Octavio Mesa-Varona, Carolina Plaza-Rodríguez, Lars Valentin, Matthias Filter
Epidemiological outbreak investigations often prove to be lengthy and inconclusive due to the time-consuming nature of the currently-used approaches. An alternative approach to address these challenges could involve the application of algorithms to support authorities and food business operators by providing timely, relevant and reliable information. Algorithms, such as gravity models, could be applied as commodity trade models, but they require a large amount of reliable and consistent data on trade for generating projections at international, national or even regional level. Several trade databases, such as UN COMTRADE, EUROSTAT, BACI, CHELEM and GTAP, provide information on trace, albeit with variations in the provided information and in the structure. However, it is worth noting that not all of these databases are freely accessible and data management can pose challenges, hampering the access to the trade data. WarenstromInfo (WI) was created as a software solution that allows easy trade data extraction and visualisation for application in different areas, such as outbreak investigations. WarenstromInfo (WI) is an application tool that automatically extracts, decodes and visually displays trade flow data from EUROSTAT "EU trade since 2002 by statistical procedure, by HS2-4-6 and CN8 (DS-059322)" (hereinafter referred to EUROSTAT) and the BACI databases, based on user input. WI was developed by using the open-source desktop software KNIME Analytics Platform. WI offers the flexibility to be executed either as a web service on a KNIME Web Server infrastructure or as a local resource. To integrate the BACI database into WI, the database is annually downloaded as csv files, rebuilt as a SQLite database and hosted locally into the KNIME Web Server Infrastructure. In order to optimise storage space on the KNIME server, this SQLite database specifically includes only agrifood data, reflecting the tool´s focus. However, if new objectives are established, this database can be expanded. Further, data of the SQLite database can be customised by executing the WI workflow locally, enabling the user to expand the database at any time. In contrast to BACI, trade data extraction from the EUROSTAT database is performed via the EUROSTAT’s API (Application Programming Interface) applying GET requests and XML data management. WI displays four User-friendly Interfaces (UIs) designed with interactive KNIME nodes that facilitate the input of variables. The extracted trade flow data are shown through interactive tables directly within the UIs. This feature enables users to easily explore the data in a structured and user-friendly manner. Additionally, WI incorporates the extracted trade flow data into maps. These maps provide a visual representation of the data, allowing users to gain insights and identify patterns and trends geographically. Both, the data table and the maps, can be downloaded as a single Excel file (containing multiple preformatted tables) and
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Hypotheses play a central role in the scientific process, yet the way they are introduced often leaves much room for interpretation, which makes it difficult to use them later on: to study and test them, to delineate their scope and to explore the relationships they have to other hypotheses or concepts, to datasets, methodologies or other resources. Here, we introduce a new article type in RIO that is dedicated to them: Hypothesis Descriptions. Such articles combine a specific verbal definition of a hypothesis with a concise description of its components and provide pointers to prior work as well as alignments with formal ways of knowledge representation, optionally including relevant nanopublications. With this format, we aim to facilitate the study of hypotheses in and of themselves, to improve their testability along with the documentation and interpretability of such tests, and to stimulate efforts towards standardization and automation in this space.
假设在科学过程中起着核心作用，然而，提出假设的方式往往给解释留下了很大的空间，这就给以后使用假设带来了困难：研究和检验假设，划定假设的范围，探索假设与其他假设或概念、数据集、方法论或其他资源之间的关系。在此，我们在 RIO 中引入一种新的文章类型，专门用于这些假设：假设描述。此类文章将假设的具体口头定义与其组成部分的简明描述结合起来，并提供先前工作的指针以及与正式知识表征方式的比对，还可选择包括相关的纳米出版物。通过这种形式，我们旨在促进对假设本身的研究，提高假设的可测试性以及测试的文档化和可解释性，并推动这一领域的标准化和自动化进程。
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Tina Heger, Jonathan Jeschke, Maud Bernard‐Verdier, Camille Musseau, D. Mietchen
This paper provides a brief overview of a major hypothesis in invasion biology: the enemy release hypothesis. Building on a summary of different previous definitions, we provide the following revised definition: “A reduced pressure by enemies in the non-native range contributes to invasion success.” Further, we suggest formalizing the hypothesis in the basic form ‘subject - relationship - object’ to allow for disambiguating the different existing meanings and enhancing their usability by machines.
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Hypothesis Descriptions are a type of manuscript dedicated to the formal description of a hypothesis, as introduced in an accompanying editorial and an examplary Hypothesis Description for the Enemy Release Hypothesis that is used in invasion biology. This questionnaire provides a template for such a Hypothesis Description manuscript. The template's format was designed for simplicity to facilitate adoption, and it can be easily extended to capture additional information, e.g. instructions for falsification or generalization, taxonomic or geographic scope, etymology, or relevant information in other research fields or other languages. The template reflects the recommended structure for a Hypothesis Description manuscript in that each of its sections provides the title for a section in a Hypothesis Description manuscript and indicates whether that section is mandatory or optional. Four sections - Keywords (mandatory), Conflicts of interest (optional), Acknowledgments (optional) and References (mandatory) - are in this template filled in for the template itself but should otherwise be adjusted for the hypothesis at hand. Comments to guide authors who work on a Hypothesis Description manuscript are provided as well.
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Tina Heger, Jonathan Jeschke, Maud Bernard‐Verdier, Camille Musseau, D. Mietchen
This paper provides a brief overview of a major hypothesis in invasion biology: the enemy release hypothesis. Building on a summary of different previous definitions, we provide the following revised definition: “A reduced pressure by enemies in the non-native range contributes to invasion success.” Further, we suggest formalizing the hypothesis in the basic form ‘subject - relationship - object’ to allow for disambiguating the different existing meanings and enhancing their usability by machines.
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Todd Prier, Kelly Yale-Suda, Hailey Westover, Ryan Corey
The financial margin of rural and critical access hospitals highly depends on their surgical volume. An efficient operating room is necessary to maximise profit and minimise financial loss. OR utilisation is a crucial OR efficiency metric requiring accurate case duration estimates. The patient's age, ASA, BMI, Mallampati score, previous surgery, the planned surgery, the surgeon, the assistant's level of experience and the severity of the patient's disease are also associated with operative duration. Although complex machine-learning models are accurate in operative prediction, they are not always available in resource-limited hospitals. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is one of the most common surgical procedures performed and is one of the few procedures performed at critical access and rural hospitals. The accurate estimation of the operative duration of LC is essential for efficient OR utilisation. We hypothesise that a multivariate linear regression prediction model can be constructed from a set of pre-operatively known, easily collected variables to maximise OR utilisation and improve operative scheduling accuracy for LC. We further hypothesise that this model can be implemented in resource-limited environments, such as critical access hospitals.
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Edmund Schiller, Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, Eva Häffner, J. Buschbom, F. Leliaert, Breda M Zimkus, John Dickie, Suzete Gomes, Chris Lyal, Daniel Mulcahy, Alan Paton, Gabi Droege
We present two different typologies of legal/contractual information in the context of natural history objects: the Biodiversity Permit/Contract Typology categorises permits and contracts, and the Typology of Legal/Contractual Terms for Biodiversity Specimens categorises the terms within permits and contracts. The Typologies have been developed under the EU-funded SYNTHESYS+ project with the participation of experts from outside the consortium. The document further addresses a possible technical integration of these typologies into the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo). The implementation in the DiSSCo data model is outlined and a concrete use case is presented to show how conditions, e.g. the Typology of Legal/Contractual Terms, can be introduced into the DiSSCo Electronic Loans and Visits System (ElViS). Finally, we give an outlook on the next steps to develop the typologies into a standard that supports compliance with legal and contractual obligations within the wider community of natural science collections.
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Salomé Landel, G. Lymer, Markus Pasterk, Michel Guiraud, Katharine Worley
A key consideration during the preparatory phase project DiSSCo Prepare – which laid the foundations for the future Research Infrastructure DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) – was the need to establish a small number of alternative viable financial contribution models and a scalable formula which could be presented to potential funders, with a view to obtaining the minimum financial contribution necessary for DiSSCo to operate, as well as considering how the RI could grow with increased national funding. This report briefly explains the ERIC funding framework – as chosen for DiSSCo – and its legal constraints, in order to explain the key role played by national member contributions in the viability of an ERIC. An essential annex of the statutes that will be signed by all members of the ERIC is the member fee calculation. A proposal for the DiSSCo member fee calculation is set out in this document and is based on three main indicators: economic power (GDP), annual spending in research and development and population size. In the context of DiSSCo – and to ensure the ERIC can function – these indicators are connected to a fixed baseline fee of €50,000, in order to guarantee a minimum significant annual contribution from each participating country and avoid contributions that will be more expensive to manage than to benefit from. This baseline is multiplied by contribution factors which propose different ways to weight the various indicators. The method is established on an ideal scenario, whereby all 27 EU members, as well as the UK, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland sign the DiSSCo statutes and agree to the proposed member contribution calculation, amounting to €4.5 million for the annual budget of the ERIC. This scenario remains highly unlikely; therefore, a scaled approach has been envisaged, meaning the initial engagement of some countries will allow DiSSCo to begin its operation and implement its business strategy, whilst the growth of the ERIC and its activities is likely to evolve proportionally to the number of national members it is able to engage. This report also looks at the ways in which funding could be distributed amongst the DiSSCo members in order to implement decentralised services.
DiSSCo 筹备项目为未来的研究基础设施 DiSSCo（科学文献数据库分布式系统）奠 定了基础，其筹备阶段的一个主要考虑因素是，需要建立少量可供选择的可行财政捐 款模式和可扩展的公式，并将其提交给潜在的资助者，以期获得 DiSSCo 运营所需的最 低财政捐款，并考虑如何随着国家资金的增加而发展研究基础设施。本报告简要介绍了为 DiSSCo 选定的 ERIC 筹资框架及其法律限制，以说明国家成员的捐 款对 ERIC 的可行性所起的关键作用。ERIC 所有成员都将签署的章程的一个重要附件是成员费用的计算。本文件提出了关于 DiSSCo 成员费用计算的建议，该建议基于三个主要指标：经济实力（GDP）、研究与开发的年度支出和人口数量。在 DiSSCo 的情况下，为了确保 ERIC 能够正常运作，这些指标与 50,000 欧元的固定基线费 用挂钩，以保证每个参与国每年至少有一笔可观的缴费，避免缴费的管理费用高于其收益。基线费乘以会费系数，这些系数提出了各种指标的不同加权方法。该方法建立在一种理想的情况下，即所有 27 个欧盟成员国以及英国、冰岛、挪威和瑞士签署 DiSSCo 章程，并同意拟议的成员国会费计算方法，即 ERIC 的年度预算为 450 万欧元。这种情况仍然不太可能发生；因此，我们设想了一种分级方法，这意味着一些国家的初步参与将使 DiSSCo 能够开始运作并实施其业务战略，而 ERIC 及其活动的增长可能与它能够参与的国家成员的数量成正比。本报告还探讨了在 DiSSCo 成员之间分配资金的方式，以便实施非集中化服务。
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D. Koureas, Laurence Livermore, W. Addink, Eva Alonso, Jose Alonso, Ana Casino, François Dusoulier, Vânia Ferreira, Jonas Grieb, Q. Groom, Sharif Islam, U. Kõljalg, G. Lymer, Karol Marhold, Carole Paleco, Stefaan Pijls, Serge Scory, Ben Scott, Claus Weiland, Katharine Worley
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) initiative. DiSSCo aims to bring together natural science collections from 175 museums, botanical gardens, universities and research institutes across 23 countries in a distributed infrastructure that makes these collections physically and digitally open and accessible for all forms of research and innovation. DiSSCo RI entered the ESFRI roadmap in 2018 and successfully concluded its Preparatory Phase in early 2023. The RI is now transitioning towards the constitution of its legal entity (an ERIC) and the start of its scaled-up construction (implementation) programme. This publication is an abridged version of the successful grant proposal for the DiSSCo Transition Project which has the goal of ensuring the seamless transition of the DiSSCo RI from its Preparatory Phase to the Construction Phase (expected to start in 2025). In this transition period, the Project will address five objectives building on the outcomes of the Preparatory Phase project: 1) Advance the DiSSCo ERIC process and complete its policy framework, ensuring the smooth early-phase Implementation of DISSCo; 2) Engage & support DiSSCo National Nodes to strengthen national commitments; 3) Advance the development of core e-services to avoid the accumulation of technical debt before the start of the Implementation Phase; 4) Continue international collaboration on standards & best practices needed for the DiSSCo service provision; and 5) Continue supporting DiSSCo RI interim governance bodies and transition them to the DiSSCo ERIC formal governance. The Project’s impact will be measured against the increase in the RI's overall Implementation Readiness Level (IRL). More specifically, we will monitor its impact towards reaching the required level of maturity in four of the five dimensions of the IRL that can benefit from further developments. These include the organisational, financial, technological and data readiness levels.
科学藏品分布式系统（DiSSCo）是一项泛欧研究基础设施（RI）计划。DiSSCo 的目标是将 23 个国家 175 个博物馆、植物园、大学和研究机构的自然科学藏品汇集到一个分布式基础设施中，使这些藏品以物理和数字方式开放，供各种形式的研究和创新使用。DiSSCo RI 于 2018 年进入 ESFRI 路线图，并于 2023 年初成功结束其筹备阶段。目前，RI 正在向组建其法律实体（ERIC）和启动其规模化建设（实施）计划过渡。该项目旨在确保 DiSSCo 区域机构从筹备阶段无缝过渡到建设阶段（预计于 2025 年启动）。在过渡时期，该项目将在筹备阶段项目成果的基础上实现五个目标：1) 推进 DiSSCo ERIC 进程并完成其政策框架，确保 DISSCo 早期阶段的顺利实施；2) 参与并支持 DiSSCo 国家节点，加强国家承诺；3) 推进核心电子服务的开发，避免在实施阶段开始前积累技术债务；4) 继续就 DiSSCo 服务提供所需的标准和最佳做法开展国际合作；以及 5) 继续支持 DiSSCo RI 临时管理机构，并将其过渡到 DiSSCo ERIC 正式管理。本项目的影响将根据 RI 整体实施就绪水平（IRL）的提高情况来衡量。更具体地说，我们将监测其在 IRL 五个方面中的四个方面达到所需成熟度的影响，这些方面可从进一步发展中受益。这些方面包括组织、财务、技术和数据准备程度。
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Kiara Lasch, Sabine Gollner, Alex Oude Elferink, S. Rühs, F. Sangiorgi, E. van Sebille, Junjie Wang
The ocean's significance encompasses crucial ecosystem services including climate regulation, oxygen production and food supply. The ocean is also a major player in the global economy. However, human activities continue to harm the ocean, jeopardising these vital functions. In July 2022, the United Nations Ocean Conference adopted a political declaration entitled "Our ocean, our future, our responsibility," emphasising the need for sustainable ocean management and protection. However, an important initial question arises: who are the “Our”? or, rephrased “Whose ocean” is it? This study presents first answers to this question, based on interviews with ocean professionals from diverse backgrounds. Their responses showcased the complexity of the issue, with differing opinions on ocean “ownership” and “control”. Despite the diversity of perspectives, a shared emphasis emerged: shifting from profit-driven decision-making to prioritising marine ecosystem health. Proposed approaches to build a sustainable relationship between people and the ocean include promoting ocean literacy and marine research and ensuring global accountability. These voices offered valuable insights towards ocean sustainability, guiding future academic, educational and policy-making efforts.
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