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Record W1942145820

Veterinarians who swear: animal welfare and the veterinary oath.

2006· article· en· W1942145820 on OpenAlexaffabout
Caroline J Hewson

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicVeterinary Practice and Education Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Prince Edward Island
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOathAnimal welfareLegislationPaymentLicensureMisconductProfessional conductDirect PaymentsVeterinary medicineWelfareDeclarationMedicineLawPolitical scienceBusiness
DOInot available

Abstract

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In Canada and other countries, veterinary licensure generally consists in 1) presentation of documentary evidence of having reached the requisite academic standard; 2) a written declaration, signed in the presence of a notary public, that the applicant has not been convicted of criminal or professional misconduct and will abide by the provincial veterinary legislation; and 3) payment of a fee. The applicant does not expressly promise to undertake any particular duties of care to animals. By contrast, in countries such as the UK and Ireland, the veterinarian must promise in person to the registrar who represents the public interest in animals that is enshrined in the veterinary profession to safeguard the welfare of animals entrusted to the registrant’s care (1,2).

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.061
Threshold uncertainty score0.204

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0050.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0610.021

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 head0.171
GPT teacher head0.398
Teacher spread0.227 · 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 designQualitative
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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Published2006
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