A Soil Temperature Control System for Ecological Research in Greenhouses
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We designed and tested a soil temperature control system for plant ecophysiological experiments in greenhouses and growth chambers. The system consists of a plywood box, polyethylene liner, insulation, seedling containers, a water pump, and a flow-through heater or chiller. One hundred and twelve seedling containers (11cm diameter, 13.5 cm high) are mounted in the plywood box. There is a hole at the bottom center of each container to allow the free drainage of irrigation water and fertilizer solution. The space between containers is filled with water that is circulated through the chiller/heater. The water is also circulated within the plywood box by a water pump to increase the uniformity of temperature. The system was tested for three soil temperatures (5, 20, and 30°C) over a period of four months. The containers were filled with a peat-moss vermiculite mixture and planted with tree seedlings. The test showed that the soil temperature was almost equal to the water temperature for all three soil temperatures (regression slop = 0.99, intercept = 0.12,r2 = 1.00). The average soil temperatures were within (0.41°C of the set values. The soil temperature of the 112 containers within the same box followed a normal distribution with a small standard deviation (0.34°C for the 30°C treatment). There was a temperature gradient from the top to the bottom of the container (< 1°C). The direction of the temperature gradient was determined by the direction of temperature difference between the soil and the ambient air. When the soil temperature was lower than air temperature, the soil temperature decreased from the top to the bottom of the container, and vise versa. The soil temperature was higher during the day than at night (difference < 1.5°C).
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it