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FIG. 8 in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)
FIG. 8. — The wreck of a car placed with other metal items on the mound of a khirigsuur.
FIG. 3 in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)
FIG. 3. — Cattle skull with sunken frontal bone, observed on the steppe.
FIG. 12 in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)
FIG. 12. — Skulls placed by Sambuu on his ovoo.
The TEI, Its Foundations and Impact, and How It Fits Into Today's Needs and Practices for Language Analysis
<p>6<sup>th</sup> Lecture</p>
Uncovering the Benefits and Challenges of Continuous Integration Practices - Reproduction Package
<p>This is a reproduction package for our paper on continuous practices in software organizations.</p>
General Education Teachers Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Autism Education- V1
<p>This dataset was developed to examine factors that impact teacher's use of EBPs with students with autism in mainstream schools in Ireland. </p>
Shade-growing practices lessen the impact of coffee plantations on multiple dimensions of ant diversity
<p>1. Land use management influence changes in biodiversity beyond the targeted species. Management practices in coffee plantations have shifted from coffee growing below accompanying (shade) trees, to intensified monocultures in which coffee grows fully exposed to the sun. Anthropogenic disturbance causes changes in species composition relative to adjacent natural patches and reduces their biotic heterogeneity. Here, we assessed the impact of coffee plantation management practices on the taxonomical, phylogenetic, and functional composition of ant communities, an ecologically dominant group and crucial biological pest controller in these agroecosystems. We hypothesized that shade-grown coffee plantations would harbor ant communities similar to those of nearby forest patches, but dissimilar to those of intensified monocultures.</p> <p>2. We surveyed ant diversity in eight shade-grown coffee farms, eight intensive coffee monocultures and eight forest patches. We used a combination of active and passive sampling methods over two field campaigns spanning six months.</p> <p>3. Our results support our hypothesis for all diversity dimensions. Additionally, ant communities in intensified monocultures were taxonomically and functionally, but not phylogenetically, more homogeneous than those found in forest patches and shade-grown plantations.</p> <p>4. Synthesis and applications. Our findings support the idea that practices in shade-grown plantations buffer the impoverishment of multiple diversity dimensions after forest conversion. By assessing and integrating multiple biodiversity dimensions into management strategies, farmers and interested parties can minimize future biodiversity and ecosystem service loss.</p>
Juvenile social experience and practice have a switch-like influence on adult mate preferences in an insect
<p>Social causes of variation in animal communication systems have important evolutionary consequences, including speciation. The relevance of these effects depends on how widespread they are among animals. There is evidence for such effects not only in birds and mammals, but also frogs and some insects and spiders. Here we analyse the social ontogeny of adult mate preferences in an insect, Enchenopa treehoppers. In these communal plant-feeding insects, individuals reared in isolation or in groups differ in their mate preferences, and the group-reared phenotype can be rescued by playbacks to isolation-reared individuals. We ask about the relative role of signalling experience and signalling practice during ontogeny on the development of adult mating preferences in Enchenopa females. Taking advantage of variation in the signal experience and signalling practice of isolation-reared individuals, we find switch-like effects for experience and practice on female mate preference phenotypes, with individuals having some experience and practice as juveniles best rescuing the group-reared preference phenotype. We discuss how understanding the nature and distribution of social-ontogenetic causes of variation in mate preferences and other sexual traits will bring new insights into how within- and between-population variation influences the evolution of communication systems.</p>
Sustainable landscape, soil and crop management practices enhance biodiversity and yield in conventional cereal systems
<p>1. Input-driven, modern agriculture is commonly associated with large-scale threats to biodiversity, the disruption of ecosystem services and long-term risks to food security and human health. A switch to more sustainable yet highly productive farming practices seems unavoidable. However, an integrative evaluation of targeted management schemes at field and landscape scales is currently lacking. Furthermore, the often-disproportionate influence of soil conditions and agrochemicals on yields may mask the benefits of biodiversity-driven ecosystem services.</p> <p>2. Here, we used a real-world ecosystem approach to identify sustainable management practices for enhanced functional biodiversity and yield on 28 temperate wheat fields. Using path analysis, we assessed direct and indirect links between soil, crop and landscape management with natural enemies and pests, as well as follow-on effects on yield quantity and quality. A paired-field design with a crossed insecticide-fertilizer experiment allowed us to control for the relative influence of soil characteristics and agrochemical inputs.</p> <p>3. We demonstrate that biodiversity-enhancing management options such as reduced tillage, crop rotation diversity and small field size can enhance natural enemies without relying on agrochemical inputs. Similarly, we show that in this system controlling pests and weeds by agrochemical means is less relevant than expected for final crop productivity.</p> <p>4. Synthesis and applications: Our study highlights soil, crop and landscape management practices that can enhance beneficial biodiversity while reducing agrochemical usage and negative environmental impacts of conventional agriculture. The diversification of cropping systems and conservation tillage are practical measures most farmers can implement without productivity losses. Combining local measures with improved landscape management may also strengthen the sustainability and resilience of cropping systems in light of future global change.</p>
Teacher Characteristics, Knowledge and Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Autism Education in Ireland_Dataset_V1
<p>Dataset to accompany the paper "<strong>Teacher Characteristics, Knowledge and Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Autism Education in Ireland". </strong>The purpose of this paper was to identify differences in teachers knowledge and use of evidence-based practices across different teacher characteristics. </p>
Data from paper: Semi-automatic Feedback for Improving Architecture Conformance to Microservice Patterns and Practices
<p>All the data of the study <strong><em>Semi-automatic Feedback for Improving Architecture Conformance to Microservice Patterns and Practices. The file contains all the scripts and models of this study</em></strong></p>
Data for: The impacts of bioenergy pine plantation management practices on bee communities
<p>1. Cultivation of bioenergy feedstocks is a growing land-use worldwide, yet we have a poor understanding of how bioenergy crop management practices affect biodiversity. This knowledge gap is particularly acute for candidate cellulosic bioenergy feedstocks, such as tree plantations, and for organisms that provide important ecosystem services, such as pollinators.</p> <p>2. We examined bee communities in 83 sites across three states in the southeastern USA—Alabama, Florida and Georgia. We compared bee abundance and diversity in 66 pine plantation sites that reflect management with and without potential bioenergy feedstock production. At least three bioenergy feedstock production methods have been proposed for this region: 1) converting conventional timber stands to short-rotation bioenergy plantations; 2) harvesting feedstock by thinning conventional plantations; and 3) harvesting of woody debris residues after plantations have been clear-cut.</p> <p>3. We found that bioenergy-associated management practices including younger plantations (relative to older) and woody debris removal (relative to debris unremoved) in clear-cut plantations were associated with reduced bee diversity. Removing ground debris in clear-cut plantations also drastically increased bee abundance, though this effect was largely driven by strong dominance of just two bee species. Clear-cut plantations had lower beta diversity than standing plantations.</p> <p>4. Synthesis and applications. Management practices associated with bioenergy feedstock production can have negative effects on bee community diversity. In particular, harvesting of debris in clear-cut plantations dramatically reduces bee diversity. Large-scale bioenergy feedstock production that increases the prevalence of young and clear-cut stands may cause landscape-level beta diversity to decline. Nevertheless, bioenergy pine plantations likely support higher bee diversity than corn fields, an alternative bioenergy feedstock.</p>
Data from: Estimating diversification rates on incompletely-sampled phylogenies: theoretical concerns and practical solutions
<p>Molecular phylogenies are a key source of information about the tempo and mode of species diversification. However, most empirical phylogenies do not contain representatives of all species, such that diversification rates are typically estimated from incompletely sampled data. Most researchers recognize that incomplete sampling can lead to biased rate estimates, but the statistical properties of methods for accommodating incomplete sampling remain poorly known. In this point of view, we demonstrate theoretical concerns with the widespread use of analytical sampling corrections for sparsely sampled phylogenies of higher taxonomic groups. In particular, corrections based on "sampling fractions" can lead to low statistical power to infer rate variation when it is present, depending on the likelihood function used for inference. In the extreme, the sampling fraction correction can lead to spurious patterns of diversification that are driven solely by unbalanced sampling across the tree in concert with low overall power to infer shifts. Stochastic polytomy resolution provides an alternative to sampling fraction approaches that avoids some of these biases. We show that stochastic polytomy resolvers can greatly improve the power of common analyses to estimate shifts in diversification rates. We introduce a new stochastic polytomy resolution method (TACT: Taxonomic Addition for Complete Trees) that uses birth-death-sampling estimators across an ultrametric phylogeny to estimate branching times for unsampled taxa, with taxonomic information to compatibly place new taxa onto a backbone phylogeny. We close with practical recommendations for diversification inference under several common scenarios of incomplete sampling.</p>
Comparing Non-invasive Diabetes Risk Scores for Detecting Patients in Clinical Practice
<p>The Cork and Kerry Diabetes and Heart Disease Study (Phase II – Mitchelstown Cohort) was a single centre study conducted between 2010 and 2011. A random sample was recruited from a large primary care centre in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland. The Livinghealth Clinic serves a population of approximately 20,000 Caucasian-European subjects, with a mix of urban and rural residents. Stratified sampling was employed to recruit equal numbers of men and women from all registered attending patients in the 46–73-year age group. In total, 3,807 potential participants were selected from the practice list. Following the exclusion of duplicates, deaths and subjects incapable of consenting or attending appointment, 3,051 were invited to participate in the study and of these, 2,047 (49% male) completed the questionnaire and physical examination components of the baseline assessment (response rate: 67%). Individuals with pre-existing cardiovascular disease or T2DM were not excluded from the cohort.</p>
Plastic Skeleton Practice Dig
Captured on the 11th of May at UWA as part of a student training exercise. 194 photos from an iPhone SE. Reconstructed in Agisoft photoscan standard edition on Low settings alignment, low for meshing and 4096x pixel mosaic for texturing. These are not actual human remains. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Data set for survey questionnaires to assess self-medication practices
<p>This is pubmed and web of science data sets for a review on self medication survey questionnaires. </p>
Data files related to the article "Different meditation practices share the same neuronal correlates: increased gamma brainwave amplitude compared to control in three different meditation traditions
<p>Files description:</p> <p>- EEG datasets: the EEG data preprocessed in EEGLAB format</p> <p>- chanlocs.mat: contains channel characteristics for the study / used<br> to plot topographical maps of the data</p> <p> - 60110Hz_spec_data_imw_medit_combined.mat : contains spectrum data between 60 and 110 Hz for all 4 groups of subjects in combined instructed mind-wandering and meditation condition</p> <p> - 60110Hz_spec_data_medit.mat : contains spectrum data between 60<br> and 110 Hz for all 4 groups of subjects in meditation condition</p> <p> - 711Hz_spec_data_medit: contains spectrum data between 7 and 11 Hz for each group in meditation condition</p> <p>- boxplot_gamma.csv and boxplot_alpha.csv : median spectrum in the gamma and alpha ranged used to generate figure 4 B and 6 B</p> <p>- R_code_boxplot.r : code to generate boxplot using boxplot_gamma or boxplot_alpha.csv files</p>
Monitoring Continuous Integration Practices in Industry: A Case Study
<p><span>In our previous studies </span><span>have demonstrated </span><span>that only executing automatic builds and checking test coverage </span><span>have been considered to measure the level of Continuous Integra</span><span>tion maturity in several projects. In this paper we seek for under</span><span>stand the the benefits and challenges of monitoring CI practices in </span><span>day-to-day software development.</span><span> </span><span>We aim to evaluate the </span><span>impact of monitoring seven CI practices in a real-world scenario on </span><span>three public organizations in Brazil.</span><span> </span><span>We first developed a </span><span>CI practices monitoring suite tool and conducted a multiple-case </span><span>study applying a mixed-methods strategy, combining surveys, in</span><span>terviews, log data, and mining data from CI services.</span><span> </span><span>We </span><span>verified organization’ interest in monitoring CI practices. Moni</span><span>toring provided an overview of the organization’s CI status, not </span><span>covered by other tools, motivated constant improvement in these </span><span>practices, a perception of software quality, improve the communica</span><span>tion and and it is easy to adopt.</span><span> </span><span>Conclusions:</span><span> </span><span>We recommend that </span><span>companies adopt monitoring of CI practices and that CI services </span><span>integrate this monitoring into their dashboards.</span></p>
Interviews on Current Practices for Describing and Providing Access to UK Public Sector Web Archives
<p>This dataset contains qualitative interview data which investigated current practice for describing and providing access to UK Public Sector Web Archives. Participants included staff responsible for the management and curation of the following web archives:</p><ul><li>UK Web Archive (four of the six Legal Deposit libraries: the British Library, Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, and the National Library of Scotland)</li><li>UK Government Web Archive (The National Archives)</li><li>UK Parliament Web Archive (Parliamentary Archives)</li><li>NRS Web Archive (National Records of Scotland) and</li><li>PRONI Web Archive (Public Record Office Northern Ireland).</li></ul><p>Available to the public are the University of Dundee (UoD) ethics application for this study, including the research data management plan and information provided to organisations before participating in the study. The report of interview codes and code groups (the 'Codebook') demonstrates the connections made across responses. This is supplemented by a redacted report of quotations by code, organised by code group and document.</p><p>This qualitative interview data, and subsequent analysis, forms the basis of the Masters thesis 'Web Archives for All? Towards Equitable Access to UK Public Sector Web Archives' submitted as part of the MLitt Archives and Records Management at the University of Dundee. </p>
What harms and what hinders de-implementation of low-value care in emergency medicine practice ? A scoping review
<p><span>Low-value care can harm patients and healthcare systems. </span><span>Despite a decade of global endeavours, low-value care has persisted. Identification of barriers and enablers is essential for effective de-implementation of low-value care. This scoping review is an evidence summary of barriers, enablers and features of effective interventions for de-implementation of low-value care in emergency medicine practice worldwide.</span></p>
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