Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
WorkingHands: A Hand-Tool Assembly Dataset for Image Segmentation and Activity Mining

Computer vision in manufacturing is a decades long effort into automatic inspection and veriﬁcation of the work pieces, while visual recognition focusing on the human operators is becoming ever prominent. Semantic segmentation is an exemplary vision task that is key to enabling crucial assembly applications such as completion time tracking and manual process veriﬁcation. However, focus on segmentation of human hands while performing complex tasks such as manual assembly is still lacking. Segmenting hands from tools, work pieces, background and other body parts is difﬁcult because of self-occlusions and intricate hand grips and poses. In this paper we introduce WorkingHands, a dataset of pixel-level annotated images of hands performing 13 different tool-based assembly tasks, from both real-world captures and virtual-world renderings, with RGB+D images from a high-resolution range camera and ray casting engine. Moreover, using the dataset, we can learn a generic Hand-Task Descriptor that is useful for retrieving hand images and video performing similar operations across different non-annotated datasets.
STUDY OF THERMAL REGIME EFFECT ON FATTY ACID MOBILIZATION IN EUROPEAN EEL ( ANGUILLA ANGUILLA , L . ) FEMALES DURING INDUCED SEXUAL MATURATION

European eel (A. anguilla) is a highly valued species with a high demand both from European and Asian markets. To date, reproduction in captivity has not been achieved and, due to overfishing and environmental conditions, eel populations are decreasing. Many efforts are aimed to study eel reproduction and an important goal is increasing egg quality. Special attention should be paid to fatty acids and energy requirement, as eel is supposed to starve during the reproductive migration. This study focused on the effect of different thermal regimes during sexual induced maturation on fatty acid mobilization.
A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search

We state a sufficient condition under which choice data alone suffices to identify consumer preferences when choices are not fully informed. Suppose that: (i) the data generating process is a search model in which the attribute hidden to consumers is observed by the econometrician; (ii) if a consumer searches good j, she also searches goods which are better than j in terms of the non-hidden component of utility; and (iii) consumers choose the good that maximizes overall utility among searched goods. Canonical models will be biased: the value of the hidden attribute will be understated because consumers will be unresponsive to variation in the attribute for goods that they do not search. Under the conditions above and additional mild restrictions, an alternative method of recovering preferences using cross derivatives of choice probabilities succeeds regardless of the search protocol and is thus robust to whether consumers are informed. The approach nests several standard models, including full information. Our methods suggest natural tests for full information and can be used to forecast how consumers will respond to additional information. We verify in a lab experiment that our approach succeeds in recovering preferences when consumers engage in costly search.
on the productive and health performance of growing-fattening pigs

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of the zootechnical additive VITAFeRT® on the productive and health performance in pigs, in the growing-fattening stage. Four inclusion levels of VITAFeRT® were used, which constituted the treatments: CG: control group, GI: 5 mL/kg of live weight (LW), GII: 10 mL/kg of LW and GIII: 15 mL/kg of LW, with five repetitions each and a completely randomized design. In the case of the productive variables variance analysis was used; and Duncan’s test was applied to compare the differences among means, through the package INFOSTAT®. To establish whether there were statistical differences in the incidence of diarrheas and mortality, analysis of proportions was carried out and ComparPro version 1 was used. As the VITAFeRT® levels were increased there was a rise (p < 0,001) in the mean daily gain of live weight (0,64; 0,64; 0,71 and 0,75 kg), which brought about an increase (p < 0,001) in the total live weight gain at the end of rearing (57,36; 57,36; 64,30 and 67,68 kg). The feed conversion (kg of DM per kg of LW increase) was favored by the increase (p < 0,001) of the product doses, with values of 4,38; 4,37; 3,90 and 3,73. Likewise, when including the zootechnical additive there was a decrease in the incidence of diarrhea. The inclusion of VITTAFeRT® in the feeding of pigs in the growing-fattening stage improved the productive and health performance, and the best results were obtained with the highest dose.
Land-cover classification of an intra-urban environment using high-resolution images and geographic object-based image analysis : the case of APA Mananciais do Rio Paraíba do Sul

Protected areas of sustainable use such as the Environmental Protection Areas (APA) encompass urban areas. Because the characteristic urban spaces are under dynamic changes, they usually entail problems related to planning land cover. Such areas are fragile, especially when located inside protected areas, so it is necessary to monitor and evaluate them. Remote sensing data provides important information for urban planning and management issues, and have a great potential to assist conservation unit managers in monitoring such protected areas. Urban environments are characterized by high spectral and spatial heterogeneity and, consequently, most urban pixels in moderate resolution imagery contain multiple land-cover materials. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the capability of RapidEye sensor data, for the intra-urban scale classification of land cover in protected areas, and to develop a semi-automatic classification method based on geographic object-based image analysis and data mining techniques, for efficiently identifying small changes in urban areas . The APA of “Mananciais do Rio Paraíba do Sul” (APA-MRPS), aimed to preserve the water sources for more than 15 million people, was selected as study site. The results showed that RapidEye data and the methodology used were effective in classifying constructed areas, enabling the identification of small changes in land cover. The data and methodology may be able to assist managers in the monitoring and evaluation processes of protected areas, especially APAs.
THE MASSIVE AND DISTANT CLUSTERS OF WISE SURVEY. III. SUNYAEV–ZEL’DOVICH MASSES OF GALAXY CLUSTERS AT z ∼ 1

We present CARMA 30 GHz Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) observations of five high-redshift ( z ≳ 1 ? > ), infrared-selected galaxy clusters discovered as part of the all-sky Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS). The SZ decrements measured toward these clusters demonstrate that the MaDCoWS selection is discovering evolved, massive galaxy clusters with hot intracluster gas. Using the SZ scaling relation calibrated with South Pole Telescope clusters at similar masses and redshifts, we find these MaDCoWS clusters have masses in the range M 200 ≈ 2 − 6 × 10 14 ? > M ⊙ ? > . Three of these are among the most massive clusters found to date at z ≳ 1 ? > , demonstrating that MaDCoWS is sensitive to the most massive clusters to at least z = 1.3. The added depth of the AllWISE data release will allow all-sky infrared cluster detection to z ≈ 1.5 and beyond.
COMPRESSIBLE TURBULENT BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOW CONTROL OVER A WEDGE

The effects of blowing and suction on the steady compressible boundary-layer flow with adverse pressure gradient and heat transfer over a wedge are numerically examined. The fluid is considered to be a compressible, viscous and Newtonian ideal gas (air) and it is subjected to a constant velocity of suction/injection applied globally to the wedge or locally to specific slots on the surface. The Reynolds-Averaged Boundary-Layer (RABL) equations and their boundary conditions are transformed using the compressible Falkner-Skan transformation. The resulting coupled and nonlinear system of PDEs is solved using the Keller box method. For the eddy-kinematic viscosity the turbulent models of Cebeci-Smith and Baldwin-Lomax are employed. For the turbulent Prandtl number the extended model of Kays-Crawford is used. Numerical calculations are carried out for the case of an adiabatic, cooled or heated wall and for different values of the dimensionless pressure-gradient parameter (m). The obtained results show that the flow field can be controlled by the suction/injection velocity for different values of the parameter m.
Augmented interleukin ( IL )-15 R α expression by CD 40 activation is critical in synergistic CD 8 T-cell mediated antitumor activity of anti-CD 40 antibody with IL-15 in TRAMP-C 2 tumors in mice

Interleukin-15 (IL-15) has potential as an immunotherapeutic agent for cancer treatment because it is a critical factor for the proliferation and activation of natural killer (NK) and CD8 T cells. However, monotherapy of patients with malignancy with IL-15 that has been initiated may not be optimal due to limited expression of the private receptor, IL-15Rα. We demonstrated greater CD8 T-cell mediated therapeutic efficacy of a combination regimen of murine IL-15 (mIL-15) administered with an agonistic anti-CD40 antibody (FGK4.5) that led to increased IL-15Rα expression on dendritic cells (DCs) as well as other cell types in a syngeneic established TRAMP-C2 tumor model. Seventy-100% of TRAMP-C2 tumor-bearing wild type C57BL/6 mice in the combination group manifested sustained remissions whereas only 0–30% in the anti-CD40 alone group and none in the mIL-15 alone group became tumor free (p<0.001). However, the combination regimen showed less efficacy in TRAMP-C2 tumor-bearing IL-15Rα−/− mice than that in wild type mice. The combination regimen significantly increased the numbers of TRAMP-C2 tumor specific SPAS-1/SNC9-H tetramer CD8 T-cells which were associated with the protection from tumor development on rechallenge with TRAMP-C2 tumor cells. Using an in vitro cytolytic assay that involved NK cells primed by wild type or IL-15Rα−/− bone marrow derived DCs (BMDCs), we demonstrated that the expression of IL-15Rα by DCs appeared to be required for optimal IL-15 induced NK priming and killing. These findings support the view that anti-CD40 mediated augmented IL-15Rα expression was critical in IL-15 associated sustained remissions observed in TRAMP-C2 tumor-bearing mice receiving combination therapy.
Crisis Anticipation

CRISIS ANTICIPATION By Janet A. Tucker This study builds on two qualitative studies, one by Smith (1988) and one by Rew (1988a) which investigate the characteristics of crisis anticipation as defined by critical care nurses. A convenience sample of critical care nurses from three Midwestern hospitals was shown a random ordered list of thirty characteristics of crisis anticipation identified in the Smith (1988) and Rew (1988a) studies. The nurses scored each characteristic on importance to the concept of crisis anticipation. Nurses were divided into two groups by experience level, and group scores for each characteristic were developed using the Fehring (1986) technique. Group scores were compared to each other and to the ranked list developed from the Smith (1988) and Rew (1988a) results. Results showed essentially no significant difference between groups in this study. Comparison of group scores to the original list supported those characteristics as major and minor characteristics of the concept of crisis anticipation.
Are Consumers Ready for Mobile Payment? An Examination of Consumer Acceptance of Mobile Payment Technology in Restaurant Industry

As an emerging payment method, mobile payment technology is perceived to be a secure and effective substitute of traditional debit/credit card payment. Although several reports and scholars claimed that mobile payment technology would become a major future payment method, consumers rather caught on this trend slowly, and little is known about key determinants of consumers’ acceptance of mobile payment. To close that gap, the current study extended the classic Technology Acceptance Model by adding four additional predictors that are relevant to hospitality industry. The study results suggested that compatibility with lifestyle was the strongest predictor of consumers’ intention to adopt mobile payment technology in restaurants, followed by perceived usefulness, subjective norm, security, and previous experience with mobile payment. Important theoretical and practical implications were provided based on our findings.
Response of some Wheat Varieties to Humic Acid , Mineral and Biofertilization on Productivity and Quality

Two field experiments were conducted at the experimental station farm of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University, Egypt, during 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 growing seasons. The objective of this study was to investigate in three wheat cultivars in improve productivity and minimizing pollution. The results could be summarized in follows: Sakha 94 cultivar gave higher number of tillers/m, number of spike/m, number of spikelets/spike, 1000-grain weight, grain, straw and biological yields tons/fed. , than Misr 1 and Giza 168 cultivars in both seasons. Also, Sakha 94 cultivar significantly surpassed Giza 168 and Misr 1cultivars or crude protein percentage, nitrogen content (%), phosphorus (%) and potassium content (%) in both seasons. The addition of mineral and humic acid at rate of half recommend dose of mineral with 2 kg humic acid resulted insignificant increment in yield components, grain protein (%) and chemical compositionof wheat grains in both seasons. Inoculation AMycorrhizal + 7.5 P2O5/fed. , gave the highest values of yield, yield components and chemical compositions of wheat grain in both seasons. The effective treatments for number tillers/m, number of spike/m, number of spikelets/spike, 1000-grain weight, grain, straw and biological yields tons/fed. , were obtained from Sakha 94 cultivar with adding the half recommend dose with 2 kg humic acid in both seasons. The effective treatments for grain protein (%), nitrogen content (%), phosphorus content (%) and potassium content (%) in both seasons were obtained from Sakha 94 cultivar with inoculation AMycorrhizal + 7.5 P2O5/fed. (Feddan=4200 m).
2 Framework for Online Users Intentions to use Privacy Dashboards

Over the last decades, personal data has become a crucial asset for digital services. The exploitation of this asset, however, entails severe threats to privacy. Recently, so-called Privacy Dashboards have been presented, which are tools that allow users to gain insight and exercise control over data that a digital service provider has accumulated about them. This innovation enables not only privacy protection but also new ways of collaboration of users and providers of digital services. Privacy Dashboards have the potential to allow users to participate in the generation of user profiles for personalized services, thereby contributing to improved services. However, while a variety of Privacy Dashboards has been presented, factors leading to their actual adoption by users are largely unexplored. To fill this research gap, this paper provides an empirical analysis of antecedents of users’ adoption of Privacy Dashboards, in that focusing in particular on the currently most-prominent Privacy Dashboard “Google My Account”. Integrating the Technology Acceptance Model and the Privacy Calculus, our analysis shows that trust is the crucial factor in users’ adoption of the examined Privacy Dashboard and that Privacy Dashboards can both support users in protecting their privacy but also induce them to disclose personal data and thereby contribute to more precise user profiles.
External Debt Accumulation and Its Impact on Economic Growth in Pakistan

The accumulation of external debt is common phenomenon of the developing countries and it has become a common feature of the fiscal sectors of most of the economies. A country with lower saving rate needs to borrow more to finance the given rate of economic growth. So external debt is obtained to sustain the growth rate of the economy, which is otherwise not feasible with the given domestic resources. Pakistan is one of the developing countries and faces serious debt problems, according to World Bank Report 2000-2001, Pakistan is among the Highly Indebted Countries (HICs); because Pakistan’s present and future debt situation is very grim. According to the World Bank total external debt may be defined as debt owed to nonresident repayable in terms of foreign currency, goods or services. External debt is the composition of long term debt (public and publicly guaranteed debt plus private non guaranteed debt), short term commercial debt and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans. Prior to early 1970s the external debt of developing countries was primarily small and official phenomenon, the majority of creditors being foreign governments and international financial institutions offer loan for development project [Todaro (1988)]. At the same time current account deficit was common which increased the external indebtedness of the developing countries, until when Mexico, despite an oil exporter, declared in august, 1992 that it could not services its debt ever since, the issue of external debt and its servicing has assumed critical importance and introduced the debt crises debate [Were (2001)]. Several factors have contributed to high rate of debt accumulation in developing countries. These factors are wide-ranging and interconnected. The major factor was the 1973-74 oil price increased by Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) led to general deterioration in the external payments position of the oil importing developing countries and forced many of them to borrow heavily. Like other oil importing countries, Pakistan also suffered from these international events of exceptional nature. These events which imposed severe strains on its Balance of Payments (BOP) position hampered its development efforts and led to a marked increase in the volume of international indebtedness as well as its debt servicing liabilities. While improper implementation of macro economic policies, political instability, corruption and poor law and order situation are the main internal factors for rapid growth of external debt.
Effect of Different Dietary Lysine Regimens on Slaughter and Carcass Characteristics of Indigenous

| This study was planned to estimate the effect of different dietary lysine regimens on slaughter and carcass traits in Lakha, Mianwali, Mushki and Peshawari varieties of indigenous Aseel chicken. A total of 240 day-old chicks, 60 from each of the variety were taken randomly and sub-divided equally into three groups (A, B and C). They were offered three lysine regimens i.e., L1 constituting 1.3% lysine from 0-6th week (1-phased) to group A and L2 containing 1.41.2 % lysine where 1.4% lysine was offered from 0-3rd week and 1.2% lysine from 4-6th week (2-phased) to group B, while, L3 lysine regimen having 1.5%, 1.3%, 1.1% lysine was offered from 0-2nd, 3-4th and 5-6th week, respectively (3-phased) to group C. These birds were placed in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with a factorial arrangement of 3(lysine regimens) × 4 (varieties) × 20 (replicates) with one bird in each replicate under standard conditions of house management. For slaughter and carcass characteristics at the age of eighteen weeks, 72 birds including 18 from each variety with 6 from each group were randomly selected and slaughtered. The collected data were analyzed by statistical analysis system (SAS, 9.1) software through factorial Analysis of Variance technique (ANOVA) and means were compared by Duncan’s Multiple Range (DMR) test. The findings of this study revealed L3 lysine regimen to be the best for improving the slaughter characteristics including weight of head, shanks, lungs, liver, gizzard, heart, and carcass yield comprising percent weight of breast and thigh. Article History Received: June 13, 2017 Revised: December 09, 2017 Accepted: October 18, 2018 Published: December 11, 2018 Authors’ Contributions TB did the experiments, collected and analysed the data and wrote the manuscript. NR and AM supervised the experiments. NR proofread the manuscript. AM verified the processed data.
Impact of governance and gender on microfinance efficiency – A stochastic frontier analysis

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become central players in socio-economic development especially in developing countries. This paper investigates empirically the inefficiency factors of South Asian MFIs using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). A total of 392 MFIs were sampled for the period from 2003-2013. The underpinning assumption is that governance i.e. ownership, regulatory structures of MFIs and women in several roles as a buyer, lender and board member are important efficiency indicators of microfinance business. The estimated results suggest that presence of female loan officers have a positive effect while female board members and female borrowers show a significant negative impact on financial and social efficiency of MFIs. A strong positive association is found between the governance of an MFI and its efficiency. Cost efficiency estimates show that, on average, South Asian MFIs are operating at similar financial and social efficiency levels. It is therefore not suggested any trade-off between dual role of MFIs. a Corresponding author’s Email: U.Shahzad@massey.ac. nz Massey University – PACE, Auckland Campus, New Zealand b Email: H.Ozer-Balli@massey.ac. nz Massey University – School of Economics and Finance, Auckland Campus, New Zealand c Email: C.D. Matthews@massey.ac. nz Massey University – Deputy PVC's Office, Turitea Campus, New Zealand d Email: D.W. Tripe@massey.ac. nz Massey University – School of Economics and Finance, Turitea Campus, New Zealand
Does Financing Constraints Matter for Outward Foreign Direct Investment Decision ? Evidence from India

Even though the firm internationalization through exports or foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased in recent years, there is only limited evidence on the effect of financing constraints on firm’s outward orientation. This study examines the role of financing constraints in explaining the outward FDI decisions using a unique firm level panel data on Indian manufacturing firms during the period 2007–2014. We consider the role of both internal finance and external finance in firm decisions on outward FDI and employ instrumental variable probit model and random effects probit models to examine the role of financing constraints in outward FDI decisions of firms. The findings suggest that financing constraints, productivity and exporting have significant impact on the outward FDI decision Further, using count data models, we examine the role of financing constraints in determining the more complex strategy of firms regarding number of affiliates abroad. The study shows that firms with higher cash flow and liquidity are more likely to have more number of foreign affiliates.