Cybersecurity in a Large-Scale Research Facility—One Institution’s Approach by David S. Butcher, Christian J. Brigham, James Berhalter, Abigail L. Centers, William M. Hunkapiller, Timothy P. Murphy, Eric C. Palm, Julia H. Smith

“…The need to plan for the introduction of new technology and manage legacy technologies with long usage lifecycles is identified in the context of implementing cybersecurity controls rooted in pragmatic decisions to avoid hindering research activities while enabling secure practices, which includes FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) and open data management principles. The NHMFL’s approach to FAIR data management is presented. …”
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Starting a Swedish national quality registry for orthognathic surgery: a tool for auditing fundamentals of care by Mats Sjöström, Bodil Lund, Bo Sunzel, Martin Bengtsson, Mikael Magnusson, Lars Rasmusson

“…Abstract Background National quality registries (NQRs) provide open data for user-directed acquisition. National Quality Registry (NQR) data are often used to analyze the rates of treatment success and adverse events for studies that aim to improve treatment quality and patient satisfaction. …”
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Adherence to and enforcement of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for COVID-19 prevention in Nigeria, Rwanda, and Zambia: A mixed-methods analysis. by Hiwote Solomon, Donald M Thea, Sandro Galea, Lora L Sabin, Daniel R Lucey, Davidson H Hamer

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This mixed-methods analysis utilized semi-structured interviews and a quantitative dataset constructed using multiple open data sources, including the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. …”
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Optimising Photovoltaic Farm Location Using a Capabilities Matrix and GIS by Anna Maria Kowalczyk, Szymon Czyża

“…During the analysis, the scope of the necessary data and their sources, which included topographic vector studies, aerial images, and the OpenStreetMap open data, were determined. The next stage was to determine the weights of the features which were significant in the context of photovoltaic (PV) farm location. …”
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Automated Building Height Estimation Using Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 Light Detection and Ranging Data and Building Footprints by Panli Cai, Jingxian Guo, Runkui Li, Zhen Xiao, Haiyu Fu, Tongze Guo, Xiaoping Zhang, Yashuai Li, Xianfeng Song

“…We employ the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) photon-counting LiDAR, specifically the ICESat-2/ATL03 data, along with building footprints obtained from the New York City (NYC) Open Data platform. The proposed approach was applied to estimate the heights of 17,399 buildings in NYC, and the results showed strong consistency with the reference building heights. …”
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Adherence to and enforcement of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for COVID-19 prevention in Nigeria, Rwanda, and Zambia: A mixed-methods analysis by Hiwote Solomon, Donald M. Thea, Sandro Galea, Lora L. Sabin, Daniel R. Lucey, Davidson H. Hamer

“…<h4>Methods</h4> This mixed-methods analysis utilized semi-structured interviews and a quantitative dataset constructed using multiple open data sources, including the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. …”
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Urban centre green metrics in Great Britain: A geospatial and socioecological study. by Jake M Robinson, Suzanne Mavoa, Kate Robinson, Paul Brindley

“…To facilitate comparisons between urban centres in Great Britain, we analysed open data of urban centre boundaries with a central business district and population of ≥100,000 (n = 68). …”
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Urban infill development potential in Germany: comparing survey and GIS data by Georg Schiller, Andreas Blum, Robert Hecht, Holger Oertel, Uwe Ferber, Gotthard Meinel

“…With the development of an improved spatial data infrastructure combined with Open Data initiatives, geographical information system (GIS)-based procedures for the automated detection and monitoring of IDPs could become more important in future. …”
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Country Studies of Central and Eastern Europe: How to Get Out of the Dive? by M. M. Lobanov, N. V. Kulikova

“…The disunity of specialists dealing with Eastern European problems and the low level of their scientific interaction leads to the formation of an "archipelago" of research centers. On the basis of open data, we found nine, oft en small, scientific teams for the study of history (from the middle of the 20th century), economy, society, domestic and foreign policy of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and analyze the results of their activities in 2010-21 (including topics and territorial scope of works). …”
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Medication errors and associated factors among pediatric inpatients in public hospitals of gamo zone, southern Ethiopia by Agegnehu Bante, Abera Mersha, Zeleke Aschalew, Aklilu Ayele

“…Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 416 pediatric inpatients from August 1, 2020, to February 30, 2021. Open data kit tools and Stata version 16.0 were used for data collection and analysis, respectively. …”
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Comparison of Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, and Neural Networks for Post-Disaster Forest Species Mapping of the Krkonoše/Karkonosze Transboundary Biosphere Reserve by Bogdan Zagajewski, Marcin Kluczek, Edwin Raczko, Ajda Njegovec, Anca Dabija, Marlena Kycko

“…In this study, we used Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 open data to assess the forest stands classification of the UNESCO Krkonoše/Karkonosze Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, which is undergoing dynamic changes in recovering woodland vegetation due to an ecological disaster that led to damage and death of a large portion of the forests. …”
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Identifying drivers of food insecurity through linked data- the Priority Places for Food Index by Francesca Pontin, Peter Baudains, Emily Ennis, Michelle Morris

“…The PPFI equally weights measures of access to affordable food and indicators of barriers to affording food across seven domains; Proximity to supermarket retail facilities, Accessibility of supermarket retail facilities, Access to online deliveries, Proximity to non-supermarket food provision, Socio-economic barriers, Fuel Poverty and Family Food for support. The PPFI uses open data combing traditional census data metrics, with government data (e.g., Healthy start voucher and free-school meals uptake), digital footprints data (web-scraped delivery addresses and food bank item request data) and scaled-survey data (fuel poverty, propensity to shop online). …”
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Undernutrition and associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention implemented Basona district, North Shewa Zone, Amhara region,... by Gebretsadik Keleb Yehuala, Afework Hailu Orcho, Mizan Habtemichael Gebresilassie, Habtemariam Abate Meshesha, Tewodros Getnet Amera, Eshetu Zerihun Tariku

“…Data were collected by Open Data Kit (ODK) data collection platform, and Stata version 16 was used for analysis. …”
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Geomarketing come strumento di supporto decisionale pubblico-privato per le scuole della città di Buenos Aires, Argentina by Barbara R. Constantinidis

“…La metodologia prevede l'utilizzo di open data geografici, selezionati e classificati per studiare la distribuzione della domanda e dell'offerta prescolare. …”
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A future for digital public goods for monitoring SDG indicators by Dong Liang, Huadong Guo, Stefano Nativi, Markku Kulmala, Zeeshan Shirazi, Fang Chen, Gretchen Kalonji, Dongmei Yan, Jianhui Li, Robert Duerler, Lei Luo, Qunli Han, Siming Deng, Yuanyuan Wang, Lingyi Kong, Thorsten Jelinek

“…Based on the survey results, the paper presents core principles in a proposed strategy, including establishment of international standards, adherence to open science and open data principles, and scalability in monitoring SDG indicators. …”
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Remote Sensing Image Detection Based on YOLOv4 Improvements by Xunkai Yang, Jingyi Zhao, Haiyang Zhang, Chenxu Dai, Li Zhao, Zhanlin Ji, Ivan Ganchev

“…The results, obtained through experiments conducted on two open data sets, demonstrate that the proposed YOLOv4&#x005F;CE model outperforms, in this regard, both the original YOLOv4 model and four other state-of-the-art models, namely Faster R-CNN, Gliding Vertex, Oriented R-CNN, and EfficientDet, in terms of the mean average precision (mAP) and F1 score, by achieving respective values of 95.03&#x0025; and 0.933 on the NWPU VHR-10 data set, and 95.89&#x0025; and 0.937 on the RSOD data set.…”
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Replication in field ecology: Identifying challenges and proposing solutions by Alessandro Filazzola, James F. Cahill Jr

“…We suggest several tangible steps could be taken to improve confidence in ecological research: (a) increase the use of within‐study replication before publication, (b) increase replicability for aspects that we can control (e.g. pre‐register experiments, open data, publish code), (c) divest from novelty as the primary criterion for publication in leading ecological journals and invest in experimental design, (d) be sceptical of contradictory findings from studies testing similar research questions and (e) create a publishing environment that encourages more conceptual replication studies. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Global Terrestrial Water Storage Simulations: Assessing CABLE, Noah-MP, PCR-GLOBWB, and GLDAS Performances during the GRACE and GRACE-FO Era by Natthachet Tangdamrongsub

“…With the expansion of open-source and open-data policies, the community can now perform model TWS simulation from source codes as well as directly exploit end-user hydrologic products for water resource applications. …”
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Exploration of Multi-Mission Spaceborne GNSS-R Raw IF Data Sets: Processing, Data Products and Potential Applications by Weiqiang Li, Estel Cardellach, Serni Ribó, Santi Oliveras, Antonio Rius

“…To facilitate such explorations, the raw IF data sets from different missions have been processed by Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC, IEEC), and the corresponding data products, i.e., the complex waveform of the reflected signal, have been generated and released through our public open-data server. These complex waveform data products provide the measurements from different GNSS constellations (e.g., GPS, Galileo and BeiDou), and include both the amplitude and carrier phase information of the reflected GNSS signal at higher sampling rate (e.g., 1000 Hz). …”
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LIDAR-Inertial Real-Time State Estimator with Rod-Shaped and Planar Feature by Hong Liu, Shuguo Pan, Wang Gao, Chun Ma, Fengshuo Jia, Xinyu Lu

“…Furthermore, we conducted an exhaustive comparison in open data sequences and real-word experiments. The proposed system outperforms much higher positioning accuracy than the state-of-the-art methods in various scenarios. …”
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