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Construction projects navigate through constant changes and unexpected circumstances until completion. The industry needs graduates who can adapt to different situations quickly without compromising quality or safety. Adaptive Expertise is the ability that allows a person to solve a problem by effectively revising or extending what they know when a situation does not match earlier experience. Adaptive Expertise has been studied mostly in medical education and, to a lesser extent, in engineering, with demonstrated benefits in both domains. This paper employs a narrative review approach to synthesize how adaptive expertise has been defined, measured, and applied across educational contexts. The review identifies two dominant assessment approaches: subjective assessments, such as self-report scales, and objective performance-based approaches. Despite demonstrated benefits in other fields, adaptive expertise has not yet been explicitly conceptualized as a coherent framework in construction education. This review highlights adaptive expertise as a missing but important dimension in construction pedagogy and suggests its potential to strengthen student readiness for modern construction practice. 

We present the status of calculations of the form factors of the most relevant heavy-to-heavy and heavy-to-light decay channels. Using seven Nf=2+1+1 HISQ ensembles, with lattice spacings ranging from 0.15 fm down to 0.06 fm, we calculate the form factors of the decays, including correlations among them. More than half of our ensembles feature physical pion masses, and the heavy quarks are simulated at their physical masses using the Wilson-clover action with the Fermilab interpretation. Even though we have recently seen huge qualitative and quantitative leaps in the characterization of heavy-to-heavy decays, these advances have failed to translate into improvements for the inclusive vs exclusive question, or the matter of the Lepton Flavor Universality ratios. In particular, in the B→D∗ℓν channel, the current situation of the lattice-QCD form factors is far from clear. Further, the latest lattice-QCD results on the heavy-to-light form factors display unexplained tensions that must urgently be resolved. The work presented here is an attempt to address these issues. 

We investigate the state-of-the-art Lanczos eigensolvers available in the Grid and QUDA libraries. They include Implicitly Restarted Lanczos, Thick-Restart Lanczos, and Block Lanczos. We measure and analyze their performance for the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) Dirac operator. We also discuss optimization of Chebyshev acceleration. 

We report the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on natural germanium, measured at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Ge-Mini detector of the COHERENT collaboration employs large-mass, low-noise, high-purity germanium spectrometers, enabling excellent energy resolution, and an analysis threshold of 1.5 keV electron-equivalent ionization energy. We observe an on-beam excess of ${20.6}_{-6.3}^{+7.1}$ counts with a total exposure of 10.22 GWhkg, and we reject the no-CEvNS hypothesis with $3.9\sigma$ significance. The result agrees with the predicted standard model of particle physics signal rate within $2\sigma$ . Published by the American Physical Society2025