Abstract: The rooted max tree coverage (MTC) problem has wide applications in areas, such as network design and vehicle routing. Given a graph with non-negative costs defined on edges, a vertex used ...

Malus sieversii, a Tertiary relict and primary progenitor of the cultivated apple, is experiencing severe habitat degradation in China’s Tianshan Mountains. To understand how soil ecosystem functions ...

Abstract: As interconnect delay increasingly becomes the primary source of chip delay, timing analysis in the very large-scale integration (VLSI) routing process is becoming more crucial. Concurrently ...

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Or, so it is said. Regardless of whether the age-old idiom is literally true, apples are a staple of cuisines and cultures around the world. Now, science is ...

Ever try growing an apple tree from a seed? In this time lapse, we demonstrate how a seed was stratified after extraction from a typical apple all the way to early plant. The pips were taken out of a ...

We meet Alice on a residential school trip, but it's not going well. Her classmates tease her, she misses her cat and wants to go home. She slips outside at night and falls into a fantasy world where ...