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Artfiact for the Proc. ACM Softw. Eng. article "Sharing Software-Evolution Datasets: Practices, Challenges, and Recommendations."

This dataset is a collection of all notes taken for the article:     David Broneske, Sebastian Kittan, and Jacob Krüger:     Sharing Software-Evolution Datasets: Practices, Challenges, and Recommendations.      Proc. ACM Softw. Eng. 1, FSE, 2024.     https://doi.org/10.1145/3660798 Please refer to the readme for a description of the files involved in the zip file.

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Data extraction sheet: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Women and Men Towards Infertility: A Scoping Review

This is the data extraction tool that includes all the studies reviewed and inclided in: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Women and Men Towards Infertility: A Scoping Review

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On the Understandability of Coupling-Related Practices in Infrastructure-as-Code Based Deployments

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Persistence of seed dispersal in agroecosystems: effects of landscape modification and intensive soil management practices in avian frugivores, frugivory and seed deposition in olive croplands

Farming impacts on animal-mediated seed dispersal through mechanisms operating at least at two spatial scales: first, at the landscape scale, through habitat loss and land conversion to agriculture/livestock grazing, and second, by local intensification (farm scale) of the agricultural practices. Nonetheless, these two scales of farming impact on the seed dispersal function have been rarely integrated. In particular, studies evaluating the effect of agriculture in the seed dispersal function of frugivorous birds in Mediterranean ecosystems are lacking. We evaluate the role of the landscape transformation, from fruit-rich woodland habitats to olive grove landscapes, together with the local intensive practices of soil management on the persistence of the seed dispersal function for Mediterranean fleshy-fruited plants in olive landscapes of south Spain. We used bird censuses, mist-nets and seed traps to characterize avian frugivore assemblages, frugivory, and seed deposition in seminatural woodland habitat (SNWH) patches and olive fields of 40 olives farms of 20 localities distributed across the whole range of olive cultivation in Andalusia (southern Spain). We found that despite of a still remarkable dispersal function in olive grove landscapes, avian frugivore abundance and diversity, frugivory, and seed arrival decreased in olive fields compared to SNWH patches. Likewise, SNWH cover loss and/or olive growing expansion decreased avian frugivory and seed arrival. Interestingly, habitat effects in the olive farms often depended on the landscape context. In particular, less diverse fruit-eating bird assemblages pooled in SNWH patches as olive grove cover increased or SNWH decreased in the landscape, while remained relatively invariant in the olive fields. Finally, compared to conventional intensive agriculture, low-intensity management increased frugivory and seed deposition. We conclude that olive fields are less permeable to frugivores than expected by its agroforest-like nature, and that presence of SNWH patches is crucial for the maintenance of frugivory and seed dispersal in agricultural landscapes. Results evidence that woodland habitat loss by olive expansion and the intensive practices seriously threaten the dispersal service in olive-dominated landscapes. Maintenance, restoration and promotion of woodland patches should be prioritized for the conservation of the seed dispersal service and for enhancing the functional connectivity in human-shaped olive landscapes.

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Practices of Viewing IV: Screenshot (video essay)

In the background of all the films I watch there are these screenshots that keep accumulating on my hard drive. Hundreds, thousands. When I see them I think of all the difficulties we once had with trying to obtain these images hidden within a film. And how easy it is today. And it makes me dream about what this images could be doing together, without my knowledge.

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Practices of Viewing III: Muted (video essay)

"Sound cinema has invented silence" (Robert Bresson)  On Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter the standard setting for videos is "mute". More than 120 years after its invention silent cinema has become the default mode. Today's practice is supposed to make video consumption smoother. But it could also make us think about the frightening power silence could only attain with the advent of cinematic sound. In muting we might hear something far more unsettling than what words and images can express.

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Agronomic and Environmental Performance of Lemnaminor Cultivated on Agricultural Wastewater Streams—A Practical Approach

This study investigated the potential of Lemna minor to valorise agricultural wastewater in protein-rich feed material in order to meet the growing demand for animal feed protein and reduce the excess of nutrients in certain European regions. For this purpose, three pilot-scale systems were monitored for 175 days under outdoor conditions in Flanders. The systems were fed with the effluent of aquaculture (pikeperch production—PP), a mixture of diluted pig manure wastewater (PM), and a synthetic medium (SM). PM showed the highest productivity (6.1 ± 2.5 g DW m−2 d−1) and N uptake (327 ± 107 mg N m−2 d−1). PP yielded a similar productivity and both wastewaters resulted in higher productivities than SM. Furthermore, all media showed similar P uptake rates (65–70 P m−2 d−1). Finally, duckweed had a beneficial amino acid composition for humans (essential amino acid index = 1.1), broilers and pigs. This study also showed that the growing medium had more influence on the productivity of duckweed than on its amino acid composition or protein content, with the latter being only slightly affected by the different media studied. Overall, these results demonstrate that duckweed can effectively remove nutrients from agriculture wastewaters while producing quality protein.

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Rest-activity daily rhythm and physical activity levels after hip and knee joint replacement: the role of actigraphy in orthopedic clinical practice.

Elective hip and knee joint replacement for osteoarthritis are cost-effective surgical procedures requiring specific rehabilitation programs. Actigraphy is widely used in both research and clinical practice to study activity patterns with great accuracy and validity but it has never been utilized in orthopedic patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to objectively assess, through actigraphy, physical activity (PA) levels and rest-activity daily rhythm (RAR) in patients undergoing hip or knee joint replacement and hospitalized for ten days after surgery. Twenty subjects (11 males and 9 females; age: 62.68 ± 10.39 years old; BMI: 29.03 ± 3.92 kg/m2) wore the Actiwatch 2 actigraph (Philips Respironics, Portland, OR) to record both PA levels and RAR for 11 consecutive days and data on subjective scores of pain, by a visual analog scale (VAS), and functional and clinical scores were collected. The following time-points were considered for the statistical analysis: pre-surgery (PRE), the first (POST1), the fourth (POST4) and the tenth (POST10) day after surgery. RAR were processed with the population mean cosinor to describe the rhythm's characteristics (acrophase, amplitude and MESOR) while data on actigraphy-based PA, VAS, and functional clinical scores were compared among PRE, POST1, POST4 and POST 10 with the RM-ANOVA or the non-parametric Friedman test. The day after surgery the subjects had a flattened RAR compared to the other conditions: lower values were detected in POST1 compared to both PRE, POST4 and POST10 for MESOR (p < .0001; η2p = .71, large) and amplitude (p < .0001; η2p = .63, large) while RAR's acrophase (p < .0001; η2p = .61, large) was delayed in PRE (16:45) compared to POST1 (12:42), POST4 (14:38), and POST10 (14:38). PA levels were significantly lower at POST 1 (76.7 ± 33.4) compared to PRE (192.3 ± 91.5; p < .0001 and ES: 1.68, large), POST4 (137.9 ± 45.9; p < .0001 and ES: 1.54, large), and POST10 (131.2 ± 54.3; p < .0001 and ES: 1.21, large) whereas VAS and functional clinical values significantly improved at POST10. Hip and knee joint replacement negatively influenced RAR and PA the first day after surgery but a progressive improvement in the circadian pattern of rest-activity cycle, PA levels, VAS and functional ability was recorded from POST4 to POST10. Actigraphy has the ability to collect real-life data without interfering with clinical practice and give clinicians a new measure of performance that is currently not available. This tool could allow to identify patients with disrupted circadian rhythm and reduced PA in the peri-operative period in orthopedic surgery, and timely intervene on these subjects with personalized rehabilitative intervention.

opencc-zeroNov 2021View details →

Large-scale homogenization of soil bacterial communities in response to agricultural practices in paddy fields, China

<div>This dataset contains data from 257 sites in four typical rice-growing regions across a 4,000-km transect in China, including geographic location data and environment factors data.</div> <div> The study was conducted across a 4,000-km transect of China's rice-growing areas, from Heilong Jiang province to Yunnan province (100°55′ E to 134°08′° E, 22°46′ N to 48°02′ N, Table S1). Four typical rice-growing regions were selected along this transect: Sanjiang Plain (modern mechanical farming), Taihu Plain (mechanical plus minor manual farming), Lianghu Plain (manual plus minor mechanical farming), and Hani Terrace (traditional manual farming).</div> <div> Field sampling was conducted during July and August in 2014 and 2015. Soil samples were collected from 178 flooded paddy fields and 79 surrounding non-paddy areas across four typical rice-growing regions of China. At each site, one homogenized sample was obtained, which was then separated into two parts. One part, which was obtained for DNA extraction, was placed into a sterile plastic tube then immediately placed in liquid nitrogen for short-term transportation. After shipping to the laboratory, these tubes were stored at −80 °C. The second part of the soil sample was placed into a plastic bag and stored at 4.0 °C for determining the soil physicochemical properties.</div> <div> Main results of the experiments are that: (1) Distance–decay patterns of bacterial communities in paddy fields revealed reduced β-diversity compared to surrounding natural habitats. (2) Modern rice farming practices (plowing with machines) caused stronger homogenization of soil bacterial communities than traditional farming (plowing by hand). Among the four paddy regions, plowing by hand retained the highest soil bacterial β-diversity. (3) Moreover, a significant inverse correlation was observed between bacterial β-diversity and the agricultural mechanization level. (4) Among multiple environmental factors, dramatic spatial homogenization of soil physicochemical properties, particularly soil nutrient contents, and reduced dispersal limitation caused by modern farming activities both strongly predict a reduction of bacterial β-diversity in modern paddy fields.</div>

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Replication package for: "The Brides of Boko Haram: Economic Shocks, Marriage Practices, and Insurgency in Nigeria"

Rexer, Jonah, "The Brides of Boko Haram: Economic Shocks, Marriage Practices, and Insurgency in Nigeria", Economic Journal, forthcoming.

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Effects of cultivation practice on floristic and flowering diversity of spontaneously growing plant species on arable fields

In the past, the floristic diversity of arable fields has been described in terms of species diversity (SD) and their degree of coverage (C), but never in combination with the recording of the actually flowered species (FS) and their flowering intensity (FI) to striking differences in the cultivation methods on arable land. In relation with SD and C, however, FS and FI may provide important additional information on the functional biodiversity of fields. The aim was therefore to investigate the effects of a) conventional, b) organic as well as c) smallholder (never application of herbicides) on the floristic diversity. Using a region in Germany, we investigated SD, C, FS and FI synchronously in a), b) and c), by 356 vegetation surveys (5x5m plots) conducted in spring and summer in 2019 in winter cereals. Statistical tests were used to analyse the differences between a), b) and c). The medians were used to compare the floristic diversity of a), b) and c) and finally relationships of FS and FI to SD were analysed in relation to the cultivation methods. Significant differences in SD, C, FS and FI were found between the a), b) and c) in spring and summer characterised by sharp declines from c) to b) to a). A drastic reduction in floristic diversity from c) 100 to b) 52 to a) 3 was determined. Plants in flower (FS, FI), were very poorly in a), moderately well to well in b) and well to very well represented in c). C) to a) was characterised by an sharp decline, and, from a) to b) by sharp increase in floristic diversity. With current acreage proportions of a) in mind, this would affect, about one-third of land area in Germany, associated with a drastic reduction in functional biodiversity for insects.

opencc-zeroFeb 2022View details →

Soil carbon composition and persistence under various management practices on Mollisols

This dataset contains information of the manuscript entitled "Persistent soil carbon enhanced in Mollisols by well-managed grasslands but not annual grain or dairy forage cropping systems". Grasslands-derived Mollisols cover a large area globally and are usually under intensive agricultural production, which has liberated large amounts of carbon (C) into the atmosphere. Whether improved management practices such as no-till, diversified crop rotations, legumes and/or manure additions, or re-establishing perennial grasslands and integrating livestock can restore soil C on Mollisols is unclear. In this study, we utilized the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (WICST), a long-term trial comparing conventional and alternative agricultural systems in the North Central USA, and studied soil C composition and persistence, and their relationships with soil microbial attributes after 29 years of different agricultural management. The soil C composition data include particulate organic matter (POM)-C, which is believed to be primarily plant-derived and unprocessed or partially processed by microbes, and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM)-C, which is believed to be mostly microbial-derived and simple structured. These soil C fractions were obtained by physical fractionation (53 µm). Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) was used to study the composition of MAOM (Aliphatic C vs. Aromatic C). Soil microbial attributes studied include soil microbial biomass C (by chloroform fumigation method), microbial C-use efficiency (CUE) (by 13C-tracing method), and microbial necromass (amino sugars biomarkers, including glucosamine, muramic acids, galactosamine, and mannosamine). Activities of oxidative enzymes were studied to assess the potential of soil organic matter oxidation under these different management regimes. These data suggested that on the Mollisols, only perennial pastures that were managed by rotational grazing could enhance soil (0-30 cm) carbon stock and persistence compared to the conventional continuous corn system that had annual tillage. No-till did not increase soil C stock or persistence, while including legumes/manure in crop rotations could enhance microbial C cycling, but could not enhance the stock of persistent MAOM-C.

opencc-zeroMar 2022View details →

Data from: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Indonesian urban communities regarding HPV infection, cervical cancer, and HPV vaccination

Background: Few studies explored Indonesian understanding of cervical cancer (CC) and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. We aimed to investigate the association between knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) and socio-demographical influences related to HPV, CC, and vaccination among Indonesian urban citizens. Methods: We conducted an online survey during March 2020-August 2021 using the Snowball sampling technique. The socio-demographic characteristic and KAP responses were collected via Google Forms from 400 respondents in Jakarta. The knowledge and attitudes were divided into HPV and CC (aspect 1) and HPV vaccination (aspect 2). Correlation between KAP scores was performed using Spearman's test, and multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine KAP predictors. Results: Indonesian urban citizens in Jakarta were found to have poor knowledge in individual aspects of the inquiry but moderate knowledge overall, good attitude in inquiry both in each aspect and overall, and unsatisfying practices. Overall, in the general population, men, and women respectively: 50.8%, 32.4%, and 53.6% had good knowledge; 82.0%, 75.2%, and 84.4% expressed positive attitude; and 30.3%, 15.2%, and 35.6% applied favorable practice regarding questions inquired. Knowledge was weakly correlated towards attitude (ρ=0.385) but moderately correlated with practice (ρ=0.485); attitude was moderately correlated with practice (ρ=0.577), all results: p<0.001. Significant odds ratio (OR) for predictors to good knowledge were female sex (OR=2.99), higher education (OR=2.91), and higher mother's education (OR=2.15). Factors related to positive attitudes were higher mother's education (OR=4.13), younger age (OR=1.86), and better results in the knowledge inquiries (OR=2.96). Factors that suggested better practices were female sex (OR=2.33), being employed (OR=1.68), excellent knowledge scores (OR=4.56), and positive attitudes expressions (OR=8.05). Having done one vaccination dose and intention to receive vaccines were significantly influenced by good KAP. Conclusions: KAP had inter-association to successful CC and HPV prevention programs, and socio-demographical characteristics are critical to influencing better KAP.

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Bibliometric appendix for the paper "The application domains of systematic mapping studies: A mapping study of the first decade of practice with the method"

Bibliometric appendix for the paper "The application domains of systematic mapping studies: A mapping study of the first decade of practice with the method"

FIGURE 17 in A practical approach to revise the Oxynoemacheilus bergianus species group (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

FIGURE 17. Oxynoemacheilus simavicus, first molecular cluster in Sakarya, FSJF 2499, 64 mm SL; Turkey: stream Bayındır.

FIGURE 18 in A practical approach to revise the Oxynoemacheilus bergianus species group (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

FIGURE 18. Oxynoemacheilus simavicus, second molecular cluster in Sakarya, from top: FSJF 1965, 65 mm SL, not preserved, same locality as FSJF 1965, about 55 mm SL; Turkey: Sakarya River; FSJF 3719, 54 mm SL; 55 mm SL; Turkey: stream Asar, Büyük Melen drainage.

FIGURE 16 in A practical approach to revise the Oxynoemacheilus bergianus species group (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

FIGURE 16. Oxynoemacheilus simavicus, first molecular cluster, from top: FSJF 2499, 54 mm SL; 56 mm SL; 59 mm SL; 56 mm SL; Turkey: stream Bayındır, Sakarya drainage.

FIGURE 5 in A practical approach to revise the Oxynoemacheilus bergianus species group (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

FIGURE 5. Oxynoemacheilus bergianus, not catalogued; from top: 43 mm SL; 47 mm SL; Azerbaijan: Lankaran River at Ballabur. 38.7105 48.7730, photos: Boris Levin.

FIGURE 12. Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis, FFR 15513, 55 in A practical approach to revise the Oxynoemacheilus bergianus species group (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

FIGURE 12. Oxynoemacheilus fatsaensis, FFR 15513, 55 mm SL; FFR 01566, 74 mm SL, 67 mm SL; Turkey: stream Tersakan.

FIGURE 3. Oxynoemacheilus banarescui, FSJF 3122, 78 in A practical approach to revise the Oxynoemacheilus bergianus species group (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

FIGURE 3. Oxynoemacheilus banarescui, FSJF 3122, 78 mm SL; Turkey: stream Davulga; 3169, 70 mm SL; Turkey: stream Devrekani; FSJF 3122, 78 mm SL; Turkey: stream Davulga; FSJF 3119, 67 mm SL; Turkey: Yenice River.