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Four Bears Bridge: A New Landmark for North Dakota

2006· article· en· W135888258 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jeff Lungrin, Russell D. Call

Bibliographic record

VenueBridges Conversations in Global Politics and Public Policy · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBridge (graph theory)Truss bridgeEngineeringSpan (engineering)TrussCivil engineeringBox girderFlooding (psychology)Forensic engineeringBeam bridgeFlood mythGirderGeographyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The original Four Bears Bridge was completed in 1934 and located on native grounds of the Three Affiliated Tribes. Following severe flooding in 1943, Congress directed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate flood control measures for the Missouri River. The approved plan included the construction of Garrison Dam, which would flood hundreds of acres on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation to create Lake Sakakawea. The 1,425-foot continuous through truss main span of the original bridge was moved to its current location when the tribes were resettled, providing a spiritual connection to tribal ancestors. By the 1990s, the bridge was classified as substandard in both roadway width and safety features. In 1993, the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) undertook an engineering feasibility study to evaluate the possibility of widening the bridge to accommodate current and future traffic demands. The outcome dictated that the narrow bridge should be replaced, based on load capacity, lifespan of a new span, and economic factors. A second 1999 NDDOT study was conducted to evaluate bridge types for replacement. Truss, arch, cable stay, and box girder designs were considered. The NDDOT determined that a box girder design would be most appropriate, in concrete and steel. A subsequent environmental assessment approved locating the bridge 100 feet north of the existing bridge, minimizing roadway changes and allowing the old bridge to remain in service. This article provides an overview of the design and construction of the new Four Bears Bridge, which began in 2003 and opened for traffic in September 2005.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.138
Threshold uncertainty score0.274

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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