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“It’s always been a challenge, right?” An analysis of the affordances and limitations of STEM educators’ attempts to improve gender equity in Global South and North makerspaces

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
IntroductionThe longstanding, chronic under-representation of girls/ women and non-binary youth in engineering and computing remains a global concern. Informal STEM learning contexts, such as makerspaces, have the potential and flexibility to engage all ...
Louise Archer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Scientist-Practitioner and the Reflective-Practitioner

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter explores two models that have been identified as appropriate for the training and ongoing practice and professional development of counselling psychology practitioners and researchers. These are the scientist-practitioner model and the reflective-practitioner models. An overview of both models is presented, as well as an exploration of the
Amos, IA, Hanley, T
openaire   +4 more sources

Global Employee Engagement Report: A Corporate Responsibility Practitioner's Guide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This is a Corporate Responsibility Practitioner's Guide designed to provide practical information to companies looking to expand their employee engagement programs internationally.
Shannon Bond
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Context Awareness and Human–Robot Interaction Optimization for Museum Intelligent Guide Robot

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a context‐aware human–robot interaction framework designed for intelligent museum guide robots. The system features a three‐layer architecture—perception, understanding, and behavior execution—that enables adaptive and meaningful interactions with museum visitors.
Anna Zou, Yue Meng, Shijing Tong
wiley   +1 more source

A Fully Soft Sensing Suit With Optimal Sensor Placement for Real‐Time Motion Tracking

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A fully soft, skin‐conformable sensing suit integrating stretchable sensors, liquid metal wiring, and soft electrodes was developed using direct ink writing, with sensor placement optimized through an automated algorithmic pipeline. This system enables accurate and unobtrusive real‐time motion tracking, providing a scalable, material‐based solution to ...
Jinhyeok Oh, Joonbum Bae
wiley   +1 more source

A potential harmful effect of dexamethasone in non-severe COVID-19: results from the COPPER-pilot study

open access: yesERJ Open Research, 2022
Janwillem Kocks   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated children’s services: conformity, diversity and managing the market: sharing our experience, practitioner-led research 2008-2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This report is part of CWDC’s Practitioner-Led Research (PLR) programme. Now in its third year, the programme gives practitioners the opportunity to explore, describe and evaluate ways in which services are currently being delivered within the children ...

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TacEva: A Performance Evaluation Framework for Vision‐Based Tactile Sensors

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This work introduces TacEva, a unified framework for evaluating vision‐based tactile sensors. It standardizes intrinsic, performance, and robustness metrics through shared experimental procedures and links them to task‐level requirements in robotic manipulation.
Qingzheng Cong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revised professional standards for education practitioners in Wales : Consultation document [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
"This consultation document outlines proposals to refine a number of professional standards to reinforce education improvement priorities for Wales. We propose to refine: • the professional standards for Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTA) • End

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