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Growing concerns about the reproducibility of published research threaten to undermine the scientific enterprise and erode public trust. Conscientious application of “best practices” for the generation and reporting of research, along with post-publication access to raw data and other research materials, will protect the integrity of the research literature. Research reproducibility is an incre...

Many systems can be modeled with hard and various size spheres, therefore packing and geometrical structures of such sets are of great importance. In this paper, rigid spherical particles distributed in different sizes are randomly packed in confined spaces, using a parallel algorithm. Mersenne Twister algorithm was used to generate pseudorandom numbers for initial coordination of particles. Di...

The concept of reproducibility is one of the foundations of scientific practice and the bedrock by which scientific validity can be established. However, the extent to which reproducibility is being achieved in the sciences is currently under question. Several studies have shown that much peer-reviewed scientific literature is not reproducible. One crucial contributor to the obstruction of repr...