Feeding Stimulant for Juvenile Winter Flounders
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Feeding stimulants, commonly amino acids, are incorporated into fish diets to enhance feed intake. Winter flounder Pleuronectes americanus is a finfish species new to aquaculture; determining the best feeding stimulant for this species will help the industry increase feed consumption and growth and reduce feed conversion rates (weight of food fed/weight gained). FinnStim, a commercial feeding stimulant, was tested. Over a single adaptation week and two experimental weeks, juvenile 1-year-old winter flounder were fed daily to satiation either the control diet (99% basal diet and 1% fish meal) or the experimental diet (99% basal and 1% FinnStim). Fish were weighed at the beginning and at the end of a 2-week experimental feeding period, and feed consumption was monitored daily. The FinnStim supplemented diet resulted in a significantly (P < 0.05) enhanced feed consumption and growth rate compared with fish fed the control diet. A similar positive response to FinnStim was also found for feed efficiency (weight gained/weight of food consumed; P < 0.10) of winter flounder. The results suggest that FinnStim is an effective feeding stimulant for juvenile winter flounder at 1% supplementation level.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".