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Mandarin matrix sentence test recordings: Lombard and plain speech with different speakers

This dataset was recorded within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) project: Experiments and models of speech recognition across tonal and non-tonal language systems (EMSATON, Projektnummer 415895050). The Lombard effect or Lombard reflex is the involuntary tendency of speakers to increase their vocal effort when speaking in loud noise to enhance the audibility of their voice. Up to date, the phenomena of Lombard effects were observed in different languages. The present database aimed at providing recordings for studying the Lombard effect with Mandarin speech. Eleven native-Mandarin talkers (6 female and 5 male) were recruited, both Lombard/plain speech were recorded from the same talker in the same day.  All speakers produced fluent standard Mandarin speech (North China). All listeners were normal-hearing with pure tone thresholds of 20 dB hearing level or better at audiometric octave frequencies between 125 and 8000 Hz. All listeners provided written informed consent, approved by the Ethics Committee of Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Listeners received an hourly compensation for their participation. The recording sentences were same as the official Mandarin Chinese matrix sentence test (<a href="#_ENREF_2">CMNmatrix, Hu et al. 2018</a>).   One hundred sentences (ten base lists of ten sentences) of the CMNmatrix were recorded from each speaker in both plain and Lombard speaking styles (each base list containing all 50 words). The 100 sentences were divided into 10 blocks of 10 sentences each, and the plain and Lombard blocks were presented in an alternating order. The recording took place in a double-walled, sound-attenuated booth fulfilling ISO 8253-3 (ISO 8253-3, 2012), using a Neumann 184 microphone with a cardioid characteristic (Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin, Germany) and a Fireface UC soundcard (with a sampling rate of 44100 Hz and resolution of 16 bits). The recording procedure generally followed the procedures of Alghamdi et al. (2018). A Mandarin-native speaker and a phonetician participated in the recording session and listened to the sentences to control the pronunciations, intonation, and speaking rate. During the recording, the speaker was instructed to read the sentence presented on a frontal screen. In case of any mispronunciation or change in the intonation, the speaker was asked via the screen to repeat the sentence again, and on average, each sentence was recorded twice. In Lombard conditions the speaker was regularly asked via a prompt to repeat a sentence, to keep the speaker in the Lombard communication situation. For the plain-speech recording blocks, the speakers were asked to pronounce the sentences with natural intonation and accentuation, and at an intermediate speaking rate, which was facilitated by a progress bar on the screen. Furthermore, the speakers were asked to keep the speaking effort constant and to avoid any exaggerated pronunciations that could lead to unnatural speech cues. For the Lombard speech recording blocks, speakers were instructed to imagine a conversation to another person in a pub-like situation. During the whole recording session, speakers wore headphones (Sennheiser HDA200) that provided the audio signal of the speaker.. In the Lombard condition, the stationary speech-shaped noise ICRA1 (Dreschler et al., 2001) was mixed with the speaker’s audio signal at a level of 80 dB SPL (calibrated with a Brüel & Kjær (B&K) 4153 artificial ear, a B&K 4134 0.5-inch inch microphone, a B&K 2669 preamplifier, and a B&K 2610). Previous studies showed that this level induced a robust Lombard speech without the danger of inducing hearing damage (Alghamdi et al., 2018). The sentences were cut from the recording, high-pass filtered (60 Hz cut-off frequency) and set to the average root-mean-square level of the original speech material of the Mandarin Matrix test (Hu et al., 2018). Then the best version of each sentence was chosen by native-Mandarin speakers regarding pronunciation, tempo, and intonation. For more detailed information, please contact hongmei.hu@uni-oldenburg,  sabine.hochmuth@uni-oldenburg.de.  Hu H, Xi X, Wong LLN, Hochmuth S, Warzybok A, Kollmeier B (2018) Construction and evaluation of the mandarin chinese matrix (cmnmatrix) sentence test for the assessment of speech recognition in noise. International Journal of Audiology 57:838-850. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2018.1483083

List of place names in Welkait (Tigray, Ethiopia), as recorded in 1939

There are attempts to offer a post-hoc justification of the military conquest and ethnic cleansing of Western Tigray by the combined Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Amhara forces in late 2020. For this purpose, an "eternal Amharic character" of Welkait and the surrounding districts is invoked. Historical records, however, show a typical Tigrayan rural landscape. We analysed the notebooks of ethnographer Giovanni Ellero, holding field notes from Welkait in the 1930s and extracted a list of 574 place names as recorded by Ellero and his translators. The etymology of almost all place names is of Tigrinya origin, with a few of Oromo, Falasha, Arab or biblical origin. In the whole list of place names, there are less than ten locations that in 1939 held a name of Amharic origin. More specifically, among the 574 place names, there are 229 “’Addi …” (village in Tigrinya) and 49 “May …” (water).

Multi-crystal cubic insulin example data set recorded on i24

Data collected as part of routine commissioning on Diamond Light Source beamline i24 15th August 2022 with samples prepared by Felicity Bertram at Diamond following standard techniques. Data are individually incomplete but combined make for a reasonably complete and reasonable data set.    Purpose of the data upload is to make data available for tutorials using the DIALS toolchain (see e.g. examples at https://github.com/graeme-winter/dials_tutorials) however data are available for all purposes without limitation.

CRAAS: Cloud Regime dAtAset based on the CLAAS-2.1 climate data record

The Cloud Regime dAtAset based on the CLAAS-2.1 climate data record (CRAAS) is a dataset of cloud regimes derived from cloud properties from the <a href="https://wui.cmsaf.eu/safira/action/viewDoiDetails?acronym=CLAAS_V002_01">CLAAS-2.1</a> climate data record. Such a cloud regime dataset can provide detailed insight in the cloud climatology over the region of interest and also in climate monitoring through the concept of the cloud regimes. CRAAS covers a region over Europe (30°N to 60°N and from 11°W to 37°E) and it extends from 2004 to 2017. The generated Joint Cloud Histograms (JCHs) of Cloud Top Pressure (CTP) and Cloud Optical Thickness (COT),  as well as the derived labeled data points of the cloud regime classification are available on a 1°x1° degree resolution and every 15 minutes. Two sets of yearly files can be found in the dataset. Those containing the generated JCHs from the CLAAS-2.1 climate data record (example filename: 'craas_jch_2004.v1.nc')  and those including the labeled data points of the cloud regime classification (example filename: 'craas_label_2004.v1.nc'). The files are provided in netCDF4 format, following the NetCDF Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions-Version 1.8 (CF-1.8).

X-ray diffraction images recorded for Aumonier et al., (2022) Slow protein dynamics probed by time-resolved oscillation crystallography at room temperature, IUCrJ

The present repository contains diffraction images corresponding to 27 distinct datasets collected at room temperature on the ESRF beamline ID30A-3 using an Eiger X 4M detector. Datasets have been uploaded with their original names to maintain the metadata integrity. The two following tables match the original names with those attributed in the supplementary table S1 of  Aumonier et al., IUCrJ (2022) (https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252522009150). <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> Data set name on Zenodo </td> <td> X06_01 </td> <td> X12_05 </td> <td> X07_02_ </td> <td> X06_08 </td> <td> X14_06 </td> <td> X13_03 </td> <td> X08_06 </td> <td> X11_05 </td> <td> X13_05 </td> <td> X06_02 </td> <td> X11_01 </td> <td> X08_01 </td> <td> X14_01 </td> <td> X13_01 </td> <td> X06_03 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Data set in Aumonier et al. 2022 </td> <td> Dark </td> <td> PS2 </td> <td> PS2 </td> <td> PS3 </td> <td> PS4 </td> <td> PS5 </td> <td> PS6 </td> <td> PS7 </td> <td> R2” </td> <td> R3” </td> <td> R7” </td> <td> R10” </td> <td> R13” </td> <td> R21” </td> <td> R35” </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>   <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> Data set on Zenodo </td> <td> X08_02 </td> <td> X11_02 </td> <td> X12_02 </td> <td> X14_02 </td> <td> X13_04 </td> <td> X13_02 </td> <td> X12_06 </td> <td> X06_09 </td> <td> X09_04 </td> <td> X12_04 </td> <td> X06_07 </td> <td> X13_07 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Data set in Aumonier et al. 2022 </td> <td> R51” </td> <td> R62” </td> <td> R62” </td> <td> R67” </td> <td> R72” </td> <td> R80” </td> <td> R90” </td> <td> R130” </td> <td> R166” </td> <td> R258” </td> <td> R630” </td> <td> R1620” </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> One dataset consists of a master file, four data files and two metadata files.

Text formatted plethysmography recordings for Breathe Easy vignette

This dataset includes text file exports of 16 plethysmography recordings that were originally recorded in LabChart in .adicht format. These text exports are the input for the first part of our Breathe Easy software. Breathe Easy is our automated waveform analysis pipeline. For more information on the pipeline, see our publication. For more information on using this dataset in Breathe Easy, refer back to our user manual.

Figs 17–19. 17 in Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Hainan Island with new faunistic records from China and with notes on the unique body modifications in the genus Agathidium

Figs 17–19. 17 – metatibia; 18 – metatarsus; 19 – aedeagus dorsally. 17, 18 – Agathidium (Macroceble) apiforme sp. nov.; 19 – Dermatohomoeus pennatus sp. nov.

Figs 13–16. 13, 15, 16 in Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Hainan Island with new faunistic records from China and with notes on the unique body modifications in the genus Agathidium

Figs 13–16. 13, 15, 16 – head dorsally; 14 – head laterally. 13 – Agathidium (Agathidium) pilulum sp. nov.; 14, 16 – Agathidium (Macroceble) cornigerum sp. nov.; 15 – Agathidium (Macroceble) apiforme sp. nov.

Figs 9–12. 9, 10 in Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Hainan Island with new faunistic records from China and with notes on the unique body modifications in the genus Agathidium

Figs 9–12. 9, 10 – aedeagus laterally and tip of aedeagus dorsally. 11 – lateral view of body. 12 – spermatheca. 9–11 – Agathidium (Macroceble) apiforme sp. nov.; 12 – Dermatohomoeus pennatus sp. nov. Scale bars in Figs 9, 10 = 0.2 mm; 11 = 0.5 mm; 12 = 0.1 mm.

Figs 2A–F in Two new species of the genus Omoplax (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Mukojima Island, with new records of lace bugs endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Figs 2A–F. Head and pronotum, dorsal and dorsolateral views: A, B, D, E – Omoplax karubei sp. nov.: A, D – male, B, E – female. C, F – O. mukojimensis sp. nov.: female. Scale bars = 0.2 mm.

Figs 1–5 in First record of the genera Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron from China, with description of one new species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Figs 1–5. Habitus of Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron species. 1–2 – Bulborhodopis humeralis sp. nov., paratype; 3 – B. barbicornis Breuning, 1948; 4–5 – Mimapatelarthron bulbiferum Holzschuh, 2017. a – lateral view. 1, 4 – male; 2, 3, 5 – female. Scale bars = 2 mm.

Figs 10–13 in First record of the genera Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron from China, with description of one new species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Figs 10–13. Habitus and labels of holotypes of Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron species. 10 – Bulborhodopis barbicornis Breuning, 1948, male; 11 – B. inornatus Holzschuh, 2017, male; 12 – Mimapatelarthron laosense Breuning 1968, female; 13 – M. bulbiferum Holzschuh, 2017, male. a – labels.

Figs 3A–F in Two new species of the genus Omoplax (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Mukojima Island, with new records of lace bugs endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Figs 3A–F. Hemelytra, dorsal and dorsolateral views: A, B, D, E – Omoplax karubei sp. nov.: A, D – male, B, E – female. C, F – O. mukojimensis sp. nov.: female. Scale bars = 0.2 mm.

Figs 14–15 in First record of the genera Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron from China, with description of one new species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Figs 14–15. Male terminalia of Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron species. 14 – Bulborhodopis humeralis sp. nov.; 15 – Mimapatelarthron bulbiferum Holzschuh, 2017. a – Tergite VIII with sternites VIII & IX in ventral view; b – tegmen in ventral view and lateral view; c – median lobe in ventral view and lateral view; d – endophallus in inflated and everted condition. Scale bars = 0.5 mm (d – not to scale).

Figs 6–9 in First record of the genera Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron from China, with description of one new species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Figs 6–9. Frontal view of head of Bulborhodopis and Mimapatelarthron species. 6–7 – Bulborhodopis humeralis sp. nov.; 8–9 – Mimapatelarthron bulbiferum Holzschuh, 2017. 6, 8 – male; 7, 9 – female. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

Figs 1A–C in Two new species of the genus Omoplax (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Mukojima Island, with new records of lace bugs endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Figs 1A–C. Two species ofOmoplax from Mukojima Island, the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, dorsal view:A, B – O. karubei sp. nov.: A – male, B – female. C – O. mukojimensis sp. nov.: female. Scale bar = 1.0 mm.

Figs 6A–G in Two new species of the genus Omoplax (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Mukojima Island, with new records of lace bugs endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Figs 6A–G. Three tingid species endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, dorsal view: A–B – Acanthomoplax tomokunii Souma & Kamitani, 2021: A – male from Hahajima Island, B – female from Ototojima Island. C–E – Omoplax desecta (Horváth, 1912): C – male from Mukohjima Island, D – female from Meijima Island, E – female from Nakoudojima Island. F–G – O. majorcarinae Guilbert, 2001: F – male from Hahajima Island, G – female from Chichijima Island. Scale bar = 1.0 mm.

Figs 4A–E. A–B in Two new species of the genus Omoplax (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Mukojima Island, with new records of lace bugs endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Figs 4A–E. A–B – rostra and sternal laminae, ventral view:A – Omoplax karubei sp. nov.; B – O. mukojimensis sp. nov. C–E – apical part of the abdomen, ventral view: C, D – O. karubei sp. nov.: C – male, D – female; E – O. mukojimensis sp. nov.: female. Scale bars = 0.2 mm.

Figs 5A–B in Two new species of the genus Omoplax (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Mukojima Island, with new records of lace bugs endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Figs 5A–B. Line drawings of head and pronotum, dorsal view: A – Omoplax karubei sp. nov.; B – O. mukojimensis sp. nov. Abbreviations: ca – calli; co – collar; ho – hood; mc – median carina; pa – paranotum; pd – pronotal disc; pp – posterior process. Scale bars = 0.2 mm.