Help wanted: Full-time python hunters get paid for eliminating snakes

The invasive pythons number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades ...
GitHub

Fast algorithms to compute an approximation of the minimal volume oriented bounding box of a point cloud in 3D.

Computing the minimal volume oriented bounding box for a given point cloud in 3D is a hard problem in computer science. Exact algorithms are known and of cubic order in the number of points in 3D. A ...
PNAS

A minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure

During embryogenesis, cells in tissues can undergo significant shape changes. Many epithelial tissues fluidize, i.e., cells exchange neighbors, when the average cell shape index increases above a ...
Frontiers

Automatic and Accurate Acquisition of Stem-Related Phenotypes of Mature Soybean Based on Deep Learning and Directed Search Algorithms

The stem-related phenotype of mature stage soybean is important in soybean material selection. How to improve on traditional manual methods and obtain the stem-related phenotype of soybean more ...
Frontiers

TAIM: Tool for Analyzing Root Images to Calculate the Infection Rate of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) infect plant roots and are hypothesized to improve plant growth. Recently, AMF is now available for axenic culture. Therefore, AMF is expected to be used as a ...