This paper is an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on "Ecologies of Hope." The authors argue that discrete, specific, and often, local actions can create spaces that are bettering human lives and livelihoods.The five papers identify actions and movements that are situated in the "middle" between the individual and
Retinal vessel segmentation is extremely important for risk prediction and treatment of many major diseases.Therefore, accurate segmentation of blood vessel features from retinal images can help assist physicians in diagnosis and treatment.Convolutional neural networks are good at extracting local feature information, but the convolutional block re
Zoospores are central to the life cycles of most of the eukaryotic microbes known as oomycetes, but some genera have lost the ability to form these flagellated cells.In the plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans, genes encoding 257 proteins associated with flagella were identified by comparative genomics.These included the main structural components