Why Trees Are Important

Why are wordnets important?

Wordnets are lexical databases in which words are organized into clusters based on their meanings, and they are linked to each other through different semantic and lexical relations. The first wordnet called the Princeton WordNet was created for English, which were followed by various wordnets created within the framework of the EuroWordNet and BalkaNet projects, among others. Here we focus on ...

Why Initial Conditions Are Important

Most simulation textbooks assume that a model can be started in an empty state and the final output will not be affected, so long as the “warm-up period” is excluded from the analysis. In this paper we test this assumption, using a discrete-event model of a existing manufacturing facility. Using a series of model runs with no initial Work in Progress (WIP) and another series of simulation runs ...

Observational studies: why are they so important?

Why empirically supported psychological treatments are important.

The emergence of managed care and similar reimbursement systems that require greater accountability and the development of clinical practice guidelines have increased the importance of evidence-based clinical practice. As a result of these two trends, it appears as though the future of psychotherapy will require clinicians to deliver a psychological intervention that is supported by research. S...

Why are so many trees hollow?

In many living trees, much of the interior of the trunk can be rotten or even hollowed out. Previously, this has been suggested to be adaptive, with microbial or animal consumption of interior wood producing a rain of nutrients to the soil beneath the tree that allows recycling of those nutrients into new growth via the trees roots. Here I propose an alternative (non-exclusive) explanation: suc...