Bibliographic record
Abstract
Burnt remains and fire-related research are growing areas of investigation in forensic anthropology; however, for this research to be valuable to criminal death investigations it must be comparable with real death circumstances. To ensure this relevance, an understanding of the circumstances (and victim profiles) relating to fatal fires is required. As a first step in addressing these issues, this paper examines and interprets fire deaths occurring in Alberta, Canada over a ten-year period between January 1999 and December 2008. The results show that 274 individuals died in 231 fire incidents during the period under review. The majority of these deaths occurred in residential fires (65%), vehicle fires following vehicle collisions (20%) and stationary vehicle fires (8%). Analysis also indicates that the victim and burn profile vary with fire type. In residential fires, young and elderly individuals are at risk whereas in vehicle fires following vehicle collisions, middle-aged adults are the most common victims. Victims of residential fires exhibit varying degrees of burn damage and remains may be reduced to calcined bone fragments. More severe burning is seen in trailer or cabin fires compared to house fires. In vehicle fires, burn damage is often significant, with remains frequently exhibiting thermal amputation. Fatal residential and stationary vehicle fires are more common in the winter and spring seasons, in contrast to vehicle fires following vehicle collisions which occur most often in the fall.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 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 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".