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Data and Code to Assess the US EPA School Bus Rebate Program
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- Creator:
- Pedde, Meredith
- Description:
- We took advantage of the randomized allocation of the US EPA's funding for school bus replacements and retrofits to causally assess the impacts of upgrading buses through the EPA’s national School Bus Rebate Program on various outcomes including attendance, educational performance, and community air quality (PM2.5). Specifically, we used classical intent-to-treat analyses for randomized controlled trials to compare the changes in school district average attendance, test scores (reading language arts and math), and PM2.5 levels after vs before the 2012 through 2017 lotteries by funding selection status. We used overall district attendance rates and average standardized test scores since rates were not available for only school-bus riders.
- Keyword:
- School Bus Emissions , Student standardized testing, School Attendance, Diesel Air Pollution, Test scores, Educational performance, PM2.5, Air pollution , and Air quality
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- GLERL
- Description:
- The survival and beta models forecasting ice cover around the Apostle Island National Lakeshore use Lake Superior surface water temperature data collected from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL). GLERL hosts Lake Superior surface water temperature data pre-1995 from the Large Lake Thermodynamics Model (LLTM) and post-1995 from the Great Lakes Surface Environmental Analysis (GLSEA). The pre-1995 data is currently being moved and is unavailable from GLERL, and therefore, the (entire) surface water temperature record used by the models is hosted here. Please see the methods for direct data access links. The LLTM, the source of the pre-1995 data, is described in Croley II, T. E., & Assel, R. A. (1994). A one-dimensional ice thermodynamics model for the Laurentian Great Lakes. Water Resources Research, 30(3), 625–639. Documentation on GLSEA can be found on their website.
- Keyword:
- Lake Superior, Surface Water Temperature, LLTM, GLSEA, and Apostle Islands
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Dumlao, James M. Zumel and Teplitskiy, Misha
- Description:
- The data sources and methods used to process the raw data are described in the paper forthcoming in Science and the associated Supplementary Information. A preprint for an earlier version of this paper is available here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/754e3. These data are anonymized (see Methodology for details). Consequently, running the same code on these data vs. the data in the paper does not yield *identical* results but qualitatively similar ones.
- Keyword:
- peer review, double-anonymization, geographic diversity, homophily, fairness, and bias
- Citation to related publication:
- J. M. Z. Dumlao, M. Teplitskiy, Science, forthcoming. and Zumel Dumlao, J. M. and M. Teplitskiy. 2023. “The Effect of Reviewer Geographical Diversity on Evaluations Is Reduced by Anonymizing Submissions”. Retrieved (osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/754e3).
- Discipline:
- Science and Social Sciences
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- Creator:
- Pedde, Meredith
- Description:
- In this study, we took advantage of the randomized allocation of the US EPA's funding for school bus replacements and retrofits to causally assess the impacts of upgrading buses on student attendance through the EPA’s national School Bus Rebate Program. Specifically, we used classical intent-to-treat analyses for randomized controlled trials to compare the change in school district level attendance rates after vs before the 2012 through 2017 lotteries by funding selection status . We used overall district attendance rates since rates were not available for only school-bus riders.
- Keyword:
- School Bus Emissions, Diesel Air Pollution, and School Attendance
- Citation to related publication:
- Pedde, M., Szpiro, A., Hirth, R. et al. Randomized design evidence of the attendance benefits of the EPA School Bus Rebate Program. Nat Sustain (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01088-7
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Wittkopp, Patricia J and Massey, Jonathan H
- Description:
- Data provided in this record were collected in the course of studying the genetic basis of differences in wing pigmentation and wing display between Drosophila elegans and Drosophila gunungcola.
- Citation to related publication:
- Massey, J. H., Rice, G. R., Firdaus, A. S., Chen, C.-Y., Yeh, S.-D., Stern, D. L., & Wittkopp, P. J. (2020). Co-evolving wing spots and mating displays are genetically separable traits in Drosophila. Evolution, 74(6), 1098–1111. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13990
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Moore, Talia Y., Danforth, Shannon M., Larson, Joanna G., and Davis Rabosky, Alison R.
- Description:
- Warning signals in chemically defended organisms are critical components of predator-prey interactions, often requiring multiple coordinated display components for a signal to be effective. When threatened by a predator, venomous coral snakes (genus Micrurus) display a vigorous, non-locomotory thrashing behaviour that has been only qualitatively described. Given the high-contrast and often colourful banding patterns of these snakes, this thrashing display is hypothesized to be a key component of a complex aposematic signal under strong stabilizing selection across species in a mimicry system. By experimentally testing snake response across simulated predator cues, we analysed variation in the presence and expression of a thrashing display across five species of South American coral snakes. Although the major features of the thrash display were conserved across species, we found significant variation in the propensity to perform a display at all, the duration of thrashing, and the curvature of snake bodies that was mediated by predator cue type, snake body size, and species identity. We also found an interaction between curve magnitude and body location that clearly shows which parts of the display vary most across individuals and species. Our results suggest that contrary to the assumption in the literature that all species and individuals perform the same display, a high degree of variation persists in thrashing behaviour exhibited by Micrurus coral snakes despite presumably strong selection to converge on a common signal. This quantitative behavioural characterization presents a new framework for analysing the non-locomotory motions displayed by snakes in a broader ecological context, especially for signalling systems with complex interaction across multiple modalities.
- Keyword:
- aposematism, biomechanics, coral snake mimicry, curvature, Elapidae, non-locomotory motion, Peruvian Amazon, and snake behaviour
- Citation to related publication:
- Moore, T. Y., Danforth, S. M., Larson, J. G., & Davis Rabosky, A. R. (2020). A Quantitative Analysis of Micrurus Coral Snakes Reveals Unexpected Variation in Stereotyped Anti-Predator Displays Within a Mimicry System. Integrative Organismal Biology, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaa006
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Ridley, Aaron and Cnossen, Ingrid
- Description:
- These are modeling results of the thermospheric and ionospheric response to the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. The results are discussed in a research paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (doi: 10.1029/2018JA026402) .
- Citation to related publication:
- Cnossen, I., Ridley, A. J., Goncharenko, L. P., and Harding, B. J.. ( 2019), The response of the ionosphere‐thermosphere system to the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse. J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026402
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Burgin, Tucker and Mayes, Heather B.
- Description:
- This project aimed to discover and analyze the molecular mechanism of synthesis of two particular fucosylated oligosaccharide products in a mutant enzyme, Thermatoga maratima Alpha-L-Fucosidase D224G, whose wild type performs the opposite reaction (cleavage of fucosyl glycosidic bonds). Discovery of the mechanism was performed using an unbiased simulations method known as aimless shooting, whereas analysis of the mechanism in terms of the energy profile was performed using a separate method known as equilibrium path sampling. The data here concerns the latter method. and The contents of the atesa_master.zip are the ATESA GitHub project. A Python program for automating transition path sampling with aimless shooting using Amber. https://github.com/team-mayes/atesa
- Keyword:
- Equilibrium Path Sampling, Transition Path Sampling, Enzymatic Mechanism, and GH29
- Citation to related publication:
- Burgin, T., & Mayes, H. B. (2019). Mechanism of oligosaccharide synthesis via a mutant GH29 fucosidase. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 4(2), 402–409. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RE00240A
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- dos Santos, Thiago, Steiner, Allison, Keppel-Aleks, Gretchen, and De Roo, Roger
- Description:
- Model simulations were conducted to investigate the role of soil moisture on the terrestrial carbon and water cycles. The data are composed of NetCDF files generated by the simulations that contain the data variables analyzed in the paper. and CLM5 Documentation - http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/land/.
- Keyword:
- Soil moisture, Community Land Model 5, Latent heat, GPP, Gross primary productivity, and Fluxnet
- Citation to related publication:
- Santos, T. dos, Keppel-Aleks, G., Roo, R. D., & Steiner, A. L. (2021). Can Land Surface Models Capture the Observed Soil Moisture Control of Water and Carbon Fluxes in Temperate-To-Boreal Forests? Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(4), e2020JG005999. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005999
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Ruas, Terry, Ferreira, Charles H. P., Grosky, William, França, Fabrício O., and Medeiros, Débora M. R,
- Description:
- The relationship between words in a sentence often tell us more about the underlying semantic content of a document than its actual words, individually. Recent publications in the natural language processing arena, more specifically using word embeddings, try to incorporate semantic aspects into their word vector representation by considering the context of words and how they are distributed in a document collection. In this work, we propose two novel algorithms, called Flexible Lexical Chain II and Fixed Lexical Chain II that combine the semantic relations derived from lexical chains, prior knowledge from lexical databases, and the robustness of the distributional hypothesis in word embeddings into a single decoupled system. In short, our approach has three main contributions: (i) unsupervised techniques that fully integrate word embeddings and lexical chains; (ii) a more solid semantic representation that considers the latent relation between words in a document; and (iii) lightweight word embeddings models that can be extended to any natural language task. Knowledge-based systems that use natural language text can benefit from our approach to mitigate ambiguous semantic representations provided by traditional statistical approaches. The proposed techniques are tested against seven word embeddings algorithms using five different machine learning classifiers over six scenarios in the document classification task. Our results show that the integration between lexical chains and word embeddings representations sustain state-of-the-art results, even against more complex systems. Github: https://github.com/truas/LexicalChain_Builder
- Keyword:
- document classification, lexical chains, word embeddings, synset embeddings, chain2vec, and natural language processing
- Citation to related publication:
- Terry Ruas, Charles Henrique Porto Ferreira, William Grosky, Fabrício Olivetti de França, Débora Maria Rossi de Medeiros, "Enhanced word embeddings using multi-semantic representation through lexical chains", Information Sciences, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2020.04.048
- Discipline:
- Other, Science, and Engineering