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Design of a University Thesis and Project Automation System (UTPAS)

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• Md. Rawshan Habib 12 ,
• Abhishek Vadher 12 ,
• Md. Tanzimul Alam 13 ,
• Md. Apu Ahmed 13 ,
• Md. Shahnewaz Tanvir 14 ,
• Tahsina Tashrif Shawmee 14 ,
• Rifah Shanjida 15 ,
• Aditi Ghosh 13 &
• Rao Faraz Shakeel 13  

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The primary aim of this project is to develop software for the automation of thesis and project submission instead of the present manual system. Nowadays, in this modern competitive world, time is one of the most precious thing to a human being. The manual system which is used for thesis and project in the universities is time-worthy work. Therefore, a cutting-edge automation system is developed in this research work to utilize the time. Using this system, student do not need to come to university for meeting their supervisor. That is because a user-friendly communication system is developed to communicate with the supervisor. Students can send their reports via online and then supervisor would check and ask for necessary modification. After submission of final report, other panel members such as reviewers, externals from other university can review the report and can also give feedbacks. In the end of a semester, all documents of thesis or project work would be shown in a public page where students from other semesters can get the previous thesis and project reports. İn this way, they would be benefitted and motivated for research work.

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We, the APA Style team, are not robots. We can all pass a CAPTCHA test , and we know our roles in a Turing test . And, like so many nonrobot human beings this year, we’ve spent a fair amount of time reading, learning, and thinking about issues related to large language models, artificial intelligence (AI), AI-generated text, and specifically ChatGPT . We’ve also been gathering opinions and feedback about the use and citation of ChatGPT. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and shared ideas, opinions, research, and feedback.

In this post, I discuss situations where students and researchers use ChatGPT to create text and to facilitate their research, not to write the full text of their paper or manuscript. We know instructors have differing opinions about how or even whether students should use ChatGPT, and we’ll be continuing to collect feedback about instructor and student questions. As always, defer to instructor guidelines when writing student papers. For more about guidelines and policies about student and author use of ChatGPT, see the last section of this post.

Quoting or reproducing the text created by ChatGPT in your paper

If you’ve used ChatGPT or other AI tools in your research, describe how you used the tool in your Method section or in a comparable section of your paper. For literature reviews or other types of essays or response or reaction papers, you might describe how you used the tool in your introduction. In your text, provide the prompt you used and then any portion of the relevant text that was generated in response.

Unfortunately, the results of a ChatGPT “chat” are not retrievable by other readers, and although nonretrievable data or quotations in APA Style papers are usually cited as personal communications , with ChatGPT-generated text there is no person communicating. Quoting ChatGPT’s text from a chat session is therefore more like sharing an algorithm’s output; thus, credit the author of the algorithm with a reference list entry and the corresponding in-text citation.

When prompted with “Is the left brain right brain divide real or a metaphor?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that although the two brain hemispheres are somewhat specialized, “the notation that people can be characterized as ‘left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’ is considered to be an oversimplification and a popular myth” (OpenAI, 2023).

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

You may also put the full text of long responses from ChatGPT in an appendix of your paper or in online supplemental materials, so readers have access to the exact text that was generated. It is particularly important to document the exact text created because ChatGPT will generate a unique response in each chat session, even if given the same prompt. If you create appendices or supplemental materials, remember that each should be called out at least once in the body of your APA Style paper.

When given a follow-up prompt of “What is a more accurate representation?” the ChatGPT-generated text indicated that “different brain regions work together to support various cognitive processes” and “the functional specialization of different regions can change in response to experience and environmental factors” (OpenAI, 2023; see Appendix A for the full transcript).

Creating a reference to ChatGPT or other AI models and software

The in-text citations and references above are adapted from the reference template for software in Section 10.10 of the Publication Manual (American Psychological Association, 2020, Chapter 10). Although here we focus on ChatGPT, because these guidelines are based on the software template, they can be adapted to note the use of other large language models (e.g., Bard), algorithms, and similar software.

The reference and in-text citations for ChatGPT are formatted as follows:

• Parenthetical citation: (OpenAI, 2023)
• Narrative citation: OpenAI (2023)

Let’s break that reference down and look at the four elements (author, date, title, and source):

Author: The author of the model is OpenAI.

Date: The date is the year of the version you used. Following the template in Section 10.10, you need to include only the year, not the exact date. The version number provides the specific date information a reader might need.

Title: The name of the model is “ChatGPT,” so that serves as the title and is italicized in your reference, as shown in the template. Although OpenAI labels unique iterations (i.e., ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-4), they are using “ChatGPT” as the general name of the model, with updates identified with version numbers.

The version number is included after the title in parentheses. The format for the version number in ChatGPT references includes the date because that is how OpenAI is labeling the versions. Different large language models or software might use different version numbering; use the version number in the format the author or publisher provides, which may be a numbering system (e.g., Version 2.0) or other methods.

Bracketed text is used in references for additional descriptions when they are needed to help a reader understand what’s being cited. References for a number of common sources, such as journal articles and books, do not include bracketed descriptions, but things outside of the typical peer-reviewed system often do. In the case of a reference for ChatGPT, provide the descriptor “Large language model” in square brackets. OpenAI describes ChatGPT-4 as a “large multimodal model,” so that description may be provided instead if you are using ChatGPT-4. Later versions and software or models from other companies may need different descriptions, based on how the publishers describe the model. The goal of the bracketed text is to briefly describe the kind of model to your reader.

Source: When the publisher name and the author name are the same, do not repeat the publisher name in the source element of the reference, and move directly to the URL. This is the case for ChatGPT. The URL for ChatGPT is https://chat.openai.com/chat . For other models or products for which you may create a reference, use the URL that links as directly as possible to the source (i.e., the page where you can access the model, not the publisher’s homepage).

Other questions about citing ChatGPT

You may have noticed the confidence with which ChatGPT described the ideas of brain lateralization and how the brain operates, without citing any sources. I asked for a list of sources to support those claims and ChatGPT provided five references—four of which I was able to find online. The fifth does not seem to be a real article; the digital object identifier given for that reference belongs to a different article, and I was not able to find any article with the authors, date, title, and source details that ChatGPT provided. Authors using ChatGPT or similar AI tools for research should consider making this scrutiny of the primary sources a standard process. If the sources are real, accurate, and relevant, it may be better to read those original sources to learn from that research and paraphrase or quote from those articles, as applicable, than to use the model’s interpretation of them.

We’ve also received a number of other questions about ChatGPT. Should students be allowed to use it? What guidelines should instructors create for students using AI? Does using AI-generated text constitute plagiarism? Should authors who use ChatGPT credit ChatGPT or OpenAI in their byline? What are the copyright implications ?

On these questions, researchers, editors, instructors, and others are actively debating and creating parameters and guidelines. Many of you have sent us feedback, and we encourage you to continue to do so in the comments below. We will also study the policies and procedures being established by instructors, publishers, and academic institutions, with a goal of creating guidelines that reflect the many real-world applications of AI-generated text.

For questions about manuscript byline credit, plagiarism, and related ChatGPT and AI topics, the APA Style team is seeking the recommendations of APA Journals editors. APA Style guidelines based on those recommendations will be posted on this blog and on the APA Style site later this year.

Update: APA Journals has published policies on the use of generative AI in scholarly materials .

We, the APA Style team humans, appreciate your patience as we navigate these unique challenges and new ways of thinking about how authors, researchers, and students learn, write, and work with new technologies.

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

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By Susannah Baruch Aug. 11, 2024

T he Food and Drug Administration’s decision not to approve Lykos Therapeutics’ application for MDMA (a psychedelic drug known on the street as Ecstasy or molly) plus therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder comes as no surprise, given an advisory panel’s “no” vote on the application in June. But if lessons from reproductive health are any signal, I believe there is a future for psychedelics in health care.

As executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, my work includes legal, ethical, and policy analysis surrounding psychedelic medicine. As part of our growing Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation , we’ve hosted two major convenings on this topic this summer alone. Most participants seemed to feel that no matter how the FDA ruled on Lykos’ application, the potential for psychedelic medicine is real and requires ongoing, careful attention from scientists and policymakers alike.

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But for many years before that, I worked in reproductive health law, advocating to make emergency contraception (Plan B) available to all, to increase access to abortion services , including through FDA approval of mifepristone in 2000 , and to improve fertility care and pregnancy care . I worked with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project to make emergency contraception fully available without a prescription and to achieve mifepristone’s approval in the United States.

Both psychedelic medicine and reproductive health care face a gap between public support and restrictive laws. I’ve come to see these two semi-taboo areas of health care as a matched set, twins of a sort. Political controversy generates stigma and undermines rational legal, policy, and ethical analysis. The result can be massive swings toward restrictive law and policy, like President Richard Nixon’s War on Drugs or the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization .

Related: The inside story of how Lykos’ MDMA research went awry

Even in a restricted legal environment, though, these forms of care are in high demand, widely used, and are readily available to those who know where to go and who to ask, especially those with ample resources. Meanwhile, for both of these types of care, people without resources or with marginalized identities are much more affected by legal restrictions and enforcement .

In both cases, it is essential that research demonstrates safety and effectiveness in terms that the FDA and other medical and scientific experts understand.

For passionate supporters of psychedelic-assisted therapy, FDA approval for a product like Lykos’ had seemed inevitable. The epidemic of mental health crises and the need for new treatment options are strong drivers for leaders in this field, some of whom speak openly of having personally experienced or witnessed the toll of mental illness and/or the experience of healing from psychedelics. Strong emotions like hopeful enthusiasm, outrage, and despair plus urgent needs and high expectations can make delays and setbacks feel like an existential crisis.

People working to improve or preserve access to contraceptives, abortion, and pregnancy-related care have been similarly frustrated when reproductive health care has been limited or refused by policymakers and courts, contrary to evidence-based health imperatives.

For example, “Plan B” emergency contraception became available only after many years of controversy, most of which was pure politics. The bumpy path from initial approval as a prescription-only product to full over-the-counter approval included the FDA ignoring the recommendation of its independent advisory committee and scientific review staff, the high-profile resignation of the FDA’s top official in charge of women’s health, a report from the Government Accountability Office critical of the decision to deny over-the-counter access, unprecedented political interference by the Secretary of Health and Human Services that was publicly supported by President Barack Obama , and ultimately resolution, but only after a federal court battle .

Related: Don’t write off MDMA yet: How the FDA got on board with psychedelics

Before emergency contraception was approved, it had been in widespread use for decades. Health care providers knew that a high dose of common birth control pills taken within a few days of unprotected sex achieved the same effect of ensuring that no pregnancy would begin. Many health care providers gave patients advance prescriptions for this innovative, off-label use of a tried-and-true contraceptive medication. Thus, in practice, FDA approval followed many years of common, safe, effective, and practical use.

Similarly, mifepristone transformed the provision of abortion care, particularly post-Dobbs, but it took years and multiple iterations of restrictions from the FDA to get there. In 1988, the French government ordered the drug company that developed mifepristone — then called RU-486 — to resume sales after distribution was suspended due to pressure from anti-abortion forces. At the time, France’s Minister of Health, Claude Evin, told The New York Times, “From the moment Government approval for the drug was granted, RU 486 became the moral property of women, not just the property of the drug company.”

Mifepristone’s power is, and always has been, its ability to address a critical unmet need. In retrospect, its eventual approval may seem almost inevitable. But since the FDA’s earliest look at mifepristone in the United States in 1996 to its first approval in 2000 , and up to and including the current increasing availability of mifepristone through telehealth and mail-order pharmacies , enormous resources have been spent to prove beyond any doubt the drug’s safety and effectiveness.

The abortion care landscape has been transformed by proponents’ persistence, creativity, and support for community-based use by ensuring that accurate public information about mifepristone is available, working to eliminate medically unnecessary barriers to access , increasing funding streams for care and travel, creating confidential help resources , and answering legal questions that arise when the legal environment is evolving and uncertain.

In much of the U.S., some use of mifepristone is at least partially outside of the formal health care system. Just as with the safe use of psychedelics in Indigenous communities and elsewhere, what has come to be called “self-managed abortion” has been around and safe for many years. With the broader availability of abortion pills like mifepristone, and the ongoing efforts of well-organized supporters, the main concern about self-managing abortion today is not safety, effectiveness, or physical risks, but the legal risk for those having the abortion and those who support them. Free-standing systems of access, information, and support allow high-quality abortion care to continue, even without an ideal legal regime in place.

For psychedelics, numerous legal and policy considerations and complex ethical issues still await, as they did for mifepristone even after it was approved. Wherever the FDA lands, the path ahead could include FDA approval of still-emerging products, which might lead to rescheduling by the Drug Enforcement Administration and fewer restrictions, state decriminalization, policies to protect and respect Indigenous practices , and consideration of exemptions for religious or spiritual use. The recent review process for Lykos’ therapy aired key questions about the underreporting of adverse events, potential researcher bias, and how to handle functional “unblinding” of research participants who could correctly guess whether they received MDMA.

Reports of ethical violations and misconduct by therapists and facilitators highlight the increased vulnerability of participants seeking relief from mental health distress, especially while they are affected by psychedelics. The FDA has reportedly asked for additional clinical trials, and future regulation may come with ongoing post-market requirements and commitments to provide data about safety. Evidence-based Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies could also be applied to help prevent, monitor, and manage the risks.

For psychedelic medicine, as with both emergency contraception and mifepristone, pursuing the highest quality evidence of safety and effectiveness must be the goal. That requires embracing science and a full and open discussion of all concerns and questions. A thorough process can also help reduce the stigma that’s still associated with use of these substances and lead to broader acceptance. The evidence-based path is always worth the work.

Susannah Baruch, J.D., is the executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation is supported by the Saisei Foundation, Tim Ferriss and Matt Mullenweg, and the Gracias Family Foundation.

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