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Record W2084985214 · doi:10.7202/800288ar

Land Drainage Technology - Canada's Leadership Role

2009· article· en· W2084985214 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Ross W. Irwin

Bibliographic record

VenueScientia Canadensis Canadian Journal of the History of Science Technology and Medicine · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicInvertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDrainageTrenchTileTile drainagePloughEngineeringEnvironmental scienceArchaeologyGeography

Abstract

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Land drainage technology remained static from the days of the Pharaohs to 1900. Practical drain installation machinery was introduced just prior to 1900 and was gradually improved to the 1960s. From 1850, clay drain tile were manufactured in hundreds of small rural plants in Ontario. These tile were installed by hand or by open trench machinery. In the late 1960s land drainage technology advanced rapidly with the introduction of plow-in equipment and the parallel development of corrugated plastic drainage tubing. Laser technology was introduced to make the operation efficient. The design, construction, and world-wide sale of this new equipment began in Ontario and has developed major side industries such as the production of tubing for veins and arteries of humans. The paper discusses the development of the technology using four time periods.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.663
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.008
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.173
Teacher spread0.156 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations4
Published2009
Admission routes3
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