Large-scale urban growth has modified the hydrological cycle of our cities, causing greater and faster runoff. Urban forests (UF), i.e. the stock of trees and shrubs, can substantially reduce runoff; still, how climate, tree functional types influence ra
The tree topology is very similar with the first analysis but shows a higher resolution within Megaraptora. As in previous works, the more basal forms of this clade are the Asian Phuwiangvenator, Vayuraptor, and Fukuiraptor; which constitute successive sister taxa to Megaraptoridae2,7,10,12,...
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Astudyin the May issue ofUrban Forestry & Urban Greeningreports metropolitan areas are experiencing a net loss of about 36 million trees nationwide every year. That amounts to about 175,000 acres of tree cover, most of it in central city and suburban areas but also on the exurban fringes....
Breadfruit can be harvested,dried and made into a flour.For the project,researchers had four breadfruits from the same tree in Hawaii,shipped to the Murch Lab at UBC Okanagan.Ying Liu led the study examining the digestion and health impact of a breadfruit-based diet. "We wan...
For developers, the Ops library provides a mechanism for efficientchainingof ops calls. An op may declare other ops as inputs, resulting in a tree of ops which are resolved when an op is matched; the matched op instance can then be reused across any number of input values. In this way...
We followed the conventions used by the Penn Treebank project[26] to tokenize text. Word trigrams, which are groups of three tokens along the token-sequence are then generated from the tokenized text and each trigram is then passed through a simple rule filter which checks if the tokens in ...
REDUCE builds a merge tree and uses multiple threads to merge all elements of the input array into a final output at the same time through the input operator. For example, C=REDUCE(A, operator=ADD()) will add all values together and store the result in C. ReduceByKey is similar to ...
A scientific theory is a structured explanation to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world that often incorporates a scientific hypothesis and scientific laws. The scientific definition of a theory contrasts with the definition most people use in casual language. "The way that ...
Successfulscientificexperimentationistheresultofaclearmindattackingaclearlystatedproblemandproducingclearlystatedconclusions.Mostscientificpapers,thosepublishedinourprimaryresearchjournals,areacceptedforpublicationpreciselybecausetheydocontributenewknowledge.1.1Whatisscientificwriting? Ifatreefallsintheforestand...