This report documents a successful pilot project and feasibility study for adding a Python interface to the CASTEP first principles materials modelling code. Such an interface will allow the growing Python community within the scientific computing field access to CASTEP functionality, without the requirement of learning Fortran. To achieve this, changes have been made to the CASTEP source code ...

Wild bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) were studied in southern India to assess their ability to discriminate non-venomous, venomous and predatory snakes. Realistic snake models were presented to eight troops of bonnet macaques at feeding stations and their behavior was video-recorded 3 min before and 3 min after snake exposure. Snakes presented were: (1) venomous Indian cobra (Naja naja) displa...

In this article we will investigate the objectoriented features of the Python programming language. Python supports encapsulation with limited information hiding; it has full support in polymorphism and inheritance. Therefore, Python fits the definition of object-oriented programming languages. On the other hand, there are some “add-on” features that are commonly available in many main-stream o...

A mutation introduced into a source code of a dynamically typed program can generate an incompetent mutant. Such a mutant manifests a typerelated error that cannot be detected before the mutant execution. To avoid this problem, a program mutation can be provided at run-time, or incompetent mutants should be automatically detected and eliminated. We showed that the latter solution can effectivel...

New cloud programming and deployment models pose challenges to software application engineers who are looking, often in vain, for tools to automate any necessary code adaptation and transformation. Functionas-a-Service interfaces are particular non-trivial targets when considering that most cloud applications are implemented in non-functional languages. Among the most widely used of these langu...

We use Python I, II, and III cosmic microwave background anisotropy data to constrain cosmogonies. We account for the Python beamwidth and calibration uncertainties. We consider open and spatially-flat-Λ cold dark matter cosmogonies, with nonrelativistic-mass density parameter Ω0 in the range 0.1–1, baryonic-mass density parameter ΩB in the range (0.005–0.029)h −2 , and age of the universe t0 i...

SUMMARY pybedtools is a flexible Python software library for manipulating and exploring genomic datasets in many common formats. It provides an intuitive Python interface that extends upon the popular BEDTools genome arithmetic tools. The library is well documented and efficient, and allows researchers to quickly develop simple, yet powerful scripts that enable complex genomic analyses. AVAIL...