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Impact of disease characteristics and knowledge on public risk perception of Zoonoses

Zoonoses represent a global public health threat. Understanding lay perceptions of risk associated with these diseases can better inform proportionate policy interventions that mitigate their current and future impacts. While individual zoonoses (e.g. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) have received scientific and public attention, we know little about how multiple zoonotic diseases vary relative to each other in lay risk perceptions. To this end, we examined public perceptions of eleven zoonoses across twelve qualitative attributes of risk among the UK public (n = 727, volunteer sample), using an online survey. We found that attribute ratings were predominantly explained via two basic dimensions of risk related to public knowledge and dread. We also show that, despite participants reporting low familiarity with most of the diseases presented, zoonoses were perceived as essentially avoidable. These findings imply that infection is viewed as dependent upon actions under personal control which has significant implications for policy development.

opencc-by-4.0Jul 2022View details →

Electronic Supplementary Information: Impact of a suspension drop onto a hot substrate: diminution of splash and prevention of film boiling

This database includes Electronic Supplementary Information for Soft Matter manuscript: Impact of a suspension drop onto a hot substrate: diminution of splash and prevention of film boiling.   The supplementary videos to Fig. 4:  <ul> <li>supplementary_video_fig_4_a-d.mp4</li> <li>supplementary_video_fig_4_e-h.mp4</li> <li>supplementary_video_fig_4_i-l.mp4</li> </ul>   and the supplementary videos to Fig. 12 (please do not regard to the file name) <ul> <li>supplementary_video_fig_11_a-d.mp4</li> <li>supplementary_video_fig_11_e-h.mp4</li> <li>supplementary_video_fig_11_i-l.mp4</li> </ul>

opencc-by-4.0Jan 2022View details →

Medline Impactful Discoveries

This dataset contains both the input and output data related to the experiments "Medline impactful discoveries". <ul> <li>Paper: pending</li> <li>Code and documentation: <a href="https://github.com/erwanm/medline-discoveries">https://github.com/erwanm/medline-discoveries</a></li> <li>Exploration tool: <a href="https://brainmend.adaptcentre.ie/">https://brainmend.adaptcentre.ie/</a></li> </ul> Important: the raw data from which this data is derived was downloaded from <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medline/medline_overview.html">Medline</a>, provided <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/terms_and_conditions.html">courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)</a>. The data was extracted in January 2021 and do not reflect the most current/accurate data available from NLM. In order to generate a similar dataset from up to date data, see the instructions in the repository mentioned above.

Dataset of "Effect of impact velocity and angle on deformational heating and post-impact temperature"

This dataset contains input files for iSALE-3D and Data Set for the paper "Effect of impact velocity and angle on deformational heating and post-impact temperature" by S. Wakita et al. Please note that usage of the iSALE-3D code is restricted to those who have contributed to the development of iSALE-2D, and iSALE-2D is distributed on a case-by-case basis to academic users in the impact community. It requires a registration from the iSALE webpage (https://isale-code.github.io/) and usage of iSALE-2D and computational requirements are also shown in there. Please also note that pySALEPlot in the current stable release of iSALE-2D (Dellen) would not work for the data from iSALE-3D.

Molecular Level Estimation of the Composition and Fate of Dissolved Organic Matter in Fire-Impacted Temperate and Subtropical Peatlands

Calculated values of optical (UV-visible and fluorescence) spectroscopy parameters and molecular formulas determined by ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry for dissolved organic matter (DOM) in porewaters from a temperate and sub-tropical peatland. These data were used to generate figures in a manuscript submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences.

Impact of weather and hydro variability on the operation of the Bolivian power system.

This DataSet is the support for the study of the Impact of climate variability on the hydroelectric generation of the Bolivian electrical system, for which a hydrological  model (WEAP) and unit commitment and optimal dispatch model (DispaSet) have been used. The study provides information about the flexibility of the electrical system, by the variation of the hydropower generation through the time series of historical inflows, in terms of power generation, total system costs, consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions.

openncgl-uk-2.0Aug 2022View details →

Psychoanalysis on Dictatorially Controlled Media and Mapping of Its Psychopathology in the Impacted Domains

The summarization chart data is a product of media psychology induction in the Communist regime of PRC. Through the industrial sources and production chains, the generation of semantic chains in the Porter Five Force model was analyzed. With a psychoanalyst ego in a propaganda structure of "cultural" products, the process of chain somatic psychology induction to the dictatorial mindset distribution in the "cultural" products psychoanalysis of the socialism suppression and "superstructure" egocentrism's impact in the global realm was mapped in the data created. These have been summarized from my 10 human years of observation in the cinematic industry of the dictatorial regime with my cosmological consciousness. Since many products have been translated to English in the controlled market structures, and language should have been a primary extension of individual emotions and thought products, the monetization of the products through the value chain shaped a unique judicialization-nuclear-semantic-threat pattern of spatial distribution through "power interdependence" theory. The data is a map on the Chinese communist dictatorial psychopathology.

Combined_ST_SM_Changes_Impacts soil temperature observations

Observations of soil temperature used to evaluate ERA5-Land soil temperature

openother-atAug 2022View details →

Experimental data: Low-velocity out-of-plane impact tests on double-wythe unreinforced brick masonry walls instrumented with optical measurements

This dataset includes the results of laboratory impact tests conducted on natural-scale double-wythe unreinforced brick masonry walls. The walls were spanning vertically between two reinforced concrete slabs and were subjected to low-velocity drop-weight pendulum tests in which they were repeatedly hit until the opening of a breach in the center of the wall. The tests were instrumented with both hard-wired and optical measurements, the latter consisting of high-speed cameras and digital image correlation techniques. Investigated in these tests were the out-of-plane response of the walls and their capacity to resist the impacts. The axial load applied on the top of the walls was varied for two wall configurations and monitored throughout the tests to study the effect of arching on the failure mechanism produced and number of repeated hits needed to open the breach. Of interest was also the evidence of cracking, more specifically the way it initiated on the undamaged walls and next propagated upon consecutive hits.  The data generated from the tests is made here available and documented to support further investigations on masonry structures subjected to extreme actions. The dataset includes four ZIP files, ordered from 01 to 05, along with an auxiliary PDF document describing the content and organization of the data.  Test implementation and test results that are built upon this data are presented and discussed in the following research article: <blockquote> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734743X23001082?via%3Dihub">Godio M, Flansbjer M, Williams Portal N (2023) Low-velocity out-of-plane impact tests on double-wythe unreinforced brick masonry walls instrumented with optical measurements, International Journal of Impact Engineering</a> </blockquote> To cite this data in your work please refer to the article. The Authors

Combined_ST_SM_Changes_Impacts Soil moisture observations

In situ observations of soil moisture used in the paper.

opencc-zeroAug 2022View details →

Seasonal variation in impact of non-native species on tropical seed dispersal networks

Invasive non-native species can alter animal-mediated seed dispersal interactions and ultimately affect the stability of recipient communities. The degree of such disturbances, however, is highly variable and depends on several factors, two of which have received little attention: the relative timing of native and non-native fruiting phenologies, and the associated variation in relative resource availability across the fruiting period. Both are likely to alter plant-seed disperser interactions threatened by biological invasions. Here we investigated the impact of plant invasions on the seasonal dynamics of frugivory and seed dispersal networks across a large-scale experimental setup and a plant invasion gradient on a tropical island. We recorded fruit and frugivore abundances, and plant-frugivore interactions across 8 inselbergs (i.e. rocky outcrops) with different levels of plant invasion during 10 months on the island of Mahé, Seychelles. By combining four sampling methods of plant-frugivore interactions we constructed quantitative seed dispersal networks at all sites across two 5-month seasons: the on-peak and off-peak fruiting season. Our findings showed that, by fruiting mostly synchronously with natives, non-native plants compete with natives for dispersal services, predominantly carried out by native frugivores. Variation in native seed dispersal was driven by plant invasion and seasonality. Specifically, native seed dispersal declined with the degree of invasion; dispersal frequency increased with fruit abundance more strongly during the off-peak fruiting season; and networks became increasingly specialised during off-peak. These results indicated that during the main fruiting peak seed dispersal services were saturated, which likely intensified the competition between native and non-native fruits. When resources were scarce during off-peak fruiting season, native and non-native frugivores were more selective in their fruit choice at sites dominated by non-native plants. We showed that native plant and frugivore populations and native seed dispersal interactions were more vulnerable in invaded plant communities, where non-native plants compete with natives for dispersal services potentially reducing native recruitment. As invasive non-native plants dominate many ecosystems worldwide, particularly on islands, our findings showed that controlling plant invasions in vulnerable native communities can be critical to maintain native ecosystem functions and biodiversity.

opencc-zeroAug 2022View details →

Nutritional stress exacerbates impact of a novel insecticide on solitary bees' behaviour, reproduction and survival

Pesticide exposure and food stress are major threats to bees, but their potential synergistic impacts under field-realistic conditions remain poorly understood and are not considered in current pesticide risk assessments. We conducted a semi-field experiment to examine the single and interactive effects of the novel insecticide flupyradifurone (FPF) and nutritional stress on fitness proxies in the solitary bee Osmia bicornis. Individually marked bees were released into flight cages with monocultures of either buckwheat, wild mustard or purple tansy, which were assigned to an insecticide treatment (FPF or control) in a crossed design. Nutritional stress, which was high in bees foraging on buckwheat, intermediate on wild mustard and low on purple tansy, modulated the impact of insecticide exposure. Within the first day after application of FPF, mortality of bees feeding on buckwheat was 29 times higher compared to control treatments, while mortality of FPF exposed and control bees was similar in the other two plant species. Moreover, we found negative synergistic impacts of FPF and nutritional stress on offspring production, flight activity, flight duration, and flower visitation frequency. These results reveal that environmental policies and risk assessment schemes that ignore interactions among anthropogenic stressors will fail to adequately protect bees and the pollination services they provide.

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Impact of maternal obesity on the gestational metabolome and infant metabolome, brain, and behavioral development in rhesus macaques

Maternal gestational obesity is associated with elevated risks for neurodevelopmental disorder, including autism spectrum disorder. However, the mechanisms by which maternal adiposity influences fetal developmental programming remain to be elucidated. We aimed to understand the impact of maternal obesity on the metabolism of both pregnant mothers and their offspring, as well as on metabolic, brain, and behavioral development of offspring by utilizing metabolomics, protein, and behavioral assays in a non-human primate model. We found that maternal obesity was associated with elevated inflammation and significant alterations in metabolites of energy metabolism and one-carbon metabolism in maternal plasma and urine, as well as in placenta. Infants born to obese mothers were significantly larger at birth compared to those born to lean mothers. Additionally, they exhibited significantly reduced novelty preference and significant alterations in their emotional response to stress situations. These changes coincided with differences in phosphorylation of enzymes in the brain mTOR signaling pathway between infants born to obese and lean mothers and correlated with the concentration of maternal plasma betaine during pregnancy. In summary, gestational obesity significantly impacted the infant systemic and brain metabolome and adaptive behaviors.

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Data for "Simulated impact of ocean alkalinity enhancement on atmospheric CO 2 removal in the Bering Sea"

This is accompanying data for a submission to AGU Earth's Future by lead author Hongjie Wang and corresponding author Brendan Carter.  This submission primarily contains processed model simulation output. The original model output was generated by Kelly Kearney.  Unfortunately, the original model output is requires too much memory to submit in its entirety, so this submission is intended to grant interested readers access to the worked-up fields used to produce the figures and values in the manuscript.  Individuals interested in higher-resolution model output are encouraged to contact Kelly Kearney to discuss possible transfer solutions.   A data hosting solution for the full simulation is being explored by the Bering10k team, and this description will be updated if a publicly accessible alternative to these processed fields becomes available.

opencc-by-4.0Sep 2022View details →

Data and R script: Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID-19 era

Raw data and R code necessary to reproduce the results of the paper entitled "Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID-19 era" published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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How extreme drought events , introduced species, and disease interact to impact influence threatened amphibian populations

Long term dataset of amphibian breeding in the Bay Area of California. We used this  7-y dataset (2013–2019) on amphibian breeding activity that encompassed a recent extreme drought event to assess 1) how breeding activities of these taxa differed during and after drought conditions and 2) the additive and interactive relationships of drought, chytrid fungal infection (Bd), and invasive species with the presence and abundance of larval amphibians.

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Impacts of pastures and forestry plantations on herpetofauna: a global meta-analysis

1. The establishment of pastures and forestry plantations has increased globally to meet growing demands for meat and wood products. <a name="_Hlk108096120"></a>Pasture and plantation expansion often drives deforestation, which causes homogenization of biotic communities and is a major driver of the global extinction crisis. A core question is how the severity of losses varies between pastures and plantations, and in turn, how geographical location and plantation management characteristics moderate these impacts. 2. Focusing on herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) as the most endangered vertebrate group, we performed a global synthesis using 41 scientific articles that reported species richness or abundance in pastures and forestry plantations relative to natural forest in 191 case studies among 19 countries. 3. We found a severe negative effect of pasture and a less negative effect of forestry plantations on species richness and abundance of herpetofauna. Within plantations, species richness and total abundance were more negatively impacted in amphibians than reptiles, in the tropics, when planting exotic tree species, monocultures, large or commercial plantations, and when clearing understory vegetation. Yet mixed, old, small, or conservation plantations and those permitting recovery of understory vegetation had no negative impacts relative to the reference natural forest. 4. Synthesis and applications. The loss of herpetofauna species richness and abundance underscores the importance of halting ongoing tropical deforestation for pasture and intensive forestry plantations. The potential for appropriately managed forestry plantations to support biodiversity in regions lacking forest cover, including via replacement of anthropogenic pastures, suggests that such plantations have an important role under global reforestation agendas.

opencc-by-4.0Jul 2022View details →

Data and code of Land use scenario for 'Development of common socio-economic scenarios for climate change impact assessments in Japan'

Land use scenario calculation: Executable files, source code files and data files This dataset contains program codes and input data used for reproducing land use scenarios explained in Chapter 5.2 in Yoshikawa et al. (submitted to GMDD). We found a few fatal errors in the following code. These code were fixed from version 2 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7090670). /Step3/a01_calc_land_use.py /Step3/a01_calc_land_use_std.py /Step3/a01_calc_land_use_rate.py /Step3/run03.bat

Datasets to quantify the impact of lianas on 3D tree structure and biomass

This dataset consists of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds and their corresponding quantitative structure models (QSMs) of 182 trees. There are two point clouds for each tree, one containing only the wood points and the other containing the leaf points of the tree. The QSMs of the trees are in .mat format and the detailed readME file to read the QSMs can be found here: https://github.com/InverseTampere/TreeQSM.