Reproducibility of improvements in patient-reported functional ability following functional capacity evaluation by Martin Schindl, Harald Zipko, Matthias Bethge

“…Methods Patients with musculoskeletal trauma and an unclear return to work prognosis were recruited in a trauma rehabilitation center in Lower Austria. We included patient cohorts of three consecutive years (2016: n = 161, 2017: n = 140; 2018: n = 151). …”
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Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Alex Ezeh, Sandro Galea, Trudy Harpham, James Duminy, Danzhen You, Daniela Weber, Amy Weimann, Mark R. Montgomery, J. M. Ian Salas

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Bridging the gap in healthcare: creating an online health information prototype for individuals with intellectual disabilities to promote equity and knowledge transfer by Lisa T. Dam, Petra Heidler, Petra Heidler, Isabel King

“…A convenience sample of 20 adults employed in sheltered workshops of the Caritas Lower Austria West facility who met the inclusion criteria participated.ResultsThe prototype addressed four main topics, namely nutrition, medical specialization, first aid, and patient information, offering comprehensive information using easy-to-read language and pictorial content. …”
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First Experience with Sentinel-2 Data for Crop and Tree Species Classifications in Central Europe by Markus Immitzer, Francesco Vuolo, Clement Atzberger

“…In the first case study, an S2 image was used to map six summer crop species in Lower Austria as well as winter crops/bare soil. Crop type maps are needed to account for crop-specific water use and for agricultural statistics. …”
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Multi-Step Calibration Approach for SWAT Model Using Soil Moisture and Crop Yields in a Small Agricultural Catchment by Francis Kilundu Musyoka, Peter Strauss, Guangju Zhao, Raghavan Srinivasan, Andreas Klik

“…The watershed is situated in Petzenkirchen in the western part of Lower Austria and has total area of 66 hectares. At present, 87% of the catchment area is arable land, 5% is used as pasture, 6% is forested and 2% is paved. …”
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Investigations on the occurrence of a muscular disorder in Austrian slaughter pigs by Lukas Schwarz, Carolin Schöner, Rene Brunthaler, Herbert Weissenböck, Tanja Bernreiter-Hofer, Barbara Wallner, Andrea Ladinig

“…A survey to determine the prevalence of fatty muscular disorders of pork revealed that this phenomenon gets frequently observed in Styria, but also occurs in Upper Austria and Lower Austria. Mostly gluteal and lumbal muscles were affected and approximately 20–40% of the affected muscles were replaced by fat. …”
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EVALUATION OF A NOVEL UAV-BORNE TOPO-BATHYMETRIC LASER PROFILER by G. Mandlburger, M. Pfennigbauer, M. Wieser, U. Riegl, N. Pfeifer

“…For assessing the precision and accuracy of the system an experiment was carried out in October 2015 at a pre-alpine river (Pielach in Lower Austria). A 200 m longitudinal section and 12 river cross sections were measured with the BathyCopter sensor system at a flight altitude of 15-20 m above ground level and a measurement rate of 4 kHz. …”
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<i>Fusarium sporotrichioides</i> Produces Two HT-2-α-Glucosides on Rice by Thomas Svoboda, Roman Labuda, Michael Sulyok, Rudolf Krska, Markus Bacher, Franz Berthiller, Gerhard Adam

“…In this study, we focus on a type A trichothecene-producing isolate (15-39) of <i>Fusarium sporotrichioides</i> from Lower Austria. We assessed the secondary metabolite profile and optimized the toxin production conditions on autoclaved rice and found that in addition to large amounts of T-2 and HT-2 toxins, this strain was able to produce HT-2-glucoside. …”
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Extraction of Aged Hydrocarbons from Contaminated Soil Using Plant-Oil-in-Water Emulsions Combined with Oil/Water Separation by Reusable Non-Wovens by Maximilian Lackner, Thomas Hribernig, Markus Lutz, Markus Plank, Karl Putz

“…The technique was tested on a brownfield in Lower Austria, a former refinery site abandoned approx. 80 years ago with a peak hydrocarbon contamination of 40,000 mg/kg of dry soil and free-floating mineral oil on the groundwater level. …”
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Occurrence of Thelazia callipaeda and its vector Phortica variegata in Austria and South Tyrol, Italy, and a global comparison by phylogenetic network analysis by Maria Sophia Unterköfler, Patrick Dengg, Miriam Niederbacher, Sarah Lindorfer, Antonia Eberle, Alexandra Huck, Katalina Staufer, Carina Zittra, Licha Natalia Wortha, Adnan Hodžić, Georg Gerhard Duscher, Josef Harl, Gerhard Schlüsslmayr, Marcos Antonio Bezerra-Santos, Domenico Otranto, Katja Silbermayr, Hans-Peter Fuehrer

“…Thelazia callipaeda and P. variegata were identified in Burgenland, Lower Austria, and Styria. Thelazia callipaeda was also documented in Vienna and P. variegata in Upper Austria and South Tyrol, Italy. …”
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Understanding the Impact of Child, Intervention, and Family Factors on Developmental Trajectories of Children with Hearing Loss at Preschool Age: Design of the AChild Study by Magdalena Dall, Sandra Kiblböck, Daiva Müllegger, Johannes Fellinger, Johannes Hofer, Ruth Kapplmüller, Sandra Breitwieser, Katharina Schossleitner, Christoph Weber, Ruth Zöhrer, Daniel Holzinger

“…The AChild study (Austrian Children with Hearing Impairment—Longitudinal Databank) uses an epidemiological longitudinal design including all children living in Upper and Lower Austria with a permanent uni- or bilateral hearing loss below the age of 6 years, irrespective of additional disabilities, family language, and family resources. …”
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Comparing Road-Kill Datasets from Hunters and Citizen Scientists in a Landscape Context by Florian Heigl, Carina R. Stretz, Wolfgang Steiner, Franz Suppan, Thomas Bauer, Gregor Laaha, Johann G. Zaller

“…We analysed the surrounding landscapes of 712 road-kill reportings of European hares in the province of Lower Austria. Our data showed that road-killed hares reported both by hunters and citizens are predominantly surrounded by arable land. …”
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From individualised treatment goals to personalised rehabilitation in osteoarthritis: a longitudinal prospective mapping study using the WHO international classification for functi... by Sinisa Stefanac, Claudia Oppenauer, Michael Zauner, Martina Durechova, Daffodil Dioso, Daniel Aletaha, Gerhard Hobusch, Reinhard Windhager, Tanja Stamm

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Storage of packed red blood cells impairs an inherent coagulation property of erythrocytes by Thomas Öhlinger, Thomas Öhlinger, Ernst W. Müllner, Magdalena Fritz, Maike Werning, Joanna Baron-Stefaniak, Christof Jungbauer, David M. Baron, Ulrich Salzer

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Improving the Seasonal Representation of ASCAT Soil Moisture and Vegetation Dynamics in a Temperate Climate by Isabella Pfeil, Mariette Vreugdenhil, Sebastian Hahn, Wolfgang Wagner, Peter Strauss, Günter Blöschl

“…The study region is set in an agricultural area of Lower Austria that is characterized by heterogeneous land cover and topography, and features an experimental catchment equipped with a SM network (HOAL SoilNet). …”
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Improvement of VHR Satellite Image Geometry with High Resolution Elevation Models by Ana-Maria Loghin, Johannes Otepka-Schremmer, Camillo Ressl, Norbert Pfeifer

“…Our experimental results in Allentsteig (Lower Austria) show that the systematic height errors of satellite-based elevation models cannot be compensated with an usual or even high number of Ground Control Points (GCPs) for RPC bias correction, due to insufficiently known image orientations. …”
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A preliminary study on the detection of potential contaminants in the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) by suspect and microplastics screening by Romana Hornek-Gausterer, Herbert Oberacher, Vera Reinstadler, Christina Hartmann, Bettina Liebmann, Ievgeniia Lomako, Sigrid Scharf, Annika Posautz, Anna Kübber-Heiss

“…This pilot study was aimed to provide evidence for the occurrence of environmental contaminants in body fluids, tissues and faces of wild brown hares from Pellworm/Germany and Lower Austria/Austria, as well as of indoor control hares from Vienna/Austria. …”
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Listeriosis in fattening pigs caused by poor quality silage - a case report by Heiko Stein, Beatrix Stessl, Rene Brunthaler, Igor Loncaric, Herbert Weissenböck, Ursula Ruczizka, Andrea Ladinig, Lukas Schwarz

“…Case presentation Here, we report of an episode of fatal listeriosis in fattening pigs in a piglet producing farm in Lower Austria, which was combined with a fattening unit with space for 450 fatteners. …”
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Pathways leading to success and non-success: a process evaluation of a cluster randomized physical activity health promotion program applying fuzzy-set qualitative comparative anal... by Christina Kien, Ludwig Grillich, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, Rudolf Schoberberger

“…Approved by the Ethics Committee of Lower Austria (GS4-EK-4/107–2010).…”
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Farmers Feel the Climate Change: Variety Choice as an Adaptation Strategy of European Potato Farmers by Philipp von Gehren, Svenja Bomers, Tanja Tripolt, Josef Söllinger, Noémie Prat, Berta Redondo, Romans Vorss, Markus Teige, Anita Kamptner, Alexandra Ribarits

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