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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Scientific Software"”.
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Production and use of documentation in scientific software development
Software is becoming ubiquitous in science. The success of the application of scientific software depends on effective communication about what the software does and how it operates. Documentation captures the communication about the software. For that reason, practices around scientific software …
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Creating Scientific Software, with Application to Phylogenetics and Oligonucleotide Probe Design
The demands placed on scientific software are different from those placed on general purpose software, and as a result, creating software for science and for scientists requires a specialized approach. Much of software engineering practices have developed in situations in which a tool is desired to …
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The Project Community Framework: Towards Bridging the Gap between User Centred Design and Academic Scientific Software Development
… technologies afford for the development of new scientific techniques. This has brought major public investment in academic SSD projects, with £250 million invested in the UK e-science program between 2001 and 2006 alone. However, there is major underlying problem: scientific software and the …
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Modular Implementation of Program Adaptation with Existing Scientific Codes
Often times, scientific software needs to be adapted for different execution environments, problem sets, and available resources to ensure its efficiency and reliability. Directly modifying source code to implement adaptation is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to manage for today's …
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The Automation of Electrophysiological Experiments and Data Analysis
… is no exception. Despite this, a severe lack of scientific software infrastructure persists, slowing progress in many domains. In this thesis, we will see how the combination of neuroscience and software engineering can build infrastructure that enables discovery. The first chapter discusses the …
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Problem solving environments for the numerical solution of partial differential equations
… for those without direct knowledge of the PDE software to employ it efficiently. Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) are seen as a way of making it possible to provide an easy-to-use layer surrounding the numerical software. The users can then concentrate on gaining an understanding of the …
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Crystal Cartography: Mapping Nanostructure with Scanning Electron Diffraction
Nanostructure describes the network of defective and distorted atomic structure existing on the nanoscale within materials. This nanostructure bridges the gap between idealised crys- talline structure and real materials, playing a deterministic role in tailoring physico-chemical properties, as well …
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On Enforcing Maximum Principles and Element-Wise Species Balance for Advective-Diffusive-Reactive Systems
… popular numerical formulations, open source scientific software packages, and commercial packages do not inherit or mimic fundamental properties of continuous advective-diffusive-reactive systems. For instance, the popular standard single-field Galerkin formulation produces negative values …
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Integration and visualisation of data in bioinformatics
… of study are fundamental in the creation of scientific software tools that respond to the ever increasing needs of researchers. The distributed annotation system (DAS) is a community project that supports the integration of data from federated sources and its visualisation on web and …
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Dossier: Distributed operating system and infrastructure for scientific data management
As scientific advancement and discovery have become increasingly data-driven and interdisciplinary, there are urging needs for advanced cyberinfrastructure to support managing and process- ing scientific data generated from day-to-day research. However, the development of data-driven …
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Diagnostics of indoor environmental quality exposures and climate-infrastructure vulnerability in South African schools
… these findings into tangible societal and scientific resources, including infrastructure-specific policy recommendations and a methodological enhancement to open-source scientific software. Through a replicable sensor-to-solution pathway, this dissertation transforms high-resolution data …
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Photonic studies of defects and amorphization in ion beam damaged GaAs surfaces
… system was developed. Asyst, a Forth based scientific software was selected to write the source codes for data acquisition and reduction. The inherent fast execution times of the software allows data acquisition in real time, ensuring the quasi-steady state condition. The electrical and …
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A formative assessment of nurses' lifestyle behaviours and health status
… of (Atlas.ti Qualitative Data Analysis Software (Scientific Software Development GmbH, Berlin, Germany). In a sub-study, 64 nurses (day shift n=30 and night shift n=34) working at two of the five public hospitals volunteered to complete a socio-demographic questionnaire and wear the …
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Implementation of an XML-based user interface with applications in ice sheet modeling
The scientific domain presents unique challenges to software developers. This thesis describes the application of design patterns to the problem of dynamically changing interfaces to scientific application software (GLIMMER, which performs ice sheet modeling). In its present form, GLIMMER uses a …
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Implementation of an XML-based user interface with applications in ice sheet modeling
The scientific domain presents unique challenges to software developers. This thesis describes the application of design patterns to the problem of dynamically changing interfaces to scientific application software (GLIMMER, which performs ice sheet modeling). In its present form, GLIMMER uses a …