Although soil and agronomy data collection in Ethiopia has begun over 60 years ago, the data are hardly accessible as they are scattered across different organizations, mostly held in the hands of individuals (Ashenafi et al.,2020; Tamene et al.,2022), which makes them vulnerable to permanent loss. Cognizant of the problem, the Coalition of the Willing (CoW) for data sharing and access was created in 2018 with joint support and coordination of the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT and GIZ (https://www.ethioagridata.com/index.html). Mobilizing its members, the CoW has embarked on data rescue operations including data ecosystem mapping, collation, and curation of the legacy data, which was put into the central data repository for its members and the wider data user’s community according to the guideline developed based on the FAIR data principles and approved by the CoW. So far, CoW managed to collate and rescue about 20,000 legacy soil profile data and over 38,000 crop responses to fertilizer data (Tamene et al.,2022).

The legacy soil profile dataset (consisting of Profiles Site = 2,612 observations with 37 variables; Profiles Layer Field = 6,150 observations with 64 variables; Profiles Layer Lab= 4,575 observations with 76 variables) is extracted, transformed, and uploaded into a harmonized template from the below source: Bilateral Ethiopian-Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade (BENEFIT) Partnership which is a portfolio of five programs (ISSD, Cascape, ENTAG, SBN, and REALISE) and is funded by the government of the Kingdom of Netherlands through its embassy in Addis Ababa. The Cascape program has conducted several studies, including soil surveys and mappings in AGP weredas in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia,and SNNPR in Ethiopia. The program (then Cascape project) as a collaborator of MoA/ATA has produced a map-database and soildataset of the major soil types (at 250-m resolution) of the landscapes of the 30 Cascape intervention-AGP weredas studied in 2013-2015: 5 of Tigray, 5 of Amhara, 15 of Oromia, and 5 of SNNPR.

Reference: Ashenafi, A., Tamene, L., and Erkossa, T. 2020. Identifying, Cataloguing, and Mapping Soil and Agronomic Data in Ethiopia. CIAT Publication No. 506. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 42 p. 10.13140/RG.2.2.31759.41123. Tamene L; Erkossa T; Tafesse T; Abera W; Schultz S. 2021. A coalition of the Willing - Powering data-driven solutions for Ethiopian Agriculture. CIAT Publication No. 518. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 34 p. https://www.ethioagridata.com/Resources/Powering%20Data-Driven%20Solutions%20for%20Ethiopian%20Agriculture.pdf. The Coalition of the Willing (CoW) website: https://www.ethioagridata.com/index.html.

TERMS:

Access to the data is limited to the CoW members until the national soil and agronomy data-sharing directive of MoA is registered by the Ministry of Justice and released for implementation.

DISCLAIMER: The dataset populated in the harmonized template consisting of 76 variables is extracted, transformed, and uploaded from the source document by the CoW. Hence, if any irregularities are observed, the data users have referred to the source document uploaded along with the dataset. Use of the dataset and any consequences arising from using it is the user’s sole responsibility.

This project brought renewed attention to reserve site profiles and supported the development of a modernized format that better aligns with and boosts the impact of reserve programs. The project Each reserve within the National Estuarine Research Reserve System maintains a specific site profile that synthesizes knowledge about its physical and biological characteristics to guide research and monitoring activities. Traditionally, the site profile has been a book or PDF, with limited support for a more interactive and modern interface design. The likely future addition of new reserves into the system, and the anticipated need to update many existing reserve site profiles, inspired the He'eia and Lake Superior reserves to develop a joint vision for a new site profile template with a user-driven interface design. This project team worked with the UW-Madison Division of Extension Evaluation Unit to conduct a survey of reserve staff and partners. The survey revealed that users wanted updated and relevant information in site profiles, wished for them to be digital and searchable, and wanted them to include cultural and historical content related to each reserve. Survey respondents also expressed moderate familiarity with reserve site profiles and noted that some characteristics such as technical language, ease of use, and accessibility could be improved to make them more appealing to both Reserve System staff and the general public. Working with contractors and reserve partners, the team developed a template and outline for a modernized web-based site profile, and a user guide with clear step by step instructions to create a digital profile. The updated site profile addresses the needs identified by the survey and focus groups, providing reserves with an option to include cultural and historical components of estuaries on their sites, as well as an optional section to identify future threats and corresponding research needs. Other key site profile features include ArcGIS mapping components and Zotero based bibliographies that allow for access to all citations in the site profiles. The project team found that overall awareness of site profiles can be increased by providing information via online messaging, local newsletters, local newspapers, and presentations in institutions affiliated with reserves.

Although soil and agronomy data collection in Ethiopia has begun over 60 years ago, the data are hardly accessible as they are scattered across different organizations, mostly held in the hands of individuals (Ashenafi et al.,2020; Tamene et al.,2022), which makes them vulnerable to permanent loss. Cognizant of the problem, the Coalition of the Willing (CoW) for data sharing and access was created in 2018 with joint support and coordination of the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT and GIZ (https://www.ethioagridata.com/index.html). Mobilizing its members, the CoW has embarked on data rescue operations including data ecosystem mapping, collation, and curation of the legacy data, which was put into the central data repository for its members and the wider data user’s community according to the guideline developed based on the FAIR data principles and approved by the CoW. So far, CoW managed to collate and rescue about 20,000 legacy soil profile data and over 38,000 crop responses to fertilizer data (Tamene et al.,2022). The legacy soil profile dataset (consisting of Profiles Site = 1,776 observations with 37 variables; Profiles Layer Field = 1,493 observations with 64 variables; Profiles Layer Lab= 1,386 observations with 76 variables) is extracted, transformed, and uploaded into a harmonized template from the below source: Bilateral Ethiopian-Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade (BENEFIT) Partnership which is a portfolio of five programs (ISSD, Cascape, ENTAG, SBN, and REALISE) and is funded by the government of the Kingdom of Netherlands through its embassy in Addis Ababa. The BENEFIT-REALISE program implements its interventions in 60 PSNP weredas in four regions (Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, and SNNPR).Accordingly, in 2019, BENEFIT-REALISE along with the MoA initiated a wereda-wide soil resource characterization and mapping task at1:50,000 scale in 15 BENEFIT-REALISE intervention weredas: 3 of Tigray, 6 of Amhara, 3 of Oromia, and 3 of SNNPR. Reference: Ashenafi, A., Tamene, L., and Erkossa, T. 2020. Identifying, Cataloguing, and Mapping Soil and Agronomic Data in Ethiopia. CIAT Publication No. 506. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 42 p. 10.13140/RG.2.2.31759.41123. Tamene L; Erkossa T; Tafesse T; Abera W; Schultz S. 2021. A coalition of the Willing - Powering data-driven solutions for Ethiopian Agriculture. CIAT Publication No. 518. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 34 p. https://www.ethioagridata.com/Resources/Powering%20Data-Driven%20Solutions%20for%20Ethiopian%20Agriculture.pdf. The Coalition of the Willing (CoW) website: https://www.ethioagridata.com/index.html. TERMS: Access to the data is limited to the CoW members until the national soil and agronomy data-sharing directive of MoA is registered by the Ministry of Justice and released for implementation. DISCLAIMER: The dataset populated in the harmonized template consisting of 76 variables is extracted, transformed, and uploaded from the source document by the CoW. Hence, if any irregularities are observed, the data users have referred to the source document uploaded along with the dataset. Use of the dataset and any consequences arising from using it is the user’s sole responsibility.

Gamification is a strategy to stimulate social and human factors (SHF) that influence software development productivity. However, software development teams must improve their productivity to face the challenges of software development organizations. Traditionally, productivity analysis only includes technical factors. Literature shows the importance of SHFs in productivity. Furthermore, gamification elements can contribute to enhancing such factors to improve performance. Thus, to design strategies to enhance a specific SHF, it is essential to identify how gamification elements are related to these factors. The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between gamification elements and SHF that influence the productivity of software development teams. This research included the design of a scoring template to collect data from the experts. The importance was calculated using the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method as a tool framed in decision theory. Three criteria were considered: cumulative score, matches in inclusion, and values. The relationships of importance serve as a reference value in designing gamification strategies that promote improved productivity. It extends the path toward analyzing the effect of gamification on the productivity of software development. This relationship facilitates designing and implementing gamification strategies to improve productivity.

Datasets that contain a minimum of nanopore reads sufficient for hidden Markov model training and for evaluating the performance of our computational tool - nanoHiMe at simultaneously calling CpG and/or adenine methylation on individual nanopore reads. Ecoli_PCR_amplicons_100k.tgz, Ecoli_PCR_MSssI_100k.tar.gz and Ecoli_PCR_pA-Hia5_100k.tar.gz are used for training new parameters of the emission distributions of individual k-mers from DNA template without modification, with fully methylated CpGs, and with partially methylated adenines, respectively. nanoHiMe_H3K27me3.fast5.tgz are the nanopore sequencing reads from H3K27me3 nanoHiMe-seq experiments in GM12878 cells and used for evaluating the performance of nanoHiMe at jointly calling CpG and adenine methylation.

Digital health technologies used in primary care, referred to as, virtual primary care, allow patients to interact with primary healthcare professionals remotely though the current iteration of virtual primary care may also come with several unintended consequences, such as accessibility barriers and cream skimming. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a well-established framework to understand the functional components of health systems. However, the existing building blocks framework does not sufficiently account for the disruptive and multi-modal impact of digital transformations. In this review, we aimed to develop the first iteration of this updated framework by reviewing the deployment of virtual primary care systems in five leading countries: Canada, Finland, Germany and Sweden and the United Kingdom (England). We found that all five countries have taken different approaches with the deployment of virtual primary care, yet seven common themes were highlighted across countries: (1) stated policy objectives, (2) regulation and governance, (3) financing and reimbursement, (4) delivery and integration, (5) workforce training and support, (6) IT systems and data sharing, and (7) the extent of patient involvement in the virtual primary care system. The conceptual framework that was derived from these findings offers a set of guiding principles that can facilitate the assessment of virtual primary care in health system settings.

Although soil and agronomy data collection in Ethiopia has begun over 60 years ago, the data are hardly accessible as they are scattered across different organizations, mostly held in the hands of individuals (Ashenafi et al.,2020; Tamene et al.,2022), which makes them vulnerable to permanent loss. Cognizant of the problem, the Coalition of the Willing (CoW) for data sharing and access was created in 2018 with joint support and coordination of the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT and GIZ (https://www.ethioagridata.com/index.html). Mobilizing its members, the CoW has embarked on data rescue operations including data ecosystem mapping, collation, and curation of the legacy data, which was put into the central data repository for its members and the wider data user’s community according to the guideline developed based on the FAIR data principles and approved by the CoW. So far, CoW managed to collate and rescue about 20,000 legacy soil profile data and over 38,000 crop responses to fertilizer data (Tamene et al.,2022). The legacy soil profile dataset (consisting of Profiles Site = 1,659 observations with 37 variables; Profiles Layer Field = 2,373 observations with 64 variables; Profiles Layer Lab= 2,373 observations with 76 variables) is extracted, transformed, and uploaded into a harmonized template , adapted from Batjes 2022; Leenaars et al, 2014, from the below source: Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Sustainable Land Management (SLM) program watershed-based soil profile data. Reference: Ashenafi, A., Tamene, L., and Erkossa, T. 2020. Identifying, Cataloguing, and Mapping Soil and Agronomic Data in Ethiopia. CIAT Publication No. 506. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 42 p. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110868 Ashenafi, A., Erkossa, T., Gudeta, K., Abera, W., Mesfin, E., Mekete, T., Haile, M., Haile, W., Abegaz, A., Tafesse, D. and Belay, G., 2022. Reference Soil Groups Map of Ethiopia Based on Legacy Data and Machine Learning Technique: EthioSoilGrids 1.0. EGUsphere, pp.1-40. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-301 Tamene L; Erkossa T; Tafesse T; Abera W; Schultz S. 2021. A coalition of the Willing - Powering data-driven solutions for Ethiopian Agriculture. CIAT Publication No. 518. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 34 p. https://www.ethioagridata.com/Resources/Powering%20Data-Driven%20Solutions%20for%20Ethiopian%20Agriculture.pdf. The Coalition of the Willing (CoW) website: https://www.ethioagridata.com/index.html. Batjes, N.H., 2022. Basic principles for compiling a profile dataset for consideration in WoSIS. CoP report, ISRIC–World Soil Information, Wageningen. Contents Summary, 4(1), p.3. Carvalho Ribeiro, E.D. and Batjes, N.H., 2020. World Soil Information Service (WoSIS)-Towards the standardization and harmonization of world soil data: Procedures Manual 2020. Leenaars, J. G. B., van Oostrum, A.J.M., and Ruiperez ,G.M.: Africa Soil Profiles Database, Version 1.2. A compilation of georeferenced and standardised legacy soil profile data for Sub Saharan Africa (with dataset), ISRIC Report 2014/01, Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) project and ISRIC – World Soil Information, Wageningen, library.wur.nl/WebQuery/isric/2259472, 2014. TERMS: Access to the data is limited to the CoW members until the national soil and agronomy data-sharing directive of MoA is registered by the Ministry of Justice and released for implementation. DISCLAIMER: The dataset populated in the harmonized template consisting of 76 variables is extracted, transformed, and uploaded from the source document by the CoW. Hence, if any irregularities are observed, the data users have referred to the source document uploaded along with the dataset. Use of the dataset and any consequences arising from using it is the user’s sole responsibility.

Water Districts Data – Second Call / Download WD Profile Template here 11/15/18

Theory and data generally concur that a slower Life History Strategy (LHS) is associated with higher Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability. Whether Extraversion and Openness are indicators of a slow LH, or whether they include both fast and slow LH components, remains unresolved. I addressed these questions in two studies: one of university students observed via periodic brief audio recordings during 72 hours of their daily lives, and the second a re-analysis of data from Block and Block’s (2006) longitudinal study. In both studies, I operationalized LHS as the correlation between an individual’s California Q-Sort (CAQ) profile and the slow Life History (SLH) CAQ template created by Sherman et al. (2013) and Dunkel et al. (2015). I calculated Five Factor Model dimension scores using McCrae et al’s (1986) method. In both samples, individuals whose CAQ profile more closely resembled the SLH template were higher in Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stabi...

This dataset contains annual Excel pivot tables that display summaries of the patients treated in each hospital-based and freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Clinic licensed by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). The summary data includes discharge disposition, expected payer, preferred language spoken, age groups, race groups, sex, principal diagnosis groups, principal procedure groups, and principal external cause of injury/morbidity groups. The data can also be summarized statewide or for a specific facility county, type of control, and/or type of license (hospital or clinic). Note: Physician-owned ambulatory surgery clinics do not report their data to HCAI and, therefore, are not included in the statewide frequencies.

The Web Analytics Market in Retail and CPG is experiencing robust growth, projected to reach $1.22 billion in 2025 and maintain a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.19% from 2025 to 2033. This expansion is fueled by several key drivers. The increasing need for data-driven decision-making within retail and CPG companies is paramount. Businesses are leveraging web analytics to gain deeper insights into customer behavior, optimize marketing campaigns, and personalize the shopping experience. The rise of e-commerce and omnichannel strategies further intensifies the demand for sophisticated web analytics solutions. Specifically, the ability to track customer journeys across multiple touchpoints, analyze real-time data, and measure the effectiveness of online marketing initiatives are crucial factors driving market growth. Furthermore, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are enabling more predictive analytics, empowering businesses to anticipate customer needs and proactively address potential challenges. Competitive pressures are also pushing companies to adopt advanced web analytics technologies to gain a competitive edge and improve operational efficiency. Segmentation reveals a strong demand across both SMEs and large enterprises, with significant application in search engine optimization (SEO), online marketing automation, customer profiling, application performance management, and social media management. Major players like Google, IBM, Meta, and Salesforce are strategically positioned to capitalize on this expanding market. The market's growth trajectory is expected to be consistent throughout the forecast period, driven by continued digital transformation within the retail and CPG sectors. While challenges such as data privacy concerns and the complexity of integrating diverse data sources exist, the overall market outlook remains positive. The North American market is anticipated to hold a significant share, given the region's advanced digital infrastructure and high adoption of web analytics technologies. However, other regions, particularly Asia Pacific, are expected to show significant growth due to the rapid expansion of e-commerce and increasing internet penetration. The market's future success hinges on the continued development of innovative analytics solutions that address the specific needs of retail and CPG companies, providing actionable insights that drive revenue growth, customer loyalty, and operational efficiency. Recent developments include: April 2024 - IBM Consulting and Microsoft have unveiled the opening of the IBM-Microsoft Experience Zone in Bangalore, India. The Experience Zone is designed as an exclusive venue where clients can delve into the potential of generative AI, hybrid cloud solutions, and other advanced Microsoft offerings. The goal is to expedite their business transformations and secure a competitive edge., January 2024 - Microsoft Corp. announced a suite of generative AI and data solutions tailored for retailers. These solutions cover every touchpoint of the retail shopper journey, from crafting personalized shopping experiences and empowering store associates to harness and consolidating retail data, ultimately aiding brands in better connecting with their target audiences. Microsoft's initiatives include introducing copilot templates on Azure OpenAI Service, enhancing retailers' ability to craft personalized shopping experiences, and streamlining store operations. Microsoft Fabric hosts advanced retail data solutions, while Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights boasts new copilot features. Microsoft also rolled out the Retail Media Creative Studio within the Microsoft Retail Media Platform. These advancements collectively bolster Microsoft Cloud for Retail, providing retailers with diverse tools to integrate copilot experiences across the entire shopper journey seamlessly.. Key drivers for this market are: Growing Demand for Online Shopping Trends, Rising Adoption of Analytics Tools to Understand Customer Preferences; Increasing Customer Centric Approach and Use of Recommendation Engines. Potential restraints include: Growing Demand for Online Shopping Trends, Rising Adoption of Analytics Tools to Understand Customer Preferences; Increasing Customer Centric Approach and Use of Recommendation Engines. Notable trends are: Search Engine Optimization and Ranking Sector Significantly Driving the Market Growth.