The Bookkeeping application (BKP) at CERN manages experimental and operational data generated by the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. With data volumes expected to grow significantly during Run 4, performance inefficiencies in the application's filtering system risk reducing responsiveness …

The study evaluated two speech recognition systems, Wav2vec2 and Whisper, for potential biases for Dutch speakers.Results obtained by evaluating on the JASMIN corpus revealed biases against non-native speakers, children, and the elderly,with (slightly) better performance for women. The study emphasizes …

Introduction: The new concept of ‘living well with dementia’ is currently gaining traction in practice, policy, and research. However, people with dementia and their carers’ own understanding of this concept has not received much scholarly attention. This is because empirical studies into living well …

The security of online assessments is a major concern due to widespread cheating. One common form of cheating is impersonation, where students invite unauthorized persons to take assessments on their behalf. Several techniques exist to handle impersonation. Some researchers recommend use of integrity …

Educational change often fails due to its complexity: differing, even contradictory factors, agents, goals, norms or beliefs are involved. Too often practitioners, researchers and educators try to reduce or even ignore tensions, paradoxes and uncertainties and search for clear procedures and the one …

The capacity of the newly inaugurated airport terminal in Mexico City, opened in 2022, has sparked debates regarding its adequacy to accommodate future demand. To address this critical question, our study employs simulation-based analysis to assess the terminal's true potential. By simulating various …

Validation of AI: Towards a Driving Exam for OpenPilotWe present practical results of testing the OpenPilot ADAS software (the core of the Comma3 [https://comma.ai/]). OpenPilot consists of C/C++ and Python code to handle most of the logic involved in driving a car. Also, Machine Learning models are …

Why studying student agency? • Prepare students for lifelong learning. (Biesta & Tedder, 2007;OECD, 2018) • Agency fosters motivation, which could enhance performance. (Bandura, 2018; Ryan & Deci, 2020) • More flexibility in higher education, but not all students can handle this. (De Bruin & Verkoeijen, …

In this article it is argued that the knowledge and wisdom are there to reclaim our place in nature as a peaceful species. The technology is also there, although we walked dangerously close to the abyss to get hold of it. No one intended to become an enemy of ecology and our own survival. We gained powers …

The COVID-19 crisis impacts populations globally. This impact seems to differ for groups with low- and high-socioeconomic status (SES). We conducted a qualitative study in the Netherlands using a salutogenic perspective to examine experiences with stressors and coping resources during the pandemic among …