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O Exame Nacional de Desempenho de Estudantes (ENADE) compõe uma das bases avaliativas do Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior e tem como principal propósito, avaliar o rendimento dos estudantes a partir da sua formação nos cursos de graduação. Por isso, este trabalho identificou a possibilidade de se basear nesses resultados para aprimorar os processos de ensino-aprendizagem. Para tanto, este artigo apresenta o planejamento, criação e avaliação de uma plataforma de aprendizagem Web responsiva, baseada no ENADE e que utiliza elementos de gamificação com o propósito de aumentar o engajamento dos estudantes. O software foi avaliado, por meio de questionários de aceitação tecnológica, aplicados com 38 usuários e que apresentou resultados promissores, com média geral de 4,71 entre 5 pontos possíveis.

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Entre as metodologias de ensino que vem ganhando espaço no ambiente escolar destaca-se a Robótica Educacional (RE), que é capaz de propiciar uma inserção tecnológica de maneira prática e melhorar a dinâmica de ensino em sala de aula. Visando a disseminação dessa ferramenta, a Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido (UFERSA), em parceria com a Petrobras, desenvolveu o projeto de extensão Robot em Ação, cujo objetivo foi levar a RE para escolas públicas do município de Mossoró (RN). Neste projeto, os participantes passaram pelo processo de inserção tecnológica, com aulas que utilizaram a RE como metodologia de ensino. Dessa forma, este artigo apresenta o relato deste projeto junto com a análise da perspectiva de vida dos alunos das escolas, antes e após a sua participação no mesmo. Os resultados obtidos destacam os benefícios da robótica educacional e o impacto positivo oferecido pelo projeto na vida desses alunos.

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Since its appearance in 2008, blockchain technology has found multiple uses in fields such as banking, supply chain management, and healthcare. One of the most intriguing uses of blockchain is in voting systems, where the technology can overcome the security and transparency concerns that plague traditional voting systems. This paper provides a thorough examination of the implementation of a blockchain-based voting system. The proposed system employs cryptographic methods to protect voters' privacy and anonymity while ensuring the verifiability and integrity of election results. Digital signatures, homomorphic encryption (He), zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), and the Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus method underpin the system. A review of the literature on the use of blockchain technology for voting systems supports the analysis and the technical and logistical constraints connected with implementing the suggested system. The study suggests solutions to problems such as managing voter identification and authentication, ensuring accessibility for all voters, and dealing with network latency and scalability. The suggested blockchain-based voting system can provide a safe and transparent platform for casting and counting votes, ensuring election results' privacy, anonymity, and verifiability. The implementation of blockchain technology can overcome traditional voting systems' security and transparency shortcomings while also delivering a high level of integrity and traceability.

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Recommender systems position themselves as powerful tools in the support of relevance and personalization, presenting remarkable potential in the area of marketing. The cold-start customer problematic presents a challenge within this topic, leading to the need of distinguishing user features and preferences based on a restricted set of transactional information. This paper proposes a hybrid recommender system that aims to leverage transactional and portfolio information as indicating characteristics of customer behaviour. Four independent systems are combined through a parallelised weighted hybrid design. The first individual system utilises the price, target age, and brand of each product to develop a content-based recommender system, identifying item similarities. Secondly, a keyword-based content system uses product titles and descriptions to identify related groups of items. The third system utilises transactional data, defining similarity between products based on purchasing patterns, categorised as a collaborative model. The fourth system distinguishes itself from the previous approaches by leveraging association rules, using transactional information to establish antecedent and precedence relationships between items through a market basket analysis. Two datasets were analysed: product portfolio and transactional datasets. The product portfolio had 17,118 unique products and the included 4,408,825 instances from 2 June 2021 until 2 June 2022. Although the collaborative system demonstrated the best evaluation metrics when comparing all systems individually, the hybridisation of the four systems surpassed each of the individual systems in performance, with a 8.9% hit rate, 6.6% portfolio coverage, and with closer targeting of customer preferences and smaller bias.

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Influential spreaders contribute substantially to managing and optimizing any spreading process in a network. Influential spreaders are nodes that hold importance within the network. Identifying them is a challenging task. Some encysting methods for such identification include local-structure-based, global-structure-based, semi-global-structure-based, and hybrid-structure-based methods. Semi-global structure-based methods show significant potential in identifying influential nodes in different network structures. However, existing semi-global structure-based methods often identify nodes from the network's periphery, where nodes are loosely connected, and their collective influence in spreading processes is minimal. This paper presents a novel method called Semi-global triangular and degree centrality (STC + K) to overcome this limitation by considering a node's degree, the number of triangles, and the third hop of neighbourhood connectivity information. The proposed novel method outperforms the existing noteworthy indexing methods regarding ranking performance. The experimental results show better performance, as indicated by two performance metrics: recognition rate and improvement percentage. By virtue of the fact that the empirically set free parameters are absent, our method eliminates the need for time-consuming preprocessing to select optimal parameter values for ranking nodes in large networks.

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Digital Transformation (DT) has become an important issue for organisations. It is proven that DT fuels Digital Innovation in organisations. It is well-known that technologies and practices such as distributed ledger technologies, open source, analytics, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI) enhance DT. Among those technologies, AI provides tools to support decision-making and automatically decide. Cooperatives are organisations with a mutualistic scope and are characterised by having participatory cooperative governance due to the principle of democratic control by the members. In a context where DT is here to stay, where the dematerialisation of processes can bring significant advantages to any organisation, this article presents a critical reflection on the dangers of using AI technologies in cooperatives. We base this reflection on the Portuguese cooperative code. We emphasise that this code is not very different from the ones of other countries worldwide as they are all based on the Statement of Cooperative Identity defined by the International Cooperative Alliance. We understand that we cannot stop the entry of AI technologies into the cooperatives. Therefore, we present a framework for using AI technologies in cooperatives to avoid damaging the principles and values of this type of organisations.