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Record W2249519528

Follow-Up Study of Winter Standard as a Research and Development Project

2008· article· en· W2249519528 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueTransportation Research E-Circular · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicCivil and Structural Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcurementInvestment (military)Quarter (Canadian coin)NorwegianDuration (music)BusinessOperations managementConstruction contractContract managementEngineeringMarketingGeographyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Norway is divided into 103 winter maintenance contracts—first quarter on bid in 2003 and the last quarter on bid in 2006. One of the consequences of the competitive tendering is a decrease in the research and development (R&D) projects involving the contractors. This is why the Norwegian Public Roads Administration has introduced challenging measures to maintain a required level of research in winter maintenance. In one of the contracts starting in autumn 2006, there has been set aside US$100,000 per year in the 7-year contract period to stimulate research projects. This amount of money is meant to be used for investment in equipment and to cover extra costs for the contractor and road keeper. The project consists of a main project with focus on a follow-up study of the winter standard on the most important road in the contract area. Two other subprojects planned for are (a) sanding under difficult conditions with different gradation of the sand to investigate the importance of the grain size on the friction improvement and duration of a sanding action and (b) the relationship between pavement condition and amount of winter maintenance actions. This paper describes the background and content of the main project and the two subprojects and also some preliminary results. The results from the project so far are positive from both a professional and an organizational point of view. R&D within the area of winter maintenance is already included in several of the contracts renewed in 2007.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.587
Threshold uncertainty score0.652

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.106
GPT teacher head0.358
Teacher spread0.253 · 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