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The present pilot study tested and validated the use of the ‘Invasive Alien Species in Europe’ smartphone app (IASapp) in the Lower Danube Region. The study was conducted in three stages: (1) Testing the effectiveness of the app in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia by organizing information and field testing campaigns; (2) Improving and extending the functionality of the app and developing a list of the invasive alien species (IAS) of concern to the Danube River Basin (DRB); and (3) Testing the updated app during the Joint Danube Survey 4 campaign. Overall, 13 campaigns were carried out, during which seven aquatic IAS of EU concern and nine IAS relevant to the DRB were recorded. Currently, the developed new functionality of IASapp allows the recording of 64 IAS of DRB concern. The updated IASapp has an important role in increasing public awareness on IAS issues, as well as in enlarging the participation and output of citizen science in the IAS early detection, monitoring and reporting in the DRB. Therefore, the constant communication with existing stakeholder groups and establishment of new citizen science groups is crucial for increasing the effectiveness of using the IASapp in the Danube Region and tackling the IAS issues.

Burial mounds are a ubiquitous feature of the Bulgarian landscape, estimated at some 20,000 today [1]. One of the largest non-destructive efforts to document the outstanding mounded landscapes in the Yambol Province in Bulgaria (3,355 sq km) has been undertaken by the Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP) as part of its mission to document the long-term history of human activity in the Middle Tundzha River [23456]. TRAP has digitized near thousand potential mound symbols from the Soviet topographic maps covering the Yambol Province and then visited and systematically described their locations between 2009-2022, producing a dataset of 1260 feature observations of which 1095 were classified as mound observations. Each record lists the geographic coordinates, placename, land use, dimensions, conservation and archaeological potential of each feature. Mound chronology was added where known on the basis of excavation reports. The data have been used for studies of location preferences, cultural heritage decline, machine-learning training data and other methodological studies [78910]. To facilitate further reuse of this data, the dataset has been aggregated, streamlined, and deposited on Zenodo.

Mobile electroencephalogram (EEG)-sensing technologies have rapidly progressed and made the access of neuroelectrical brain activity outside the laboratory in everyday life more realistic. However, most existing EEG headsets exhibit a fixed design, whereby its immobile montage in terms of electrode density and coverage inevitably poses a great challenge with applicability and generalizability to the fundamental study and application of the brain-computer interface (BCI). In this study, a cost-efficient, custom EEG-electrode holder infrastructure was designed through the assembly of primary components, including the sensor-positioning ring, inter-ring bridge, and bridge shield. It allows a user to (re)assemble a compact holder grid to accommodate a desired number of electrodes only to the regions of interest of the brain and iteratively adapt it to a given head size for optimal electrode-scalp contact and signal quality. This study empirically demonstrated its easy-to-fabricate nature by a low-end fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer and proved its practicability of capturing event-related potential (ERP) and steady-state visual-evoked potential (SSVEP) signatures over 15 subjects. This paper highlights the possibilities for a cost-efficient electrode-holder assembly infrastructure with replaceable montage, flexibly retrofitted in an unlimited fashion, for an individual for distinctive fundamental EEG studies and BCI applications.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to understand if videos of the patients' nystagmus recorded by themselves during the attacks can help in the diagnosis of Meniere's disease (MD). MATERIALS and METHODS: Sixty patients (age range 32-78 years) who had vestibular attacks and hearing complaints admitted to Cukurova University Hospital Otolaryngology Department and a private office between September 2013 and January 2017 were included in this randomized clinical trial study. Two groups with 30 patients each were formed. The first group was asked to send eye-videos recorded during the attack, while the patients in the second group were followed with conventional methods. Twenty-six patients in the first group were able to send satisfactory eye movement videos; four patients were excluded due to repeated recording faults. Twenty-seven patients in the second group could be followed; three patients were lost to follow-up. The number of attacks and time needed to diagnose both groups were compared. RESULTS: The video group could be diagnosed in a shorter period compared to the control group. The diagnosis was made within two attacks (38 days) in the video group and within four attacks (92 days) in the control group. CONCLUSION: This study shows that cell phone camera recordings of nystagmus of the patients are very helpful to diagnose MD. These recordings can also be used as an adjunct to understand the pathophysiology of the disease. KEYWORDS: Diagnosis of Meniere's disease, nystagmus, vertigo attack, pathophysiology, mobile phone camera recordings, randomized clinical trial

Introduction. Video-assisted debriefing is commonly used in healthcare simulation. The ability to conduct video-assisted debriefing during in situ simulation is limited by the capacity to quickly and easily record and playback video in the clinical environment. Methods. We developed the Synchronous Mobile Audio-visual Recording Technology Cart (SMART-Cart) to improve the ability to conduct video-assisted debriefing during in situ simulation. The SMART-Cart is composed of a compact metal cart, integrated dual wide-angled pan-tilt-zoom cameras, microphones, high-performance audio-video computer with two rear facing video monitors, and a large front-facing video screen positioned for easy video playback and review. Results. During pilot-testing involving 75 simulations with the capture of over 10 GB of audiovisual data, the SMART-Cart functioned extremely well with no technical issues. Setup and take down speeds were significantly faster using the SMART-Cart as compared to traditional in situ video debriefing methods. Use of the SMART-Cart was also resulted in a 50% reduction in the overall foot-print of the simulation recording equipment. Discussion. Based on our experience, the SMART-Cart provides a fast and reliable option to facilitate video-assisted debriefing during in situ simulation. Further investigation into the process of video-assisted debriefing using the SMART-Cart are warranted.

This chapter focuses on the coverage of the highly anticipated Grünau regatta. Widespread newspaper coverage created additional publicity for the regatta and further primed the audience for the broadcast. During the regatta, the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG)—Germany's National Broadcasting Company—sent its “flying broadcasting squad” out to the racecourse to accommodate the commentators. The supplemental vans composing the squad were “drawn together from all over the Reich” and carried shortwave relay transmitters. They guaranteed live broadcast capability for all the organizations seeking to transmit. Additional mobile recording facilities were also made available. Meanwhile, the competing teams continued their training patterns as broadcast preparations were finalized.

\"It was odd because we were a hundred miles from the shore,\" [Brian Tarquin] remembers. \"All of the electrical went down, and it was getting cold there.\" On Halloween night 2012, Tarquin turned on an old Ben Franklin stove in the living room, took his family out to eat, and then returned to a fire that had destroyed the second floor. \"Luckily, the side where the studio was wasn't touched,\" he says. \"We had to live in an RV for a month and try to figure out what was going on.\"

Jones talks with Will Shanks about his Ear to the Ground Studio, which is housed in an Airstream trailer so it can be stationary in the Santa Cruz Mountains, or a mobile facility capable of recording musicians in the city.

MTV Networks mobile recording truck, Mobile Unit 8, is profiled. The 48-foot truck has been at the audio heart of hundreds of broadcast concerts and television music shows spanning the past 10 years. In 2007, the truck received a long-overdue refurbishing. Chief engineer Greg Lankford discusses the upgrades that were made on the truck, and how the team completed the task under a strict deadline.

Engineer/producer Ben Greenberg says he enjoys working in \"proper studios,\" but he's equally fond of the way he recorded alt-rock band Heaven's Jail earlier this year: They rented a house in upstate New York, where Greenberg set up his mobile rig, and they all camped out and tracked music for a week.