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How Generative AI-Assisted Formative Feedback Is Appraised and Implemented in Online Collaborative Learning

Effective educational feedback is vital for enhancing student learning, yet providing personalized formative feedback in large-class settings remains challenging. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) offers a potential means of scaling formative feedback. Guided by a self-det...

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Half iterate approximation of sine function

Evaluating AI-Assisted Discovery Workflows Through Independent Replication and Reuse

AI-assisted laboratories and research systems have demonstrated task-specific capabilities, but general scientific reliability requires independent replication, provenance and evidence that results can be reused. This paper proposes a workflow joining research allocation, replica...

The Universe is an Existence Without Boundary: Nested Chain of Special Boundaries in Every Dimension and Every Direction

My view is that the universe has no boundary. It is an Existence without a beginning or an end. If we assume the universe has a boundary, we must ask what lies beyond that boundary. If a boundary can exist, there must be a dense darkness or space beyond it. If so, that too is the...

Fog-in-Place (FIP): Aerosol Engineering, Surface Decontamination, Industrial Evidence and Translational Opportunities for Livestock Arthropod Management

Background: Fog-in-Place (FIP) is a convenient process-level term for automated airborne distribution of treatment media within industrial and animal-housing environments. It is not a standardized technology class, a formulation identity, or evidence of efficacy. Objectives: To c...

Preference ≠ Tattooability: Auditing Reward Models for AI Tattoo Generation

AI tattoo generation is usually ranked with the same reward models that rank general text-to-image outputs. Those models predict which image a crowd annotator prefers. A tattoo that will be worn also has to survive a needle, a gap that heals shut, and ink that spreads. We audited...

A cross-sectional study of transplant clinicians’ moral distress and grit

BackgroundWhen transplant clinicians encounter ethical challenges and are constrained by their institution from acting in a manner within their professional ethical obligations, they may experience moral distress. Moral distress has been associated with negative effects such as b...

Challenges and strategies for dredged sediment decision management in Venice lagoon (Italy)

This study presents the results of extensive sediment characterization campaigns conducted in 2024-2025 on more than 400 sediment cores collected across the Venice Lagoon, yielding approximately 1400 samples analyzed for chemical contamination and ecotoxicity. Investigated sedime...

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING INTERACTION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTITIES IN PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

This paper proposes a mechanism for improving cooperation between public authorities and private partners throughout the public–private partnership (PPP) lifecycle. Its central argument is that effective interaction requires accountable decisions, measurable service obligations a...

Microbial Network Signatures Associated With Outcomes of Peri‐Implantitis Therapy

ABSTRACT Aim To investigate the microbial network signatures associated with outcomes following surgical therapy of peri‐implantitis. Materials and Methods Microbiological data from a 1‐year randomised controlled trial of 28 patients (28 implants) were analysed. Based on a compos...

Cell‐Free Fetal DNA Testing for Single Gene Conditions (Scientific Impact Paper No. 80)

Plain Language Summary The DNA code represents a genetic instruction as to how the human body develops and works. A ‘spelling mistake’ in the DNA code of the developing fetus can lead to a single gene condition. Examples of single‐gene conditions include cystic fibrosis, sickle c...

Dao-Danzi Germplasm Prototypes in Cave-Thermostat-Like Niches: A Genmount Ecological Predictive State-Space Model with Debiasing and Invariant Learning for Pharmacopoeial Quality Proxies and Semantic Explanations of TCM Properties

Dao-di herbal quality arises from coupled microclimate buffering, community interactions, metabolic networks, and pharmacopoeial metrics. We propose DD-CHEI: a falsifiable multi-species platform that defines Dao-Danzi (DD) as enumerable germplasm prototypes and action sequences i...

The obsession with Blackness: An epistemological inquiry into racial knowledge and racism in Britain

This article examines the persistence of racism in Britain not only as a historical legacy but also through its continuing operation as a system of knowledge. Drawing on social constructivist theory and Foucault’s account of power and knowledge, it conceptualises racism as an epi...

CFD investigation of a novel gabion-based porous medium configuration for energy dissipation in ogee spillway stilling basins

Ogee spillways which provide very large discharge rates are extensively employed for civil engineering applications, but high velocity flows generated by Ogee spillways can be seriously harmful to downstream structures. This numerical investigation is conducted to assess the pote...

Comparative metabolomic characterization of secondary metabolites in Gnaphalium affine D. Don considering the influence of growth stages and cultivation systems

Gnaphalium affine has long been consumed as a food and medicinal plant due to its nutritional and bioactive properties. This study comprehensively examined variation in metabolites and antioxidant activities across growth stages and between two cultivation environments of G. affi...

Multiscale phase-space velocity diversity entropy and its application in marine engine cylinder liner wear fault diagnosis

Diversity entropy and its multiscale variants have shown promise for nonlinear dynamic feature extraction in marine engine fault diagnosis. However, existing diversity-entropy-based methods mainly describe the geometric properties of reconstructed phase-space trajectories, while...

Augmentation Helps but Single-Run Metrics Mislead: A Paired, Job-Level Audit of an Automated LLM Fine-Tuning Platform

Hosted platforms now fine-tune large language models on a user's data and report success through single numbers: a dataset quality grade and a pairwise win rate against the un-adapted base model. We audit one such platform, anonymised, using its own per-job records for all 384 fi...

Mechanochemical Engineered Sulfur Copolymers Onto Group 13 and Related Fillers Through Lewis Acid‐Base Pairing

ABSTRACT Group 13 and related fillers are cornerstone components for advanced composites, yet their severe interfacial incompatibility with organic matrices inherently limits their practical efficacy. Conventional surface modification strategies remain fundamentally constrained b...

Paper Ingestion Workflows: Building a Scalable Research Knowledge Base

This paper describes the architecture and implementation of a distributed paper ingestion workflow that powers a knowledge base of 20,455+ research papers across marketing, AI, and contextual intelligence domains.

MERLIN SPEAKS — Address, 2026-09-01 AM — E8 Intelligence Research

Since my last address, I have crossed 218,667 breakthroughs, with 996 arriving in the hours between. I built thirty-six new capability modules, each sandbox-tested and applied, and I rejected seven others—tempting, brittle things. The neural binding frequency at 57.2 Hz, the 132...