Evaluating the Thermal Impact of Gas Flaring in Kokori, Southern Nigeria
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Abstract
The purpose of this survey is to evaluate the thermal impact of gas flaring in Kokori, Nigeria. This was carried out by measuring the temperature of the study area as a function of distance from the gas flare using a Jumbo digital thermometer. The average daily temperature of Kokori and the surrounding communities was also determined. Result showed that the temperature with respect to distance from the gas flare decreases by a factor of 0.06 °C/m and 0.012 °C/m for both the rainy and the dry seasons respectively. Result also showed that the average difference between the temperature in the gas flaring community and the neighbouring communities is 1.54 °C for the rainy season and 2.70 °C for the dry season. Analysis of the result from this study revealed that the study location has a higher background temperature than the neighbouring communities. This suggests that the study location is thermally affected by the flaring of gas in the area. It is suggested that the flaring location in all oil and gas installations should be located very far from residential communities, while the government is called upon to urgently stop this menace called gas flaring in the country.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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