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Record W2184529953

History: A chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events.

2003· article· en· W2184529953 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John DenHoed, Tim Robertson

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAmerican Environmental and Regional History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInstitutionHistorySociologyLibrary scienceVisual artsLawComputer sciencePolitical scienceArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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It was in the fall of 2001 when we began our journey into discovering the history of wastewater treatment in the City of Guelph. We quickly learned that this was not going to be an easy task, as historical records on wastewater were not in abundance. Periodically dedicating time over 18 months saw us wind along a very fascinating path. As well as coming across some very old and interesting documents, we also met some new faces and were reacquainted with some familiar ones. We feel we have been rather successful, and thorough in discovering the available information for this project. We could not have gathered the amount of information we have without the help of many. Assistance from the City of Guelph Clerks division and Waterworks department was very much appreciated. In particular, we would like to acknowledge Ms. Kathleen Wall (Guelph Museums) for her help in attaining some of the fantastic facility pictures. Also to Mr. Steve Robson (CH2M Hill), for all of his efforts that went into preparing a very successful visit for us, at the CH2M Hill Toronto Office. Last but not least, to Mr. Wayne Key, plant superintendent, for his interest and full support of this project, from its’ inception to completion. Everyone has heard of being in the right time at the right place. We are so pleased that we were in this right time and right place, so we could be the ones to be the first to document a complete history of wastewater treatment in Guelph. The timing could not have worked out better as it has allowed all of us to celebrate 100 years of environmental stewardship.

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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)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.931
Threshold uncertainty score0.230

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0100.018
Science and technology studies0.0040.003
Scholarly communication0.0080.012
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0690.033

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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.203 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2003
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