Binary Classification Using a scikit Decision Tree Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets and when the trained model must be easily ...

A patch of poor soil on a former cassava field in Amazonas turned into a small test of an old Amazonian secret. Researchers in Brazil found that tiny amounts of Amazonian dark earth, a human-made soil ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The most accurate way foresters determine the age of a tree is by counting ...

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There has been remarkable recent progress in our understanding of the sequence of steps that mediate chemical transmission at mammalian central glutamatergic synapses. This work provides insight into ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...