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Record W2127957684 · doi:10.1142/s0218339002000482

THE USE OF THE ABOAV-WEAIRE LAW TO ESTIMATE A BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT

2002· article· en· W2127957684 on OpenAlex
Bernard Jeune, Denis Barabé

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Biological Systems · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicScientific Research and Discoveries
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsConstraint (computer-aided design)MathematicsVariance (accounting)AraceaeApplied mathematicsLawBiologyEcologyGeometry

Abstract

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Developmental processes may impose limitations and directionality in the mode of development of a particular structure. The main problem is to determine the nature and the respective effects of physical and biological constraints in the development of organisms. The Aboav-Weaire law is a semi-empirical law developed to explain the topological structure of physical materials. In the present paper, we make a formal analysis of the quantitative relationships between physical and biological constraints in biological structures by using the inflorescence of the Araceae as a case study. The Aboav-Weaire law permits to obtain a quantitative estimate of the biological constraint acting on the inflorescences of this family. In the case of the Araceae, the empirical curve presents a constant deviation with respect to the Aboav-Weaire law. This deviation is due to the presence of a biological constraint as opposed to a physical constraint. The biological constraint tends to decrease the variance of the number of sides while it is the inverse situation for the physical constraint. The results obtained using the Araceae model can be used to study the interrelationships between biological and physical constraints in any organism or biological structure.

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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)0.001
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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.830
Threshold uncertainty score0.205

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
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 head0.141
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.181 · 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