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Covid19 case data October 2020 - The Netherlands

This data is the daily case data on covid-19 cases in the Netherlands, published by the RIVM (national public health agency). The data covers all case data of October 2020.

Covid19 case data November 2020 - The Netherlands

This data is the daily case data on covid-19 cases in the Netherlands, published by the RIVM (national public health agency). The data covers all case data of November 2020.

Covid19 case data August 2020

This data is the daily case data on covid-19 cases in the Netherlands, published by the RIVM (national public health agency). The data covers all case data of August 2020.

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Covid19 case data July 2020

This data is the daily case data on covid-19 cases in the Netherlands, published by the RIVM (national public health agency). The data covers all case data of July 2020.

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Data from: Evolution and disappearance of sympatric Coregonus albula in a changing environment - a case study of the only remaining population pair in Sweden

During the past 50 years Fennoscandian populations of spring-spawning Baltic cisco (Coregonus albula), sympatric to common autumn-spawners, have declined or disappeared; e.g., three out of four known spring-spawning populations in Sweden are regarded as extinct. Over the same period, climate has changed and populations have been subject to other anthropogenic stressors. We compared historic (1960s) and recent (1990-2000s) morphological data from the still existent sympatric cisco populations in Lake Fegen, Sweden. Phenotypic changes were found for spring-spawners making them more similar to the sympatric autumn-spawners (that had remained virtually unchanged). Based on results for other salmoniform fishes, a phenotypically plastic response to increased temperature during early development appears unlikely. The recent material was also analysed with microsatellite markers; long-term effective population size in spring-spawners was estimated to be about 20 times lower than autumn-spawners, with signs of long-term gene flow in both directions and a recent genetic bottleneck in spring-spawners. The change towards a less distinct phenotype in spring-spawners is suggested to reflect a recent increase in gene flow from autumn-spawners. Time since divergence was estimated to only c. 1 900 years (95% CI: 400 – 5 900), but still the Fegen populations represent the most morphologically and genetically distinct sympatric populations studied. Consequently, we hypothesise that less distinct population pairs can be even younger, and that spring-spawning may have repeatedly evolved and disappeared in several lakes since the end of the last glaciation, concurrent with changed environmental conditions.

Civil Cases Tel Aviv Magistrate Court 2010-2011 Public

The civil database includes data from a representative sample of 443 cases tried in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court. The civil cases were filed between January 2010 and December 2011 and disposed of between February 2010 and November 2018. The database contains 216 variables. Among them: type of proceeding (regular, fast, or abbreviated), lawsuit characteristics, length of proceedings, number of hearings, type of plaintiff and defendant, judicial procedural involvement, court settlement promotion, and disposition mode. Manner of Mention: Rosen, Dana. 2020. Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Civil Cases Database.  Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR) Collaboratory. <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjcrlab.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cmichal.roness%40biu.ac.il%7C0bad5d83ef7747a195f008d8be0029af%7C61234e145b874b67ac198feaa8ba8f12%7C1%7C0%7C637468255207701440%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=S5G1crZvCY5FQyy7eQSyKiyswCEFyFQrqm1kKFJWtkk%3D&reserved=0">http://jcrlab.com/</a>   Terms of use of the database: <ol> <li>It is obligatory to mention the source of the data during each use made of them.</li> <li>The data or information may not be displayed or edited in a misleading or biased manner.</li> <li>The information should not be used in a manner that does not match the sample size and characteristics.</li> </ol>

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Bioinformatic pipeline from: Increasing confidence for discerning species and population compositions from metabarcoding assays of environmental samples: case studies of fishes in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Wabash River

Community composition data are essential for conservation management, facilitating identification of rare native and invasive species, along with abundant ones. However, traditional capture-based morphological surveys require considerable taxonomic expertise, are time consuming and expensive, can kill rare taxa and damage habitats, and often are prone to false negatives. Alternatively, metabarcode assays can be used to assess the genetic identity and compositions of entire communities from environmental samples, comprising a more sensitive, less damaging, and relatively time- and cost-efficient approach. However, there is a trade-off between the stringency of bioinformatic filtering needed to remove false positives and the potential for false negatives. The present investigation thus evaluated use of four mitochondrial (mt) DNA metabarcode assays and a customized bioinformatic pipeline to increase confidence in species identifications by removing false positives, while achieving high detection probability. Positive controls were used to calculate sequencing error, and results that fell below those cutoff values were removed, unless found with multiple assays. The performance of this approach was tested to discern and identify North American freshwater fishes using lab experiments (mock communities and aquarium experiments) and processing of a bulk ichthyoplankton sample. The method then was applied to field environmental (e)DNA water samples taken concomitant with electrofishing surveys and morphological identifications. This protocol detected 100% of species present in concomitant electrofishing surveys in the Wabash River and an additional 21 that were absent from traditional sampling. Using single 1 L water samples collected from just four locations, the metabarcoding assays discerned 73% of the total fish species that were discerned in comparison to four months of an extensive electrofishing river survey in the Maumee River, along with an additional nine species. In both rivers, total fish species diversity was best resolved when all four metabarcode assays were used together, which identified 35 additional species missed by electrofishing. Ecological distinction and diversity levels among the fish communities also were better resolved with the metabarcode assays than with morphological sampling and identifications, especially with the combined assays. At the population-level, metabarcode analyses targeting the invasive round goby Neogobius melanostomus and the silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix identified all population haplotype variants found using Sanger sequencing of morphologically sampled fish, along with additional intra-specific diversity, meriting further investigation. Overall findings demonstrated that the use of multiple metabarcode assays and custom bioinformatics that filter potential error from true positive detections improves confidence in evaluating biodiversity.

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Data from: Refining trophic dynamics through multi-factor Bayesian mixing models: a case study of subterranean beetles.

Food web dynamics are vital in shaping the functional ecology of ecosystems. However, trophic ecology is still in its infancy in groundwater ecosystems due to the cryptic nature of these environments. To unravel trophic interactions between subterranean biota, we applied an interdisciplinary Bayesian mixing model design (multi-factor BMM) based on the integration of faunal C and N bulk tissue stable isotope data (δ13C and δ15N) with radiocarbon data (Δ14C), and prior information from metagenomic analyses. We further compared outcomes from multi-factor BMM with a conventional isotope double proxy mixing model (SIA BMM), triple proxy (δ13C, δ15N and Δ14C, multi-proxy BMM) and double proxy combined with DNA prior information (SIA+DNA BMM) designs. Three species of subterranean beetles (Paroster macrosturtensis, Paroster mesosturtensis and Paroster microsturtensis) and their main prey items Chiltoniidae amphipods (AM1: Scutachiltonia axfordi and AM2: Yilgarniella sturtensis), cyclopoids and harpacticoids from a calcrete in Western Australia were targeted. Diet estimations from stable isotope only models indicated homogeneous patterns with modest preferences for amphipods as prey items. Multi-proxy BMM suggested increased - and species-specific - predatory pressures on amphipods coupled with high rates of scavenging/predation on sister species. SIA+DNA BMM showed marked preferences for amphipods AM1 and AM2 and reduced interspecific scavenging/predation on Paroster species. Multi-factorial BMM revealed the most precise estimations (lower overall SD and very marginal beetles' interspecific interactions), indicating consistent preferences for amphipods AM1 in all the beetles' diets. Incorporation of genetic priors allowed crucial refining of the feeding preferences, while integration of more expensive radiocarbon data as a third proxy (when combined with genetic data) produced more precise outcomes but close dietary reconstruction to that from SIA+DNA BMM. Further multidisciplinary modelling from other groundwater environments will help elucidate the potential behind these designs and bring light to the feeding ecology of one the most vital ecosystems worldwide.

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FIG. 6 in Trophic position of some Late Devonian-Carboniferous (Mississippian) conodonts revealed on carbon organic matter isotope signatures: a case study of the East European basin

FIG. 6. — Bivariate plot for bulk carbonate δ13Cand conodont δ13Cvalues. carb org

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FIG. 4 in Trophic position of some Late Devonian-Carboniferous (Mississippian) conodonts revealed on carbon organic matter isotope signatures: a case study of the East European basin

FIG. 4. — Organic carbon isotope compositions of conodonts measured in the study.

A Case Study on the Communication of a Local Software Developer Team

Raw data and scripts for the analysis of the paper "A Case Study on the Communication of a Local Software Developer Team" The files with the extension "list" contain the communication of the according channel. For example, "talks.list" contains all the recorded talks. The first two columns of a file contains the communication patners, the third column the date, the fourth the time of day. The sixth column contains the duration of a talk, the seventh column the rough topic, followed by the id of the event in column eight. Since often, additional developers entered the conversation, which we recorded as extra event, we have summarized the events to one conversation, denoted by the last column. That is, the last column contains the id of the conversation. The file analysis.Rmd contains the script that we used to analyze the data and create the plots. We used the library coronet (available at GitHub:https://github.com/ecklbarb/coronet/tree/read-data-from-company). The input data must have the folder structure as discribed in the Readme of the coronet project. The file analysis.Rmd must be copied in the folder of the coronet library.

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The input sounding and synthetic AMV data for the idealized case study

This is a data repository in support of the article "Impact of Assimilating High-Resolution Atmospheric Motion Vectors on Convective Scale Short-Term Forecasts. Part I: Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE)Impact of Assimilating High-Resolution Atmospheric Motion Vectors on Convective Scale Short-Term Forecasts. Part I: Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE)" submitted to AGU J. of Advances in Modeling of Earth Systems.  The data set consists of <ul> <li>The input sounding data for the truth simulation of an idealized supercell strom (input_sounding).</li> <li>The simulated AMV observations with the resolutions of 10km, 20km, 30km and 40km are contained in the zipped files.</li> </ul>

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The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) and the Stage IV rainfall products, and the aggregate forecast statistics for the three real case studies

This is a data repository in support of the article "Impact of Assimilating High-Resolution Atmospheric Motion Vectors on Convective Scale Short-Term Forecasts. Part II: Assimilation Experiments of GOES-16 Satellite Derived Winds" submitted to AGU J. of Advances in Modeling of Earth Systems.  The data set consists of <ul> <li>The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) and the Stage IV rainfall products used for validation in the three real case studies.</li> <li>The aggregate forecast statistics for composite reflectivity and APCP for the three real case studies are contained in the zipped files.</li> </ul>

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Dataset for Exploring the Organometallic Route to Molecular Spin Qubits: the [CpTi(cot)] case

ASCII file in X,Y format of data reported in Figure 2, 3, and 4 of publication Exploring the Organometallic Route to Molecular Spin Qubits: The [CpTi(cot)] Case L. C. de Camargo, M. Briganti, F. S. Santana, D. Stinghen, R. R. Ribeiro, G. G. Nunes, J. F. Soares, E. Salvadori, M. Chiesa, S. Benci, R. Torre, L. Sorace, F. Totti, R. Sessoli, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 2588-2593. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202009634

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Data from: Applying a dryland degradation framework for rangelands: the case of Mongolia

Livestock-caused rangeland degradation remains a major policy concern globally and the subject of widespread scientific study. This concern persists in part because it is difficult to isolate the effects of livestock from climate and other factors that influence ecosystem conditions. Further, degradation studies seldom use multiple plant and soil indicators linked to a clear definition of and ecologically-grounded framework for degradation assessment that distinguishes different levels of degradation. Here, we integrate two globally applicable rangeland degradation frameworks and apply them to a broad-scale empirical dataset for the country of Mongolia. We compare our assessment results with two other recent national rangeland degradation assessments in Mongolia to gauge consistency of findings across assessments and evaluate the utility of our framework. We measured livestock-use impacts across Mongolia's major ecological zones: mountain and forest steppe, eastern steppe, steppe, and desert steppe. At 143 sites in 36 counties, we measured livestock-use and degradation indicators at increasing distances from livestock corrals in winter-grazed pastures. At each site, we measured multiple indicators linked to our degradation framework, including plant cover, standing biomass, palatability, species richness, forage quality, vegetation gaps and soil surface characteristics. Livestock use had no effect on soils, plant species richness or standing crop biomass in any ecological zone, but subtly affected plant cover and palatable plant abundance. Livestock effects were strongest in the steppe zone, moderate in the desert steppe and limited in the mountain/forest and eastern steppes. Our results aligned closely with those of two other recent country-wide assessments, suggesting that our framework may have widespread application. All three assessments found that very severe and irreversible degradation is rare in Mongolia (1-18% of land area), with most rangelands only slightly (33-53%) or moderately (25-40%) degraded. We conclude that very severe livestock-induced rangeland degradation is overstated in Mongolia. However, targeted rangeland restoration coupled with monitoring, adaptive management and stronger rangeland governance are needed to prevent further degradation where heavy grazing could cause irreversible change. Given the broad applicability of our degradation framework for Mongolia, we suggest it be tested for application in other temperate grasslands throughout Central Asia and North America.

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Data from: Impact of involvement of non-formal health providers on TB case notification among migrant slum-dwelling populations in Odisha, India

Background: Migrant labourers living in the slums of urban and industrial patches across India make up a key sub-population so far controlling Tuberculosis (TB) in the country is concerned. This is because many TB patients from these communities remain under reached by the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of India. This marginalized community usually seeks early-stage healthcare from "friendly neighbourhood" non-formal health providers (NFHPs). Because, RNTCP has limited capacity to involve the NFHPs, an implementation research project was conceived, whereby an external partner would engage with the NFHPs to enable them to identify early TB symptomatics from this key sub-population who would be then tested using Xpert MTB/RIF technology. Diagnosed TB cases among them would be referred promptly to RNTCP for treatment. This paper aimed to describe the project and its impact. Methods: Adopting a quasi-experimental before-after design, four RNTCP units from two major urban-industrial areas of Odisha were selected for intervention, which spanned five quarters and covered 151,400 people, of which 30% were slum-dwelling migrants. Two similar units comprised the control population. The hypothesis was, reaching the under reached in the intervention area through NFHPs would increase TB notification from these traditionally under-notifying units. RNTCP notification data during intervention was compared with pre-intervention era, adjusted for contemporaneous changes in control population. Results: The project detected 488 Xpert+ TB cases, of whom 466 were administered RNTCP treatment. This translated into notification of additional 198 new bacteriologically positive cases to RNTCP, a 30% notification surge, after adjustment for 2% decline in control. This meant an average quarterly increase in notification of 41.20(20.08, 62.31; p<0.001) cases. The increase was immediate, evident from the rise in level in the time series analysis by 50.42(10.28, 90.55; p=0.02) cases. Conclusion: Engagement with NFHPs contributed to an increase in TB notification to RNTCP from key under reached, slum-dwelling migrant populations.

Figure 4 in Effectiveness of protected areas for jaguars: the case of the Taiamã Ecological Station in Brazil

Figure 4. Grouped home ranges of resident jaguars (A) and all animals (B) during the high water-season (July to December – wet) and low-water season (January to June – dry) at the Taiamã Ecological Station and surroundings, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil, monitored by GPS collar from October 2013 to April 2016.

Figure 3 in Effectiveness of protected areas for jaguars: the case of the Taiamã Ecological Station in Brazil

Figure 3. Grouped home ranges of the jaguars at the Taiamã Ecological Station, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil, monitored by GPS collar from October 2013 to April 2016.

Figure 1 in Effectiveness of protected areas for jaguars: the case of the Taiamã Ecological Station in Brazil

Figure 1. Pantanal Biome and the location in the flooded region of the Taiamã Ecological Station, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Figure 2 in Effectiveness of protected areas for jaguars: the case of the Taiamã Ecological Station in Brazil

Figure 2. Variogram of the resident (A) and non-residents jaguars (B) at the Taiamã Ecological Station, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil, monitored by GPS collar from October 2013 to April 2016. The red line represents the fitted model, and the red shading represents the 95% CI. (B) The non-resident jaguar M1. Note the lack of a clear asymptote despite the fact that the animal was monitored for a long period (591 days). This lack of asymptote indicates that this animal is not a range resident. For both A and B, the fraction of the variogram displayed is 65% of the duration of each dataset.