Primary Authorship
The work is a product of and represents my original intellectual contribution, including:
- The conception and development from around 2006 of all ideas, theories, methodologies, and frameworks presented
- All original research, analysis, and creative work conducted
- All conceptual insights, connections, interpretations, and applications presented
- The overall vision, argumentation, and conclusions of this work
Collaborative Authorship Models
Traditional AI Assistance
Where artificial intelligence tools have been utilized in developing this work, their use has been strictly limited to:
- Technical assistance: Grammar, formatting, structure, and presentation improvements
- Research support: Literature review expansion and evidence compilation based on my specified parameters
- Clarity enhancement: Improving the articulation of my existing ideas without modification of content or meaning
Em-Dashed Authorship
Some works represent “em-dashed” authorship—a collaborative model where:
- Human contribution: Original research insights, analytical frameworks, theoretical innovations, and research direction
- AI contribution: Access to comprehensive information sources and synthesis capabilities extending beyond individual human capacity
- The connection (—): Human conceptual innovation enhanced by AI information access and correlation
Em-dashed works maintain full human intellectual ownership while transparently acknowledging AI capabilities that enable more comprehensive evidence gathering and synthesis than would otherwise be possible.
Intellectual Integrity Assurance
- In traditional AI-assisted works: No AI system has contributed to the generation of original ideas, insights, or creative content
- In em-dashed works: All conceptual frameworks and analytical breakthroughs originate from human research, with AI providing expanded information access and systematic correlation
- Full intellectual responsibility for all ideas, applications, conclusions, and creative expressions remains mine
- The specific authorship model is clearly indicated for each work
Data and Methodological Innovation
This work incorporates original data collection, processing, and organizational methodologies developed over 20 years, including:
- Unique approaches to database organization and structure
- Original systems for data referencing and amendment tracking
- Novel methodologies for error identification and representation
- Proprietary data processing techniques
All data methodologies, organizational frameworks, and processing approaches represent original intellectual contributions independent of any AI assistance.
Rita V Felgate
2025