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1. Data Talks: Obesity-Related Influences on US Mortality Rates

   https://doi.org/10.22158/rhs.v3n3p65  

   D’Souza, Malcolm J.; Bautista, Riza C.; Wentzien, Derald E. (June 2018, Research in Health Science)

   Background: In the US, obesity is an epidemiologic challenge and the population fails to comprehend this complex public health issue. To evaluate underlying obesity-impact patterns on mortality rates, we data-mined the 1999-2016 Center for Disease Control WONDER database’s vital records.Methods: Adopting SAS programming, we scrutinized the mortality and population counts. Using ICD-10 diagnosis codes connected to overweight and obesity, we obtained the obesity-related crude and age-adjusted causes of death. To understand divergent and prevalence trends we compared and contrasted the tabulated obesity-influenced mortality rates with demographic information, gender, and age-related data.Key Results: From 1999 to 2016, the obesity-related age-adjusted mortality rates increased by 142%. The ICD-10 overweight and obesity-related death-certificate coding showed clear evidence that obesity factored in the male age-adjusted mortality rate increment to 173% and the corresponding female rate to 117%. It also disproportionately affected the nation-wide minority population death rates. Furthermore, excess weight distributions are coded as contributing features in the crude death rates for all decennial age-groups.Conclusions: The 1999-2016 data from ICD-10 death certificate coding for obesity-related conditions indicate that it is affecting all segments of the US population. 

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2. The NANOGrav Search for Signals from New Physics: MCMC chains

   https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8083620  

   NANOGrav, The Collaboration (January 2023, Zenodo)

   {"Abstract":["MCMC chains for the GWB analyses performed in the paper "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics<\/em>". <\/p>\n\nThe data is provided in pickle format. Each file contains a NumPy array with the MCMC chain (with burn-in already removed), and a dictionary with the model parameters' names as keys and their priors as values. You can load them as<\/p>\n\nwith open ('path/to/file.pkl', 'rb') as pick:\n temp = pickle.load(pick)\n\n params = temp[0]\n chain = temp[1]<\/code>\n\nThe naming convention for the files is the following:<\/p>\n\nigw<\/strong>: inflationary Gravitational Waves (GWs)<\/li>sigw: scalar-induced GWs\n\tsigw_box<\/strong>: assumes a box-like feature in the primordial power spectrum.<\/li>sigw_delta<\/strong>: assumes a delta-like feature in the primordial power spectrum.<\/li>sigw_gauss<\/strong>: assumes a Gaussian peak feature in the primordial power spectrum.<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>pt: cosmological phase transitions\n\tpt_bubble<\/strong>: assumes that the dominant contribution to the GW productions comes from bubble collisions.<\/li>pt_sound<\/strong>: assumes that the dominant contribution to the GW productions comes from sound waves.<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>stable: stable cosmic strings\n\tstable-c<\/strong>: stable strings emitting GWs only in the form of GW bursts from cusps on closed loops.<\/li>stable-k<\/strong>: stable strings emitting GWs only in the form of GW bursts from kinks on closed loops.<\/li>stable<\/strong>-m<\/strong>: stable strings emitting monochromatic GW at the fundamental frequency.<\/li>stable-n<\/strong>: stable strings described by numerical simulations including GWs from cusps and kinks.<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>meta: metastable cosmic strings\n\tmeta<\/strong>-l<\/strong>: metastable strings with GW emission from loops only.<\/li>meta-ls<\/strong> metastable strings with GW emission from loops and segments.<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>super<\/strong>: cosmic superstrings.<\/li>dw: domain walls\n\tdw-sm<\/strong>: domain walls decaying into Standard Model particles.<\/li>dw-dr<\/strong>: domain walls decaying into dark radiation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li><\/ul>\n\nFor each model, we provide four files. One for the run where the new-physics signal is assumed to be the only GWB source. One for the run where the new-physics signal is superimposed to the signal from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries (SMBHB), for these files "_bhb" will be appended to the model name. Then, for both these scenarios, in the "compare" folder we provide the files for the hypermodel runs that were used to derive the Bayes' factors.<\/p>\n\nIn addition to chains for the stochastic models, we also provide data for the two deterministic models considered in the paper (ULDM and DM substructures). For the ULDM model, the naming convention of the files is the following (all the ULDM signals are superimposed to the SMBHB signal, see the discussion in the paper for more details)<\/p>\n\nuldm_e<\/strong>: ULDM Earth signal.<\/li>uldm_p: ULDM pulsar signal\n\tuldm_p_cor<\/strong>: correlated limit<\/li>uldm_p_unc<\/strong>: uncorrelated limit<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>uldm_c: ULDM combined Earth + pulsar signal direct coupling \n\tuldm_c_cor<\/strong>: correlated limit<\/li>uldm_c_unc<\/strong>: uncorrelated limit<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>uldm_vecB: vector ULDM coupled to the baryon number\n\tuldm_vecB_cor:<\/strong> correlated limit<\/li>uldm_vecB_unc<\/strong>: uncorrelated limit <\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>uldm_vecBL: vector ULDM coupled to B-L\n\tuldm_vecBL_cor:<\/strong> correlated limit<\/li>uldm_vecBL_unc<\/strong>: uncorrelated limit<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li>uldm_c_grav: ULDM combined Earth + pulsar signal for gravitational-only coupling\n\tuldm_c_grav_cor: correlated limit\n\t\tuldm_c_cor_grav_low<\/strong>: low mass region  <\/li>uldm_c_cor_grav_mon<\/strong>: monopole region<\/li>uldm_c_cor_grav_low<\/strong>: high mass region<\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t<\/li>uldm_c_unc<\/strong>: uncorrelated limit\n\t\tuldm_c_unc_grav_low<\/strong>: low mass region  <\/li>uldm_c_unc_grav_mon<\/strong>: monopole region<\/li>uldm_c_unc_grav_low<\/strong>: high mass region<\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t<\/li><\/ul>\n\t<\/li><\/ul>\n\nFor the substructure (static) model, we provide the chain for the marginalized distribution (as for the ULDM signal, the substructure signal is always superimposed to the SMBHB signal)<\/p>"]} 

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3. Gridded road network statistics and settlement age surfaces for core-based statistical areas in the conterminous U.S.

   https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19593496.v1  

   Uhl, Johannes H.; Burghardt, Keith (January 2022, figshare)

   These geotiff files represent road network statistics for each core-based statistical area (CBSA) in the conterminous U.S., within grid cells of 1km x 1km. The road network statistics are based on the National transportation dataset (USGS-NTD) v2019. These statistics include: gridcell_stats_azimuthvariety_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The number of unique road angles (azimuth / orientation) in bins of 10 degrees per 1 sqkm grid cell. gridcell_stats_deadendrate_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The proportion of dead ends (nodes of degree 1) of all nodes per 1 sqkm grid cell. gridcell_stats_kmroad_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The approximate total road network length per 1 sqkm grid cell. This is based on the road segment length appended to each road segment centroid and may be biased for very long road segments. gridcell_stats_meandegree_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The average nodal degree of all nodes per 1 sqkm grid cell. gridcell_stats_meangriddedness_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The average griddedness of all nodes per 1 sqkm grid cell. gridcell_stats_nodedensity_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The number of nodes per 1 sqkm grid cell. gridcell_stats_nodesperkmroad_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The number of nodes per km road within each 1 sqkm grid cell. gridcell_stats_firstbuiltup_1km_all_cbsas.tif: The approximate settlement age per 1 sqkm grid cell. This layer is derived from the HISDAC-US First-built-up year (FBUY) layer, which is derived from Zillow's Transaction and Assessment Dataset (ZTRAX). The FBUY data is available here: Leyk, Stefan; Uhl, Johannes H., 2018, "FBUY.tar.gz", Historical settlement composite layer for the U.S. 1810 - 2015, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PKJ90M/BOA5YC, Harvard Dataverse, V2  gridcell_stats_1km_all_cbsas_arcmap10.8.mxd: ESRI ArcMap 10.8 MXD file for quick visualization of the gridded surfaces. Spatial resolution: 1x1km Spatial reference: SR-ORG:7480, USA_Contiguous_Albers_Equal_Area_Conic_USGS_version Source data: USGS-NTD, HISDAC-US. File format: GeoTIFF. Spatial coverage of the road network metrics: All CBSAs in the conterminous U.S. Spatial coverage of the "first built-up year" surface: all U.S. counties that are covered by the HISDAC-US  historical settlement layers. This datasets includes around 2,700 U.S.  counties. In the remaining counties, construction year coverage in the  underlying ZTRAX data (Zillow Transaction and Assessment Dataset) is  low. See Leyk & Uhl (2018) for details. All data created by Johannes H. Uhl, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Code available at https://github.com/johannesuhl/USRoadNetworkEvolution. References: Burghardt, K., Uhl, J., Lerman, K.,  & Leyk, S. (2022). Road   Network Evolution in the Urban and Rural  United States Since 1900.   Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Leyk, S., & Uhl, J. H. (2018). HISDAC-US, historical settlement   data  compilation for the conterminous United States over 200 years. Scientific data, 5(1), 1-14. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.175  

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4. Focal accuracy estimates and landscape metrics for built-up areas from the GHS-BUILT R2018A in Massachusetts, USA.

   https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19785877.v1  

   Uhl, Johannes H.; Leyk, Stefan (January 2022, figshare)

   These files are supplementary data for this publication: Uhl JH & Leyk S (2022). "Assessing the relationship between morphology and mapping accuracy of built-up areas derived from global human settlement data (https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2022.2131192). Each geopackage (GPKG) file contains a set of point locations (in EPSG:3857) attributed with focal accuracy metrics of the GHS-BUILT-R2018A epochs 1975 and 2014, calculated within different levels of spatial support (i.e., focal window size) and for different analytical units (i.e., 30m grid cells, and 3x3 grid cell blocks). Moreover, each location is attributed with focal landscape metrics of built-up areas calculated in the same focal windows using the software Fragstats. These landscape metrics are calculated based on both, GHS built-up areas and reference built-up areas. Reference built-up areas were derived from the Multi-temporal building footprint database for 33 U.S. counties (MTBF-33). These datasets can be used for spatially explicit predictive modeling of the GHS-BUILT R2018A data accuracy using landscape metrics as predictor variables. File nomenclature: lsm_ref_accuracy_sample_2014_1000.gpkg : landscape metrics calculated from the reference built-up areas, for the epoch 2014, using a quadratic focal window of 1,000m x 1,000m. lsm_ghs_accuracy_sample_1975_10000.gpkg : landscape metrics calculated from the ghs built-up areas, for the epoch 1975, using a quadratic focal window of 10,000m x 10,000m. Data processing: Johannes H. Uhl, University of Colorado Boulder (USA), 2020-2022. 

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5. Preparing School Leaders to Advance Equity in Computer Science Education

   https://doi.org/10.26716/jcsi.2021.10.8.33  

   Flapan, Julie; Ryoo, Jean J.; Hadad, Roxana; Knudson, Joel (January 2021, Journal of Computer Science Integration)

   Background and Context: Most large-scale statewide initiatives of the Computer Science for All (CS for All) movement have focused on the classroom level. Critical questions remain about building school and district leadership capacity to support teachers while implementing equitable computer science education that is scalable and sustainable. Objective: This statewide research-practice partnership, involving university researchers and school leaders from 14 local education agencies (LEA) from district and county offices, addresses the following research question: What do administrators identify as most helpful for understanding issues related to equitable computer science implementation when engaging with a guide and workshop we collaboratively developed to help leadership in such efforts? Method: Participant surveys, interviews, and workshop observations were analyzed to understand best practices for professional development supporting educational leaders. Findings: Administrators value computer science professional development resources that: (a) have a clear focus on “equity;” (b) engage with data and examples that deepen understandings of equity; (c) provide networking opportunities; (d) have explicit workshop purpose and activities; and (e) support deeper discussions of computer science implementation challenges through pairing a workshop and a guide. Implications: Utilizing Ishimaru and Galloway’s (2014) framework for equitable leadership practices, this study offers an actionable construct for equitable implementation of computer science including (a) how to build equity leadership and vision; (b) how to enact that vision; and (c) how to scale and sustain that vision. While this construct applies to equitable leadership practices more broadly across all disciplines, we found its application particularly useful when explicitly focused on equity leadership practices in computer science. 

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