Youth multi-sport events in Austria: tourism strategy or just a coincidence?

Is Technology Acquisition Strategy Just a Licensing Game or also a Contact Sport? Measuring the Importance of Engaging the Inventor∗

This paper explores the importance of tacit knowledge transfer in the case of earlystage technology acquisition, conditional on the prior legal transfer of intellectual property rights. Specifically, this study tests the hypothesis that technology acquisition strategies that engage the inventor increase the likelihood and degree of commercial success. While this may seem somewhat apparent, firm...

Metabolic Syndrome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Real Relationship or Just a Coincidence

Background and aim: Presence of metabolic syndrome along with inflammatory diseases is being reported with increased frequency. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of metabolic syndrome in inflammatory bowel disease patients. Materials and methods: Fifty-one patients with ulcerative colitis, 34 patients with Crohn’s disease and 88 healthy controls were included in this study. ...

Evaluating Recommender Systems in Tourism - A Case Study from Austria

Recommender systems (RS) are employed to personalize user interaction with (e.g. tourism) web-sites, supporting both navigation through large service assortments and the configuration of individual service packages. Depending on the interaction strategy, RS are either utilized to elicit users’ tastes and preferences or to stimulate desire for different offerings. In addition, as a potentially r...

the effectiveness of strategy-based instruction in teaching english as a second or foreign language: a meta-analysis of experimental studies

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...

Written in the Stars or Just a Coincidence?: Self-Construal Predicts Gender Differences in FateCognition