The tree of life, first referenced in the book of Genesis, is a life-giving tree created to support the physical and spiritual life of mankind. The tree was established by God in the Garden of Eden: ...

Springer Nature is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Because small numbers of highly cited articles can have outsized influence on certain citation measures ...

Indiana crop advisers explain how corn yield estimates depend on fudge factor, which represents kernels per bushel.

Abstract: Decomposing sparse matrices into lower and upper triangular matrices (sparse LU factorization) is a key operation in many computational scientific applications. We developed SparseLU, a ...

Abstract: Most previous studies on matrix factorization (MF)-based collaborative filtering (CF) have focused solely on user rating information for predicting recommendations. However, to further ...

Confession time: I am not good at math. I use it, it’s great, we went to the Moon with it, yada yada. But I don’t think well mathematically and strive to understand it. But I was amazed to discover ...

Photosynthesis does not always result in wood growth, a key factor in carbon dioxide sequestration Trees may not be able to store as much planet-heating carbon as hoped, a study suggests, with ...

A solar tree is a structure resembling a tree that generates solar energy using photovoltaic (PV) panels. It employs principles of biomimicry, using a natural system—in this case the form of a tree—to ...