PCB Accumulation and Toxicokinetics in Amphibians: Accumulation Patterns' Regulation by Interspecific Differences and Toxicokinetics in Green Frogs (Rana clamitans) During Hibernation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examined contaminant accumulation in amphibian young of year and elimination kinetics during amphibian hibernation. Chapter 2 evaluated PCB concentrations in four amphibian species at five different locations to determine the importance of species specific processes in environmental chemical exposure and accumulation. Lipid levels between species were highly variable. Significant interspecific differences in PCB concentrations suggest contaminant accumulation is regulated in part by physiological and biological processes. Chapter 3 examined PCB elimination rates in hibernating Rana clamitans to determine if changes in chemical activity occurred during hibernation. Significant PCB elimination rates were observed for low Kow congeners, ranging from 0.0027 to 0.04 d-1. A negative correlation was found between Kow and elimination rate. There was an increase in fugacity of higher Kow compounds corresponding to a decrease in lipid content. PCBs in metabolic group 2 were preferentially eliminated over those in metabolic group 3.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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".