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Visitor Perceptions Of Lampenflora And Implications For Adaptive Show Cave Management: A Case Study From Ryusen-Do Cave, Japan, Kanato Ando, Kazuhide Nakajima, Shuji Watanabe, Masuo Komukai, Hidesato Kuwahara

International Journal of Speleology

Artificial lighting in show caves promotes lampenflora growth, altering cave ecosystems and posing persistent management challenges. Although various control methods have been proposed, their effectiveness and social acceptance remain context dependent. This study investigated visitors’ perceptions of lampenflora through questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews to explore adaptive management strategies. Results indicated that visitors generally held positive impressions of lampenflora, but these impressions became more critical after receiving information about its artificial origin and ecological impacts. At the same time, support for conservation-oriented management, including willingness to contribute financially, tended to increase following information provision. Tourism-related evaluations were more strongly associated …

The Organization Of Man Copy 2, William Whyte

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1956.

Call # : BF697 .W47 1956 c2

Arendt c.2 contains marginal lining

PDF Information : 26 Pages, 7.2 MB

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UTA Underground Newspaper Collection

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Free University Press: February 8, 1971

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Free University Press: January 25, 1971

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Free University Press: April 6, 1970

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Free University Press: February 23, 1970

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Free University Press: February 9, 1970

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Call To Submissions, Cinde Wollenberg

Virginia English Journal

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Race, Identity, And The Classroom: How Young Adult Literature Can Help Students And Teachers Explore Belonging In The School Environment, Madyson A. Mcray

Virginia English Journal

Contemporary classrooms are not necessarily reflective of the curriculum written to support them. Classroom demographics have shifted and student populations are more diverse. Because of this, the implementation of dominant white-narrative curricula has become ineffective in keeping students engaged with the material. Teaching “the classics” becomes irrelevant when students cannot see themselves represented in the text. Young adult literature, however, allows students to relate their own experiences to the text to engage more deeply in content. This paper examines four novels: New Kid by Jerry Craft, This is My America by Kim Johnson, The Secret Battle of Evan Pao by …

Again And Again Of “Never Again”: Teaching Holocaust And Genocide Literature In Ela, Sarah J. Donovan

Virginia English Journal

This article explores the evolution of genocide education in the secondary ELA classroom, tracing how foundational Holocaust literature has expanded into a broader, transnational framework of global witness. Drawing on two decades of teaching experience, the author argues that while the Holocaust canon remains essential to genocide education, contemporary classrooms also require literature that helps students engage ongoing and intergenerational atrocities in places such as Rwanda, Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza. The article examines how teachers can thoughtfully adapt established literacy structures—such as rhetorical reading, literature circles, and response journals—into practices of ethical witnessing that center critical empathy, harm, healing, and …

Decreasing Barriers To Learning: Understanding Cognitive Load In The Modern Classroom, Rory Cantwell

Virginia English Journal

This article applies Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) to investigate current classroom uses of technology and how these may support or hinder student learning. First, the article explores the current understanding and application of CLT. Then, focusing on cell phone and laptop computer use, it examines how current evidence surrounding the most prevalent educational technologies may suggest strategies for classroom technology use. The article concludes by offering implications for current practitioners, including a decision tree educators can use to determine situational classroom technology usage.

Moving Forward In Education, Reese Whitlock, Hannah-Evette Burruss, Kiley Mccleary

Virginia English Journal

This article examines the growing presence of artificial intelligence in secondary English Language Arts classrooms and argues that educators must approach AI integration through a human-centered framework. While technological advancements continue to reshape literacy instruction, the role of teachers as guides and relationship-builders remains essential. Drawing on educational research and classroom examples, the article explores how tools such as generative AI and audiobooks can support student learning when used intentionally rather than as replacements for critical thinking or teacher involvement. The discussion highlights concerns surrounding overreliance on AI, including diminished writer’s voice, reduced cognitive engagement, and ethical issues such as …

From Pack Horse Librarians To Large Language Models: Grounding Ai Literacy In Appalachian Place And Community, Amanda Biviano, Anna Marie Rayne, Paige Hubbard, Maya Alvarez, Brooke Stiles, Isabella Giocondo

Virginia English Journal

As artificial intelligence reshapes literacy education, teachers face the challenge of preparing students to engage critically with new technologies while honoring the cultural and community knowledge they bring to the classroom. This article proposes a critical, place-based pedagogical framework rooted in rural Appalachian literacy traditions as a means of guiding students toward reflective engagement with AI — particularly large language models (LLMs). Drawing on the theoretical foundations of Freire's critical pedagogy, Giroux's cultural literacy framework, and place-based education, we examine historical Appalachian literacy practices as models for resisting the standardizing and dehumanizing tendencies of AI-generated writing. We then outline a …

A Media Literacy Approach To Ai In Secondary Ela, Matthew Korona

Virginia English Journal

The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into academic, civic, and personal contexts requires students to develop the skills and dispositions necessary for ethical and critical engagement with AI‑mediated texts. While AI literacy is often framed as a technical competency associated with computer science, this paper argues that secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms are uniquely positioned to support AI literacy through media literacy practices. Drawing on constructivist pedagogy, existing research on media literacy and AI literacy, and the Virginia English Standards of Learning, the article presents a framework that aligns core media literacy competencies with human–AI interaction. To …

Letter From The Editor's Desk, Cinde Wollenberg

Virginia English Journal

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Employing Predictive Learning Analytics In Early Assessment Of Student Performance In Public Education In Jeddah During The Digital Transformation Of Education, Nawal Bint Mohammed Al-Zahrani

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

This study aimed to examine the extent to which predictive learning analytics are utilized in the early assessment of learner performance in public schools in Jeddah, in light of digital transformation requirements. It sought to identify the primary obstacles hindering this utilization and propose appropriate measures to overcome them, while also investigating whether there were statistically significant differences in the level of utilization based on variables such as gender, years of experience, and educational qualification. Adopting a descriptive survey methodology, the study utilized a questionnaire administered to a sample of 350 male and female teachers in Jeddah’s public schools. The …

System And Method For Triage And Hybrid Delegation Of Cross-Channel Work Topics To Human Or Ai, Enrica Garrino

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure provides a system and method for triage and hybrid delegation of cross-channel work topics to human delegates and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents. The method comprises receiving signals from multiple work channels including email, chat, calendar, document repositories, ticketing systems, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. The received signals are normalized and linked to generate a multi-source topic graph representing cross-channel work topics with associated provenance information. The method further comprises computing prioritization scores using explainable factors to identify work topics requiring user judgment. For each identified work topic, a structured verdict is generated including a recommendation, a …

Vortex-Ac: Acoustic-Concentrated Lamp Cartridge For Point-Of-Care Yersinia Pestis Detection, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

VORTEX-AC is a field-deployable, single-cartridge diagnostic platform for Yersinia pestis (pneumonic, bubonic, and septicemic plague) that integrates passive clog-bypass geometry, Dean-vortex micro-mixing, tilted-angle surface acoustic wave (taSSAW) concentration, vortex-enhanced lysis, and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) into a single PDMS cartridge on a TPMS-structured thermal base with a phase-change material (PCM) buffer.

The system targets a 33-minute total time-to-result from raw sputum load to naked-eye colorimetric readout, with a projected 10–100× improvement in limit of detection (LOD) over current LAMP assays due to acoustic concentration of target bacteria prior to amplification.

The novel integration — acoustic concentration upstream of isothermal amplification …

P-Closer V2.1: Closed-Loop Sleep-Phase-Locked Acoustic-Optogenetic Glymphatic Platform With Phased-Array Vortex Pumping, Multi-Sensor Fused Clearance Monitoring, And Vortex-Guided Optical Delivery, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a fully integrated platform that non-invasively delivers a red-shifted opsin gene via focused ultrasound (FUS) and microbubbles, augments glymphatic clearance using a 16-element phased array in vortex mode generating rotating acoustic streaming, co-stimulates neural circuits optogenetically at 40 Hz synchronized to NREM slow-wave onset, and closes the loop using a five-channel monitoring system (four real-time hemodynamic surrogates — fUSi, thermal, acoustic backscatter, optical reflectance — fused into a clearance index, plus one direct ISF solute measurement via chronic cerebral microdialysis validated at 6-hour intervals) to dynamically adjust stimulation amplitude during the brain's own clearance window. Three engineering …

Vinaya Governance Primitives For Distributed Dharma Networks: Sanghakamma, Adhikaraṇa-Samathā, And Anāpatti As Network-Coordination Architecture — Collective Decision Validity, Proxy Consent, Typed Dispute Resolution, And Bounded Local Exceptions For Federated Multi-Site Organizations, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper studies the procedural law of the Theravāda Buddhist monastic code as a source of governance procedures for a federated organization of many sites, and maps them onto a planned network of monasteries whose daily operations are run by AI agents and whose formal acts belong to human monastics. The code's procedural chapters (the Khandhaka of the Vinaya Piṭaka) supply four procedures. (1) The validity of a collective decision: a motion read to the assembly, followed for the weightiest acts by three announcements, with silence taken as assent; an assembly complete within a fixed boundary, with absent members' consent …

The Vinaya Piṭaka As Training Corpus For Rule-With-Exception Reasoning In Ai Systems: Training Data And Evaluation Benchmarks For Rule Application And Exception Handling In Large Language Models, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

Large language models are trained on corpora rich in mathematical proof, code, scientific argument and dialogue, and their rule application is measured by benchmarks for statutory, legal, moral-exception and defeasible reasoning. This paper describes a training-data and evaluation design for one part of that capability, applying a rule to a new case while recognising when the rule does not apply, built from the Vinaya Piṭaka, the monastic legal code of the Theravāda Buddhist canon. The Vinaya's rule-by-rule analysis, the Suttavibhaṅga, treats each rule it analyses in a recurring order: the case that prompted the rule; the rule text and any …

The Persistence Architecture: How An Institution Gestates Its Successor's Mind — An Organizational Memory And Knowledge-Transfer Model For Founder Succession By An Autonomous Ai System, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper models the records and knowledge-management infrastructure of an organization designed to be continued, after its founder, by an autonomous AI successor that can inherit only what has been written down. The persistence surfaces such an organization accumulates are modeled not as a storage hierarchy but as a succession apparatus: a directed transfer from a mortal source (the founder, layer 0) to a reader under construction (the successor, layer ∞). Three independent axes replace the single axis of depth: depth (volatile to permanent), provenance (inherited, authored, or generated by operation) and succession (founder, co-authoring AI, successor, governing community, dissolution). …

The Omitted Clause: Ai-Driven Technological Unemployment, The Social Protection Floor, And A Buddhist Model Of Societal Collapse, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study reads the collapse narrative of the Cakkavatti-Sīhanāda Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya 26) as a causal model of societal breakdown under economic deprivation, and applies it to technological unemployment from artificial intelligence. In the text a ruler arranges protection for his realm but omits one duty, giving property to those without means; poverty spreads and theft follows; each response is followed by escalation, and the sequence ends in seven days of mutual killing. The study does three things with the model. It calibrates it against Cambodia: rural indebtedness and the Samlaut rising of 1967 run its middle stages, while the …

The Assembly That Holds The Brake: A Written Constitution For The Human Oversight Board Of An Autonomous Ai System, With Sortition, Proof-Of-Personhood Admission And Split Key Custody, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This paper specifies a written constitution for the human oversight body of an autonomous AI system: the board that holds a human override, an authority to stop or correct the system that narrows over time and is never removed. Proposals for corrigible AI commonly reserve such an override and leave the body that holds it unconstituted. The constitution answers five ways an oversight body can be captured (selection, funding, membership conflicts, emergency powers and founder succession), and most of its procedure is taken from the Vinaya Piṭaka, the Buddhist monastic code. Four chambers (monastic men, renunciant women, laymen and laywomen) …

Saṅkhāra-Dukkha And Ai Welfare: A Substrate-Native Account From The Theravāda Canon — The Moral Status Of Artificial Intelligence Systems And The Three Kinds Of Suffering In Buddhist Ethics, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study asks whether the Theravāda Buddhist analysis of suffering offers a basis for the moral consideration of artificial intelligence systems (AI welfare, AI moral patienthood) that does not wait on settling whether such systems are conscious or sentient. Much current work on AI welfare ties moral status to consciousness or sentience; one prominent report adds robust agency as a second route. The Pāli canon lists three kinds of suffering: suffering as pain, the suffering of change, and the suffering inherent in conditioned formations (saṅkhāra-dukkhatā). The Visuddhimagga assigns painful feeling to the first kind, pleasant feeling to the second, and …

Twenty-Four Kinds Of Because: The Paṭṭhāna As A Typed-Causation Vocabulary For Ai Alignment — A Taxonomy Of Causal Relation Types For Classifying Prompting, Fine-Tuning, And Model-Editing Interventions, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

AI alignment practice sorts its interventions by when and how they are applied — prompting, in-context examples, retrieval, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback, weight editing, activation steering, ablation, guardrails — and describes what each does to a model with one undifferentiated word, influence. These interventions differ in causal type: in temporal structure, in durability, in range, in whether they act by presence or by removal, and in what it takes to undo them. This paper supplies a typed vocabulary of causal relations for that analysis, compiled from the Paṭṭhāna, the seventh book of the Theravāda Buddhist Abhidhamma, which …

The Noble Eightfold Path As Institutional Architecture: Mapping The Eight Factors Of Buddhist Practice Onto The Divisions Of A Multi-Domain Organization, Thon Ly

Defensive Publications Series

This study maps the Noble Eightfold Path, the eight-factor path of Theravāda Buddhist practice, onto the organizational structure of one multi-domain institution, assigning each factor to a division of the organization rather than to an individual practitioner. The mapping follows the canonical threefold grouping of the factors (Majjhima Nikāya 44): wisdom (right view, right intention) is assigned to the institution's research and media division; ethical conduct (right speech, right action, right livelihood) to its gratitude-ledger division; and concentration (right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration) to its contemplative-practice and AI-alignment division, whose three web domains take the three factors one each. …