabine Sipos

“…In this field study, we tested the clinical efficacy of two novel vaccines, one delivered IM (Hyogen^® + Circovac^®) and the other ID (MHyo-Sphere^®PCV ID), on a fattening farm in Lower Austria with a history of still ongoing EP. Average daily weight gain, coughing/sneezing index, losses due to morbidity/mortality, and lung scoring data at slaughter by means of CLP (Ceva Lung Program) were recorded for three consecutive fattening cohorts to achieve a powerful number of animals, one half each vaccinated with the IM vaccine and the other half with the ID vaccine (n = 659 in total). …”
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INTERACTION BETWEEN NATIVE AND ALIEN SPECIES OF CRAYFISH IN AUSTRIA: CASE STUDIES by PÖCKL M., PEKNY R.

“…Case studies are given in the following chapters: the first group of examples refers to water bodies where the alien signal crayfish is most probably the cause of displacement of the indigenous noble crayfish: 1) Hintersee, 2) Irrsee (« Zeller See »), 3) north-western Lower Austria (« Waldviertel »), 4) Merzenstein (aquacultural enterprise), 5) Neufelder See. …”
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Tularemia Goes West: Epidemiology of an Emerging Infection in Austria by Stefanie Seiwald, Anja Simeon, Erwin Hofer, Günter Weiss, Rosa Bellmann-Weiler

“…Over the last few centuries, few epidemic outbreaks and low numbers of infections have been registered in the eastern part of Austria, specifically in the provinces of Lower Austria, Burgenland, and Styria. The reported infections were mostly associated with hunting hares and the skinning of carcasses. …”
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The Impact of Clay Minerals on the Building Technology of Vernacular Earthen Architecture in Eastern Austria by Hubert Feiglstorfer, Franz Ottner

“…The study area stretches from the Weinviertel, a region located in the province of Lower Austria in the north-east of Austria, to the Burgenland, a region located in the south-east of Austria, which belonged to Western Hungary until 1921. …”
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