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Fig. 2.11 in Handbook of best practice and standards for 2D+ and 3D imaging of natural history collections

Fig. 2.11. Specimen stored within glycerin. Cleared and stained specimen of Haplochromis sp. pictured in glycerin. The right part of the picture is photographed with a magnification of 5×. Scale = 500 µm.

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Fig. 2.20 in Handbook of best practice and standards for 2D+ and 3D imaging of natural history collections

Fig. 2.20. Overview of the digitised specimen with the ZooSphere setup, visible at Zoosphere.net. Image copyright MfN.

Fig. 1 in Saproxylic beetle (Coleoptera) communities and forest management practices in coniferous stands in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

Fig. 1. Map of Bowater Mersey Paper Company Ltd land in Nova Scotia. Bowater Mersey lands highlighted. Site descriptions: 1 & 2 – 40-80 yr, CT; 3 & 4 – 40-80 yr, none; 5 – 80-120 yr, US; 6 & 7 – 80- 120, none; 8 – 120+ yr, S; 9 – 120+ yr, S/SH; 10 & 11 – 120+ yr, none. CT = Commercial thinning; US = Uniform selection harvest; SH = Shelterwood harvest; S = Selection harvest.

Fig. 2 in Saproxylic beetle (Coleoptera) communities and forest management practices in coniferous stands in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

Fig. 2. Overstory composition for dominant tree species based on importance value (Importance Value = Relative Density + Relative Dominance + Relative Frequency). Site descriptions: 1 & 2 – 40-80 yr, CT; 3 & 4 – 40-80 yr, none; 5 – 80-120 yr, US; 6 & 7 – 80-120, none; 8 – 120+ yr, S; 9 – 120+ yr, S/SH; 10 & 11 – 120+ yr, none. CT = Commercial thinning; US = Uniform selection harvest; SH = Shelterwood harvest; S = Selection harvest.

Fig. 7 in Saproxylic beetle (Coleoptera) communities and forest management practices in coniferous stands in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

Fig. 7. Mean species richness of beetles in different forest stand age classes, including standard deviation from both the present study and Bishop (1998).

Fig. 5 in Saproxylic beetle (Coleoptera) communities and forest management practices in coniferous stands in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

Fig. 5. Rarefaction curve demonstrating projected species richness for number of individuals based on Bishop (1998), and the present study (Dollin et al.) beetle collections.

Fig. 8 in Saproxylic beetle (Coleoptera) communities and forest management practices in coniferous stands in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

Fig. 8. Mean species richness across harvest treatment, including standard deviation, for 11 stands in southwestern Nova Scotia.

Fig. 3 in Saproxylic beetle (Coleoptera) communities and forest management practices in coniferous stands in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada

Fig. 3. Volume of coarse woody debris (CWD) by decay class for 11 stands in southwestern Nova Scotia as measured by Thompson (2004). Decay classes are summarized as follows: "1" is freshly dead, little to no rot; in "2", the bole is mostly sound; "3" has well-established rot and significant bark loss; "4" is advanced decay; and "5" is rotted through but still of wood character. Site descriptions: 1 & 2 – 40-80 yr, CT; 3 & 4 – 40-80 yr, none; 5 – 80-120 yr, US; 6 & 7 – 80-120, none; 8 – 120+ yr, S; 9 – 120+ yr, S/SH; 10 & 11 – 120+ yr, none. CT = Commercial thinning; US = Uniform selection harvest; SH = Shelterwood harvest; S = Selection harvest.

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Training dataset for semantic segmentation (U-Net) of structural conservation practices

In this research, the best management practices include vegetative/structural conservation practices (SCP) across crop fields, such as grassed waterways and terraces. This reference dataset includes 500,000 pair patches (false-color image (B1: NIR, B2: Red, B3: Green) and binary label (SCP: yes[1] or no[0]). These training samples were randomly extracted from Iowa BMP project (<a href="https://www.gis.iastate.edu/gisf/projects/conservation-practices">https://www.gis.iastate.edu/gisf/projects/conservation-practices</a>) and present 90% of patches with SCP areas and 10% of patches non-SCP area. The patch dimension is 256 x  256 pixels at 2-m resolution. Due to the file size, the images were upload in different *.rar files (imagem_0_200k.rar, imagem_200_400k.rar, imagem_400_500k.rar), and the user should download all and merge them in the same folder. The corresponding labels are all in "class_bin.rar" file. Application: These pair images are useful for conservation practitioners interested in the classification of vegetative/structural SCPs using deep-learning semantic segmentation methods. Further information will be available in future.

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FAIR in practice reference list

This is a collection of information curated by the FAIR Practice Task Force of the EOSC FAIR Working Group. It aims to provide a reading list of published information on efforts to apply the FAIR principles. Please read the README tab in the spreadsheet for instructions on how to use this resource.

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Practical reflection model for healthcare professional students

This series of videos examines my method of reflective thinking to aid healthcare professional students in developing their personal and professional beleifs, attitudes and behaviours.

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How Software Organizations are using the ISO/IEC 29110 Standard's Processes: A Survey of the State of the Art and Practice

ISO/IEC 29110 was developed containing a set of industrially validated practices that can potentially be adopted by software Very Small Entities (VSE). VSEs usually have characteristics that differentiate them from organizations of different sizes, such as extremely limited resources and informal project management processes, tending to adopt Agile methods and having an historical resistance to the adoption of standards, that are in general developed for large organizations. In this sense, our research question arises: "How are software organizations using the ISO/IEC 29110 practices?". To answer this question, a Systematic Mapping Study (SM), and a Survey with software organizations were carried out in order to identify the state of the art and the state of the practice in relation to the use of the standard’s practices. The SM identified 21 primary studies reporting the use of the standard in hundreds of software organizations with positive results such as organizational learning, process improvement, improved communication, and also some negative results, such as deployment difficulties in technical areas and the need for additional time and resources. The Survey carried out with 23 software companies identified that, in general, companies do not explicitly know the content of the standard, but partially carry out, in accordance with the standard, practices related to planning, monitoring, control and execution of a project plan, and do not carry out requirements analysis or architecture and detailed design as defined in the standard.

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Hackathons as a Pedagogical Strategy to Engage Students to Learn and to Adopt Software Engineering Practices

Teaching Software Engineering is not a trivial duty since several pedagogical strategies can be used and sometimes the impact of these on students is uncertain. Hackathons are similar to marathons, however used to produce solutions to solve a specific problem in a short period of time and based on intense collaboration. Educational hackathons aim to promote learning in such an environment. The Undergraduate computing programs of PUCRS decided to use a hackathon as a pedagogical strategy aiming to motivate the students to practice the adoption of software development practices and to work in groups as a means to practice the development of social skills. Therefore, we conducted a case study to investigate: 1) The motivations to students to attend or not attend an educational hackathon, 2) The students perceptions about this hackathon, 3) The Software Engineering practices adopted by students. In this study, we identified factors that may affect students motivation to participate (e.g., improve the teamwork skills), some students expectations about the hackathon (e.g., work in teams), and the practices adopted by the students (e.g., pair programming). Some of our findings include that students enjoy participating in an informal educational environment (e.g., hackathons) to improve their technical skills and to build network with some colleagues. This study can provide insights to teachers that wants to organize some activity than traditional teaching and the students perspective about this kind of strategy.

FIG. 2 in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)

FIG. 2. —, Distribution of the ovoos surveyed north of the Tamir River;, ovoos on which horse skulls were found;, winter encampments of the Bayantsagaan herders. Three linked figures, Sambuu's encampments (winter, spring, and summer)., Sambuu's ovoo, located just slightly higher than his winter encampment. Shaded area, summer encampments of the Bayantsagaan herders (data, C. Marchina, S. Lepetz & C. Salicis; map, S. Lepetz, based on the background map of the Musée d'Anthropologie préhistorique of Monaco, F. Burle).

FIG. 4. — A, B in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)

FIG. 4. — A, B, Skulls of three animals (one calf and two horses) placed in a tree; C, one horse skull taken down from the tree for the purposes of the picture, clearly showing a circular mark of ante-mortem stunning on the forehead.

FIG. 13 in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)

FIG. 13. — Number of horse skulls per age group (in years) and sex, on Sambuu's ovoo. While sex distribution is even, we can see that most of the slaughtered animals are either young (less than four years old) or old. The method used to determine the animals' age is based on the analysis of dental eruption and the degree of wear (Cornevin & Lesbre 1894; Lepetz 2013).

FIG. 6 in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)

FIG. 6. — Stones placed in the skull's cavities: A, skulls located west of the archaeological structure; B, stones inserted between the temporal cavity and the zygomatic arch.

FIG. 9 in The skull on the hill. Anthropological and osteological investigation of contemporary horse skull ritual practices in central Mongolia (Arkhangai province)

FIG. 9. — Repository of metallic items and various animal bones on the central mound of a khirigsuur.

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Dataset on soil hydraulic properties under contrasted plant covers and agricultural practices

Complete dataset on the temporal variation of soil infiltrability along a homogeneous fluvisol, on bare soil or soil planted with two plant species with contrasted root systems (a Malvaceae with a tap-root system and a Poaceae with a fibrous root system), and impacted by three different management practices (burning, mowing, and chemical weeding). An original protocol, based on specific ring infiltrometers, able to measure the temporal dynamics of soil infiltrability was used. This dispositive takes into account the variability of the measurement across space.