B-Life project : new services for biological emergencies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The B-LiFE (Biological Light Fieldable laboratory for Emergencies) project is focused on delivering services for field analysis of biological threats and emergencies using a light fieldable laboratory system, autonomous and able to be quickly deployed nearby the crisis area. As seen in recent years, the successful management of sanitary crises such as CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) threats, life-threatening emerging diseases and outbreaks in remote areas, relies on the ability to perform rapid and reliable detection and identification of pathogens (e.g. anthrax cases in US in 2001, and SARS outbreak in Ontario in 2003). For fast response, the diagnostic capacity must be as close as possible to the crisis/crime area. The integration of several space based technologies: Satellite Communication, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Earth Observation are critical to provide rapid field operational capabilities: Satellite communications are required for the communications between the field teams and the command and control centre(s). Earth Observation (EO) imagery provides geographical information and maps of the crisis area. Meteorological and weather forecasts need to be provided in order to support the forecast of disease spreading, the stability of medicines and the protection of the equipments in use. Satellite navigation will be used for georeferencing of the data samples as well as for tracking and tracing of the medical/biological and sampling team. B-LiFE service is a valuable tool for European countries, institutions and organisations to improve the level of response and increase of security in CBRN emergencies, a service that will be available in any location worldwide. The B-LiFE service allows the integration and exploitation by any stakeholder with their own expertise and purposes. B-LiFE is currently in Feasibility Study stage under the auspice of the Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The project is developed by an international consortium. From Belgium, the Centre for Applied Molecular Technologies of the Universite catholique de Louvain develops the biological laboratory and manages the project, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel provides expertise in remote sensing and image processing. The consortium is completed with SES TechCom, one of the largest satellite operators, based in Luxemburg. The project is supported by the Belgian federal scientific Policy and by the Luxemburg Government. Following a successful completion of the study, it is planned to continue within ESA's IAP programme with a demonstration project developing and demonstrating the targeted pre-operational services. Copyright © (2012) by the International Astronautical Federation.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.066 | 0.043 |
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".