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Social Scripts
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2020
People tend to know what behavior is expected of them in specific, familiar settings. A script is a person’s knowledge about the sequence of events expected in a specific setting (Schank & Abelson, 1977). Essentially, scripts are a particular kind of schema, one containing default values for the features within an event. In the restaurant example, the script's features include the props (e.g., tables, menu, food, and money), the roles to be played (e.g., customer and waiter), the opening...
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Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder
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2018
We present a protocol of personalized script-driven trauma-related imagery and clinical assessments within a comparison design for investigating peritraumatic dissociation (PD), psychophysiological reactions, i.e. heart rate (HR) and skin conductance (SC), and psychological features of often severely traumatized individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
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Optimization of Synthetic Proteins: Identification of Interpositional Dependencies Indicating Structurally and/or Functionally Linked Residues
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2015
Synthetic protein sequences based on consensus motifs typically ignore co-evolving residues, that imply interpositional dependencies (IPDs). IPDs can be essential to activity, and designs that disregard them may result in suboptimal results. This protocol uses StickWRLD to identify IPDs and help inform rational protein design, resulting in more efficient results.
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Measuring Single-Cell Aging with an Imaging-based Biomarker of Chromatin and Epigenetic Aging
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2026
The protocol presents the imaging and computational workflow to extract and validate imaging-based chromatin and epigenetic age (ImAge).
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Rapid in-silico Battery Electrolyte Electrochemical Reaction Generation using 3T-VASP Multi-Scale Energy Minimization
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2025
The 3T-VASP framework combines hierarchical structure transformation with ab initio multi-scale gradients to significantly reduce the number of steps needed to escape local energy minima and model electrochemical reactions. This protocol presents a method for generating electrochemical reaction byproducts for various electrolyte component combinations using only 100-150 static DFT calculations.
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Variables hold values used during processing, while functions group reusable operations into defined tasks. Control statements determine which instructions run under particular conditions, allowing a workflow to respond to its inputs. Together, these components let a script move from reading data to transforming it and producing results in an organized, executable sequence.
The Python interpreter executes the instructions written in the script, translating the organized workflow into actions that read inputs, perform calculations, process data, or generate outputs. This separates the written program from its execution and allows the same workflow structure to be run for different inputs or analytical tasks.
Specialized libraries provide additional capabilities that support particular forms of calculation, data processing, or analysis. A script can use these resources as part of a larger workflow rather than organizing every operation independently. In neuroscience, this supports tasks such as preprocessing neural recordings, quantifying signals, and analyzing imaging data.
Control statements allow a workflow to apply instructions under defined conditions, which helps organize how data are handled during processing and analysis. This conditional structure can make a script responsive to the inputs it receives and keep each step aligned with the intended analytical rules, supporting consistent results across an organized workflow.
A basic workflow begins by identifying the inputs, then organizing instructions that read those inputs, transform or calculate required values, and produce results. Variables, functions, control statements, and relevant specialized libraries can structure these operations. Running the completed script through the Python interpreter turns the planned sequence into an executable analysis.
Neuroscientists can use scripts when a study requires repeated or organized processing of neural recordings, signal quantification, imaging analysis, neuronal activity simulation, or experimental task automation. These applications make computational workflows useful for handling large datasets and for applying the same analytical structure across research tasks.
A script records the instructions used to process data and generate results, helping researchers standardize analyses instead of relying on an unrecorded sequence of manual actions. Such workflows can be shared across laboratories, allowing computational methods to be communicated more clearly and applied consistently when researchers examine recordings, imaging data, or models.