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Introduction: The association between an open habitat (e.g., savannah-mosaics) and increased terrestriality is central to hypotheses of hominin evolution, especially the emergence and evolution of ...

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at writing code, a key challenge has emerged: enabling them to generate complex, high-quality training data that actually reflects real-world ...

Introduction: The unmanned aerial vehicle -based light detection and ranging (UAV-LiDAR) can quickly acquire the three-dimensional information of large areas of vegetation, and has been widely used in ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Portland is on a mission to bring more tree canopy coverage around the city with a tree planting program that has recently re-opened for registration. The Co-op Tree Planting ...

Abstract: The extensive adoption of cloud computing platforms in storing and processing data have brought forth a new age of efficiency in the way data is stored, processed and managed, requiring new ...