Action Stations in Austria

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Ever since individual locus standi before the Cartel Court was introduced in 1993, private enforcement of competition rules has played an important role in Austria. To a considerable extent, actions by private parties, or by public institutions such as the Chamber of Labour, have compensated for the lack of a public prosecutor in competition matters. However, in most cases these private enforce...

Action mirroring and action understanding in children

The past decade has experienced an increasing interest in action underestanding and children’s mirroring of others’ behavior. Behavioral investigations have focused on the development and significance of mimicry, goal prediction and imitation. Others have focused on the neural basis of action mirroring, identifying particular electrophysiological markers or related brain regions. A vivid debate...

Reconstruction of erythemal UV-levels for two stations in Austria: a comparison between alpine and urban regions

1 Institute for Meteorology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria 2 Institute for Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 3 Division for Biomedical Physics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria 4 Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 5 Division for Medical Physics and Biostatist...

Surgery in Austria.

I n 1747, Gerhard van Swieten (1700-1772), personal physician to Empress Maria Theresia and reformer of medical education in Austria, founded a bonne école de chirurgie in Vienna. He invited the Florentine Natalis Giuseppe Pallucci (1719-1797), whom he had specially trained in Paris, France, to Vienna to assist him with the school. However, although van Swieten was highly successful as a reform...

Infant mortality in Austria.