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Life through a Lens
No full textAnonymised interview transcripts and nvivo analysis. As numbers of people with an intellectual disability and dementia increase globally, strategies and interventions to reduce stress or agitation are sought. This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions and facilitators and challenges to their implementation. The mixed-method participatory action study included 16 participants with intellectual disability and dementia across 16 separate sites; 22 social care workers and five co-researchers with intellectual disability. Data were collected using validated and bespoke tools and interviews. Analysis used descriptive and inferential statistics and framework analysis.
Interventions enabled participant goals to be met or exceed expectations. Barriers and facilitators to implementation included themes of enabling care and interventions as tools for practice suggesting that psychosocial interventions have potential to reduce distress or agitation and ‘as required’ medication.Cycle 1: sample information sheets and consent forms, anonymised interview transcripts x7
Cycle 2: sample information sheets and consent forms, anonymised interview transcripts x9
Full database search strategy NVivo: Excel x 2 - barriers and facilitators; memo analysis; staff interview analysis
Dedicated UnZip software is recommended for accessing the dataset, for example, IZArc.
British Rising Star Engagement Award
No full textA major international conference in January 2019, hosted by Oxford Brookes University and supported by the British Academy, Kings College London and the Economic History Society, sought to shine a light on corruption in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain – and what we can learn today in the fight against corruption. A final panel of experts reflected on present challenges and what might be learned from the past. The panel included Robert Barrington, (Executive Director of Transparency International, UK); Rosemary Carter (Ofqual); Anneliese Dodds (Oxford East MP); Andrew Feinstein (Founding Director of Corruption Watch); and Oonagh Gay (Senior Researcher in the Parliament and Constitution Centre). As the panellists concluded, although significant progress had been made over the course of centuries, corruption remained a significant problem. They assessed that it was not just that corruption continued to be practised by unscrupulous officials, ministers, MPs and businessmen, but that the very suspicion that those who hold public office were corrupt, served to undermine public trust in democratic governance, which itself was hugely damaging.A transcript of a plenary discussion, held during the British Academy funded conference 'From "Old Corruption" to the New Corruption? Public Life and Public Service in Britain, c.1780-194
Developing Sustainable Models Of Rehabilitation For Long-term Effects Of COVID-19 In Scotland
No full textThis data set contains the item response data and the narrative responses of all 14 Directors of Allied Health Professions in Scotland to a survey conducted in October 2020 requesting information about their Health Board's delivery of long covid rehabilitation.The data was used to support a research grant application to the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office to evaluate emerging models of community rehabilitation for people experiencing the effects of long Covid to inform responsive service delivery across Scotland." The questionnaire can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/11667/165Using the Jisc online survey tool (https://www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/) we developed and conducted a national electronic survey for the Directors of Allied Health Professions of all 14 territorial NHS Health Boards in Scotland. The aim of the survey was to discover their current service provision for rehabilitation of people presenting with long Covid symptomatology in the community. This dataset contains the responses to this survey
Housing through social enterprise- implications for tenants, housing providers and wider society (Commonhealth Project 7)
No full textQuantitative data from the Housing through Social Enterprise study. The study was a longitudinal, mixed methods project examining the health and wellbeing impacts of different approaches to housing provision and support across the social and private rented sectors. Data was collected from tenants of three organisations at three time points over the first year of their tenancy - before moving (Wave 1), 2-4 months into new tenancy (Wave 2) and 9-12 months into the tenancy (Wave 3). Data includes measures of health and wellbeing; tenant ratings of property quality, housing service and neighbourhood; income and financial coping data; and tenant demographics.File: Housing through Social Enterprise - quantitative dataset for archive.sav - Complete quantitative dataset with metadata incorporate
Buzz pollination: Integrating bee behaviour and floral evolution
No full textCode and data used in Pritchard & Vallejo-Marin (2020) published in Journal of Experimental Biology doi:10.1242/jeb.220541 Abstract: Vibrations play an important role in insect behaviour. In bees, vibrations are used in a variety of contexts including communication, as a warning signal to deter predators and during pollen foraging. However, little is known about how the biomechanical properties of bee vibrations vary across multiple behaviours within a species. In this study, we compared the properties of vibrations produced by Bombus terrestris audax (Hymenoptera: Apidae) workers in three contexts: during flight, during defensive buzzing, and in floral vibrations produced during pollen foraging on two buzz-pollinated plants (Solanum, Solanaceae). Using laser vibrometry, we were able to obtain contactless measures of both the frequency and amplitude of the thoracic vibrations of bees across the three behaviours. Despite all three types of vibrations being produced by the same power flight muscles, we found clear differences in the mechanical properties of the vibrations produced in different contexts. Both floral and defensive buzzes had higher frequency and amplitude velocity, acceleration, and displacement than the vibrations produced during flight. Floral vibrations had the highest frequency, amplitude velocity and acceleration of all the behaviours studied. Vibration amplitude, and in particular acceleration, of floral vibrations has been suggested as the key property for removing pollen from buzz-pollinated anthers. By increasing frequency and amplitude velocity and acceleration of their vibrations during vibratory pollen collection, foraging bees may be able to maximise pollen removal from flowers, although their foraging decisions are likely to be influenced by the presumably high cost of producing floral vibrations.From the README.
This folder contains all the code and data necessary to replicate our data processing and analysis.
Currently the folder is in the final state, will all data processed and summarised.
To replicate analysis and figures you can use the data in the final state, ignore markdown docs 1 & 2
and only use 3. Analysis and Figures.rmd.
To replicate data processing, delete the .data files (but not folders or csv files) in the processed data folder and the "allData**.csv" files (but not the "**IT.csv") and run the code in docs 1& 2.
In the SOFTWARE folder there is also the files needed to collect data from two sensors using LABVIEW and a compactRIO device. See https://github.com/davidjamespritchard/BuzzCatcher for usage instructions.
Dedicated UnZip software is recommended for accessing the dataset, for example, IZArc
Dataset for 'The morning after the night before: Alcohol-induced blackouts impair next day recall in sober young adults'
No full textThis data set examines memory performance in young adults after experiencing an alcohol-induced memory blackout (MBO). We aimed to test (1) the hypothesis that high frequency blackout people may be impaired in memory functioning, either when sober, or when intoxicated (as suggested by Wetherill & Fromme, 2011, and Hartzler & Fromme, 2003), and (2) whether an MBO impairs memory performance beyond the duration of the blackout itself. Our data are highly novel because not only did we collect data from a sample of participants when sober and after drinking alcohol, but we also collected data shortly after the same individuals experienced a blackout (but were sober again). Our results suggest that acute blackout episodes impair episodic memory functioning the next day when sober, with the greatest deficits observed in tasks which were more cognitively demanding. We include data for three experiments - Free Recall, Serial Recall, and Depth of Encoding. Each experiment has a corresponding Excel workbook which includes raw data for conducted main analysis, plus supplementary analysis. A results summary sheet which includes statistical model outputs is also attached.Free_Recall.xls - Experiment 1: Free Recall
Serial_Recall.xls – Experiment 2: Serial Recall
Depth_Data.xls – Experiment 3: Depth of Processing
Depth_R_Script.rtf, Sleep_Correlation_R_Script.rtf, Serial_Recall_R_Script.rtf, Free_Recall_R_Script.rtf - Text files of the data analysis code
See Readme file for full details
Developing Sustainable Models Of Rehabilitation For Long-term Effects Of COVID-10 In Scotland
No full textThis is a pdf copy of the survey questionnaire that was used to collect data in short study entitled, "A national survey of community rehabilitation service provision for people with long Covid in Scotland." The survey was developed to gather data on the rapidly emerging NHS service provision for people with long Covid (a condition emerging in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020). The data was used to support a research grant application to the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office to evaluate emerging models of community rehabilitation for people experiencing the effects of long Covid to inform responsive service delivery across Scotland." The data collected in response to this survey can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/11667/164This is a pdf of the questionnaire used to collect data in a national survey of community rehabilitation service provision for people with long Covid in Scotlan
Self Conserving Urban Environments – SECURE
No full textThis includes an amended version of the Cambridge Housing Model (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cambridge-housing-model-and-user-guide - available under the Open Government Licence v3.0) with added costs and energy reductions for several improvements to houses. Also included are results from optimisation runs described in the paper "Sequential Pareto Optimisation of a Large-scale Multi-objective Housing Stock Problem"Description contained in README.txtReason for delay between data creation and deposit: We have given the creation date as the beginning of the experimentation.
The following runs and analysis took longer than 12 months to complete.
In addition, we did not upload a permanent record until paper acceptance to allow for modifications following reviewer feedback. The review process took over two years from first submission.Animations included in this dataset are also available for easier viewing at http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~sbr/stockopt
University of Oxford’s Hertford College Mortimer-May scholarship
No full textThese data accompany the paper "Bush and Whytock et al. 2020. Long-term collapse in fruit availability threatens Central African forest megafauna. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.abc7791(1) LopéReproPhenology.csv - Monthly observations of flower and fruit phenology for all trees (n=73 species, 2007 individuals) selected for this analysis from the long-term phenology database recorded at Lopé National Park, Gabon (http://hdl.handle.net/11667/152). (2) LopéTreesDBH.csv - Diameter at breast height (DBH) and relative size measurements for all trees (n=73 species, 2007 individuals) selected for this analysis from the long-term phenology database recorded at Lopé National Park, Gabon (http://hdl.handle.net/11667/152). (3) public_bodyCondition_Dec2019.csv - Body condition scores from elephant photographs taken between 1997 and 2019 at Lopé National Park, Gabo
Global analysis of ecological niche conservation and niche shift in exotic populations of monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus, M. luteus) and their hybrid (M. × robertsii)
No full textThis dataset includes the data necessary to create the webmap as described in: Da Re, D., Olivares, A.P., Smith, W. and Vallejo-Marín, M., 2020. Global analysis of ecological niche conservation and niche shift in exotic populations of monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus, M. luteus) and their hybrid (M.× robertsii). Plant Ecology & Diversity, pp.1-14. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17550874.2020.1750721
For context, the abstract of the paper is reproduced here:
Background
Hybridisation associated with biological invasions may generate new phenotypic combinations, allowing hybrids to occupy new ecological niches. To date, few studies have assessed niche shifts associated with hybridisation in recently introduced populations while simultaneously characterising the niche of parental species in both native and introduced ranges.
Aims
Here, we compared (1) the ecological niche of a novel hybrid monkeyflower, M. × robertsii, with the niches of its two parental taxa (M. guttatus, M. luteus), and (2) the ecological niches of native (Americas) and introduced parental populations (Europe and New Zealand).
Methods
We assembled >13,000 geo-referenced occurrence records and eight environmental variables and conducted an ecological niche model analysis using maximum entropy, principal component and niche dynamics analysis.
Results
We found no evidence of niche shift in the hybrid, which may result in potential competition between parental and derived taxa in the introduced range. M. guttatus showed niche conservatism in introduced populations in Europe, but a niche shift in New Zealand, while M. luteus showed a niche shift in Europe.
Conclusions
The comparison of native and non-native populations of parental taxa, suggests that whether invasions result in niche shifts or not depends on both taxon and geographic region, highlighting the idiosyncratic nature of biological invasions.The webmap represents the spatial distribution of Mimulus guttatus's environmental niche in both native and invaded region.
Native region: North America (NA)
Invaded region: Europe (EU) and New Zealand (NZ)
Native and invaded regiona were defined by the area occupied by the outermost occurences plus a buffer of 2 degree (Sobel et al., 2014).
The models developed in native areas were reprojected into the invasived ones, and viceversa.
The Environmental Niche Model analysis were carried out using Maxent.
BIO1 = Annual Mean Temperature
BIO4 = Temperature Seasonality (standard deviation *100)
BIO5 = Max Temperature of Warmest Month
BIO6 = Min Temperature of Coldest Month
BIO12 = Annual Precipitation
BIO15 = Precipitation Seasonality (Coefficient of Variation)
BIO16 = Precipitation of Wettest Quarter
BIO17 = Precipitation of Driest Quarter0.