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AbstractThis article analyzes a political demonstration in Habsburg Lemberg commemorating the death of a Ukrainian student during fights at the university. The Ukrainians in Lemberg figured as an urban minority that claimed chief historical rights on the city, but was largely deprived of the chance to express this claim in public space. In this case, Lemberg's Ukrainians found two alternative sites to be suitable for the public expression of national self: the cemetery, a space largely outside the realm of political control, and a building in the city center of national significance to the local Ukrainian community. In these commemorations, the press played the role of transforming political events into consistent narratives that were in line with different groups' political intentions.

In 1901 the Austrian Reichsrat passed a draft bill to construct a number of inland waterways with a total length over 1700 kilometres. The bill was the result of the activity of a specific group of interests and the outcome of a long-lasting debate within the Austrian parliamentary representation. The author reconstructs the debate as well as the attitudes of the different factions within the context of nationalist struggles and parliamentary obstruction in the Habsburg monarchy. In the decisive vote, however, the electoral behaviour was also diverse within each faction. The bill was part of a more general economic investment programme of Koerber's government. In spite of the extensive political struggles, the waterways were never constructed. ; In 1901 the Austrian Reichsrat passed a draft bill to construct a number of inland waterways with a total length over 1700 kilometres. The bill was the result of the activity of a specific group of interests and the outcome of a long-lasting debate within the Austrian parliamentary representation. The author reconstructs the debate as well as the attitudes of the different factions within the context of nationalist struggles and parliamentary obstruction in the Habsburg monarchy. In the decisive vote, however, the electoral behaviour was also diverse within each faction. The bill was part of a more general economic investment programme of Koerber's government. In spite of the extensive political struggles, the waterways were never constructed.

Identifying the possible factors of psychiatric symptoms among children can reduce the risk of adverse psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. We designed a classification tool to examine the association between modifiable risk factors and psychiatric symptoms, defined based on the Persian version of the WHO-GSHS questionnaire in a developing country. Ten thousand three hundred fifty students, aged 6–18 years from all Iran provinces, participated in this study. We used feature discretization and encoding, stability selection, and regularized group method of data handling (GMDH) to classify the a priori specific factors (e.g., demographic, sleeping-time, life satisfaction, and birth-weight) to psychiatric symptoms. Self-rated health was the most critical feature. The selected modifiable factors were eating breakfast, screentime, salty snack for depression symptom, physical activity, salty snack for worriedness symptom, (abdominal) obesity, sweetened beverage, and sleep-hour for mild-to-moderate emotional symptoms. The area under the ROC curve of the GMDH was 0.75 (CI 95% 0.73–0.76) for the analyzed psychiatric symptoms using threefold cross-validation. It significantly outperformed the state-of-the-art (adjusted p¿<¿0.05; McNemar's test). In this study, the association of psychiatric risk factors and the importance of modifiable nutrition and lifestyle factors were emphasized. However, as a cross-sectional study, no causality can be inferred. ; The authors would like to thank the CASPIAN team working on this national project and all students and their families participating in this project. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS) and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia (TECSPR18-1-0017). ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)

Background: Already at hospital admission, clinicians require simple tools to identify hospitalized COVID-19 patients at high risk of mortality. Such tools can significantly improve resource allocation and patient management within hospitals. From the statistical point of view, extended time-to-event models are required to account for competing risks (discharge from hospital) and censoring so that active cases can also contribute to the analysis. // Methods: We used the hospital-based open Khorshid COVID Cohort (KCC) study with 630 COVID-19 patients from Isfahan, Iran. Competing risk methods are used to develop a death risk chart based on the following variables, which can simply be measured at hospital admission: sex, age, hypertension, oxygen saturation, and Charlson Comorbidity Index. The area under the receiver operator curve was used to assess accuracy concerning discrimination between patients discharged alive and dead. // Results: Cause-specific hazard regression models show that these baseline variables are associated with both death, and discharge hazards. The risk chart reflects the combined results of the two cause-specific hazard regression models. The proposed risk assessment method had a very good accuracy (AUC¿=¿0.872 [CI 95%: 0.835–0.910]). // Conclusions: This study aims to improve and validate a personalized mortality risk calculator based on hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The risk assessment of patient mortality provides physicians with additional guidance for making tough decisions. ; The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS), and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia (TECSPR18-1–0017). The TECSPR18-1–0017 project provided the APC. These funders had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript preparation. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published ...