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OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

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Advancing atomic force microscopy through open source instrumentation

Digital Intervention for Collaborative and Human-Centered Activities in Design-Based Learning Scenarios

On a Finite-Size Neuronal Population Equation

Cybersickness assessment framework(CSAF): An Open Source Repository for Standardized Cybersickness Experiments

Effect of Mo addition on the mechanical and tribological properties of magnetron sputtered TiN films

Projector-based augmented stacking framework for irregularly shaped objects

Evaluation of teachers’ orchestration tools usage in robotic classrooms

Occam's razor on the mechanism of resistive-wall-mode-induced beta limits in diverted tokamaks

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Testing Koopmans spectral functionals on the analytically solvable Hooke's atom

Impersonating Chatbots in a Code Review Exercise to Teach Software Engineering Best Practices

Surrogate Based Genetic Algorithm Method for Efficient Identification of Low-Energy Peptide Structures

Design space of quantum dot spin qubits

Data-driven modeling of beam loss in the LHC

A Blueprint for Integrating Task-Oriented Conversational Agents in Education

The implementation of thermal and UV nanoimprint lithography for selective area epitaxy

First-person experience cannot rescue causal structure theories from the unfolding argument

An Elliptic Local Problem With Exponential Decay Of The Resonance Error For Numerical Homogenization

Temporal Pathways to Learning: How Learning Emerges in an Open-ended Collaborative Activity

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