Understanding the spatial ecology of an invasive species is critical for designing effective control programs. Determining and quantifying home range estimates habitat associations can streamline targeted removal efforts wide-ranging, cryptic animals. The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) a large-bodied constrictor snake with established expanding population in southern Florida. This apex pred...

human snake bitten poisoning is a serious threat in many tropical and subtropical countries such as iran. the best acceptable treatment of envenomated humans is antivenoms; however they have a series of economic and medical problems and need more improvements. in this study a combinatorial human immunoglobulin gene library against some of iranian snakes venoms was constructed. total rna prepare...

Snakes exhibit an apparent dichotomy in the regulation of gastrointestinal (GI) performance with feeding and fasting; frequently feeding species modestly regulate intestinal function whereas infrequently feeding species rapidly upregulate and downregulate intestinal function with the start and completion of each meal, respectively. The downregulatory response with fasting for infrequently feedi...

This document describes the MPI for Python package. MPI for Python provides bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for the Python programming language, allowing any Python program to exploit multiple processors. This package is constructed on top of the MPI-1/2/3 specifications and provides an object oriented interface which resembles the MPI-2 C++ bindings. It supports point-...

Python is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented programming language. It supports a wide range of applications, from simple text processing scripts to interactive WWW browsers. While the Python Reference Manual describes the exact syntax and semantics of the language, it does not describe the standard library that is distributed with the language, and which greatly enhances its immediate ...

This paper describes an experimental embedding of Python into DrScheme. The core of the system is a compiler, which translates Python programs into equivalent MzScheme programs, and a runtime system to model the Python environment. The generated MzScheme code may be evaluated or used by DrScheme tools, giving Python programmers access to the DrScheme development suite while writing in their fav...

We examined Sarcocystis spp. in giant snakes from the Indo-Australian Archipelago and Australia using a combination of morphological (size of sporocyst) and molecular analyses. We amplified by PCR nuclear 18S rDNA from single sporocysts in order to detect mixed infections and unequivocally assign the retrieved sequences to the corresponding parasite stage. Sarcocystis infection was generally hi...

DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing) is a mature checkpoint-restart package. It operates in user-space without kernel privilege, and adapts to application-specific requirements through plugins. While DMTCP has been able to checkpoint Python and IPython "from the outside" for many years, a Python module has recently been created to support DMTCP. IPython support is included through a ...