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Record W2235060790

Asbestos kills: no matter how you cut the data (editorial)

2012· article· en· W2235060790 on OpenAlex
Derek Smith, Eric J. Beh

Why this work is in the frame

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

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueNOVA (University of Newcastle, Australia) · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAsbestos
DOInot available

Abstract

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Asbestos is a term referring to six naturally occurring silicate materials used commercially for their intrinsic properties of high tensile strength, heat and fire resistance, as well as acoustic and thermal insulation. The English name is derived from a Greek term meaning “inextinguishable.” Aside from its fire retardant properties, humans also discovered early on that asbestos fibres were strong enough to be woven—such that the traditional Chinese character for asbestos 石棉 actually means “stone cotton.” Asbestos fibres occur in two natural configurations, amphibole and serpentine, with a derivative of the latter (chrysotile), accounting for around 95% of all asbestos used around the world. Being more flexible than the amphibole forms, chrysotile asbestos was the most commonly used variant throughout the 20th Century—often as asbestos cement roofing, wall sheeting, water storage tanks and brake pads. Chrysotile mining began in Quebec, Canada, in the late 1870s, and by the 1980s, consumption of asbestos products in the United States alone, had exceeded half a million tons per year.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.073
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.002

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 head0.254
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.042 · 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