Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the attitude of biologists toward the meaning of taxonomic categories above ...

If you care about Florida’s native turtles, nesting birds, and wild spaces, this story will hit close to home. Nile monitor lizards — powerful, fast-moving carnivores that can grow up to 7 feet long ...

What makes an animal invasive, and which species are causing the most destruction across North America? A species is ...

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...

A predatory reptile that eats young crocodiles, climbs trees, swims through saltwater and has drawn comparisons to a velociraptor is quietly establishing itself across four South Florida counties. The ...

You've heard of yoga with kittens, and goats, and maybe even reindeer… but what about a bunch of pythons and one baby ...

In this chapter, we use a search tree structure to efficiently implement a sorted map. The three most fundamental methods of a map M are M[k] implemented with __getitem, M[k] = v using __setitem__ and ...

Abstract: In this work, we propose a new image preprocessing technique for more accurate tree species classification, named Pseudo Tree Crown (PTC). We investigated the effectiveness of the PTC ...

Abstract: Machine learning has been successfully applied to drug combination prediction in recent years. However, in some situations, the class imbalance problem still shows highly negative impacts on ...

Maddox Cuddy hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 40 seconds left, and Forest Hills held on for a 64-60 win over Pine Tree Academy in a Class S South boys basketball semifinal Tuesday at the Augusta Civic ...