The KVB Data Warehouse enables the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) Physicians to track public health data in a centralised way. In a sophisticated process, healthcare statistics are retrieved and users can perform multidimensional analysis. Given its unmatched breadth and depth of data there is no comparable public health information system in Germany. It contains the d...

The European Stroke Organisation held its first European Stroke Science Workshop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (December 15–17, 2011). Stroke experts based in Europe were invited to present and discuss their current research. The scope of the workshop was to review the most recent findings of selected topics in stroke, to exchange ideas, to stimulate new research, and to enhance collaborat...

Adequate hazard perception and safe driving behavior in complex traffic situations are prerequisites for efficient emergency vehicle driving. In this field of interest, simulator training can be a useful tool to prepare young drivers to cope with the demands of real traffic conditions. In a pilot project, driving simulation as part of a comprehensive driver training program was implemented by t...

Analysis of wastewater with an aim of community-wide estimation of drug use is a new and very promising approach. Until now it was very difficult to determine if mass loads of studied drugs were actually originating from consumption, or disposal of unused drugs or production waste. This uncertainty in the estimation of community wide drugs use should not be underestimated. This paper aims to ap...

In this paper we apply adaptive modeling methods in Hidden Semi-Markov Model (HSMM) based speech synthesis to the modeling of three different varieties, namely standard Austrian German, one Middle Bavarian (Upper Austria, Bad Goisern), and one South Bavarian (East Tyrol, Innervillgraten) dialect. We investigate different adaptation methods like dialectadaptive training and dialect clustering th...