The Holy Roman Empire’s final decades were plagued with conflict. While the war of Bavarian Succession (1778–79) destabilized from within, Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) posed a threat from...

Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2 Faculty of Biology, Munich Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, 3 Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology and Geology, Munich, Germany, GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität...

Both Standard Austrian German and the Austrian dialects are affected by an ongoing change which turns the diphthongs /D(/ and /$2/ into the monophthongs /(:/ and /2:/ respectively. However, this process shows different assimilation patterns according to the two main dialect regions in Austria: In the South Bavarian dialect region, the offset of the diphthong is assimilated towards the onset, wh...

E-mail is the most important electronic communication medium for governments with their constituents. While there are a lot of maturity models and benchmarking studies focusing on the technological and organizational integration of information technology in governments, the “customer side” of e-government maturity has been often neglected. Replicating studies from Australia, New Zealand, Sloven...