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Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds

As wind energy rapidly expands worldwide, information to minimize impacts of this development on biodiversity is urgently needed. Here we demonstrate how data collected by weather radar networks can inform placement and operation of wind facilities to reduce collisions and minimize habitat-related impacts for nocturnally migrating birds. We found over a third of nocturnal migrants flew through altitudes within the rotor-swept zone surrounding the North American Great Lakes, a continentally important migration corridor. Migrating birds concentrated in terrestrial stopover habitats within 20-km from shorelines, a distance well beyond the current guidelines for construction of new land-based facilities, and their distributions varied seasonally and at local and regional scales, creating predictable opportunities to minimize impacts from wind energy development and operation. Networked radar data are available across the U.S. and other countries and broad application of this approach could provide information critical to bird-friendly expansion of this globally important energy source.

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The impact of music and stretched time on pupillary responses and eye movements in slow-motion film scenes

Dataset of the article "The impact of music and stretched time on pupillary responses and eye movements in slow-motion film scenes" published in Journal of Eye Movement Research.

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No evidence that conifer biochar impacts soil functioning by serving as microbial refugia in boreal soils

It is well established that application of biochar to soils can promote soil fertility, which ultimately may enhance plant growth. While many mechanisms have been proposed to explain this, one specific mechanism, the "microbial refugia hypothesis" suggests that biochar may provide physical protection for soil microbe from soil micro-fauna that otherwise exert top-down control on microbial biomass and activity. We tested the microbial refugia hypothesis by incubating two boreal soils with and without biochar derived from a wood mixture of boreal tree species (Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris), and with and without soil nematodes. We measured phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) as a relative measure of microbial biomass, and several variables indicative of microbial activity, including extractable nutrient concentrations (NH4+, NO3-, and PO4-), heterotrophic N2-fixation, and soil respiration. Contrary to our expectations, we found that biochar by itself did not stimulate microbial biomass or activity. Further, we found that nematode addition to soil stimulated rather than depressed the biomass of several bacterial PLFA groups. Finally, interactive effects between the nematode treatment and biochar never worked in a way that supported the microbial refugia hypothesis. Our findings suggests that a typical boreal biochar applied to boreal soils may not have the same stimulatory effect on microbial biomass and activity that has been shown in some other ecosystems, and that enhanced plant growth in response to biochar addition sometimes observed in boreal environments is likely due to other mechanisms, such as direct nutrient supply from biochar, or amelioration of soil pH.

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Data used in "Topographic Modulation of the Wind Stress Impact on Eddy Activity in the Southern Ocean"

These are the data used in the creation of figures (Fig3,4,S2) in Cai et al. 2022: "Topographic Modulation of the Wind Stress Impact on Eddy Activity in the Southern Ocean", including 9 experiments. It is obtained from NEMO output.

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The impacts of host association and perturbation on symbiont fitness

Symbiosis benefits hosts in numerous ways, but much less is known about how host-association affects symbionts. While symbiont fitness can be mediated by host, symbiont, and/or environmental factors, recent works indicate that symbiont performance can depend on whether the symbiont is needed by the host, suggesting that symbiosis is not always beneficial for symbionts. To determine the impact of symbiosis on symbionts across the Tree of Life, we conducted a meta-analysis across 83 unique host-symbiont pairings under a range of spatial and temporal contexts. Specifically, we asked how symbiont fitness is altered outside of symbiosis, when host-symbiont interaction is under suboptimal conditions, or as hosts age. We found that intracellular symbionts associated with protists tend to have greater fitness outside of symbiosis, with the opposite trend for animal hosts. This result suggests that animals may be better at maintaining symbionts. Symbiont fitness also generally increased as hosts grow older. Moreover, symbionts that can proliferate in- and outside host cells performed better than those found exclusively inside or outside cells, suggesting that flexibility in growing location may help symbionts thrive. We discuss these fitness patterns in light of host-driven factors, where hosts exert influence over symbionts to suit their needs.

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Impact of training set size on the ability of deep neural networks to deal with label noise

This is the data set accompanying the publication 'Impact of training set size on the ability of deep neural networks to deal with label noise'   License This work is shared under the <code>Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License</code><code> (CC BY-SA 4.0)</code>: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The dataset is taken from the 6th SpaceNet challenge (https://spacenet.ai/sn6-challenge/) which also falls under the <code>CC BY-SA 4.0 license</code>. The original dataset was modified by removing objects from the buildings json files and converting the json files to png images. Creators of the SpaceNet dataset: Shermeyer, J., Hogan, D., Brown, J., Etten, A.V., Weir, N., Pacifici, F., Hänsch, R., Bastidas, A., Soenen, S., Bacastow, T.M., & Lewis, R. SpaceNet partners: https://spacenet.ai/about-us/

Let's save the kingdom! The impact of gamification on flow and academic achievement in secondary school students

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Data for Anemone bleaching impacts the larval recruitment success of an anemone-associated fish

Raw Data and R Script for Anemone bleaching impacts the larval recruitment success of an anemone-associated fish

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Nutrient concentrations, loading, and N:P stoichiometry (1983 - 2020) and impacts in Flathead Lake (Montana, USA)

Considerable attention is given to absolute nutrient levels in lakes, rivers, and oceans but less is paid to their relative concentrations, their N:P stoichiometry, and to the consequences of imbalanced stoichiometry. Here we report 38 years of nutrient dynamics in Flathead Lake, a large oligotrophic lake in Montana (USA), and its inflows. While nutrient levels were low, the lake had sustained high total N : total P ratios (TN:TP: 60-90:1 molar) throughout the observation period. N and P loading to the lake as well as loading N:P ratio varied considerably among years but showed no systematic long-term trend. Surprisingly, TN:TP ratios in river inflows were consistently lower than in the lake, suggesting that forms of P in riverine loading are removed preferentially to N. In-lake processes, such as differential sedimentation of P relative to N or accumulation of fixed N in excess of denitrification, likely also operate to maintain the lake's high TN:TP ratios. Regardless of causes, the lake's stoichiometric imbalance is manifested in P limitation of phytoplankton growth during early and mid-summer, resulting in high C:P and N:P ratios in suspended particulate matter that propagate P limitation to zooplankton. Finally, the lake's imbalanced N:P stoichiometry appears to raise the potential for aerobic methane production via metabolism of phosphonate compounds by P-limited microbes. These data highlight the importance of not only absolute N and P levels in aquatic ecosystems but also their stoichiometric balance and call attention to potential management implications of high N:P ratios.

Promoting extinction or minimizing growth? The impact of treatment on trait trajectories in evolving populations - Data

This is the dataset used in the manuscript "Promoting extinction or minimizing growth? The impact of treatment on trait trajectories in evolving populations" by Raatz &Traulsen. The code used to generate the data can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6656842.

Tool and python programs for the paper "The Impact of Altering Emission Data Precision on Compression Efficiency and Accuracy of Simulations of the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model"

Here is the content:    * file dir_list which contains information about each file's content    * the tool is used to alter a data file by keeping a specific number of significant digits for the paper "The Impact of Altering Emission Data Precision on Compression Efficiency and Accuracy of Simulations of the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model'    * pythons program and its associated data to create each figure and table in the paper (data for Table 07 is not included due to size is larger than 50GB)

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How drought events during the last Century have impacted biomass carbon in Amazonian rainforests

Dataset for producing figures in Yao et al, in submission to Global Change Biology

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Epigenetic variation impacts ancestry-associated differences in the transcriptional response to influenza infection (preprint)

Processed inputs necessary to run the main analyses described in https://github.com/katiearacena/EU_AF_ancestry_flu_code

All-atom accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) simulations of Filamin-A (FLNa) actin-binding Domain, immunoglobulin-like Domains 3, 4, 5, 21 and 24 to investagate the impact of known missense mutations associated with periventricular nodular heterotopia in the liveborn males

Data includes all of the wild-type and mutant trajectories of accelerated all-atom molecular dynamics (aMD) simulations of Filamin-A (FLNa, the product of FLNA gene located on chromosome X). Wild-type proteins are from the PDB structures with IDs: 4M9P, 3HOP, 3CNK. The mutations, including R484Q that we discovered in a Turkish family, were formerly found in the liveborn males with FLNA-associated periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH), who survived with the only copy of mutated FLNA. To understand how these mutations lead to the PNH and simultaneously allow their survival, we performed these MD simulations for the wild-type and mutant systems. Systems were prepared in Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD 1.9.3) by placing them in a TIP3P water box with approximately 20 Å thickness from the protein surface and neutralizing the system by adding counter ions in the form of NaCl. Of note, only protein parts were kept for the submission to reduce the size of files. Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics (NAMD 2.13-CUDA) was used to perform MD simulations with CHARMM36m force field. For pressure and temperature controls, Nosé-Hoover Langevin barostat and Langevin thermostat were used. ShakeH algorithm of NAMD was applied for water molecule constraints. 12 Å cut-off distance was used for van der Waals interactions. Switching function starts at 10 Å and reaches zero at 14 Å. Integration time-step was 2 fs. To compute the long-range Coulomb interactions, the particle-mash Ewald method was used. After a 10000-step minimization with conjugate gradient algorithm and an equilibration for 1 ns at 298 K under NVT ensemble, production simulations were run along 100 ns. Only the production simulations were supplied in this dataset. Further details are available in the regarding configuration files. Resulting analysis files and scripts are included with the carbon alpha-containing dcd files of the simulations. This dataset is not used directly for any study, but they are preliminary results for the usage of aMD to understand rare disease mechanisms. Related publications: <pre>Zenodo repo of classical MD for these variants: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4483108</pre> Journal article based on classical MD: Gerlevik U, Saygı C, Cangül H, Kutlu A, Çaralan EF, Topçu Y, et al. (2022) Computational analysis of missense filamin-A variants, including the novel p.Arg484Gln variant of two brothers with periventricular nodular heterotopia. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0265400. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265400

Financial literacy and its impact on insurance investment

The research on financial literacy and its impact on fund investments in insurance products is done by surveying the citizens of Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first half of 2021, via Viber, e-mail and social networks. Survey respondents  completed 3.238 questionnaires with correct answers.

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16s rRNA and copLAB partial sequences of copper resistant Xanthomonas spp. isolated from agrochemical impacted crucifer fields in Trinidad

Sanger sequence generated partial sequences of copLAB genes present in copper resistant Xanthomonas spp associated with leaf lesion and 16s rRNA sequences used for bacterial genera identification. Part of an upcoming manuscript, will be linked within document.

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The unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: A cross-sectional demographic study

Data accompanying the paper The unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: A cross-sectional demographic study, currently at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.08.21267475v1

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Data for "Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well-being in north-eastern Madagascar"

Dataset (1), codebook (2), explanation of responses (3), and interview protocol (4) for journal article "Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well-being in north-eastern Madagascar" People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10377 Please note the following. The following variables have been removed from the dataset to guarantee respondents’ anonymity:   1.a.2 - Place (place of origin if not born in the village) 1.d.1b – Function (function in the village if the respondent has one)   The following variable have been removed from the dataset given the few responses collected: 4.c – Place_in_forest (places in the forest important to the respondent)

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Spatial impact of urban expansion on lake surface water temperature based on the perspective of watershed scale

This is the original data from the article "Spatial impact of urban expansion on lake surface water temperature based on the perspective of watershed-scale"