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As generative AI tools become more accessible in education, questions are being asked about how students engage with them, particularly in creative contexts. Drawing on data from an international Erasmus+/eTwinning project involving students aged 13–15 from three countries (Slovenia, Spain, and Germany), this paper explores how adolescents use AI in school-based creative tasks. Activities such as writing poems, designing logos, and creating short stories were often completed using AI tools with little prompting from teachers. The students' creative work has shown clear, uncritical use of AI — treating it as a shortcut rather than a creative partner. Similarly, students were unable to recognise AI-generated writing, mistaking it for human-written text. This observation aligns with emerging research suggesting that young learners tend to adopt AI for convenience, often without questioning authorship, originality or ethical use. The study highlights the motivational value of AI in creative tasks, as well as the need for explicit guidance to foster critical AI literacy. While students are eager to adopt generative technologies, the findings suggest that educators must play a key role in fostering reflective engagement and ethical awareness. Without pedagogical support, AI has the potential to reinforce passivity rather than empower creativity and digital agency in young learners.

The undeniable scientific fact is that time is information about the numerical order of changes that occur in the time-invariant space that we experience as the Now. Nothing could have happened in some distant physical past because it doesn't exist. We do not have single experimental evidence that time is a dimension in which the universe exists. That’s why the origin of the universe in some distant past is a philosophical-religious research topic. Appropriate scientific research methodology is how the universe we observe works. Astronomical observations confirm that SMBHs in the centre of galaxies throw into intergalactic space fresh energy for the formation of new stars in the form of astrophysical jets. SMBHs are rejuvenating systems of the universe. Evidence-based cosmology research methodology is superior to the Big Bang cosmology research methodology because it has no theoretical assumptions and is strictly empirical. It confirms that the observable universe rejuvenates itself.

A madeira é o material de construção mais antigo do mundo e pode ser utilizada em diversos elementos estruturais. O dimensionamento de tais elementos é feito, em geral, por meio de cálculos extensos e complexos. Em razão disso, softwares de dimensionamento de estruturas de madeira que auxiliam e facilitam esses cálculos vêm crescendo com o passar do tempo, ganhando cada vez mais popularidade. No entanto, com a atualização dos critérios de dimensionamentos, presentes no novo texto da norma brasileira de projetos de estruturas de madeira, a ABNT NBR 7190-1 (2022), os softwares existentes, baseados em versões anteriores, se tornaram ultrapassados. Assim, neste trabalho foi desenvolvido um software online para a verificação de pilares feitos com madeira serrada por meio das linguagens de desenvolvimento web HTML/JavaScript e CSS, seguindo as diretrizes da ABNT NBR 7190-1 (2022), com o objetivo de auxiliar os usuários no dimensionamento de estruturas de madeira submetidas à compressão simples e à flexocompressão. A ferramenta desenvolvida revelou-se promissora, em razão da geração de relatório PDF com detalhamento dos cálculos realizados no dimensionamento.

A expansão maxilar em pacientes adultos é um tratamento conservador com prognóstico duvidoso devido à ossificação da sutura palatina mediana no final da fase de crescimento onde ocorre uma maturação óssea. Com avanço da tecnologia foi sugerido aparelhos para poder reverter essa situação associado a técnicas que consiga modificar a maturação óssea. O presente estudo tem como objetivo avaliar na literatura os tipos de aparelhos de expansão rápida, como sua atuação em relação aos dentes e a face e seus efeitos colaterais. Estudos observaram o sucesso do tratamento associando a expansão rápida da maxila fixado com mini-implantes, identificando uma diminuição de efeitos colaterais nos dentes de suporte durante o tratamento com a disjunção palatina mediana com rapidez. Além disso, outros estudos avaliaram a expansão lenta maxilar onde não se observou o objetivo ortopédico, somente o ortodôntico com expansão dos dentes do arco. Notaram-se pouco artigos associando a expansão rápida e lenta da maxila, mostrando a necessidade de mais conhecimento sobre o assunto.

Abstract Der Begriff „Digitaler Zwilling“ findet im deutschsprachigen Raum zunehmend Verwendung für die digitale Verwaltung und Überwachung des Zustands von Brücken. Während in der Industrie und Medizin bereits normative Entwicklungen für den Einsatz Digitaler Zwillinge angestoßen wurden, werden im Bauwesen derzeit erste Prototypen umgesetzt. Für den Betrieb digitaler Abbilder wurden proprietäre Onlineumgebungen entwickelt, die in ihrer Flexibilität und Wiederverwendbarkeit beschränkt sind. Eine Skalierung mittels Einbindung in Modelle des Building Information Modellings wird untersucht, stößt jedoch aufgrund der Echtzeitanbindung an ihre Grenzen. Im Beitrag werden bestehende Definitionen des Digitalen Zwillings der Industrie in den Kontext des Bauwesens gesetzt. Anhand der in Teil 1 des Beitrags vorgestellten Isenbrücke in Schwindegg wird die Implementierung dieser Brücke als Industrie 4.0‐Verwaltungsschale präsentiert. Es zeigt sich, dass auch für Ingenieurbauwerke ein industrieller datengetriebener Digitaler Zwilling technisch und semantisch umgesetzt werden kann. Im Beitrag werden außerdem zukünftige Herausforderungen für die Entwicklung von Auswertungs‐ und Steuermechanismen für das Bauwerk vorgestellt und eine Möglichkeit der Visualisierung gezeigt. Das Ziel ist die Schaffung einer Syntax für die Kommunikation zwischen den Verwaltungsschalen.

Introdução: O MUCOGRAFT é uma matriz de colágeno de origem suína desenvolvida para regeneração de tecido mole da cavidade oral, indicado para ganhar tecido queratinizado e para cobertura de recessões gengivais, uma alternativa aos enxertos autógenos de tecido mole. Sua estrutura compacta promove uma melhor cicatrização e um pós-operatório menos doloroso quando comparado aos autógenos, promovendo também uma estabilização do coágulo sanguíneo e a penetração de células de tecido mole. Objetivo: Revisar a literatura acerca da eficiência clínica do uso do Mucograft em comparação com o enxerto de tecido conjuntivo. Metodologia: Foi efetuada uma busca na base de dados PubMed com os descritores "Mucograft" e "Connective Tissue Graft", cadastrados no MeSH e combinados entre si por "AND". Foram encontrados 17 artigos na língua inglesa, após uma leitura de seus títulos e resumos, foram selecionados 8, levando-se em consideração os critérios de inclusão: estudos publicados nos últimos 10 anos e pertinentes ao tema e excluídos os que o tangenciam. Revisão de Literatura: O Mucograft foi comparado com enxertos de tecido conjuntivo e como benefícios apontados estão: menor suscetibilidade à dor quando comparado aos autógenos, ausência de morbidade na área doadora do enxerto, ganho satisfatório de tecido, com uma cor natural satisfatória. Conclusão: O uso do Mucograft traz resultados satisfatórios, como em pacientes com recessão gengival a fim de recobrimento radicular levando em comparação o ganho de espessura do tecido mole, apresentando maior formação de colágeno em comparação com enxerto gengival livre, bons resultados como largura e profundidade de recessões, espessura gengival queratinizada em pacientes fumantes e também favorecendo a otimização do tempo de trabalho nas cirurgias.

ABSTRACT On-demand webinar originally hosted by SMTA Wisconsin Chapter Technical Presentation: In this webinar, presenters review 3D Printing technologies that exist today and where this industry is heading in the future. We will also plan to focus on how 3D printing specifically relates to the electronics manufacturing industry. On Demand Webinar

With the covid crisis, medical science has lost the spirit of empiricism. Articles are published about the effectiveness of vaccines, which do not have a relevant mathematical model and exclude the fact that only a control group of an unvaccinated part of the population can prove the effectiveness of vaccination against covid. Using elementary school math, we can calculate the death rate of a vaccinated subset of the population and compare it to the death rate of an unvaccinated subset of the population. No one has made this simple and effective calculation.

Introduction: IBD patients often relapse and require a change in treatment (Rx). Our goal was to assess patients therapeutic journey and identify those who may be candidates for research trials based on AI algorithm derived data that quantifies propensity for current Rx failure. Methods: We analyzed 2,712 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of IBD (Crohn's and UC). For each we compiled a list of related ICD10 symptom codes, partitioning into 11 distinct sets corresponding to symptom category. Similarly, we compiled a list of IBD medication codes prescribed to each patient, assigning each to one of six drug categories (e.g. 5ASA, steroids, Biologics). We constructed a feature set for each patient by summing the number of diagnoses and prescriptions which was then transformed into a 2-dimensional feature space using TSNE. This feature space was partitioned using HAC clustering with Ward linkage. Analysis indicated the optimal number of clusters to be 8 (Table). Results: Analysis of the base feature set for each cluster (C) indicated a high degree of uniformity, and the overall picture confirmed the anecdotal evidence from physician experts for treating IBD. In Fig 2 we see the clusters identified by color. C5 is the null group, for whom we have no data, or only a single secondary symptom of IBD, and C0 includes patients for whom we have more significant symptom data, but no treatment data. C 4, 2 and 3 form a continuum where C4 includes patients who have been treated with 1-2 steroid courses, C2 contains patients with >= 2 steroid courses together with at least one other drug category, and the right side of C3 contains patients with multiple steroid courses together with at least 4 other Rx categories. C6 and C7 form a similar continuum with similar trends but centered around ASA treatments. C1 contains patients with only antibiotic Rx and no other Rx types and blends into the corticosteroid spectrum of C2 and 3. Biologic therapy was not the defining feature of any specific cluster, but does distinguish C2 from C3 and C6 from C7. We conclude that C3 and C7 contain strong candidates for research. (Figure) Conclusion: Our AI model successfully confirms the anecdotal data provided by our physician experts and drug trial sponsors. The tool can identify patients who are currently good candidates for IBD drug trials in advance of a clinic visit and predict those who are likely to become good candidates sometime in the future.Figure 1.: Two dimensional projection of symptom and treatment data, with clusters marked Table 1. - Clusters Calinsky-Harabasz Index 4 284.108512 5 373.804537 6 306.331922 7 284.240381 8 428.465493 9 383.481193 10 345.519132 11 320.023012

Managers and leaders in public organizations have increasingly been realizing the value of individual coaching for improving employee effectiveness, satisfaction, teaming, and a host of other valued outcomes. Simultaneously, coaching has been moving beyond the individual into coaching larger systems (teams, organizations, etc.). The four panelists engaged in diverse interventions concurrently within the same large (~35,000) public sector organization that has a continuous nationwide, highly technical and safety-related mission. They plan to share insights not only from each intervention independently but also from their synergies. Each of the panelists will explore how selected pre-pandemic techniques have evolved into a new repertoire of coaching processes, that we believe will result in a hybrid of best practices once the organization is post-pandemic. The interventions touch on: 1) developing human potential in the context of a technical organization shifting to online work post-COVID; 2) approaches to career and personal development; 3) using team coaching to create organizational alignment; and 4) using peer coaching to support collaboration, problem solving and systems thinking.