Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Long Term Storage in a Surveillance Environment

New legal requirements force organizations to increase their data retention of video surveillance for up to a year. This amount of video data requires very large storage capacities, which will drive up the costs for the end user by a large amount. Surveillance data that is old is very rarely accessed, thus there is no need for a short retrieval time for older data. This thesis investigated different storage technologies that could be used in conjunction with a VMS for long term storage of video surveillance. The use case for this thesis was cannabis cultivation facilities in Canada, which are required to store their surveillance video for up to a year. A technical analysis, as well as an economical one, was made for the different systems, and some were tested in practice. Depending on the amount of data and how long it will be stored, different systems can be chosen. It was concluded that the Veracity Coldstore was a good alternative for the use case presented in this thesis. (Less)
The Role Of Corporate Image And Satisfaction In Mediating The Effect Of Corporate Social Responsibility On Customer Loyalty * I

The implementation of CSR has been widely applied in many kinds of companies including banking companies. It is because the implementation of CSR can affect corporate image and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. The purpose of this study was to explain the influence of CSR, corporate image, and customer satisfaction toward customer loyalty, as well as to explain the mediating effect of satisfaction on CSR to loyalty and corporate image to loyalty. Sample used are 100 customers of PT Bank BPD Bali, which were divided by proportional cluster sampling technique. The collected data were analyzed using Partial Least Square analysis. Several findings of this study are CSR had no significant effect on customer loyalty. CSR significantly influence corporate image and customer satisfaction, hence, corporate image and customer satisfaction were able to mediate the effect of CSR on customer loyalty. Furthermore, customer satisfaction had significant effect to corporate image and customer loyalty, corporate image positively had significant effect to customer loyalty. Corporate image were able to mediate the effect of customer satisfaction to customer loyalty. This findings also has implications that PT Bank BPD Bali needs to do extra work in implementing CSR and conduct intensive promotion of CSR programs that have been done previously and maintaining corporate image.
Comparison between AVIRIS and Hyperion for Hyperspectral Mineral Mapping

1.0 Introduction The 0.4 to 2.5 μm spectral range provides abundant information about many important Earth-surface minerals (Clark et al., 1990). In particular, the 2.0 to 2.5 μm spectral range covers spectral features of hydroxyl-bearing minerals, sulfates, and carbonates common to many geologic units and hydrothermal alteration assemblages. Imaging Spectrometers, or “Hyperspectral” sensors provide the unique combination of both spatially contiguous spectra and spectrally contiguous images of the Earth’s surface that allows spatial mapping of these minerals (Goetz et al., 1985). Airborne hyperspectral data have been available to researchers since the early 1980s and their use for mineral mapping is well established (Goetz et al., 1985; Kruse and Lefkoff, 1993; Boardman and Kruse, 1994; Boardman et al., 1995; Kruse, et al., 1999). Current airborne sensors provide high-spatial resolution (2–20 m), highspectral resolution (10–20 nm), and high SNR (>500:1) data for a variety of scientific disciplines (Green et al., 2001; Kruse et al., 2000).
Beyond Automated Essay Scoring : Forecasting and Improving Outcomes in Middle and High School Writing

This paper presents an analysis of an automated essay scoring (AES) system in two studies of live classroom use. First, in a study of 99 students in Texas, we show that automated scores do predict future performance on standardized tests, and that in-system activity can be included in a predictive model to further improve accuracy. Following that, the results of a five-school study in Maryland demonstrate moderate evidence that automated essay scoring is correlated with school-level improvement in ELA outcomes.
Susceptibility of Thaumastocoris peregrinus ( Hemiptera : Thaumastocoridae ) , a

Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero and Dellape (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) is a sap-sucking insect that has become a major pest of eucalypts. The entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. and Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sorokin have the potential to control insect pests. This study evaluated the susceptibility of T. peregrinus to two commercial products based on conidia of B. bassiana and M. anisopliae. The fungi were sprayed onto adults of T. peregrinus at a concentration of 1 × 108 conidia mL−1 to evaluate their pathogenicity and conidial production on the insect cadavers. Beauveria bassiana caused 100 % mortality, while M. anisopliae caused more than 80 % mortality of T. peregrinus adults 11 days after fungi application. The fungi colonized the head and thorax regions and caused high mortality rates through conidial production. Pathogenicity of entomopathogenic fungi B. bassiana and M. anisopliae to T. peregrinus show potential to use these fungi in integrated pest management.
Feasibility of 12 weeks of combined aerobic and resistance training in Indigenous Australian adults: a Phase I, single-group, pre-post intervention study

Objectives: To investigate the feasibility and potential of an exercise program based on current recommendations for health to decrease cardiometabolic risk factors in Indigenous Australian adults in a metropolitan setting. Design: Phase I, single-group, pre-post intervention study. Methods: Sixteen previously inactive adults (55% female; mean age 32 y) undertook supervised exercise involving aerobic and progressive resistance training for 3 days per week for 12 weeks. Results: Eleven participants (69%) completed the exercise intervention with high exercise adherence rates (92% of sessions completed). Compared with baseline, there was a significant improvement with training in sub-maximal aerobic capacity (MD 5 ml/kg/min, 95% CI 3 to 7), pulse wave velocity (MD -2 m/s; 95% CI: -2.3 to -0.7), percentage body fat (MD -2%; CI: -3.4 to 0.2), bench press (MD 17 kg, 95% CI: 10 to 25), leg press (MD 67 kg, CI: 36 to 110), waist circumference (MD -3 cm, 95% CI: -4.0 to -1.0) and hip circumference (MD -2 cm, 95% CI: -4.4 to -1.1). Conclusions: A supervised fitness centre based aerobic and resistance training program has the potential to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in Indigenous adults and can be delivered in a metropolitan gym environment. *Correspondence to: Tuguy Esgin, Discipline of Exercise, Health and Performance, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia, E-mail: tuguy1@gmail.com
Some Chemical Treatments on Kluai Khai Through Tissue Culture for Mutation Breeding

Polyploidy of in vitro Kluai Khai plantlets were induced by different concentrations of the two mutagens : 0, 0.5, 0.75 and 1% colchicine and 0,15, 30, 45mM oryzalin containing 2% DMSO for 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 hours. It was found that the higher the mutagen doses and the longer the treatment duration, the less the survival rates. After treating plantlets with colchicine and oryzalin at 0.4, 0.5, 0.75% and 13, 15, 22mM, respectively the survival rate of each one was found to be 50%. In MV1, adventitious bud initiation of mutagenic treatment yielded 0.2-1.2 shoots which was lower than those in the control while those of MV2 and MV3 were not significantly different from each other. Treated plantlets were revealed to be abnormal in chimera and stomata sizes were larger than those of the controls. The plantlets with stomata over 28mm were selected for chomosome count. The controls were diploid (2n = 22) whereas three selected clones were tetraploid (2n = 44) derived from 1% colchicine at 7.5 hours and 45mM oryzalin at 2.5 hours. The mutants were then subcultured. The number of suckers of mutants was less than those of the control. MS medium without plant growth regulator was observed to give the best rooting of all treatments. After transfered to the greenhouse, the height of the controls and the colchicine treated plants were revealed to be significantly different from the oryzalin treated ones which were shorter with low survival rate. The results obtained in the field were similar to those in the greenhouse. The foliage of all mutants appeared more drooping with larger stomata cell, lower in stomata number per area and thicker than those of the controls. The numbers of leaf and sucker of each mutant were not significantly different from the controls.
Comparing conditional and stochastic volatility models: goodness of fit, forecasting and value-at-risk

Nesse trabalho uma comparacao das tres familias de volatilidade Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH), Stochastic Volatility (SV) e Non-Gaussian State Space Models (NGSSM)e feita de acordo com tres diferentes metricas: ajuste, previsao e Value-at-Risk (VaR). Procedimentos de inferencia sobre a distribuicao Skew Generalized Error sao detalhados. Os respectivos criterios de avaliacao usados para cada metrica sao o Criterio de Informacao de Akaike, ErroQuadratico Medio das previsoes um passo a frente e Cobertura Incondicional do VaR um passo a frente. A amostra utilizada e composta por series de retornos diarios (Ibovespa, Hang Seng Index,Merval Index e SP quanto a previsao, o EGARCH fica em segundo, o APARCH em terceiro e o NGSSM em ultimo; quanto ao VaR, o APARCH fica em primeiro, o EGARCH em terceiro e o NGSSM em ultimo. O tempo de CPU gasto na estimacao de cada modelo tambem e reportado e comparado: tomando o NGSSM como base, a estimacao do modelo SV demora 82 vezes mais, enquanto a estimacao do APARCH demora 4 vezes mais e o EGARCH 2 vezes mais.
Understanding the Diversity of Student Computing Activity

A College of Education and Psychology undertook a survey of its majors to gain a better understanding of computer ownership and usage. Of interest was whether all logical groupings of students (e.g., graduate vs. undergraduate, gender, age, ethnicity) could be created equivalent in terms of their access and experience with computing. The results of the survey found a very high percentage of students (91.1 percent) owned computers, with no difference found on the basis of year in school, gender, or ethnicity. Differences in the number of hours per week that a computer was used and the types of activities the computer was used for were found based on the age and full/part-time status in school. The results of the survey also indicated that Internet usage is ubiquitous across all years in school but with differences seen based on gender and ethnicity. Differences in other types of applications (i.e., word processing, presentation, spreadsheet/database, and statistics) were also seen both between applications and between year in school. Students' perceived skill level and the application usage were significantly positively correlated. Implications of strategic planning for computing policy and instruction are discussed.
Industry Dynamics and Productivity : The Effect of Productivity Change on Worker Reallocation

The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent it is the most productive firms who attract workers. Using the microeconomic models of general equilibrium, Cournot and Hotelling competition, search models and related empirical studies we postulate an econometric model. We use a unique dataset on Norwegian manufacturing firms from the years 2000 to 2008. We find that more productive firms have a higher average annual worker growth. This does not necessarily mean that more productive firms are larger. However, given enough time a faster growing but small firm is expected to be larger than a large but slow growing firm. We also find that firm growth decreases with size, rejecting Gibrat’s Law. Our findings give suggestive evidence to the theories of competitive search models, which state that more productive firms offer higher wages, have more vacancies and attract workers faster. These results survive several robustness checks, including alternative productivity measure and an alternative structural form. In addition, we find that our data confirms a collection of stylized facts often found in the literature.
Adolescents ' Depression and Delinquency : The Effect of Distal Cumulative Risk ( CCR ) and the Mediating Role of Proximal CCR

The present study investigated the relationships between distal (happened before the past 12 months) cumulative contextual risk (CCR) and adolescents' maladjustments i.e., depression and delinquency, and how these relationships were mediated by proximal (happened in the past 12 months) CCR. Using structural equation modeling with a sample of 1935 school going adolescents, path analysis found that distal CCR was significantly related to adolescent delinquency but not to depression. Nevertheless, mediation analysis with Bootstrap methods found significant indirect effects from distal CCR to adolescents' depression and delinquency through proximal CCR. These findings are discussed in the context of cumulative risk theory to promote understanding of the conditions under which CCR influences adolescents' maladjustments.
Self-Breast Examination among Female Medical Students of Abia State University , Uturu , Nigeria

Self-breast examination, (SBE) is a technique which allows an individual to examine his/her breast for any visual or palpable changes which could be an indicator of a breast disease. We embarked on this project to find the level of awareness and practice of SBE among female medical undergraduate students of Abia State University Uturu, (ABSU), Abia State, South East Nigeria. This was a questionnaire based study on female medical students of ABSU. After ethical clearance, questionnaires were administered to consenting female medical students. Data was collected and analyzed using SPSS software programme version 21. Out of the 419 questionnaires distributed, there were 384(92%) respondents. Of these, 378(98.4%) have heard about SBE, while 6(1.60%) have not. The major sources of information on SBE were medical and health education in 131(34.1%), the media in 126(32.8%) and friends in 112(29.2%) respondents. Three hundred and sixteen (82.3%) of the respondents knew how to perform SBE, while 68(17.7%) did not know. Fifty three (13.8%) performed SBE monthly. Health education and media are the major sources of information on SBE.
Dynamic spectrum access under partial observations: A restless bandit approach

We consider a communication system where multiple unknown channels are available for transmission. Each channel is a channel with state which evolves in a Markov manner. The transmitter has to select L channels to use and also decide the resources (e.g., power, rate, etc.) to use for each of the selected channels. It observes the state of the channels it uses and receives no feedback on the state of the other channels. We model this problem as a partially observable Markov decision process and obtain a simplified belief state. We show that the optimal resource allocation policy can be identified in closed form. Once the optimal resource allocation policy is fixed, choosing the channel scheduling policy may be viewed as a restless bandit. We present an efficient algorithm to check indexability and compute the Whittle index for each channel. When the model is indexable, the Whittle index policy, which transmits over the L channels with the smallest Whittle indices, is an attractive heuristic policy.
Reliable building energy performance characterisation based on full scale dynamic measurements

Project duration: 2011 2015 To reduce the energy use of buildings and communities, several countries imposed more stringent requirements. Mostly, requirements and labelling of the energy performances of buildings is done in the design phase by calculation or modelling. Several studies showed however that the actual performance after realisation may deviate significantly from this theoretically designed performance. Part of the deviations can be attributed to the user behaviour, but the main part has to be attributed to the physical features of the building and its systems. For the latter, building performance characterisation based on full scale testing – testing of building components or whole buildings under realistic dynamic conditions – could help to bridge the gap between theoretically predicted and real life performance of buildings. Full scale dynamic measurements are e.g. helpful to investigate the performances of building components and whole buildings as built in reality, including the influence of workmanship. This is illustrated in the figure below, which compares the designed and realised overall heat loss (W/K) of 18 dwellings in the UK. The overall heat losses are obtained with in situ co-heating tests . As can be seen none of the houses realises the intended performance and the measured heat losses of the houses may be up to 200% of the designed value.
Morphometry of the palate and pharyngeal airway- A computed tomographic study

Background: The morphometry of the palate and pharyngeal airway has a crucial role in the development of disorders like apnea. Therefore the present study aims to explore the shape and dimensions of the palate and the pharyngeal airway. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out on normal sagittal and axial sections of head and neck in 100 CT images. Results: The average length of the hard and soft palates measured 4.49±0.38 and 3.44±0.61cm respectively. The anteroposterior dimension of the soft palate was 0.90±0.33 cm. The velopalatine angle measured 130.23±9.98o. The luminal areas were 4.59±1.81, 2.058±1.09 and 2.99±1.08 cm in naso, oro and laryngo pharynx respectively. The soft palate showed varied shapes which were classified as a straight line, leaf-like, rat-tail, distorted S, crooked and butt like. Conclusion: The present study attempts to provide a normal database to understand the anatomy of the soft palate and pharyngeal airways.
Incidence and sero epidemiology of brucellosis from a tertiary care centre of rural Maharashtra

Background: It is usually difficult to diagnose brucellosis cli nically in the absence of specific clinical features. Hence serological testing forms the mains t y of diagnosing the disease. Seroepidemiological determinants of brucellosis in rural Aim: The present study was therefore conducted to determ in the incidence and to analyze seroepidemiological determinants of Brucellosis western Maharashtra. Material and methods: The present hospital based cross sectional survey w as carried out in Rural Medical College, Loni on 500 cases of PUO. samples were subjected to serological tests like Ro se Agglutination Test (STAT). The inoculated agar plat es were watched daily for the presence of growth Brucella on culture. A, Surana A, Bhardwaj A. Incidence and sero pidemiology of brucellosis from . IAIM, 2015; 2(8): 71-77. , Abhishek Singh, Anil Kumar , Avinash Surana, Anu Bhardwaj , Major S. D. Singh Medical College SHKM Govt. Medical College, Haryana SHKM Govt. Medical College, Haryana ediatrics, SHKM Govt. Medical College, Haryana
Antenna Selection Schemes in Quadrature Spatial Modulation Systems

This paper presents antenna selection schemes for recently proposed quadrature spatial modulation (QSM) systems. The antenna selection strategy is based on Euclidean distance optimized antenna selection (EDAS). The symbol error rate (SER) performance of these schemes is compared with that of the corresponding algorithm associated with spatial modulation (SM) systems. It is shown through simulations that QSM systems using EDAS offer significant improvement in terms of SER performance over SM systems with EDAS. Their SER performance gains are seen to be about 2 dB–4 dB in Es/N0 values.
Metabolic Potential, Respiration Rate and Their Relationship in Offspring of Different Sizes of Marble Trout ( Salmo marmoratus Cuvier)

The size and composition of fish eggs are related to female’s characteristics, such as age, size and individual conditions, and they have an impact on the properties of offspring that are important for their fitness. Electron transport system (ETS) activity and respiration rate (R) of early life history stages (i.e. non-fertilized eggs, eggs at eyed stage and larvae with yolk sac) of 13 females of marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) were measured separately in order to determine their metabolic properties in relation to size. The results showed that larger females produced larger eggs in higher numbers. Growth experiments on the survival of offspring of a single female revealed that the survival rate of early embryos was higher for smaller eggs during the earliest stages, but ultimately the percentage of surviving larvae did not correlate with egg size. The ETS activities and respiration rates of non-fertilized eggs, eyed eggs and larvae differed significantly between 13 females. Both parameters increased with increasing dry mass of the early life history stages, but the increase of respiration rate was greater than that of ETS activity. The lower ETS/R ratios in larger individuals therefore indicate that their energy metabolism was less adaptable to environmental changes than that of smaller ones. Larger egg size could be an advantage under favourable conditions, whereas smaller size could be optimal under stressing circumstances in which the higher metabolic potential enables production of the energy required for metabolism. This is first report on the relationship between ETS activity and respiration rate of the early life history stages in salmonids.
Molecular Markers based Genetic Diversity Analysis for Drought Tolerance in Rice ( Oryza Sativa , L . ) Using SSR Markers

Seven rice genotypes differed in drought tolerance were evaluated for genetic diversity by using 46 SSR markers related to drought. Three genotypes were drought tolerant (Azuciena, Moroberekan and IRAT170), two were moderately tolerant (IET1444 and Giza178) and two were drought susceptible (IR64 and Giza177). The results indicated that among SSR markers used, 43 SSR loci were polymorphic and produced 127 alleles. The number of alleles per locus generated by each marker varied from 2 to 6 alleles with an average of 2.76 alleles per locus. The overall size of amplified fragments ranged from 93 to 487 bp. The polymorphic information content (PIC) values ranged from 0.21 to 0.79 with an average of 0.46. Out of the used polymorphic SSR markers, 19 markers were highly informative (PIC > 0.50), 21 markers were informative (50 < PIC < 0.25) and three markers were slightly informative (PIC < 0.25). Highly significant correlation coefficient was found between PIC values and the number of alleles detected per locus (r=0.93**). The SSR markers RM260, RM219, RM3805 and RM72 were the highest polymorphic markers in current study. On the other side, the Jaccard’s similarity coefficients among the studied genotypes ranged from 0.07 (for Giza177 and both genotypes IR64 and IET1444) to 0.804 for Azuciena and IRAT170. All studied genotypes grouped into two main clusters at 10% similarity based on Jaccard’s similarity index. The first cluster represents the indica rice, while the second cluster represents each of; Japonica, Tropical-Japonica and indica japonica rice. These results indicated the ability of SSR markers to detect and to identify the allelic diversity and genetic variation among the studied rice genotypes. In addition, RM472 marker elucidated the possibility to use it in MAS for drought tolerance in the studied rice genotypes according to different alleles. The informative and highly informative markers identified in this study could be utilized in further studies for association mapping and marker assisted selection for drought tolerance in Egyptian rice genotypes. The studied genotypes revealed high level of genetic diversity indicating the availability of such materials for rice breeding program for drought tolerance.