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Measuring net community production (NCP) is a challenging, yet important, aspect of oceanography. Methods based on discrete sample collection often have low spatial and temporal resolution, while expensive instruments are required to obtain continuous NCP measurements at high resolution. To address these issues, Izett and Tortell (2020) created a novel, autonomous system called the Pressure of In-situ Gases Instrument (PIGI) and shared their design with the community. The system yields high-resolution surface water O2 and N2 measurements that are used to estimate NCP along a ship transect or at a fixed field station. This article provides a description of an updated PIGI system that was tested in a series of cruises in the coastal South Atlantic Bight (SAB). The data collected suggest that it performs equally as well as the original, providing high spatial resolution NCP measurements. Unfortunately, we believe that the SAB coastal and estuaries violate the steady state assumption due to horizontal mixing driven by tidal forces. Thus, we cannot recommend the PIGI system for use in the coastal SAB, but we encourage its use in open ocean waters that do not violate the assumptions on which this system was built. We document the updates to the PIGI system, share tips and tricks on its use, and discuss the data collected. 

Abstract We present Cryoscope, a new 50 deg²field-of-view, 1.2 m aperture,K_darksurvey telescope to be located at Dome C, Antarctica. Cryoscope has an innovative optical–thermal design wherein the entire telescope is cryogenically cooled. Cryoscope also explores new detector technology to cost-effectively tile the full focal plane. Leveraging the dark Antarctic sky and minimizing telescope thermal emission, Cryoscope achieves unprecedented deep, wide, fast, and red observations, matching and exceeding volumetric survey speeds from the Ultraviolet Explorer, Vera Rubin Observatory, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, SPHEREx, and NEO Surveyor. By providing coverage beyond wavelengths of 2μm, we aim to create the most comprehensive dynamic movie of the most obscured reaches of the Universe. Cryoscope will be a dedicated discovery engine for electromagnetic emission from coalescing compact binaries, Earth-like exoplanets orbiting cold stars, and multiple facets of time-domain, stellar, and solar system science. In this paper, we describe the scientific drivers and technical innovations for this new discovery engine operating in theK_darkpassband, why we choose to deploy it in Antarctica, and the status of a fifth-scale prototype designed as a Pathfinder to retire technological risks prior to full-scale implementation. We plan to deploy the Cryoscope Pathfinder to Dome C in 2026 December and the full-scale telescope by 2030. 

In construction applications, a robot is commonly seen a semi-automated tool or a piece of equipment that assists with specialized work tasks. However, as robots become more technically capable and widely available, they may be seen more as a teammate or co-worker that collaborates with human crews. Using a survey questionnaire, 63 project managers from two national construction management firms in the US were shown videos of three different applications of robotic systems, each exhibiting different characteristics, and were asked to share their perceptions of the robot. Through a between and across group comparison of their responses, we found that a robot was more likely to be seen as a teammate when its movement was less unpredictable, it was seen as more productive than human workers, it was considered durable, it remained constantly active, it took its surroundings into account before moving, it worked well alongside human workers, it was not unreliable, and it made the task more predictable. These findings identify clear challenges for human-robot teaming and the design of robotic systems for construction applications. 

Construction, the last major analog and craft manufacturing industry, is showing early signs of industrialization through the emergence of new robotic and automated systems that can perform construction tasks in situ. While much is understood about the technical and economic challenges to be overcome for widespread adoption of robotics, less is known about the human barriers to adoption, and much less is summarized. Considering the amount of human cooperation required by existing robotic applications, a comprehensive review of barriers that are cognitive or perceptual in nature using a systematic literature assessment methodology is warranted. However, such a review is not straightforward to design. While matters of cognition and perception as pertinent to construction and automation may be queried directly from the literature, there is no certainty that a review based on directly querying abstract phenomena (i.e., perception) could be comprehensive. Thus, systematically reviewing this topic calls for a robust methodology for the design of database queries. In this paper, we perform text analysis with the quanteda package for R in order to (1) understand the language composition of an initial review corpus, and (2) with that understanding design further queries to capture additional articles otherwise not possible through standard query design. Findings indicate that performing text analysis on a systematic review design can produce valuable insight into a review corpus and inform queries that capture additional unique literature relevant to the review. 

ABSTRACT We have entered a new era where integral-field spectroscopic surveys of galaxies are sufficiently large to adequately sample large-scale structure over a cosmologically significant volume. This was the primary design goal of the SAMI Galaxy Survey. Here, in Data Release 3, we release data for the full sample of 3068 unique galaxies observed. This includes the SAMI cluster sample of 888 unique galaxies for the first time. For each galaxy, there are two primary spectral cubes covering the blue (370–570 nm) and red (630–740 nm) optical wavelength ranges at spectral resolving power of R = 1808 and 4304, respectively. For each primary cube, we also provide three spatially binned spectral cubes and a set of standardized aperture spectra. For each galaxy, we include complete 2D maps from parametrized fitting to the emission-line and absorption-line spectral data. These maps provide information on the gas ionization and kinematics, stellar kinematics and populations, and more. All data are available online through Australian Astronomical Optics Data Central.