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Fugitive football coach disappeared into woods with gun, family says Top Marine Commander Ousted I live near Tokyo, Japan for $483/month—take a look inside ‘Most extreme crime': Daughter, mother ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Yoon, J. (2020) Forecasting of Real GDP Growth Using Machine Learning Models: Gradient Boosting and Random Forest Approach. Computational Economics, 57, 247-265.

ABSTRACT: The surge of digital data in tourism, finance and consumer markets demands predictive models capable of handling volatility, nonlinear dynamics, and long-term dependencies, where traditional ...
Capital Press

Washington forest board takes 200,000 acres out of production

OLYMPIA — The Washington Forest Practices Board took 200,000 acres of timberland out of production, voting 7-5 to require loggers to stay farther back from streams without fish. The close vote Nov. 12 ...
The New York Times

Coffee Production May Be Imperiled as Forests Are Destroyed for More Crops

A new report by an industry watchdog adds to growing scientific consensus that as forests are felled to make way for coffee farms, rainfall decreases and crops are more likely to fail. By Ephrat Livni ...
Frontiers

Game-theoretic SHAP-driven interpretable forecasting of air cargo demand using Bayesian-optimized random forests

1 Aviation Service Institute,Jiangsu Aviation Technical College, Zhenjiang, China 2 Ocean College, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China Reliable forecasting of air cargo ...
Chicago Tribune

Citadel Theatre staging a production of Misery with a real-life couple playing the two main characters

You might say that Scott Westerman is refereeing a fight between a married couple. That’s because he’s the director of Citadel Theatre’s production of “Misery,” William Goldman’s adaptation of the ...
The Conversation

New study shows how Amazon trees use recent rainfall in the dry season and support the production of their own rain

Magali Nehemy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Los Angeles Times

Trump administration rescinds ‘Roadless Rule’ that protects 58 million acres of national forests

The United States Department of Agriculture on Monday announced that it will rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of national forestland from road construction and timber ...