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Impact of runoff temporal distribution on ice dynamics.

These are the data related to the study about "Impact of runoff temporal distribution on ice dynamics."   by Basile de Fleurian, Richard Davy and Petra M. Langebroek                                                                                                                                                         The data are the results of ISSM simulations as described in the publication and saved on a netCDF4 format.                                   Each tar files contain 100 ".nc" files each exported from a single simulation.   <ul> <li>"TimeshiftXX" identifies each simulation and has its own starting time.</li> <li>"SL" represents season length available in short medium or long.</li> <li>"LR" represent the Lapse Rate value only the standard mid LR is available here as presented in the manuscript.</li> <li>"DT" represents the length of the initiation of the melt season available in short medium or long.</li> <li>"Temp" represents the intensity of the melt season length available in low medium or high.</li> </ul> The naming convention is such that : <ul> <li>"-SLlow-LRmid-DTmid" replaces "SLlow-TempHigh"</li> <li>"-SLmid-LRmid-DTmid" replaces "SLmid-Tempmid"</li> <li>"-SLhigh-LRmid-DTmid" replaces "SLhigh-Templow"    </li> </ul> The different variables and their units are described in the netCDF file. If you require further information or some variale that are not present in those files feel free to contact me at:                                                                                                basile.defleurian@uib.no

Impact of New Variants on SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity and Neutralization: A Molecular Assessment of the Alterations in the Spike-Host Protein Interactions

MD simulation trajectories and structural models from the work which first appeared on bioRxiv (https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.10.426143), later ssrn (<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3907841">http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3907841</a>), and finally accepted for publication by Iscience. File Name: <a href="https://zenodo.org/api/files/d5ac679d-c267-4e55-8f63-0abdaa41d067/Run1_WT_RBD_ACE2.zip">Run1_WT_RBD_ACE2.zip</a> Description: A compressed (zipped) folder contains three independent MD trajectories of WT RBD-ACE2 complex. File Name: <a href="https://zenodo.org/api/files/d5ac679d-c267-4e55-8f63-0abdaa41d067/Run2_N501Y_RBD_ACE2.zip">Run2_N501Y_RBD_ACE2.zip</a> Description: A compressed folder contains three independent MD trajectories of Alpha RBD-ACE2 complex. File Name: <a href="https://zenodo.org/api/files/d5ac679d-c267-4e55-8f63-0abdaa41d067/Run3_Beta_RBD_ACE2.zip">Run3_Beta_RBD_ACE2.zip</a> Description: A compressed folder contains three independent MD trajectories of Beta RBD-ACE2 complex. File Name: <a href="https://zenodo.org/api/files/d5ac679d-c267-4e55-8f63-0abdaa41d067/Run4_Delta_RBD_ACE2.zip">Run4_Delta_RBD_ACE2.zip</a> Description: A compressed folder contains three independent MD trajectories of Delta RBD-ACE2 complex File Name:  <a href="https://zenodo.org/api/files/d5ac679d-c267-4e55-8f63-0abdaa41d067/Run5_UK2_E484K_N501Y_ACE2.zip">Run5_UK2_E484K_N501Y_ACE2.zip</a> Description: A compressed folder contains three independent MD trajectories of UK2 RBD-ACE2 complex File Name: <a href="https://zenodo.org/api/files/d5ac679d-c267-4e55-8f63-0abdaa41d067/Structural_model_PDBs.zip">Structural_model_PDBs.zip</a> Description: A compressed folder contains eight pdb files of those structural models plotted in Figs 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and S1.

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Data for Rates of warming impact oxidative stress in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Potentially negative effects of thermal variation on physiological functions may be modulated by compensatory responses, but their efficacy depends on the timescale of phenotypic adjustment relative to the rate of temperature change. Increasing temperatures in particular can affect mitochondrial bioenergetics and rates of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Our aim was to test whether different rates of temperature increase impact mitochondrial bioenergetics and modulate oxidative stress. We exposed zebrafish (Danio rerio) to warming from 20 to 28°C over 3, 6, 24, or 48 h, and compared these to a control group that was kept at constant 20°C. Fish exposed to the fastest (3 h) and slowest (48 h) rates of warming had significantly higher rates of H2O2 production relative to the control treatment, and the proportion of O2 converted to H2O2 (H2O2/O2 ratio) was significantly greater in these groups. However, ROS production was not paralleled by differences in mitochondrial substrate oxidation rates, leak respiration rates, or coupling (respiratory control ratios). Increased rates of ROS production did not lead to damage of proteins or membranes, which may be explained by a moderate increase in catalase activity at the fastest, but not the slowest rate of warming. The increase in ROS production at the slowest rate of heating indicates that even seemingly benign environments may be stressful. Understanding how animals respond to different rates of temperature change is important, because the rate determines the time period for phenotypic adjustments and it also alters the environmental thermal signal that triggers compensatory pathways.

Impact of gigahertz and terahertz transport regimes on spin propagation and conversion in the antiferromagnet IrMn

Data for the publication "Impact of gigahertz and terahertz transport regimes on spin propagation and conversion in the antiferromagnet IrMn" published in Applied Physics Letters. The following datasets are provided: GHz and THz raw data as function of the IrMn thickness, THz raw data spectra of the Pt|AF|F sample set, GHz and THz charge currents for forward (N|AF|F) and reversly-grown (F|AF|N) trilayer samples for N= Pt, W and Ta with varying AF thickness as well as the frequency-dependence of the charge current in the THz regime. Moreover, the temporal dynamics of the spin current densities from IrMn thicknesses 0nm, 3nm and 6nm are supplied.

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Data from: No evidence of foliar disease impact on crop root functional strategies and soil microbial communities: What does this mean for organic coffee?

Global climate change is increasing pest and pathogen pressures on plant communities, deteriorating optimal plant functioning. In plant communities, root functional trait expression and microbial communities are important indicators of plant functioning belowground, and, when confronted with pathogens aboveground, can simultaneously reflect plant defence strategies. Yet, while research is continuing to emerge on the response of root functional traits and microbial processes to pathogens aboveground, little work has investigated these interactions in tree-crops, or the role organic amendments play in moderating these relationships. The main objective of this study is to disentangle the dynamic effects of pathogens and amendments on root functional traits (i.e., specific root length and area, root diameter, root length density, root nitrogen, and root carbon to nitrogen ratio) and root endophytic fungal communities. As a model, we use Coffea arabica (coffee) variety Caturra along a gradient of Coffee Leaf Rust – a foliar disease prominent in coffee systems – under contrasting but widespread amendment regimes in biodiverse agroforestry systems. We found that root trait expression varies along established conservation and collaboration gradients, where fungal endophyte community composition varies significantly as a function of root traits. Belowground resource acquisition strategies do not change with foliar disease incidence, suggesting they may be decoupled. Rather, amendment regimes differentially shape root trait expression and microbial communities, where coffee plants under organic amendments, regardless of foliar disease incidence, expressed greater acquisitive traits and enhanced collaboration with symbiotic fungi. This is an important first step in disentangling the dynamic inter-relationships between plant traits, endophytes, and pathogens, generating new questions on the role of amendments in sustainable pathogen management in biodiverse agroecosystems.

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Impact of rapid thermal processing on bulk and surface recombination mechanisms in FZ silicon with fired passivating contacts

Data underlying the article

Data for: Impacts of urbanization on chloride and stream invertebrates: a 10-year citizen science field study of road salt in stormwater runoff

Abstract: The use of deicing agents during the winter months is one of many stressors that impact stream ecosystems in urban and urbanizing watersheds. In this study, a long-term dataset collected by citizen scientists with the Missouri Stream Team was used to evaluate the relationships between watershed urbanization metrics and chloride metrics. Further, these data were used to explore effects of elevated chloride concentrations on stream invertebrate communities using quantile regression. While the amount of road surface in a watershed was a dominant factor in predicting the maximum chloride measurement, the median chloride concentration was also strongly related to the amount of medium-to-high density development in the watershed, suggesting that non-municipal salt use is an important contributor to increases in baseflow chloride concentrations. Additionally, chloride concentration appears to be one of the many factors that impact invertebrate density and diversity measurements, with decreases in invertebrate diversity corresponding with the U.S. EPA water quality criteria. Our findings suggest that the use of chloride-based road salt on municipal roads as well as in non-municipal settings is contributing to a loss of diversity and density of aquatic invertebrate communities in urban regions.

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Impact of landscape fragmentation and climate change on body size variation of bumblebees during the last century

Body size is a key parameter of organism fitness. While the impact of climate change on body size has received increasing attention, the long-term consequences of landscape fragmentation are still poorly known. These two major global threats may potentially induce opposite trends: the decrease of body size in warmer environments (e.g. individuals developing faster) or the selection of larger individuals in fragmented habitats (e.g. large individuals more capable of reaching distant patches). We assessed the relationship between temperature and landscape fragmentation with mean body size during the last century, within four European regions (Austria, Belgium, England and above the Arctic circle in Scandinavia) and among queens of five bumblebee species. At the regional scale, we first analysed the variation over time of body size and the two hypothesised drivers, temperature and landscape fragmentation. Then, at the local landscape scale, we tested whether body size varied according to these drivers irrespective of the region. At the regional level, we observed a statistically clear increase of queen body size corresponding to an increase of landscape fragmentation (i.e. in Belgium and England). There was no increase of size when fragmentation did not increase (i.e. in Austria and above the Arctic Circle). Temperature also increased through time in all regions. At the local landscape scale, we found that all species were impacted by changes in both climate and landscape fragmentation but show different trends. The body size of the two largest species significantly increased at landscape level with higher fragmentation while body size of the two smallest species decreased with higher fragmentation. We highlight that, in a context of global changes, landscape fragmentation can also be a major driver of body size clines. Depending on the dispersal abilities of species, larger species could be positively selected for and overcome landscape fragmentation.

Pastures and climate extremes: Impacts of cool season warming and drought on the productivity of key pasture species in a field experiment

Shifts in the timing, intensity and/or frequency of climate extremes, such as severe drought and heatwaves, can generate sustained shifts in ecosystem function with important ecological and economic impacts for rangelands and managed pastures. The Pastures and Climate Extremes experiment (PACE) in Southeast Australia was designed to investigate the impacts of a severe winter/spring drought (60% rainfall reduction) and, for a subset of species, a factorial combination of drought and elevated temperature (ambient +3 °C) on pasture productivity. The experiment included nine common pasture and Australian rangeland species from three plant functional groups (C3 grasses, C4 grasses and legumes) planted in monoculture. Winter/spring drought resulted in productivity declines of 45% on average and up to 74% for the most affected species (Digitaria eriantha) during the 6-month treatment period, with eight of the nine species exhibiting significant yield reductions. Despite considerable variation in species' sensitivity to drought, C4 grasses were more strongly affected by this treatment than C3 grasses or legumes. Warming also had negative effects on cool-season productivity, associated at least partially with exceedance of optimum growth temperatures in spring and indirect effects on soil water content. The combination of winter/spring drought and year-round warming resulted in the greatest yield reductions. We identified responses that were either additive such that there was only as significant warming effect under drought (Festuca), or less-than-additive, where there was no drought effect under warming (Medicago), compared to ambient plots. Results from this study highlight the sensitivity of diverse pasture species to increases in winter and spring drought severity similar to those predicted for this region, and that anticipated benefits of cool-season warming are unlikely to be realised. Overall, the substantial negative impacts on productivity suggest that future, warmer, drier climates will result in shortfalls in cool-season forage availability, with profound implications for the livestock industry and natural grazer communities.

Model code, data, and plot scripts for the paper "Impacts of Ice-Particle Size Distribution Shape Parameter on Climate Simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model Version 6 (CAM6)".

The model codes, data, and plot scripts used in the paper, "Impacts of Ice-Particle Size Distribution Shape Parameter on Climate Simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model Version 6 (CAM6)". <ul> <li>7_experiments.zip contains modified model code and output data of each experiment in this study.</li> <li>off-line test.zip contains off-line test code and output data.</li> <li>plot_scripts.zip are the NCL scripts used for figures in the paper.</li> </ul>

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Data set of studies and indicators on the impacts of crop diversification through coffee agroforestry.

The dataset contains information about 215 papers that were included in the review study.

Supporting data for "Impact of compression on the electrochemical performance of the sulfur/carbon composite electrode in lithium–sulfur batteries"

This is the dataset of electrochemical and operando X-ray diffracytion experiments for our publication "Impact of compression on the electrochemical performance of the sulfur/carbon composite electrode in lithium–sulfur batteries". This archive contains the raw data and scripts written in R used in the analysis and presentation of the results in this manuscript. Abstract for the manuscript: While lithium–sulfur batteries theoretically have both high gravimetric specific energy and volumetric energy density, only its specific energy has been experimentally demonstrated to surpass that of the state-of-the-art lithium-ion systems at cell level. One major reason for the unrealized energy density is the low capacity density of the highly porous sulfur/carbon composite as the positive electrode. In this work, mechanical compression at elevated temperature is demonstrated to be an effective method to increase the capacity density of the electrode by at least 90% and moreover extends its cycle life. Distinct impacts of compression on the resistance profiles of electrodes with different thickness are investigated by tortuosity factors derived from both electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, X-ray computed tomography and kinetic analysis based on operando X-ray diffraction. The results highlights the importance of a homogeneous electrode structure for the lithium–sulfur system.

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Revisiting the impact of rapid releases on software development activities

This repository contains the data used in our work entitled ["Revisiting the impact of rapid releases on software development activities"]

Impacts of using different standard populations in calculating age-standardized death rates when age-specific death rates in the populations being compared do not have a consistent relationship: A cross-sectional population-based observational study on US state HIV death rates

Objective: To examine if the rankings of state HIV age-standardized death rates (ASDRs) changed if different standard population (SP) was used. Design: A cross-sectional population-based observational study. Setting 36 states in the United States. Participants: People died from 2015 to 2019. Main outcome measures: State HIV ASDR using 4 SPs, namely WHO2000, US2000, US2mor020, and Eur2011–2030. Results: The rankings of 19 states did not change when ASDRs were calculated using US2000 and US2020. Of the 17 states whose rankings changed, the rankings of 9 states calculated using US2000 were higher than those calculated using US2020; in 8 states, the rankings were lower. The states with the greatest changes in rankings between US2000 and US2020 were Kentucky (12th and 9th, respectively) and Massachusetts (8th and 11th, respectively). Conclusions: State ASDRs calculated using the current official SP (US2000) weigh middle-age HIV death rates more heavily than older-age HIV death rates, resulting in lower ASDRs among states with higher older-age HIV death rates.

Impacts of transboundary transport on coastal air quality of south China

observation data for air pollutants from China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment

Nurses' experience of using video consultation in a digital care setting and its impact on their workflow and communication

The dataset contains transcription of 15 interviews performed with nurses working in a digital care setting. It also includes the consent form which were sent to the participants in the study. The study aimed to explore nurses' experience of using video consultation in a digital care setting and its impact on their workflow and communication. All interviews were performed in Sweden.

Data of publication "Impact of biomass burning and stratospheric intrusions in the remote South Pacific Ocean troposphere" by N. Daskalakis et al.

Modeled data and measured data as used for the publication " Impact of biomass burning and stratospheric intrusions in the remote South Pacific Ocean troposphere" by N. Daskalakis et al. All measured data were obtained from the official sources, and model results are described in the publication. Please refer to the manuscript for further information for the data and the model.

Reward-dependent selection of feedback gains impact rapid motor decisions

Target reward influences motor planning strategies through modulation of movement vigor. Considering current theories of sensorimotor control suggesting that movement planning consists in selecting a goal-directed control strategy, we sought to investigate the influence of reward on feedback control. Here we explored this question in three human reaching experiments. First, we altered the explicit reward associated with the goal target and found an overall increase in feedback gains for higher target rewards, highlighted by larger velocities, feedback responses to external loads, and background muscle activity. Then, we investigated whether the differences in target rewards across multiple goals impacted rapid motor decisions during movement. We observed idiosyncratic switching strategies dependent on both target rewards and, surprisingly, the feedback gains at perturbation onset: the more vigorous movements were less likely to switch to a new goal following perturbations. To gain further insight into a causal influence of the feedback gains on rapid motor decisions, we demonstrated that biasing the baseline activity and reflex gains by means of a background load evoked a larger proportion of target switches in the direction opposite to the background load associated with lower muscle activity. Together, our results demonstrate an impact of target reward on feedback control and highlight the competition between movement vigor and flexibility.

Data for: Abundance and accessibility of forage for reindeer in forests of Northern Sweden: impacts of landscape and winter climate regime

The survival of reindeer during winter, their period of greatest food stress, is largely dependent upon the abundance and accessibility of food in their pastures. In Northern Sweden this realised availability of forage is notably affected by snow conditions and the impacts of forestry on understorey in these pastures. Whilst these factors have been examined to some extent in isolation, their combined effect on overall forage availability has, to the best of our knowledge to date, not been studied. In this study, vegetation surveys and analysis of snow conditions were undertaken in 16 forest stands at various stages of recovery from clear-cutting. The variation in abundance and growth of understorey species edible by reindeer, such as lichen, were noted as forest age increased. The barrier effect of ice lenses in snow during winter was also noted. Lichen biomass was significantly affected by a combination of stand age, understorey vegetation height, and lichen height. Soil disturbance from the processes of felling, and competition in the vegetation communities recovering from this disturbance were identified as key drivers of change in lichen biomass. Overall, clear-cut forests had some of the greatest prevalence of ice lenses in the snow column, and forage availability at these sites was up to 61 % less than in stands over 58 years in age.