COVID-19 Fatality: Statistical Evidence to Engender the Need for Focal Shift from Air Pollutants to Multi-dimensional Intervention by Satya S. Patra, Subhasmita Panda, Trupti Das, Boopathy Ramasamy

“…Therefore, the current study aims to explore the statistical soundness of association of COVID-19 fatality with PM2.5, NO2, and O3 concentration levels across 463 air quality monitoring stations located in 35 selected cities from USA, India and European Regions (France, Germany and Italy). An aggregated open-source air quality data source was used to download the PM2.5, NO2, and O3 concentration for > 900 days in the selected cities. …”
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Seq2scFv: a toolkit for the comprehensive analysis of display libraries from long-read sequencing platforms by Marianne Bachmann Salvy, Luca Santuari, Emanuel Schmid-Siegert, Nikolaos Lykoskoufis, Ioannis Xenarios, Bulak Arpat

“…To address this methodological gap, we introduce Seq2scFv, a novel open-source toolkit designed for analyzing in vitro display libraries from long-read sequencing platforms. …”
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Application of a spatial dataset for monitoring invasive woody plant species in the forests of Transcarpathia, Ukraine by Andriy Mihaly, Vasyl Roman

“…The dataset was developed based on forest inventory data using the open source QGIS program, which performed digitisation of forest plantation plans of permanent forest users and overlay analysis. …”
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INSPIRE Datahub: A Pan-African Integrated Suite of Services For Harmonising Longitudinal Population Health Data Using OHDSI Tools. by Bhattacharjee, Tathagata, Kiwuwa-Muyingo, Sylvia, Kanjala, Chifundo, Maoyi, Molulaqhooa L., Amadi, David, Ochola, Michael, Kadengye, Damazo, Gregory, Arofan, Kiragga, Agnes, Amelia, Taylor, Greenfield, Jay, Slaymaker, Emma, Todd, Jim, INSPIRE Network8

“…Methods: The INSPIRE datahub, part of the Implementation Network for Sharing Population Information from Research Entities (INSPIRE), employs the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) open-source stack of tools and the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) to harmonize data from African longitudinal population studies. …”
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Shear Wave Velocity Prediction with Hyperparameter Optimization by Gebrail Bekdaş, Yaren Aydın, Umit Işıkdağ, Sinan Melih Nigdeli, Dara Hajebi, Tae-Hyung Kim, Zong Woo Geem

“…The dataset used in this study is an open-source dataset, and the soil data are from the Taipei Basin. …”
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Detectability of Emission from Exoplanet Outflows Calculated by pyTPCI, a New 1D Radiation-hydrodynamic Code by Riley Rosener, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean

“…We introduce pyTPCI, a new, open-source self-consistent 1D radiative-hydrodynamics code that is an improved version of The PLUTO-CLOUDY Interface. …”
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Practical analysis of using PPPH and raPPPid for Precise Point Positioning in Europe by Saber Mohamed, El-Mewafi Mahmoud, Awad Ahmed

“…Assessing the reliability of using open-source software packages for post-processing of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is essential since GNSS modernization has the potential to assist satellite navigation users. …”
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Credit Cycles: Econometric Analysis and Evidence for Russia by N. V. Artamonov, D. V. Artamonov, V. A. Artamonov

“…All estimations are made in gretl, an open-source multiplatform econometric software.…”
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NIRS-BIDS: Brain Imaging Data Structure Extended to Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Robert Luke, Robert Oostenveld, Helena Cockx, Guiomar Niso, Maureen J Shader, Felipe Orihuela-Espina, Hamish Innes-Brown, Stephen Tucker, David Boas, Meryem A. Yücel, Remi Gau, Taylor Salo, Stefan Appelhoff, Christopher J. Markiewicz, David McAlpine, The BIDS Maintainers, Luca Pollonini

“…Although the fNIRS community has been successful in disseminating open-source processing tools and a standard file format (SNIRF), reproducible research and sharing of fNIRS data amongst researchers has been hindered by a lack of standards and clarity over how study data should be organized and stored. …”
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The Switchmaze: an open-design device for measuring motivation and drive switching in mice by Hartmann, Clara, Mahajan, Ambika, Borges, Vinicius, Razenberg, Lotte, Thönnes, Yves, Karnani, Mahesh Miikael

“…We designed an automated extended home-cage, the Switchmaze, using open-source hardware and software. In this study, we use it to establish a behavioural assay of motivational switching in mice. …”
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An Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Point of View to Develop Controllers of Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Ngo Van Hien, Van-Thuan Truong, Ngoc-Tam Bui

“…The detailed PIM is subsequently transformed into the PSM by open-source platforms to rapidly implement and deploy the Q-UAV controller. …”
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The Impact of (DEM) Accuracy and (LC/LU) Resolution on the Watersheds Areas by Alaa Qais Muttar, Mustafa Tariq Mustafa, Muntasir Abdl Hameed Abdl Shareef

“…Recently, (DEM) and (LC/LU) are freely available as online open-source products in varied accuracies, spatial and spectral resolutions as result of several remote sensing platforms. …”
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Healthcare Workers’ SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Four Hospital Outbreaks during Delta Variant Prevalence in Sydney, Australia by Danielle Hutchinson, Mohana Kunasekaran, Haley Stone, Xin Chen, Ashley Quigley, Aye Moa, C. Raina MacIntyre

“…In the absence of a detailed reporting of HCW infections, open-source data including news articles, media releases, and epidemiological surveillance reports were also collected. …”
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Inverse design of nanophotonic devices enabled by optimization algorithms and deep learning: recent achievements and future prospects by Kim Junhyeong, Kim Jae-Yong, Kim Jungmin, Hyeong Yun, Neseli Berkay, You Jong-Bum, Shim Joonsup, Shin Jonghwa, Park Hyo-Hoon, Kurt Hamza

“…Additionally, we summarize the open-source inverse design tools and commercial foundries. …”
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Hybrid Quality-Based Recommender Systems: A Systematic Literature Review by Bihi Sabiri, Amal Khtira, Bouchra El Asri, Maryem Rhanoui

“…This study employs ASReview, an open-source application that uses active learning to help academics filter literature efficiently. …”
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Constructing meaningful code changes via graph transformer by Shikai Guo, Mengxuan Li, Xin Ge, Hui Li, Rong Chen, Tingting Li

“…Abstract The rapid development of Open‐Source Software (OSS) has resulted in a significant demand for code changes to maintain OSS. …”
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A Bayesian phase 2 model based adaptive design to optimise antivenom dosing: Application to a dose-finding trial for a novel Russell's viper antivenom in Myanmar. by James A Watson, Thomas Lamb, Jane Holmes, David A Warrell, Khin Thida Thwin, Zaw Lynn Aung, Min Zaw Oo, Myat Thet Nwe, Frank Smithuis, Elizabeth A Ashley

“…The model based design can identify an optimal dose after fewer patients relative to the rule based design. Open source code for the simulations is made available in order to determine adequate sample sizes for future adaptive snakebite trials. …”
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Reliably quantifying the severity of social symptoms in children with autism using ASDSpeech by Marina Eni, Yaniv Zigel, Michal Ilan, Analya Michaelovski, Hava M. Golan, Gal Meiri, Idan Menashe, Ilan Dinstein

“…Here we demonstrate the utility of a new open-source AI algorithm, ASDSpeech, which can analyze speech recordings of ASD children and reliably quantify their social communication difficulties across multiple developmental timepoints. …”
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Impact of Chatbots on User Experience and Data Quality on Citizen Science Platforms by Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Soror Sahri, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Marc Pignal, Eva Perez Pimparé, Régine Vignes-Lebbe

“…The CS project Les Herbonautes, dedicated to mass digitization of the French National Herbarium, serves as a case study for this paper, which details the development and evaluation of a network of open source LLM agents to assist users during data collection. …”
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Remotely-sensed products capture the spatial distribution of regional carbon sequestration potential ability: A case study of Hubei Province, China by Zhaolong Li, Lingya Huang, Yuanyong Dian

“…This study utilized free and open-source remote sensing data products, including above-ground biomass (AGB), gross primary productivity (GPP), fractional vegetation cover (FVC), and land use classification, to calculate the RCSPI and generate a Pixel Carbon Sequestration Potential Index (PCSPI) map. …”
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