Bericht über die Tätigkeit der staatlichen landw.-chemischen versuchsanstalt und der mit ihr vereinigten staatsanstalt für pflanzenschutz. (Landw.-bakteriologische versuchsanstalt)

Title varies slightly.

Berichte der Kaiserliche und Königliche Österreichische-Ungarische Consular-ämter

Mode of access: Internet.

Die Bewegung der Bevölkerung in Wien ... : Mittheilungen des städtischen statistischen Bureaus.

"Trauugen, Geburten, Sterbefaelle."

Verhandlungen der zweiten Tagung und der Hauptversammlung der Österreichischen Obstbau- und Pomologen-Gesellschaft in Wien : am 11. und 12. Dezember 1911.

Mode of access: Internet.

Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift

Mode of access: Internet.

Zeitschrift für Stomatologie.

Publication suspended Oct. 1944-Feb. 1946.

Digital surface model, hillshade and orthophoto of the world's largest fossil oyster reef, links to GeoTIFFs

The world's largest fossil oyster reef, formed by the giant oyster Crassostrea gryphoides and located in Stetten (north of Vienna, Austria) is studied by Harzhauser et al., 2015, 2016; Djuricic et al., 2016. Digital documentation of the unique geological site is provided by terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) at the millimeter scale. Obtaining meaningful results is not merely a matter of data acquisition with a suitable device; it requires proper planning, data management, and postprocessing. Terrestrial laser scanning technology has a high potential for providing precise 3D mapping that serves as the basis for automatic object detection in different scenarios; however, it faces challenges in the presence of large amounts of data and the irregular geometry of an oyster reef. We provide a detailed description of the techniques and strategy used for data collection and processing in Djuricic et al., 2016. The use of laser scanning provided the ability to measure surface points of 46,840 (estimated) shells. They are up to 60-cm-long oyster specimens, and their surfaces are modeled with a high accuracy of 1 mm. In addition to laser scanning measurements, more than 300 photographs were captured, and an orthophoto mosaic was generated with a ground sampling distance (GSD) of 0.5 mm. This high-resolution 3D information and the photographic texture serve as the basis for ongoing and future geological and paleontological analyses. Moreover, they provide unprecedented documentation for conservation issues at a unique natural heritage site.

Tracking of non-stationary time-series using resource allocating RBF networks

In this paper, we discuss some practical implications for implementing adaptable network algorithms applied to non-stationary time series problems. Using electricity load data and training with the extended Kalman filter, we demonstrate that the dynamic model-order increment procedure of the resource allocating RBF network (RAN) is highly sensitive to the parameters of the novelty criterion. We investigate the use of system noise and forgetting factors for increasing the plasticity of the Kalman filter training algorithm, and discuss the consequences for on-line model order selection. We also find that a recently-proposed alternative novelty criterion, found to be more robust in stationary environments, does not fare so well in the non-stationary case due to the need for filter adaptability during training.

Experimental characterisation of the impact of neighbouring modulation-formats on 43Gb/s P-DPSK over SSMF and LEAF

We report an experimental characterisation examining the impact of differing 50GHz neighbouring modulation formats and bit rates on the performance of 43Gb/s P-DPSK over 1300km of SSMF and LEAF types. Performance is shown to be robust for hybrid P-DPSK and OOK systems. © VDE VERLAG GMBH.

The Impact of Proactive Strategies on Market Performance in Economic Downturn: the Case of Hungary

Recession in 2008/09 affected almost all the European countries seriously but some of them were hurt to greater extent. The timing of economic downturns can never be appropriate but it found Hungary at the time when it was in a vulnerable condition leading to a prolong struggle to find the way out. However, each company’s own experience and approach in crisis can differ from what the whole economy would explain. This study aims to contribute to the emerging research field regarding the concept of proactive marketing. We investigated the relationship between approach to crisis as an opportunity and market performance. Based on a survey of 173 companies we demonstrated that proactive marketing can lead to better performance but larger companies have the advantage of implementing this strategy more successfully.

Seasonal water storage and delayed evapotranspiration across continents: patterns and drivers

Non peer reviewed

Integrated assessment of groundwater – surface water exchange in the hillslope – riparian interface of a montane catchment

Non peer reviewed

Limits to sustained energy intake XXV : milk energy output and thermogenesis in Swiss mice lactating at thermoneutrality

Acknowledgements We are grateful to Ke-Xin Chen, Song Tan and Jing Cao (Wenzhou University) for care of the animals. We thank Dr. Teresa G. Valencak (Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria) for her assistance with the body temperature measurements using the thermo-sensitive passive transponders. We thank Peter Thomson (University of Aberdeen) for his technical assistance with the isotope analysis for the DLW measurements. This work was supported by grant (no. 31270458) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant (pd2013374) from Zhejiang province, and grants (no. 14SK51A, 14SK52A) from Wenzhou University.

Lithium concentration in manganese nodules of the Pacific Ocean (Hakurei Maru Cruise GH77-1, January-March, 1977)

Various manganese nodules donated to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from the Hakurei Maru Cruise GH77-1, January-March, 1977, in the Central Pacific Basin have been analysed for their lithium content by J. Korkish from the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Analysis of Nuclear Raw Materials Division, University of Vienna, Austria. The author has used a Perkin-Elmer atomic-absorption spectrometer 303 after speration by dissolution in hydrochloric acid.

Combining Taxonomies using Word2vec

Taxonomies have gained a broad usage in a variety of fields due to their extensibility, as well as their use for classification and knowledge organization. Of particular interest is the digital document management domain in which their hierarchical structure can be effectively employed in order to organize documents into content-specific categories. Common or standard taxonomies (e.g., the ACM Computing Classification System) contain concepts that are too general for conceptualizing specific knowledge domains. In this paper we introduce a novel automated approach that combines sub-trees from general taxonomies with specialized seed taxonomies by using specific Natural Language Processing techniques. We provide an extensible and generalizable model for combining taxonomies in the practical context of two very large European research projects. Because the manual combination of taxonomies by domain experts is a highly time consuming task, our model measures the semantic relatedness between concept labels in CBOW or skip-gram Word2vec vector spaces. A preliminary quantitative evaluation of the resulting taxonomies is performed after applying a greedy algorithm with incremental thresholds used for matching and combining topic labels.