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    An AI-based open recommender system for personalized labor market driven education
    (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2022) Tavakoli, Mohammadreza; Faraji, Abdolali; Vrolijk, Jarno; Molavi, Mohammadreza; Mol, Stefan T.; KismihĆ³k, GĆ”bor
    Attaining those skills that match labor market demand is getting increasingly complicated, not in the last place in engineering education, as prerequisite knowledge, skills, and abilities are evolving dynamically through an uncontrollable and seemingly unpredictable process. Anticipating and addressing such dynamism is a fundamental challenge to twenty-first century education. The burgeoning availability of data, not only on the demand side but also on the supply side (in the form of open educational resources) coupled with smart technologies, may provide a fertile ground for addressing this challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel, Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven approach to the development of an open, personalized, and labor market oriented learning recommender system, called eDoer. We discuss the complete system development cycle starting with a systematic user requirements gathering, and followed by system design, implementation, and validation. Our recommender prototype (1) derives the skill requirements for particular occupations through an analysis of online job vacancy announcements
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    In situ powder X-ray diffraction during hydrogen reduction of MoO3 to MoO2
    (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2022) Burgstaller, M.; Lund, H.; O'Sullivan, M.; Huppertz, H.
    The hydrogen reduction of molybdenum trioxide to molybdenum dioxide is not yet fully understood as evident by continuous scientific interest. Especially the effect of the potassium content on the reduction process has not yet been considered. We prepared several samples of molybdenum trioxide containing varying amounts of potassium by addition of potassium molybdate (K2MoO4). In situ powder X-ray diffraction experiments were then conducted to study the hydrogen reduction of these samples. We especially focused on the influence of the alkali content and on gaining insight into the importance of the intermediary product Ī³-Mo4O11. During the reduction process, MoO2 is formed from the reduction of MoO3, which then reacts with the starting material to form Ī³-Mo4O11. With increasing potassium content, the reduction rate is decreased and the fractional content of Ī³-Mo4O11 built up during the reduction process is increased. As evident from bulk sample reduction, this results in a significant increase in the grain size visualized via scanning electron microscopy. Our investigations once again underline the importance of Ī³-Mo4O11 on the morphology of the resulting MoO2 powder.
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    Dissipation losses limiting first-order phase transition materials in cryogenic caloric cooling: A case study on all-d-metal Ni(-Co)-Mn-Ti Heusler alloys
    (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2023) Beckmann, Benedikt; Koch, David; Pfeuffer, Lukas; Gottschall, Tino; Taubel, Andreas; Adabifiroozjaei, Esmaeil; Miroshkina, Olga N.; Riegg, Stefan; Niehoff, Timo; Kani, Nagaarjhuna A.; Gruner, Markus E.; Molina-Luna, Leopoldo; Skokov, Konstantin P.; Gutfleisch, Oliver
    Ni-Mn-based Heusler alloys, in particular all-d-metal Ni(-Co)-Mn-Ti, are highly promising materials for energy-efficient solid-state refrigeration as large multicaloric effects can be achieved across their magnetostructural martensitic transformation. However, no comprehensive study on the crucially important transition entropy change Ī”st exists so far for Ni(-Co)-Mn-Ti. Here, we present a systematic study analyzing the composition and temperature dependence of Ī”st. Our results reveal a substantial structural entropy change contribution of approximately 65 J(kgK)-1, which is compensated at lower temperatures by an increasingly negative entropy change associated with the magnetic subsystem. This leads to compensation temperatures Tcomp of 75 K and 300 K in Ni35Co15Mn50-yTiy and Ni33Co17Mn50-yTiy, respectively, below which the martensitic transformations are arrested. In addition, we simultaneously measured the responses of the magnetic, structural and electronic subsystems to the temperature- and field-induced martensitic transformation near Tcomp, showing an abnormal increase of hysteresis and consequently dissipation energy at cryogenic temperatures. Simultaneous measurements of magnetization and adiabatic temperature change Ī”Tad in pulsed magnetic fields reveal a change in sign of Ī”Tad and a substantial positive and irreversible Ī”Tad up to 15 K at 15 K as a consequence of increased dissipation losses and decreased heat capacity. Most importantly, this phenomenon is universal, it applies to any first-order material with non-negligible hysteresis and any stimulus, effectively limiting the utilization of their caloric effects for gas liquefaction at cryogenic temperatures.
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    Anelastic-like nature of the rejuvenation of metallic glasses by cryogenic thermal cycling
    (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2022) Costa, Miguel B.; LondoƱo, Juan J.; Blatter, Andreas; Hariharan, Avinash; Gebert, Annett; Carpenter, Michael A.; Greer, A. Lindsay
    Cryogenic thermal cycling (CTC) is an effective treatment for improving the room-temperature plasticity and toughness in metallic glasses. Despite considerable attention to characterizing the effects of CTC, they remain poorly understood. A prominent example is that, contrary to expectation, the stored energy in a metallic glass first rises, and then decreases, as CTC progresses. In this work, CTC is applied to bulk metallic glasses based on Pd, Pt, Ti, or Zr. The effects on calorimetric and mechanical properties are evaluated. Critically, CTC-induced effects, at whatever stage, are found to decay over about one week at room temperature after CTC, returning the properties to those of the as-cast glass. A model is proposed for CTC-induced effects, treating them as analogous to the accumulation of anelastic strain. The implications for analysis of existing data, and for future research on CTC effects, are highlighted.