Bibliographic record
Abstract
Humankind's innate fixation on technology has resulted in an infringement on one's right to live in a healthy environment. From this technology have emerged invisible contaminants - those contaminates whose presence is impossible for human beings to detect with any of their senses. They are covert and ambiguous and have potentially drastic chronic effects that can cause an indeterminate number of fatalities over an undisclosed period of time. This holds true for the endocrine disruptor issue in Canada. Hormones, chemical messengers that are produced by the endocrine system to perform physiological communication in the human body, act at very low levels. Because of its potency, any slight change to the concentration of a hormone can drastically affect physiological functions in the body. In the past decade, it has come to the public's attention that synthetic chemicals released in the environment can alter the function of the endocrine system by mimicking or blocking hormones. Furthermore, by directly acting on hormone production, they drastically affect human reproduction and developmental functions. This deterioration of human health has adverse health and social effects. From a sociological perspective, the impacts on communities include increased stress and paranoia, and the development of a climate of distrust and hostility between professionals and the public in the aftermath of a hazard. In the case of endocrine disruptors, these effects are perpetuated by a culture that holds economic and market trends above issues of environmental health. An important step to addressing these invisible contaminants is the popularizing of the issue by increasing public awareness of their affects and existence. Factors that affect the formation and popularization of endocrine disruptors as a major environmental issue will also be addressed. This summarization of my graduate work is an effort to address the diverse factors that make up the endocrine disruptor issue, and consequently make it a significant concern for environmental health.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".