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Prioritizing watershed pathogen research

2003· article· en· W1565005535 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Christobel Ferguson, Nanda Altavilla, Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Daniel Deere

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Water Works Association · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicFecal contamination and water quality
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersAustralian National UniversityRyerson UniversityWater Research FoundationUniversity of New South WalesWater Environment Research Foundation
KeywordsWatershedEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental planningEnvironmental scienceBusinessRisk analysis (engineering)Computer science

Abstract

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Water treatment professionals are generally aware of the issues regarding the fate and transport of pathogens within watersheds. However, not all water treatment professionals are in a scientific field nor do they all have the same level of knowledge of the range of international projects being conducted to address this issue. To counter a current lack of quantitative data on the biophysical and chemical parameters that drive pathogen survival and transport in watersheds, the authors created a conceptual model of a watershed that water suppliers can use as a starting point to create their own pathogen risk assessment and to prioritize their research to target identified knowledge gaps. These findings make it possible to identify the next steps for research and focus on the chemical, physical, and biological processes that underpin pathogen transport and attenuation while avoiding duplicative research efforts.

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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)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.110

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0060.005
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0070.007
Open science0.0040.005
Research integrity0.0040.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.299
Teacher spread0.273 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Citations23
Published2003
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