The simulated synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) data presented here was generated using PoSSM [Johnson and Brown 2018]. The data is suitable for bistatic, coherent signal processing and will form acoustic seafloor imagery. Included in this data package is simulated sonar data in Generic Data Format (GDF) files, a description of the GDF file contents, example SAS imagery, and supporting information about the simulated scenes. In total, there are eleven 60 m x 90 m scenes, labeled scene00 through scene10, with scene00 provided with the scatterers in isolation, i.e. no seafloor texture. This is provided for beamformer testing purposes and should result in an image similar to the one labeled "PoSSM-scene00-scene00-starboard-0.tif" in the Related Data Sets tab. The ten other scenes have varying degrees of model variation as described in "Description_of_Simulated_SAS_Data_Package.pdf". A description of the data and the model is found in the associated document called "Description_of_Simulated_SAS_Data_Package.pdf" and a description of the format in which the raw binary data is stored is found in the related document "PSU_GDF_Format_20240612.pdf". The format description also includes MATLAB code that will effectively parse the data to aid in signal processing and image reconstruction. It is left to the researcher to develop a beamforming algorithm suitable for coherent signal and image processing. Each 60 m x 90 m scene is represented by 4 raw (not beamformed) GDF files, labeled sceneXX-STARBOARD-000000 through 000003. It is possible to beamform smaller scenes from any one of these 4 files, i.e. the four files are combined sequentially to form a 60 m x 90 m image. Also included are comma separated value spreadsheets describing the locations of scatterers and objects of interest within each scene. In addition to the binary GDF data, a beamformed GeoTIFF image and a single-look complex (SLC, science file) data of each scene is provided. The SLC data (science) is stored in the Hierarchical Data Format 5 (https://www.hdfgroup.org/), and appended with ".hdf5" to indicate the HDF5 format. The data are stored as 32-bit real and 32-bit complex values. A viewer is available that provides basic graphing, image display, and directory navigation functions (https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdfview/). The HDF file contains all the information necessary to reconstruct a synthetic aperture sonar image. All major and contemporary programming languages have library support for encoding/decoding the HDF5 format. Supporting documentation that outlines positions of the seafloor scatterers is included in "Scatterer_Locations_Scene00.csv", while the locations of the objects of interest for scene01-scene10 are included in "Object_Locations_All_Scenes.csv". Portable Network Graphic (PNG) images that plot the location of objects of all the objects of interest in each scene in Along-Track and Cross-Track notation are provided.

This SAS code extracts data from EU-SILC User Database (UDB) longitudinal files and edits it such that a file is produced that can be further used for differential mortality analyses. Information from the original D, R, H and P files is merged per person and possibly pooled over several longitudinal data releases. Vital status information is extracted from target variables DB110 and RB110, and time at risk between the first interview and either death or censoring is estimated based on quarterly date information. Apart from path specifications, the SAS code consists of several SAS macros. Two of them require parameter specification from the user. The other ones are just executed. The code was written in Base SAS, Version 9.4. By default, the output file contains several variables which are necessary for differential mortality analyses, such as sex, age, country, year of first interview, and vital status information. In addition, the user may specify the analytical variables by which mortality risk should be compared later, for example educational level or occupational class. These analytical variables may be measured either at the first interview (the baseline) or at the last interview of a respondent. The output file is available in SAS format and by default also in csv format.

This formatted dataset (AnalysisDatabaseGBD) originates from raw data files from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD2017) affiliated with the University of Washington. We are volunteer collaborators with IHME and not employed by IHME or the University of Washington.

The population weighted GBD2017 data are on male and female cohorts ages 15-69 years including noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), body mass index (BMI), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and other health outcomes and associated dietary, metabolic, and other risk factors. The purpose of creating this population-weighted, formatted database is to explore the univariate and multiple regression correlations of health outcomes with risk factors. Our research hypothesis is that we can successfully model NCDs, BMI, CVD, and other health outcomes with their attributable risks.

These Global Burden of disease data relate to the preprint: The EAT-Lancet Commission Planetary Health Diet compared with Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation Global Burden of Disease Ecological Data Analysis. The data include the following: 1. Analysis database of population weighted GBD2017 data that includes over 40 health risk factors, noncommunicable disease deaths/100k/year of male and female cohorts ages 15-69 years from 195 countries (the primary outcome variable that includes over 100 types of noncommunicable diseases) and over 20 individual noncommunicable diseases (e.g., ischemic heart disease, colon cancer, etc). 2. A text file to import the analysis database into SAS 3. The SAS code to format the analysis database to be used for analytics 4. SAS code for deriving Tables 1, 2, 3 and Supplementary Tables 5 and 6 5. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Table 4. 6. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Table 5 7. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Supplementary Table 7
8. SAS code for deriving the multiple regression formula in Supplementary Table 8 9. The Excel files that accompanied the above SAS code to produce the tables

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File List ACS.zip -- .zip file containing SAS macro and example code, and example Aletris bracteata data sets. acs.sas chekika_ACS_estimation.sas chekika_1.csv chekika_2.csv philippi.3.1.zip

Description "acs.sas" is a SAS macro for computing Horvitz-Thompson and Hansen-Horwitz estimates of population size for adaptive cluster sampling with random initial sampling. This version uses ugly base SAS code and does not require SQL or SAS products other than Base SAS, and should work with versions 8.2 onward (tested with versions 9.0 and 9.1). "chekika_ACS_estimation.sas" is example SAS code calling the acs macro to analyze the Chekika Aletris bracteata example data sets. "chekika_1.csv" is an example data set in ASCII comma-delimited format from adaptive cluster sampling of A. bracteata at Chekika, Everglades National Park, with 1-m2 quadrats. "chekika_2.csv" is an example data set in ASCII comma-delimited format from adaptive cluster sampling of A. bracteata at Chekika, Everglades National Park, with 4-m2 quadrats. "philippi.3.1.zip" metadata file generated by morpho, including both xml and css.

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