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This research aims to understand the prototype usage and practical applicability for capturing and managing HCDs. This is a proof-of-concept tool which is trying to imrpove the reporting and fixing of HCDs. The uploaded document is the interview and post interview-survey questionnaire for the study.

This document includes all the appendices related to the paper that has been accepted to present at the 17th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal. 

Data sets and code to replicate analyses and figures in Velasquez Jimenez and Abram (2024). Technical note: An improved methodology for calculating the Southern Annular Mode index to aid consistency between climate studies.

Specimens of Tulaneia amabilia n. gen n. sp. [previously Ernietta plateauensis Pflug] discovered by RJH in 1991 at a site in the Montgomery Mountains near Johnnie, Nevada, are described for the first time. All of the material from the original locality was from float, but its stratigraphic position was clearly within the lowest siliciclastic to dolostone interval of the lower member of the Wood Canyon Formation (LMWCF); this was confirmed by subsequent discoveries. As the upper part of the LMWCF contains Treptichnus pedum (Seilacher), the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary has long been drawn at its first appearance. However, in the Esmeralda Member of the Deep Spring Formation in the White-Inyo Mountains, California and at Mount Dunfee, Nevada, another Cambrian ichnofossil—'Plagiogmus' [now Psammichnites gigas arcuatus (Roedel)]—is found just beneath the nadir of the basal Cambrian isotope excursion (BACE). As the nadir of the BACE excursion is older than ~539 Ma in Mexico, the oldest occurrences of Treptichnus pedum in the LMWCF are latest—not earliest— Fortunian in age, and there is no need to reduce the age of the eon boundary from ~539 to ~533 Ma. Tulaneia resembles Ernietta and other erniettomorphs in being composed of tubular modules with planar common surfaces, but its overall shape was tabular and unidirectional rather than sack or frond shaped. We also illustrate and briefly describe other trace and body fossils from the LMWCF and re-illustrate previously published specimens of Psammichnites gigas arcuatus in order to document its earliest occurrence in the Great Basin. Funding provided by: National Science FoundationROR ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62Award Number: EAR-9627924

Python-v3 and R-v4.2.2 code for analysis and figures in Udy et al., 2024 - Australia’s 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather exceptionally rare over the last 2000 years, Communications Earth and Environment. https://github.com/dgudy91/SEAus_Fire_weather_2k_reconstruction

This code can be used to replicate the results in the paper 'ABC-based Forecasting in Misspecified State Space Models' (2024) by Weerasinghe, Loaiza-Maya, Martin and Frazier.

The rapid uptake of social media, which Australians now use more than any other type of media, presents many opportunities for accessing information, but also presents the highly significant challenge of misinformation. The sheer volume of information online can be overwhelming and very difficult to navigate. As a result, bad actors seek to undermine democratic processes and target individuals. This has been widely recognised as a global problem. However, Australians lack the confidence and ability to verify misinformation.This report is based on analysis of four linked datasets and finds that the vast majority of adult Australians want to be able to identify misinformation and are trying to do so. It also finds that many adult Australians overestimate their ability to verify information online. The research findings illustrate the need for media literacy initiatives. These might include videos that show people how to fact check online or how to identify high-quality news sources, quizzes or games that help people develop their digital media knowledge and skills, explainers that show how platform business models operate and how this relates to the spread of misinformation, or in-person media production training that can help people think critically, and accurately represent people, places and ideas.