cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591483.v1
title: Insect abundance as a result of plant abundance and location

description: This dataset was designed to observe how plant abundance and location may affect insect abundance in a positive (as one variable increases so does the other variable) or negative way (as one variable increases the other moves in the opposite direction). This experiment was completed by myself, Katie, Katherine, Ashley and Ava. The data collection was spread out between two separate days one week apart, on October 13th 2015 and October 20th 2015 between the times of 2:45pm and 5:00pm. The collection took place on York University Keele campus at the Danby Woodlot and the Danby Grassland. The total number of replicates (120) was split in half between the two days of collection as to gain a more accurate representation of the data set throughout the varying temperatures and weather conditions the two locations might experience. Within each of the days the 60 replicates were split into 30 replicates for the woodlot and 30 replicates for the grassland. Each time the quadrat had to be placed we used a random number generator to determine the number of steps to take before placing the quadrat down and completing another replicate. To ensure consistency between the quadrat placements, Katie was the group member to walk the steps to ensure the stride was consistent each time. Plant abundance was graded on a scale, excluding fallen leaves, dead plants and grass. We felt a scale would help with explain the abundance between the different plants that grew in the different locations. The plant abundance grade was agreed on all members of the group before being documented. The insects were counted by all members of the group with an approximate time of 5 minutes of counting for each quadrat. Insects on plants were also counted, including trees, we stopped counting insects on trees at the height of my chest, as it was impossible to count any higher on some trees. The first day the weather was mostly clear with some cloud coverage, no rain and a temperature of 19 °C. The soil in both the woodlot and the grassland were fairly dry, with some moisture. On the second day of data collection there was a constant downpour of precipitation in the form of rain. The temperature was 18°C with the soil being damp from the previous day and from the current precipitation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591559.v6
title: CPD-CP2012

description: This fileset contains the files describing the CFN models (WCSP format) of the Computational Protein Design instances from the following paper: Computational Protein Design as a Cost Function Network Optimization Problem<br>D. Allouche, S. Traoré, I. André, S. de Givry, G. Katsirelos, S. Barbe, T. Schiex<br>CP'2012, Québec, Canada. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33558-7_60
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591312
title: OA-Controls Dataset.xlsx

description: Quantitative sensory testing data, comparing subjects with knee osteoarthritis with age and gender matched healthy controls. All sensory tests taken at the medial knee, ankle and elbow. One practice followed by 3 repetitions at each site. Randomised site order. Pressure pain threshold tested using a digital algometer and standard method of limits. Standard instructions to press the hand held switch when pressure changed to painful pressure. Cold pain and heat pain thresholds tested using a peltier thermode and standard method (baseline 32˚C, increase or decrease at 1˚C per second). Instructions to press the hand-held switch when the sensation changed to painful cold or painful heat.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591329
title: The Effect of Soil Condition and Number of Surrounding Plant Species on Insect Abundance and Diversity

description: This experiment was executed by Nicole Gallagher, Tonia Cichella, Phenil Patel and Michael Sirianni at the Danby Grassland at York University, Keele campus, Toronto, Ontario. The experiment took place over two days, October 20th and 27th, 2015, with three hour collection periods each day, starting at three pm. The first day the temperature was 14 degrees celcius and overcast, the second day was 11 degrees celcius and cloudy with moderate rain throughout the duration of the experiment. The quartet split into teams of two, Nicole and Phenil, and Michael and Tonia, and each pair conducted 60 replicates each, totaling 120 replicates over the entire course of the experiment. Each replicate consisted of a 20 metre transect with a 1 metre belt transect at a perpendicular angle. The experimenter used the sweep net and walked the transect for two minutes each replicate. At the end of each replicate the number of insect individuals and RTUs (recognizable taxonomic units) was recorded along with the number of different plant species found along the 1 m belt transect. The soil was inspected at various locations along the transect line and assigned a rating depending on the soil saturation and type. The rating will be a number 0-4, 0 being 0% saturation and 4 being 100% saturation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591477
title: Big Data - Week 6 & 7

description: Partners: Marta Morozova, Kyle Ali, Ryan Ho, Shervin An area with short grass on the west side of the York Univeristy Keele Campus was chosen as the experiment location. A quadrat was laid out randomly in the short grass. The height of each grass in the quadrat was measured with a transect, and the average was calculated and noted. The number of insects found in that quadrat was also noted. Other details on the environment such as wind speed, temperature and weather were also noted. This was repeated 39 times. An area with tall grass on the west side of the York Univeristy Keele Campus was chosen as the experiment location. A quadrat was laid out randomly in the tall grass. The height of each grass in the quadrat was measured with a transect, and the average was calculated and noted. The number of insects found in that quadrat was also noted. Other details on the environment such as wind speed, temperature and weather were also noted. This was repeated 39 times. A concrete sidewalk on the west side of the York Univeristy Keele Campus was chosen as the experiment location. A quadrat was laid out randomly on the sidewalk. The height of each grass in the quadrat was measured with a transect, and the average was calculated and noted. The number of insects found in that quadrat was also noted. Other details on the environment such as wind speed, temperature and weather were also noted. This was repeated 39 times.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591329.v1
title: The Effect of Soil Condition and Number of Surrounding Plant Species on Insect Abundance and Diversity

description: This experiment was executed by Nicole Gallagher, Tonia Cichella, Phenil Patel and Michael Sirianni at the Danby Grassland at York University, Keele campus, Toronto, Ontario. The experiment took place over two days, October 20th and 27th, 2015, with three hour collection periods each day, starting at three pm. The first day the temperature was 14 degrees celcius and overcast, the second day was 11 degrees celcius and cloudy with moderate rain throughout the duration of the experiment. The quartet split into teams of two, Nicole and Phenil, and Michael and Tonia, and each pair conducted 60 replicates each, totaling 120 replicates over the entire course of the experiment. Each replicate consisted of a 20 metre transect with a 1 metre belt transect at a perpendicular angle. The experimenter used the sweep net and walked the transect for two minutes each replicate. At the end of each replicate the number of insect individuals and RTUs (recognizable taxonomic units) was recorded along with the number of different plant species found along the 1 m belt transect. The soil was inspected at various locations along the transect line and assigned a rating depending on the soil saturation and type. The rating will be a number 0-4, 0 being 0% saturation and 4 being 100% saturation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591559.v7
title: CPD-CP2012

description: This fileset contains the files describing the CFN models (WCSP format) of the Computational Protein Design instances from the following paper: Computational Protein Design as a Cost Function Network Optimization Problem<br>D. Allouche, S. Traoré, I. André, S. de Givry, G. Katsirelos, S. Barbe, T. Schiex<br>CP'2012, Québec, Canada. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33558-7_60
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591223
title: Anthropocene effect on the abundance of Insects in danby grassland

description: the experiment was carried out on Danby grassland in York university, keeele campus. It was carried out on two seperate days ,and was in a group of Stanley , Bryson, Naduni and sharan.The first experiment was on the 13th of october 2015,. It started around 2,50 pm and it was a very windy and cloudy day with overcast and a temperature of about 15 degrees celsius. But at the end of the experiment the temperature had dropped to about 11 degrees celsius.The other experiment was carried out by the same group on the 20th of october ,2015.. It was a rainy day with cloudy day with overcast and tepmperature of about 12 degree celsius. The purpose of the experiment was to determine was to channel our knowledege on the different sampling technique towards the design of a new filed experiment. In doing so a primary purpose was created aiming at determing the effect of anthropocene on Insect abundance in danby grassland by studying how the distance and number of garbage effect the insect abundance. The type of insects and the size of garbage were not taken into consideration. The hypothesis is that distance and the number of garbage will affact the abundance of insects . It predicts that increase in distance will increase abunadance of insects and increase in the garbage will discrease abundance of insects The first experiment was carried out by using line transect and sweep net. A 30meter transect tape was laid on the garssland in an edge in the begining of the grassland closer to the residence . It was laid 5 steps way to the right of the grassland and each 5m was marked indicating a sample interval.ie 1-5, 5-10-10-15,15-20,20-25,25-30 m respectively The sweep net was used to catch insects along the 5m interval for 2 minutes walking back and forth.The experiment was carried out in each interval and the number of garbage is recorded .The number of insect of caught was also recorded.and the insects were set free.This process continued till the transect tape got to the end and location was changed . The process was reapeated and data recorded. A total of 6 group each consisted of 6 intervals were carried out and recorded. The second experiment took place on the 20th of october , 2015 in the same location at about 2.55pm at the other edge of the grassland far away from the residence the same procedure was carried out. However in this case the transect was laid 5 steps away to the left, The 6 datasets collected on that day were recordedmaking a total of 12 group deta set .The total replicate for the two experiments were 72 ie 1-37. 37-72. Group 1 . total number of insect 7, and garbage 21 for example
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591312.v1
title: OA-Controls Dataset.xlsx

description: Quantitative sensory testing data, comparing subjects with knee osteoarthritis with age and gender matched healthy controls. All sensory tests taken at the medial knee, ankle and elbow. One practice followed by 3 repetitions at each site. Randomised site order. Pressure pain threshold tested using a digital algometer and standard method of limits. Standard instructions to press the hand held switch when pressure changed to painful pressure. Cold pain and heat pain thresholds tested using a peltier thermode and standard method (baseline 32˚C, increase or decrease at 1˚C per second). Instructions to press the hand-held switch when the sensation changed to painful cold or painful heat.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591477.v1
title: Big Data - Week 6 & 7

description: Partners: Marta Morozova, Kyle Ali, Ryan Ho, Shervin An area with short grass on the west side of the York Univeristy Keele Campus was chosen as the experiment location. A quadrat was laid out randomly in the short grass. The height of each grass in the quadrat was measured with a transect, and the average was calculated and noted. The number of insects found in that quadrat was also noted. Other details on the environment such as wind speed, temperature and weather were also noted. This was repeated 39 times. An area with tall grass on the west side of the York Univeristy Keele Campus was chosen as the experiment location. A quadrat was laid out randomly in the tall grass. The height of each grass in the quadrat was measured with a transect, and the average was calculated and noted. The number of insects found in that quadrat was also noted. Other details on the environment such as wind speed, temperature and weather were also noted. This was repeated 39 times. A concrete sidewalk on the west side of the York Univeristy Keele Campus was chosen as the experiment location. A quadrat was laid out randomly on the sidewalk. The height of each grass in the quadrat was measured with a transect, and the average was calculated and noted. The number of insects found in that quadrat was also noted. Other details on the environment such as wind speed, temperature and weather were also noted. This was repeated 39 times.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591221
title: WK6&WK7: Field experiment datasets

description: This field experiment was conducted to determine the relation between canopy cover, and number of insects present in that area which took place on York University's Osgoode and Boyer woodlots on October 15 and 22, 2015. There were three specific areas of concern which consisted of low, medium, and high canopy coverage. Each particular area contained 15 pan traps in ratio of 5:5:5 red, yellow, and white respectively that were positioned 1 metre apart while being within the selected canopy area. Each bowl contained a mixture of soapy water that remained in the selected canopy area for 2 hours before being collected at the end to identify and record the insect species. This was done for two datasets, one per week. The canopy level of each area was determined by a physical observation, and using both hands to create a square to estimate the percetange of coverage visible. The percentages were categorized into three levels of coverage, low(0%-35%), medium(35%-65%), and high(65%-100%). From dataset 1, the number of insects recorded was proportional to canopy level from low to high cover, while in dataset 2, the number of insects increased when going from low to medium canopy coverage, but number of insects were significantly reduced with high canopy coverage. Weather conditions had an indirect relationship to this experiment as both days were cloudy, and had some light rain which may have triggered different responses depending on the particular insect species.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591219
title: Lab 4 - Experimental Design - The Abundance of Insects can be affected by the Condition and Size of Maple Trees

description: This experiment consisted of collecting data for two different days, one week apart. The first day was October 13, 2015 from, 2:57pm to 5:05pm and the weather consisted of 15°C with cloudy skies. The second day was October 20, 2015 from, 2:47pm to 4:53pm and the weather for this day consisted of 17°C with cloudy skies followed with a light drizzle of rain. The experiment took place at Danby Woods, York University in the woodlot area to test if the condition and size of a Maple tree can affect the abundance of insects in close proximity to the tree. Daniel, Markian, Bonnie, and Muhammad performed both days of the experiment. The woodlot terrain during the experiment consisted of yellow and orange leaves scattered everywhere around the ground with berries present. Few leaves were still present on the trees. During the two days of the experiment there were a total of 100 replicates noted. For each replicate a random Maple tree was selected. Once selected, the diameter of the tree was measured; ten inches or lower was considered as a small tree and anything above ten inches was considered to be a large tree. The condition of the tree was also noted, if the tree was uprooted and decomposing it was said to be dead, if it was still attached to the ground and had leaves present then it was considered to be alive. Once the size and condition of the tree were determined a quadrat was placed in close proximity to the base of the tree and in a 60 second interval all of the individual insects were manually counted inside the quadrat.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591221.v1
title: WK6&WK7: Field experiment datasets

description: This field experiment was conducted to determine the relation between canopy cover, and number of insects present in that area which took place on York University's Osgoode and Boyer woodlots on October 15 and 22, 2015. There were three specific areas of concern which consisted of low, medium, and high canopy coverage. Each particular area contained 15 pan traps in ratio of 5:5:5 red, yellow, and white respectively that were positioned 1 metre apart while being within the selected canopy area. Each bowl contained a mixture of soapy water that remained in the selected canopy area for 2 hours before being collected at the end to identify and record the insect species. This was done for two datasets, one per week. The canopy level of each area was determined by a physical observation, and using both hands to create a square to estimate the percetange of coverage visible. The percentages were categorized into three levels of coverage, low(0%-35%), medium(35%-65%), and high(65%-100%). From dataset 1, the number of insects recorded was proportional to canopy level from low to high cover, while in dataset 2, the number of insects increased when going from low to medium canopy coverage, but number of insects were significantly reduced with high canopy coverage. Weather conditions had an indirect relationship to this experiment as both days were cloudy, and had some light rain which may have triggered different responses depending on the particular insect species.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591223.v1
title: Anthropocene effect on the abundance of Insects in danby grassland

description: the experiment was carried out on Danby grassland in York university, keeele campus. It was carried out on two seperate days ,and was in a group of Stanley , Bryson, Naduni and sharan.The first experiment was on the 13th of october 2015,. It started around 2,50 pm and it was a very windy and cloudy day with overcast and a temperature of about 15 degrees celsius. But at the end of the experiment the temperature had dropped to about 11 degrees celsius.The other experiment was carried out by the same group on the 20th of october ,2015.. It was a rainy day with cloudy day with overcast and tepmperature of about 12 degree celsius. The purpose of the experiment was to determine was to channel our knowledege on the different sampling technique towards the design of a new filed experiment. In doing so a primary purpose was created aiming at determing the effect of anthropocene on Insect abundance in danby grassland by studying how the distance and number of garbage effect the insect abundance. The type of insects and the size of garbage were not taken into consideration. The hypothesis is that distance and the number of garbage will affact the abundance of insects . It predicts that increase in distance will increase abunadance of insects and increase in the garbage will discrease abundance of insects The first experiment was carried out by using line transect and sweep net. A 30meter transect tape was laid on the garssland in an edge in the begining of the grassland closer to the residence . It was laid 5 steps way to the right of the grassland and each 5m was marked indicating a sample interval.ie 1-5, 5-10-10-15,15-20,20-25,25-30 m respectively The sweep net was used to catch insects along the 5m interval for 2 minutes walking back and forth.The experiment was carried out in each interval and the number of garbage is recorded .The number of insect of caught was also recorded.and the insects were set free.This process continued till the transect tape got to the end and location was changed . The process was reapeated and data recorded. A total of 6 group each consisted of 6 intervals were carried out and recorded. The second experiment took place on the 20th of october , 2015 in the same location at about 2.55pm at the other edge of the grassland far away from the residence the same procedure was carried out. However in this case the transect was laid 5 steps away to the left, The 6 datasets collected on that day were recordedmaking a total of 12 group deta set .The total replicate for the two experiments were 72 ie 1-37. 37-72. Group 1 . total number of insect 7, and garbage 21 for example
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1591216
title: The affect of soil quality and number of plant species on number of insects

description: This experiment looked at how soil conditions and number of plant species affect the number of insects found in a specific area. This took place in the Danby Grassland at York University on October 12 and 19 2015 at around 2:30-5:30pm. On October 12, the temperature was roughly 11 degrees Celsius and the weather was overcast. On October 19, the temperature was roughly 14 degrees Celsius and the weather was cloudy with some rain. Group members include Michael, Phenil, myself and Nicole. My group members and I split into 2 groups. I worked with Michael while Nicole and Phenil worked together. Each day, we collected 60 replicates for a total of 120 over the 2 days. The transect belt was placed in a random spot for each replication. To ensure a proper random sample, a random number generator was used, ranging from 1 to 5, representing the number of steps. Beginning at the edge of the grassland and working our way inwards, we took however many steps the random number generator indicated. We then extended the transect belt to 20 meters. We extended a measuring tape to 1 meter and placed it perpendicular to the transect on any side. This indicated the range in which we would sweep net along the transect. Then, we began to sweep net the 20 meter transect for 2 minutes within the 1 meter range. The soil quality, number of plant species, number of insects and number of insect RTUs (recognizable taxonomic units) were recorded. The soil quality was determined using a scale ranging from 0 (lacking moisture) to 4 (very moist). The insect RTUs observed include: lady bug, grasshopper, spider, fly, beetle, caterpillar, snail, cricket, ant and mosquito. On the second day, the weather was rainy altering the soil conditions observed making them less accurate compared to the first day. Also, this affected the amount of insects found. Proper statistical analysis will need to be done in order to determine the affect of soil conditions and number of plant species on the number of insects.