Bibliographic record
Abstract
Population growth and trends in food consumption are expected to result in a net food deficit and widespread loss of food security across the globe within four decades. It is generally accepted that this crisis will have to be met by increased livestock production, using less land, less water and in an environmentally sustainable fashion. As animal reproduction and reproductive efficiency are the basis of livestock production, it is essential that technological advances be made to increase the animal-based food supply. Improvements are required in artificial insemination procedures, in embryo transfer and in transgenic animal production. Technology is evolving such that it may soon be possible to rapidly sequence genomes and transcriptomes to hasten genetic improvements, to produce gametes from stem cells, and to increase success rates in livestock transgenesis. The principal constraints at this time are on research funding and on the paucity of scientists with multidisciplinary skills. Given its livestock population, its biodiversity, and its burgeoning scientific expertise, Brazil is expected to be a major contributor to the resolution of food security problems in coming years.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.017 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.005 |
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.
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".