Allorecognition by Leukocytes of the Adaptive Immune System

The term allorecognition refers to the series of mechanisms used by an individual's immune system to distinguish its own cells and tissues from those of another individual belonging to the same species. During evolution, different cells and molecules of both innate and adaptive immune systems have been selected to recognize and respond to antigens expressed by allogeneic cells, but not autologo…

Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War

In the past quarter century, we have moved from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era in Austria, Europe, and the world at large. Yet relatively little assessment is available to gauge what the change from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era signaled for Austria and Europe's positions in the world. Volume 22 of Contemporary Austrian Studies aims to fill in these gaps by providing a detailed p…

Austrian Studies Today

This volume celebrates the study of Austria in the twentieth century by historians, political scientists and social scientists produced in the previous twenty-four volumes of Contemporary Austrian Studies. One contributor from each of the previous volumes has been asked to update the state of scholarship in the field addressed in the respective volume. The title Austrian Studies Today, then, at…

Austrian Federalism in Comparative Perspective

With its ambiguous mix of weak federalist and strong centralist elements, the Austrian constitutional architecture has been subject to conflicting interpretations and claims from its very beginning. The written 1920 constitution has been paralleled by informal rules and forces making up for the imbalance of power between national and subnational authorities. Understanding these inherent weaknes…

Big Data in Organizations and the Role of Human Resource Management

Big data are changing the way we work. This book conveys a theoretical understanding of big data and the related interactions on a socio-technological level as well as on the organizational level. Big data challenge the human resource department to take a new role. An organization’s new competitive advantage is its employees augmented by big data.

Australian Travellers in the South Seas

This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It …

Beyond Borders: Myotonic Dystrophies - A European Perception

Myotonic dystrophies (DMs) are pleotropic multisystemic diseases. These dominantly transmitted repeat disorders affect multiple organs of the human body at all ages—from the newborns to the elderly. DMs are highly inconsistent in terms of age at onset, severity of symptoms, and clinical patterns. Even within families, the onset and pattern of organ involvement remains enigmatic. Anticipat…

Beyond barrows

The aim of this paper is to describe and reflect upon the functional aspects of the ritual reuse of Bronze Age monuments that occurred in south-western Sweden in the Late Iron Age. The often very complex ritual behaviour cannot be labelled as traces of simple plundering. The archaeological record reveals that the large barrows and stone settings of the Bronze Age were systematically reused …

Beyond Antimicrobials: Non-Traditional Approaches to Combating Multidrug-Resi…

Since the time of Galen and Hippocrates, medicine has had a slow progression, with each new advance improving the length and quality of patients’ lives. By the nineteenth century, medical science had even begun to understand the concept of vaccinations and had started to make substantial inroads into the prevention of communicable diseases. Despite this, diagnosis with a bacterial infecti…

Between Mobility and Migration

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