Zero-shot learning — the problem of training and testing on a completely disjoint set classes relies greatly its ability to transfer knowledge from train test classes. Traditionally semantic embeddings consisting human-defined attributes or distributed word are used facilitate this by improving association between visual embeddings. In paper, we take advantage explicit relations nodes defined i...

Transformer recently has presented encouraging progress in computer vision. In this work, we present new baselines by improving the original Pyramid Vision (PVT v1) adding three designs, including (1) linear complexity attention layer, (2) overlapping patch embedding, and (3) convolutional feed-forward network. With these modifications, PVT v2 reduces computational of v1 to achieves significant...

The New Zealand government has been praised for heeding scientific advice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it comes environmental protections seems be negotiable. Freshwaters have decline decades, despite clear science on limits needed protect them. There are many examples of ‘shifting baselines’, where progressively weakened through agency regulatory capture and political expedie...

Encouraging agricultural and forestry carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation is a necessary tool to meet U.S. emissions targets at minimum cost, but implementation challenges have relegated the agriculture and forestry sector to a marginal role in national and international cap-and-trade and energy policies, including those currently being discussed by U.S. legislators. However, the...

continuous availability of soil water is an important factor for plant growth. both lack of adequate access to water in soils, or adequate oxygen in saturated soils, may reduce or even stop plant growth. to study the behavior of pistachio seedling at various moisture levels and to determine non-limiting water range for its growth, a greenhouse experiment with a completely randomized design was ...

What did coral reef ecosystems look like before human impacts became pervasive? Early efforts to reconstruct baselines resulted in the controversial suggestion that pristine coral reefs have inverted trophic pyramids, with disproportionally large top predator biomass. The validity of the coral reef inverted trophic pyramid has been questioned, but until now, was not resolved empirically. We use...