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  • Open Access
41 Citations
19,473 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hydraulics and Hydroinformatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,690 Views
24 Pages

27 February 2022

This paper presents the process of designing, fabricating, assembling, programming and optimizing a prototype nonlinear mechatronic Ball-Plate System (BPS) as a laboratory platform for engineering education STEM. Due to the nonlinearity and complexit...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,163 Views
18 Pages

3 September 2024

Mining operations disrupt the structure of rock layers, leading to surface deformations and potential mining damage. This issue has been extensively studied since the 19th century using various analytical, geometric-integral, and stochastic methods....

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Rock Mechanics Problems and Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
792 Views
43 Pages

11 June 2026

The volume of academic and scientific publications grows rapidly, increasing the need for efficient mechanisms for accessing, obtaining and managing large collections of Open Access (OA) journal articles. For the purposes of an ongoing project requir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies Applied in Digital Media Era)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,184 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...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
571 Views
22 Pages

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly repair software vulnerabilities, but most evaluations judge only similarity to a developer fix or removal of the weakness. Neither reveals whether working code was broken. We evaluate eight commercial and ope...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,876 Views
22 Pages

10 June 2020

Soil texture is a vital criterion in most cropland suitability analyses, so an accurate method for the delineation of soil texture suitability zones is necessary. In this study, an automated method was developed and evaluated for the delineation of t...

(This article belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,887 Views
15 Pages

GIS-Based Tool for Pest Specific Area-Wide Planning of Crop Rotation Distance with Land Use Data

  • Manuela Schieler,
  • Natalia Riemer,
  • Paolo Racca,
  • Benno Kleinhenz,
  • Helmut Saucke,
  • Michael Veith and
  • Bernd Meese

4 April 2024

Crop rotation is an important strategy for pest reduction. For mono-, or oligophagous pests that overwinter at a previously infested site, crop rotation means that the pests must find new host crop sites in the following year, and it is more efficien...

(This article belongs to the Collection Integrated Pest Management in Agricultural Crops and Forest Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,968 Views
17 Pages

17 September 2018

The main purpose of the present research is to develop software for reconstruction of the river bed on the basis of sparse cross-section measurements. The tools prepared should support the process of hydrodynamic model preparation for simulation of r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,809 Views
11 Pages

Porosity Prediction of Plain Weft Knitted Fabrics

  • Muhammad Owais Raza Siddiqui and
  • Danmei Sun

30 December 2014

Wearing comfort of clothing is dependent on air permeability, moisture absorbency and wicking properties of fabric, which are related to the porosity of fabric. In this work, a plug-in is developed using Python script and incorporated in Abaqus/CAE f...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,235 Views
7 Pages

Graduated colour maps, created through the mathematical classification of quantitative variables, are frequently used in archaeology. A Python script for implementing a classification method based on geometric intervals in QGIS is presented here. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of ArcheoFOSS XIII Workshop—Open Software, Hardware, Processes, Data and Formats in Archaeological Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,844 Views
20 Pages

26 May 2023

A function from the domain (x-set) to the codomain (y-set) connects each x element to precisely one y element. Since each x-point originating from the domain corresponds to two y-points on the graph of a closed curve (i.e., circle, ellipse, superelli...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,838 Views
18 Pages

The primary aim of this work is to assess the accuracy of the methods for spatial interpolation applied for the reconstruction of the spatial distribution of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). The one-month version called SPI-1 is chosen for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Climate Change on Soil and Water Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,796 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of the Possibility of Making a Digital Twin for Devices Operating in Foundries

  • Artur Lehrfeld,
  • Krzysztof Jaśkowiec,
  • Dorota Wilk-Kołodziejczyk,
  • Marcin Małysza,
  • Adam Bitka,
  • Łukasz Marcjan and
  • Mirosław Głowacki

This work aims to conduct an analysis to find opportunities for the implementation of software incorporating the concept of digital twins for foundry work. Examples of implementations and their impact on the work of enterprises are presented, as is a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,121 Views
27 Pages

21 November 2024

The air void system in concrete significantly affects its mechanical, thermal, and frost durability properties. This study explored the use of ChatGPT, an AI tool, to generate Python code for analyzing air void parameters in hardened concrete, such a...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,933 Views
9 Pages

24 January 2025

The integration of automated tools in engineering education has the potential to improve student assessments, ensuring consistency and reducing instructor workload. This study introduces a Python-based automation tool designed to evaluate student Com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sports Training and Biomechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,304 Views
13 Pages

Geospatial Assessment of the Territorial Road Network by Fractal Method

  • Mikolaj Karpinski,
  • Svitlana Kuznichenko,
  • Nadiia Kazakova,
  • Oleksii Fraze-Frazenko and
  • Daniel Jancarczyk

17 November 2020

This paper proposes an approach to the geospatial assessment of a territorial road network based on the fractals theory. This approach allows us to obtain quantitative values of spatial complexity for any transport network and, in contrast to the cla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,371 Views
21 Pages

Machine Learning Driven Prediction of Residual Stresses for the Shot Peening Process Using a Finite Element Based Grey-Box Model Approach

  • Benjamin James Ralph,
  • Karin Hartl,
  • Marcel Sorger,
  • Andreas Schwarz-Gsaxner and
  • Martin Stockinger

The shot peening process is a common procedure to enhance fatigue strength on load-bearing components in the metal processing environment. The determination of optimal process parameters is often carried out by costly practical experiments. An effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,286 Views
33 Pages

A 400-level undergraduate oral presentation and discussion course in Systems Neuroscience was delivered asynchronously online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Enrolled students banked their narrated oral presentations in video format online then engaged...

(This article belongs to the Section Developmental Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,762 Views
13 Pages

An Optimal Sample Data Usage Strategy to Minimize Overfitting and Underfitting Effects in Regression Tree Models Based on Remotely-Sensed Data

  • Yingxin Gu,
  • Bruce K. Wylie,
  • Stephen P. Boyte,
  • Joshua Picotte,
  • Daniel M. Howard,
  • Kelcy Smith and
  • Kurtis J. Nelson

11 November 2016

Regression tree models have been widely used for remote sensing-based ecosystem mapping. Improper use of the sample data (model training and testing data) may cause overfitting and underfitting effects in the model. The goal of this study is to devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,633 Views
21 Pages

Monte Carlo-Based Spatial Optimization of Simulation Plots for Forest Growth Modeling

  • Milan Koreň,
  • Peter Márton,
  • Mosab Khalil Algidail Arbain,
  • Peter Valent,
  • Roman Sitko and
  • Marek Fabrika

Accurate placement and geometry of simulation plots are essential for spatially explicit modeling of forest ecosystems. This study introduces a Monte Carlo-based approach for optimizing the spatial alignment of simulation plots with their source poly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
803 Views
20 Pages

A Study on the Integrated Burning Rate Prediction Method for Wire-Embedded Propellants

  • Yanxiang Ren,
  • Fengnan Guo,
  • Pengfei Liu,
  • Zhongyu Yuan,
  • Hui Zhu and
  • Hongfeng Ji

To address the time-consuming and labor-intensive procedures associated with traditional approaches for evaluating the integrated burning rate of wire-embedded propellants in solid rocket motors (SRMs), this study proposes an efficient and reliable p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Combustion of Solid Propellants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,144 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2025

This work concentrates on an experimental project for the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) inside a Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM) workflow. In particular, this evaluation was carried out by using open source solutions as co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in HBIM and Digital Twins for Cultural Heritage—from Reality to Model and Back)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,501 Views
13 Pages

9 May 2019

A pump-driven actuator, which usually called an electro-hydrostatic actuator (EHA), is widely used in aerospace and industrial applications. It is interesting to optimize both its static and dynamic performances, such as weight, energy consumption, r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Flow Control Processes in Micro Scale)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,127 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...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
18,507 Views
26 Pages

Py4CAtS—PYthon for Computational ATmospheric Spectroscopy

  • Franz Schreier,
  • Sebastián Gimeno García,
  • Philipp Hochstaffl and
  • Steffen Städt

Radiation is a key process in the atmosphere. Numerous radiative transfer codes have been developed spanning a large range of wavelengths, complexities, speeds, and accuracies. In the infrared and microwave, line-by-line codes are crucial esp. for mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,533 Views
29 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models for Optimal EEG-Based Real-Time Servo Motor Control

  • Dimitris Angelakis,
  • Errikos C. Ventouras,
  • Spiros Kostopoulos and
  • Pantelis Asvestas

2 August 2024

This study harnesses EEG signals to enable the real-time control of servo motors, utilizing the OpenBCI Community Dataset to identify and assess brainwave patterns related to motor imagery tasks. Specifically, the dataset includes EEG data from 52 su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,881 Views
25 Pages

16 August 2021

Incisive inquiry involving indicators of ecological and environmental integrity entails exploration of spatial structure at selected scales from landscape level to regional regimes. Conventional colorization of digital displays provides perspective b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Geospatial Approaches for Landscape Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,192 Views
48 Pages

18 November 2025

Accurate prediction of building energy performance is critical for achieving sustainability goals and reducing operational costs. This study presents a novel and automated simulation framework that integrates EnergyPlus 25.1 with modular JSON configu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Innovative Approaches for Carbon Reduction in the Built Environment: Advancing Energy Efficiency and Sustainability with AI and Beyond)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,937 Views
11 Pages

31 March 2023

MD simulations have been widely applied and become a powerful tool in the field of biomacromolecule simulations and computer-aided drug design, etc., which can estimate binding free energy between receptor and ligand. However, the inputs and force fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Aided Drug Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,489 Views
11 Pages

Application for GPON Frame Analysis

  • Martin Holik,
  • Tomas Horvath and
  • Vaclav Oujezsky

This article presents a design of a database model used to gather and analyze data frames transmitted over gigabit passive optical network (GPON) in the downstream direction. An issue with this kind of system is the difficulty in analyzing a transmis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Communications and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,489 Views
13 Pages

Climate change represents one of the main challenges of this century. The hazards generated by this process are various and involve territorial assets all over the globe. Hydrogeological risk represents one of these aspects, and the violence of rain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
897 Views
36 Pages

Soil pollution constitutes a critical global environmental challenge driven by industrialization, intensive agriculture, urban expansion, mining, and the application of synthetic agrochemicals. This article presents seven annotated Python-based Machi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,031 Views
17 Pages

18 March 2025

It is not widely recognized today that astronomical methods for azimuth determination continue to rank among the most accurate techniques for establishing orientation. However, their importance has diminished with the rise of GNSS techniques, which d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Approaches in 3D Sensing and Imaging Technologies for Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,661 Views
21 Pages

ERA5 and ERA-Interim Data Processing for the GlobWat Global Hydrological Model

  • Banafsheh Abdollahi,
  • Fakhereh Alidoost,
  • Davood Moshir Panahi,
  • Rolf Hut and
  • Nick van de Giesen

18 June 2022

The reproducibility of computational hydrology is gaining attention among hydrologists. Reproducibility requires open and reusable code and data, allowing users to verify results and process new datasets. The creation of input files for global hydrol...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,113 Views
10 Pages

A Computational Approach to Evaluating Empirical Antibiotic Coverage for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Febrile Neutropenia

  • Francesca Cappozzo,
  • Marcello Mariani,
  • Emanuela Caci,
  • Roberto Bandettini,
  • Alessio Mesini,
  • Erica Ricci,
  • Carolina Saffioti,
  • Carlo Dufour,
  • Maura Faraci and
  • Elio Castagnola
  • + 4 authors

10 February 2026

Background: Empirical antibacterial therapy for febrile neutropenia requires adaptation to local epidemiology, a process that is often complex, time-consuming, and prone to human error. This study aims to address this challenge by developing a practi...

(This article belongs to the Section Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,573 Views
7 Pages

4 July 2023

We propose an approach for modeling the pattern of the genetic diversity of microsatellite markers in a population with a mixed breeding strategy. Part of the population is reproduced sexually, and part is produced asexually. The method of the propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Computational Methods in Systems Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,161 Views
36 Pages

23 January 2025

Building information modeling (BIM) has proven to be a valuable technology in the fields of architecture, construction management, and maintenance management. However, its full implementation in structural engineering remains unfulfilled due to the p...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,672 Views
20 Pages

Intelligent Assistant with Artificial Intelligence for Language Learning

  • Diego De-La-Cruz-Salcedo,
  • Edgar Peña-Casas,
  • Monica Salcedo-Hernandez,
  • Myriam Guichard-Huasasquiche and
  • Jose Salcedo-Hernandez

22 March 2026

An intelligent assistant with artificial intelligence (AI) for language learning was developed. A dynamic user interface and a supervised feedback module using web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript ES6+) and Python v3.9 for supporting languag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
152 Views
15 Pages

1 October 2026

In recent years, the Carousel Greedy (CG) algorithm has gained increasing attention as a simple yet effective heuristic for a broad class of combinatorial optimization problems, with applications ranging from graph theory to logistics and network ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,794 Views
16 Pages

12 March 2021

The Metabolomics Workbench (MW) is a public scientific data repository consisting of experimental data and metadata from metabolomics studies collected with mass spectroscopy (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analyses. MW has been constantly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science in Metabolomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,696 Views
15 Pages

PyPore3D: An Open Source Software Tool for Imaging Data Processing and Analysis of Porous and Multiphase Media

  • Amal Aboulhassan,
  • Francesco Brun,
  • George Kourousias,
  • Gabriele Lanzafame,
  • Marco Voltolini,
  • Adriano Contillo and
  • Lucia Mancini

In this work, we propose the software library PyPore3D, an open source solution for data processing of large 3D/4D tomographic data sets. PyPore3D is based on the Pore3D core library, developed thanks to the collaboration between Elettra Sincrotrone...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Present and the Future of Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,738 Views
10 Pages

1 October 2024

It is well known that simulation tools are essential for the design and optimization of wireless communication systems. This paper proposes a Python script that can be used for planning and predicting a connection link budget by analyzing its basic p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,434 Views
12 Pages

A Highly Reliable Convolutional Neural Network Based Soft Tissue Sarcoma Metastasis Detection from Chest X-ray Images: A Retrospective Cohort Study

  • Christoph Wallner,
  • Mansoor Alam,
  • Marius Drysch,
  • Johannes Maximilian Wagner,
  • Alexander Sogorski,
  • Mehran Dadras,
  • Maxi von Glinski,
  • Felix Reinkemeier,
  • Mustafa Becerikli and
  • Björn Behr
  • + 3 authors

1 October 2021

Introduction: soft tissue sarcomas are a subset of malignant tumors that are relatively rare and make up 1% of all malignant tumors in adulthood. Due to the rarity of these tumors, there are significant differences in quality in the diagnosis and tre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft and Hard Tissue Sarcoma—Current and Future Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,549 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2024

Aluminum alloy 6082-T6 is an important material for manufacturing the outer skin of high-speed trains, and laser shock forming can realize the rapid forming of complex-shaped plates. In order to improve the efficiency of the simulation modeling of la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Laser Fabrication Technologies for Cross-Field Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
14,629 Views
33 Pages

24 November 2022

In this paper, we propose an advanced scripting approach using Python and R for satellite image processing and modelling terrain in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. Data include Landsat 9 OLI/TIRS C2 L1 and the SRTM digital elevation model (DE...

(This article belongs to the Section Color, Multi-spectral, and Hyperspectral Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,821 Views
12 Pages

Network Reconstruction and Modelling Made Reproducible with moped

  • Nima P. Saadat,
  • Marvin van Aalst and
  • Oliver Ebenhöh

22 March 2022

Mathematical modeling of metabolic networks is a powerful approach to investigate the underlying principles of metabolism and growth. Such approaches include, among others, differential-equation-based modeling of metabolic systems, constraint-based m...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioinformatics and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,295 Views
18 Pages

Polypy: A Framework to Interpret Polymer Properties from Mass Spectrometry Data

  • Vitor Vlnieska,
  • Ankita Khanda,
  • Evgeniia Gilshtein,
  • Jorge Luis Beltrán,
  • Jakob Heier and
  • Danays Kunka

22 June 2024

Mass spectroscopy (MS) is a robust technique for polymer characterization, and it can provide the chemical fingerprint of a complete sample regarding polymer distribution chains. Nevertheless, polymer chemical properties such as polydispersity (Pd),...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Analysis and Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,590 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2019

An increase of tightly integrated, renewable energy sources with highly varying production leads to a greater need for flexible hydropower plants to “balance” the intermittent production from these sources. From a systems perspective, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,798 Views
18 Pages

A Large Language Model-Based Approach for Data Lineage Parsing

  • Zhangti Li,
  • Wenbin Guo,
  • Yabing Gao,
  • Di Yang and
  • Lin Kang

The core driver of enterprise operations is data, making data lineage crucial for data management. It not only tracks data flow but also links data sources, workflows, applications, and decision-making, improving efficiency and governance. However, c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence)

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