The LEAD (Lung, Heart, Social, Body) Study: Objectives, Methodology, and External Validity of the Population-Based Cohort Study by Robab Breyer-Kohansal, Sylvia Hartl, Otto Chris Burghuber, Matthias Urban, Andrea Schrott, Alvar Agusti, Torben Sigsgaard, Claus Vogelmeier, Emiel Wouters, Michael Studnicka, Marie-Kathrin Breyer

“…Methods: LEAD invited from 2011–2016 a random sample (stratified by age, gender, residential area) of Vienna inhabitants (urban cohort) and all the inhabitants of six villages from Lower Austria (rural cohort). Participants will be followed-up every four years. …”
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Understanding the uptake of diagnostics for sustainable gastrointestinal nematode control by European dairy cattle farmers: a multi-country cross-sectional study by Vande Velde Fiona, Hektoen Lisbeth, Phythian Claire J., Rinaldi Laura, Bosco Antonio, Hinney Barbara, Gehringer Martin, Strube Christina, May Katharina, Knubben-Schweizer Gabriela, Martins Oliva M.D., Mateus Teresa L., Simion Violeta-Elena, Charlier Johannes, Bartley David J., Claerebout Edwin

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Under-vine vegetation in vineyards: a case study considering soil hydrolytic enzyme activity, yield and grape quality in Austria by Michaela Griesser, Sarhan Khalil, Federica De Berardinis, Oriol Flix Porret, Roman Hörmayer, Nicole Mayer, Erhard Kührer, Astrid Forneck

“…In the presented case study, the effects of five under-vine management methods on the activity of soil hydrolytic enzymes, the soil water content, vine photosynthetic activity, shoot pruning weight, grape yield and quality are investigated in a vineyard in Lower Austria over three consecutive seasons. Thereby, we hypothesise that a permanent under-vine vegetation cover, either mowed or without mowing, supports the soil microbial communities and soil functions in a way to enhance water and nutrients availability for vines which partly compensates for the competition of the growing vegetation. …”
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Decline of European Beech in Austria: Involvement of <i>Phytophthora</i> spp. and Contributing Biotic and Abiotic Factors by Tamara Corcobado, Thomas L. Cech, Martin Brandstetter, Andreas Daxer, Christine Hüttler, Tomáš Kudláček, Marília Horta Jung, Thomas Jung

“…From 2008 to 2010, the distribution and diversity of <i>Phytophthora</i> species and pathogenic fungi and pests were surveyed in 34 beech forest stands in Lower Austria, and analyses performed to assess the relationships between <i>Phytophthora</i> presence and various parameters, i.e. root condition, crown damage, ectomycorrhizal abundance and site conditions. …”
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Integrating Conflicting Goals of the EC Water Framework Directive and the EC Habitats Directives Into Floodplain Restoration Schemes by Gabriele Weigelhofer, Gabriele Weigelhofer, Eva Feldbacher, Daniel Trauner, Daniel Trauner, Eva Pölz, Thomas Hein, Thomas Hein, Andrea Funk, Andrea Funk

“…Our study demonstrates that a combination of these two approaches can be an effective tool for river managers in the development of sustainable floodplain restoration schemes in accordance with the WFD, the HBDs, and national nature protection laws (in this case, the Nature Conservation Acts of Vienna and Lower Austria).…”
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Employer impact on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among nursing and social care employees in Austria by Ann-Kathrin Ruf, Sabine Völkl-Kernstock, Magdalena Eitenberger, Marcus Gabriel, Elisabeth Klager, Maria Kletecka-Pulker, Maria Kletecka-Pulker, Sophie Klomfar, Anna Teufel, Thomas Wochele-Thoma

“…We recruited from a pool of employees from nursing and social care institutions in Vienna and Lower Austria operated by one healthcare NGO. Variables included in the analysis were socio-demographic attributes, reasons for or against the vaccine, sources of information, opinions of mandatory vaccination, and whether respondents had previously been infected with COVID-19 or knew someone who had.Results86.2% of respondents had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. 13.8% were unvaccinated. …”
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First Nationwide Monitoring Program for the Detection of Potentially Invasive Mosquito Species in Austria by Karin Bakran-Lebl, Stefanie Pree, Thomas Brenner, Eleni Daroglou, Barbara Eigner, Antonia Griesbacher, Johanna Gunczy, Peter Hufnagl, Stefanie Jäger, Hans Jerrentrup, Lisa Klocker, Wolfgang Paill, Jana S. Petermann, Bita Shahi Barogh, Thorsten Schwerte, Carina Suchentrunk, Christian Wieser, Licha N. Wortha, Thomas Zechmeister, David Zezula, Klaus Zimmermann, Carina Zittra, Franz Allerberger, Hans-Peter Fuehrer

“…The Asian tiger mosquito <i>Aedes albopictus</i> was found at two sites, once in Tyrol, where this species has been reported before, and for the first time in the province of Lower Austria, at a motorway rest stop. The Asian bush mosquito <i>Aedes japonicus</i> was widespread in Austria. …”
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Detection of <i>Crenosoma</i> spp., <i>Angiostrongylus vasorum</i> and <i>Aelurostrongylus abstrusus</i> in Gastropods in Eastern Austria by Hans-Peter Fuehrer, Simone Morelli, Julian Bleicher, Thomas Brauchart, Mirjam Edler, Nicole Eisschiel, Tatjana Hering, Sigrun Lercher, Karoline Mohab, Simon Reinelt, Theresa Stessl, Doris Fasching, Ricarda Nimphy, Anja Pelzl, Bita Shahi-Barogh, Licha Natalia Wortha, Karin Bakran-Lebl, Michael Duda, Helmut Sattmann, Roland Schaper, Donato Traversa, Anja Joachim

“…This study investigated their occurrence in 1320 gastropods collected in the Austrian provinces of Styria, Burgenland, Lower Austria, and in metropolitan Vienna. Metastrongyloid larvae were microscopically detected in 25 samples, and sequence analysis confirmed the presence of metastrongyloids in nine samples, i.e., <i>A. vasorum</i> in one slug (<i>Arion vulgaris</i>) (0.07%), <i>C. vulpis</i> in five slugs (one <i>Limax maximus</i> and four <i>A. vulgaris</i>) (0.4%), <i>A. abstrusus</i> in two <i>A. vulgaris</i> (0.17%), and the hedgehog lungworm <i>Crenosoma striatum</i> was detected in one <i>A. vulgaris</i>. …”
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Generalized Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Point Clouds Derived from Tri-Stereo Satellite Imagery by Stefan Bachhofner, Ana-Maria Loghin, Johannes Otepka, Norbert Pfeifer, Michael Hornacek, Andrea Siposova, Niklas Schmidinger, Kurt Hornik, Nikolaus Schiller, Olaf Kähler, Ronald Hochreiter

“…Our study area is located in Waldviertel, a region in Lower Austria. The territory is a hilly region covered mainly by forests, agriculture, and grasslands. …”
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Microflora, Contents of Polyamines, Biogenic Amines, and TVB-N in Bovine Offal and Game Meat for the Raw-Feeding of Adult Dogs by Sarah Lindinger, Susanne Bauer, Zuzana Dicakova, Brigitte Pilz, Peter Paulsen

“…Samples were bought in 11 local pet food shops and in one game-handling establishment in Austria (Lower Austria, Styria, and Vienna) in September and October 2022. …”
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Seasonal Variations in the Diagnosis of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors: A National Cancer Registry Study in Austria by Gennadi Tulchiner, Nina Staudacher, Josef Fritz, Monika Hackl, Martin Pichler, Maximilian Seles, Shahrokh F. Shariat, David D’Andrea, Kilian Gust, Walter Albrecht, Karl Grubmüller, Stephan Madersbacher, Sebastian Graf, Lukas Lusuardi, Herbert Augustin, Andreas Berger, Wolfgang Loidl, Wolfgang Horninger, Renate Pichler

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Bilateral cooperation - Fostering the ability of native European beech and sessile oak forests in the border region against the impacts of climate change by Erik Szamosvári, László Nagy, Heino Konrad, Norbert Móricz, Lambert Weißenbacher, Anita Bálint, Anikó Neuvirthné Bilics, Marcela van Loo

“…These require transnational or even global efforts since nature and climate do not recognise man-made borders.The REIN-Forest project (Interreg V-A Austria-Hungary Programme - ATHU150), a bilateral project between Austria and Hungary, aimed to establish harmonised protection measures for the conservation of native forests in Northern, Central and Southern Burgenland, Vienna, Vienna Umland-South, Lower Austria South, Graz and Eastern Styria, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas and Zala counties (the so-called programme area). …”
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Facing emotions: real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback using dynamic emotional faces to modulate amygdala activity by Apurva Watve, Amelie Haugg, Nada Frei, Yury Koush, David Willinger, David Willinger, David Willinger, Annette Beatrix Bruehl, Annette Beatrix Bruehl, Philipp Stämpfli, Frank Scharnowski, Frank Scharnowski, Frank Scharnowski, Frank Scharnowski, Ronald Sladky, Ronald Sladky

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Staroslovansko grobišče v Zgornjem Dupleku by Slavko Ciglenečki, Timotej Knific

“…Srednje Bitnje pri Kranju, Kranj—Gorenja Sava, Begunje, Bled—Mlino gle(j—Žale).8 Outside the territory of Slovenia, related cemeteries appear in the area of Great Moravia,9 in the Lower Austria,10 in the Panonian Croatia,11 and in Dalmatia.12 Although only neighbouring areas are allotted by this manner, and not the whole territory where graves with pottery appear, the significance of the little cemetery at Zgornji Duplek is clearly stipulated: it is one of the Old Slavic cemeteries with pre-Christian burial rites, taking place partially in the 8th, but predominantly in the 9th century.…”
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is characterized by alterations of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter complex proteins: insights from patients with aortic valve stenosis versus hypert... by Vera Paar, Michael Haslinger, Philipp Krombholz-Reindl, Stefan Pittner, Matthias Neuner, Peter Jirak, Peter Jirak, Tobias Kolbitsch, Bernd Minnich, Falk Schrödl, Alexandra Kaser-Eichberger, Kristen Kopp, Andreas Koller, Clemens Steinwender, Michael Lichtenauer, Fabio C. Monticelli, Rainald Seitelberger, Uta C. Hoppe, Christian Dinges, Lukas J. Motloch, Lukas J. Motloch, Lukas J. Motloch

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The Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) in Petzenkirchen: a hypothesis-driven observatory by G. Blöschl, A. P. Blaschke, M. Broer, C. Bucher, G. Carr, X. Chen, A. Eder, M. Exner-Kittridge, A. Farnleitner, A. Flores-Orozco, P. Haas, P. Hogan, A. Kazemi Amiri, M. Oismüller, J. Parajka, R. Silasari, P. Stadler, P. Strauss, M. Vreugdenhil, W. Wagner, M. Zessner

“…This paper illustrates how the experimental and monitoring set-up of an observatory, the 66 ha Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) in Petzenkirchen, Lower Austria, has been established in a way that allows meaningful hypothesis testing. …”
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Attributing the drivers of runoff decline in the Thaya river basin by Milan Fischer, Petr Pavlík, Adam Vizina, Jana Bernsteinová, Juraj Parajka, Martha Anderson, Jan Řehoř, Jana Ivančicová, Petr Štěpánek, Jan Balek, Christopher Hain, Pavel Tachecí, Martin Hanel, Petr Lukeš, Monika Bláhová, Jiří Dlabal, Pavel Zahradníček, Petr Máca, Jürgen Komma, Nad’a Rapantová, Song Feng, Petr Janál, Evžen Zeman, Zdeněk Žalud, Günter Blöschl, Miroslav Trnka

“…Study Region: : The Thaya river basin provides multiple water uses in the transboundary region of Lower Austria and Southern Moravia. Due to the low precipitation (P) to reference evapotranspiration (ETo) ratio, the Thaya river basin is among the most sensitive to climate change in the region. …”
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