Beyond Humanoid Prosthetic Hands: Modular Terminal Devices That Improve User Performance by Digby Chappell, Barry Mulvey, Shehara Perera, Fernando Bello, Petar Kormushev, Nicolas Rojas

“…In this paper, we develop and evaluate four open-source modular non-humanoid devices to perform the motion required to replicate human flicking motion and to twist a screwdriver, and the functionality required to pick and place flat objects and to cut paper. …”
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The Right to the Night City: Exploring the Temporal Variability of the 15-min City in Milan and Its Implications for Nocturnal Communities by Lamia Abdelfattah, Abubakr Albashir, Giulia Ceccarelli, Andrea Gorrini, Federico Messa, Dante Presicce

“…The spatiotemporal analysis was performed using a customized version of the 15-min City Score Toolkit, an open-source, Python-based proprietary tool developed to automate the 15 min access metric estimation. …”
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Standardized Functions for Smartphone Applications: Examples from Maternal and Child Health by Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Mark Tomlinson, Dallas Swendeman, Adabel Lee, Erynne Jones

“…We utilize the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) MDG in order to demonstrate how the existing literature can be organized and leveraged on open-source platforms and provide examples using our own experience in Africa over the last 8 years.…”
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QPPLab: A generally applicable software package for detecting, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale quasiperiodic spatiotemporal patterns (QPPs) of brain activity by Nan Xu, Behnaz Yousefi, Nmachi Anumba, Theodore J. LaGrow, Xiaodi Zhang, Shella Keilholz

“…To address these challenges, we present QPPLab, an open-source MATLAB-based toolbox for detecting, analyzing, and visualizing QPPs from fMRI time series. …”
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VulMPFF: A Vulnerability Detection Method for Fusing Code Features in Multiple Perspectives by Xiansheng Cao, Junfeng Wang, Peng Wu, Zhiyang Fang

“…Meanwhile, experiments in the open-source project demonstrate that VulMPFF has the potential to detect vulnerabilities in real-world environments.…”
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Using DIMet for Differential Analysis of Labeled Metabolomics Data: A Step-by-step Guide Showcasing the Glioblastoma Metabolism by Johanna Galvis, Joris Guyon, Thomas Daubon, Macha Nikolski

“…Accessible to all researchers through Galaxy, DIMet is free, user-friendly, and open source, making it a valuable resource for advancing metabolic research.…”
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A numerical framework for computing steady states of structured population models and their stability by Inom Mirzaev, David M. Bortz

“…We also demonstrate that our numerical framework can be used to gain insight about the theoretical stability of the stationary solutions of the evolution equations. Furthermore, the open source Python program that we have developed for our numerical simulations is freely available from our GitHub repository (github.com/MathBioCU).…”
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CyberUnits Bricks: An Implementation Study of a Class Library for Simulating Nonlinear Biological Feedback Loops by Johannes W. Dietrich, Nina Siegmar, Jonas R. Hojjati, Oliver Gardt, Bernhard O. Boehm

“…CyberUnits Bricks is available as open-source software that has been optimised for Embarcadero Delphi and the Lazarus IDE for Free Pascal.…”
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Modeling Highly Buoyant Flows in the Castel Giorgio: Torre Alfina Deep Geothermal Reservoir by Giorgio Volpi, Fabien Magri, Francesca Colucci, Thomas Fisher, Mattia De Caro, Giovanni B. Crosta

“…We present the 3D numerical model of the CG-TA to simulate the undisturbed natural geothermal field and investigate the impacts of the exploitation process. The open source finite-element code OpenGeoSys is applied to solve the coupled systems of partial differential equations. …”
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An ecological connectivity dataset for Black Sea obtained from sea currentsZenodo by Nikolaos Nagkoulis, Christos Adam, Ioannis Mamoutos, Stelios Katsanevakis, Antonios D. Mazaris

“…This approach involved converting current centroids into points and projecting current directions and magnitudes onto a nearest-neighbour graph connecting these points. Using open-source data from the Copernicus Black Sea Physics Reanalysis dataset from 1993 to 2023, a high-resolution dataset of graph objects (edge lists) and shapefiles (points and edges) for the Black Sea has been created. …”
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EM Database v1.0: A benchmark informatics platform for data-driven discovery of energetic materials by Xin Huang, Wen Qian, Jian Liu, Jun-hong Zhou, Chao-yang Zhang

“…Large-scale data demonstrates great significance for the discovery of novel energetic materials (EMs). However, the open-source databases of EMs are not readily available. …”
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Leveraging Cognitive Machine Reasoning and NLP for Automated Intent-Based Networking and e2e Service Orchestration by Muhammad Asif, Talha Ahmed Khan, Wang-Cheol Song

“…RASA is a flexible open-source framework for building conversational AI, adapted for end-to-end (e2e) network orchestration. …”
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Construction and Application of Enterprise Internal Audit Data Analysis Model Based on Decision Tree Algorithm by Yuna Si

“…Adding the C4.5 and CART algorithms implemented in the Weka open source data mining software, through experimental analysis, the differences in the classification accuracy and the number of rules generated by the four decision tree algorithms are compared. …”
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Contact tracing indicators for COVID-19: Rapid scoping review and conceptual framework. by Florian Vogt, Karishma Krishna Kurup, Paul Mussleman, Caroline Habrun, Madeleine Crowe, Alexandra Woodward, Giovanna Jaramillo-Gutierrez, John Kaldor, Sirenda Vong, Victor Del Rio Vilas

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a rapid scoping review using a systematic literature search strategy in the peer-reviewed and grey literature as well as open source online documents. We developed a conceptual framework to map indicators by type (input, process, output, outcome, impact) and thematic area (human resources, financial resources, case investigation, contact identification, contact testing, contact follow up, case isolation, contact quarantine, transmission chain interruption, incidence reduction).…”
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<i>DynPy</i>—Python Library for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering: An Assessment with Coupled Electro-Mechanical Direct Current Motor Model by Damian Sierociński, Bogumił Chiliński, Franciszek Gawiński, Amadeusz Radomski, Piotr Przybyłowicz

“…<i>DynPy</i> is an open-source library implemented in <i>Python</i> (version 3.10.12) programming language which aims to provide a versatile set of functionalities for mechanical and electrical engineers. …”
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An MRI Deep Brain Adult Template With An Advanced Atlas-Based Tool For Diffusion Tensor Imaging Analysis by Jean-Jacques Lemaire, Rémi Chaix, Aigerim Dautkulova, Anna Sontheimer, Jérôme Coste, Ana-Raquel Marques, Adrien Wohrer, Carine Chassain, Omar Ouachikh, Omar Ait-Aider, Denys Fontaine

“…This new tool comprises a young-male-adult MRI template spatially normalized to the ICBM152, containing T1, inversion-recovery, and diffusion MRI datasets (in vivo acquisition), and an MRI atlas of 118 labelled deep brain structures. It is open-source and gives users high resolution image datasets to describe nuclear-based and axonal architecture, combining pioneering and recent knowledge. …”
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Interacting Large Language Model Agents Bayesian Social Learning Based Interpretable Models by Adit Jain, Vikram Krishnamurthy

“…Throughout the paper, we numerically demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods on real datasets for hate speech classification and product quality assessment, using open-source models like LLaMA and Mistral and closed-source models like ChatGPT. …”
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Performance Evaluation and Optimization of 3D Gaussian Splatting in Indoor Scene Generation and Rendering by Xinjian Fang, Yingdan Zhang, Hao Tan, Chao Liu, Xu Yang

“…Firstly, utilizing a self-collected dataset, a comprehensive comparison was conducted among COLLI-SION-MAPping (abbreviated as COLMAP (V3.7), an open-source software based on Structure from Motion and Multi-View Stereo (SFM-MVS)), Context Capture (V10.2) (abbreviated as CC, a software utilizing oblique photography algorithms), Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), and the currently renowned 3DGS algorithm. …”
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Flow-induced Flutter Derivatives of Bridge Decks by B. Su, Y. Liu, M. Chambalile, G. Wang, M. M. Alam, E. Barati

“…It employs forced vibration simulations using the Open-source code OpenFOAM for flutter derivative identifications. …”
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The research into the propagation law of the shock wave of a gas explosion inside a building by Shu-Chao Lin, You-Chun Xu, Pei-Dong Yang, Shan Gao, Yi-Jun Zhou, Jin Xu

“…Based on the dissipation rate conservation equations of turbulent kinetic energy in the k-ε turbulence model, a complicated three-dimensional finite element model of a kitchen filled with gas mixture is developed by using the open source field operation and manipulation (OpenFOAM). …”
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