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Entangled Ecologies. Interactive Documentary between Living Archive, Responsible Witnessing and Relational Co-Creation

The videoessay is also accessible: <a href="https://trametrami.avinus.org/publikationen/3-2023">https://trametrami.avinus.org/publikationen/3-2023</a> Recent re-conceptualizations of participation as well as theories of digital transformation culture have shifted the notion of the archive seeing not so much as a static, institutional body but rather as a dynamic, living epistemic environments. Building on these approaches, this presentation discusses emerging phenomena in interactive documentary focusing on ecological emergency – seeing this crisis itself as a complex ecology of issues where images and conceptualization past, present and future meet. Taking paradigmatic projects addressing the issue of climate change – The Shore Line (2017) and Climate Witness Project (2019) – I suggest tentative answers to the question in which way i-docs can contribute to tackle complex change. Are there images from the past which help us to better cope with the present and to envision a more sustainable future? How can one raise awareness of immanent ecological risks when menace is almost invisible, unprecedented and un-imaginable? Is there a way to negotiate multifaceted entanglements through documentaries which are neither paralyzing ecodystopian narratives nor naive ecotopian success-stories? The hypothesis underlying my approach is that one possible solution resides in documentaries which are built on principles of pluri-perspectivity and polyphony to transcend dualisms and to build bridges leading from history to the forthcoming. Discourses from various traditions are brought into dialogue: theories of documentary film meet ecocriticism; network theory encounters reflections on the epistemic dimension of non-fiction; and concepts of co-creation and intervention are related to processes of witnessing, doing documentary and responsible action-taking.   more information: <a href="https://did.avinus.org/">https://did.avinus.org/</a> and <a href="https://trametrami.avinus.org/publikationen">https://trametrami.avinus.org/publikationen </a>

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Dataset: Live cell dynamics of production, explosive release and killing activity of phage tail-like weapons for Pseudomonas kin exclusion

This dataset is related to "Live cell dynamics of production, explosive release and killing activity of phage tail-like weapons for Pseudomonas kin exclusion" and contains the raw data obtained.

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Figures 1-16. Adult Cytaea oreophila from Ben Tre Province, Vietnam. 1-6, Living males. 7-8, Living females. 9-10 in First record of Cytaea (C. oreophila) from Vietnam

Figures 1-16. Adult Cytaea oreophila from Ben Tre Province, Vietnam. 1-6, Living males. 7-8, Living females. 9-10, Ventral views of left male pedipalp. 11-12, Ventral views of right male pedipalp. 13, Dorsal view of male carapace, showing chelicerae. 14, Ventral view of male prosoma, showing bicuspid retromarginal tooth of each chelicera. 15, Ventral view of female opisthosoma. 16, Detail from (15), showing epigynum (anterior toward the top of the page).

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Morphological variability decreases in populations living in less suitable environments and close to the range edges

Aim: Geographic range expansion depends on ecological and evolutionary processes that may hamper local adaptations in populations living at range edges by constraining phenotypic variability. This study investigates the spatial patterns of the intraspecific variability of skull traits throughout the geographic range of a marsupial from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. We aimed to answer whether the distance from the range edge and the environmental suitability explain the geographic variation of morphological variability of the species. Location: Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Taxon: Marmosops incanus (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae). Methods: We analysed adult specimens deposited in the main biological collections in southeastern Brazil. The morphological variability extent and integration within populations were characterised by 13 linear measures of the skull, using a multivariate approach. Environmental suitability for the species' occurrence was estimated by Ecological Niche Models, using climatic and vegetation productivity as predictors and three different modelling methods. Distance from the range edge was calculated based on the minimum linear distance between populations and the closest range limit. We fitted linear regressions and selected the best models that explained the spatial variation of morphological variability based on the Akaike information criterion. Results: The extent of morphological variability of M. incanus is positively correlated with morphological integration and increases with local environmental suitability and distance from the range edges. However, the relationship between morphological variability and environmental suitability depends on the niche modelling method. Main conclusions: Unfavourable environmental conditions constrain morphological variability within populations of the Gray slender opossum and may hamper local adaptation in peripheral populations living in less suitable environments. In addition to environmental conditions, geographic location of populations also plays an important role in phenotypic variability among populations. We stress the boundary effect of the species range on the local adaptation of peripheral populations and its possible consequences for the range expansion dynamics.

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Living Standards Capabilities, Health-Related Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction among Older Adults

This study attempts to analyse the Structural Relationship between Living Standards Capabilities, Health-Related Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction among Older Adults

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Survey data on the value of live music in Italy

This survey is part of an ethnographic research for Francesca Cireddu's PhD thesis, titled "Partecipazione ed esperienza live nei concerti pop-rock in tempi di transizione: riflessioni e proposte metodologiche a partire da alcuni casi tratti dai contesti alternativi di USA, Gran Bretagna, Italia e Cina" (trad. "Participation and live experience in pop-rock gigs in times of transitions: reflections and methodological suggestions on the basis of some case studies on alternative music contexts in USA, Great Britain, Italy and China"). Data show the value attached to live music in Italy with regards to it being a "place" for aggregation and socialisation.  77 participants between 16 and 60, from different backgrounds and areas of Italy replied.  The answers are useful in order to highlight possible incidence between socialising practices and live music practices in specific local areas in Italy with regards to urban settings and sociocultural habits. These data also show how such aspects are relevant in evaluating the way live streaming music performances may or may not be positively evaluated in Italy.

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Data from: The costs of living on the coast: reduction in body size and size-specific reproductive output in coastal populations of a widespread amphibian

<ol> <li>Body size is a critical component of organismal biology. Body size is known to be influenced by a plethora of environmental conditions, among which exposure to large-scale variations of salinity has been comparatively overlooked. Yet, exposure to salinity is known to affect energetic allocation toward growth and reproduction.</li> <li>In this study, we investigated the morphological differences between inland and coastal individuals of spined toads (Bufo spinosus) in Western France. </li> <li>We measured adult morphology both outside and during the reproductive season on 190 individuals, and assessed reproduction in pairs originating from inland (N=20) and coastal (N=30) environments.</li> <li>Overall, we found that adult coastal toads were smaller and lighter than inland individuals. Reproductive correlates of these differences included lower fecundity and smaller egg size (but higher egg density) in coastal females. Interestingly, these differences were not allometric correlates of body size, as coastal females invested proportionally less in all components of reproduction (fecundity, egg size and egg protection).</li> <li>These results suggest altered resource allocation to growth and reproduction in coastal amphibians, which may be related to the marked spatial gradient of salinity (measured in reproductive ponds) and the associated costs of osmoregulation (higher osmolality in coastal individuals), for which local adaptation and higher tolerance to salinity remains to be tested.</li> </ol>

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Data from: Differential early-life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a long-lived reptile

Many ectotherms rely on temperature cues experienced during development to determine offspring sex. The first descriptions of temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) were made over 50 years ago, yet an understanding of its adaptive significance remains elusive, especially in long-lived taxa. One novel hypothesis predicts that TSD should be evolutionarily favored when two criteria are met – (a) incubation temperature influences annual juvenile survival and (b) sexes mature at different ages. Under these conditions, a sex-dependent effect of incubation temperature on offspring fitness arises through differences in age at sexual maturity, with the sex that matures later benefiting disproportionately from temperatures that promote juvenile survival. The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) serves as an insightful model in which to test this hypothesis, as males begin reproducing nearly a decade after females. Here, through a combination of artificial incubation experiments and mark-recapture approaches, we test the specific predictions of the survival-to-maturity hypothesis for the adaptive value of TSD by disentangling the effects of incubation temperature and sex on annual survival of alligator hatchlings across two geographically distinct sites. Hatchlings incubated at male-promoting temperatures consistently exhibited higher survival compared to those incubated at female-promoting temperatures. This pattern appears independent of hatchling sex, as females produced from hormone manipulation at male-promoting temperatures exhibit similar survival to their male counterparts. Additional experiments show that incubation temperature may affect early-life survival primarily by affecting the efficiency with which maternally transferred energy resources are used during development. Results from this study provide the first explicit empirical support for the adaptive value of TSD in a crocodilian and point to developmental energetics as a potential unifying mechanism underlying persistent survival consequences of incubation temperature.

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A five-sensor IMU-based Parkinson's disease patient and control dataset including three activities of daily living

Parkinson's disease is an often-debilitating progressive neurological condition leading to loss of motor control. This dataset contains kinematic sensor data from two groups: one containing 15 patients with Parkinson's disease, and a control group of 19 participants without any known neurological condition. Participant ages ranged from 40–85, 21 were male, and 13 were female. The participants wore five 9-axis Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) – one on each upper arm, each lower arm, and on their head. They were asked to perform a calibration pose, followed by three activities: making toast, putting on a cardigan, and unlocking and opening a door, with each activity repeated three times. The IMUs recorded time-series acceleration and orientation data from the moment where the participant was instructed to begin the activity (inception of the idea to act), through to the activity's completion. This dataset is planned for use in intent-sensing studies for assistive device control but is also applicable for activity recognition.

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Figure 3 in Local jumping spiders living on introduced cacti in Karnataka

Figure 3. Jumping spiders on Echinocereus. 1-2, Two different male M. plataleoides tending two different penultimate females. Note the difference in coloration of the two males. 3, Dead female M. plataleoides (arrow) inside of her nest.

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Figure 1 in Local jumping spiders living on introduced cacti in Karnataka

Figure 1. Many cacti, like these Mexican Ferocactus latispinus, have extrafloral nectaries (arrows) that produce a copious supply of nectar for ants and other predatory arthopods. In the absence of these predators, cacti may be vulnerable to a host of herbivorous insects. The formidable spines of these cacti can protect them from the larger (vertebrate) herbivores, but not from the smaller (arthropod) ones.

Data and code for: The genetic architecture of a recent transition to live-bearing in marine snails

This repository contains the code and VCF files needed to conduct the analyses in our MS. Each folder contains a readMe document explaining the nature of each file and dataset and the results and analyses that they relate to. The same anlaysis code (but not VCF files) is also available at https://github.com/seanstankowski/Littorina_reproductive_mode

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Data from: breeding under pressure: corticosterone is associated with reproductive investment under fluctuating predation risk in a long-lived sea duck

Phenotypic plasticity may enable individuals to cope with predictable and unpredictable environments during their life-cycle. In that context, studying glucocorticoids – corticosterone (CORT) in birds – is relevant because of their primary role in allostasis. Higher baseline CORT levels are classically associated with environmental constraints and lower fitness (the CORT-fitness hypothesis). However, in some environments, higher baseline CORT levels can promote reproduction, therefore being associated with higher fitness (the CORT-adaptation hypothesis). These two hypotheses have been tested in multiple systems, but rarely in a context of fluctuating predation threat. We used a long-term individual-based monitoring of baseline CORT levels in female common eiders Somateria mollissima (nCORT = 1537; nindividual = 790; 2009-2022) to disentangle the context-dependent links between environmental conditions, CORT and fitness. Importantly, the study population has been facing a drastic increase in predation pressure over the past decades, linked to the recovery of the white-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla. Additionally, eiders breed on open or forested islands, further affecting adult and nest predation risk. This system allowed us to disentangle the relative contributions of within- and among-individual variation in baseline CORT levels under predation. Supporting the CORT-adaptation hypothesis, baseline CORT levels were positively associated with reproductive investment (clutch size), age and hatching success. By partitioning within- and among-individual effects, we showed that at the individual level, CORT flexibly increased with clutch size and age. Females displaying higher CORT levels were more successful, suggesting a link between CORT and individual quality. At both the population and individual levels, baseline CORT levels decreased over the study period. This decrease was correlated with an increase in predation risk. Females had reduced baseline CORT when nesting under high eagle abundance or adult predation risk (within-individual effect). Interestingly, apparent plasticity towards adult predation risk was only observed on open islands, likely reflecting habitat-dependent strategies. Consistent with the CORT-adaptation hypothesis, we show that changes in predation regime not only correlate with changes in reproductive investment, but also with rapid plastic adjustment of glucocorticoid levels and therefore individual strategies to cope with predation risk. Given the correlative nature of our study, we encourage further experimental studies testing for a causal relationship between predation and corticosterone levels.

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Prediction of Individual Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) scores based on neural responses during live eye-to-eye contact

Social difficulties are impactful in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and links between these difficulties and underlying neural processes are active research questions. We present a multivariate classification method for neural data acquired from 36 participants during a live eye-to-eye contact task. Participants were either typically developed (TD) or diagnosed as ASD through gold-standard Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) evaluation. We hypothesized multivariate classification could discriminate TD vs. ASD based on neural responses. Support vector machine (SVM) classification was able to discriminate between groups during the eye-contact interaction. In addition, it was found that underlying neural patterns contributing to binary classification also predicted measured ADOS scores with high correlation even though ADOS scores were not used for training. The correlation between observed and predicted ADOS scores was 0.72 (p < 0.002) for eye-to-eye contact. These findings suggest neural responses to live eye-to-eye contact are predictive of social symptomatology in ASD.

Interwoven Sound Spaces - Full Concert - 21 December 2022 - Live Streaming Camera at Studio Acusticum

Recording of the live streaming of the Interwoven Sound Spaces telematic music performance concert. This is the footage captured by the videocamera placed at Studio Acusticum, Piteå, Sweden. Interwoven Sound Spaces is an interdisciplinary project which brought bringing together telematic music performance, interactive textiles, interaction design, and artistic research. A team of researchers collaborated with two professional contemporary music ensembles based in Berlin, Germany, and Piteå, Sweden, and four composers, with the aim of creating a telematic distributed concert taking place simultaneously in two concert halls and online. Central to the project was the development of interactive textiles capable of sensing the musicians’ movements while playing acoustic instruments, and generating data the composers used in their works. Musicians, instruments, textiles, sounds, halls, and data formed a network of entities and agencies that was is reconfigured for each piece, showing how networked music practice enables distinctive musicking techniques.

Interwoven Sound Spaces - Full Concert - 21 December 2022 - Live Streaming Camera at Konzertsaal der UdK Berlin

Recording of the live streaming of the Interwoven Sound Spaces telematic music performance concert. This is the footage captured by the videocamera placed at Konzertsaal der UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany.  Interwoven Sound Spaces is an interdisciplinary project which brought bringing together telematic music performance, interactive textiles, interaction design, and artistic research. A team of researchers collaborated with two professional contemporary music ensembles based in Berlin, Germany, and Piteå, Sweden, and four composers, with the aim of creating a telematic distributed concert taking place simultaneously in two concert halls and online. Central to the project was the development of interactive textiles capable of sensing the musicians’ movements while playing acoustic instruments, and generating data the composers used in their works. Musicians, instruments, textiles, sounds, halls, and data formed a network of entities and agencies that was is reconfigured for each piece, showing how networked music practice enables distinctive musicking techniques.

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Fig. 4 in Latitudinal Diversity Gradients in Free-living Microorganisms - Hoogenraadia a Key Genus in Testate Amoebae Biogeography

Fig. 4. Map showing biogeographically distribution of each species in genus Hoogenraadia.

Dataset for the Cost of Living Index as a Primary Driver of Homelessness

SPSS data file SPSS output file Excel data and sources file Excel data only file for use with python processing (program on Github and archived on Zenodo)

Visualisierung der Wirbelstärke einer numerischen Lösung des Living Fluids Differentialgleichungssystems

Visualisierung der Wirbelstärke ∂ x₁ u⁽²⁾ − ∂ x₂ u⁽¹⁾ der Lösung des Living Fluids Differentialgleichungssystems uₜ + λ₀(u⋅∇)u = λ₁∇|u|² − ∇ p + Γ₀Δ u − Γ₂Δ²u − (α+β|u|²)u + f, div u = 0, u(0)= u₀ auf einer 128×128 Diskretisierung des Quadrates [0,4]² für Parameter Γ₀ = −0.045 ,   Γ₂ =0.000091125 ,  α = −1 ,  β = 0.5 , λ₀ =  0.5 ,  λ₁ = −0.25 von t = 0 bis t = 260. Das numerische Verfahren basiert auf einer einem Splitting Verfahren, dem Godunov-Wellenausbreitungsverfahren, der diskreten Fouriertransformation und der Projektion der Lösung auf ein divergenzfreies Vektorfeld.