Thyroid Hormone and the Energetic Cost of Keeping Body Temperature
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
By definition, homeothermic species maintain their core temperature (Tc) regu-lated within narrow limits. In most of these species, the hypothalamic thermostat is set somewhere between 36 and 38C, and Tc is tightly kept there, in spite of highly variable ambient temperatures. Several mechanisms to maintain body temperature have been selected during evolution. Vasoconstriction and piloerec-tion are mechanisms to save heat, while vasodilatation, sweating and perspiration are mechanisms to rapidly dissipate heat. To maintain temperature in environ-ments usually colder than Tc, homeothermic species need to produce more heat than poikilothermic species. Energy transformations generate heat simply by virtue of the laws of thermodynamics and so the energy transformations inherent to life generate heat. Such heat, generated as byproduct of cell vital functions, is called obligatory thermogenesis (OT) and is expectedly higher in homeothermic species, as a consequence of which metabolic rate is substantially higher in these species than in poikilothermic species (Else and Hulbert, 1981). In addition to having a higher OT, homeothermic species can also activate specific mechanisms
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it