Biontech’s Tax Booster and Its Impact on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations by Reinhold Weiß, Kristof Kanzler, Robert Fiesel

“…Abstract The Mainz-based vaccine manufacturer Biontech has had incredible business development in 2021, which has led to a soaring increase in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate’s tax revenues. As a result, Rhineland-Palatinate, which was considered financially weak, is now one of the strongest states in Germany and thus is included among the donor states in the financial equalisation system. …”
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JointTracker: Real-time inertial kinematic chain tracking with joint position estimation [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Michael Lorenz, Didier Stricker, Markus Miezal, Gabriele Bleser-Taetz, Bertram Taetz

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Diagnostic performance of optical spectral transmission compared to magnetic resonance imaging in patients with inflammatory arthritis by Konstantinos Triantafyllias, Mohammed Alhaddad, Andreas Schwarting, Veronika Balaklytska, Xenofon Baraliakos

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RNA sequence analysis landscape: A comprehensive review of task types, databases, datasets, word embedding methods, and language models by Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Muhammad Ali Ibrahim, Tayyaba Asif, Andreas Dengel

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Eifelosaurus – The Lonely Lizard by Jens Koppka

“…The Triassic reptile Eifelosaurus triadicus is an icon of the Geopark Vulkaneifel and the Natural History Museum of Gerolstein (West Eifel, Rhineland Palatinate, W Germany). We explore the research history, including geoconservation aspects, and summarize current knowledge of Eifelosaurus, the sole fossil of its kind, identified as an early rhynchosaur. …”
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Determinants and Congruence of Species Richness Patterns across Multiple Taxonomic Groups on a Regional Scale by Jörn Buse, Eva Maria Griebeler

“…Applying multiple generalized regression models, we studied spatial patterns in species richness for different taxonomic groups (amphibians, reptiles, grasshoppers, plants, mosses) within the German federal state Rhineland-Palatinate (RP). We aimed (1) to detect their centres of richness, (2) to rate the influence of climatic and land-use parameters on spatial patterns, and (3) to test whether patterns are congruent between taxonomic groups in RP. …”
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Transitioning from wet lab to artificial intelligence: a systematic review of AI predictors in CRISPR by Ahtisham Fazeel Abbasi, Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Andreas Dengel

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Strong benefits of hedgerows to bats in three European winegrowing regions by Fernanda Chávez, Martin H. Entling, Rafael Alcalá Herrera, Emilio Benítez, Stefan Möth, Jo Marie Reiff, Silvia Winter, Verena Rösch

“…Here, we investigated how bats respond to different landscape elements in three European regions: Rhineland‐Palatinate (Germany), Burgenland (Austria), and Andalusia (Spain). …”
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Clinical characteristics, metastasis patterns, and treatment outcomes of HER2-low breast cancer by Maria Elena Lacruz, Saskia Thies, Andrea Schmidt-Pokrzywniak, Ian Wittenberg, Tobias Engler, Fabian Reinwald, Monika Klinkhammer-Schalke, Sylke Ruth Zeissig, Bianca Franke, Kerstin Weitmann, Atanas Ignatov

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Exposure of insects to current use pesticide residues in soil and vegetation along spatial and temporal distribution in agricultural sites by Carolina Honert, Ken Mauser, Ursel Jäger, Carsten A. Brühl

“…To quantify seasonal insect exposure in the landscape at a regional scale (Rhineland-Palatine in Germany), we analysed the presence of multiple (93) active ingredients in CUPs across three different agricultural cultivation types (with each three fields: arable, vegetable, viticulture) and neighbouring meadows. …”
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