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Record W2161061836

The enigma of Pictou cattle disease.

2010· article· en· W2161061836 on OpenAlexaffabout
J.B. Derbyshire

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicVector-Borne Animal Diseases
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmaciationEtiologyMedicineDiseaseDiarrheaVeterinary medicineDepression (economics)HypoproteinemiaSurgeryInternal medicine
DOInot available

Abstract

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The first report of a fatal disease of cattle of unknown etiology in Pictou county, Nova Scotia, appeared in 1880 (1), although the disease had existed for a number of years previously. By September 1881, 1396 animals had been lost, 203 of which had died during the current season (2). Duncan McEachran, principal of the Montreal Veterinary College and an inspector in the Canada Department of Agriculture since 1879 (3), was appointed by the Minister of Agriculture to investigate the disease, and his initial findings were reported in the following year (4). The clinical signs included depression, emaciation, reduced yield of bitter tasting milk, diarrhea, and terminal nervous signs. Death generally occurred within 1 mo of the onset of clinical signs. On postmortem examination the carcass was emaciated with an excess of peritoneal fluid, the abomasum and intestines showed sub-mucosal edema with ulceration, and the liver was firm and pale.

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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: Case report · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.956
Threshold uncertainty score0.087

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.011
Scholarly communication0.0040.005
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.170 · 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 designCase report
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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