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#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

Fractal Soul: Mapping Sanjuanist Mystical Purifications Through Analogical Structural Isomorphism with Isomorphic Physics

This methodological working paper introduces a rigorous framework of Analogical Structural Isomorphism to map the precise, highly ordered interior geography of the soul’s passive purification as articulated by St. John of the Cross. Grounded in the doctrinal foundations of Thomistic hylomorphism (ST\ I,\ Q.76,\ A.1) and Divine Simplicity (ST\ I,\ Q.3), this study transcends mere poetic metaphor. It positions the laws of the physical universe as lower-resolution pedagogical scaffoldings—the "fingerprints of the Logos"—that mirror the higher-resolution spiritual laws governing the interior life. AI / ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DECLARATIONIn accordance with emerging academic transparency standards and ecclesiastical guidelines for published scholarship, the author discloses the use of generative artificial intelligence (LLM) tools during the preparation of this working paper. AI technology was utilized strictly in an assistive capacity for structural drafting, cross-referencing of canonical texts, comparative stylistic refinement, and formatting optimization. All theological synthesis, canonical interpretations, doctrinal evaluations, and final text selections remain entirely the original work and responsibility of the author.

Fr Joseph Gee · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

Custodians of the Interior Castle: Reclaiming Sacramental Realism, Canonical Order, and Mystical Purgation Against Modern Lay Ministerial Reductions

Contemporary pastoral practice within the Catholic Church is increasingly marked by the integration of lay-led spiritual renewal programs, deliverance protocols, and psychological inner-healing curricula. While initially deployed to revive nominal faith, these initiatives frequently institutionalize structural, canonical, and theological distortions. This paper analyses three widespread lay-led phenomena—Life in the Spirit Seminars (LSS), Unbound Ministry, and Little Way Healing Ministries—evaluating their operational frameworks through the combined lenses of Tridentine sacramental dogmatics, Sanjuanist mystical theology, primary operational manuals, and the 1983 Code of Canon Law. It demonstrates how these programs: Subvert the ex opere operato efficacy of the Sacraments of Initiation. Systematically invade the internal forum in violation of Canons 220 and 240 §2. Usurp the cura animarum reserved to sacred orders under Canons 519, 129 §1, and 274 §1. Misdiagnose the mystical Passive Night of the Senses as demonic oppression, psychological trauma, or spiritual pathology. By incorporating the primary directives of the Life in the Spirit Seminars Team Manual and comparing lay interventions to the biblical comforters of Job as analysed by St. John of the Cross, this study argues for a clerical re-assertion of sacramental realism, canonical governance, and the classical Carmelite understanding of the Cross (2 Cor 12:7–9). The critical danger of modern lay-led reductions is not merely that they introduce theological or canonical confusions, but that they structurally operationalize the very adversarial trap St. John of the Cross identified in Living Flame of Love (Stanza 3, §64). By stationing their diagnostic and emotional protocols precisely at the threshold where sense gives way to spirit, these movements intercept souls during the Passive Night of the Senses, feeding the sensory faculties with artificial activity precisely when God is attempting to introduce them into silent, contemplative union. While contemporary revisions of the LSS manual (e.g., Boucher, 2000) have updated their formal text to appease diocesan oversight and excise explicit prohibitions against conditional prayer, pastoral reality reveals a persistent disconnect: in practice, local parish groups continue to operate with de facto autonomy, retaining the operational DNA, performance-based methodologies, and internal-forum invasions established in the original 1979 framework. AI / ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DECLARATIONIn accordance with emerging academic transparency standards and ecclesiastical guidelines for published scholarship, the author discloses the use of generative artificial intelligence (LLM) tools during the preparation of this working paper. AI technology was utilized strictly in an assistive capacity for structural drafting, cross-referencing of canonical texts, comparative stylistic refinement, and formatting optimization. All theological synthesis, canonical interpretations, doctrinal evaluations, and final text selections remain entirely the original work and responsibility of the author.

Fr Joseph Gee · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

Risks to Children from the Normalisation of Generative AI and the Case for Agile Updating of Information Ethics Education

An information brief submitted to Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)24 June 2026Kenji Yamada, Research Coordinator, Shinyoshi Junior High School, Kasaoka City, Okayama Haruka Shibata, Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto UniversityGenerative AI is rapidly changing the information environment in which children live. Drawing on classroom data and national statistics, this brief sets out the current situation, the outlook, and a set of options for response.

K. Yamada, Haruka Shibata · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

Supplementary Dataset and Benchmark Logs: From Semantic Retrieval to Conversational Agent

This repository contains the supplementary materials and experimental data supporting the research article: "From Semantic Retrieval to Conversational Agent: A Web-Based RAG Architecture for Interactive System Dynamics Modeling". The dataset is divided into two primary components: the source model environment (search space) and the raw experimental benchmarks evaluating retrieval performance across different levels of user expertise and conversational search strategies. 1. Model Corpus, Queries, and Scenarios This section contains the definitions, domain classifications, and configurations used to build the semantic search environment and simulate user interactions. System Dynamics Models: Contains the extracted, curated, and serialized structural definitions of 63 System Dynamics models. These models cover diverse application domains, including Ecology, Macroeconomics, Smart Cities, Agriculture, and Epidemiology. User Queries and Intents: A dataset contrasting authentic broad novice search intents (e.g., "Show me health-related models") with theoretically perfect, expert-formulated structured queries requiring specific domain vocabulary. Benchmark Scenarios: 37 standardized benchmark scenarios engineered to evaluate cross-disciplinary semantic and lexical search performance across the system. Relevance judgments were established a priori by two domain experts, independently of any system output, and comprise 95 scenario–model relevance pairs 2. Experimental Benchmarks The benchmark execution logs provide a quantitative comparative analysis of different retrieval paradigms, running on a local AI ecosystem with direct CPU inference. File: conversational_rag_benchmark_metrics.csv: This file contains the aggregate Information Retrieval metrics (Precision@5, Recall@5, MRR, and nDCG@5) calculated for the 37 test scenarios. Note that the MRR_Mean column is computed over the full retrieval list (L = 10), whereas the paper reports MRR at the evaluation cutoff k = 5; two rows are affected (scenario 18, Method C, 1/7; scenario 37, Method E, 1/6), where the first relevant document falls beyond the top five, and setting both to zero reproduces the Table 5 values exactly. File: inference_latency_logs.csv: Documents the execution timestamps and hardware latency logs for the local ONNX inference engine, tracking the multi-turn conversational delays. File: ablation_study_p_values.csv: Contains the statistical hypothesis testing (paired t-tests) results validating the significance of the agentic retrieval improvements. File: contextless_retrieval_test.csv: Contains the isolated experimental data evaluating the impact of conversational memory (Method F). Evaluated Methodologies (Ablation Study) The benchmark data tests the following six retrieval paths: Method A: Broad Intent (Direct Retrieval Baseline) using standard single-turn semantic search. Method B: Agentic Refinement (Real Multi-Turn Agent Path) representing the complete conversational architecture. Method C: Expert Semantic Baseline (Direct Retrieval), establishing semantic search performance under optimal input conditions. Method D: Apache BM25 (Lexical over Expert Query) testing exact keyword matching. Method E: Expert Query via Agent (Single Agent Turn) to assess system robustness against over-complication. Method F: Contextless User Refinement (Direct Retrieval), submitting the user's raw Turn 2 answer directly to the vector database, thereby bypassing both the conversational history and the generative query rewriting step. Key Finding - Retrieval Accuracy: Replacing the static search baseline (Method A) with the Agentic Orchestrator (Method B) improves mean nDCG@5 from 0.1066 to 0.4422, a rise of over 300%. Expressed as retrieval success, Hit@5 rises from 0.1892 to 0.5946. Key Finding - Lexical vs. Semantic Dynamics: Under optimal conditions with expert queries, exact lexical matching (Method D) outperforms dense retrieval on every reported metric, achieving an MRR@5 of 0.8784 and an nDCG@5 of 0.8053 against 0.6856 and 0.5750 for semantic search (Method C). Key Finding - Computational Latency: The logs document the latency overhead of local CPU processing. A complete multi-turn exploratory session (Method B) averages 59.33 s (SD = 23.02 s), whereas structurally complete expert queries (Method E) execute in 49.81 s (SD = 9.84 s). Each scenario was executed as an independent cold-start process, so these values include ONNX session initialisation and constitute an empirical upper bound rather than steady-state deployment latency.

Pavel Kyurkchiev · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

Supplementary Materials for "An Action Research on Generative AI-Based 'Wide-Area Research' for Mitigating the Usage Gap in the Art Field" (미술현장의 정보격차 해소를 위한 생성형 AI 기반 '광역 리서치' 실행연구 보충자료)

This dataset provides the supplementary materials for the article "An Action Research on Generative AI-Based 'Wide-Area Research' for Mitigating the Usage Gap in the Art Field" (in Korean). It contains the controlled-vocabulary codebook (24 concepts), the full article-level coding results for 310 articles collected over 11 weeks (27 April – 12 July 2026), a full URL audit dataset, a cross-model recoding reliability report, and the complete agent prompt specifications. Contents are limited to summaries and metadata; no full text of source articles is reproduced. Documentation is in Korean. 본 자료는 논문 「미술현장의 정보격차 해소를 위한 생성형 AI 기반 '광역 리서치' 실행연구」의 보충자료입니다. 생성형 AI 기반 리서치 워크플로를 11주간(2026.4.27~7.12) 운용하여 산출한 주간 리포트 「Art & AI Weekly Report」의 기사 310건에 대한 코드북, 기사 단위 코딩 결과, URL 전수 검증 데이터셋, 교차 검증 자료, 에이전트 프롬프트 전문을 수록합니다. 제3자가 논문의 집계 결과를 직접 재현하고 코딩 규칙의 타당성을 감사(audit)할 수 있도록 공개합니다. 자료의 범위와 한계본 자료는 요약과 메타데이터에 한정되며, 원 기사의 본문은 포함하지 않습니다. 각 기사의 열람 경로는 원 매체 링크로만 제공됩니다. 코딩은 저자가 확정한 코드북 규칙을 프롬프트로 주입하여 생성형 AI가 자동 부여하였고, 저자가 310건 전체에 대해 제목·요약과 부여 태그를 대조하는 전수 검수를 수행하였습니다. 다만 이는 AI 코더와 동일한 입력을 대상으로 한 규칙 적용의 검수이며, 요약이 원 기사를 정확히 반영하는지에 관한 원문 대조는 전수로 이루어지지 않았습니다. 수록 파일 README.md — 자료 안내, 집계 기준, 재현 절차, 검증 로그 codebook_24concepts.csv — 24개 개념의 부여기준과 클러스터 대응 coding_310_wide.csv — 기사 단위 코딩 결과 (310행) coding_310_long.csv — 기사–개념 쌍 (452행) concept_frequency.csv / cluster_frequency.csv — 개념별·클러스터별 집계 url_audit_310.csv / url_audit_310_README.md — URL 전수 검증 데이터셋과 판정 기준 reliability_crossmodel_report.docx — 표본 62건(seed=42) 교차 검증 보고서 recompute_alpha_per_concept.py — 개념별 Krippendorff's α 재계산 스크립트 agent_prompts_full.docx — 에이전트별 지시문·검증 규칙·오류 대응표 결합 키 — 엔트리ID(주차-카테고리-순번, 예: W05-국내큐레이션-03)는 코딩 결과와 URL 검증 데이터셋을 1:1로 연결합니다. 모든 집계값은 coding_310_long.csv로부터 프로그램적으로 산출·검증되었습니다.*v2 추가 사항 (독립 코더 신뢰도 보충)*심사위원 의견 및 신뢰도 검증 강화를 위해 독립 코더(인간 코더)가 수행한 코딩 원자료 및 일치도 분석 데이터(`intercoder_reliability_supplement.zip`)를 추가 수록하였습니다.

K. Kim · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

‘A bit of chaos and madness’: the AI assessment scale and the work of assessment reform

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has intensified pressure on universities to redesign assessment while maintaining integrity, equity, and validity. Frameworks such as the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS) offer one response, but evidence of how faculty experience their implementation remains limited. This qualitative study examines AIAS implementation as two parallel cases: a private international university in Vietnam, which adopted the first version institution-wide, and a public UK university, which adopted the revised version in a single school. Data from five focus groups with 30 faculty members were analysed using hybrid thematic analysis, with Critical AI Literacy as a sensitising concept. Six themes were developed: recognising and integrating AI, facilitating conditions, building capacity, pathways to adoption, ethics in practice, and reframing pedagogy. Faculty valued the AIAS as a shared language for legitimising GenAI use, clarifying boundaries, and prompting reflection on assessment design. However, they described implementation as shaped by governance, tool access, faculty confidence, workload, integrity concerns, disciplinary context, and alignment with learning outcomes. Their accounts suggest the AIAS could prompt authentic assessment design and student engagement, but may become a compliance layer when disconnected from those conditions. The study contributes evidence on the conditions through which GenAI frameworks reach pedagogical enactment.

Mike Perkins, Darius Postma, Jasper Roe et al. · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

R Code for Regional Analysis: Automated Visualization and Image Export for Japanese Municipal Finance Using ggplot2 and patchwork 地域分析のためのRコード:ggplot2とpatchworkを用いた地方自治体財政指標の自動グラフ化および一括画像出力

本Rスクリプトは、地方財政分析のために設計された、ggplot2およびpatchworkを活用した自動・高性能なグラフィック生成モジュールである。先行リポジトリ(https://zenodo.org/records/20258441)で構築したデータ抽出パイプラインのシームレスな可視化拡張として機能し、論文・報告書クオリティの個別チャートや複数指標を統合したダッシュボードを自動生成する。処理済みの財政データセットを動的にスキャンし、厳密な数値フォーマット(%表記の小数点第1位固定など)を適用しながら、ファイルの上書き防止機能を備えた高解像度画像を一括エクスポートする。コードの厳密な再現性と即時利用性を検証するため、実行時に直接生成された未加工のサンプルグラフ(豊山町_公債費負担比率.png)を同梱している。 生成AIの利用について 本レポジトリのコード作成には生成AIを利用した。V1.0まではGoogle Gemini、V2.0以降はClaude(Anthropic)を用いて作成した。出力の検証は著者が行い、内容の責任は著者が負う。 Version 2.0 Release: 決算状況調10年パネルへの対応 本バージョン(V2.0)では、原データの系統を追加した。従来の「財政状況資料集」に加え、「市町村別決算状況調」から作成した10年パネル(平成27〜令和6年度、https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22144642)を入力として扱える。作図モジュールは変更しておらず、入力を作る前段(prepare_panel_for_graphics.R)を追加することで対応した。描画対象は13指標で、目的別歳出から2款を含む。豊山町(愛知県)で実行したサンプル画像を同梱している。 関連Rコード 【類似団体検索・列挙ツール】二自治体の財政比較を行う場合に便利な類似団体コードの同一の自治体を検索・列挙するRコード(Shiny)を作成しました。https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20387194 【連動データ抽出・処理モジュール】 本スクリプトでの可視化に必要な複数年の自治体財政指標データを抽出・前処理(「地方自治体財政指標に関する財政状況資料集を用いた10年間集計エクセルデータ作成」)する際は、基盤となるデータ処理モジュール( https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20258441 )を参照のこと。 [English] R Code for Regional Analysis: Automated Visualization and Image Export Using ggplot2 and patchwork This R script provides an automated, high-performance graphic generation module designed for regional fiscal analysis, leveraging the power of ggplot2 and patchwork to produce publication-ready individual charts and integrated multi-indicator dashboards. Operating as a seamless visualization extension to the primary data extraction pipeline established in the preceding repository (available at https://zenodo.org/records/20258441 ), this module dynamically scans processed financial datasets, enforces rigorous decimal formatting (e.g., standardizing percentage representations to ".1f%"), and batch-exports high-resolution assets with native file-overwrite protection. To verify the script's strict reproducibility and out-of-the-box utility, the accompanying sample graph (豊山町_公債費負担比率.png, showing the Debt Service Burden Ratio of Toyoyama Town) is provided as a raw, unaltered file directly generated by the execution of this code. Declaration of Generative AI Use Generative AI was used to write the code in this repository. The code up to version 1.0 was written with Google Gemini; from version 2.0 it has been written with Claude (Anthropic). The author has verified the output and takes responsibility for the content. Version 2.0 Release: Support for the Settlement Survey Ten-Year Panel This version adds a second family of source data. Alongside the Financial Status Documents used since version 1.0, the module now accepts the ten-year panel (FY2015–FY2024) built from the Local Government Financial Settlement Survey (市町村別決算状況調), deposited at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22144642. The plotting module (compile_municipal_finance_10years_graphics.R) is unchanged. It takes a data frame of one fiscal year per row and decides how to draw each indicator from the column name alone: columns marked as amounts are drawn as bar charts, columns whose name contains the word for ratio as percentage lines, and the remainder as index lines. Because the interface is a data frame rather than a file format, supporting a different source requires only a new front end. The script added here, prepare_panel_for_graphics.R, selects one municipality from the panel by its code and assembles that data frame; the municipality and the expenditure categories to be drawn are set at the top of the script. Thirteen indicators are drawn. Six are amounts (total revenue, total expenditure, real balance, standard financial demand, standard financial revenue, standard fiscal scale), five are ratios or indices (index of financial capability, ratio of current expenditure to current revenue, real balance ratio, real debt service ratio, debt service burden ratio), and two are expenditure categories taken from the expenditure-by-purpose table (social welfare and civil engineering). Plotting expenditure categories over time is new in this version. Sample images produced by running the code on Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture (municipality code 233421) are deposited as raw, unaltered output. Related R Code [Peer Municipality Search & Listing Tool] Developed an R Shiny application designed to search and list municipalities belonging to the same peer group code. This tool is highly useful for conducting comparative financial analysis between peer municipalities. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20387194 [Integrated Data Extraction & Processing Module] For extracting and preprocessing multi-year municipal financial indicator data required for visualization in this script (specifically, "Creating a 10-Year Aggregate Excel Dataset Using the Financial Status Documents on Local Government Financial Indicators"), please refer to the underlying data processing module. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20258441

Yasutoshi Moteki · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

No Easy Fix to Countering AI-Generated Visual Disinformation: The (in)Effectiveness of AI-Labels, Fact-Check Labels and Community Notes

As generative AI makes it easier to create synthetic visuals, AI-driven visual disinformation isbecoming more common on social media. However, while much research highlights its potentialharm, less is known about how to reduce its potential to mislead. In this study, we thereforeconducted a preregistered online experiment in the Netherlands (N=1,018) to test the effectivenessof various platform interventions: (1) AI labels or “watermarks,” (2) fact-check labels, and (3)community notes. We tested how effective these sources are in lowering credibility of the falsevisual and belief in the false claim it portrays across two polarizing topics: climate change andimmigration. Overall, the interventions showed no significant differences in effectiveness. Thiswas the case when pooling both topics together and for climate-change related disinformation inisolation. However, for visual disinformation about immigration, community notes were mosteffective, especially among participants with strong anti-migrant views. Our findings suggest thatwhile labeling has limited impact overall, its effectiveness varies by context, and no one-size-fits-all solution exists for combating AI-generated visual disinformation.

Teresa Weikmann, Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers et al. · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

Ten-Year Panel of Japanese Municipal Finance from the Local Government Financial Settlement Survey

This R script (make_kessan10_csv.R) converts the Local Government Financial Settlement Survey (市町村別決算状況調), published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on its annual pages of local government financial status survey materials, into machine-readable CSV. The source workbooks are print-oriented Excel files with multi-row merged headers, issued as four separate files per fiscal year (overview and expenditure, for cities and for towns and villages). The script consolidates them into long-format panels carrying fiscal year and municipality type as columns, and also writes one file per fiscal year. The output of a run over ten fiscal years (FY2015–FY2024) is deposited alongside it: all 1,741 municipalities, with 33 overview indicators and 94 expenditure items classified by purpose, giving panels of 17,410 rows each. Every municipality and every year is checked for internal consistency: the components of each expenditure category sum to that category's total, and the sum of all categories matches the total expenditure reported in the overview table. All checks passed for all ten years. Amounts are in thousands of yen, as published; blank cells are left blank rather than filled with zero. The column structure of the source data does not change over the period covered. One definitional change affects the adjusted ratio of current expenditure to current revenue: for FY2020 and FY2021 the special bonds issued for deferred tax collection are removed from current general revenue as well. Four changes of municipality occurred: Tomiya and Nakagawa became cities in FY2016 and FY2018 respectively, each receiving a new municipality code; Sasayama was renamed Tamba-Sasayama in FY2019, and Aogashima was renamed in FY2018 in the written form of its name only, both keeping their codes. The code was written with generative AI: Claude (Anthropic) was used to write and revise it. The author has verified the output and takes responsibility for the content. Version 1.1 corrects the reading of the census population change column in the overview table, where a small negative rate written with the triangle sign used in Japanese official statistics was left blank instead of being read as a number. 56 cells across the ten years were affected; no other value changed.

Yasutoshi Moteki · 1 citation
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

MANUSAKSI-AI v1.1 A Human-Authenticated Framework for Documenting Human–AI Interaction, Emergent Experience, and Human–AI Lexicon

Generative Artificial Intelligence is increasingly becoming part of human thinking, writing, research, creativity, decision-making, and everyday conversation. This development creates a methodological problem for documenting Human-AI interaction: how can a human experience involving AI be recorded without allowing AI-generated language to become confused with human testimony, observed events, or historical fact? This working paper introduces MANUSAKSI-AI, a human-authenticated framework for documenting Human-AI interaction events, their provenance, interpretation, and emergent terminology. The framework is based on a simple epistemic distinction: AI may generate language; Human authenticates experience. MANUSAKSI-AI identifies the Human as the Human Principal / Human Witness and the AI as an AI Agent / Interpreter. AI may analyze, interpret, hypothesize, organize, and narrate. However, the authority to authenticate whether a lived human experience actually occurred remains with the Human Principal. The framework introduces an evidence hierarchy, provenance architecture, Human Authentication Gate, event-record schema, anti-hallucination rules, and the "(it happened)" principle. The latter is proposed as a provenance marker for narratives grounded in documented Human-AI encounters and validated by the human participant. The paper also proposes the Kamus Manusaksi-AI, a living lexicon documenting vocabulary emerging from Human-AI relations. The first documented term in the present research trajectory is "Manusaksi-AI", a neologistic formation derived from manusia (human), saksi (witness), and AI. Its conceptual formulation emerged through a documented Human-AI conversation on 29 August 2026. Version 1.1 Update Note: This version introduces formal academic compliance updates, including the inclusion of a comprehensive reference list for the intellectual lenses mentioned in the framework, and the addition of specific ethical, funding, and conflict-of-interest declarations required for journal submission and public release. This Version 1.1 is released as an evolving research artifact. It is intended for documentation, replication, critique, refinement, and subsequent empirical testing rather than as a finalized scientific standard.

Kian Tik Go · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

Nonnegative Multiweight Smith Profiles and Contracted Strata of Shared-Socle Jordan Degenerations

This article studies one-parameter degenerations of chains of nilpotent Jordan blocks joined along their socle vectors. It gives a complete Smith-normal-form description of the associated self-extension torsion for arbitrary chain length and all nonnegative edge valuations. The result includes an explicit path-matching formula, a sharp finite reduction in the block-size parameters, a classification of the Jordan types created by zero-valued couplings, and an equality between the number of positive Smith factors and the codimension of the corresponding nilpotent-orbit degeneration. The article also identifies the precise size gaps that cause failure of the full type-A interval profile, derives exact torsion-length deficit formulas, and packages the profile through Fitting ideals and transverse-slice dimensions. Exact verification scripts and machine-readable summaries accompany the paper. Research methodology and AI assistance:This work was developed using the CARMA-Math research workflow, a cumulative AI-assisted mathematical research methodology using persistent research archives, literature and prior-art investigation, iterative proof exploration, and verification procedures. Generative AI (ChatGPT) was used extensively for mathematical exploration, proof development, computational reasoning, literature research, and manuscript preparation.

Akihiro Koide · 0 citations
#generative ai Dataset Open access Aug 2026

Generative AI use and perceptions among accounting and auditing undergraduates in Ecuador

Contents survey_responses_deidentified.csv — 327 responses, 60 variables. UTF-8, comma-separated, one row per respondent. codebook.csv — One row per variable: name, original questionnaire header, question stem, item, type, and observed values. STUDY A cross-sectional online survey of undergraduates enrolled in Accounting and Auditing at Universidad Tecnica de Machala (UTMACH, n = 243) and in Auditing and Management Control at Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL, n = 84), collected between 28 November and 7 December 2025. The instrument was adapted from Zhou and Luo (2025, Journal of Accounting Education 72, 100982) and administered in Spanish. Participation was voluntary and anonymous. Questionnaire items are in Spanish, as administered. The codebook preserves each original header verbatim, so any variable can be traced back to the instrument. VARIABLE NAMING Google Forms headers embed the full question text, which is unusable as a variable name. Columns are renamed by questionnaire section and item: usage_* Frequency, entry point, influence, motivation, goals rank_* Task, subject-area, question-type and requirement rankings (0-10) percep_* Perceptions of AI output and its consequences (1-7) outcome_* Self-reported effects on learning and grades demo_* University, program, class level, grade band, gender, age, open comment Grid items are numbered within their block (rank_b_1 through rank_b_7) in the order they appeared in the questionnaire. The variable respondent_id runs from 2 to 328. It is the row number of the original survey export, retained so that identifiers stay stable across the analysis files; no responses are missing. DE-IDENTIFICATION No direct identifiers (names, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, IP addresses, student numbers) were collected by the instrument. The open-ended responses were screened for e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, URLs, social-media handles and named third parties; none were found, and the comments appear here unedited. Three columns collected by the survey are withheld from this deposit: Submission timestamp — Unique to the millisecond for all 327 responses, which would allow linkage to submission logs. The collection window is reported in the article. City of residence — Fifteen localities had four or fewer respondents; several had one. Race / ethnicity — Special-category data under Ecuador's LOPDP and GDPR Art. 9. Collected for description only and never used in any analysis.

Benigno Alfredo Armijos De La Cruz, Zaida Patricia Morocho Roman, Ramón Villa-Cox · 0 citations

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