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ISTADFuels - Italian SpatioTemporal Augmented Dataset on Fuels
No full textWe present a dataset for fuel sales analysis at the Italian provincial (NUTS3) level from January 2015 to October 2023 (release V3, January 2024). Fuel sales data are collected at monthly frequency, and are organized by fuel type, usage, and point of sale (highway, municipal road, extra-network road). Fuels data are augmented by a set of socio-economic and geographical variables, which help explain the impact of economic phenomena and topography on fuel sales. The data is collected from the Monthly oil Bullettin of Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (MITE), ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica), Bank of Italy and Eurostat, and has been collected through both automated web scraping and manual downloads, then cleaned and reshaped to be suitable for analysis. The produced dataset may be useful for spatiotemporal fuel sales forecasting, air quality analysis, urban mobility, econometric research, as well as machine learning applications. To further assist the user in finding valuable insight, an R Shiny app (freely available at the webpage https://ale-ch.shinyapps.io/it-fuel-dashboard/) was developed for data exploration. App code and the data have been made fully available on the following Github repository (https://github.com/ale-ch/it-fuel-dashboard). The app consists of interactive plots that allow the user to visualize every variable in the dataset at different time ranges and locations, allowing full flexibility in data exploration
Milan Test of Rhythmic Ability (MITRA) - Audiomotor integration of rhythmic hand tapping
No full textThis material includes ERP data collected in musicians and controls during processing of biological motion (namely rhythmic hand tapping), example of experimental stimuli used and the original version of Milan Test of Rhythmic Ability (MITRA). The test can be administered auditorily, and requires the vocal reproduction from the patient. This method avoids impediments due to poor motor skills or finger dexterity/agility, which would interfere with the resolution of the rhythmic reproduction task.
Test vocal stimuli can be requested for research purposes only, upon appropriate acknowledge and quotation of the present source.
The first part of the test can be administered to non-musicians; The second portion of the test is rather challenging.
The normative data indicated a significantly higher mean score in professional musicians (14/20, SD= 2.12) than in musically naive controls (6.5/20, SD= 0.71
Palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic reconstruction of the Lower-Middle Eocene Foraminiferal Limestone of Pag Island (Croatia) - Raw Data
No full textThis dataset contains the raw data resulting from the quantitative analysis of the benthic foraminifera association and the skeletal assemblage within the lower to middle Eocene carbonate succession exposed at the Island of Pag (Croatia). The aim of this work is to provide the palaeoenvironmental, palaeobathymetric, and stratigraphic reconstructions and clarify the dynamics of the carbonate factories in the Dinaric Foreland Basin. More than 100 samples have been collected within the Foraminiferal Limestone and the overlying Transitional beds units. Quantitative analysis takes into account both large benthic (LBF) and small benthic (SBF) foraminifera. Based on the analysed LBF and nannofossil associations, the Foraminiferal Limestone has been dated to the early Eocene (Ypresian) and the Middle Eocene (late Lutetian/early Bartonian). Thanks to the analysis of the skeletal assemblage and the foraminiferal assemblage, and multivariate statistics, it was possible to identify seven main biofacies within the Foraminiferal Limestone and one biofacies within the Transitional Beds. The porcelaneous and agglutinated benthic foraminifera biofacies (BF1) indicates a well-illuminated, oligotrophic to mesotrophic, shallow-water, lagoonal environment. The hyaline SBF and encrusting benthic foraminifera biofacies (BF2) developed in a shallow water, inner-ramp environment, and is related to a vegetated seafloor. The nummulitid biofacies (BF3) indicates a moderately high energy, shallow water environment, whereas the comminuted bioclasts and nummulitid biofacies (BF4) indicates a low-energy, shallow water environment, both deposited in inner-to-middle ramp settings. The nummulitid and orthophragminid biofacies (BF5) indicates a moderate energy environment, deposited in middle ramp settings. The nummulitid and serpulid biofacies (BF6) consists of transported material from the inner ramp deposited in middle ramps settings. The orthophragminid and nummulitid biofacies (BF7) indicates a below-wave base, outer shelf setting and the planktic foraminifera biofacies (BF8), which is recorded in the Transitional Beds, deposited in hemipelagic environment, indicating the final drowning of the carbonate ramp. Based on the foraminiferal counting, quantitative parameters such as the orthophragminids/nummulitids ratio (O/N), the planktic/benthic foraminifera ratio (P/B), and the hyaline/porcelaneous foraminifera ratio (H/P) were calculated, indicating that the succession formed along a distally steepened ramp profile, with a progressively deepening of the depositional environment. Quantification serves as a crucial instrument for precise and reliable palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, playing a pivotal role in comparing diverse successions
Seeing or believing in hyperplexed spatial proteomics via antibodies.
No full textSupplementary data for the manuscript "Seeing or believing in hyperplexed spatial proteomics via antibodies."
The content of this online repository is explained in the .txt file "FolderContent-ReadMe". Please download and read
Wolf in the Ticino Natural Park (Italy)
No full textDatset used to investigated wolf spatio-temporal behavior within the Ticino Natural Park, an ecological corridor crossing a highly human-modified areas in northern Italy.
The dataset contains value of:
• Kilometer abundance indices (IKAs) of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and wild boar (Sus scrofa);
• Tourism events categorized by type and season;
• Number of wild boars shot by different hunting control techniques.
All data are associated with wolf (Canis lupus) presence/availability sites along standardized routes in the protected area
Data for: "Music Literacy shapes the Specialization of a Right-hemispheric Word Reading area, beyond VWFA"
No full textThis study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying word reading in professional musicians compared to musically naïve individuals (control group), focusing on the N170 component of ERPs dedicated to orthographic processing. The application of standardized weighted low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (swLORETA) to individual data contributes to the innovative nature of this project. The results showed that musicians showed a bilateral activation of the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA, BA37) in contrast to controls who showed a clearly left lateralized activation of the middle occipital gyrus (MOG, BA19). Musicians also showed enhanced reading skills compared to controls. It is thought that musicians develop this extra reading region to read the spatial and holistic aspects of musical notation.
ERPs were recorded in 80 participants (men and women, musicians and non-musicians).
The study involved the visual presentation of 300 Italian words of different length and complexity, presented randomly on a computer screen, as described in detail in the study by Proverbio et al. (2013). The words, written in upper case, ranged from 4 to 10 letters. A recognition task was performed in which participants had to press a key when they saw a specific target letter within a word, depending on the experimental condition, while ignoring non-target letters. Words lasted 1,600 ms, and the interstimulus interval (ISI) was randomly varied between 1,000 and 1,200 ms. ERPs were averaged from -100 to 1200 ms. The N170 component was quantified between 150-190 ms. swLORETA was applied to N170 responses during word reading in both groups. The full list of dipoles and neuroimaging data is presented here. The data are a compendium to the paper "Music Literacy shapes the Specialization of a Right-hemispheric Word Reading area" and include raw data collected from 2013 to 2023 at the Cognitive Lab ERP of UNIMIB for the "Neuroscience of Music" project.
Related papers:
Pantaleo MM, Arcuri G, Manfredi M, Proverbio AM. Music literacy improves reading skills via bilateral orthographic development. Sci Rep. 2024 Feb 12;14(1):3506.
Proverbio AM, Manfredi M, Zani A, Adorni R. Musical expertise affects neural bases of letter recognition. Neuropsychologia. 2013 Feb;51(3):538-49
Improving the annotation process in computational pathology: from manual to semi-automatic approaches in digital nephropathology
No full textThe development of reliable artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in pathology depends on solid ground truth provided by meticulous annotation of whole slide images (WSI), a time-consuming and operator-dependent process. A benchmark of the available annotation tools is performed to standardize and streamline this process
Low-temperature Thermochronology data from Patagonia
No full textThis is the apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He dataset from the Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine massifs in Southern Patagonia that supports the study in revision: “Geodynamic and climatic forcing on late-Cenozoic exhumation of the Southern Patagonian Andes (Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine massifs)” by Muller, V.A.P. et al., 2023 (preprint DOI: 10.22541/essoar.168332179.93378898/v1).
Apatite (U-Th/He) thermochronometry was performed following standard procedures (House et al., 2000) at the ARHDL of University of Arizona (USA) for plutonic samples of Torres del Paine, and at the Berkeley Geochronology Center (USA) for metasedimentary samples of Torres del Paine. Apatite (U-Th/He) thermochronometry of Fitz Roy plutonic samples was performed in the GEOPS Laboratory at the Paris-Saclay University (Orsay, France), following the methods of Gautheron et al., (2021). Zircon (U-Th/He) thermochronometry of Fitz Roy plutonic samples was performed in the UTHHE Laboratory of Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) following the methods of Reiners et al. (2004, 2005)