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Record W2154874845 · doi:10.1177/1420326x14534094

Adaptation to low levels of chemical exposure in individuals with multiple chemical sensitivity in a controlled indoor environment

2014· article· en· W2154874845 on OpenAlex

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueIndoor and Built Environment · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
Canadian institutionsDalhousie UniversityCapital District Health Authority
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMultiple chemical sensitivityReactivity (psychology)Adaptation (eye)Everyday lifePopulationEnvironmental healthTest (biology)MedicinePsychologyGerontologyClinical psychologyPsychiatryBiologyAlternative medicinePathologyEcology

Abstract

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Environmental sensitivity or multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is a debilitating condition and increasingly prevalent in the recent years. MCS is a multisystem disorder with lack of standardized treatment strategies and clinical practice guidelines. Consequently, there are significant costs associated with disability and treating individuals with an increasing percentage of the population experiencing challenges in indoor environments from exposure to everyday chemicals such as personal care products. MCS remains a poorly understood condition with many challenges in establishing evidence to support the reactivity to the indoor environment experienced in individuals. This research attempts to validate the physiological reactivity and adaptation to everyday chemicals in a controlled environment in a sample of individuals ( n = 90) with MCS. Sixty percent of the female and 40% of the male subjects demonstrated confirmed physiological reactivity to the test substance. The results from this study indicate that the multifaceted nature of this condition possibly goes beyond the reactivity to chemicals in the environment. Further research is essential to understand the implications of hypersensitivity to help individuals optimally manage their health.

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Teacher imitation

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: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.367
Threshold uncertainty score0.732

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.227 · 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