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Record W2094176069 · doi:10.14356/kona.2011006

Use of Virtual Impactor (VI) Technology in Biological Aerosol Detection

2011· article· en· W2094176069 on OpenAlexaff
Jim Ho

Bibliographic record

VenueKONA Powder and Particle Journal · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicIndoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
Canadian institutionsDefence Research and Development Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAerosolUSableNanotechnologySample (material)ImplementationComputer scienceBiochemical engineeringEnvironmental scienceProcess engineeringMaterials scienceEngineeringChemistryMeteorologyPhysicsChromatographyMultimedia

Abstract

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Detecting biological threat aerosol is difficult in that a small cloud lasting only a few seconds at a point location may contain sufficient material to infect large numbers of exposed individuals. Clinical analytical methods require relative large amounts of the sample in liquid form to facilitate positive measurements. Biological agents may be fragile because of their lipid membranes that can be susceptible to harsh sample collection treatment. Damaged organisms may render subsequent analyses to be invalid. Virtual impaction (VI) sample collectors have been theorized to provide usable concentration rates yet are sufficiently gentle with the aerosol particles to preserve cellular viability. This review will discuss different implementations of VI technology and examine their merits. Outstanding issues will be outlined to aid future experimentation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.245
Teacher spread0.189 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
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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Citations6
Published2011
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