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Data
Data
is a peer-reviewed, open access journal on data in science, with the aim of enhancing data transparency and reusability. The journal publishes in two sections: a section on the collection, treatment and analysis methods of data in science; a section publishing descriptions of scientific and scholarly datasets (one dataset per paper). The journal is published monthly online by MDPI.
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- Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Multidisciplinary Sciences) / CiteScore - Q2 (Information Systems and Management)
- Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 27.7 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 3.5 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2024).
- Recognition of Reviewers: reviewers who provide timely, thorough peer-review reports receive vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC of their next publication in any MDPI journal, in appreciation of the work done.
Impact Factor:
2.2 (2023);
5-Year Impact Factor:
2.4 (2023)
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Experimental Data in a Greenhouse with and without Cultivation of Stringless Blue Lake Beans
Data 2024, 9(9), 105; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9090105 - 4 Sep 2024
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Greenhouse cultivation is one of the current strategies to address the challenges of food production, sustainability, and food quality. Similarly, the use of technological tools to automate greenhouse environments through a set of sensors and actuators allows for the control and improvement of
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Greenhouse cultivation is one of the current strategies to address the challenges of food production, sustainability, and food quality. Similarly, the use of technological tools to automate greenhouse environments through a set of sensors and actuators allows for the control and improvement of processes within this environment. This document presents data collected from the sensors and actuators of two identical greenhouse environments, one with the cultivation of stringless blue lake beans and the other without cultivation. The aim is that this dataset will provide a broader characterization of the behavior of climatic variables inside greenhouse environments and how they are impacted by control actions, subsequently contributing to the development of new research on implementations of or improvements to control, supervision, management, and automation actions in greenhouse environments.
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Interruption Audio & Transcript: Derived from Group Affect and Performance Dataset
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Daniel Doyle and Ovidiu Şerban
Data 2024, 9(9), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9090104 - 31 Aug 2024
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Despite the widespread development and use of chatbots, there is a lack of audio-based interruption datasets. This study provides a dataset of 200 manually annotated interruptions from a broader set of 355 data points of overlapping utterances. The dataset is derived from the
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Despite the widespread development and use of chatbots, there is a lack of audio-based interruption datasets. This study provides a dataset of 200 manually annotated interruptions from a broader set of 355 data points of overlapping utterances. The dataset is derived from the Group Affect and Performance dataset managed by the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada. It includes both audio files and transcripts, allowing for multi-modal analysis. Given the extensive literature and the varied definitions of interruptions, it was necessary to establish precise definitions. The study aims to provide a comprehensive dataset for researchers to build and improve interruption prediction models. The findings demonstrate that classification models can generalize well to identify interruptions based on this dataset’s audio. This opens up research avenues with respect to interruption-related topics, ranging from multi-modal interruption classification using text and audio modalities to the analysis of group dynamics.
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TM–IoV: A First-of-Its-Kind Multilabeled Trust Parameter Dataset for Evaluating Trust in the Internet of Vehicles
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Yingxun Wang, Adnan Mahmood, Mohamad Faizrizwan Mohd Sabri and Hushairi Zen
Data 2024, 9(9), 103; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9090103 - 31 Aug 2024
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The emerging and promising paradigm of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) employ vehicle-to-everything communication for facilitating vehicles to not only communicate with one another but also with the supporting roadside infrastructure, vulnerable pedestrians, and the backbone network in a bid to primarily address
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The emerging and promising paradigm of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) employ vehicle-to-everything communication for facilitating vehicles to not only communicate with one another but also with the supporting roadside infrastructure, vulnerable pedestrians, and the backbone network in a bid to primarily address a number of safety-critical vehicular applications. Nevertheless, owing to the inherent characteristics of IoV networks, in particular, of being (a) highly dynamic in nature and which results in a continual change in the network topology and (b) non-deterministic owing to the intricate nature of its entities and their interrelationships, they are susceptible to a number of malicious attacks. Such kinds of attacks, if and when materialized, jeopardizes the entire IoV network, thereby putting human lives at risk. Whilst the cryptographic-based mechanisms are capable of mitigating the external attacks, the internal attacks are extremely hard to tackle. Trust, therefore, is an indispensable tool since it facilitates in the timely identification and eradication of malicious entities responsible for launching internal attacks in an IoV network. To date, there is no dataset pertinent to trust management in the context of IoV networks and the same has proven to be a bottleneck for conducting an in-depth research in this domain. The manuscript-at-hand, accordingly, presents a first of its kind trust-based IoV dataset encompassing 96,707 interactions amongst 79 vehicles at different time instances. The dataset involves nine salient trust parameters, i.e., packet delivery ratio, similarity, external similarity, internal similarity, familiarity, external familiarity, internal familiarity, reward/punishment, and context, which play a considerable role in ascertaining the trust of a vehicle within an IoV network.
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An Expected Goals on Target (xGOT) Metric as a New Metric for Analyzing Elite Soccer Player Performance
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Anselmo Ruiz-de-Alarcón-Quintero and Blanca De-la-Cruz-Torres
Data 2024, 9(9), 102; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9090102 - 28 Aug 2024
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Introduction. Football analysis is an applied research area that has seen a huge upsurge in recent years. More complex analysis to understand the soccer players’ or teams’ performances during matches is required. The objective of this study was to prove the usefulness of
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Introduction. Football analysis is an applied research area that has seen a huge upsurge in recent years. More complex analysis to understand the soccer players’ or teams’ performances during matches is required. The objective of this study was to prove the usefulness of the expected goals on target (xGOT) metric, as a good indicator of a soccer team’s performance in professional Spanish football leagues, both in the women’s and men’s categories. Method. The data for the Spanish teams were collected from the statistical website Football Reference. The 2023/24 season was analyzed for Spanish leagues, both in the women’s and men’s categories (LigaF and LaLiga, respectively). For all teams, the following variables were calculated: goals, possession value (PV), expected goals (xG) and xGOT. All data obtained for each variable were normalized by match (90 min). A descriptive and correlational statistical analysis was carried out. Results. In the men’s league, this study found a high correlation between goals per match and xGOT (R2 = 0.9248) while in the women’s league, there was a high correlation between goals per match (R2 = 0.9820) and xG and between goals per match and xGOT (R2 = 0.9574). Conclusions. In the LaLiga, the xGOT was the best metric that represented the match result while in the LigaF, the xG and the xGOT were the best metrics that represented the match score.
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Viral Targets in the Human Interactome with Comprehensive Centrality Analysis: SARS-CoV-2, a Case Study
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Nilesh Kumar and M. Shahid Mukhtar
Data 2024, 9(8), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080101 - 20 Aug 2024
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Network centrality analyses have proven to be successful in identifying important nodes in diverse host–pathogen interactomes. The current study presents a comprehensive investigation of the human interactome and SARS-CoV-2 host targets. We first constructed a comprehensive human interactome by compiling experimentally validated protein–protein
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Network centrality analyses have proven to be successful in identifying important nodes in diverse host–pathogen interactomes. The current study presents a comprehensive investigation of the human interactome and SARS-CoV-2 host targets. We first constructed a comprehensive human interactome by compiling experimentally validated protein–protein interactions (PPIs) from eight distinct sources. Additionally, we compiled a comprehensive list of 1449 SARS-CoV-2 host proteins and analyzed their interactions within the human interactome, which identified enriched biological processes and pathways. Seven diverse topological features were employed to reveal the enrichment of the SARS-CoV-2 targets in the human interactome, with closeness centrality emerging as the most effective metric. Furthermore, a novel approach called CentralityCosDist was employed to predict SARS-CoV-2 targets, which proved to be effective in expanding the pool of predicted targets. Pathway enrichment analyses further elucidated the functional roles and potential mechanisms associated with predicted targets. Overall, this study provides valuable insights into the complex interplay between SARS-CoV-2 and the host’s cellular machinery, contributing to a deeper understanding of viral infection and immune response modulation.
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Dataset of Registered Hematoxylin–Eosin and Ki67 Histopathological Image Pairs Complemented by a Registration Algorithm
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Dominika Petríková, Ivan Cimrák, Katarína Tobiášová and Lukáš Plank
Data 2024, 9(8), 100; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080100 - 7 Aug 2024
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In this work, we describe a dataset suitable for analyzing the extent to which hematoxylin–eosin (HE)-stained tissue contains information about the expression of Ki67 in immunohistochemistry staining. The dataset provides images of corresponding pairs of HE and Ki67 stainings and is complemented by
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In this work, we describe a dataset suitable for analyzing the extent to which hematoxylin–eosin (HE)-stained tissue contains information about the expression of Ki67 in immunohistochemistry staining. The dataset provides images of corresponding pairs of HE and Ki67 stainings and is complemented by algorithms for computing the Ki67 index. We introduce a dataset of high-resolution histological images of testicular seminoma tissue. The dataset comprises digitized histology slides from 77 conventional testicular seminoma patients, obtained via surgical resection. For each patient, two physically adjacent tissue sections are stained: one with hematoxylin and eosin, and one with Ki67 immunohistochemistry staining. This results in a total of 154 high-resolution images. The images are provided in PNG format, facilitating ease of use for image analysis compared to the original scanner output formats. Each image contains enough tissue to generate thousands of non-overlapping 224 × 224 pixel patches. This shows the potential to generate more than 50,000 pairs of patches, one with HE staining and a corresponding Ki67 patch that depicts a very similar part of the tissue. Finally, we present the results of applying a ResNet neural network for the classification of HE patches into categories according to their Ki67 label.
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A Performance Analysis of Hybrid and Columnar Cloud Databases for Efficient Schema Design in Distributed Data Warehouse as a Service
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Fred Eduardo Revoredo Rabelo Ferreira and Robson do Nascimento Fidalgo
Data 2024, 9(8), 99; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080099 - 5 Aug 2024
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A Data Warehouse (DW) is a centralized database that stores large volumes of historical data for analysis and reporting. In a world where enterprise data grows exponentially, new architectures are being investigated to overcome the deficiencies of traditional Database Management Systems (DBMSs), driving
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A Data Warehouse (DW) is a centralized database that stores large volumes of historical data for analysis and reporting. In a world where enterprise data grows exponentially, new architectures are being investigated to overcome the deficiencies of traditional Database Management Systems (DBMSs), driving a shift towards more modern, cloud-based solutions that provide resources such as distributed processing, columnar storage, and horizontal scalability without the overhead of physical hardware management, i.e., a Database as a Service (DBaaS). Choosing the appropriate class of DBMS is a critical decision for organizations, and there are important differences that impact data volume and query performance (e.g., architecture, data models, and storage) to support analytics in a distributed cloud environment efficiently. In this sense, we carry out an experimental evaluation to analyze the performance of several DBaaS and the impact of data modeling, specifically the usage of a partially normalized Star Schema and a fully denormalized Flat Table Schema, to further comprehend their behavior in different configurations and designs in terms of data schema, storage form, memory availability, and cluster size. The analysis is done in two volumes of data generated by a well-established benchmark, comparing the performance of the DW in terms of average execution time, memory usage, data volume, and loading time. Our results provide guidelines for efficient DW design, showing, for example, that the denormalization of the schema does not guarantee improved performance, as solutions performed differently depending on its architecture. We also show that a Hybrid Processing (HTAP) NewSQL solution can outperform solutions that support only Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) in terms of overall execution time, but that the performance of each query is deeply influenced by its selectivity and by the number of join functions.
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Arabic Lexical Substitution: AraLexSubD Dataset and AraLexSub Pipeline
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Eman Naser-Karajah and Nabil Arman
Data 2024, 9(8), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080098 - 30 Jul 2024
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Lexical substitution aims to generate a list of equivalent substitutions (i.e., synonyms) to a sentence’s target word or phrase while preserving the sentence’s meaning to improve writing, enhance language understanding, improve natural language processing models, and handle ambiguity. This task has recently attracted
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Lexical substitution aims to generate a list of equivalent substitutions (i.e., synonyms) to a sentence’s target word or phrase while preserving the sentence’s meaning to improve writing, enhance language understanding, improve natural language processing models, and handle ambiguity. This task has recently attracted much attention in many languages. Despite the richness of Arabic vocabulary, limited research has been performed on the lexical substitution task due to the lack of annotated data. To bridge this gap, we present the first Arabic lexical substitution benchmark dataset AraLexSubD for benchmarking lexical substitution pipelines. AraLexSubD is manually built by eight native Arabic speakers and linguists (six linguist annotators, a doctor, and an economist) who annotate the 630 sentences. AraLexSubD covers three domains: general, finance, and medical. It encompasses 2476 substitution candidates ranked according to their semantic relatedness. We also present the first Arabic lexical substitution pipeline, AraLexSub, which uses the AraBERT pre-trained language model. The pipeline consists of several modules: substitute generation, substitute filtering, and candidate ranking. The filtering step shows its effectiveness by achieving an increase of 1.6 in the F1 score on the entire AraLexSubD dataset. Additionally, an error analysis of the experiment is reported. To our knowledge, this is the first study on Arabic lexical substitution.
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Genomic Insights into Bacillus thuringiensis V-CO3.3: Unveiling Its Genetic Potential against Nematodes
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Leopoldo Palma, Yolanda Bel and Baltasar Escriche
Data 2024, 9(8), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080097 - 29 Jul 2024
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Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, and ubiquitous bacterium harboring plasmids encoding a variety of proteins with insecticidal activity, but also with activity against nematodes. The aim of this work was to perform the genome sequencing and analysis of a native Bt
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Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, and ubiquitous bacterium harboring plasmids encoding a variety of proteins with insecticidal activity, but also with activity against nematodes. The aim of this work was to perform the genome sequencing and analysis of a native Bt strain showing bipyramidal parasporal crystals and designated V-CO3.3, which was isolated from the dust of a grain storehouse in Córdoba (Spain). Its genome comprised 99 high-quality assembled contigs accounting for a total size of 5.2 Mb and 35.1% G + C. Phylogenetic analyses suggested that this strain should be renamed as Bacillus cereus s.s. biovar Thuringiensis. Gene annotation revealed a total of 5495 genes, among which, 1 was identified as encoding a Cry5Ba homolog protein with well-documented toxicity against nematodes. These results suggest that this Bt strain has interesting potential for nematode biocontrol.
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Data on the Land Cover Transition, Subsequent Landscape Degradation, and Improvement in Semi-Arid Rainfed Agricultural Land in North–West Tunisia
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Zahra Shiri, Aymen Frija, Hichem Rejeb, Hassen Ouerghemmi and Quang Bao Le
Data 2024, 9(8), 96; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080096 - 29 Jul 2024
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Understanding past landscape changes is crucial to promote agroecological landscape transitions. This study analyzes past land cover changes (LCCs) alongside subsequent degradation and improvements in the study area. The input land cover (LC) data were taken from ESRI’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the
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Understanding past landscape changes is crucial to promote agroecological landscape transitions. This study analyzes past land cover changes (LCCs) alongside subsequent degradation and improvements in the study area. The input land cover (LC) data were taken from ESRI’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World and then assessed for accuracy using ground truth data points randomly selected from high-resolution images on the Google Earth Engine. The LCC analyses were performed on QGIS 3.28.15 using the Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin (SCP) to generate LCC data. The degradation or improvement derived from the analyzed data was subsequently assessed using the UNCCD Good Practice Guidance to generate land cover degradation data. Using the Landscape Ecology Statistics (LecoS) plugin in QGIS, the input LC data were processed to provide landscape metrics. The data presented in this article show that the studied landscape is not static, even over a short-term time horizon (2017–2022). The transition from one LC class to another had an impact on the ecosystem and induced different states of degradation. For the three main LC classes (forest, crops, and rangeland) representing 98.9% of the total area in 2022, the landscape metrics, especially the number of patches, reflected a 105% increase in landscape fragmentation between 2017 and 2022.
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Bootstrap Method as a Tool for Analyzing Data with Atypical Distributions Deviating from Parametric Assumptions: Critique and Effectiveness Evaluation
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Joanna Kostanek, Kamil Karolczak, Wiktor Kuliczkowski and Cezary Watala
Data 2024, 9(8), 95; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080095 - 26 Jul 2024
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In today’s research environment characterized by exponential data growth and increasing complexity, the selection of appropriate statistical tests, tailored to research objectives and data distributions, is paramount for rigorous analysis and accurate interpretation. This article explores the growing prominence of bootstrapping, an advanced
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In today’s research environment characterized by exponential data growth and increasing complexity, the selection of appropriate statistical tests, tailored to research objectives and data distributions, is paramount for rigorous analysis and accurate interpretation. This article explores the growing prominence of bootstrapping, an advanced statistical technique for multiple comparisons analysis, offering flexibility and customization by estimating sample distributions without assuming population distributions, thus serving as a valuable alternative to traditional methods in various data scenarios. Computer simulations were conducted using data from cardiovascular disease patients. Two approaches, spontaneous partly controlled simulation and fully constrained simulation using self-written R scripts, were utilized to generate datasets with specified distributions and analyze the data using tests for comparing more than two groups. The utilization of the bootstrap method greatly improves statistical analysis, especially in overcoming the constraints of conventional parametric tests. Our research showcased its effectiveness in comparing multiple scenarios, yielding strong findings across diverse distributions, even with minor inflation in p values. Serving as a valuable substitute for parametric approaches, bootstrap promotes careful consideration when rejecting hypotheses, thus fostering a deeper understanding of statistical nuances and bolstering analytical rigor.
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SparrKULee: A Speech-Evoked Auditory Response Repository from KU Leuven, Containing the EEG of 85 Participants
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Bernd Accou, Lies Bollens, Marlies Gillis, Wendy Verheijen, Hugo Van hamme and Tom Francart
Data 2024, 9(8), 94; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080094 - 26 Jul 2024
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Researchers investigating the neural mechanisms underlying speech perception often employ electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain activity while participants listen to spoken language. The high temporal resolution of EEG enables the study of neural responses to fast and dynamic speech signals. Previous studies have
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Researchers investigating the neural mechanisms underlying speech perception often employ electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain activity while participants listen to spoken language. The high temporal resolution of EEG enables the study of neural responses to fast and dynamic speech signals. Previous studies have successfully extracted speech characteristics from EEG data and, conversely, predicted EEG activity from speech features. Machine learning techniques are generally employed to construct encoding and decoding models, which necessitate a substantial quantity of data. We present SparrKULee, a Speech-evoked Auditory Repository of EEG data, measured at KU Leuven, comprising 64-channel EEG recordings from 85 young individuals with normal hearing, each of whom listened to 90–150 min of natural speech. This dataset is more extensive than any currently available dataset in terms of both the number of participants and the quantity of data per participant. It is suitable for training larger machine learning models. We evaluate the dataset using linear and state-of-the-art non-linear models in a speech encoding/decoding and match/mismatch paradigm, providing benchmark scores for future research.
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Optimizing Database Performance in Complex Event Processing through Indexing Strategies
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Maryam Abbasi, Marco V. Bernardo, Paulo Váz, José Silva and Pedro Martins
Data 2024, 9(8), 93; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080093 - 24 Jul 2024
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Complex event processing (CEP) systems have gained significant importance in various domains, such as finance, logistics, and security, where the real-time analysis of event streams is crucial. However, as the volume and complexity of event data continue to grow, optimizing the performance of
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Complex event processing (CEP) systems have gained significant importance in various domains, such as finance, logistics, and security, where the real-time analysis of event streams is crucial. However, as the volume and complexity of event data continue to grow, optimizing the performance of CEP systems becomes a critical challenge. This paper investigates the impact of indexing strategies on the performance of databases handling complex event processing. We propose a novel indexing technique, called Hierarchical Temporal Indexing (HTI), specifically designed for the efficient processing of complex event queries. HTI leverages the temporal nature of event data and employs a multi-level indexing approach to optimize query execution. By combining temporal indexing with spatial- and attribute-based indexing, HTI aims to accelerate the retrieval and processing of relevant events, thereby improving overall query performance. In this study, we evaluate the effectiveness of HTI by implementing complex event queries on various CEP systems with different indexing strategies. We conduct a comprehensive performance analysis, measuring the query execution times and resource utilization (CPU, memory, etc.), and analyzing the execution plans and query optimization techniques employed by each system. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed HTI indexing strategy outperforms traditional indexing approaches, particularly for complex event queries involving temporal constraints and multi-dimensional event attributes. We provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each indexing strategy, identifying the factors that influence performance, such as data volume, query complexity, and event characteristics. Furthermore, we discuss the implications of our findings for the design and optimization of CEP systems, offering recommendations for indexing strategy selection based on the specific requirements and workload characteristics. Finally, we outline the potential limitations of our study and suggest future research directions in this domain.
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BELMASK—An Audiovisual Dataset of Adversely Produced Speech for Auditory Cognition Research
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Cleopatra Christina Moshona, Frederic Rudawski, André Fiebig and Ennes Sarradj
Data 2024, 9(8), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080092 - 24 Jul 2024
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In this article, we introduce the Berlin Dataset of Lombard and Masked Speech (BELMASK), a phonetically controlled audiovisual dataset of speech produced in adverse speaking conditions, and describe the development of the related speech task. The dataset contains in total 128 min of
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In this article, we introduce the Berlin Dataset of Lombard and Masked Speech (BELMASK), a phonetically controlled audiovisual dataset of speech produced in adverse speaking conditions, and describe the development of the related speech task. The dataset contains in total 128 min of audio and video recordings of 10 German native speakers (4 female, 6 male) with a mean age of 30.2 years (SD: 6.3 years), uttering matrix sentences in cued, uninstructed speech in four conditions: (i) with a Filtering Facepiece P2 (FFP2) mask in silence, (ii) without an FFP2 mask in silence, (iii) with an FFP2 mask while exposed to noise, (iv) without an FFP2 mask while exposed to noise. Noise consisted of mixed-gender six-talker babble played over headphones to the speakers, triggering the Lombard effect. All conditions are readily available in face-and-voice and voice-only formats. The speech material is annotated, employing a multi-layer architecture, and was originally conceptualized to be used for the administration of a working memory task. The dataset is stored in a restricted-access Zenodo repository and is available for academic research in the area of speech communication, acoustics, psychology and related disciplines upon request, after signing an End User License Agreement (EULA).
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Data Descriptor of Snakebites in Brazil from 2007 to 2020
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Alexandre Vilhena Silva-Neto, Gabriel Santos Mouta, Antônio Alcirley Silva Balieiro, Jady Shayenne Mota Cordeiro, Patricia Carvalho Silva Balieiro, Tatyana Costa Amorin Ramos, Djane Clarys Baia-da-Silva, Élisson Silva Rocha, Patricia Takako Endo, Theo Lynn, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro and Vanderson Souza Sampaio
Data 2024, 9(8), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080091 - 24 Jul 2024
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Snakebite envenomations (SBE) are a significant global public health threat due to their morbidity and mortality. This is a neglected public health issue in many tropical and subtropical countries. Brazil is in the top ten countries affected by SBE, with 32,160 cases reported
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Snakebite envenomations (SBE) are a significant global public health threat due to their morbidity and mortality. This is a neglected public health issue in many tropical and subtropical countries. Brazil is in the top ten countries affected by SBE, with 32,160 cases reported only in 2020, posing a high burden for this population. In this paper, we describe the data structure of snakebite records from 2007 to 2020 in the Notifiable Disease Information System (SINAN), made available by the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MoH). In addition, we also provide R scripts that allow a quick and automatic updating of data from the SINAN according to its availability. The data presented in this work are related to clinical and demographic information on SBE cases. Also, data on outcomes, laboratory results, and treatment are available. The dataset is available and freely accessible; however, preprocessing, adjustments, and standardization are necessary due to incompleteness and inconsistencies. Regardless of these limitations, it provides a solid basis for assessing different aspects and the national burden of envenoming.
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SaBi3d—A LiDAR Point Cloud Data Set of Car-to-Bicycle Overtaking Maneuvers
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Christian Odenwald and Moritz Beeking
Data 2024, 9(8), 90; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9080090 - 24 Jul 2024
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While cycling presents environmental benefits and promotes a healthy lifestyle, the risks associated with overtaking maneuvers by motorized vehicles represent a significant barrier for many potential cyclists. A large-scale analysis of overtaking maneuvers could inform traffic researchers and city planners how to reduce
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While cycling presents environmental benefits and promotes a healthy lifestyle, the risks associated with overtaking maneuvers by motorized vehicles represent a significant barrier for many potential cyclists. A large-scale analysis of overtaking maneuvers could inform traffic researchers and city planners how to reduce these risks by better understanding these maneuvers. Drawing from the fields of sensor-based cycling research and from LiDAR-based traffic data sets, this paper provides a step towards addressing these safety concerns by introducing the Salzburg Bicycle 3d (SaBi3d) data set, which consists of LiDAR point clouds capturing car-to-bicycle overtaking maneuvers. The data set, collected using a LiDAR-equipped bicycle, facilitates the detailed analysis of a large quantity of overtaking maneuvers without the need for manual annotation through enabling automatic labeling by a neural network. Additionally, a benchmark result for 3D object detection using a competitive neural network is provided as a baseline for future research. The SaBi3d data set is structured identically to the nuScenes data set, and therefore offers compatibility with numerous existing object detection systems. This work provides valuable resources for future researchers to better understand cycling infrastructure and mitigate risks, thus promoting cycling as a viable mode of transportation.
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Literature-Based Inventory of Chemical Substance Concentrations Measured in Organic Food Consumed in Europe
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Joanna Choueiri, Pascal Petit, Franck Balducci, Dominique J. Bicout and Christine Demeilliers
Data 2024, 9(7), 89; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9070089 - 3 Jul 2024
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Populations are exposed daily to numerous environmental pollutants, particularly through food. To address environmental issues, many agricultural production methods have been developed, including organic farming. To date, there is no exhaustive inventory of the contamination of organic foods as there is for conventional
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Populations are exposed daily to numerous environmental pollutants, particularly through food. To address environmental issues, many agricultural production methods have been developed, including organic farming. To date, there is no exhaustive inventory of the contamination of organic foods as there is for conventional foods. The main objective of this work was to construct a growing and updatable database on chemical substances and their levels in organic foods consumed in Europe. To this end, a literature search was conducted, resulting in a total of 1207 concentration values from 823 food–substances pairs involving 166 food matrices and 209 chemical substances, among which 95% were not authorized in organic farming and 80% were pesticides. The most encountered substance groups are “inorganic contaminants” and “organophosphate”, and the most studied food groups are “fruit used as fruit” and “Cereals and cereal primary derivatives”. Further studies are needed to continue updating the database with robust and comprehensive data on organic food contamination. This database could be used to study the health risks associated with these contaminants.
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Multi-Scale Earthquake Damaged Building Feature Set
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Guorui Gao, Futao Wang, Zhenqing Wang, Qing Zhao, Litao Wang, Jinfeng Zhu, Wenliang Liu, Gang Qin and Yanfang Hou
Data 2024, 9(7), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9070088 - 28 Jun 2024
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Earthquake disasters are marked by their unpredictability and potential for extreme destructiveness. Accurate information on building damage, captured in post-earthquake remote sensing images, is critical for an effective post-disaster emergency response. The foundational features within these images are essential for the accurate extraction
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Earthquake disasters are marked by their unpredictability and potential for extreme destructiveness. Accurate information on building damage, captured in post-earthquake remote sensing images, is critical for an effective post-disaster emergency response. The foundational features within these images are essential for the accurate extraction of building damage data following seismic events. Presently, the availability of publicly accessible datasets tailored specifically to earthquake-damaged buildings is limited, and existing collections of post-earthquake building damage characteristics are insufficient. To address this gap and foster research advancement in this domain, this paper introduces a new, large-scale, publicly available dataset named the Major Earthquake Damage Building Feature Set (MEDBFS). This dataset comprises image data sourced from five significant global earthquakes and captured by various optical remote sensing satellites, featuring diverse scale characteristics and multiple spatial resolutions. It includes over 7000 images of buildings pre- and post-disaster, each subjected to stringent quality control and expert validation. The images are categorized into three primary groups: intact/slightly damaged, severely damaged, and completely collapsed. This paper develops a comprehensive feature set encompassing five dimensions: spectral, texture, edge detection, building index, and temporal sequencing, resulting in 16 distinct classes of feature images. This dataset is poised to significantly enhance the capabilities for data-driven identification and analysis of earthquake-induced building damage, thereby supporting the advancement of scientific and technological efforts for emergency earthquake response.
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A Point Cloud Dataset of Vehicles Passing through a Toll Station for Use in Training Classification Algorithms
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Alexander Campo-Ramírez, Eduardo F. Caicedo-Bravo and Eval B. Bacca-Cortes
Data 2024, 9(7), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9070087 - 27 Jun 2024
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This work presents a point cloud dataset of vehicles passing through a toll station in Colombia to be used to train artificial vision and computational intelligence algorithms. This article details the process of creating the dataset, covering initial data acquisition, range information preprocessing,
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This work presents a point cloud dataset of vehicles passing through a toll station in Colombia to be used to train artificial vision and computational intelligence algorithms. This article details the process of creating the dataset, covering initial data acquisition, range information preprocessing, point cloud validation, and vehicle labeling. Additionally, a detailed description of the structure and content of the dataset is provided, along with some potential applications of its use. The dataset consists of 36,026 total objects divided into 6 classes: 31,432 cars, campers, vans and 2-axle trucks with a single tire on the rear axle, 452 minibuses with a single tire on the rear axle, 1158 buses, 1179 2-axle small trucks, 797 2-axle large trucks, and 1008 trucks with 3 or more axles. The point clouds were captured using a LiDAR sensor and Doppler effect speed sensors. The dataset can be used to train and evaluate algorithms for range data processing, vehicle classification, vehicle counting, and traffic flow analysis. The dataset can also be used to develop new applications for intelligent transportation systems.
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Tuning Data Mining Models to Predict Secondary School Academic Performance
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William Hoyos and Isaac Caicedo-Castro
Data 2024, 9(7), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9070086 - 26 Jun 2024
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In recent years, educational data mining has emerged as a growing discipline focused on developing models for predicting academic performance. The primary objective of this research was to tune classification models to predict academic performance in secondary school. The dataset employed for this
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In recent years, educational data mining has emerged as a growing discipline focused on developing models for predicting academic performance. The primary objective of this research was to tune classification models to predict academic performance in secondary school. The dataset employed for this study encompassed information from 19,545 high school students. We used descriptive statistics to characterise information contained in personal, school, and socioeconomic variables. We implemented two data mining techniques, namely artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector machines (SVM). Parameter optimisation was conducted through five–fold cross–validation, and model performance was assessed using accuracy and –Score. The results indicate a functional dependence between predictor variables and academic performance. The algorithms demonstrated an average performance exceeding 80% accuracy. Notably, ANN outperformed SVM in the dataset analysed. This type of methodology could help educational institutions to predict academic underachievement and thus generate strategies to improve students’ academic performance.
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