Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Efficient Image-Based Localization Using Context

Image-Based Localization (IBL) is the problem of computing the position and orientation of a camera with respect to a geometric representation of the scene. A fundamental building block of IBL is searching the space of a saved 3D representation of the scene for correspondences to a query image. The robustness and accuracy of the IBL approaches in the literature are not objective and quantifiable. First, this thesis presents a detailed description and study of three different 3D modeling packages based on SFM to reconstruct a 3D map of an environment. The packages tested are VSFM, Bundler and PTAM. The objective is to assess the mapping ability of each of the techniques and choose the best one to use for reconstructing the IBL 3D map. The study results show that image matching which is the bottleneck of SFM, SLAM and IBL plays the major role in favour of VSFM. This will result in using wrong matches in building the 3D map. It is crucial for IBL to choose the software that provides the best quality of points, i.e. the largest number of correct 3D points. For this reason, VSFM will be chosen to reconstruct the 3D maps for IBL. Second, this work presents a comparative study of the main approaches, namely Brute Force Matching, Tree-Based Approach, Embedded Ferns Classification, ACG Localizer, Keyframe Approach, Decision Forest, Worldwide Pose Estimation and MPEG Search Space Reduction. The objective of the comparative analysis was to first uncover the specifics of each of these techniques and thereby understand the advantages and disadvantages of each of them. The testing was performed on Dubrovnik Dataset where the localization is determined with respect to a 3D cloud map which was computed using a Structure-from-Motion approach. The study results show that the current state of the art IBL solutions still face challenges in search space reduction, feature matching, clustering, and the quality of the solution is not consistent across all query images. Third, this work addresses the search space problem in order to solve the IBL problem. The Gist-based Search Space Reduction (GSSR), an efficient alternative to the available search space solutions, is proposed. It relies on GIST descriptors to considerably reduce search space and computational time, while at the same exceeding the state of the art in localization accuracy. Experiments on the 7 scenes datasets of Microsoft Research reveal considerable speedups for GSSR versus tree-based approaches, reaching a 4 times faster speed for the Heads dataset, and reducing the search space by an average of 92% while maintaining a better accuracy.
THIN LIQUID FILMS FLOWING DOWN HEATED WALLS: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESULTS

Here a review is presented about the stability problem of thin liquid films flowing down heated walls. The period reviewed starts from 2013, after the publication of the extensive review paper by Dávalos-Orozco [Interfacial Phenom. Heat Transfer, vol. 1, pp. 93–138 (2013)]. Emphasis is given to flows where the film is affected by thermocapillarity under different mechanical and thermal boundary conditions. The subjects under discussion include thin films flowing down heated flat and cylindrical walls. Besides, the results on non-uniformly heated films are considered for flows under three different boundary situations: (1) temperature gradient along the wall, (2) local heating (hot plates), and (3) wall topography. Finally, pure experimental research papers are also taken into account in this review. The formation and separation of rivulets are examined along with their local increase of maximum thickness with distance down a hot plate.
Toward robust and consistent regional CO2 flux estimates from in situ and spaceborne measurements of atmospheric CO2

We evaluate the robustness and consistency of global and regional posterior CO2 flux estimates for 2010 inferred from two versions of bias‐corrected CO2 column retrievals from the Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). Six satellite‐based inversions, generated from three atmospheric transport models and two independent Bayesian inference algorithms, facilitate a rigorous investigation of the uncertainty of the inverted fluxes. This ensemble shows hemispheric and regional differences in posterior flux estimates that are beyond 1 sigma uncertainties and in some regions are unrealistic. We recognize the importance of these satellite data in further understanding the contemporary carbon cycle but we argue that more resources should be invested in characterizing the errors of the prior fluxes, the systematic errors of the retrievals, and the systematic errors of the transport models, to improve confidence in the resulting posterior fluxes.
Efficient Quantum Algorithms for GHZ and W States, and Implementation on the IBM Quantum Computer

Efficient deterministic algorithms are proposed with logarithmic step complexities for the generation of entangled GHZN and WN states useful for quantum networks, and an implementation on the IBM quantum computer up to N=16 is demonstrated. Improved quality is then investigated using full quantum tomography for low‐N GHZ and W states. This is completed by parity oscillations and histogram distance for large‐N GHZ and W states, respectively. Robust states are built with about twice the number of quantum bits which were previously achieved.
Great Expectations: Perfectionism and Residence Status Predict College Adjustment

COPYRIGHT 2014 BY PSI CHI, THE INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY IN PSYCHOLOGY (VOL. 19, NO. 3/ISSN 2164-8204) *Faculty mentor Full-time college students are subject to all the rigors of higher education while they assimilate into a new community. The pressure is overwhelming to many students. More than 50% of cases of attrition in higher education included poor adjustment as at least a partial cause (Kerr, Johnson, Gans, & Krumrine, 2004), contributing to a graduation rate of less than 60% (U.S. Dept. of Education, 2011). In a metaanalytic review, Credé and Niehorster (2012) demonstrated the strength of college adjustment in predicting college retention. They stated that institutional attachment, a core construct of Baker and Syrik’s (1989) model of college adjustment, was the strongest available predictor of retention, accounting for 7.6% of the variance. Researchers have shown that academic adjustment, another component of Baker and Syrik’s model, was associated with grade point average (Hezlett et al., 2001), which in turn was related to attrition (Martinez, Sher, Krull, & Wood, 2009). In addition, poor overall adjustment heightened the risk of alcohol-related negative consequences among college students (LaBrie, Ehret, Hummer, & Prenovost, 2012). College adjustment is comprised of a complex array of thoughts, actions, and feelings that may have antecedents in the developmental history of college students. To this end, we examined perfectionism and residence status as potential social-cognitive predictors of college adjustment.
Measurement of Organisation-Professional Conflict in the Industrial Psychology Profession

Orientation: Professionals, employed in organisations, operate within professional and organisational contexts serving different stakeholders. Subsequently, professionals may experience tension or conflict between their role as professional and employee. Research purpose: To establish the measurement of the perceptions and experiences of industrial psychology (IP) professionals, employed in South African organisations, with regard to Organisation-Professional Conflict (OPC) as well as the antecedents associated with this phenomenon. Motivation for the study: Although the extent to which professionals experience OPC is well documented for medical and accountancy professionals, the extent to which IP professionals experience this phenomenon remains unclear. Research design, approach and method: A structured questionnaire was developed and applied as a cross-sectional survey to all registered South African IP professionals employed in organisations. Responses based on the N = 143 self-selecting respondents were captured and utilised for statistical analysis. Main findings: OPC in the IP profession can be considered as the incongruence between professional organisational roles and duties, and their responsibility to adhere to professional obligations. Professional autonomy and strategic alignment were found to mitigate the occurrence of OPC, whereas power tension and compromise of professionalism seem to exacerbate the occurrence thereof. Practical/managerial implications: The research might create an awareness of the existence of OPC amongst the respective stakeholders. Knowledge of OPC may have implications for professionals who render their professional services to organisations. Contribution/value-add: The findings may inform formal professional associations, industrial psychologists employed by organisations, their employing organisations, and the governing board, about the nature and extent of OPC.
Effect of Special Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention on Commitment to Exercise and Mental Health

BACKGROUND: Although most people are aware of the advantages of physical exercise, they have failed to commit to it. This forms justification for this intervention. OBJECTIVES: In this study, the effect of special cognitive-behavioral intervention on commitment to exercise and mental health in adults was investigated by controlling the role of the commitment-to-exercise variable. METHODS: The statistical population for this study comprised 635 employees with over 10 years’ professional experience: 235 were selected from amongst these. Thereafter, 80 employees were randomly assigned to two groups—experimental and control—of 40 each. The experimental group was trained for four months in fourteen sessions for using cognitive-behavioral therapy. To collect data, a commitment-to-exercise and mental health questionnaire was used. RESULTS: When the effect of the pretest variable on the dependent variable was adjusted, it was observed that there is a significant difference (p < 0.01) between the means of the scores for commitment and mental health. The covariance test revealed that the difference in the mental health of the experimental and control groups after controlling the effects of commitment to exercise was not significant (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that commitment to exercises can be improved in individuals by using the aforementioned cognitive-behavioral protocol. Furthermore, using the mediating role of commitment to exercise improves mental health. Therefore, counselors and therapists can use the cognitive-behavioral intervention protocol to improve the commitment to exercise and the mental health of individuals.
Effective Control and Bifurcation Analysis in a Chaotic System with Distributed Delay Feedback

We discuss the dynamic behavior of a new Lorenz-like chaotic system with distributed delayed feedback by the qualitative analysis and numerical simulations. It is verified that the equilibria are locally asymptotically stable when and unstable when ; Hopf bifurcation occurs when crosses a critical value by choosing as a bifurcation parameter. Meanwhile, the explicit algorithm for determining the direction of the Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions is derived by normal form theorem and center manifold argument. Furthermore, regarding as a bifurcation parameter, we explore variation tendency of the dynamics behavior of a chaotic system with the increase of the parameter value .
Protective effects of curcumin on antioxidant status, body weight gain, and reproductive parameters in male rats exposed to subchronic 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of curcumin (CUR) on antioxidant status, body weight (BW) gains, and some reproductive parameters in male rats exposed to subchronic doses of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Thirty-two rats were divided into four groups. The first group was kept as control. The second group (TCDD group) was given TCDD at a dose of 50 ng·kg−1 BW per day; the third group (CUR group) was treated with CUR at a dose of 80 mg·kg−1 BW per day. The fourth group (TCDD + CUR group) was given TCDD and CUR at the same doses simultaneously. Malondialdehyde (MDA) levels were significantly increased in the TCDD group. In addition, TCDD exposure decreased liver superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, catalase (CAT) activities of kidney and brain, glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activities of liver, kidney, and brain, and glutathione levels of liver, kidney, and heart. However, CUR treatment with TCDD exposure decreased MDA levels in all tissues and increased SOD activities of liver, kidney, and brain, CAT activity of heart, and GSH-Px activities of heart and brain. TCDD caused a decrease in BW gain, and CUR partially eliminated this effect of TCDD. In addition, while reproductive organ weights, sperm concentration, and sperm motility tended to decrease with TCDD exposure, these effects tended to be close to normal levels by CUR treatment. In conclusion, CUR was seen to be effective in the treatment and prevention of toxicity induced by subchronic TCDD exposure.
A new approach for innovating in a military context: a qualitative study on the implementation of Concept, Development and Experimentation at TNO

Historically, military organizations tend to be highly innovative. In fact some of the major breakthrough innovations from gunpowder to the Global Positioning System derive from the military. The ever-changing environment forces the military to adapt to new situations and to new challenges. The newest adaptation effort of the Dutch Ministry of Defence is the implementation of Concept, Development and Experimentation (CD&E) as a new innovation approach, thereby increasing the throughput time and quality performance of capability development projects. Provided that the financial situation of the organisation is taken into account, and the costs do not increase. As a strategic partner of the Ministry of Defence, TNO is one of the independent research institutes conducting applied studies on behalf of the Ministry of Defence. The implementation of a new innovation approach is of major impact on the activities TNO currently performs during their project management procedure. With the use of agile approach literature, the impact of the implementation of CD&E is studied and recommendations on the project management procedure of TNO are made in order to improve throughput time and the quality performance of capability development projects of the Ministry of Defence, without increasing the costs of these projects.
WoSIS: providing standardised soil profile data for the world

Abstract. The aim of the World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) is to serve quality-assessed, georeferenced soil data (point, polygon, and grid) to the international community upon their standardisation and harmonisation. So far, the focus has been on developing procedures for legacy point data with special attention to the selection of soil analytical and physical properties considered in the GlobalSoilMap specifications (e.g. organic carbon, soil pH, soil texture (sand, silt, and clay), coarse fragments ( shared soil profiles, of which some 96 000 are georeferenced within defined limits. In total, this corresponds with over 31 million soil records, of which some 20 % have so far been quality-assessed and standardised using the sequential procedure discussed in this paper. The number of measured data for each property varies between profiles and with depth, generally depending on the purpose of the initial studies. Overall, the data lineage strongly determined which data could be standardised with acceptable confidence in accord with WoSIS procedures, corresponding to over 4 million records for 94 441 profiles. The publicly available data – WoSIS snapshot of July 2016 – are persistently accessible from ISRIC WDC-Soils through doi:10.17027/isric-wdcsoils.20160003 .
On the status of the deep-syntactic structure

This paper defends an apparently paradoxical point of view: The deep-syntactic structure is a fundamental representation of a sentence, but it should not be considered as an intermediate structure in the meaning-text correspondence. We argue that the correspondence from the semantic level to the surface-syntactic level must be direct and that the deep-syntactic structure is the witness of this correspondence (i.e. the derivation structure in more technical terms). Due to this status, it plays a major role in the paraphrasing and in the characterization of lexical functions.
Explanations of Asset Price Bubbles

The study provides an overview of the theories explaining asset price bubbles found in the literature. Six different explanations are identified that can cause asset price bubbles on their own as well as in some combination: informational frictions, short selling constraints, limited liability of financial intermediaries, herd behaviour among market participants, perverse incentives in the provision of information, and market participants’ bounded rationality. Mispricing arising from asset price bubbles can considerably hamper the efficient allocation of resources, which may warrant government intervention. Nevertheless, most of the underlying factors that induce asset price bubbles can only be limited or offset rather than fully eliminated. Financial stability is mainly threatened by debt-financed asset price bubbles. With respect to asset price bubbles, the mandate and available instruments of macroprudential policy are limited to the mitigation of cyclical fluctuations in the related lending.
Permian plume beneath Tarim from receiver functions

Abstract. Receiver functions for the central Tien Shan and northern Tarim in central Asia reveal a pronounced depression on the 410 km discontinuity beneath the Permian basalts in Tarim. The depression may be caused by elevated temperature. The striking spatial correlation between the anomaly of the MTZ and the Permian basalts suggests that both may be effects of the same plume. This relation can be reconciled with the possible motion of Tarim on the order of 1000 km by assuming that the mantle layer, which has moved coherently with the plate since the Permian, extends to a depth of 410 km or more. Alternatively, the lithosphere and underlying mantle are decoupled at a depth of ∼ 200 km, but a cumulative effect of the Tarim plate motion since the Permian is less by an order of magnitude. A similar explanation is applicable to the Siberian traps.
Fine-mapping of chromosome 5p15.33 based on a targeted deep sequencing identifies novel lung cancer susceptibility loci Running Title (40 characters): Novel 5p15.33 lung cancer susceptibility loci

Linda Kachuri, Christopher I. Amos, James D. McKay, Mattias Johansson, Paolo Vineis, H.Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Mikael Johansson, J.Ramón Quirós, Sabina Sieri, Ruth C. Travis, Elisabete Weiderpass, Loic Le Marchand, Brian E. Henderson, Lynne Wilkens, Gary E. Goodman Chu Chen, Jennifer A. Doherty, David C. Christiani, Yongyue Wei, Li Su, Shelley Tworoger, Xuehong Zhang, Peter Kraft, David Zaridze, John K. Field, Michael W. Marcus, Michael P.A. Davies, Russell Hyde, Neil E. Caporaso, Maria Teresa Landi, Gianluca Severi, Graham G. Giles, Geoffrey Liu, John R. McLaughlin, Yafang Li, Xiangjun Xiao, Gord Fehringer, Xuchen Zong, Robert E. Denroche, Philip C. Zuzarte, John D. McPherson, Paul Brennan, Rayjean J. Hung*
Growth of the chub mackerel Scomber japonicus (Pisces: Scombridae) off the Canary Islands

Growth of the cliub inacherel off tlie Ciiiiarjl Islniid\ wa\ studied ~isiiig a bach-calculation inethod bascd oii tlie rclatioiiship betwecii tlic otolitli radius iiiid the Iciigtli of tlie fisli. Otoliths sliowed clear growtli ririg\. Two ririgs. one opaque and one hyaline, were Inid down eiich yeiir oii thc otolithj. Tlie opaque zoiie w~is foriiied froin March to Septeinbcr and thc hyalinc «nc tluring the i-emainiiig niunrhs of the year. The otolith radius-total Icrigth of the fish relatioriship was describetl by tlie equation: TL=X3.333 OR1-"". Thc back-cnlculatccl mc;in Icngtlis I-aiiged froni 192 iniii at tlie end «S year 1 to 41 1 iniri at the eiid of year 7. The par-ameter\ of tlie von Bertalanffy growth equation wcre: L ,=497 inin. and K=0.2 I y ' .
Digital Beamforming and Non-Uniform Displaced Phase Centre Sampling in Bi- and Multistatic SAR

The displaced phase centre (DPC) technique will enable a wide swath SAR with high azimuth resolution. In a classic DPC system, the PRF has to be chosen such that the SAR carrier moves just one half of its antenna length between subsequent radar pulses. Any deviation from this PRF will result in a non-uniform sampling of the synthetic aperture. This paper shows that an unambiguous reconstruction of the SAR signal is also possible in case of such a non-optimum PRF. For this, an innovative reconstruction algorithm is derived, which enables a recovery of the unambiguous Doppler spectrum also in case of a non-uniform sampling of the synthetic aperture. This algorithm will also have a great potential for multistatic satellite constellations as well as the dual receive antenna mode in Radarsat 2 and TerraSAR-X.
Sur la non-densité des points entiers

We give non-density results for integral points on affine varieties, inthe spirit of Lang-Vojta conjecture. In particular, let X be a projective variety of dimension d ≥ 2 over a number field K (resp. over C). Let H be the sum of 2d properly intersecting ample divisors on X. We show that any set of quasi-integral points (resp. any integral curve) on X − H is not Zariski dense. Resume : On donne des resultats de non-densite pour les points entiers sur des varietes affines, dans l'esprit de la conjecture de Lang-Vojta. En particulier,soit X une variete pro- jective de dimension d ≥ 2 sur un corps de nombres K (resp. sur C). Soit H la somme de 2d diviseurs amples sur X qui se coupent proprement. On montre que tout ensemble de points quasi-entiers (resp. toute courbe entiere) sur X − H est non Zariski-dense.
Applied macroeconometrics in transition economy: Croatian experience

The countries of Eastern and Central Europe have recently experienced significant changes in economic structure and in economic policies. The process of political transition was initiated after the demise of socialism, replacing the single-party politics and introducing liberal democracy. Economic transition was launched in parallel to this process. It aimed to establish a functioning market economy instead of a centrally planned one through simultaneous price liberalisation, trade liberalisation, currency convertibility, promotion of private enterprise, privatisation and prudent monetary and fiscal policies (Sachs 1990 see also Blanchard et al., 1991).
Self-estimates of attention performance

In research on self-estimated IQ, gender differences are often found. The present study investigates whether these findings are true for self-estimation of attention, too. A sample of 100 female and 34 male students were asked to fill in the test of attention d2. After taking the test, the students estimated their results in comparison to their fellow students. The results show that the students underestimate their percent rank compared with the actual percent rank they achieved in the test, but estimate their rank order fairly accurately. Moreover, males estimate their performance distinctly higher than females do. This last result remains true even when the real test score is statistically controlled. The results are discussed with regard to research on positive illusions and gender stereotypes.