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Sample based prevalence data complementing the European Union One Health 2021 Zoonoses Report - the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)

This dataset contains monitoring data on zoonoses and zoonotic agents under the Directive 2003/99/EC. This Directive requires Member Sates (MSs) to collect, evaluate and report data on zoonoses and zoonotic agents. MSs can also report monitoring data and information on some other pathogenic microbiological agents in foodstuffs. Relevant EU legislation: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005,Commission Regulation (EC) No 1441/2007, Commission Regulation (EU) No 1086/2011, Commission Regulation (EU) No 209/2013, Commission Regulation(EU) No 217/2014.

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Figure 35 in Revision of Aneflomorpha Casey and Neaneflus Linsley (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the United States with an illustrated key to species

Figure 35. Pronotum of Aneflomorpha. a) A. yumae. b) A. paralinearis.

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Urbanization drives geographically heterogeneous freshwater salinization in the northeastern United States

Rising trends in freshwater salinity, collectively termed the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome (FSS), constitute a global environmental concern. Given that the FSS has been observed in diverse settings, key questions regarding the causes, trend magnitudes, and consequences remain. Prior work hypothesized that FSS is driven by state factors, such as human-centered land use change, geology, and climate. Here, we identify the fundamental overriding factors driving FSS within the northeastern United States and quantify the diversity of FSS severity within the region. Specifically, we analyzed decadal-scale trends in specific conductance (a salinity proxy) for 333 lotic sites over four decades. Next, we quantified potential variables driving the rising or falling trends, including impervious surface cover (ISC), winter temperature and precipitation, watershed size, and ambient conductance. Temperature and ISC were considered the most likely candidates for predicting FSS severity because road salts have previously emerged as the fundamental regional driver.Most (62.5%) sites exhibited patterns of significantly increasing conductance; thus, the overall regional state reflects advancing FSS. However, others exhibited an absence of change (28.8%) or decreasing values (8.7%), and slope magnitude did change with latitude. Linear modeling demonstrated that two variables—ISC and watershed size—constitute the best predictors of long-termconductance trends and that an intercept not significantly different than zero suggests that the FSS does not reign in the absence of urbanization. We also detected areas with consistently decreasing trends despite moderate ISC. Therefore, within the region, advancing urbanization causes the typical condition of advancing FSS, but heterogeneity also exists.

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Time-to-Event analysis of factors influencing delay in discharge from a subacute Complex Discharge Unit during the first year of the pandemic (2020) in an Irish tertiary centre hospital

Figure S1: Forest plots 1 and 2 depicting Age and Gender strata associated Hazard ratio (Markers) estimates (95% Confidence Interval demonstrated by horizontal line) exhibited statistically significant results for individuals <65 years of age who had a delay in discharge due to complications from comorbidities; those in 65-75 years of age category, had prolonged LOS due to admission with frailty, falls and/or integrated rehabilitation needs; and 75-85 years of age category showed an association of at least 4 out of the 5 common delaying factors. Strata Gender exhibited a significant delay in discharge due to complications from comorbidities and patient-centred needs; in comparison to the female gender who also experienced a delay in discharge as a result of both factors alongside frailty, falls and/or integrated rehabilitation needs.[A. Complications/comorbidities prolonging discharge, B. Healthcare-associated infection, C. Frailty, falls and/or integrated rehabilitation needs, D. Patient-centred needs, E. Community services].  Figure S2: Forest plot 3 depicting Multimorbidity (MM) strata-associated Hazard ratio (Markers) estimates (95% Confidence Interval demonstrated by horizontal line) exhibited a significant delay in discharge due to complications from comorbidities, frailty, falls, and/or integrated rehabilitation and patient-centred needs in patients with ≤4 MM. In contrast patients with >4 MM experienced significant delays in discharge due to complications from comorbidities and patient-centred needs. [A. Complications/comorbidities prolonging discharge, B. Healthcare-associated infection, C. Frailty, falls and/or integrated rehabilitation needs, D. Patient-centred needs, E. Community Services].

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Sea turtle relative abundance in nearshore waters adjacent to the Mississippi River delta, Gulf of Mexico, United States

We measured the relative abundance of sea turtles using standardized transect surveys conducted during the summer and fall of 2013 in neritic waters surrounding the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana, USA. Data comprise sea turtle locations, observation circumstances, and environmental covariates recorded at the beginning of each transect and at the time of each turtle observation. Turtles were recorded by species and size class, as well as location in the water column and the distance the turtle was from the transect line. Transects were performed on an 8.2-meter vessel with two observers atop a 4.5-meter elevated platform, with vessel speed standardized at ~15 km/hr. These data are the first to describe relative abundance of sea turtles observed from small vessels in this region. Detection of turtles <45 cm SSCL and data detail are greater than aerial surveys. The data serve to inform resource managers and researchers regarding these protected marine species.

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Dataset: Surveys (Tourists, Locals, Users). St. Georges Cultural Quarter (Leicester) & Ouseburn Valley (Newcastle upon Tyne). United Kingdom

Dataset of 6 survey processes applied to different populations –locals, tourists and users– from St. George´s Cultural Quarter (Leicester) and the Ouseburn Valley (Newcastle Upon Tyne) between September 2016 and April 2020. Dataset with the answers to a series of questionnaires carried out to determine the brand awareness of the cultural and creative districts of Leicester, the St. George's Quarter, and Newcastle Upon Tyne, the Ouseburn Valley. In total, six survey processes have been carried out in which two different questionnaires have been used. The first of them is aimed at tourists and locals from Leicester and Newcastle Upon Tyne and, the second, at users of their districts St. George's Quarter and the Ouseburn Valley. The first questionnaire aims to determine the notoriety of the districts among tourists and locals. Hence two different survey processes were carried out using the same questionnaire, one among tourists and the other among locals. The questionnaire contains a total of 16 questions, some of them open and others closed, and is made up of five blocks intended to analyze: <ol> <li>Sociodemographic characteristics. Through the first two questions of the questionnaire, the aim is to obtain sociodemographic data of the sample surveyed, such as age and sex.</li> <li>Degree of knowledge of the concept of cultural and creative districts in the city of Leicester/Newcastle Upon Tyne. This section aims to study the degree of spontaneous and suggested notoriety of the district and its logo among the public, whether tourists or locals. It asks, directly and indirectly, about some cultural and creative districts in the city and their corporate visual identity. First, it is done indirectly (spontaneous awareness) and then directly and concretely (suggested awareness).</li> <li>Degree of knowledge of different institutions, companies or organizations in the district. This part aims to detect whether the local public knows the most relevant actors in the district, regardless of whether or not the respondent is aware of the name given to the space. For this, participants are asked about the most representative areas of each district and other general activities that they may know about.</li> <li>Motivation to attend, know, use and visit the district regularly. This block aims to determine the reasons why the respondents make use of a cultural and creative district, as well as the frequency with which they visit it.</li> <li>Opinions, variables, values and characteristics linked to cultural and creative districts in general. The respondents are asked about the importance that these spaces in the city have for them and why.</li> </ol> The questionnaire includes both mandatory questions and other optional ones, considering that those people who were unaware of a cultural and creative district or certain spaces within it could not answer some of the questions. It is worth noting some details of each survey process: <ul> <li>The first survey process was carried out in person in September 2016 among tourists and visitors in Leicester, in the city centre, at the Leicester Tourist Office located at Gallowtree Gate.</li> <li>The second survey process took place between September and December 2017 among the inhabitants of Leicester. It was carried out in person in the city centre (specifically at Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower, Humberstone Gate and at the De Montfort University campus) and in the surroundings of Leicester's cultural and creative district (in Rutland Street).</li> <li>The third and fourth survey processes were carried out between September and December 2018 among the inhabitants and tourists of Newcastle Upon Tyne, respectively. Both processes were carried out in person in the city centre (specifically in Eldon Square, Grey's Monument, Northumberland Street and Newgate Street).</li> </ul> During all these processes, the necessary instructions were given to the respondents so that they could answer the questionnaire correctly, in person and orally, and the answers obtained were recorded on a digital tablet. In Leicester, 50 surveys were carried out among tourists and 306 among locals. On the other hand, in Newcastle Upon Tyne, 62 surveys were carried out among tourists and 60 among locals. All of these surveys were carried out in person. In addition, another survey process different from the ones described above was carried out, for which a second questionnaire was used. This questionnaire has a similar structure to the first and many of the blocks are common, but focuses on understanding the reasons that led current users to a cultural and creative district become such, and how they make use of the district and its logo, its corporate visual identity, its nature as a cultural and creative space, the existing information about it, etc. The main objective of this second questionnaire, beyond determining the suggested notoriety of the districts of St. George's Quarter and the Ouseburn Valley among its users, has focused on studying the phenomenology described. To do this, a total of 17 questions are combined, some of them open and others closed, distributed into five blocks intended to analyse: <ol> <li>Sociodemographic characteristics. Through the first three questions of the questionnaire, the aim is to obtain sociodemographic data of the sample surveyed, such as age, gender and current employment status.</li> <li>Opinions, variables, values and characteristics linked to cultural and creative districts in general. Respondents are asked about the importance of these spaces in the city and why they are important (if respondents consider they are).</li> <li>Degree of awareness of the nature of the cultural and creative districts among their users. This section aims to study the degree of suggested notoriety of a district and its logo among users. It asks directly about the identification of the space as a cultural and creative district and the knowledge (or not) of its corporate visual identity.</li> <li>Degree of knowledge and use of the different institutions, companies, organizations and actors in the district. This part aims to detect the level of knowledge and frequency of use of the most relevant spaces in a district by the surveyed users. Respondents are asked about the most representative areas of each district and other general activities that they may know about in them.</li> <li>Motivation to attend, get to know and visit the district regularly. This block aims to determine the reasons why respondents make use of a cultural and creative district, as well as the frequency with which they visit the space and with whom they do so. In addition, it focuses on studying how they get to it (public transport, walking, car,...) and through which means (social networks, traditional media, word of mouth,...) the surveyed users are aware of the different events that take place in the corresponding district.</li> </ol> The questionnaire includes both mandatory questions and other optional ones, once again considering that those people who may be unaware of certain spaces in the cultural and creative district or certain features of it may not be able to answer some of the questions. Both survey processes were carried out online between March and April 2019 and 65 responses have been obtained among users of the St. George's Quarter and 86 among users of the Ouseburn Valley. During all the survey processes, the necessary instructions were given to the respondents so that they could answer the questionnaire correctly. Likewise, they were informed of the nature of the investigation and the identity of the interviewer, and also were provided with a contact email to send any questions or suggestions. In this case, the questionnaire was prepared using Google Forms and distributed from March 1 to April 30, 2020 "online" through "e-mailing" and Social Networks such as Google +, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For this, the different workers in the areas of interest were identified thanks to the web directories available on the corporate pages of each cultural, creative, educational actor, etc. and were contacted. In addition, concerning social networks, the questionnaire was distributed using various specific interest groups existing in the districts and through the corporate accounts of the actors in the districts, which facilitated the distribution of the questionnaire on their profiles on social networks.

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Raw Data for the article: Impact of the Organizational Model Adopted during the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Perceived Safety of Intensive Care Unit Staff

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had a devastating health, social, and economic effect on the population. Organizational, technical and structural operations aimed at protecting staff, outpatients and inpatients were implemented in an Italian hospital with a COVID-19 dedicated intensive care unit. The impact of the organizational model adopted on the perceived safety among staff was evaluated. Methods: Descriptive, structured and voluntary, anonymous, non-funded, self-administered cross-sectional surveys on the impact of the organizational model adopted during COVID-19 on the perceived safety among staff. Results: Response rate to the survey was 67.4% (153 completed surveys). A total of 91 (59%) of respondents had more than three years of ICU experience, while 16 (10%) were employed for less than one year. Group stratification according to profession: 74 nurses (48%); 12 medical-doctors (7%); 11 physiotherapists (7%); 35 nurses-aides (22%); 5 radiology-technicians (3%); 3 housekeeping (1%); 13 other (8%). The organizational model implemented at ISMETT made them feel safe during their workday. A total of 113 (84%) agreed or strongly agreed with the sense of security resulting from the implemented measures. A vast majority of respondents perceived COVID-19 as a dangerous and deadly disease (94%) not only for themselves but even more as vectors towards their families (79%). A total of 55% of staff took isolation measures and moved away from their home by changing personal habits. The organizational model was perceived overall as appropriate (91%) to guarantee their health. Conclusion: The vast majority of respondents perceived the overall model applied during an unexpected, emergency situation as appropriate.

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Figure 4 in Natural regeneration in Atlantic Forest Fragments: using ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for monitoring a conservation unit

Figure 4. Camponotus cillae recorded for the RPPN Botujuru: (A) front view; (B) dorsal view; (C) side view. regeneration of the older areas provides resources to Another important factor is the potential of conservation those species with more specialized habits. units to discover new species, mainly invertebrates (Liu We underscore the presence of two species, a pos- et al., 2022), a group that lacks inventory data. sible new species of Octostruma Forel, 1912, recorded They also emphasize the need to advance in the idenin the areas with an understory, and Camponotus cillae tification of recorded morphospecies, increase sampling Forel, 1912 (Fig. 4) recorded in Brazil only by the type se- efforts, use other collection techniques to better underries in the state of São Paulo (Botucatu) by Forel in 1912 stand the diversity of ants and other faunal and floristic (Forel, 1912). Data on their biology is scarce in the liter- groups in the RPPN. Moreover, these results also underature. This new record highlights the importance of new score the need for the creation of measures aiming at studies on biodiversity to our comprehension of the dis- preserving the area, given that the urbanization process tribution of species (Janicki et al., 2016). has been intense in the vicinity of the conservation unit. In addition, our results show the potential of RPPN Botujuru; the occurrence of C. cillae and the possible species of Octostruma in the Botujuru RPPN emphasizes the CONCLUSION importance of conservation units for threatened biomes. Fragments of Atlantic Forest found in conservation units The diversity of ants evaluated in this first work, carare important for the preservation of biodiversity, acting ried out with only one collection campaign, indicates as refuge areas for species that suffer from anthropo- that the natural regeneration process is having positive genic pressures such as deforestation and urban growth effects in abandoned areas. The fragments that compose (Gardner et al., 2009; Pardini et al., 2009; Lima et al., 2020), the RPPN Botujuru may prove to be very representative providing resources, even for those rarely collected. of the Alto Tietê region regarding the conservation of the

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Figure 3 in Natural regeneration in Atlantic Forest Fragments: using ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for monitoring a conservation unit

Figure 3. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) Bray-Curtis type for the areas with 1-4 years (grey), 7-12 years (light green), and 14 years (dark green). (Anosim = 0,0001).

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Figure 2 in Natural regeneration in Atlantic Forest Fragments: using ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for monitoring a conservation unit

Figure 2. The number of occurrences of trophic guilds along the regeneration gradient in areas of Eucalyptus sp.: 1-4 years (no understory), located in the buffer zone of RPPN Botujuru – Serra do Itapety; 7-12 years (with an understory composed of shrubby vegetation), and 14 years (with an understory displaying both shrubby and arboreal vegetation).

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Raw Data for the article: COVID-19 safety measures at the Radiology Unit of a Transplant Institute: the non-COVID-19 patient's confidence with safety procedures

Purpose: To support the wellbeing of both patients and their families, our aim was to investigate the satisfaction of non-COVID in- and out-patients regarding safety measures implemented at our radiology unit of a transplant institute against COVID infection. Materials and methods: Over a five-month period, adult patients' feedback was obtained by a questionnaire on the fear of contracting COVID-19 during a radiology examination, the perceived delay in treatment, and the following safety measures implemented: modified schedules to limit the number of patients in the waiting area and to maximize social distancing; assistance by staff when visitors were not admitted; cleaning and disinfection of machines; mask wearing and hand hygiene of staff; and staff advice on hand hygiene and infection control precautions. Results: Over a five-month period, our preliminary results (387 patients) showed general patient satisfaction (99.1%) with safety measures applied at our radiology unit. Patients were satisfied with distancing and assistance by staff (100%), cleaning and disinfection (91%), mask wearing and hand hygiene of the staff (97%), and staff advice (94%). There was some criticism of the perceived delay in treatment (7.3%) and in the scheduling of the waiting list (5.4%), with 5.4% fearing contracting the virus. Patients' awareness of safety measures and confidence in the hospital preparedness policy was perceived by all interviewers, and 100% appreciated being questioned. Conclusion: The feedback given by the non-COVID patient helps to measure the quality in health care, to improve the quality service, and to protect and satisfy more vulnerable patients, also during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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New1_Korespondensi Propagation of Economic Shocks from the United States, China, The European Union, and Japan to Selected Asian Economies: Does the Global Value Chain Matters?

ABSTRACT A panel vector autoregression (VAR) model is employed to estimate whether growth shocks from the United States (US), China, Japan, and the European Union (EU) can be transferred to selected Asian countries. We examine 1) the effect of shocks through five channels: international trade, monetary policy, finance, global uncertainty, and oil prices; 2) whether a country’s deeper integration with the global value chain (GVC) enhances or decreases the effect of growth shocks from major economies more intensively than trade openness. We found evidence of the shock transfer from major economies to Asia through the five channels. The impact differs across countries depending on their participation in GVC; for example, the impact is high in Indonesia and low in South Korea. Moreover, Asian countries are more exposed to trade shocks through China’s trade channel than other major economies. Zooming in on the channels’ impacts, global uncertainty affects countries’ growth (e.g., Indonesia) more significantly than other channels (i.e., GVC); and Asian countries respond positively to oil prices in the short run but negatively in the long run. Keywords: Foreign spillovers, global uncertainty, oil prices, global value chain, monetary policy, trade openness, globalization JEL Classification: F44, F62, O53, E43

Antimicrobial resistance monitoring results complementing the European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2020/2021 – The United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)

This dataset contains AMR monitoring results in animals and food at the isolate level pursuant to Article 9 of Directive 2003/99/EC and to Annex, part B, of Commission implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1729. In addition, the dataset includes any other results from isolates than the ones mentioned in the Commission implementing Decision (EU) 2020/172. The quantitative minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) data from dilution methods are included. Reporting authorities contributing to 2021 AMR data collection: DAERA (Northern Ireland)

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Data from: Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States

The combination of increasing fire-caused tree mortality and warmer, drier post-fire conditions is making forests in the western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation. Yet, the relative importance of and interactions between these drivers of forest change remain unresolved, particularly over upcoming decades. Here we assess how the interactive impacts of changing climate and wildfire activity influenced conifer regeneration after 334 wildfires, using a novel dataset of post-fire conifer regeneration from 10,230 field plots. Our findings highlight declining regeneration capacity across the West over the past four decades for the eight dominant conifer species studied. Post-fire regeneration is sensitive to high-severity fire, which limits seed availability, and post-fire climate, which influences seedling establishment and survival. In the near-term, projected differences in recruitment probability between low- and high-severity fire scenarios were larger than projected impacts of climate change for most species, suggesting that reductions in fire severity, and resultant impacts on seed availability, could partially offset expected climate-driven declines in post-fire regeneration. Across 40–42% of the study area, we project post-fire conifer regeneration to be likely following low-severity but not high-severity fire under future climate scenarios (2031–2050). However, increasingly warm, dry climate conditions are projected to eventually outweigh the influence of fire severity and seed availability. The percent of the study area considered unlikely to experience conifer regeneration, regardless of fire severity, increased from 5% in 1981–2000 to 26–31% by mid-century, highlighting a limited time window over which management actions that reduce fire severity may effectively support post-fire conifer regeneration.

Trained Models for "Segmentation of human functional tissue units in support of a Human Reference Atlas"

This repository contains all trained models for five algorithms as documented in the paper "Segmentation of human functional tissue units in support of a Human Reference Atlas".

Data for "Segmentation of human functional tissue units in support of a Human Reference Atlas"

This repository contains the data documented in the paper "Segmentation of human functional tissue units in support of a Human Reference Atlas". The directories contain: <ul> <li>The HuBMAP and HPA image data, ground truth segmentation masks, and predicted segmentation masks, as documented in the paper. </li> <li>The source data for recreating the figures 3 and 4 in the paper.</li> </ul>

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Measures of urban form and mobility energy use indices for each census tract in the United States

This dataset contains data on urban form (the configuration of the built environment) for each census tract in the United States, encompassing density (destination access), land use diversity (entropy), road network properties, road network capacity relative to the surrounding population, and public transit access. Metrics are measured around the centroid of each census tract in multiple given radii. The data also contain other publicly available metrics for each census tract that may be helpful, such as each tract's associated city, zipcode, and county name, area and water area, and centroid coordinates. Certain measures resemble those available in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencies' Smart Location database or were derived from them, while others were compiled using additional data sources and the statistical model presented in the associated main article. Specifically, the data presented here contain travel energy use indices for each census tract, reflecting the estimated difference in daily land-based mobility energy use per capita relative to the baseline (the U.S. average) as a result of that environment's particular urban form.

Model data and code supporting "Updated Isoprene and Terpene Emission Factors for the Interactive BVOC Emission Scheme (iBVOC) in the United Kingdom Earth System Model (UKESM1.0) "

Model data and analysis code supporting the Geoscientific Model Development manuscript "Updated Isoprene and Terpene Emission Factors for the Interactive BVOC Emission Scheme (iBVOC) in the United Kingdom Earth System Model (UKESM1.0) "

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Dataset for paper "X-ray spectra emitted by electronic brachytherapy unit Papillon 50 measured with CdTe spectrometer"

This dataset contains: 1) raw ".mca" files with pulse-height spectra of Papillon 50 unit obtained with X-123CdTe spectrometer. 2) Unfolded photon fluence spectra. The dataset related to the paper "X-ray spectra emitted by electronic brachytherapy unit Papillon 50 measured with CdTe spectrometer."