cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title:  Climbers’ Risk Perceptions of Erosion from Flooding at Carderock Recreation Area
Creators: name: Berry, Chandler J.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Through increased temperature, precipitation, frequency of extreme weather, flooding, drought, and fire, climate change will alter where and how people can recreate. Extant research illustrates the effects of climate change on a variety of outdoor recreation activities; however, little research has been completed on the effects of climate change on rock climbing outside of the alpine environment. One such impact found at Carderock Recreation Area is riverine flooding and erosion. This study used a quantitative survey research design to understand how risk perceptions of erosion from flooding are affected by place attachment and the past use history of rock climbers at Carderock Recreation Area. Multiple linear regression models were used to assess the effects of place attachment and past use history on risk perceptions of erosion. Analysis showed no significant predictors between place attachment or past use history and risk perceptions. Place attachment scores were neutral due to low place dependence and high place identity scores. Climbers held moderate to high-risk perception scores. Better understanding rock climbers’ perceptions of flooding risk may allow managers and climbers to better assess erosion from flooding risks in climbing areas. Similarly, a better understanding may allow managers to mitigate flooding risks more effectively. Broadly, this research expands the literature related to the impacts of climate change on recreation users, such as rock climbers.
title: Understanding the relationship between soundscape and landscape features in a Tropical Andean environment, Colombia
Creators: name: Sanchez-Giraldo, Camilo
name: Cano, Estefany
name: Gomez, William
name: Duque, Diana
name: Isaza, Claudia
name: Bedoya, Carol
name: Daza, Juan
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: acoustic indices
subject: soundscape
subject: landscape
subject: Northern Colombian Andes
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: The acoustic component of the landscape (soundscape) has been suggested as an indicator of landscape conditions as it has been related to physical, biological and anthropogenic features of the local environment. Despite of acoustic indices have been used as measurements of soundscape complexity, their relationship with landscape features has shown to be highly variable and not direct. This relationship has not been examined on the tropical Andes then it is not clear if soundscape can be a reliable indicator of landscape conditions. In this study, we assess the relationship between 14 acoustic indices and landscape conditions in an area on the northern Andes of Colombia. This region is highly fragmented and characterized for a highly diverse community of animals and plants thus representing an excellent opportunity to test such relationship. Soundscape recordings were obtained from 31 randomly selected sites surveyed among May and July 2017. A Song Meter SM4 device was deployed at each site for five consecutive days, and programmed to collect 1-min recordings every 15 minutes for a total of 95 samples per day. Recordings were obtained as monaural 16 bits and at a sampling rate of 22.05 kHz. Out of 14 indices, we calculated 9 non-correlated acoustic indices for each 1-min recording and selected the maximum value per hour to estimate the hourly average over the five days at each site. Thirteen landscape features were derived from satellite images and metrics describing vegetation, fragmentation, water availability, terrain, and soil attributes at 100 m radius around each site. Indices did not present a similar pattern of variation with respect to landscape conditions. Acoustic evenness (AE) and temporal entropy (TE) indices were related to changes in terrain conditions, while acoustic diversity index (ADI) was associated to fragmentation. The bioacoustic index (BI), acoustic complexity index (ACI), and the number of peaks (NP) were positively related with water availability. Our results suggest that in Andean environments specific acoustic indices could be connected to particular aspects of landscape.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
Bodendenkmalpflege im Niedersächsischen Verwaltungsbezirk Braunschweig
Creators: name: Niquet, Franz
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2019

description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 40 (1971): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Sphodropoda lepida Milledge 2005, n.sp.
Creators: name: Milledge, G. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Sphodropoda
Sphodropoda lepida

description: Sphodropoda lepida n.sp. Figs. 20–23, 43 Material examined. HOLOTYPE 3, Uluru campsite, Horn Centenary Expedition, 25°23'10"S 131°00'46"E, Northern Territory, 25 Mar 1995, G. Milledge (NMV). PARATYPES (733): 13, Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, 16 Feb 1967, M.S. Upton; 633, 56 km W of Amata, Musgrave Ranges, 26°09'S 130°35'E, South Australia, 20–21 Jan 1982, D.C.F. & B.G.F. Rentz & R. Honeycutt (all ANIC). Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished by the lack of markings on the inner face of the fore coxa (Fig. 22), the banded tegmina (Fig. 20) and the form of the male genitalia (Fig. 23). Description. Male only, female unknown. Medium sized species. Body colour partly green and partly purplish brown. Head (Fig. 21) purplish brown; narrower than other species in the genus, ridge on frontal shield without blunt point at apex. Prothorax purplish brown, paler at margins; with a few scattered tubercles on dorsal surface; lateral margin finely denticulate. Fore legs green; inner face of coxa without markings (Fig. 22), anterior margin with 7 denticles; inner face of fore femur with three small dark spots at base of spines; inner face of all tarsal segments black. Mid and hind legs green. Wings about as long as abdomen; dorsal and ventral surface of costal area of tegmen purplish, hyaline; hind wing with costal and discoidal area greenish, anal hyaline. Abdomen with median black spot on proximal margin of ventral sclerites 2–5. Male genitalia (Fig. 23) with short, broad apr; pa with smooth, pointed anterior projection, shagreened posteriorly with pointed lateral and blunt dorsal projections; apr with anterior projection moderately elongate, posterior one extremely short. Immature stages. Immature stages and ootheca unknown. Distribution and habits. At present, only known from central Australia (Fig. 43). Habits unknown but likely to be similar to other members of the genus.
description: Published as part of Milledge, G. A., 2005, Revision of the Genera Sphodropoda, Trachymantis and Zopheromantis (Mantodea: Mantidae: Mantinae), pp. 191-210 in Records of the Australian Museum 57 on pages 200-202
County Energy Planning Data Flows in Kenya: Practitioner Perspectives
Creators: name: Leonard, Alycia
name: Mwendwa, Daniel Mutia
name: Hirmer, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This working paper investigates data needs and flows involved in county-level energy planning in Kenya. It draws from workshops and semi-structured stakeholder interviews conducted with a total of 28 professionals representing 19 different organizations supporting the production of county energy plans (CEPs) in Kenya, as well as relevant law and policy. The aim is to identify where rigorous processes must be established to facilitate data flow. The key insights can be broken down into the categories of data needs, data collection, data flows, and data sharing. Recommendations are provided for improved data flow in the county energy planning sector.
title: Showcase: Biodiversity Exploratories Information System Report of our current stage of migration to the new BEXIS2 instance
Creators: name: Ostrowski, Andreas
name: Petzold, Eleonora
name: Schindler, Sirko
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: BEXIS
subject: Biodiversity Exploratories
subject: data management system
subject: data migration
subject: project repository
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: The development of the Biodiversity Exploratories Information System (here BExIS1) started more than 10 years ago and since then has been functioning as the data management platform and information system for the SPP 1374 “Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien” (BE). Since then, more than 1,000 datasets with a total of more than 20,000 variables and several million data rows were uploaded to the system. A dataset consists of metadata, a data structure, and the research data itself. Besides the storage of tabular data, it is also possible to upload unstructured data (files) to the system. Stored data is subject to common operations like updating, editing, and deletion. These actions led to various changes inside the datasets, which are reflected as versions or archived data. Of course, a lot of additional information to run such a system is stored. This mostly concerns authorization and authentication, but also plenty of personal information is included. Migrating data from one system to another is always a major and sometimes thrilling task. Data needs to be transferred without alterations. BEXIS2 uses a different schema to store and handle its data. Furthermore, some functionality is implemented differently from BExIS1. Examples include the concept of variables or the user management. These changes need to be considered during data migration and the transferred data needs to be adjusted to adhere to changed model. We implemented a system to transfer data from a BExIS1 instance to a BEXIS2 instance. BExIS1 data is accessed directly or by using BExIS1 functionalities. The data is then stored in BEXIS2 by making use of BEXIS2 API calls and by using auxiliary information. The main auxiliary source is an instance specific mapping of BExIS1 variables to the different BEXIS2 variable concept. We show our implementation of the system to migrate a production level Bexis1 instance into a newly set up Bexis2 instance. We show steps necessary and obstacles encountered together with our implemented solutions. We intend to make our implementation available to other BExIS1 instance users to facilitate and ease the migration to the new BEXIS2 system.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
The Electroweak Fit of the Standard Model after the Discovery of a New Boson at the LHC
Creators: name: Baak, M.
name: Goebel, M.
name: Haller, J.
name: Hoecker, A.
name: Kennedy, D.
name: Kogler, R.
name: Moenig, K.
name: Schott, M.
name: Stelzer, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of the discovery of a new boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at the LHC, we present an update of the global Standard Model (SM) fit to electroweak precision data. Assuming the new particle to be the SM Higgs boson, all fundamental parameters of the SM are known allowing, for the first time, to overconstrain the SM at the electroweak scale and assert its validity. Including the effects of radiative corrections and the experimental and theoretical uncertainties, the global fit exhibits a p-value of 0.07. The mass measurements by ATLAS and CMS agree within 1.3sigma with the indirect determination M_H=(94 +25 -22) GeV. Within the SM the W boson mass and the effective weak mixing angle can be accurately predicted to be M_W=(80.359 +- 0.011) GeV and sin^2(theta_eff^ell)=(0.23150 +- 0.00010) from the global fit. These results are compatible with, and exceed in precision, the direct measurements. For the indirect determination of the top quark mass we find m_t=(175.8 +2.7 -2.4) GeV, in agreement with the kinematic and cross-section based measurements.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, version submitted to EPJ-C
title: Automated recognition of people and identfication of animal species in camera trap images
Creators: name: Hoebeke, Laura
name: Stock, Michiel
name: Van Hoey, Stijn
name: Casaer, Jim
name: De Baets, Bernard
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: image recognition
subject: classification
subject: camera traps
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: Camera traps are increasingly being used in wildlife monitoring. The great advantage of camera traps in comparison with other sampling methods is that very accurate data can be collected without the animal being collared or tagged nor the researcher being present. However, such camera trapping frameworks produce high volumes of pictures which often need to be reviewed manually. Convolutional neural networks can be used to automate this labour intensive process. In our work, we use existing manually labelled images from a camera trap study conducted by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest in collaboration with Hasselt University (Belgium) to train a convolutional neural network for identifying animal species. Images were annotated using the camera trap application Agouti (www.agouti.eu). In this way images can be automatically labelled or the network can be incorporated into annotation applications to provide a suggestion to the users and as such speed up the annotation process. In addition to conveying the presence or absence of species, the images may contain other useful information, for example animal attributes and behaviour. Therefore, getting help from wildlife enthusiasts via citizen science may be desirable to review the large amounts of data. However, since cameras are mounted in public nature reserves, there always exists the risk that passers-by have triggered the camera traps. For privacy reasons, images showing people cannot be made public. Removing these images from the dataset can be automated by training the network to recognise people in addition to identifying animals species, before the data can be made available to volunteers.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
title: Enhance BEXIS2: from pure data management to an information system
Creators: name: Ostrowski, Andreas
name: Petzold, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biodiversity Exploratories
subject: BEXIS
subject: data management system
subject: information system
subject: project repository
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: More than 10 years ago, the first version of the Biodiversity Exploratories Information System (here BExIS1) went online to act as the data management platform and information system for the SPP 1374 “Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien” (BE). With its major function as data management system it facilitates data sharing among the projects and data re-use across all phases. In addition, BExIS1 offers access to further resources and has many extra functionalities to facilitate the collaboration between people and to support the project as a whole. It provides a lot of information related to field work like interactive maps of all research plots, and a booking system for field station resources and to announce plot visits. Further functionalities include a management system for publications, a document uploading mechanism, an event registration tool, and a question-answer system as an interface to stakeholders, in particular landowners. With these functionalities, BExIS is more than a conventional data management system. It acts as an information or even better project assisting system. Since release 2.11.0 the BEXIS2 system is fully modularized. It allows to un-/install and de-/activate modules in a running instance. This was a major advance because it allows to implement features also from 3rd parties. We re-developed a couple of BExIS1 functionalities as separate modules. It involves fieldwork management related features like resource booking management, and the plot map management. Further features are related to event management, information/document sharing, land use intensity calculation, and dataset overview computation. The development followed a generic, modular and extensible approach. Therefore these modules are adaptable to project specific needs and could be of high interest for other BEXIS2 instance users.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
title: Research data management with BEXIS 2 – An overview and introduction to the special session
Creators: name: Gerlach, Roman
name: Schöne, David
name: Chamanara, Javad
name: Navabpour, Nafiseh
name: Thiel, Sven
name: Hohmuth, Martin
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: BEXIS 2
subject: research data management
subject: data life-cycle
subject: software development
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: In this talk, we will introduce the data management platform BEXIS 2 and provide an overview of its features and capabilities. We will demonstrate how BEXIS 2 can support researchers in managing their data throughout the different aspects of the data life-cycle. Since BEXIS 2 has been designed for large collaborative projects with a central data management, we will also address features relevant to decision makers and system administrators.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
Benefit of Scar Boost Radiation Following Postmastectomy Radiation in Female Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis
Creators: name: Namuangchan, Yotdanai
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties

description: A retrospective analysis conducted from medical records of female patients diagnosed with breast cancer who have undergone PMRT from January 2012 to January 2015 at the Division of Radiation Oncology, Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University to evaluate the benefit of scar boost radiation following PMRT.
A Population of z>2 Far-Infrared Herschel-SPIRE selected Starbursts
Creators: name: Casey, C. M.
name: Berta, S.
name: Béthermin, M.
name: Bock, J.
name: Bridge, C.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Chapin, E.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Clements, D. L.
name: Conley, A.
name: Conselice, C. J.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Hatziminaoglou, E.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Floc'h, E. Le
name: Lutz, D.
name: Magdis, G.
name: Magnelli, B.
name: Oliver, S. J.
name: Page, M. J.
name: Pozzi, F.
name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Riguccini, L.
name: Roseboom, I. G.
name: Sanders, D. B.
name: Scott, D.
name: Seymour, N.
name: Valtchanov, I.
name: Vieira, J. D.
name: Viero, M.
name: Wardlow, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic observations for a sample of 36 Herschel-SPIRE 250-500um selected galaxies (HSGs) at 22 HyLIRGs in the literature which are detected serendipitously or via tailored surveys searching only for high-z HyLIRGs; therefore, we can place lower limits on the contribution of HSGs to the cosmic star formation rate density at (7+-2)x10^(-3)Msun/yr h^3Mpc^(-3) at z~2.5, which is >10% of the estimated total star formation rate density (SFRD) of the Universe from optical surveys. The contribution at z~4 has a lower limit of 3x10^(-3)Msun/yr h^3 Mpc^(-3), ~>20% of the estimated total SFRD. This highlights the importance of extremely infrared-luminous galaxies with high star formation rates to the build-up of stellar mass, even at the earliest epochs.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures; ApJ accepted
title: Data Visualization: a new module for BEXIS 2
Creators: name: Navabpour, Nafiseh
name: Gerlach, Roman
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: BEXIS 2
subject: Visualization
subject: Data management platform
subject: Module
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: The visual representation of data, or in other words a visualization is a very common way to represent data in an easily comprehensible form. Especially in situations where a user would like to get a quick overview of a single dataset (e.g. a distribution of observations) or a system administrator tries to monitor the number of uploaded or downloaded datasets in a system, visualizations come in very handy. In this talk, we introduce the new visualization module developed for the data management platform BEXIS 2. We will discuss the concept of the module and demonstrate the first implementation of the user interface. This first implementation helps administrators to trace the system’s behaviour and provides visualizations such as number of datasets created over time. In the next step, the module will be further developed to provide also visualizations more relevant to end users (i.e. researchers) such as providing information on the completness of metadata in a dataset.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
Mapping the County Energy Planning Ecosystem in Kenya
Creators: name: Leonard, Alycia
name: Mwendwa, Daniel Mutia
name: Hirmer, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This working paper maps the ecosystem of actors involved in county-level energy planning in Kenya. Drawing from an online workshop and expert stakeholder interviews alongside a review of relevant law and policy, it maps the status of energy planning across counties, the actors involved, and planning approaches across actors. The aim is to generate a concise summary of ongoing work in this space as a quick start guide to anyone seeking to engage within it.
title: Optimization of video monitoring of fish for reef assessment and management
Creators: name: Bruneel, Stijn
name: Schoeters, Amber
name: Bermudez, Rafael
name: Goethals, Peter
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: video monitoring
subject: reef fish
subject: method development
subject: Galapagos
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: Underwater video recordings provide a panoramic window into aquatic ecosystems. Camera technologies are rapidly advancing and become increasingly popular in ecological studies. However, to allow optimal use of these techniques, scientifically underbuilt methodologies are key. To this end, during a sampling campaign in 2017, reef fish were monitored via different setups of GoPro cameras at 10 sites in Santa Cruz and Floreana islands of the Galapagos Archipelago. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of scale, tides, camera setups, duration, repetitions as well as (number of) persons involved in snorkeling. Based on numerical analysis, an optimal approach was developed in order to maximize the reliability, repeatability and efficiency of fish monitoring.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
Index to Minutes of Meetings of the Executive Committee & the Board of Trustees, 1911-1946, "Wor"
Creators: name: Carnegie Corporation Of New York
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Corporate meetings
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations

description: The following microfilm is a copy of 5 x 8 Kardex cards hitherto used in the Cumulative Index to the Minutes of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, from the first meeting of the Trustees (November 10, 1911) through the 22nd meeting of the Executive Committee (September 17, 1946). The Cumulative Index was initiated during the early days of the Corporation when the offices of the President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer were separately organized, each with its own system of records. It was maintained by Durand R. Miller, first as secretary to the Secretary of the Corporation, James Bertram, and later as Record Clerk of the Corporation. The entries in the Cumulative Index are duplications of those recorded in the index of each bound volume of Minutes.
title: A Smart Bioreactor-based Production and Distribution System for Spirulina Algae in Developed Countries
Creators: name: Gheibi, Mohammad
name: Taghavian, Hadi
name: Moezzi, Reza
name: Khaleghiabbasabadi, Masoud
name: Minh Vu, Trieu
Publisher: name: International Journal of Innovative Technology and Interdisciplinary Sciences
Year: 2023

description: Spirulina is a beneficial algae for delivering food security, preventing poverty, and managing malnutrition. Given the scientific data, it is possible to get all of the essential amino acids and proteins for the human diet from sources other than animal flesh, and spirulina has emerged as a plausible substitute. The coordinated, intelligent production and distribution system for spirulina algae proposed in this research may be used in developed countries. From a technological standpoint, a photobioreactor is suggested and utilized to produce algae in an appropriate environment. A dynamic mechanism for distributing spirulina is also envisaged. The last step is the offering of a management system based on transformative involvement.
description: International Journal of Innovative Technology and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2023): International Journal of Innovative Technology and Interdisciplinary Sciences - Volume 6, Issue 2
title: Modelling urban bird breeding ranges with remotely sensed heterogeneity in plant traits using a random forest
Creators: name: Wellmann, Thilo
name: Lausch, Angela
name: Scheuerl, Sebastian
name: Haase, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: habitat model
subject: spatial heterogeneity
subject: random forest
subject: earth observation
subject: urban avifauna
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: Birds strongly respond to vegetation structure and composition, yet typical habitat models based on earth observation (EO) data use pre-classified data such as land use state classes for the habitat modelling. Since this neglects factors of internal spatial composition of the land use classes, we propose a new scheme of deriving multiple continuous indicators of urban vegetation heterogeneity using high-resolution earth observation datasets. The deployed concepts encompass spectral trait variations for the quantification of vegetation heterogeneity as well as subpixel vegetation fractions for the determination of the density of vegetation. Both indicators are derived from RapidEye data, thus featuring a continuous resolution of 5 meters. Using these indicators of plant heterogeneity and quantity as predictors, we can model the breeding bird habitats with a random forest machine learning classifier for our case study Leipzig while exclusively using one input dataset. Separate models are trained for the breeding ranges of 60 urban bird species (including 10 on the German red list), featuring medium to high accuracies (54–87%). Analysing similarities between models regarding variable importance of the single predictors allows species groups to be discriminated based on their preferences and dependencies regarding the amount of vegetation on the one hand, and its structure and heterogeneity on the other. The combination of continuous high-resolution EO data paired with a machine learning technique creates novel and very detailed insights into the ecology of the urban avifauna opening up possibilities of analysing and optimising different greenspace management schemes or future urban developments concerning overall bird species diversity or single species under threat of local extinction.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
Achievement of appropriate cesarean rates using Robson’s 10-Group Classification System in Brazilian private practice
Creators: name: Campos, Andrea Silveira de Queiroz
name: Rattner, Daphne
name: Diniz, Carmen Simone Grilo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health promotion
Family care
General practice
Primary health care
Health systems
Models of care and place of birth

description: Background Increasing cesarean section (CS) rates despite adequate healthcare access are a global concern because they are related to higher maternal and neonatal complication rates and do not provide positive childbirth experiences. In 2019, Brazil ranked second globally, given its overall CS rate of 57%. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), populational CS rates of 10–15% are associated with decreased maternal, neonatal, and infant mortality rates. This study aimed to investigate whether multidisciplinary care following evidence-based protocols associated with a high motivation of both women and professionals for a vaginal birth leads to less overuse of CS in a Brazilian private practice (PP). Methods This cross-sectional study evaluated CS rates by Robson group for women who sought vaginal birth in a private health practice in Brazil comparing with Swedish data. Collaborative care of midwives and obstetricians who adopted evidence-based guidelines was offered. CS rates, overall and by Robson group, contribution of each Robson group to the overall CS rate, clinical and nonclinical interventions, vaginal birth, pre-labor CS, and intrapartum CS proportions were estimated. The expected CS rate was calculated using the World Health Organization C-model tool. The analysis used Microsoft Excel and R Studio (version 1.2.1335. 2009-2019). Results The PP overall CS rate was 15.1% (95%CI, 13.4–17.1%) versus the 19.8% (95%CI, 14.8–24.7%) rate expected by the WHO C-model tool. The population included 43.7% women in Robson Group 1 (nulliparous, single, cephalic, at term, spontaneous labor), 11.4% in Group 2 (nulliparous, single, cephalic, at term, induced labor or CS before labor), and 14.9% in Group 5 (multiparous women with previous CS), the greatest contributors to higher CS rates (75.4% of them). The Swedish overall CS rate was 17.9% (95%CI, 17.6–18.1%) in a population of 27% women in Robson Group 1, 10.7% in Group 2, and 9.2% in Group 5. Conclusions Multidisciplinary care following evidence-based protocols, associated with high motivation of both women and professionals for vaginal birth, may lead to a significant and safe reduction of CS rates and better results even in contexts such as Brazil, with high medicalization of obstetric care and excess CS rates.
Rescattering Contributions to rare B-Meson Decays
Creators: name: Gronau, Michael
name: London, David
name: Rosner, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several $B$ and $B_s$ decays have been observed which have been cited as evidence for exchange ($E$), penguin annihilation ($PA$) and annihilation ($A$) processes, such as $\bar b d \to \bar u u$, $\bar b s \to \bar u u$ and $\bar b u \to W^* \to \bar c s$, respectively. These amplitudes are normally thought to be suppressed, as they involve the spectator quark in the weak interaction and thus should be proportional to the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B$. However, as pointed out a number of years ago, they can also be generated by rescattering from processes whose amplitudes do not involve $f_B$, such as color-favored tree amplitudes. In this paper we investigate a number of processes such as $B^0 \to K^+ K^-$, $B_s \to π^+ π^-$, and $B^+ \to D_s^+ ϕ$, and identify promising states from which they can be generated by rescattering. We find that $E$ and $PA$-type processes are characterized respectively by amplitudes ranging from 5% to 10% and from 15% to 20% with respect to the largest amplitude from which they can rescatter. Based on this regularity, using approximate flavor SU(3) symmetry in some cases and time-reversal invariance in others, we predict the branching fractions for a large number of as-yet-unseen $B$ and $B_s$ decays in an extensive range from order $10^{-9}$ to $10^{-4}$.
description: Note, two references and acknowledgement added
title: Supervised learning methods to predict species interactions based
Creators: name: Stock, Michiel
name: De Baets, Bernard
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: species interaction networks
subject: pairwise learning
subject: machine learning
subject: 004
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
subject: 630

description: Species interaction networks - pollination networks, host-phage networks, food webs and the like - are key tools to study community ecosystems. Biologists enjoy working with networks as they provide a sound mathematical description of a system and come equipped with a large toolkit to analyze various properties such as stability, diversity or dynamics. Species interaction networks can be obtained experimentally or by field observations. Modern techniques such as DNA barcoding and camera traps, coupled with large databases, contribute further to the popularity of networks in ecology. In practice however, a collected network rarely contains all in sito interactions, as this would require an unfeasible large sampling effort. Species distributions are also subject to changes, for example due to climate change, which leads to new potential interactions. It is of great importance to be able to predict such interactions, for example to anticipate the effect of exotic species in an ecosystem. In our work, we study how to use supervised machine learning tools to be able to predict new species interactions. Based on an observed network, we learn a function that takes as inputs the description of two species (e.g. traits, phylogenetic similarity or a morphological description) and predicts whether these two species are likely to interact or not. This framework for pairwise learning is based on kernels and similar methods have been highly successful for predicting molecular networks and for recommender systems, as used by companies such as Netflix and Amazon. We have shown that these methods can detect missing interactions in many different types of species interaction networks. A large focus of our work is on how the accuracy of these models can be estimated realistically. Our methods are available in an R package called xnet, making them easy to use for ecology researchers.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
Pulse intensity modulation and the timing stability of millisecond pulsars: A case study of PSR J1713+0747
Creators: name: Shannon, Ryan M.
name: Cordes, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most millisecond pulsars, like essentially all other radio pulsars, show timing errors well in excess of what is expected from additive radiometer noise alone. We show that changes in amplitude, shape and pulse phase for the millisecond pulsar J1713+0747 cause this excess error. These changes appear to be uncorrelated from one pulse period to the next. The resulting time of arrival variations are correlated across a wide frequency range and are observed with different backend processors on different days, confirming that they are intrinsic in origin and not an instrumental effect or caused by strongly frequency dependent interstellar scattering. Centroids of single pulses show an rms phase variation \approx 40 microsec, which dominates the timing error and is the same phase jitter phenomenon long known in slower spinning, canonical pulsars. We show that the amplitude modulations of single pulses are modestly correlated with their arrival time fluctuations. We also demonstrate that single-pulse variations are completely consistent with arrival time variations of pulse profiles obtained by integrating N pulses such that the arrival time error decreases proportional to 1/\sqrt{N}. We investigate methods for correcting times of arrival for these pulse shape changes, including multi-component TOA fitting and principal component analysis. These techniques are not found to improve the timing precision of the observations. We conclude that when pulse shape changes dominate timing errors, the timing precision of PSR J1713+0747 can be only improved by averaging over a larger number of pulses.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures. Astrophysical Journal, accepted
title: Reconstruction and Recognition of Spatial Patterns from Sparse Data in the Problem of Biological Invasion
Creators: name: Petrovskaya, Natalia
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: biological invasion
subject: spatial pattern
subject: monitoring protocol
subject: pattern recognition
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subject: 570
subject: 580
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description: In the modern world of big data there are still a plenty of ecological applications where data available for analysis are extremely sparse because of financial, labour, and other reasons. Accurate reconstruction of spatial patterns from sparse data remains a challenging problem where the results of reconstruction may heavily depend on the sampling protocol. One example is a problem of biological invasion where distinguishing between a patchy spatial density pattern and a continuous front spatial density pattern is crucial for monitoring and control of the invasive species. From the pattern recognition viewpoint, a continuous front density distribution can be classified as a single object, while a `no front' patchy invasion presents a collection of separate objects in a spatial domain. Sensitivity of such classification to the definition of a monitoring protocol remains an open question and will be discussed in the talk. Two basic properties of the monitoring protocol (i.e. the cutoff density value and the number of sampling locations) will be investigated and it will be shown how their variation affects reconstruction of spatial density patterns and recognition of the invasion type.
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title: Documenting Pandemic Impacts: Best Practices
Creators: name: Misra, Joya
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: The COVID-19 pandemic immediately impacted faculty members’ workloads. Most faculty members have had to do significantly more work, moving courses online, mentoring students in need, reworking university programs and addressing COVID-19 risks, and helping communities manage current realities. At the same time, many faculty members are experiencing damage to their productivity and research record, due to lack of access to labs and facilities, research sites, and research subjects, as well as canceled conferences and inability to travel to conduct research and meet with collaborators.
title: Integrating context-based recommendation with deep NN image classification for plant identification tasks
Creators: name: Wittich, Hans
name: Boho, David
name: Mäder, Patrick
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: plant species identification
subject: deep Learning
subject: recommender system
subject: spatio-temporal context
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subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590
subject: 600
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description: Accurate plant species identification is essential for many scenarios in botanical research and conservation of biodiversity. Since a main obstacle is the large number of possible candidate species to consider, assistance through automatic identification techniques is highly desirable. On one side, photos of plant organs taken by users in the field can effectively be used in machine learning-based image classification, predicting the most likely matching taxa. At the same time, metadata on the user's spatio-temporal context usually goes unused despite its potential to be considered as an additional aspect to augment and improve prediction quality. We develop a recommender system utilizing a user's context to predict a list of plant taxa most likely to be observed at a given geographical location and time. Using a data-driven approach, we integrate knowledge on plant observations, species distribution maps, phenology and environmental geodata in order to calculate contextual recommendations on a local scale. The resulting model facilitates fine-grained ranking of plant taxa expected to occur in close proximity to a user in the field. Focusing on the territory of Germany with a list of the most common wild flowering plant taxa we are presented with a 2.8k class problem. Using a NASNet deep convolutional neural network trained on 860k taxon-labelled plant images we can presently achieve a 82% top-1 prediction accuracy. For a recommender system the combination of biogeographical information, phenology and habitat suitability models is showing viable results, being able to reduce the list of candidate taxa on average more than threefold with a recall of 25% for the top 20 list positions, 50% for the first 70 and a 90% recall for the full recommended list, based on contextual metadata alone. We show how prediction performance
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World
Measurement of electrons from heavy-flavour decays in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
Creators: name: Kweon, MinJung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ALICE experiment has measured at mid-rapidity electrons from heavy-flavour decays in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 2.76 and 7 TeV, and in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV. In pp collisions, electrons from charm-hadron and from beauty-hadron decays are identified by applying cuts on displaced vertices. The relative yield of electrons from beauty-hadron decays to those from heavy-flavour decays is extracted using electron-hadron correlations. Results are compared to pQCD-based calculations. In Pb-Pb collisions, the $p_{\rm T}$ dependence of the nuclear modification factor of electrons from heavy-flavour decays is presented in two centrality classes. The status on the analysis of electrons from beauty-hadron decays is reported in Pb-Pb collisions, in view of the measurement of the corresponding nuclear modification factor.
description: 4 page, 5 figures, proceedings for the fifth International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2012), May 27 - June 1, Cagliari, Italy
Conyza blinii responds to the changes of exogenous iron through auxin-terpenoids metabolism pathway
Creators: name: Yang, Ming
name: Zheng, Tianrun
name: Zhan, Junyi
name: Wang, Maojia
name: Sun, Wenjun
name: Zhou, Min
name: Tang, Zizhong
name: Bu, TongLiang
name: Li, Qingfeng
name: Chen, Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: As an essential trace element, iron is a necessary micronutrient for most organisms. Conyza blinii (C. blinii) is a traditional Chinese medicine grown in Sichuan, China. We chose C. blinii as material to explore the way plants respond to iron. Our results showed that iron increased the content of endogenous auxin, glandular trichomes (GTs) density and the content of blinin, the characteristic diterpene in C. blinii. Most of the key enzymes in the blinin synthesis pathway (MEP) were upregulated under iron by RNA sequencing. CbHO-1 (Heme oxygenase gene) was upregulated under exogenous IAA treatment. Taken together, these results suggest that C. blinii respond to iron through auxin- terpenoids metabolism, and this process may be related to CbHO-1.
title: Overall and site-specific response of the macroinvertebrate community of Swan Coastal Plain Wetlands (West Australia) to water quality gradients revealed by GF and HEA
Creators: name: Sultana, Jawairia
name: Recknagel, Friedrich
name: Davis, Jennifer
name: Chessman, Bruce
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: bio-indication
subject: wetlands
subject: macroinvertebrates
subject: gradients
subject: gf
subject: hea
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subject: 590
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subject: 630

description: The Swan Coastal Plain is situated along the Western Australian seaboard and accommodates a large number of permanently, seasonally and episodically flooded wetlands. Many of these wetlands are affected by eutrophication and hydrological changes. A systematic monitoring program has been conducted between 1989 and 1990 to assess the environmental status of 41 selected wetlands based on measurements of 19 physical-chemical attributes and the collection of 253 macroinvertebrate taxa samples (Davis et al. 1993). This study analysed 35 wetlands with consistent data collected in Nov 1989 and Nov 1990 by means of Gradient Forest (GF) and the Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm (HEA). Whilst GF allows identifying macroinvertebrate taxa with the “strongest overall response” to gradients in “important” physical-chemical attributes, HEA allows to model population dynamics of the taxa depending on “important” attributes identified by GF along all 35 wetlands. HEA models are represented by IF-THEN-ELSE rules whereby IF-conditions disclose attribute thresholds that indicate changes in the species abundance across the wetlands. GF suggested different ranking of the attributes EC, TN and DIP for both years as well as different taxa assemblages for same attributes in 1989 and 1990. Since results for merged data were also different, only the year-by-year specific results have been taken into account. When inferential models have been built for the 4 species that responded “strongest” to EC, DIP and TN in 1989 and 1990 by HEA, the threshold conditions fall in the range of overall gradients of these attributes discovered by GF. GF and HEA proved to be complementary tools for identifying overall attribute gradients and species- and site-specific thresholds in complex ecological data sets. Davis, J.A., Rosich, R.S., Bradley, J.S., Growns, J.E., Schmidt, L.G. and F. Cheal, 1993. Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain. Vol. 6: Wetland classification on the basis of water quality and invertebrate community data. Water Authority of Western Australia.
description: ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World