AGT is recorded on the Taylor 714 acoustic guitar, with 3892 dry samples and a total size of 5GB. Original samples have been recorded as 24-bit 44.1kHz stereo. Natural sustain and resonating sounds of the guitar are unadulterated. No looping samples.
The samples are categorized in two banks: Strum and Pick.
As with other Ample Guitar instruments, AGT is also featured with the following functionalities and techniques: Hammer On & Pull Off, Legato Slide up & down, Slide in Below & Slide out Downwards, Palm Mute, Natural Harmonic, Popping 9 guitar techniques, Legato at random length, pitch & poly. All techniques can be played in Legato mode, even when strumming.
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Acoustics have three distinct sample libraries: Finger, Pick and Strum. Strum library includes real strum samples customizable for any chord and rhythm without loss of quality.
Electrics have sample libraries of three pickup options: Neck, Both and Bridge.
The Cytomic Filters, which are used in the Wavetable, Echo, Simpler, Sampler, Operator, and Auto Filter devices, have been updated and improved in stability, sound and performance. As of 11.1, the Cytomic filters (particularly the MS2 and SMP options) might deviate in sound compared to previous Live versions, especially when driven hard.
The adaptive monitoring component includes changing the monitoring program as needed to carry out adaptive management and requires explicitly defining what is being changed in the monitoring program (Lindemayer et al. 2011). Examples of adaptive monitoring include using new protocols as technology improves data collection techniques or increasing the frequency of monitoring when species are declining and new information about factors contributing to the decline could be useful for management (Lindemayer et al. 2013). The monitoring program may also be altered to address questions about species or vegetation community recovery following a wildfire or other disturbance. To make changes to an existing monitoring program, it is necessary to determine whether it is statistically valid to do so and to maintain the long-term integrity of the monitoring program (Lindemayer et al. 2011).
Examples of some simple metrics for communicating with the public and decision makers include reserve assembly metrics, such as the total amount of land and number of vegetation communities conserved and lost to development since the NCCPs were established, with perhaps a comparison of these metrics to the pre-NCCP period. Other simple metrics are more ecologically based and characterize the health of the preserve system. An example includes using remote imagery to map ecological integrity classes over time to determine the number of acres of shrubland that have converted to nonnative grassland across the MSPA. MSP species datasets could be used to assess the status of groups of species, such as coastal sage scrub dependent species, rare plants, highly threatened and vulnerable species, or wide-ranging species. Threat metrics could characterize the magnitude of different threats across the MSPA, including fire risk (e.g., departure from historic median fire return intervals, probability of ignition, number of times burned since 2000), invasive species, constrained linkages, and climate change projections with modeled species responses. Management metrics could describe the investment in and effectiveness of management actions to illustrate efforts taken to protect and improve the preserve system.
Potential GIS data sources for characterizing the regional preserve system include land use maps, climate layers, Digital Elevation Models to describe topography, soil maps, vegetation maps, fire perimeters, burn severity maps, erosion potential maps, satellite imagery, high resolution aerial photos, and LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). GIS databases include Conserved Lands, MSP-MOM, SC-MTX, rare plant monitoring spatial data, SANBIOS, CNDDB, and various species monitoring spatial datasets. Table V2A.1-1 provides examples of types of variables that can be calculated and included as metrics to characterize the preserve system or that can be incorporated into more complex analyses to develop synthetic metrics. For example, vegetation maps can be used to calculate the number of different vegetation types in the preserve system and can also be used to calculate variables used in habitat suitability models or connectivity modeling.
CORE ++ includes monitoring components to evaluate the ecological integrity of the regional preserve system and typically builds upon vegetation monitoring at permanent plots. As feasible, it can include monitoring of the status and habitat and threats of MSP species (SL, SO, SS and VF species). Additional monitoring components can include community level monitoring of arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and small mammals (Table V2A.1-3). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing rapid assessment protocols to monitor threats and various taxonomic groups and preparing community level monitoring optimized protocols for greater efficiency. Other types of monitoring include assessing food webs (e.g., arthropod food resources for MSP bird species), animal movement (digital camera stations), pollinator services, carbon cycling, soil microbes, and biotic interactions (Table V2A.1-4). Threat monitoring can include components identified above for vegetation monitoring. A multi-taxon IBI can also be developed based on rapid assessments and optimized sampling of different taxonomic groups and added to the vegetation monitoring component to sample ecological integrity across the MSPA. Diffendorfer et al. (2007) conducted a study of 5 plant and animal taxomic groups in coastal sage scrub vegetation and found that an IBI could be developed to characterize ecological integrity across a disturbance gradient of invasive nonnative grasses. They found that the IBI performed better than traditional community metrics and that no single taxon was a good indicator of the responses of the other taxa to the disturbance gradient. Responses to disturbance were varied and complex among the different taxonomic groups and there was large variation at multiple scales in abiotic and biogic conditions across the study area. The IBI was able to address this variability and characterize the ecological integrity of sites with 1 measure, which could be decomposed into individual components to understand how the different taxa responded to the disturbance gradient.
Supplementary Table 6. List of TCGA samples and OR genes interrogated. The table includes the full list of melanoma samples analysed to generate Supplementary Table 5, and the full list of OR genes that were detected in the analysis of TCGA gene expression data.
The authors have completed a scientifically sound analysis of olfactory receptor expression, with a suitably complete explanation of the study design, methods, and datasets. The authors are to be commended for the breadth of their analysis. Suggestions for improvement are as follows: The most obvious concern is the lack of independent validation of their analysis (e.g. qRT-PCR, in situ hybridization, IHC, etc.). A possible alternative would be to ask whether their analysis detects olfactory receptors previously shown to be expressed in certain cancer types. These include 51E2 (cited by the authors as an impetus for these studies), 2AT4 (leukemia), 51E1 (lung, gastric, neuroendocrine), OR2W3 (pancreatic), and others. All of these receptors were detected by the authors, but their expression patterns (Supplemental Table 1) do not always match published expression patterns. A discussion describing the sensitivity and/or limitations of their analysis would be helpful.
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