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<p>Please cite as: Tomić I, Penna, A, DeJong, M, Butenweg C, Correia AA, Candeias PX, Senaldi I, Guerrini G, Malomo D, Beyer K, et al. (2022) Shake-table testing of a stone masonry building aggregate: Overview of blind prediction study. Submitted to Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.</p> <p>This repository provides raw data, functions used to process the data with the accompanying files explaining and documenting the procedure, processed data, and the functions used to plot the processed data. Further readme files in the Folder “02_Functions_processing” explain how we processed the data. In the following, the file structure is explained so that it can be downloaded and used separately.</p> <p> </p>

As a part of the Enabling FAIR Data project led by the American Geophysical Union, the Publishers in the Earth and Space Sciences Targeted Adoption Group developed a set of author guidelines to establish common expectations for researchers across all journals concerning data that support a publication to be adopted by all Earth, space and science journals. These guidelines were developed by individuals representing the following publishers: the American Geophysical Union, Wiley, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature, Science/AAAS, Elsevier, American Meteorological Society, PLOS and organizations including NCAR and DataCite.

We determine the galaxy infrared (IR) luminosity function (LF) as a function of the environment in a supercluster at z=0.23, using optical, near-IR, and mid- to far-IR photometry, as well as redshifts from optical spectroscopy. We identify 467 supercluster members in a sample of 24-micron-selected galaxies, on the basis of their spectroscopic (153) and photometric (314) redshifts. IR luminosities, stellar masses and star formation rates (SFRs) are determined for supercluster members via spectral energy distribution fitting and the Kennicutt relation. Galaxies with active galactic nuclei are excluded from the sample. We determine the IR LF of the whole supercluster as well as the IR LFs of three different regions in the supercluster: the cluster core, a large-scale filament, and the cluster outskirts (excluding the filament). The IR LF shows an environmental dependence which is not simply related to the local galaxy density. The filament, an intermediate-density region in the A1763 supercluster, contains the highest fraction of IR-emitting galaxies at all levels of IR luminosities. As expected, the core contains the lowest fraction of IR-emitting galaxies and almost no Luminous IR Galaxies (LIRGs). The relation between galaxy specific SFRs and stellar masses does not depend on the environment, and it indicates that most supercluster LIRGs (in particular those in the filament) are rather massive galaxies with relatively low specific SFRs. A comparison with previous IR LF determinations from the literature confirms that the mass-normalized total SFR in clusters increases with redshift, but more rapidly than previously suggested for redshifts <0.4. We interpret our findings within a possible scenario for the evolution of galaxies in and around clusters [Abridged].

Abstract The effect of aerial applications of the pheromone disparlure at varying dosages on mating disruption in low‐density gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.) (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae), populations was determined in field plots in Virginia, USA during 2000 and 2002. Six dosages [0.15, 0.75, 3, 15, 37.5, and 75 g active ingredient (AI)/ha] of disparlure were tested during the 2‐year study. A strongly positive dose–response relationship was observed between pheromone dosages and mating disruption, as measured by the reduction in male moth capture in pheromone‐baited traps and mating successes of females. Dosages of pheromone 15 g AI/ha (15, 37.5, and 75 g AI/ha) reduced the mating success of females by &gt;99% and significantly reduced male moth catches in pheromone‐baited traps compared to untreated plots. Pheromone dosages &lt;15 g AI/ha also reduced trap catch, but to a lesser extent than dosages 15 g AI/ha. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the lower dosage treatments (0.15, 0.75, and 3 g AI/ha) declined over time, so that by the end of the study, male moth catches in traps were significantly lower in plots treated with pheromone dosages 15 g AI/ha. The dosage of 75 g AI/ha was initially replaced by a dosage of 37.5 g AI/ha in the USDA Forest Service Slow‐the‐Spread (STS) of the Gypsy Moth management program, but the program is currently making the transition to a dosage of 15 g AI/ha. These changes in applied dosages have resulted in a reduction in the cost of gypsy moth mating disruption treatments.