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  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
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Python in Chemistry: Physicochemical Tools

  • Fedor V. Ryzhkov,
  • Yuliya E. Ryzhkova and
  • Michail N. Elinson

30 September 2023

The popularity of the Python programming language in chemistry is growing every year. Python provides versatility, simplicity, and a rich ecosystem of libraries, making it the preferred choice for solving chemical problems. It is widely used for kine...

  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,274 Views
17 Pages

Programming Real-Time Sound in Python

  • Yuri De Pra and
  • Federico Fontana

19 June 2020

For its versatility, Python has become one of the most popular programming languages. In spite of its possibility to straightforwardly link native code with powerful libraries for scientific computing, the use of Python for real-time sound applicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,590 Views
21 Pages

Hyperspectral Python: HypPy

  • Wim Bakker,
  • Frank van Ruitenbeek,
  • Harald van der Werff,
  • Christoph Hecker,
  • Arjan Dijkstra and
  • Freek van der Meer

1 August 2024

This paper describes the design, implementation, and usage of a Python package called Hyperspectral Python (HypPy). Proprietary software for processing hyperspectral images is expensive, and tools developed using these packages cannot be freely distr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,893 Views
19 Pages

Divergent Serpentoviruses in Free-Ranging Invasive Pythons and Native Colubrids in Southern Florida, United States

  • Steven B. Tillis,
  • Jillian M. Josimovich,
  • Melissa A. Miller,
  • Laura L. Hoon-Hanks,
  • Arik M. Hartmann,
  • Natalie M. Claunch,
  • Marley E. Iredale,
  • Tracey D. Logan,
  • Amy A. Yackel Adams and
  • Robert J. Ossiboff
  • + 7 authors

6 December 2022

Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is an invasive snake that has significantly affected ecosystems in southern Florida, United States. Aside from direct predation and competition, invasive species can also introduce nonnative pathogens that can adver...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,304 Views
6 Pages

Oral Abscess Caused by Chryseobacterium indologenes in Ball Python (Python regius); A Case Report

  • Iradj Ashrafi Tamai,
  • Babak Pakbin,
  • Zahra Ziafati Kafi and
  • Wolfram Manuel Brück

Chryseobacterium indologenes is an opportunistic pathogen isolated from human infections and, rarely, from some aquatic animals. A 3-year-old male ball python (Python regius) was admitted to the veterinary clinic by a pet owner because of acute respi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
435 Views
29 Pages

24 November 2025

We present PyRMLE (Python regularized maximum likelihood estimation), a Python module that implements regularized maximum likelihood estimation for the analysis of Random coefficient models. PyRMLE is simple to use and readily works with data formats...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,768 Views
14 Pages

With the current trend of rapidly growing popularity of the Python programming language for machine learning applications, the gap between machine learning engineer needs and existing Python tools increases. Especially, it is noticeable for more clas...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,197 Views
10 Pages

This paper explores the potential of the Ozobot EVO mobile robot as an educational tool for teaching Python programming. While the robot is currently designed for younger students through color and block programming, it is not yet widely utilized for...

  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,202 Views
9 Pages

24 November 2021

This is the world’s first tutorial article on Python Packaging for beginners and practitioners for translational medicine or medicine in general. This tutorial will allow researchers to demonstrate and showcase their tools on PyPI packages arou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,486 Views
18 Pages

26 August 2023

Ferlaviruses are a cause of respiratory disease in snakes. Four genogroups (A, B, C, and tortoise) have been described. Disease development is believed to depend on virus, host, and environment-specific factors. There is evidence of transmission of i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,117 Views
12 Pages

Assessing Potential Reservoir of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in the Oral Microbiota of Captive Burmese and Royal Pythons

  • Inês Marques,
  • Ana R. Pinto,
  • José J. Martins,
  • Nuno Alvura,
  • Paula Telinhos,
  • Pedro Mendes,
  • Mónica Correia,
  • João F. Requicha and
  • Maria J. Saavedra

12 March 2025

The oral microbiota has a diversity of microorganisms that together maintain the homeostasis of the oral cavity. Disruptions in the balance of these microbial populations can lead to the development of oral and dental diseases. To characterize the no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,629 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2023

The interest in educational apps is continuously increasing due to their potential to improve the learning environment of students through the personalisation and interaction of the technology. This paper provides an overview of educational mobile ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,492 Views
19 Pages

1 December 2023

Background: Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is critical in Supply Chain Management (SCM), facilitating effective inventory management and meeting production demands in the manufacturing sector. Despite the potential benefits of automating the MR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,430 Views
10 Pages

10 September 2022

One of the most important applications of sensors is feedback control, in which an algorithm is applied to data that are collected from sensors in order to drive system actuators and achieve the desired outputs of the target plant. One of the most ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,029 Views
22 Pages

GRAPE: Grammatical Algorithms in Python for Evolution

  • Allan de Lima,
  • Samuel Carvalho,
  • Douglas Mota Dias,
  • Enrique Naredo,
  • Joseph P. Sullivan and
  • Conor Ryan

15 September 2022

GRAPE is an implementation of Grammatical Evolution (GE) in DEAP, an Evolutionary Computation framework in Python, which consists of the necessary classes and functions to evolve a population of grammar-based solutions, while reporting essential meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,076 Views
14 Pages

Feasibility Study for a Python-Based Embedded Real-Time Control System

  • Se Yeon Cho,
  • Raimarius Delgado and
  • Byoung Wook Choi

Because of its simplicity and the support of numerous useful libraries, Python has become one of the most popular programming languages for application development, even in embedded systems. However, in existing control systems where specific tasks m...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
5,051 Views
6 Pages

A Case of Submandibular Leiomyosarcoma, Mimicking an Abscess, in a Ball Python (Python regius)

  • Jun Kwon,
  • Sang Wha Kim,
  • Sang Guen Kim,
  • Hyoun Joong Kim,
  • Sung Bin Lee,
  • Jeong Woo Kang,
  • Won Joon Jung,
  • Sib Sankar Giri,
  • Kyunglee Lee and
  • Se Chang Park

11 October 2021

A two-year-old ball python with a submandibular mass was evaluated. Fine needle aspiration resulted in debris containing purulent materials and bacterial cells on cytology. Radiography demonstrated multi-focal radiopaque lesions in the mass, which we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,863 Views
13 Pages

DiGriPy is a newly developed Python tool for the simulation of district heating networks published as open-source software in GitHub and offered as a Python package on PyPI. It enables the user to easily build a network model, run large-scale demand...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,700 Views
5 Pages

Preprocessing and Analyzing Raman Spectra Using Python

  • Eleftherios Pavlou and
  • Nikolaos Kourkoumelis

26 October 2023

The inherent complexity of the Raman spectra of biomedical samples reflects the intricate molecular composition and intermolecular interactions of these diverse systems. Unraveling the complexities of biological Raman spectra is essential for bioscie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
16,174 Views
17 Pages

Dropping the Ball? The Welfare of Ball Pythons Traded in the EU and North America

  • Neil D’Cruze,
  • Suzi Paterson,
  • Jennah Green,
  • David Megson,
  • Clifford Warwick,
  • Emma Coulthard,
  • John Norrey,
  • Mark Auliya and
  • Gemma Carder

2 March 2020

Ball pythons (family Pythonidae) remain a commonly exploited species, readily available for purchase in North America and Europe. We assessed the housing conditions of more than 5000 Ball pythons across six exotic pet expositions and 113 YouTube vide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,877 Views
20 Pages

Analyzing and Modeling the Municipal Sewage Sludge Drying Process Using Python

  • Erik Mihelič,
  • Dušan Klinar,
  • Klavdija Rižnar and
  • Primož Oprčkal

21 November 2023

The programming language Python offers the opportunity to analyze and model the municipal sewage sludge (MSS) drying process in an illustrative chemical engineering practice. The drying process is performed on a flat plate while maintaining a uniform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,543 Views
13 Pages

20 May 2022

This paper presents a Python-based simulation technique that can be used to predict the behavior of switch-mode non-isolated (SMNI) DC-DC converters operating in closed loop. The proposed technique can be implemented in an open-source numerical compu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
17,877 Views
25 Pages

2 October 2018

The purpose of the paper was to present selected techniques for the control of river flow and sediment transport computations with the programming language Python. The base software for modeling of river processes was the well-known and widely used H...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
76 Citations
9,456 Views
12 Pages

Scikit-Dimension: A Python Package for Intrinsic Dimension Estimation

  • Jonathan Bac,
  • Evgeny M. Mirkes,
  • Alexander N. Gorban,
  • Ivan Tyukin and
  • Andrei Zinovyev

19 October 2021

Dealing with uncertainty in applications of machine learning to real-life data critically depends on the knowledge of intrinsic dimensionality (ID). A number of methods have been suggested for the purpose of estimating ID, but no standard package to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,781 Views
15 Pages

26 April 2025

Physical insight into a material can be first gained by its color, as the reflectance spectrum of an object reflects its microstructure and complex refractive indices. Here, we present a comprehensive overview of electrodynamics and optics related to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,244 Views
13 Pages

Cytogenetic Analysis of the Members of the Snake Genera Cylindrophis, Eryx, Python, and Tropidophis

  • Tomáš Charvát,
  • Barbora Augstenová,
  • Daniel Frynta,
  • Lukáš Kratochvíl and
  • Michail Rovatsos

1 July 2022

The recent discovery of two independently evolved XX/XY sex determination systems in the snake genera Python and Boa sparked a new drive to study the evolution of sex chromosomes in poorly studied lineages of snakes, where female heterogamety was pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,317 Views
15 Pages

CPDDA: A Python Package for Discrete Dipole Approximation Accelerated by CuPy

  • Dibo Xu,
  • Paerhatijiang Tuersun,
  • Shuyuan Li,
  • Meng Wang and
  • Lan Jiang

26 March 2025

Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) is a rapidly developing numerical method in recent years. DDA has found wide application in many research fields including plasmonics and atmospheric optics. Currently, few DDA packages based on Python have been re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,686 Views
21 Pages

A Proposal for a New Python Library Implementing Stepwise Procedure

  • Luiz Paulo Fávero,
  • Helder Prado Santos,
  • Patrícia Belfiore,
  • Alexandre Duarte,
  • Igor Pinheiro de Araújo Costa,
  • Adilson Vilarinho Terra,
  • Miguel Ângelo Lellis Moreira,
  • Wilson Tarantin Junior and
  • Marcos dos Santos

4 November 2024

Carefully selecting variables in problems with large volumes of data are extremely important, as it reduces the complexity of the model, improves the interpretation of the results, and increases computational efficiency, ensuring more accurate and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,175 Views
12 Pages

PyTheis—A Python Tool for Analyzing Pump Test Data

  • Sun Woo Chang,
  • Sama S. Memari and
  • T. Prabhakar Clement

9 August 2021

The Theis equation is an important mathematical model used for analyzing drawdown data obtained from pumping tests to estimate aquifer parameters. Since the Theis model is a nonlinear equation, a complex graphical procedure is employed for fitting th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,688 Views
21 Pages

Models@Runtime: The Development and Re-Configuration Management of Python Applications Using Formal Methods

  • Mohammed Mounir Bouhamed,
  • Gregorio Díaz,
  • Allaoua Chaoui,
  • Oussama Kamel and
  • Radouane  Nouara

19 October 2021

Models@runtime (models at runtime) are based on computation reflection. Runtime models can be regarded as a reflexive layer causally connected with the underlying system. Hence, every change in the runtime model involves a change in the reflected sys...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,455 Views
18 Pages

1 May 2025

The Python package swmm_api addresses a critical gap in urban drainage modeling by providing a flexible, script-based tool for managing SWMM models. Recognizing the limitations of existing solutions, this study developed a Python-based approach that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,092 Views
18 Pages

Mill Feed Control System and Algorithm Based on Python

  • Wenkang Zhang,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Yu Du,
  • Ruitao Liu,
  • Daqian Wang,
  • Longzhou Yu and
  • Shuming Wen

24 June 2022

Grinding is an important link in the process of mineral processing. It plays a vital role in mineral processing by optimizing the grinding process, improving the quality of grinding products and ensuring the follow-up operation indicators. In this pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,034 Views
23 Pages

Orinoco: Retrieving a River Delta Network with the Fast Marching Method and Python

  • Charlie Marshak,
  • Marc Simard,
  • Michael Denbina,
  • Johan Nilsson and
  • Tom Van der Stocken

We present Orinoco, an open-source Python toolkit that applies the fast-marching method to derive a river delta channel network from a water mask and ocean delineation. We are able to estimate flow direction, along-channel distance, channel width, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,591 Views
19 Pages

Background: Respiratory diseases are among the main causes of morbidity and mortality in captive reptiles. In Romania, pneumonia is a frequently observed illness affecting pet reptiles. Key factors contributing to the high incidence of pneumonia incl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,213 Views
42 Pages

UPAFuzzySystems: A Python Library for Control and Simulation with Fuzzy Inference Systems

  • Martín Montes Rivera,
  • Ernesto Olvera-Gonzalez and
  • Nivia Escalante-Garcia

The main goal of control theory is input tracking or system stabilization. Different feedback-computed controlled systems exist in this area, from deterministic to soft methods. Some examples of deterministic methods are Proportional (P), Proportiona...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
15,028 Views
14 Pages

Blind Trading: A Literature Review of Research Addressing the Welfare of Ball Pythons in the Exotic Pet Trade

  • Jennah Green,
  • Emma Coulthard,
  • David Megson,
  • John Norrey,
  • Laura Norrey,
  • Jennifer K. Rowntree,
  • Jodie Bates,
  • Becky Dharmpaul,
  • Mark Auliya and
  • Neil D’Cruze

22 January 2020

Extensive numbers of Ball pythons are caught, bred, traded and subsequently kept in captivity across the world as part of the exotic pet industry. Despite their widespread availability as pets, relatively little is known about the potential welfare c...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
3,014 Views
10 Pages

Methodology for the Surveillance the Voltage Supply in Public Buildings Using the ITIC Curve and Python Programming

  • Javier Fernández-Morales,
  • Juan-José González-de-la-Rosa,
  • José-María Sierra-Fernández,
  • Olivia Florencias-Oliveros,
  • Paula Remigio-Carmona,
  • Manuel-Jesús Espinosa-Gavira,
  • Agustín Agüera-Pérez and
  • José-Carlos Palomares-Salas

17 November 2022

This paper proposes an easy-to-implement method for detecting and assessing two of the most frequent PQ (Power Quality) problems: voltage sags and swells. These can affect sensitive equipment such as computers, programmable logic controllers, contact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,795 Views
23 Pages

A Fundamental Statistics Self-Learning Method with Python Programming for Data Science Implementations

  • Prismahardi Aji Riyantoko,
  • Nobuo Funabiki,
  • Komang Candra Brata,
  • Mustika Mentari,
  • Aviolla Terza Damaliana and
  • Dwi Arman Prasetya

15 July 2025

The increasing demand for data-driven decision making to maintain the innovations and competitiveness of organizations highlights the need for data science educations across academia and industry. At its core is a solid understanding of statistics, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,794 Views
13 Pages

26 December 2024

Species richness is a crucial factor in maintaining ecological balance and promoting ecosystem services. However, simulating population dynamics is a complex task that requires a comprehensive understanding of ecological systems. The current tools fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,063 Views
10 Pages

Fsmpy: A Fuzzy Set Measures Python Library

  • George K. Sidiropoulos,
  • Kyriakos D. Apostolidis,
  • Nikolaos Damianos and
  • George A. Papakostas

27 January 2022

This paper presents the fsmpy Python library for the implementation of any type of measures and comparisons of different types of fuzzy sets, as well as other important and useful utilities and algorithms. In this paper, we analyze the motivation beh...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,404 Views
8 Pages

Testing for long-run relationships between time series variables with short-run adjustments is an integral part of many empirical studies nowadays. Allowing for structural breaks in the estimations is a pertinent issue within this context. The purpos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,382 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2023

Reinforcement learning (RL) applications require a huge effort to become established in real-world environments, due to the injury and break down risks during interactions between the RL agent and the environment, in the online training process. In a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,538 Views
17 Pages

PyAMARES, an Open-Source Python Library for Fitting Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data

  • Jia Xu,
  • Michael Vaeggemose,
  • Rolf F. Schulte,
  • Baolian Yang,
  • Chu-Yu Lee,
  • Christoffer Laustsen and
  • Vincent A. Magnotta

27 November 2024

Background/Objectives: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a valuable tool for studying metabolic processes in vivo. While numerous quantification methods exist, the advanced method for accurate, robust, and efficient spectral fitting (AMARES) i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,809 Views
31 Pages

Development of a Sustainable Universal Python Code for Accurate 2D Heat Transfer Conduction Simulations in Educational Environment

  • Chiang Liang Kok,
  • Chee Kit Ho,
  • Abbas Syihan Bin Muhammad Taufik,
  • Yit Yan Koh and
  • Tee Hui Teo

15 August 2024

Simulation software like ANSYS, COMSOL, and SimScale excel at modeling heat transfer phenomena, but their extensive functionalities necessitate a deep understanding, making them less suitable and too expensive for use in educational settings below th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,823 Views
27 Pages

3 July 2025

Code smells, which represent poor design choices or suboptimal code implementations, reduce software quality and hinder the code maintenance process. Detecting code smells is, therefore, essential during software development. This study introduces a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,446 Views
15 Pages

This article provides an overview of count data and count models, explores zero inflation, introduces likelihood ratio tests, and explains how the Vuong test can be used as a model selection criterion for assessing overdispersion. The motivation of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,082 Views
11 Pages

17 December 2023

A major challenge to integrating public metabolic resources is the use of different nomenclatures by individual databases. This paper presents md_harmonize, an open-source Python package for harmonizing compounds and metabolic reactions across variou...

  • Review
  • Open Access
485 Citations
104,780 Views
44 Pages

4 April 2020

Smarter applications are making better use of the insights gleaned from data, having an impact on every industry and research discipline. At the core of this revolution lies the tools and the methods that are driving it, from processing the massive p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
37,390 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2022

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications requires high computational efficiency, low-cost, and low-power solutions for various IoT devices. These include a wide range of microcontrollers that are used to collect, process,...

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