Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1983, the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador began building the Trans Labrador Highway (TLH). Upgrading and new construction was undertaken in 3 phases starting in 1997. Phase II (Red Bay to Cartwright), a 325 km all-weather gravel highway passing through uninhabited and undeveloped wilderness country, is intersected by 150 watercourses, ranging from small streams to large rivers (Alexis and St. Lewis). These 2 large rivers created difficult challenges for the planning and design of the 110 m single span truss bridges, including site optimization, road travel minimization and maintenance through mountainous terrain, and/or traversing deep tidal inlets. Environmental considerations using survey data from 1823 hydrometric surveys (depth soundings) were used along with a hydrological/hydraulic study (tidal effects), as well as river and ocean ice concerns. Bridge structures over the Alexis and St. Lewis Rivers consisted of steel truss designs with steel grid deck and reinforced concrete abutments. Problems encountered included route layout and selection, geoscience considerations, hydrology, hydraulics, causeway construction, bridge launching, and environmental issues. Weak clayey silts had to sustain a load of up to a 30 m high causeway at the abutments. Part of Phase III is the forthcoming bridge over the Churchill River. Problems include the search for a good crossing point, hydraulic design and hydrological considerations, foundation concerns, ice forces, and erection methods. Completion of the TLH will foster new opportunities in tourism, forestry, and mining; provide improved accessibility; and reduce travel costs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.008 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".