9369a AR 6601–6602delAG Frameshift
This patient was later phenotypically characterized in more depth (PMID: 12037008)
9369a AR 6601–6602delAG Frameshift
This patient was later phenotypically characterized in more depth (PMID: 12037008)
Novel ABCA4 compound heterozygous mutations cause severe progressive autosomal recessive cone-rod dystrophy presenting as Stargardt disease
PMID: 19352439
Gene: ABCA4
HGNC ID: 34
Seventy eyes (38 patients), of which 46 (66%) were female and 24 (34%) male, with RPE atrophy secondary to ABCA4 -related retinopathy (age [years], 45.51 ± 16.70; range 14–78) were included in the study ( Table 1 and see Table, Supplemental Digital Content 2 , http://links.lww.com/IAE/B170 , which shows the individual baseline and progression data of all included eyes).
Case#: Patient #34, female, 61yo at baseline visit, "intermediate" age of onset
DiseaseAssertion: ABCA4-related retinopathy with secondary RPE atrophy
FamilyInfo: n/a
CasePresentingHPOs:
CaseHPOFreeText: Inclusion criteria were defined as 1) presence of at least one mutated allele in ABCA4 (NM_000350.2) in Sanger sequencing with multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification analysis or next-generation sequencing 2) a compatible phenotype with flecks at the level of the RPE consistent with ABCA4 -related Stargardt disease 3) presence of RPE atrophy, and 4) serial examinations with an interval of at least 6 months. RPE atrophy to the end-stage (i.e., demarcated lesions with ≥90% darkness of the optic disc under short-wavelength excitation light, DDAF) that previously showed highest interreader agreement.7 The size of DDAF has to be at least 0.05 mm 2 (each single atrophic area in cases of multifocality), and the entire lesion must be completely visualized on the AF image at each visit to be advanced for analysis. Self-reported symptom onset into early-onset (≤10 years), intermediate-onset (11–44 years), and late-onset (≥45 years). ff-ERG based Category: Group 1 contained eyes with normal scotopic and photopic responses; Group 2, eyes with normal scotopic responses, but reduced (over 2 SDs) photopic B-wave and 30-Hz flicker amplitudes; and Group 3, eyes with impairment of both rod- and cone-driven responses. BCVA: OD=n/a, OS=1 [LogMAR] .
CaseNotHPOs:
CaseNotHPOFreeText: Insufficient pupil dilation, additional retinal pathology, previous retinal treatment, or other ocular comorbidities substantially affecting image quality led to exclusion from the study
GenotypingMethod: Sanger sequencing with multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification analysis or next-generation sequencing
PreviouslyPublished: possible since Birtel is an author on this paper and the probands both have the same second variant as in PMID: 29555955
Variant: allele 1: c.3468C>G p.(Tyr1156*) allele 2: c.5059A>T p.(Ile1687Phe)
ClinVar: n/a
CAID: CA341290648
SupplementalData: The supplemental table linked here contains genotype and phenotype information.
Disease-causing mutations were identified in 74% of 251 consecutive MD/CCRD patients
Case#: Patient #9, female, 23yo at onset, 32yo at report, German
DiseaseAssertion: macular dystrophy or cone-rod dystrophy
FamilyInfo: inheritance= sporadic. phase not confirmed, but no other affected family members and no parental consanguinity
CasePresentingHPOs:
CaseHPOFreeText: reduced visual acuity, erg scotopic= reduced, erg-photopic=reduced
CaseNotHPOs:
CaseNotHPOFreeText: syndromic retinal disease, age-related macular degeneration, central serous retinopathy, autoimmune retinopathy, retinal vascular disease, achromatopsia, X-linked retinoschisis, North Carolina macular dystrophy
CasePreviousTesting: n/a
GenotypingMethod: Sanger sequencing of ABCA4
PreviouslyPublished: n/a
Variant: c.1654G>A p.Val552Ile; c.4771G>A p.Gly1591Arg; c.1622T>C p.Leu541Pro; c.3113C>T p.Ala1038Val
CAID: CA239745
SupplementalData: Supplementary table 1
Different clinical expressions in two families with Stargardt’s macular dystrophy (STGD1)
PMID: 11594993
Gene: ABCA4
HGNC: 34
Detailed genetic characteristics of an international large cohort of patients with Stargardt disease: ProgStar study report 8
PMID: 29925512
Gene: ABCA4
Disease: Stargardt
Comprehensive genetic analysis reveals the mutational landscape of ABCA4-associated retinal dystrophy in a Chinese cohort
PMID: 37774808
Gene: ABCA4
Disease: Stargardt
We identified 255 patients (87.9 %) harboring biallelic ABCA4 variants, 27 probands (9.3 %) with two or three variants but lacking familial segregation analysis, and eight patients (2.8 %) with monoallelic ABCA4 variants (Supplemental Table S4). We detected 268 distinct ABCA4 variants, consisting of 114 missense, 35 nonsense, 34 frameshift deletion or insertion, 31 canonical splice variants, 13 noncanonical splice site variants, 9 in-frame deletion or insertion, 9 DIVs, 4 structural variations, and 19 complex variants (Fig. 2).
Case#: Patient#010046, Chinese, female, 28yo at onset
DiseaseAssertion: stargardt
FamilyInfo: n/a
CasePresentingHPOs: STGD1 diagnosis based on the following criteria: "a bilateral central vision defect; fundus displaying a beaten-bronze appearance and/or orange-yellow flecks in the retina from the macula to the midperiphery; fluorescein angiography presenting with a typical dark choroid; and normal to subnormal ERG results." stage 2( numerous yellow-whitish flecks throughout the posterior pole) BCVA=0.05/ 0.05
CaseHPOFreeText:
CaseNotHPOs:
CaseNotHPOFreeText:
PreviouslyPublished: PMID: 26780318
Variant: p.P2097S; p.A1773V phase unknown
ClinVar: 2202780
CAID: CA341277622
SupplementalData: supplementary table S4 has phenotype information
Protein misfolding and the pathogenesis of ABCA4-associated retinal degenerations
PMID: 25712131
Gene: ABCA4
Disease: ABCA4-associated retinal degenerations
V1 H1 Exon 36.1–3 G>A chr1:94,484,001 c.5196+1137G>A 4 4 0 0
Case#: Braun Family 4 Proband (from left to right, top to bottom of available pedigrees), male
DiseaseAssertion: Stargardt
FamilyInfo: Both parents are unaffected, but only mother has genotype information available since father is deceased. c.5196+1137G>A maternally inherited. c.1022-1035fs inferred to be inherited from the father since other siblings also have this variant. Proband has 1 affected sister with the same genotype, and 2 siblings that were unaffected heterozygotes
CasePresentingHPOs:
CaseHPOFreeText: "five or more of the following features of ABCA4-associated retinal disease: decreased visual acuity before age 20, decreased visual acuity as the first visual symptom, symmetrical fundus findings, pisciform flecks, beaten metal macular atrophy, bulls-eye maculopathy, peripapillary sparing, vermillion fundus, masked choroid on fluorescein angiography, nummular pigment overlying extensive macular atrophy, central outer retinal atrophy on optical coherence tomography and central scotomas on Goldmann perimetry."
CaseNotHPOs:
CaseNotHPOFreeText:
GenotypingMethod: one plausible disease-causing mutation detected in ABCA4 after assessing the entire coding sequence and canonical retinal splice junctions with automated bidirectional Sanger sequencing using an ABI 3730 sequencer
PreviouslyPublished: n/a
Variant: c.5196+1137G>A; c.1022-1035fs
ClinVar: 438100
CAID: CA26843511
SupplementalData: pedigree in fig s2
Frequency of ABCA4 mutations in 278 Spanish controls: an insight into the prevalence of autosomal recessive Stargardt disease
PMID: 18977788
Gene: ABCA4
Disease: Stargardt disease
MD-0324ABCA423c.3386G>Tp.Arg1129Leu1c.3G>Ap.Met1Ile ^15YesABCR400 + NGSThis study
Case#: MD-0324 Proband,
DiseaseAssertion: STGD
FamilyInfo: Family MD-0324
CasePresentingHPOs:
CaseHPOFreeText: STGD diagnosed based on "bilateral central vision loss; fundus presenting with a beaten-bronze appearance and/or the presence of orange-yellow flecks in the retina from the posterior pole to the mid-periphery; fluorescein angiography showing typical dark choroid; and normal to subnormal electroretinogram (ERGs)."
CaseNotHPOs:
CaseNotHPOFreeText:
GenotypingMethod: Haplotype analysis, ABCR400, NGS
PreviouslyPublished: n/a
Variant:c.3386G>T p.Arg1129Leu; c.3G>A p.Met1Ile
ClinVar: n/a
CAID: CA341289040
SupplementalData: n/a
Peripheral venous blood was obtained from 24 clinically diagnosed Korean STGD patients, followed by extraction of genomic DNAs. Using exome sequencing we investigated gene mutations for the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette, subfamily A, member 4 (ABCA4) elongation of very-long-chain fatty acids 4 (ELOVL4), and prominin 1 (PROM1), and confirmed gene mutations by the direct sequencing of polymerase chain reaction products.
Paper is said to contain this variant based on LOVD entry, but this paper is not publicly available. Requested from library. Annotation on stable PDF. No individual phenotype provided
Supplementary File pnas.1909378117.sd01.xlsx (5.4MB, xlsx)
This variant was listed in a supplemental table under "autosomal recessive variants" but there are no patient IDs to be able to know if the person who had this variant had another variant. There was also no phenotype information provided
https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1332186355766802
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evidence from AI research shows that LLM performance on reasoning tasks improves when linguistic inputs are converted into first-order logic, which can then be fed into an external theorem solver
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The Lean kernel is a separate verifier: different code, written by different people, which never reads our prose and cannot be persuaded by it.
solve for machine-self-kernel
the emotion program's surprise scale now sits on the same FinDist/entropy vocabulary that prices the project's own proof-checking (Landauer accounting), so the CMCB corpus's appraisal talk and the A2 energy talk are provably about one mathematical substrate.
thermo-emotion
English is defined as the Standard against which all other languages must be meas-ured. My point here is that in English Canada language is real in its consequences forboth the native speaker of English and the non-native speaker. But more than lan-guage itself, accent is often the yardstick. Even total fluency in English does notchange the arrogant perception, rooted in colonialism, that some types of bilingualspeakers are (dis)able. An accent triggers a perception of lesser quality. 7
shows the oppression in standard english. Use in paper!
个人所得税
公告只涉及个税,不涉及适用实体的企业所得税
Based on the documents from the TIP Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders 2026, here are the key statistics and financial metrics for the Depot Project at Phước An Industrial Park:
Loan Capital: 6%, equivalent to 98.0 billion VND.
Financial Performance Indicators:
Payback Period: 6 years and 5 months.
Investment Phasing & Capital Schedule:
Year 3: Total investment of 367.1 billion VND (comprising 269.1 billion VND in equity and 98.0 billion VND in bank loans).
Land Lease & Infrastructure Conditions:
a negative correlation between intellectual capability and desire to commit catastrophic harm
达里奥的生物安全底层假设:目前让人类安全的不是技术防御,而是「高智商与大规模作恶意愿」之间的负相关。他最担心的是:足够强大的 AI 会打破这个相关性,将毁灭性能力从少数极端分子手中解放出来。这是比任何技术政策更深层的哲学担忧——如果这个相关性消失,开源闭源之争都将变得次要。
Questions like this should be empirically answered by rigorous pre-release testing, not assumed in advance.
与开放信的核心分歧:不能预设「开放权重让防御方更受益」,这应该通过强制测试来实证回答。达里奥在要求业界放弃「开源即善」的意识形态,代之以逐案评估。隐含推论:如果测试显示某类开放模型让攻击方获益更多,就应该限制开放。这是一种基于证据的实用主义立场。
Distillation is a much more compute-efficient process than training models from scratch. It allows China to build much better models than its number of chips would ordinarily enable, and thus partially evade chip bans.
蒸馏是绕过芯片封锁的技术后门——用少量算力从强模型中提取知识。达里奥明确说蒸馏不能让中国追上前沿,只能将差距缩短至「数月以内」。这解释了为什么 Anthropic 开始封禁疑似蒸馏账号,也说明了为什么他要求专门针对工业级蒸馏的政策,而非笼统禁止开放权重。
I worry that biology will have a strong attacker-defender asymmetry, where sufficiently capable models may be able to quickly weaponize pandemic-level viruses with widely available materials, whereas defense against these agents is a multi-year operational task in the best case
全文最令人不安的论点:生物领域存在结构性攻防失衡。AI 或许能在极短时间内将病原体武器化,而防御是以年计算的任务(他用 Operation Warp Speed 作为最优情况的参照)。这是结构性不对称,不是程度差异——这也是他认为生物 AI 风险需要专门对待、而非套用常规开源框架的根本原因。
China has limited domestic production capacity, and therefore, due to the scaling laws, cannot build more powerful models than the US without US chips.
芯片封锁的底层逻辑:Scaling Laws 就是护城河。在算力与能力高度正相关的时代,切断芯片供应链等于锁定对手的能力上限。这是达里奥三项政策中技术支撑最强的一条——只要 Scaling Laws 成立,没有芯片就没有边界突破,且这个瓶颈在短期内无法通过软件手段绕过。
the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret and handed only to the People's Liberation Army for use in drones
反直觉核心论点:最危险的模型不是开放权重,而是秘密训练的闭源军用模型。当威胁来自解放军专用系统,禁止美国企业使用开源模型对国家安全毫无意义,只是政治表演。这彻底拆解了「开源即危险」的简单等式,也说明了为什么单纯的开源禁令是错误的政策工具。
Open-weights models that don't have dangerous capabilities are a public good
全文的关键限定词:「不具有危险能力的」开放权重才是公共品。这个条件句埋下了核心逻辑——问题不在于开不开放,而在于能力边界在哪里。这与他支持强制安全测试的立场形成完整闭环:先测能力,再决定是否开放。
Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.
达里奥用否认句开头,直接驳斥「Anthropic 想禁止开放权重模型以保护商业利益」的指控。这一表态背后是双重博弈:一旦被标记为保护主义者将失去开发者社区信任;但否认禁令并不等于拥护开放——他随后提出的三项具体政策才是真正的立场。
So, whenever you hear that “a trend is irreversible,” the more important question to ask is this: Is it truly a prediction, or is it a command?
Definición importante. Esto ayuda a explicar que las personas bilingües pueden usar dos idiomas de formas diferentes.
5. Three problems that a better estimate of the exchange rate won't fix
wait -- I don't think that's logically correct. If indeed we have a good estimate of the exchange rate, isn't it, by default, embodying that these problems are in some sense solved?
3. What this is based on
second column in table below should be narrower, firrst one wider. Use the space more carefully (and make that a persistent pattern/skill)
vignette calibration
make the tooltips also footnotes to enable hypothesis comemnts on them. And provide sources/references
Preliminary — do not read Unreviewed working draft, 30 July 2026. Not for circulation, citation, or quotation.
"do not read" is too strong. Make more caveats instead ... it's a current working space, being continually adjusted. And it has not yet been reviewed by workshop participants or research contractors (something we aim to do soon)
2. Bottom line
we need more caveats on this. It has not yet been reviewed by workshop participants or research contractors (something we aim to do soon)
The decision this is about
"This decision is about"
A funder comparing a psychotherapy
link the 'canonical case' given in the belief elicitation form here.
Targeted intake provenance
These bits should probably be folded by default.
Optimized messaging shifts choices towards plant-based foodsource titleExact title resolved from the linked paper's bibliographic metadata; discovery-page anchor text and model output are not used as titles.
Where is the abstract here? I don't see it.
Strong near-term candidate for animal-welfare evaluation because it tests behaviorally relevant messaging around plant-b...
What's this text doing here? I don't see it at the top in the other entries.
2 ratings
Is there a way that someone could change their rating? It seems like every time I come to the page and rate it, it records separately.
Mar 23, 2026
What does the "monitor" button mean?
Decision Relevance
Maybe "Potential decision relevance"
abstract provenanceSource-supplied abstract wording; HTML entities and whitespace normalized. Not independently compared with the paper PDF.
This tooltip seems rather process-oriented and not particularly helpful for users of this page. You certainly don't need to give it every time, and I'm not quite sure what it means or how to interpret
Rate on a 0–100 percentile scale relative to all papers in our database (Strong Yes=top quintile, Strong No=bottom). Try to form your opinion before reading the AI discussion above. Discuss why you gave that rating.
This percentile scale instruction is not consistent with the negative-neutral-plus scale shown below. Let them give a percentile first, and if they don't want to do that, you can let them give the priority ratings with the negative-positive scale, or just save that for the quick raters.
2 ratings
Seems like it was double counted here. I rated it with the quick rate and then with the detailed rating. It doesn't seem quite right.
I put my name at the top. Why do I have to put it in every case here? That seems perhaps tedious or excessive
Rate (Team) Rate (Public) View Paper
Rate/discuss (not just 'rate')
Open the conflict shortlist
don't make this section take up so much vertical space, and don't make the confluct shortlist so prominent here
I have possibly the rarest machine on the planet. Owned by the CEO of Coca-Cola who contracted Royal to make a special slug in the 50s for business correspondence. This is one slug, shift produces the Coca, flat gives cola. To my knowledge there's not another in existence...
u/NashvilleTypewriter reports that he owns a typewriter with a custom Coca (shift) - Cola (unshifted) slug that came from the daughter of a former Coke CEO.

permission
Sup, foo.
reply to u/NoFace125 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1vb701u/thoughts_on_3d_printed_parts_on_typewriters/
I've heard mixed things on 3-D printed platens and there aren't many out there from what I've seen/heard.
I've seen lots of broken spacebars, though never run across a 3-D printed one.
As for the platen knobs on the Hermes 3000, they're probably one of the most commonly broken parts of any typewriter out there, and I've seen dozens of variations of printed knobs for those. It's almost like you don't own a real Hermes 3000 unless you've replaced the knobs on it.
This is a very interesting paper. I wonder if DASIT could be redesigned to enable selective termination of cells instead of isolation?
conda self update
The example shows using the --all option. Without this option it apparently only updates conda itself.
After installing, you can verify which plugins are registered with conda info: conda info Copy to clipboard The output includes a “plugins” section listing all discovered conda plugins and their versions.
Not true. conda info does not have a plugins section. conda info -a does show plugins but not versions.
0.1 Hand-validation of the extracted vote shares We validate the extracted vote shares against a sample of polls coded by hand off the rendered PDFs.
This section is very good and results make sense. There is only one possible thing to address: Why is that we only focus on 1st round results here and use both rounds in the main text? The generated sample mixed some 2nd round results, but these ere matched using 1st round candidate slate.
Editors Assessment:
The paper presents high-quality reference genome assemblies for two closely related widow spider species, the Australian redback (Latrodectus hasselti) and the New Zealand endemic katipō (L. katipo), providing an important genomic resource for studies of venom evolution, adaptation, and conservation biology. Rather than simply reporting assembly statistics, the authors compare the genomic architecture of the two species, showing that both genomes are highly complete (BUSCO scores >94%) and share similar repeat content, while differing in overall genome size, scaffold continuity, and predicted gene numbers. The chromosome-level assembly achieved for L. katipo enables more detailed comparative analyses than previously possible, whereas the more fragmented L. hasselti assembly still captures a highly complete gene repertoire. Ortholog analyses reveal substantial conservation between the species but also indicate lineage-specific differences, with evidence suggesting either gene duplication in L. hasselti or gene loss in L. katipo, providing insight into their divergent evolutionary histories despite their close relationship and contrasting ecological distributions. Beyond generating sequence data, the study establishes foundational genomic resources that will facilitate future investigations into venom gene evolution, population genomics, species divergence, and the conservation of these ecologically and medically significant spiders.
This evaluation refers to version 1 of the preprint
Widow spiders of the genus Latrodectus are important animals for biomedical, pest and conservation research. Here, we present the assembled genomes of two closely related Latrodectus species: the Australian L. hasselti and the New Zealand endemic L. katipo. The genome of L. katipo consists of 13 scaffolds likely corresponding to chromosomes (90% of the total length) and 1267 short scaffolds (10%). It has a total length of 1.5 Gbp and BUSCO of 94.9%. The genome of L. hasselti consists of 379 scaffolds and has a total length of 1.7 Gbp and a BUSCO score of 95.4%. The repeat content is very similar in both genomes with a total proportion of 37.2% for L. katipo and 39.9% for L. hasselti. Genome annotation predicted 12706 and 15111 genes for L. katipo and L. hasselti respectively. An ortholog analysis shows large overlap between orthogroups suggesting either duplication events in L. hasselti or loss of genes in L. katipo.
This final version of this paper is published in GigaByte (see: https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.181) and the peer reviews are available under a CC-BY license.
Reviewer 1. Guanliang Meng
The authors present the genomes of two widow spiders, Latrodectus hasselti and L. katipo, representing a siginficant contribution to spider genomics. The manuscript was nicely written in general. Line 141: The “40X” (and similar words in the manuscript) assumes we already knew the genome size of the target species, however, this is not explained in the text. Lines 147- 152: Duplicate sentences? Lines 188-196 and Lines 220-228: Duplicate sentences. Line 164: What are the “consecutive assemblies” in the text? Line 165: Please indicate how many genes in the database arachnida_odb10 and araneae_odb12. Line 218: remove the ” in the end of the paragraph. Line 233, 254. Please double-check the namings/numberings of Figures, Tables in the manuscript. Line 280: the mapping rate of 86.5% is a bit low. Should be explained briefly in the result section. Line 295: Please provide the BUSCO plots for both species (could be placed in the SM).
Reviewer 2. YimingZhang
Language: The manuscript would benefit from minor language polishing. In particular, some sentences are rather long and complex; breaking them into shorter sentences may improve clarity and enhance the overall readability. Are all data available and do they match the descriptions in the paper?
The sequencing strategy for L. katipo requires clarification. The main text appears to describe conventional long-read sequencing, while the table indicates CCS data. As CCS reads have substantially higher accuracy and typically do not require short-read polishing, whereas conventional long reads usually do, this distinction is important. Please clarify and ensure consistency throughout the manuscript.
Is the data acquisition clear, complete and methodologically sound? Line: 147–149. The Hi-C library preparation section appears to contain some repetitive descriptions of the same protocols. Streamlining this part may improve readability. In addition, please verify that the species names are consistent, as this section may contain an unintended reference.
Is there sufficient data validation and statistical analyses of data quality? The authors may consider evaluating additional assemblers (e.g., hifiasm) for contig construction, as different tools can yield improved assembly continuity and accuracy. Furthermore, given that the current Hi-C scaffolding results appear not fully optimal, testing alternative Hi-C scaffolding workflows may help further improve the chromosome-level assembly.
This study provides valuable genomic resources for two closely related widow spider species with distinct mating systems and conservation significance. The availability of these genome assemblies will facilitate future research on behavioral evolution, species divergence, and introgression in Latrodectus. Overall, the dataset represents an important contribution to arachnid genomics and evolutionary biology.
Editors Assessment:
This Data Release presents a multilingual dataset collected from a survey of participants and community members at the 2025 DBCLS BioHackathon, with the goal of understanding how AIis being used in bioinformatics and related scientific fields. The survey, available in English, Japanese, and Thai, gathered responses from 105 participants about AI usage frequency, applications, challenges, institutional support, satisfaction, concerns, and demographic information. The released dataset includes anonymized raw responses, a cleaned English-language version for quantitative analysis, the original questionnaire, a data dictionary, and a translation lookup table to support reproducible research. To protect participant privacy, the authors carefully removed personally identifiable information. This openly available resource provides researchers with valuable data for studying AI adoption, evaluating policy and institutional support, and developing methods for analyzing survey data related to AI use in scientific research. Overall, this work contributes a well-documented, reusable dataset that can help inform future research on the evolving role of artificial intelligence in genomics, bioinformatics, software development, and the broader scientific community.
This evaluation refers to version 1 of the preprint
AbstractThis dataset arises from a multilingual survey of AI use among participants and community members in the DBCLS BioHackathon 2025 in Japan. The questionnaire, offered in English, Japanese, and Thai, asked about how often respondents use AI tools, what they use them for, obstacles they encounter, institutional support, satisfaction, and concerns. Additional items captured role, institution type, work country, and other demographics, totaling 105 responses. The dataset includes both raw anonymized responses and a cleaned, standardized English-only version suitable for quantitative analysis, along with the full questionnaire, a data dictionary for cleaned dataset, and a translation lookup table. Free-text answers were screened and redacted to remove URLs, names, and other potentially identifiable information. Together, these materials provide a community-level view of AI practice in genomics, bioinformatics, software development, and related areas, and can support work on AI adoption, policy, and methods for analyzing survey data on AI use in science.
This final version of this paper is published in GigaByte (see: https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.179) and the peer reviews are available under a CC-BY license.
Reviewer 1. Gabrielle O'Brien
Are all data available and do they match the descriptions in the paper? No No. I don't actually see the dataset provided here, only the PDF of the article. It doesn't appear to be in the OSF repository either (perhaps I am looking in the wrong place? I have never reviewed for GigaByte before so it is possible). Are the data and metadata consistent with relevant minimum information or reporting standards? No. I don't actually see a copy of the data. I would like to see an exact list of the survey questions. It is not sufficient to report the topic they are addressing, the wording is important to have. Please attach a copy of the survey with the exact question wording and wording of response items. Is there sufficient detail in the methods and data-processing steps to allow reproduction? No. As commented above, there is insufficient information to reproduce the data collection method because the exact survey questions and response options are not provided (unless I am simply overlooking them?) Is there sufficient data validation and statistical analyses of data quality? No. I don't see any statistical analyses of data quality here. It looks like the data has been manually reviewed for quality, which may suffice depending on its size and complexity. But it would be nice to see some counts for completeness. Is the validation suitable for this type of data? Yes. I'm not entirely sure because I don't appear able to see the data itself, but I lean towards yes for the validations that are presented. Is there sufficient information for others to reuse this dataset or integrate it with other data? No As mentioned above, exact list of survey questions and response options is required and I don't see it.
Reviewer 2. Pichaya Lertvilai
Is the language of sufficient quality? Yes. The manuscript is well-written and the dataset is well-organized for a Data Release publication. The authors have taken appropriate steps toward anonymization and have structured the data for reuse.
Is the data acquisition clear, complete and methodologically sound?
Yes. Comments Several categorical variables in the cleaned dataset contain free-text "Other" responses that fall outside the defined response categories. For example: -
AI usage level: One response reads What "AI" are you talking about exactly?! real Artificial-Intelligence or the trendy Artificial-Idiot (TM) !? and another reads it is complicated. These are non-standard responses to what the codebook describes as an "ordinal, single choice" variable. -
Institution type: Entries include unemployed and Small business owner, which are outside the defined categories (Academia, Private sector, Public sector). The manuscript does not discuss how these "Other: free-text" responses should be handled in analysis. The codebook mentions that some variables include "Other: free-text" but does not enumerate the free-text values that appear. The authors should either (a) add a note in the codebook or manuscript clarifying how "Other" responses are represented, or (b) consider recoding these in the cleaned dataset.
Is there sufficient detail in the methods and data-processing steps to allow reproduction?
Yes
1. Two column headers in the cleaned data CSV (and both raw data CSVs) contain the typo "Select all the apply" instead of "Select all that apply": - Column 2: What is your field? (Select all the apply) — codebook has (Select all that apply) - Column 19: What would AI tools need to improve for you to be more satisfied? (Select all the apply) — codebook has (Select all that apply) This creates a mismatch between the codebook variable names and the actual CSV headers, which will cause problems for users attempting programmatic joins between the codebook and data files. These typos should be corrected to ensure consistency, or the codebook should match the exact header strings used in the data.
2. The codebook contains 16 entries, but the cleaned dataset has 26 columns. This is because two multi-part questions are represented as single codebook entries: - The "task usage" question expands into 7 sub-columns (Coding, Research, Brainstorming, Writing/Editing, Teaching and curriculum, Translation, Personal use) - The "AI concern" question expands into 5 sub-columns (Bias in algorithms, Data privacy/security, Intellectual property/ownership, Misinformation/Hallucinations, Environment impact) While the codebook mentions the categories, it does not list the 26 individual column names that appear in the CSV. For a dataset intended for reuse, the codebook should ideally have one entry per column (i.e., 26 entries), listing the exact column header as it appears in the CSV file. This would prevent confusion and support automated data dictionary workflows.
Is there sufficient data validation and statistical analyses of data quality?
Yes.
1. The cleaned dataset has substantial missing data in several columns that goes undiscussed in the manuscript: - "Is there a reason why you don't use AI?": 99% missing (expected, as this applies only to non-users) - "What would AI tools need to improve?": 68% missing - "Teaching and curriculum" task usage: 41% missing - "Data privacy/security" concern: 39% missing - "Intellectual property/ownership" concern: 33% missing - "Bias in algorithms" concern: 28% - "Environment impact" concern: 28% While the manuscript notes that "almost all questions were optional," the high missing rates for specific items should be mentioned in the Data Validation section, especially if the pattern is non-random (e.g., respondents who skip concern items may differ systematically from those who answer). This information is important for re-users to make informed analytical choices.
2. All three data files (raw original, raw English, cleaned English) contain exactly 105 data rows, confirming structural consistency. However, the manuscript does not report how many total survey starts occurred versus completions, nor whether any responses were excluded (e.g., duplicate submissions, empty submissions). A brief statement on this would strengthen the data validation section.
3. The manuscript states (Data Validation section): "One response containing an occupation ('Postdoctoral researcher') was set to missing." This correction was properly applied in the cleaned English file (row 70 is blank), but the raw English file (Biohackathon2025AISurvey_data_raw_anon_ENG_v1.csv, row 70) still contains "Postdoctoral researcher" in the country column, as does the original-languages raw file. The manuscript should clarify whether the raw files are intentionally left uncorrected (preserving the original response as-is), or whether this correction was inadvertently omitted from the raw files. If the former, this design decision should be explicitly stated.
Is there sufficient information for others to reuse this dataset or integrate it with other data? Yes. The manuscript acknowledges that "minor spelling and formatting variants were left as entered." However, in the cleaned English dataset (described as "suitable for quantitative analysis"), country values remain unstandardized. For example: - "germany" (lowercase) vs. "Germany" (9 responses) - "U.K." (1 response) vs. "United Kingdom" (2 responses) - "USA" (2 responses) vs. "United States" (1 response) - "Global" (1 response) — an ambiguous non-country value For a dataset intended for quantitative cross-tabulation, these inconsistencies will require downstream users to perform their own harmonization. The authors should consider either standardizing country names in the cleaned dataset or documenting this as a known limitation for re-users Additional Comments: The translation lookup table (Translation_lookup_table_v1.csv) is showing incorrect unicode formatting for Thai and Japanese languages when users download the data set. It is recommended that the authors try to make sure that the format for other languages is well preserved during data upload/download.
Villar volvió a Córdoba el 22 de octubre de 1972, también para reprimir huelgas y movilizaciones. Frente a la delegación de la Policía Federal, sus secuaces detuvieron a un ciudadano cordobés al que subieron por la fuerza a un carro de asalto, donde le dieron uno de los habituales tratamientos "antiguerrilleros". El hombre, ni bien se repuso, hizo la denuncia ante la policía provincial. Villar y su patota, con escopetas y ametralladoras en mano, tomaron la comisaría cuarta, donde se había hecho la acusación. En su afán por llevarse el expediente con la denuncia, Villar le pegó unas bofetadas al comisario cordobés, mientras sus hombres rompían todo a su paso. Los policías cordobeses se nuclearon y buscaron revancha, rodeando a los federales en el Parque Sarmiento. Debió intervenir el Tercer Cuerpo de Ejército para apaciguar los ánimos. Ante tamaño escándalo, el general Jorge Cáceres Monié, jefe de la Policía Federal, dispuso el pase a disponibilidad de Villar y de algunos de sus hombres. La sanción se prolongó unos meses, hasta el 29 de marzo de 1972, cuando el policía fue reivindicado en un acto público por el propio Cáceres Monié‚ y por el presidente de facto general Alejandro Agustín Lanusse. Retornó a la acción en agosto de 1972, ascendido al grado de comisario mayor, cuando se puso al frente de las tanquetas Shortland que derribaron la puerta de la sede del Partido Justicialista para secuestrar los féretros con los cadáveres de los presos políticos fusilados en Trelew.
Increible
. Luego de realizar un curso de especialización en Francia, en 1963, tomó el modelo de la "force de frappe" (pequeño grupo altamente tecnificado, con tremendo poder de ataque) diseñado por Charles De Gaulle y creó las "brigadas antiguerrilleras". El Cuerpo de Unidades Móviles, tal su denominación formal, fue comandado personalmente por Villar no sólo en la Capital Federal sino también en acciones cumplidas en Córdoba, Tucumán y en otros lugares del país. En esos años, uno de sus principales colaboradores, desde la jefatura del Cuerpo de Guardia de Infantería, fue el comisario Silvio Colotto.
Force de frappe
En enero de 1973 Villar había pasado a retiro y armó una empresa de seguridad privada. Pero al año fue llamado para ocupar la subjefatura de la Policía Federal con el grado de comisario general. En mayo, cuando el jefe de la Federal Miguel Angel Iñíguez se extendió en alabanzas hacia Mario Firmenich, describiéndolo como “un buen nacionalista, un buen peronista y un buen católico”, el 10 de abril debió renunciar, aunque se sostiene que el motivo de su alejamiento fueron sus peleas con López Rega. Villar quedó a cargo de la jefatura y a esa altura era considerado como uno de los mejores especialistas en tácticas para reprimir disturbios.
Senior police praise Firmenich
I also still use the BSI function on the iPhone which stands for Braille Screen input. It allows you to type in landscape if you were using a brailler. So using the 6 dot method and once you have 'got your fingers lined up and done a command to tell the phone where your fingers are on the screen you can type as if you were using a brailler and it then translates that into normal keyboard / number presses and types the appropriate letters in. So because of the fact that we use contractions in grade 2 for words, arguably it's quicker than typing normally on the on screen keyboard on the phone. I can use both though using the screen reader Voiceover. I prefer the sound of a typewriter over a brailler though. Much quieter and more pleasurable to type on honestly.
via u/liamkembleyoung at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1v19s46/got_my_first_typewriter/
https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1vajqs7/olympia_sg3_question/
Olympia SG3 typewriter with an optional carbon ribbon set up?
My guess:
Is it just a holder or is there some sort of drive mechanism associated with it? Is the other side a mirror version of it?
I have seen a handful of custom machines (all of them standards) in the late 50s/early 60s that had dual ribbon set ups: one being the standard cloth ribbon mechanism and the second, usually in a "Princess Leia's hair bun" configuration on the sides of the machine (similar to your photo) in which a secondary carbon ribbon was stored for secondary use when/as necessary. I've never seen one on an Olympia however.
It could also potentially have been used for white correction tape as well.
Here's an example of a Royal FPCP with such a feature: https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1203433725308733/
It could be the passive holder side for an optional carbon ribbon that is then threaded to the spool on the left side which does the pulling. Typically most carbon ribbons are single use only, so you wouldn't need/want an auto-reverse mechanism.
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Valö L, Rosansky J, Parry G, Comeau A, Rice FK, Fulwiler C, Schuman-Olivie
The authorship order for this publication has been updated:
Zev Schuman-Olivier, Liv Valö; Joseph Rosansky; Gareth Parry; Alexandra Comeau; Fiona Kate Rice; Carl Fulwiler
Liv Valö; Joseph Rosansky; Gareth Parry; Alexandra Comeau; Fiona Kate Rice; Carl Fulwiler; Zev Schuman-Olivier
The authorship order for this publication has been updated:
Zev Schuman-Olivier, Liv Valö; Joseph Rosansky; Gareth Parry; Alexandra Comeau; Fiona Kate Rice; Carl Fulwiler
Valö L, Rosansky J, Parry G, Comeau A, Rice FK, Fulwiler C, Schuman-Olivier
The authorship order for this publication has been updated:
Zev Schuman-Olivier; Liv Valö; Joseph Rosansky; Gareth Parry; Alexandra Comeau; Fiona Kate Rice; Carl Fulwiler
Liv Valö; Joseph Rosansky; Gareth Parry; Alexandra Comeau; Fiona Kate Rice; Carl Fulwiler; Zev Schuman-Olivier
The authorship order for this publication has been updated:
Zev Schuman-Olivier, Liv Valö; Joseph Rosansky; Gareth Parry; Alexandra Comeau; Fiona Kate Rice; Carl Fulwiler
così scoprire è facile quanto riacquistare.
This sentence does not sound very matural and sounds AI generated, so I would change it to: "rendendo semplice sia scoprire nuovi prodotti sia ripetere l'acquisto."
dove un negozio è descritto come rivenditore autorizzato, questo riflette quanto dichiarato dal negozio stesso.
“Dove” is not the best connector here Use “quando”: “quando un negozio viene descritto come rivenditore autorizzato...”
con un vantaggio per il compleanno
"vantaggio per il compleanno" does not sound natural, change to "regalo di compleanno"
è il modo più affidabile per evitare i falsi e avere la certezza che il prodotto sia fresco.
"fresco” is not the most common way to describe beauty products . A more natural alternative would be “correttamente conservato.”
un servizio omnicanale reale
“Servizio omnicanale reale” is also a literal translation of and sounds unnatural. it should be changed to “servizio integrato tra store online e negozi fisici.”
Per la maggior parte delle persone Douglas è la scelta migliore a tutto tondo.
“Scelta migliore a tutto tondo” sounds like a literal translation. A more natural Italian alternative would be “la scelta più migliore per la maggior parte delle esigenze.”
con Pinalli come solido specialista italiano per una gamma multimarca ampia.
con Pinalli come solido specialista italiano” is a literal translation, change to "o Pinalli, come punto di riferimento italiano per un’ampia selezione multimarca.”
per una boccetta specifica.
"boccetta" does not fit in this context, change it to "fragranza"
la consulenza esperta e la Beauty Card ne fanno il tuttofare naturale per profumi, make-up e skincare in un unico posto.
“Tuttofare naturale” is not idiomatic in Italian. Better alternatives would be “la scelta più completa dove acquistare profumi, make-up e skincare in un unico posto".
i titolari di carta possono prenotare in negozio una consulenza gratuita con un personal shopper dedicata a bellezza e profumi.
the adjective agreement is incorrect (“consulenza” is feminine, while the service/person should be described differently). A more natural phrasing would be “una consulenza gratuita con un personal shopper specializzato in beauty e profumi”
anche se le spedizioni sono solo in Italia.
“Sono solo in Italia” is slightly unnatural. A more polished alternative would be “anche se le spedizioni sono disponibili solo all'interno dell'Italia.”
Per chi acquista è la scelta per un acquisto speciale o un regalo:
sounds slightly unnatural and repetitive (“acquista” / “acquisto”). A more natural alternative would be “È la scelta ideale per chi cerca un regalo o un acquisto importante.”
e sul rapporto qualità-prezzo il focus è l'acquisto speciale o il regalo più che il risparmio quotidiano.
I would "il focus è l'acquisto speciale" sounds literally translated. I would change i to "e sul rapporto qualità-prezzo la convenienza riguarda l'acquisto occasionale o il regalo più che quello quotidiano."
L'esperienza di acquisto online è pulita ed editoriale
“Pulita” and “editoriale” sound like direct translations of English). In Italian, “elegante e curata nei contenuti,” would better convey the meaning.
e la selezione lusso e nicchia è la più forte di questo confronto
A more natural alternative would be “la selezione di marchi di lusso e di nicchia è la più ampia tra quelle analizzate.”
L'assortimento arriva a oltre 3.000 prodotti beauty online
I suggesto to change in “L'assortimento arriva a oltre 3.000 prodotti beauty disponibili online” sounds more polished and precise.
Qui vengono prima il lusso e il servizio.
“Qui vengono prima il lusso e il servizio” it sounds like a literal translation. A more natural phrasing would be “Qui il focus è sul lusso e sulla qualità del servizio."
è il posto giusto per un'esperienza beauty premium e orientata al regalo.
“esperienza beauty premium e orientata al regalo” contains English-style marketing language. A more natural alternative would be “un’esperienza beauty di fascia alta, particolarmente adatta per acquistare regali.”
il programma Privilege trasforma i punti in veri buoni cash-back
“Trasforma i punti in veri buoni cash-back” is understandable, but the expression follows the English structure too closely. In Italian, a more natural phrasing would be “consente di convertire i punti accumulati in buoni cashback”
il suo programma fedeltà gratuito è tra i più generosi di questo confronto.
“Tra i più generosi di questo confronto” A more natural alternative would be “tra i più vantaggiosi tra quelli analizzati”
L'esperienza di acquisto online è senza attriti
“Senza attriti” sounds unnatural in Italian. Better alternatives would be “semplice e intuitiva."
L'assortimento copre profumeria classica e cosmetici, la gamma di marchi privilegia i nomi noti rispetto alle novità più recenti, e la selezione lusso e nicchia resta contenuta per scelta.
“the assortment covers…” and sounds slightly unnatural in Italian. A better alternative would be “L’assortimento comprende profumeria classica e cosmetici” or “Propone una selezione di profumi classici e prodotti cosmetici.” “Selezione lusso e nicchia” is not a natural expression in Italian, and “resta contenuta per scelta” sounds vague. A clearer alternative would be “La selezione di marchi di lusso e di nicchia è volutamente più limitata”
Con ogni ordine per i membri
A more natural phrasing would be "Inclusi in ogni ordine effettuato dagli iscritti".
È un'opzione affidabile per la profumeria classica e la bellezza di tutti i giorni.
Here is sounds literally translated, I would chiange it to: "è un'ottima opzione per i prodotti di profumeria e di bellezza di tutti i giorni."
con una selezione lusso e nicchia solida anche se non esaustiva.
A more natural alternative would be: “una buona selezione di marchi di lusso e di nicchia, anche se non esaustiva."
la gamma di marchi è forte nel colore e nei cosmetici professionali
"è forte" in this context does not sound natural, replace it with "è ampia"
forte nel colore
change to "ampia offerta di colori"
e una solida presenza nel colore e nei cosmetici professionali
“Solida presenza nel colore” is unclear and should be changed in "ampio assortimento di colori"
in uno dei cataloghi di fragranze più ampi online.
“Cataloghi di fragranze più ampi online” is understandable, but “online” at the end feels like an English structure. A more natural phrasing would be “in uno dei più ampi cataloghi di fragranze disponibili online.”
e una sezione offerte permanente tiene i prezzi bassi.
A more natural alternative would be “e una sezione offerte contribuisce a mantenere i prezzi competitivi”
Notino è il riferimento per rintracciare una boccetta specifica
I would replace “boccetta” with “prodotto” . “Prodotto” is more neutral, professional, and suitable for an e-commerce. So the sentence would be " rintracciare un prodotto specifico"
similarly
what distinction are they making btwn the first sentence and this one?
l'étendue
la diversité
constamment
toujours très
en soin
pour les cosmétiques
une fenêtre de retour particulièrement généreuse
un délai de retour particulièrement généreux
offres
promotions
l'aide dont vous disposez en chemin
les conseils que vous recevez
change
a un impact sur
sur ce qui les distingue
sur les points qui les distinguent
Sephora compte environ deux heures et
Il faut compter environ deux heures pour Sephora, et
en une heure environ dans environ 550 boutiques
en une heure environ dans quelques 550 boutiques
précisant
où l'enseigne précise
Le club gratuit MyNotino ajoute des offres réservées aux membres, des réductions et des invitations à des événements, ainsi qu'une wishlist et des informations de paiement enregistrées
Le club gratuit MyNotino permet de bénéficier d'offres réservées aux membres, de réductions et d'invitations à des événements, ainsi que de l'accès à une wishlist et à l'enregistrement des informations de paiement
offres
promotions
cette ampleur
le catalogue
constamment
toujours
avec quelques maisons de niche
avec quelques enseignes de niche
sélectifs
du luxe
les nouveautés y arrivent souvent plus tard
les nouveautés y arrivent souvent plus tard que sur les autres
cumulant les points en ligne comme en magasin et les transformant
en vous permettant de cumuler les points en ligne comme en magasin et de les transformer
Le soin est un point fort particulier
Le soin est son grand point fort
pensé pour vous aider à trouver le bon produit plutôt qu'à vous présenter un mur de références
pensé pour vous aider à trouver le bon produit plutôt que pour vous mettre face à une multitude de références
marques prestige
marques de prestige
le soin est moins fourni que le maquillage
le rayon cosmétiques est moins bien fourni que celui du maquillage
les prix suivent le circuit sélectif
les prix sont alignés sur le haut de gamme
le programme de fidélité par paliers ajoute un cadeau d'anniversaire et la livraison
le programme de fidélité par paliers permet de bénéficier d'un cadeau d'anniversaire et de la livraison
Les commandes comprennent de un à cinq échantillons
Les commandes comprennent un à cinq échantillons
le click and collect prend environ deux heures dans plus de 320 magasins
le click and collect en deux heures fonctionne dans plus de 320 magasins
remplis
regorgent
Le catalogue en ligne est riche et orienté tendance, souvent le premier à référencer les marques du moment, appuyé par une belle offre d'exclusivités, tandis que sa marque propre Sephora Collection couvre les budgets plus serrés
Le catalogue en ligne, riche et orienté tendance, est souvent le premier à référencer les marques du moment, appuyé par une belle offre d'exclusivités, tandis que la marque de l'enseigne, Sephora Collection, s'adresse aux budgets plus serrés
des offres au quotidien et la
bénéficier de promotions régulièrement et de la
après la commande
après avoir passé commande
Un abonnement à 9,99 € par an ajoute 10 % de remise sur tout et la
Avec l'abonnement à 9,99 € par an, vous bénéficiez en plus de 10 % de remise sur tout le site et de la
une fenêtre de six mois qui retire une bonne part du risque à commander un parfum que l'on n'a pas pu sentir
une délai de six mois qui permet de commander un parfum à l'aveugle en toute sécurité
la livraison coûte 3,95 € forfaitaires
les frais de livraison sont de 3,95 €
d'un rayon premium avec
d'un rayon de luxe qui propose des marques comme
à
en passant par
noms sélectifs familiers
grands noms les plus connus
dédiée : une large offre
dédiée. Elle propose une large offre
la sélection est resserrée plutôt qu'exhaustive, les prix suivent le circuit sélectif, et le retrait en une heure ne sert que si vous avez une boutique à proximité
L'offre est sélective, les prix sont alignés sur ceux du haut de gamme, et le retrait en magasin n'a d'intérêt que si vous habitez à proximité
la carte de fidélité gratuite transforme 200 points en un bon de 10 €, avec des points doublés
200 point sur la carte de fidélité gratuite donnent droit à un bon de 10 €, les points étant doublés
que vous choisissez au panier
à choisir parmi une sélection
Environ 550 boutiques en France, dont près de 400 dotées d'un institut de beauté complet, permettent de commander en ligne, de retirer gratuitement en une heure environ selon le stock du magasin, et d'obtenir un conseil sur place
Grâce à ses 550 boutiques en France, dont près de 400 dotées d'un institut de beauté, on peut commander en ligne, retirer gratuitement en une heure environ selon le stock du magasin, et obtenir des conseils sur place
Le site se parcourt simplement d'une catégorie à l'autre
Le site est intuitif, et il est facile de passer d'une catégorie à l'autre
L'offre
Son offre
asymmetry
Fine to me. Good job
friendly
This explains my comment about residual "green"s
expanded
Clear to me. Good job.
revised
Great edit!
richness
Seeing that, I am surprised that PC1 and PC2 effects are not significant. But maybe I miss something.
S7
S8, related to previous comment
fig
Caption does not show.
Functional
The y-axis does not show well on panel A for me. And the x-axis is much thicker than on panel B.
75%
Stupid question here: why does % variance explained go above 100 %?
DISCUSSION Our
Very general comments about the discussion here, as most elements are too far from my knowledge domain for me to feel legitimate in commenting an already well polished discussion. I know space is limited but I was expecting a few sentences about the reasons why climate affects funct. dispersion (mostly) and richness in palms and frugivores differently, and consequently FTA. When effects are significant on functional variables in a given trophic level but not on FTA, does it mean that there is some kind of compensation going on? (for instance Mammal FRich affected by PC2, but neither Palm FRich nor FTA_rich) Similarly, are colder climates more limiting and constrained to exhibit a "good" trait matching with low FTA? Are mammals able to diversify further their foraging traits, beyond what's expected given palms in some climates? Etc... In sum, is there room to discuss a bit more these results? Also answering Figure 1 and some predictions from the intro? A large part of the discussion aims at proposing FTA as a great framework to understand the impact of climate change on trophic interaction network. I think this is great, but I fear this could take too much space in the discussion. I let you decide of course. Maybe just 1 or 2 sentences discussing further the results summarized in the first discussion paragraph to loop the loop started in the intro could be enough.
) Montoya, J. M., and D. Raffaelli. 2010. “Climate Change, Biotic Interactions and Ecosystem Services.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 2013–18. Schleuning, M., J. Fründ, and D García. 2015. “Predicting Ecosystem Functions from Biodiversity and Mutualistic Networks: An Extension of Trait‐based Concepts to Plant–Animal Interactions.” Ecography, 38 (4): 380–92. Schleuning, M., D. García, and J. A. Tobias. 2023. “Animal Functional Traits: Towards a Trait-Based Ecology for Whole Ecosystems.” Functional Ecology 37: 4–12.
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Formatting issue
reorganize
reshuffle?
Functional
How were the domains defined here? By taking the provinces at extreme positions of the PCs?? Since there is a discretization, it should be explained further I think.
On this figure, it looks like the two components of FTA both reply to climatic variations in opposite directions, but as this is not significant for FTA_richness we cannot really conclude that. Am I right?
green
also blue here
Maybe it should be Effect ON Functional richness/dispersion on the y-axis text.
controlling for biogeographical spatial structure
How was space taken into account? Categorical variable associated with biogeo provinces? x-y variables? MEMs? Without having read what comes next, this indicates to me that when model support remains unchanged, most of the variables explaining the spatial structure in functional diversity patterns in mammals are already accounted for, while some might be missing for plants and mammal FR (and related either to spat. structured env. variables or from spatial contingencies due to phylogeography or other legacies).
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and
SES functional dispersion
same comment
SES functional richness
functional richness SES was...
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I find all this sub-section and the map that goes with it super clear, and efficiently summarized and illustrated (by the map layout).
ns.
You managed to simplify the methods in a very important way. Congrats
S).
Congrats for explaining your SES in such a clear way.
provinces
Answers my previous question I think. I suggest to harmonize.
. PCA effectively summarized climatic variation across biogeographic regions into three principal components that
I would remove that part of this sentence. "..across the Neotropics and together explained...."
regions
regions here, province before, is there a link between these scales? beyond the difference in terminology. In other words, do they match and could the same world be used interchangeably?
We excluded bats because few Neotropical bat species are known to consume palm fruits (Messeder et al. 2021).
To keep and move at the end of the last paragraph or even before the last sentence.
Diet in EltonTraits 1.0 is coded as the percentage use of ten dietary categories, and we excluded species with no fruit in their reported diet. Activity was represented by three categories—diurnal, crepuscular, and nocturnal—and body mass was expressed in kilograms.
This is redundant. Probably a compiling error.
producing province
producing biogeographic province-level (to avoid confusion with administrative provinces?)
of
in-text citation without brackets here
at those positions
At which position? Overall for each panel and for a given position of the climatic gradient Is the climatic gradient the same for each panel? I would suggest adding letters or numbers to refer to each panel in the caption and explaining the conditions to which each of them refers. Is it equally valid for FR and FDis? (these are a lot of suggestions but I like the figure and I just think it would benefit from these clarifications)
green
It appears blue to me.
can be an indicator variation in
can be an indicator of the relative importance....
frugivores are
Suggestion: Mutualistic.... frugivores are an ideal system to study spatial patterns of FTA as these interactions are important.....(refs), and FTA could therefore substantially influence the latter.
R0:
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Reviewer #1: Conteh and colleagues report on a secondary analysis of previously collected data wherein they examine the prevalence and risk factors of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) at 1 and 3 months post a medically attended diarrheal illness among children 6-35 months of age in 7 countries for a 2-year period. The study is observational and the children in the cohort were prospectively enrolled. Study strengths included a large sample size, data over a 2-year period, and geographic diversity in terms of LMIC.
There are some issues that need to be addressed by the authors: 1) A significant limitation is the lack of a control group of infants and children matched for age, sex, season, country, etc., to make sense of what the data mean in terms of the medically attended diarrheal illness. From the data, I cannot tell how other children without a medically attended diarrheal illness would have fared during the same time period in terms of RTI occurrence. How many would have been stunted or underweight? 2) The first sentence of the Abstract is clunky and should be broken into two for clarity. 3) The second sentence of the Abstract mentions "immune stress". This is a vague term that needs to be clarified. Malnutrition is an immune deficiency state as it affects both innate and adaptive immunity, and many of the children in the study had it. 4) Lines 157-161 address the "potential correlates of RTI". I would have included seasonality as well since respiratory illnesses are more common in the winter months. 5) Figure 1 mentions 15 children who died before any follow up. Did they die of the diarrheal illness or some other issue? And what does "eligibility revoked" mean for the 6 children? 6) Table 2: At presentation for the diarrheal illness, 36.5% of the children had signs of a lower RTI, as defined by the authors. Do the authors know if these symptoms had resolved and new RTI symptoms developed by the 4-week visit or were many these symptoms just lingering for a long time? 7) Malawi appears to be an outlier in terms of prevalence of RTIs, including pneumonia diagnoses (22.6%) vs other countries in the study (0.2-3.2%). Any explanation for this? These results skew the data. (Supplementary Table 2) 8) In Supplementary Table 3, cough (as an example) was described in 1131 children at 4-weeks and 1429 at 3 months, but the provided total was 2175. This suggests that 385 children may have gotten ill with cough more than once. For pneumonia, there is a discrepancy of 24 children suggesting that they got this diagnosis more than once. The authors need to provide an explanation for these discrepancies. 9) In Table 4, Malawi has the highest percentage of household members <5 years of age, followed by the Gambia and Pakistan; these 3 countries had the highest prevalence of RTIs during the follow up period suggesting this as a very important variable in terms of RTI risk. 10) Table 2: Who had the moderate or severe diarrhea? Were they the malnourished or wasted children? 11) There is no mention of breastfeeding for the infants in this study. This factor could potentially explain why infants 6-11 months of age may have had a lower RTI prevalence at follow up. 12) Figure 3 shows that the risk of RTI (while not statistically significant) was lower with moderate (0.78, CI 0.54-1.13) and severe (0.57, CI 0.28-1.15) wasting compared to infants without wasting, although this did not reach statistical significance. This merits further examination since the results are counterintuitive. 13) Since most RTIs are viral in etiology, it is hard to understand how improved vaccination rates would help. The WHO Africa Immunization schedule does not include RSV or COVID-19 vaccines. Influenza vaccine is recommended, but the authors give us no idea of its uptake. Pneumococcal vaccine would be the only one that could help with one of the causes of pneumonia.
Responde pelo crime o terceiro que determina o erro.
Exemplo clássico:
Uma enfermeira, por vingança, quer matar um paciente internado. Ela troca o rótulo do frasco de medicamento que está na bandeja, colocando a etiqueta de "soro fisiológico" sobre um frasco que, na verdade, contém uma substância letal. Em seguida, entrega a bandeja para outra enfermeira (que não sabe de nada) aplicar no paciente. Esta segunda enfermeira, confiando no rótulo, aplica a substância e o paciente morre.
A enfermeira que aplicou a injeção agiu em erro de tipo plenamente justificado pelas circunstâncias (o rótulo indicava se tratar de substância inofensiva) — portanto, fica isenta de pena, pois não tinha como perceber o engodo. A enfermeira que trocou o rótulo é quem determinou o erro de forma dolosa e consciente, usando a colega como instrumento inconsciente para matar o paciente. Por isso, ela responde pelo crime de homicídio doloso, como autora mediata — mesmo não tendo aplicado a injeção com as próprias mãos.
isento de pena quem, por erro plenamente justificado pelas circunstâncias, supõe situação de fato que, se existisse, tornaria a ação legítima. Não há isenção de pena quando o erro deriva de culpa e o fato é punível como crime culposo
Isso descreve as descriminantes putativas (erro de tipo permissivo), previstas no art. 20, §1º, do Código Penal: "É isento de pena quem, por erro plenamente justificado pelas circunstâncias, supõe situação de fato que, se existisse, tornaria a ação legítima. Não há isenção de pena quando o erro deriva de culpa e o fato é punível como crime culposo."
Exemplo clássico (legítima defesa putativa):
À noite, em um beco escuro conhecido por assaltos frequentes, "A" está caminhando quando "B" se aproxima rapidamente e enfia a mão dentro do casaco, num gesto brusco, como se fosse sacar uma arma. "A", acreditando estar prestes a ser assaltado ou agredido, saca sua arma (que possui porte legal) e atira em "B", matando-o. Depois se descobre que "B" apenas ia pegar um cigarro no bolso e não tinha nenhuma arma.
"A" supôs uma situação de fato (estar sendo vítima de agressão iminente) que, se existisse de verdade, tornaria sua reação legítima (legítima defesa real, art. 25). Se as circunstâncias eram tais que qualquer pessoa prudente, no lugar dele, teria a mesma percepção equivocada (rua deserta, perigosa, gesto brusco de "B" simulando sacar arma), o erro é plenamente justificado → "A" fica isento de pena (não responde nem por dolo, nem por culpa).
Exemplo em que NÃO há isenção (erro decorrente de culpa):
Se, no mesmo cenário, "A" atira apenas porque "B" acenou de longe e gritou seu nome para cumprimentá-lo, sem qualquer gesto ameaçador, um homem médio no lugar de "A" perceberia que não havia perigo algum. Aqui o erro não é plenamente justificado — decorre de precipitação/imprudência de "A".
Nesse caso, "A" não fica isento de pena. Como o homicídio tem previsão de forma culposa (art. 121, §3º), "A" responde por homicídio culposo.
erro sobre elemento constitutivo do tipo legal de crime exclui o dolo, mas permite a punição por crime culposo, se previsto em lei
Isso descreve o erro de tipo (art. 20, caput, do Código Penal brasileiro): "O erro sobre elemento constitutivo do tipo legal de crime exclui o dolo, mas permite a punição por crime culposo, se previsto em lei."
Exemplo clássico:
Um caçador, em uma área de mata fechada, avista um vulto se movendo entre os arbustos e, acreditando tratar-se de um animal, atira. Na verdade, era outra pessoa que estava caçando no mesmo local, e ela morre.
O caçador não teve a intenção de matar — ele errou sobre um elemento do tipo penal (achava que estava atirando em um animal, não em "alguém", que é elemento do tipo do homicídio, art. 121). Por isso, exclui-se o dolo de homicídio. Mas, se ficar comprovado que ele agiu com negligência ou imprudência (por exemplo, atirou sem verificar adequadamente o que havia entre os arbustos, em local onde sabia haver outros caçadores), ele pode responder por homicídio culposo (art. 121, §3º), pois esse crime tem modalidade culposa prevista em lei.
Outro exemplo comum (em provas):
Uma pessoa, em uma festa, pega o guarda-chuva de outra pensando ser o seu (idêntico ao dela). Ela erra sobre o elemento "coisa alheia" do tipo de furto (art. 155). Como não sabia que a coisa era alheia, não há dolo de furto. Mas o furto não admite modalidade culposa — logo, nesse caso, não há punição alguma, pois a lei não previu "furto culposo".
Esse segundo exemplo é importante para entender que a segunda parte da regra ("permite a punição por crime culposo") só se aplica se existir previsão legal da forma culposa daquele crime. Como no furto não existe, o agente fica isento de pena; já no homicídio, como existe a forma culposa, ele pode ser punido por ela.