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Record W1752050807

Arthropods that attack man and domestic animals in British Columbia (1951 - 2001)

2001· article· en· W1752050807 on OpenAlexaffabout
Peter Belton, Art Borkent, Bob Costello

Bibliographic record

VenueBiodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicYersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
Canadian institutionsGovernment of British ColumbiaSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTickEntomologyGeographyPlague (disease)DominionEcologyZoologyArchaeologyBiology
DOInot available

Abstract

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In 1951, the Dominion Livestock Insect Laboratory, built in 1938 on 32 acres of Miss ion Flats on the western outsk irts of Kamloops, was the centre for Medical and Veterinary Entomology in the Province (F ig. I). 1.D. Gregson was in charge and ran the very successful tick laboratory that did much to reduce the incidence of paralys is of li vestock, and the occasional human, caused by bites of the range land tick , Dermacentor andersoni. L.c. Curtis was in charge of the Household and Medical Entomology Unit until he retired in 1969. He was heav ily invo lved in testing new post-war insecticides and repellents and many of our Society's photographs show him with a portable sprayer or fogger. G.P. Holland, who had been involved with Gregson in the biology and control of fleas, mosquitoes, warble fli es and ticks, had just left the laboratory in 1948 to head the Systemat ics Unit at the Central Experimental Farlll , Ottawa. He had been responsib le for identi ty ing Illany thousands of fl eas sent in by the Plague (Yers inia pes/is) Survey carri ed out during and after World War 2 .

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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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.946
Threshold uncertainty score0.108

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.225 · 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 designObservational
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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Published2001
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