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This collection contains 13 hours of soundscape recordings which have been annotated by an expert ornithologist who provided 22828 bounding box labels for 173 bird species from Eastern Australia. The …

This collection contains 13 hours of soundscape recordings which have been annotated by an expert ornithologist who provided 22828 bounding box labels for 173 bird species from Eastern Australia. The acoustic data were recorded between 2019 and 2024 at ten sites (Table 1) as part of the Australian Acoustic Observatory project (A2O, Roe et al, 2021).    Data collection Audio recordings were collected as part of the A2O program. Each A2O site has four acoustic sensors (solar BARs, Frontier Labs) which record 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. A subset of 10 sites (40 sensors) was selected from the program with the aim to maximise the geographic spread of the dataset. The sensors recorded in mono at 16-bit 22,050 Hz with FLAC lossless compression to SD cards. Each sensor was fitted with a Primo EM172 omnidirectional microphone (80 dB S/N ratio, 14 dBA self-noise, -28 dB sensitivity). The frequency range of the microphones was between 80 Hz to 20 kHz. Data was retrieved from the devices from investigators and then uploaded to the A2O website for long term storage and analysis (https://data.acousticobservatory.org/).    Sampling and annotation protocol Acoustic data was collected from 2019 to 2024. This was subsampled to prioritize Austral spring (September to November) to maximise the number of detected species. Recordings from both dawn chorus periods (~6am to 9am) and evening (12am to 4am) were selected to increase the diversity of species detected. Five-minute chunks were selected from two-hour audio files with the aim to prioritize annotating acoustically complex soundscapes (i.e. sections with substantial overlap in vocalisations). An expert ornithologist labelled all vocalisations which could be accurately identified to species level, with unknown species being labelled as “unknown”. Raven Pro software (K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2025) was used to annotate the data. The provided labels contain full bird vocalisations that are boxed with time and frequency. The annotator was permitted to combine multiple consecutive vocalisations of one species into one bounding box if pauses between vocalisations were shorter in duration than the previous vocalisation (indicating a continuing song, or bout of vocalising). Species labels are provided in common names, eBird species codes, and IOC scientific names (2026).   Files in collection Audio files and annotations can also be found at A2O. Soundscape recordings file names include a location and site name, date, and unique serial code for the file. As an example, the file “20201009T060000+1000_Bowra-Dry-B_450324” was recorded at point Dry B at Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary at 06:00am (+10 UTC) on the 9th of October, 2020, and the file is indexed for the A2O project with the unique identifier (audio recording id) 450324. Ground truth annotations are found in the file “annotations.csv” where each file specifies the specific file name, start and end times in seconds, low and high frequency in Hz, and a common name. The species names can be cross referenced with the file name “species.csv”. Approximate recording locations are provided with longitude and latitude in the “recording_location.txt” file.   Acknowledgements Queensland University of Technology received financial support from Google LLC to annotate the audio files. We are grateful to the stakeholders of the A2O project who facilitated recordings to be undertaken on their properties. Ethics and permits are linked to the Australian Acoustic Observatory. The A2O project (Australian Acoustic Observatory: A Network to Monitor Biodiversity) and project team, received funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (LE170100033).   Licensing & Disclaimer Copyright 2026 Google LLC   All materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY). You may obtain a copy of the CC-BY license at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, all software and materials distributed here under the Apache 2.0 or CC-BY licenses are distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the licenses for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under those licenses. This is not an official Google product. Acknowledgements & Data Attribution This release includes acoustic data originally collected and made available by the Australian Acoustic Observatory: A Network to Monitor Biodiversity Project Team, with funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (LE170100033) (2018). Brisbane, QLD: QUT (www.acousticobservatory.org).  The original acoustic data, which has been annotated as part of this release, is © Queensland University of Technology and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). You may obtain a copy of the CC-BY license at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode We gratefully acknowledge the Australian Acoustic Observatory for making their acoustic recordings openly accessible to the research community.   References: Roe, P., Eichinski, P., Fuller, R. A., McDonald, P. G., Schwarzkopf, L., Towsey, M., ... & Watson, D. M. (2021). The Australian acoustic observatory. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(10), 1802-1808. K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (2025). Raven Pro: Interactive Sound Analysis Software (Version 1.6.5) [Computer software]. Ithaca, NY: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available from https://www.ravensoundsoftware.com/.  

Appendix 1 - Move‑step coding scheme with exemplary verbatim extracts from the corpus (n = 30) Appendix 2 - Introduction Section - Availability of Moves and Steps (30 reviews) Appendix 3 - Methods Sec…

Appendix 1 - Move‑step coding scheme with exemplary verbatim extracts from the corpus (n = 30) Appendix 2 - Introduction Section - Availability of Moves and Steps (30 reviews) Appendix 3 - Methods Section - Availability of Moves and Steps (30 reviews) Appendix 4 - Results Section - Availability of Moves and Steps (30 reviews) Appendix 5 - Discussion Section - Availability of Moves and Steps (30 reviews) Appendix 6 - Conclusion Section - Availability of Moves and Steps (30 reviews)

Аннотация. В тезисах исследуется институциональное противоречие между конкурентным формированием цены по правилам закупок Всемирного банка и последующей национальной оценкой контрактной цены посредств…

Аннотация. В тезисах исследуется институциональное противоречие между конкурентным формированием цены по правилам закупок Всемирного банка и последующей национальной оценкой контрактной цены посредством внешних ценовых ориентиров. Обосновано, что письмо Всемирного банка об отсутствии возражений подтверждает прохождение предусмотренной процедуры рассмотрения, но не должно трактоваться ни как абсолютный иммунитет от национального контроля, ни как юридически незначимое обстоятельство. Предложен двухступенчатый стандарт: первичная проверка целостности закупочной процедуры и назначение специализированной ценовой экспертизы только при документированных признаках существенного нарушения, способного повлиять на конкуренцию или цену. Сформулированы требования к сопоставимости ценовых данных и опровержимая презумпция надлежащего рыночного формирования цены. Показано, что предсказуемость последующего контроля имеет не только правовое, но и кадрово-управленческое значение, поскольку ретроспективная переоценка добросовестного решения усиливает защитное поведение и снижает привлекательность работы в проектных командах.

pynxtools-xps is a reader plugin for pynxtools (https://github.com/FAIRmat-NFDI/pynxtools) written in Python. pynxtools-xps is a tool for reading and translating data from various proprietary and open…

pynxtools-xps is a reader plugin for pynxtools (https://github.com/FAIRmat-NFDI/pynxtools) written in Python. pynxtools-xps is a tool for reading and translating data from various proprietary and open data formats from technology partners and the wider X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy community and standardizing it such that it is compliant with the NeXus application definition NXmpes and NXxps (https://fairmat-nfdi.github.io/nexus_definitions/). pynxtools-xps is developed both as a standalone reader and as a tool within NOMAD, an open-source data management platform for materials science ((https://nomad-lab.eu/nomad-lab/). The work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 460197019 (FAIRmat) (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/460197019?language=en). Contributions by V.K., J.J.L., and N.L.P. were funded by the Academy of Finland (AKA) - 351476 (BRILLIANT-AI).

Interactive atlas of the flown inspection fleets of the paper 'Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with active interrogation' (P. Huber) and the data needed for an independent check of the orbit ca…

Interactive atlas of the flown inspection fleets of the paper 'Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with active interrogation' (P. Huber) and the data needed for an independent check of the orbit calculations: the frozen Starlink TLE catalogue (7852 satellites, 2026-03-25), the fleet files and sized tours, the encounter files consumed by the detection analysis, the flown Orekit records (per-inspector summaries, checkpoints, closest approaches and the sha256 of the 60 s ephemeris archives, which are available from the author on request), and the per-platform display payloads with their schema (data/README.md). Four fleets: a hybrid of 4 passive fly-by S3 platforms and 16 co-orbit S1 platforms (f = 1), one routed fly-by S2 platform plus one S1 (f = 0.1), 69 S1 platforms (f = 1) and 17 S1 platforms (f = 0.1); all flown with a 100 m keep-out, no station crossing, no stuck inspector.

Complete annual Opindx journal metrics used by opindx.org for citing years 2022-2026, based on the OpenAlex snapshot of 2026-09-23 and the Norwegian Register list of 2026-07-26. Includes NF and ANS fo…

Complete annual Opindx journal metrics used by opindx.org for citing years 2022-2026, based on the OpenAlex snapshot of 2026-09-23 and the Norwegian Register list of 2026-07-26. Includes NF and ANS for OpenAlex and Norwegian Register universes, Raw and Filtered variants, journal metadata and rolling publication fields, in CSV, XLSX and Parquet formats. See README, data dictionary, release notes and validation results. Recent citation years are provisional, and 2026 is incomplete. Numerical data sources are OpenAlex and Norwegian Register; documented author-curated identity corrections accompany the software.

Sanger-derived consensus sequence of a PCR-amplified genomic fragment spanning the N-terminal 3xFlag-tag insertion and the adjacent Antennapedia (Antp) coding region in Drosophila melanogaster. This s…

Sanger-derived consensus sequence of a PCR-amplified genomic fragment spanning the N-terminal 3xFlag-tag insertion and the adjacent Antennapedia (Antp) coding region in Drosophila melanogaster. This sequence confirms the 3xFlag-tag insertion in the Flag-Antp allele used for chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq).

This record contains a MATLAB script and finite-element mode data for calculating the interface-scattering loss of silicon nitride waveguides with the Payne-Lacey equivalent-current model. The script …

This record contains a MATLAB script and finite-element mode data for calculating the interface-scattering loss of silicon nitride waveguides with the Payne-Lacey equivalent-current model. The script combines the roughness statistics of each interface (RMS roughness and correlation length, exponential autocorrelation) with the modal overlap of each interface. It returns the loss of the top, bottom and both sidewalls in dB/m, the corresponding linewidth contributions and the scattering-limited quality factor. The mode data were computed with COMSOL Multiphysics in a two-dimensional axisymmetric model of a bent silicon nitride waveguide with silica cladding (core height 720 nm, bend radius 231 µm, widths 1.0-5.0 µm, wavelengths 1.53, 1.55 and 1.57 µm). Sidewall roughness statistics are obtained from top-down SEM images analysed in ProSEM, and top and bottom roughness from AFM.