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Improving Deliberative Environmental Management Under Uncertainty examined similarities and differences between expert and public understanding of uncertainty. This collection directly compares expert and layperson interpretations and understandings of different expressions of uncertainty, in the context of evaluating the consequences of proposed environmental management actions that influence economic, social, or health concerns. Data were collected via a Web-based survey where respondents were asked a series of questions after they were given four hypothetical scenarios on the following topics: wind farms, vegetation management, superfund site, and salmon. Each scenario described an environmental proposal along with pros and cons then respondents selected a response option with costs and benefits of the proposal in mind. The first scenario focused on a plan to manage forest vegetation in the northeastern United States, using either conventional methods involving aerial spraying of herbicides or more expensive hand spraying methods intended to reduce adverse impacts on local moose populations. The second scenario focused on a proposal to build a new windfarm in a western state, which would lower electricity rates to local communities but could have negative effects on resident songbird populations. The third scenario focused on a plan to clean up hazardous waste at a large industrial Superfund site. The waste was estimated to have caused 200 children to develop serious respiratory illness from exposure to contaminated drinking water; building a decontamination facility would reduce the number of sick children but would be very expensive and would take time to build. The fourth scenario focused on a plan to reduce the declining population of Chinook Salmon. In order to reduce the Chinook Salmon declines in the Seshon River, an advisory committee must find a balance between the protection of salmon and the use of water to generate electricity, which is a cause in salmon reduction. Participants responded to hypothetical but realistic scenarios involving trade-offs between options presented and other objectives, and were asked a series of questions about their comprehension of the uncertainty information, their preferred choice among the alternatives, and the associated difficulty and amount of effort. Respondents were asked general questions which ranged from how they felt about a particular issue to how easy or difficult it was to answer the questions associated with each scenario. Demographic information includes gender, age and education level. Public Sample: Nationally representative, convienence sample of Decision Research web-panel participants located throughout the United States. Expert Sample: Web site organized by United States Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) for employees who have undertaken some previous training in resource management and decision-making. Please refer to Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook for further information on sampling. Response Rates: The response rate for the public is 95 percent. The response rate for the expert sample is 27 percent. Please refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook for further information on response rates. web-based surveySpecial collaborators for Improving Deliberative Environmental Management Under Uncertainty, 2009-2010, include Nathan Dieckmann and Ellen Peters. Please refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook for further information on study design. Datasets: DS1: Improving Deliberative Environmental Management Under Uncertainty, 2009-2010 Decision Research Web-panel participants located throughout the United States. Presence of Common Scales: Two 10-item Numeracy Scales This collection contains 113 variables. none

Accelerometer data supporting Inertial Kinetic Energy Harvesters for Wearables: The Benefits of Harvesting at the Foot, this dataset contains accelerometer data from participants walking on a treadmill at a variety of speeds with sensors on the wrist, hip, ankle and foot. If using this data, please cite: C. Beach, A. J. Casson, "Inertial Kinetic Energy Harvesters for Wearables: The Benefits of Harvesting at the Foot," IEEE Access, 2020 (doi: doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3037952) Analysis code for this paper is available at https://github.com/CASSON-LAB/kinetic_energy_harvesting This repository includes both the raw data collected by the Axivity AX3 sensors (the raw CWA files and the resampled data in CSV format) and versions of the data that has been trimmed into multiple records corresponding to each speed of the treadmill (in pickled format). Note there is no participant P1. Accessing the raw data: The folders P2 – P13 contain the untrimmed data from the sensors. Sample rate: 100 Hz, units: g Participants were instructed to walk on a treadmill (LifeSpan TR1200i) as close as possible to how they would normally walk, while the speed of the treadmill was controlled by the experimenter. The treadmill was started at 2.4 km/h and the speed increased every 60 s by 0.1 km/h until the treadmill reached 4.3 km/h. Prior to recording each sensor went under a synchronisation procedure where all the sensors were flipped on their z-axis, causing a transition from -1g to +1g. The times of this synchronisation and the time for starting the treadmill is detailed in metadata.xlsx Files ending in .cwa are in Continuous Wave Accelerometer format (a binary format) which can be processed with OmGUI software from Axivity. Files ending in .csv are these files are processed cwa files in a text format, files ending in .resampled.csv have been resampled to 100 Hz using OmGUI. These resampled files account for the fact that the AX3 sensors sample at close to 100 Hz with significant sampling jitter by resampling the data to make the sampling rate exactly 100 Hz. It is recommended to work with the sampled files. 21629: Left wrist 21704: Right wrist 31447: Left hip 32610: Right hip 32784: Left ankle 32798: Right ankle 32816: Left foot 32973: Right foot Accessing the trimmed data: The trimmed data can be accessed by downloading the .pkl files, which are suitable to be imported directly into Python. Each of these can be imported by running the following commands in Python: import pickle import numpy as np pkl_file = open('P2.pkl', 'rb') P2 = pickle.load(pkl_file) The files cached_indexes.h5, cached_data.h5 and cadence_list.csv are required for use with the analysis code used in the paper and available at https://github.com/CASSON-LAB/kinetic_energy_harvesting

We investigate the relationship between a thousand-year history of violent conflict in Europe and various reconstructions of temperature and precipitation. We find that conflict was more intense during colder period, just like Zhang et al. (Clim Change 76:459–477, 2006) found for China. This relationship weakens in the industrialized era, and is not robust to the details of the climate reconstruction or to the sample period. As the correlation is negative and weakening, it appears that global warming would not lead to an increase in violent conflict in temperature climates.

Total 200 participants, 100 male and 100 female were enrolled according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Inclusion criteria were: apparently healthy males and females, age between 19 to 30 years old and agree to participate. Exclusion criteria were: pregnancy, lactation, patients with chronic diseases as arthritis, CVD, T2DM, hypothyroidism, hypertension, and intake of drugs that can affect weight e.g. corticosteroids, anti-depressive medications and insulin. A convenient sample was chosen for selection of enrolled participants, mainly from Taibah University as well as, graduated students in addition to students’ relatives and friends. The questionnaire concerned with demographic data, family history of obesity, physical activity level, and the age of introduction of olive oil in the dietary pattern was filled by face to face interview. Anthropometric measurements were obtained by trained team based on a standardized procedure. Using the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria to define BMI categories (WHO, 1999). A BMI result of less than 18.5kg/m2 is considered underweight, 18.5-24.9 kg/m2 is normal, 25-29.9kg/m2 is overweight, while 30kg/m2 and above is obese. Waist circumference was measured using flexible measuring tape. The Waist circumference cut-offs based on ethnic specific values for European, Sub-Saharan African, Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern (Arab) which is >94 centimeters for men and >80 centimeters for women. Standardized methods were used for measurements. The weight was measured using electronic weight scale, while the height was measured using a stadiometer. Regarding Waist circumference measure, participants were asked to stand with back straight. Heavy clothing was removed from the waist line. The tape was aligned at the top of the hip bone (iliac crest) parallel with the edge of the last palpable rib (nearly 2 centimeters above the navel). The waist measure was taken at the end of a normal expiration and approximated to the nearest 0.5 cm. In accordance to WC definition, exclusion was done for obese and underweight participants (WHO, 2008). Detailed 24-hours recall were taken for two days and the mean level was calculated. Describing dietary intake with a special emphasis on olive oil consumption. Total olive oil consumption per day included green and black olives intake. Each three olives contain one gram of olive oil according to Diet Organizer analysis. Nutritional supplement intake was considered in the diet analysis. References: WHO. (1999). WHO consultation on obesity Obesity : preventing and managing the global epidemic : report of a WHO consultation. Retrieved from Geneva, Switzerland: http://apps.who.int/bmi/index.jsp?introPage=intro_3.html WHO. (2008). Waist circumference and waist-hip ratio: report of a WHO expert consultation. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/obesity/WHO_report_waistcircumference_and_waisthip_ratio/en/

This dataset makes use of the UNEP (2018) report, Legal Limits on Single-Use Plastics and Microplastics: A Global Review of National Laws and Regulations, to create tabulated data categorising the type of legislation on single-use plastic bags enacted in 190 countries, updated to March 2019. Categories are Restrictions (ban), Levy/tax, New legislation proposed, Extended Producer Responsibility, Disposal Regulations, No national law found. For countries with bans on single-use plastic bags, full vs partial bans have been indicated. The dataset also draws on plastic waste estimations published in an article by Jambeck et al (2015), which has informed both UNEP 2018 reports on single-use plastics. Finally the dataset includes three indices of the Human Development Index 2019: Employment in Agriculture, Foreign Direct Investment, and Exports/Imports. Analyses of this dataset sought to understand the factors that influenced the type of single-use plastic bag policy a country implements. The supplementary dataset from Jambeck et al shows that middle-income countries (though the economy of each country has been updated in this dataset to reflect the 2019 status) have higher levels of plastic waste than their counterparts. However, ANOVA sets show that it is low-income countries that are most likely to have the most stringent legislations (restrictions and levy/tax), while middle-income countries are more likely to have obscure and largely ungoverned legislation (namely disposal regulation).

#Observa opinion polls: #---------------------- # #From 1967 and onwards Observa has carried out a number of opinion polls, i.e. surveys of attitudes and habits of life, partly through so-called political index polls (postal panel surveys) and partly through more extensive attitudinal surveys based on interviews. The political index polls have been carried out re- gularly in the period (approx. 10 times a year), whereas the at- titudinal surveys have been carried out quarterly in the period 1969 to 1972. The current data collection of similar data mate- rial over a long period of time makes it possible to carry out various kinds of time series analyses, especially as regards party preference. #Other subjects are usually treated more superficially owing to the conditions under which the surveys are carried out (they are de- signed for publication in daily papers so the main emphasis has been put on topical issues, and only subjects which may be dealt with by means of a limited number of questions are included). #Until 1971 the political index polls were carried out for the daily paper Aktuelt; from 1972 for the daily paper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten. The attitudinal surveys have been carried out exclusively for Jyllands-Posten. # #Observa Political Index Polls, 1976: #------------------------------------ #In 1976 Observa carried out 10 political index polls. All the questions from these surveys are found in DDA-0958: Observa Political Index Polls, 1976. In addition, the individual political index polls, which contain questions on topical issues, are found in DDA-0959 to DDA-0968. # #This survey (DDA-0967 Observa Political Index Polls 1976: November) deals with the following topical issues: # #Economic humanitarian aid; introduction to a debate concerning the health service sector (public employment of general practitioners and dentists); speed limits for mopeds; revealing people's personal code numbers to various private companies; an increase of the national revenue by means of an energy fee or by means of an increase of VAT; and cross-frontier shopping (participation in shopping tours). # #In addition, the material contains a fixed set of recurring back- ground variables: #The respondent's sex, year of birth, marital status and position in the household. Geographical location of place of residence (part of the country and county) and degree of urbanization, as well as type and ownership of the dwelling. The respondent's e- ducation, employment status, designation of occupation and trade union membership Observas opinionsundersøgelser: ------------------------------- Observa har fra 1967 gennemført undersøgelser af holdninger og livsvaner, dels gennem såkaldte prøvevalg (postale valgpanels- undersøgelser) dels gennem mere omfattende interviewbaserede indstillingsundersøgelser. Prøvevalgsundersøgelserne er foretaget jævnligt i hele perioden (ca. 10 gange hvert år), medens indstil- lingsundersøgelserne kun blev foretaget kvartalsvist i årene 1969 til 1972. Det lange tidsrum med jævnligt indsamlede, ensartede datamaterialer giver muligheder for forskellige tidsserieanalyser, især hvad angår partipræferencer. Andre emner er sædvanligvis mere flygtigt behandlede pga. de vilkår, hvorunder undersøgelserne er foretaget (de er tilrettelagt med offentliggørelse i dagspres- sen for øje, det dagsaktuelle har været betonet, og emnerne er be- grænset til problemkredse, der lader sig beskrive med et mindre antal spørgsmål). Prøvevalgene gennemførtes indtil udgangen af 1971 for dagbladet Aktuelt og fra 1972 for Morgenavisen Jyllands- Posten. Indstillingsundersøgelserne blev udelukkende gennemført for Jyllands-Posten. Observa Prøvevalg 1976: ---------------------- I 1976 gennemførte Observa i alt 10 prøvevalg. Enslydende spørgs- mål, omhandlende demografiske forhold samt partipræference, er i DDA samlet i undersøgelsen DDA-0958 Observa Prøvevalg 1976, mens de enkelte, fuldstændige prøvevalg, der indeholder forskellige aktuelle spørgsmål, findes som DDA-0959 til DDA-0968.Nærværende undersøgelse (DDA-0967: Observa Prøvevalg 1976, november-undersøgelsen) indeholder oplysninger om:Økonomisk støtte til humanitære formål; debatoplæg vedr. sundheds- tjenesten (offentlig ansættelse af læger og tandlæger); fart- grænser for knallerter; oplysninge om eget CPR-nummer til for- skellige private virksomheder; forøgelse af statens indtægter ved en energiafgift eller ved en forhøjelse af momsen; grænsehandel (deltagelse i indkøbsture). Derudover indeholder materialet også de såkaldte stamoplysninger: Respondentens køn, fødselsår, civilstand og stilling i fami- lien. Bopælens geografiske placering (landsdel og amt) og ur- baniseringsgrad samt boligens art og ejerforhold til boligen. Respondentens uddannelse, beskæftigelsesmæssige status, stil- lingsbetegnelse og medlemskab af faglig organisation See abstract Se abstract

The questionnaire is provided in pdf "GreenSoul_Questionnaire.pdf" The coded data from 303 interviewees is provided in "all_code_final_zenodo.xlsx" The dataset is composed of several factors which are all explained in different TXT files. * socio-economic_description_not_dependent_of_work.txt - Contains all the information from participants which is irrespective of their current workplace. This file contains typical socio-demographic and cultural attributes from respondents. * socio-economic_description_dependent_of_work.txt - Contains socio-economic and cultural information from participants which is relevant to the workplace in relation to energy efficient practices in such an environment. * actions-at-work.txt - Are a set of attributes which describe certain practices of employees in relation to energy efficiency. * persuasive_strategies.txt - Explain the ratings from 1 to 5 that participants attributed to a set of persuasive strategies. These strategies are framed within Psychological Persuasive principles which are also explained in the file. * all_attributes_together.txt - All the variables together without distinction of the environment where they are applicable. Finally, plots from every construct or attribute are provided in the files uploaded in "PNG" extension

The impacts of increasing natural climate disasters are threatening food security in the Asia-Pacific region. Rice is Asia’s most important staple food. Climate variability and change directly impact rice production, through changes in rainfall, temperature and CO2 concentrations. The key for sustainable rice crop is water management. Adaptation can occur through shifts of cropping to higher latitudes and can profit from river systems (via irrigation) so far not considered. New opportunities arise to produce more than one crop per year in cooler areas. Asian wheat production in 2005 represents about 43 % of the global total. Changes in agronomic practices, such as earlier plant dates and cultivar substitution will be required. Fisheries play a crucial role in providing food security with the contribution of fish to dietary animal protein being very high in the region – up to 90 % in small island developing states (SIDS). With the warming of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and increased acidification, marine ecosystems are presently under stress. Despite these trends, maintaining or enhancing food production from the sea is critical. However, future sustainability must be maintained whilst also securing biodiversity conservation. Improved fisheries management to address the existing non-climate threats remains paramount in the Indian and Pacific Oceans with sustainable management regimes being established. Climate-related impacts are expected to increase in magnitude over the coming decades, thus preliminary adaptation to climate change is valuable.