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Assessing Awareness And Use Of Artificial Intelligence Tools Among Library Personnel In Public And Private Institutions In Ekiti State, Nigeria, Thomas Aanu Ojo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Artificial Intelligence is a technology integrated into libraries as a tool to help eliminate tedious and repetitive tasks. However, its awareness and use in libraries are still in the early stages. Therefore, this study investigated the awareness and use of AI tools among library personnel in public and private institutions in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study population comprised 107 library personnel in Ekiti State. The questionnaire was used to elicit data. Descriptive statistics of frequency count, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that the level of awareness of AI tools among library …

Effects Of Sowing Date, Water Deficit, And Potassium And Sodium Silicate On Yield And Quality Traits Of Faba Bean (Vicia Faba L.), Mohammed Moatasem Arif Alrawi, Wafaa Ali Hussein

Baghdad Science Journal

Faba bean production in Iraq is becoming much harder due to climate change. Arid environments in the region suffer from a combination of low rainfall, outdated irrigation networks, and extreme heatwaves, all of which directly suppress final crop productivity. As a protein-rich legume of high nutritional and economic value, faba bean requires effective agronomic strategies to maintain yield and quality under stress conditions. This study evaluated, under field conditions during the 2023–2024 growing season in Iraq, the interactive effects of three sowing dates (September, October and November), two deficit irrigation regimes (80% and 60% of the full irrigation control), and …

Text-Fabric And The Bibleol: A Fruitful Combination For Greek Exercise Development, Cedric Vine, Oliver Glanz

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Two of the major challenges for an instructor of any language course are (1) the limited amount of exercise material available for students and (2) compromised exams requiring the laborious creation of new exams. These challenges increase significantly when teaching biblical languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek). However, BibleOnlineLearner (BibleOL) has now addressed both of these challenges. When an instructor uses BibleOL, he/she can easily create an exercise that targets a specific learning object (e.g., learning the Greek present tense of the regular conjugation). BibleOL then creates randomized exercises for each student. Unless the instructor decides otherwise, the BibleOL exercise will be …

When The Chatbot Is Wrong On Purpose: Using Genai Role-Play To Build Student Engagement And Critical Ai Fluency, Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa Api

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how customized AI chatbots can be used to increase student engagement while also teaching students to question AI-generated information. The workshop centers on a role-playing game scenario in which students interact with a chatbot non-player character (NPC) that serves as a guide, informant, but one that sometimes provides incomplete, misleading, or invalid information. Rather than treating chatbot errors as failures, the activity uses them as opportunities for students to practice verification, source evaluation, metacognition, and discipline-specific reasoning.

Participants will first experience a short version of the role-playing activity as students. They will then …

Building Bots That Teach Thinking: Using Custom Ai Chatbots To Enhance Critical Thinking And Decision-Making, Megan Biagi

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

Generative AI is increasingly common in education, but its effect on student learning depends largely on how it is used. This interactive session will introduce practical strategies for creating custom AI chatbots that encourage students to think through problems rather than simply ask for answers. Participants will explore ways to design bots that ask learners to explain their reasoning, consider alternative perspectives, identify assumptions, and revise their thinking before receiving feedback.   Examples from healthcare education and other disciplines will show how these tools can support guided inquiry, reflective questioning, clinical reasoning, and decision-making. Participants will review and revise sample chatbot …

Just A Stomachache, Jillian M. Spinali

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

Designing Custom Chatbots For Classroom Use: Practical Examples, Benefits, And Current Limitations, Akio Abe, Farrukh Nazir

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

Recent advances in generative AI have made it increasingly possible for individual educators to design and implement their own custom chatbots without advanced programming skills (Abe & Kaneshige, 2025). This workshop introduces practical examples of custom chatbots developed for educational purposes and discusses both their affordances and limitations for classroom use.

We would like to share a chatbot creation experience, which we spent one hour building, with a 30-minute presentation. For each chatbot, we will explain its intended purpose, target users, basic specifications, and expected classroom applications. We will also describe the development process, including how the presenters designed the …

Ai For Everyone: Designing An Introductory Ai Course Across Disciplines, Jesse Fitts, Waleed Faris

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

As artificial intelligence reshapes virtually every field, universities face a growing imperative to ensure AI literacy is not reserved for computer science majors alone. This panel presents the collaborative design of an introductory AI course built for undergraduate general education — one that serves students across disciplines, regardless of technical background.

Two co-designers will share the story of building the course from complementary angles. The first presenter will address the technical foundation of the curriculum: how core AI concepts such as machine learning, data, and algorithms were translated into accessible, hands-on learning experiences for non-specialist students. The second presenter will …

From “I’M Not A Coder” To “I Built A Website”: Teaching Business Concepts Through Ai Vibe Coding, Jean Jeon

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

This presentation shares my experience developing an AI vibe coding project for business students with little or no coding experience. Students first replicated a website, then created their own improved version and learned from peer feedback. Through trial and error, they revised their prompts and applied course concepts related to target audiences, user experience, branding, and business models. What began as an AI tool assignment became a learning-by-doing experience that encouraged students to think like marketers. I will share the project structure, student learning process, and lessons I learned while learning alongside my students.

Ai Across The Curriculum: Early Insights From Unr Students And Faculty, Elisabeth Linn, Elena S. Azadbakht, Rosalind Bucy

AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit

In July 2025, the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) joined librarians, educators, and administrators across 15-20 institutions to participate in an Ithaka S+R AI cohort. Ithaka S+R has worked with academic libraries, teaching and learning centers, and college administrators across more than 60 institutions, leading cohorts focused on teaching and learning with AI, integrating AI literacy into the curriculum, and more. This third cohort focused on defining, implementing, and scaling AI literacy initiatives across higher education. Through interviews with faculty and students, cohorts investigate needs surrounding AI literacy specific to their campus. This presentation will describe the preliminary results of …

Special Feature—Twenty Years Of The China Maritime Studies Institute, Andrew S. Erickson

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Saving Macarthur: The Story Of America’S Most Daring Naval Rescue, And Of The Men It Left Behind, Edmund B. Hernandez, Rudy Tomedi

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Eugene Ely: Pioneer Of Naval Aviation, Richard Norton, John H. Zobel

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

China’S Spies: Beijing’S Espionage Offensive, Andrew G. Wilson, Nigel West

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Other Dunkirk—German-Romanian Preparations For The Evacuation Of Crimea (1943–1944), Dan-Dragoș Sichigea

Naval War College Review

Eighty years after the military evacuation of the Crimean Peninsula, and with historical echoes sounding in the region in our own time, it is finally possible to make sense of “Hitler’s Dunkirk.”

Creating The Foundry—Organizational Learning And Technology Innovation Leadership In The United States Navy, David H. Lewis

Naval War College Review

Creating the “Foundry” envisioned by the Chief of Naval Operations is not going to be easy. But a sustained look at historical patterns and practitioner experience can help overcome the blockade against naval innovation.

What War Games Actually Teach—Threat Recognition, Not Prediction, Charles Edward Gehrke

Naval War College Review

Despite long-standing in-house and public interest in USN war gaming, new technologies and geopolitical realities have left the practice in waters of unknown depth and contours. Finding a way forward will require leaving behind the fog of unvarnished praise and criticism and answering the following question: What benefit do war games actually deliver?

Interrelated Risk Of The Maritime Choke-Point Network, Michael Kidd, Giana Farry, Violet G. Frost, Liam Kiley, Aakash Palathra, Moe Abdelsalam

Naval War College Review

Disruptions to choke points in various parts of the choke-point network create chains of risks spreading far and wide.Using mathematic modeling presents ways to mitigate negative impacts across the whole of the choke-point network.

From The Editors, Sam J. Tangredi Editor-In-Chief

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Autumn 2026 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Artifacts Inquiry For Social Studies And Science Classrooms, Tina Valenzuela, Jaime L. Coyne

Teaching Social Studies in the Peach State

Artifacts offer opportunities for students to move beyond reading about the past to investigating evidence from it. In this article, we describe a museum-based artifact inquiry activity developed with teacher candidates and offers practical ways to adapt the activity for K–12 interdisciplinary classrooms. Beginning with a single artifact, learners make careful observations, distinguish observation from inference, develop compelling and supporting questions, investigate additional sources, construct evidence-based claims, and consider perspectives and limitations of the available evidence. The activity aligns with the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework Inquiry Arc and connects with the Georgia Standards of Excellence in social …

No New Lessons: The Impact Of World War 2 On The American Fire Service, Brady L. Hutchison

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

Large loss of life fires occurred with terrifying regularity in 1940s America. While overseas, the nation’s military waged a war on tyranny and oppression abroad, at home, the country faced an enemy every bit as deadly. Tradition in the fire service has held the notion that the 1940s saw so many deadly fires due to the nation being at war. The war, it is believed, drained fire departments of manpower, dramatically increased the call volume for departments, and led departments to cut or suspend fire inspections owing to lack of manpower. With that, the consensus is that fire codes in …

Caldwell Hybrid Microbial-Galvanic Emergency Fuel Cell (Chfc-2/3): A Three-Tier, Central-Bio-Reactor System For Emergency Power Generation From Common And Debris Materials, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure describes a three-tier hybrid electrochemical power generation system (CHFC-2) and its scaled-up research extension (CHFC-3) that produces low-voltage DC electricity from materials available in domestic, shelter, and post-disaster debris environments. The system combines two power engines in a single cell: (1) a galvanic engine using an aluminum anode and copper cathode in an acidic saline electrolyte, producing 0.5–1.0 V within 1 hour of assembly; and (2) a microbial fuel cell (MFC) engine using soil-inoculated organic substrate, ramping up over 3–14 days and sustaining power for weeks to months with periodic refueling. The CHFC-3 extension introduces a central …

H-Nare 2.0: Hybrid Numeric-Alphabetic Research Indexing Engine For Multi-Domain Open-Hardware Invention Portfolios, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

H-NARE 2.0 is a hybrid numeric-alphabetic indexing and invention-development method for large, multi-domain open-hardware portfolios. It gives each disclosure a stable numeric identifier, assigns it to one or more engineering domains, records its development status, and links related inventions, upgraded versions, shared components, and research platforms.

The method addresses a practical problem: when an inventor or research group publishes hundreds of related disclosures, readers, collaborators, and AI-assisted research tools need a reliable way to locate relevant prior disclosures, distinguish new work from corrected or upgraded versions, and identify which existing inventions can be combined into a new system.

H-NARE 2.0 …

A Read-Only Listening Companion That Shows A Tabletop Role-Playing Group's Own Campaign Notes As Names Are Spoken, Wayne Bolt

Defensive Publications Series

Long tabletop role-playing campaigns build up hundreds of invented names. General speech recognition mishears exactly these names, so looking something up during play rarely happens. This disclosure describes a read-only companion that listens to a game and shows what the group's own notes say about each name as it is spoken. Speech is turned into text on the player's own device, from the computer's sound (a video call), a microphone (a physical table), or both. Recognition can be primed with the campaign's names. The text is matched against a casebook built from the group's notes database, with entries, aliases and …

Cbhep‑1: On-Site Retired Wind-Blade Crew Habitat, Solar Support, And Resilience Module, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

An Open-Hardware Method for Converting Retired Wind-Turbine Blades into On-Site Crew Habitats, Solar-Support Structures, and Future Resilience Modules

Retired utility-scale wind-turbine blades are increasingly difficult and expensive to transport, inspect, recycle, or dispose of after removal from service. This disclosure proposes an on-site reuse method in which selected retired blades are converted into modular crew habitats, equipment shelters, solar-canopy support structures, and potential future resilience modules at the wind farm where they were removed.

The primary configuration joins two retired blades at their root ends to form an enclosed, curved composite habitat shell. A third blade may be used as …

A System For Automated Life Cycle Inventory Generation, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

A system is described for the automated generation of life cycle inventories. The system can ingest varied manufacturing activity data, establish dynamic multi-dimensional system boundaries, and enforce physical conservation principles to produce audit-ready life cycle inventories. It determines system boundaries across temporal, geospatial, technological, and functional dimensions in real-time. By aligning telemetry across shift durations, batch sizes, and cycle times, it establishes a discrete time window for the residence time of a physical workpiece within a transformation node. The system may also resolve sub-facility hierarchies and select unit-operation technology profiles to capture the specific engineering physics and thermodynamic operating envelope …

Caldwell Tpms‑Fc Test Platform V1.0 An Open-Hardware, Single-Cell Pem Fuel-Cell Research Platform For Comparing Tpms Flow Fields, Graded Thermal Management, Water Management, And Net Electrical Performance, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell TPMS‑FC Test Platform v1.0 is an open-hardware, single-cell proton-exchange-membrane fuel-cell research platform designed to determine whether triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) flow fields, graded thermal-management structures, vortex-conditioned air inlets, and distributed sensing improve measurable fuel-cell performance.

The platform does not claim a new fuel-cell chemistry, a new membrane, or a guaranteed efficiency breakthrough. It provides a controlled method for comparing an experimental TPMS flow field against a conventional serpentine flow field under matched hydrogen flow, air flow, temperature, humidity, pressure, and electrical-load conditions.

The prototype uses commercially available membrane-electrode assemblies, gas-diffusion layers, hydrogen and air supplies, a coolant …

Gci Hypercell Ω-1 Adaptive Topology Fuel Cell Architecture Integrating Variable-Topology Thermal Management, Tpms Reactant Distribution, Vortex Conditioning, Embedded Structural Telemetry, And Lifetime Optimization, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure presents GCI HYPERCELL Ω-1, an open-hardware research fuel-cell architecture developed by integrating multiple previously disclosed Caldwell engineering systems into a unified proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel-cell platform.

Unlike conventional PEM fuel cells that treat reactant flow, cooling, sensing, water management, and durability as largely independent subsystems, HYPERCELL Ω-1 combines:

• Variable-topology thermal management

• TPMS reactant transport structures

• Vortex flow conditioning

• Embedded structural-health sensing

• Adaptive water-management systems

• Real-time degradation monitoring

into a single integrated architecture.

The objective is not to introduce a new electrochemical reaction but to improve stack-level performance, thermal stability, reactant distribution, durability, maintainability, and lifetime efficiency.

All specifications …

Method And System For Dynamically Repositioning Virtual Content In Augmented Reality Systems During Conversations, Ashish Singh, Ahmet Cengiz Öztireli

Defensive Publications Series

Users interacting with head-wearable augmented reality (AR) devices frequently experience virtual content clutter, such as incoming notifications, application windows, or video feeds overlaying their primary field of view. When a user engages in a face-to-face social interaction while wearing head-wearable devices, this virtual content can inadvertently obstruct the user's direct line of sight to the conversation partner's face and upper body. This obstruction disrupts natural eye contact and non-verbal communication cues, creating social disconnect and distraction. Furthermore, relying on manual hand gestures to adjust or reposition virtual content is cumbersome and interrupts conversational flow.

The disclosed technology describes a conversation-aware …