Electromyography (EMG) is an experimental and clinical technique used to study and analyse electrical signals produced by muscles. This series of tutorials will go through how Python can be used to process and analyse EMG signals. We begin with a brief overview of how muscle electrical signals are produced and detected. What is EMG? The smallest functional unit that describes
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Repetitive tasks are boring. Also, repetitive tasks are prone to errors. I could copy and paste values in a spreadsheet, but for every 100 things I do, 5 of them would be wrong. The number of errors goes up for more complex tasks. Fortunately, computers are really good at repetitive tasks and they don’t make errors, whether they copy and
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I am assuming you have followed the previous tutorials in this short series on how to manipulate Pubmed references using Python (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). We have cleaned the references and had a user select the references that are to be kept. These files are now located in refs_keep.txt. The last thing that we have to do is extract
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I am assuming you have followed the previous tutorials in this short series on how to manipulate Pubmed references using Python (1, 2, 3, 4). We have cleaned up the references by removing unwanted fields and ensuring sections like the abstract are not split over multiple lines. The cleaned references are saved in a text file cleaned_pubmed_refs.txt. We are now
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I am assuming you have followed the previous tutorials in this short series on how to manipulate Pubmed references using Python (1, 2, 3). You should have a list variable called refs4 in your Python console that contains the cleaned references. Because we will be working with this cleaned version of the references from now on, it would be a
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The computer age has seen many advances in science, including how scientists analyse data and report results. While some tools are complex and make it difficult for other scientists to understand exactly what steps were followed, other tools strive to increase the transparency and reproducibility of research. iPython and Jupyter notebooks A new and exciting tool is the electronic notebook.
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