Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Humans cannot decipher adversarial images: Revisiting Zhou and Firestone (2019)

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown extraordinary success in object recognition tasks. However, they can also be fooled by adversarial images (stimuli designed to fool networks) that do not appear to fool humans. This has been taken as evidence that these models work quite differently than the human visual system. However, Zhou and Firestone (2019) carried out a study where they presented adversarial images which fool DCNNs to humans and found that, in many cases, humans chose the same label for these images as DCNNs. They take these findings to support the claim that human and machine vision is more similar than commonly claimed. Here we report two experiments that show that the level of agreement between human and DCNN classification is driven by how the experimenter chooses the adversarial images and how they choose the labels given to humans for classification. Based on how one chooses these variables, humans can show a span of agreement levels with DCNNs; from well below to well above levels expected by chance. Overall, our results do not support a view of large systematic overlap between human and computer vision.
A Scientific Study of Pencil Lead Components

The term “lead” pencil is a misnomer in that the pencil contains no lead but rather is composed of three primary ingredients in varying proportions: graphites, clays, and waxes [1]. Since its introduction during the 16th century, the pencil has become the most widely used writing instrument throughout the world. Americans yearly consume over two billion pencils, with the U.S. government and Bell Telephone System being the largest purchasers. It has been reported that enough pencils are produced every year in the United States to supply every American with one pencil every 40 days.
Detecting Microwave Orbital Angular Momentum by Single-sensor Imaging: A Computational Feasibility Study

We propose a new method to detect phase profile of a microwave orbital angular momentum (OAM) beam applying single-sensor imaging method based on Phaselift algorithm. The Phaselift method enables recovering phase profile using only amplitude measurement. A programmable metasurface that can provide phase modulation is needed. We use a transmissive 2-bit programmable metasurface that spatially modulates phase of the incident wave. The modulated transmitted wave is then received using a single-element sensor that only need to record the intensity. We perform simulations using $6 \times 6$ pixel metasurface and preliminary results show that the tested OAM beam can be recovered.
An Empirical Study of the Application of Lean Tools in U.S. Industry

Abstract Lean manufacturing involves implementing a variety of tools and practices for the purpose of reducing waste and increasing an organization’s overall productivity. The movement toward lean thinking that has gained incredible popularity in recent decades has changed the way businesses operate, and such tools have become essential for maintaining a competitive edge, both regionally and internationally. This article examines the application of lean tools in various U.S. industries to further clarify the impact lean processes may have on an American business’s production and efficiency. To gather the necessary information and experiences of U.S. organizations, the authors executed a thorough literature review to secure topics and concerns that must be addressed in a survey. The survey derived from their findings from the relevant literature was distributed to U.S. industries spanning the nation, whose feedback provides a holistic view of lean process applications throughout the country. The analysis of the information collected from the survey demonstrates how lean tools have influenced American industries and allows one to see which lean practices contribute the greatest to overall company performance, as well as observe patterns in how company characteristics (that is, ownership, size, industry) may affect the successful implementation of lean processes.
Desarrollo y validación de una escala para medir satisfacción con los recursos laborales

Over the past three decades research on job resources has consistently shown their influence on employees’ well-being and performance. However, recent studies indicate that such outcomes are more strongly related to satisfaction with job resources than to perceived job resources. Accordingly, and based on HERO model, we developed a new measure to assess satisfaction with job resources. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic-results based on two independent samples consisting of 492 and 508 employees supported the four proposed dimensions: satisfaction with task resources, satisfaction with team resources, satisDesarrollo y validación de una escala para medir satisfacción con los recursos laborales Carlos L. Spontóna, Mario A. Trógoloa,b, Estanislao Castellanoa, Luis P. Moreraa y Leonardo Medranoa,c a Universidad Siglo 21 (US21), Córdoba, Argentina b Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Córdoba, Argentina c Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Escuela de Psicología, República Dominicana Recibido el 11 de abril de 2019; aceptado el 3 de julio de 2019 PALABRAS CLAVE Recursos laborales, satisfacción, desarrollo y validación, medición * Autor para correspondencia. Correo electrónico: mario.trogolo@gmail.com, mario.trogolo@ues21.edu. ar http://dx.doi. org/10.14349/sumapsi.2019. v26.n1. 8 0120-0534/© 2019 Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz. Este es un artículo Open Access bajo la licencia CC BY-NC-ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT IN UZBEKISTAN.

The main purpose of this article analyzes successfully optimizing discipline in accordance with general objectives of management through innovation. Study of the theory and practice of innovation management at organization as one of the main directions of increasing competitiveness in a market economy. The study of theoretical approaches and materials provided for in the this paper provides sustainable economic growth in Uzbekistan. On this discipline we will discuss modern skills and effective management at companies for providing relevant competencies in national economy.
Corrosion behaviour of compositionally modulated nanocrystalline Ni–W coatings

The present study deals with corrosion behaviour of compositionally modulated nanocrystalline Ni–W alloy coatings and conventional hard chrome coatings. Compositionally modulated Ni–W alloy coatings of known composition were systematically deposited using pulse current deposition. The corrosion behaviour was analysed using potentiodynamic polarization and impedance spectroscopy in 2N H2SO4. Compositionally modulated Ni–W alloy coatings depicted substantial improvement in corrosion resistance over its single-layer counterpart and hard chrome coatings. The corrosion behaviour was rationalized based on porosity and surface residual stresses present in these coatings.
Ultrasonographic anatomy of the bovine carpal joint

Gegenstand und Ziel: Anfertigung einer detaillierten, als Referenz verwendbaren Bilddokumentation der ultrasonographischen Anatomie der Karpalregion des Rindes. Material und Methodik: Der Karpus wurde bei 21 Praparaten und an 11 Karpalgelenken klinisch gesunder Rindern unterschiedlichen Alters und beiderlei Geschlechts untersucht. Von zwei Ausnahmen abgesehen wurde jeweils nur ein Karpus eines Tieres untersucht. Hierzu erfolgte eine Unterteilung in vier horizontale und acht vertikale Ebenen, die anhand von markanten Knochenpunkten aufgefunden werden konnten. Die so entstandenen 32 Lokalisationen wurden jeweils bei horizontal als auch bei vertikal gehaltenem Schallkopf von proximal nach distal untersucht. Die sichtbaren Strukturen jedes der resultierenden 64 Ultrasonogramme wurden anhand von computergraphischen Skizzen sowie den dazugehorigen anatomischen Gefrierschnittbildern dargestellt. Ergebnisse: Die in den 32 Ebenen angefertigten Ultraschallbilder, Skizzen und Gefrierschnitte zeigten nahezu alle relevanten Strukturen am Karpus. Die den Karpus uberziehenden Muskeln und ihre Endsehnen, teilweise auch ihre Sehnenscheiden, die Seitenbander und die Oberflache der knochernen Anteile des Karpus konnten ohne grosere Probleme dargestellt werden. Fur die Erkennung des M. abductor pollicis longus war zusatzlich eine schrage Schallkopffuhrung notwendig. Etwas Ubung erforderte die Darstellung der im palmaren und medialen Bereich verlaufenden Blutgefase und des N. medianus. Die Gelenkspalten konnten als Unterbrechung der echoreichen Reflexlinie der Knochen sichtbar gemacht werden. Die Gelenkkapseln waren nur nach vorhergehender Fullung mit Flussigkeit eindeutig zu identifizieren. Schlussfolgerung: Auf der Grundlage dieser Referenzbilder sind sowohl gesunde als auch erkrankte Karpalgelenke einfacher und zuverlassiger ultrasonographisch zu untersuchen. Klinische Relevanz: Das Bildmaterial bietet auch dem weniger versierten Untersucher eine gute Orientierung der komplexen Karpalgelenkregion und ermoglicht eine fundierte Untersuchung des haufig erkrankten Gelenks.
The effect of a 10 week isometric handgrip training protocol on blood pressure (resting and ambulatory) and cardiovascular reactivity in young, normotensive individuals

The primary purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that in young, normotensive men and women, 10 weeks of isometric handgrip (IHG) training (3X/ week) would 1) elicit reductions in ambulatory blood pressure (BP), concomitant to reductions in resting BP, and 2) these reductions would be predicted by cardiovascular reactivity to standard laboratory stress tasks (e.g. IHG task, IHGT; a 2 minute sustained isometric contraction). Reductions in 24-hour, daytime, and nighttime systolic ambulatory BP were observed following IHG training in both men (n=13) and women (n=11, P0.05), were associated with pre-training systolic BP reactivity to the IHGT (P
ETHNO-RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM THE AGING POPULATION

This dissertation assesses racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes of the aging population, with focus on improving functional health, health status and quality of life at both individual and community levels. Chapter 2 examines racial and ethnic disparities in willingness to pay (WTP) for improved health among an aging population sample while also examining the impact of health status and risky health behaviors. Using contingent valuation survey data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), model results indicate that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to have a positive WTP for improved health than non-Hispanic Whites. However, WTP for minorities is found to be significantly lower than for non-Hispanic Whites. However, when compared with non-Hispanic Whites, WTP for minorities
PointCMC: Cross-Modal Multi-Scale Correspondences Learning for Point Cloud Understanding

Some self-supervised cross-modal learning approaches have recently demonstrated the potential of image signals for enhancing point cloud representation. However, it remains a question on how to directly model cross-modal local and global correspondences in a self-supervised fashion. To solve it, we proposed PointCMC, a novel cross-modal method to model multi-scale correspondences across modalities for self-supervised point cloud representation learning. In particular, PointCMC is composed of: (1) a local-to-local (L2L) module that learns local correspondences through optimized cross-modal local geometric features, (2) a local-to-global (L2G) module that aims to learn the correspondences between local and global features across modalities via local-global discrimination, and (3) a global-to-global (G2G) module, which leverages auxiliary global contrastive loss between the point cloud and image to learn high-level semantic correspondences. Extensive experiment results show that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in various downstream tasks such as 3D object classification and segmentation. Code will be made publicly available upon acceptance.
Factors influencing entry to residential care among older people

With the population increasing, and the occupancy and dependency levels of older people in residential care rising, it is essential to examine the factors surrounding admission. The reasons for an older person choosing to move to residential care in New Zealand are not well documented, and little evidence surrounds the process. Clearly there is interplay of many factors, such as risk mitigation by health professionals, co-morbid disease, and concerns of the family. Objective: To seek out the significant factors and influences which persuade an older person to enter residential care, and the subsequent satisfaction. Design: Longitudinal mixed methods design (N = 131), using interviews with older people who were referred by the Needs Assessment Services Co-ordination (NASC). Also interviewed were caregivers, NASC managers, and the Multidisciplinary team. This research, called Older People Entering Residential Accommodation (OPERA) was a sub-study of the Assessment of Services Promoting Independence and Recovery in Elders (ASPIRE) trial (N=569). The data from ASPIRE was also available for use in the analysis. Face-to-face or telephone interviews were held with older people in three cities who needed substantial levels of support. Findings: The most significant factors for increasing the likelihood of residential care entry were: to have the potential care-giving child living far away, and needing a lot of support with the higher level daily living tasks. Also significant was the older person being home alone for long periods. It was clearly shown that while the doctor had the most influence over the person’s entry into residential care, the older person had the most influence with the decision to stay at home. The vast majority of the older people staying at home were happy with their Factors influencing entry to residential care among older people III decision to stay there, but unfortunately the vast majority of older people who entered residential care were unhappy with their decision to move there. Conclusions: This study demonstrated who was at risk of residential care entry, who had the controlling influence, and the subsequent older person satisfaction. Also highlighted was the need for improved communication to the older person, with improved community support and more customer-focused residential care. Factors influencing entry to residential care among older people
Crosswind stability of vehicles under nonstationary wind excitation

This work has studied the crosswind stability of vehicles under nonstationary wind excitation in various scenarios. Railway vehicles running on curved and straight track with varying vehicle speed are studied. Road vehicles are classified into different categories. For each vehicle class, a corresponding worst-case vehicle model has been built. As the wind excitation on the vehicle is a stochastic process, a risk analysis has to be carried out and failure probabilities are computed and analyzed.
Correlation between Experiential Learning and Optimism among College students

3 Dedication . 5 Acknowledgment.6 List of tables.7 List of figures.8 Chapter one 1: Introduction 1.1 Overview.11 1.2 Statement of the Problem.11 1.3 Background of the Research.12 1.4 The Research Questions.14 1.5 The Significant of the Research.14 1.6 The Organization of the Research.15 Chapter 2: literature Review 2.1 Experiential Learning.16 2.2 Emotional Intelligence.22 2.3 Student Attrition.26 Chapter 3: The Present Study 3.1 Methodology.28 3.2 Research Design.30 3.3 Method of Data Collection.31 3.4 Context . 35 3.5 Participants and Sampling.36 3.5. 1 Ethical Issues. 37
DETERRING PROPERTY TAX DELINQUENCY IN PHILADELPHIA

Municipal governments commonly confront the problem of tardy or delinquent property tax payments. We implement an experiment in property tax collection for tardy taxpayers in the City of Philadelphia for the calendar year 2015. The experiment sent one of seven reminder letters to the tardy taxpayers, testing the efficacy of a simple reminder; two alternative reminders stressing economic sanctions; and four alternative reminders emphasizing either that taxpayers receive neighborhood services or city-wide services for their tax payments, that most of their neighbors pay their taxes on time, or that as a citizen in a democracy it is a civic duty to pay taxes on time. Compliance behaviors were compared to a holdout sample that received no reminder letter. The most effective letters were those that threatened an economic sanction for continued non-compliance. These letters were particularly cost-effective in raising additional city revenues. There was no evidence that those receiving a reminder for calendar year 2015 improved their tax compliance behavior in calendar year 2016.
Representation of face-prior precision

Perception is an active inference in which perceptual priors are combined with sensory input. It is still unclear how the precision of prior expectations is represented in the human brain. Prior precision could be represented with prior content itself in sensory regions. Alternatively, there could be distinct, specialized brain regions that represent precision separately from the content of the prior. Here, we used multivariate functional resonance imaging to test whether the precision of face priors can be measured together with expected face identity in facesensitive regions. During face anticipation, representations of expected face identity increased with prior precision in the face-sensitive anterior temporal lobe. In contrast, during face presentation, representations of face identity increased with surprise in the fusiform face area and the insula. Our findings suggest that precision of face priors is represented in higher-level face areas. These priors seem to influence the representation of face input in lower-level face regions and additional specialized brain regions which signal surprise to unexpected stimuli.
Factors Associated with Taking out a Personal Finance from Islamic Banks: A Study from Almadinah, Saudi Arabia

Islamic banking is growing rapidly and currently are operating in about half of the world countries. In the current study, factors that contribute to taking out a personal finance from full-fledged Islamic banks in Saudi Arabia were investigated. To achieve the study objective, customers (269) of full-fledged Islamic banks from Almadinah city were surveyed using self-administered questionnaire. About 53% of the sample reported taking out a personal finance from Islamic banks. The purpose of taking personal finance was consumption and investment in 90% and 10% of the cases respectively. Regression analysis showed that age, social status, type of employment, satisfaction level and adherence to Islamic principles were associated with taking out a personal finance. The results provide feedback to the Islamic banks in Almadinah to improve personal financing programs.
An Inquiry into Differences in Patient Outcomes by Observing Dietitian and Nurse Practitioner Management of Hyperlipidemia

Abstract : This study was performed to cross check the differences between a dietitian and a nurse practitioner when dealing with patients to lower there overall cholesterol level. The study was performed at Irwin Army Community Hospital, Fort Riley, KS. Keywords: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD); Sequential Multiple Analyser(SMA); Diet; Nutrition.
Effect of nano particles on electro optic properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystal in normal mode

Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) is a striking material and have an enormous role in electro optic display devices. In this paper, nanoparticles (NPs) doped PDLCs in normal mode were prepared from a mixture of UV curable liquid polymer, nematic liquid crystal (LC) and silica NPs by the polymerization induced phase separation (PIPS) process. Morphological study shows the LC droplets cluster formation in pure PDLC and LC droplets with a more uniform phase separated polymer matrix in NPs doped PDLC due to the heterogeneous nucleation rate caused by the increased nucleation at the surface of NPs. Further, electro optic properties of doped and pure PDLC including transmittance, driving voltage, contrast ratio and sharpness as well as slope of the linear region of the transmittance-voltage were measured, compared and analyzed. Driving voltage of NPs doped PDLCs quite improved, however the slope of linear region and contrast ratio declined as compared to pure PDLC.Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) is a striking material and have an enormous role in electro optic display devices. In this paper, nanoparticles (NPs) doped PDLCs in normal mode were prepared from a mixture of UV curable liquid polymer, nematic liquid crystal (LC) and silica NPs by the polymerization induced phase separation (PIPS) process. Morphological study shows the LC droplets cluster formation in pure PDLC and LC droplets with a more uniform phase separated polymer matrix in NPs doped PDLC due to the heterogeneous nucleation rate caused by the increased nucleation at the surface of NPs. Further, electro optic properties of doped and pure PDLC including transmittance, driving voltage, contrast ratio and sharpness as well as slope of the linear region of the transmittance-voltage were measured, compared and analyzed. Driving voltage of NPs doped PDLCs quite improved, however the slope of linear region and contrast ratio declined as compared to pure PDLC.
Exports, Misallocation, and Total Factor Productivity of Furniture Enterprises

With the increase in labor costs in China and the tremendous changes in the international trade environment, upgrading the total factor productivity of Chinese furniture export enterprises faces a great challenge. Lots of studies have explored the interaction of exports or misallocation on the total factor productivity (TFP) of furniture enterprises, however, there is little knowledge on the impact and interaction of both exports and misallocation on the TFP. Based on panel data of Chinese furniture enterprises, this paper measures the TFP and the distortion of labor and capital resources in Chinese furniture enterprises. A two-way fixed-effects model is used to analyze the impact of exports and misallocation on the TFP of Chinese furniture enterprises. The paper reveals several important findings. First, the TFP of Chinese furniture export enterprises is lower than that of non-export enterprises, this phenomenon is called the “export–productivity paradox”. Chinese furniture export enterprises are processing trade-oriented and labor-intensive enterprises at the low end of the value chain, exports have a negative effect on improving the TFP of furniture enterprises in the short term. Second, the distortion of labor and capital resources in Chinese furniture enterprises promotes improvements to the TFP of furniture enterprises rather than reducing the TFP of furniture enterprises. Last but not the least, we find that misallocation has a positive moderating effect on exports and can weaken the negative impact of exports on TFP by the “forced mechanism”, which is that the higher the distortion of the misallocation, the higher the cost of acquiring capital and labor, and enterprises are forced to enhance their productivity when facing market competition, thus promoting improvements to the TFP of furniture enterprises.