Bibliographic record
Abstract
PHYSIOLOGIC BASIS OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE Editors: Qutayba Hamid, MD, PhD, MRCP, FRCPath; Joanne Shannon, MD; James Martin, MD, DSc Bibliographic Data: BC Decker, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 1-55009-236-7, 793 pages, hard cover, $159.00. Reviewer's Expert Opinion: Description: This is a compilation of physiological principles guiding the structure and function of the respiratory system in health and disease. Many basic chapters dealing with the cellular functions of the respiratory system complement the complex chapters of airway and muscle function. Chapters by giants in respiratory physiology like Nicholas Anthonisen, Peter Macklem, Joseph Millic-Emili, and Peter Wagner as well as all the authors and editors are a special treat for pulmonologists, particularly those who are in academia. Purpose: The editors, along with 104 authors, set out to address basic physiology in clinically relevant pulmonary topics. It is a masterly work and a tribute to the Meakins-Christie Laboratories of McGill University. This is an excellent resource for physiologists, academicians, and clinicians interested in exploring the physiological basis of aberrations in disease states and for all students of respiratory medicine. Chapters written by multiple authors complement each other as in the case of respiratory muscle function and disorders of airway obstruction. Audience: Academic pulmonologists, respiratory physiologists, researchers in respiratory medicine, medical educators, and pulmonary fellows are the audience. This is good reference resource for medical students and pulmonary clinicians. Features: The book incorporates basic physiology and addresses the complexities underlying pulmonary diseases by connecting the structure/function of the respiratory system. The section on respiratory muscle function and airway obstruction, an excellent resource for clinicians, deals with the basics and explains in depth the abnormalities which occur due to the progression of disease. The discussion of muscles of respiration is a masterly review and, along with airway mechanics, is a complete resource for the physiological understanding of airway obstructive disease, with the complications that ensue in the course of the disease. The in-depth approach used in this book makes it impossible for it to be a complete and systematic physiologic guide for all of respiratory disease. The chapter on cytokines and chemokines is simple and complete and yet is an in-depth review of the topic, complementing the chapters on airway obstruction. Some of the topics are covered so thoroughly that the information could be overwhelming for medical students. The CD-ROM is a user-friendly electronic version of the book and can be very helpful for medical educators who want to use the illustrations and tables. Assessment: This book in many ways is a classic in that it combines functional physiology with alterations of cellular function. This is a well illustrated book with clear and comprehensive legends that is an easy to read review of very complex topics. The authors have expressed their independent thoughts and will definitely instill enthusiasm in readers interested in pulmonary physiology. Reviewer: K. P. Ravikrishnan, FRCP (C), FACP, FCCP (William Beaumont Hospitals)
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.018 |
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".