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Record W2088531345 · doi:10.1080/14888386.2006.9712790

Biodiversity-related aspects of West Nile virus and its cycle in nature

2006· article· en· W2088531345 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueBiodiversity · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMosquito-borne diseases and control
Canadian institutionsPublic Health Agency of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWest Nile virusFlaviviridaeFlavivirusBiodiversityBiologyVirusVirologyYellow feverGeographyEcologyViral disease

Abstract

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Abstract West Nile virus is an arthropod-transmitted virus maintained in a cycle involving mosquitoes and birds. It belongs to the Family Flaviviridae, a virus family that includes many viruses capable of causing serious disease in humans. Most West Nile virus infections do not result in disease but, if disease occurs, symptoms range from fever, the most common manifestation, to encephalitis. West Nile virus has a widespread geographic distribution documented in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. It is an emerging pathogen with an increased number of epidemics observed over the past decade in Europe and North America. West Nile virus has evolved greatly over the years to include strains with varying genetic makeup and biological characteristics. The incursion of West Nile virus into North America, likely in 1999, followed by a continent wide spread of the virus has allowed us to fully document the successful introduction of an exotic viral species into a new ecosystem providing a vivid example of infectious disease history. The ability of the different strains of West Nile to amplify on different continents is directly influenced by the diversity of mosquito and bird species present as well as by climatic conditions.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.443

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.005
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.198 · 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