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Loggers fell old, native forests on Australian island
On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground—all that remains of a ...
Which QBs have the most help? Ranking all 32 NFL supporting casts
Even the best quarterbacks in the NFL need help. But who's getting it? David Helman ranked every club's offensive support system.
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What Are the Benefits of Paper Recycling?
In 105 AD, at Lei-Yang, China, Ts'ai Lun stirred together a combination of rags, used fishing nets, hemp and tree bark to make the first real paper the world had ever seen. Before Ts'ai Lun ...
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Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations
Industrial plantations of trees to make paper and wood pellets are causing widespread and persistent environmental and social ...
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24.77 Pflops on a Gravitational Tree-Code to Simulate the Milky Way Galaxy with 18600 GPUs
Abstract: We have simulated, for the first time, the long term evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy using 51 billion particles on the Swiss Piz Daint supercomputer with our N-body gravitational tree-code ...
6 Trees That Landscape Designers Will Never Plant When They're Trying to Make a Garden More Private
Looking to create a more secluded outdoor space? These are the trees to avoid that won't actually help screen your garden ...
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KDFC-ART: a KD-tree approach to enhancing Fixed-size-Candidate-set Adaptive Random Testing
However, heavy computation may be incurred. In this paper, three enhanced algorithms for fixed-size-candidate-set ART (FSCS-ART) are proposed based on the k-dimensional tree (KD-tree) structure. The ...