DE WACHTERS VAN VAN ROSSUM

On the efficient calculation of van Rossum distances.

The van Rossum metric measures the distance between two spike trains. Measuring a single van Rossum distance between one pair of spike trains is not a computationally expensive task, however, many applications require a matrix of distances between all the spike trains in a set or the calculation of a multi-neuron distance between two populations of spike trains. Moreover, often these calculatio...

Guido van Rossum: The Modern Era of Python

The popular programming language Python was created by Guido van Rossum in 1989 and released as open source in early 1991. After the first National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)–hosted Python workshop in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 1994, Python’s popularity rapidly increased around the world. But when an effort scales up, things can start to get a bit complicated. In this column, ...

Van de Graaff Generator

In this work it was developed a Van de Graaff generator that we design and built and that is intended to be used in secondary schools for teaching basic principles of electrostatics, electromagnetic as well as a number of other applications. Today many schools laboratories and museums use this kind of generator for electrostatic demonstrations. Electrostatics was first noticed by the Greek phil...

Van de Putte 5_9

Hypericin is a potent agent in the photodynamic therapy of cancers and accumulates to a large extent in tumor tissue. To better understand the impact of hypericin aggregates present in the delivery vehicle on the biodistribution of the compound, we compared the in vivo tissue accumulation after administering hypericin suspended as coarse aggregates in phosphate-buffered saline, with the biodist...

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