Wdrożenie platform e-learningowych oraz określenie skuteczności technologii multimedialnych w nauczaniu poprzez zastosowanie testów statystycznych

W artykule przedstawiono rozwiązania dotyczące poprawy i wzrostu efektywności zarządzania działalności studentów na zajęciach z użyciem narzędzi internetowych. Za pomocą tych rozwiązań studenci mogą mieć zawsze i wszędzie swobodny dostęp w informacji, takich jak: kursy, wirtualne materiały laboratoryjne, opisy badań oraz statystyki. Następnie przedstawiono wybrane wyniki badań i przykłady platform e-learningowych stosowanych w Rumunii. W eksperymencie naukowym zastosowano techniki grup równoległych (4 grupy studentów drugiego roku, 2 grupy tworzące zespół eksperymentalny, dla których były używane kursy multimedialne do procesu szkolenia, i 2 grupy kontrolne). Przeprowadzone badania potwierdziły hipotezę o pozytywnym wpływie realizacji kursów multimedialnych w procesie nauczania grup eksperymentalnych i efektywności stosowanych metod.In this article, we presented a solution for improving and rising the management efficiency of the students’ activities for the courses in the current semester, using Web Technologies. Moreover, using this solution given by the described application, students of any faculty can have anytime and anywhere access to information such as: courses materials, virtual labs materials, marks given for partial or final tests, statistics regarding the scholar situations. Then, we presented some statistics and examples of e-learning platforms realized in Romania. In this scientific experiment we applied the technique of parallel groups which supposes the implication of 4 groups of second year students, 2 groups forming the experimental team for whom the multimedia courses for training process were used and 2 control groups for whom teaching was made in the traditional system. The application of the statistical methods of processing experimental data attested the hypotheses about the positive impact of the implementation of the multimedia courses in teaching- learning process in the experimental groups and the efficiency of the applied methods to the experimental groups, compared to traditional methods, applied to control groups

The Beneficial Mechanical and Biological Outcomes of Thin Copper-Gallium Doped Silica-Rich Bio-Active Glass Implant-Type Coatings

Silica-based bioactive glasses (SBG) hold great promise as bio-functional coatings of metallic endo-osseous implants, due to their osteoproductive potential, and, in the case of designed formulations, suitable mechanical properties and antibacterial efficacy. In the framework of this study, the FastOs®BG alkali-free SBG system (mol%: SiO2—38.49, CaO—36.07, P2O5—5.61, MgO—19.24, CaF2—0.59), with CuO (2 mol%) and Ga2O3 (3 mol%) antimicrobial agents, partially substituting in the parent system CaO and MgO, respectively, was used as source material for the fabrication of intentionally silica-enriched implant-type thin coatings (~600 nm) onto titanium (Ti) substrates by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. The physico-chemical and mechanical characteristics, as well as the in vitro preliminary cytocompatibility and antibacterial performance of an alkali-free silica-rich bio-active glass coating designs was further explored. The films were smooth (RRMS < 1 nm) and hydrophilic (water contact angle of ~65°). The SBG coatings deposited from alkali-free copper-gallium co-doped FastOs®BG-derived exhibited improved wear performance, with the coatings eliciting a bonding strength value of ~53 MPa, Lc3 critical load value of ~4.9 N, hardness of ~6.1 GPa and an elastic modulus of ~127 GPa. The Cu and Ga co-doped SBG layers had excellent cytocompatibility, while reducing after 24 h the Staphylococcus aureus bacterial development with 4 orders of magnitude with respect to the control situations (i.e., nutritive broth and Ti substrate). Thereby, such SBG constructs could pave the road towards high-performance bio-functional coatings with excellent mechanical properties and enhanced biological features (e.g., by coupling cytocompatibility with antimicrobial properties), which are in great demand nowadays