Thermal initiation of thanatosis to improve the pneumatic removal of the colorado potato beetle
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Couturier, M., Hicks, J.B., Rouison, D. and Pelletier, Y. 2005. Thermal initiation of thanatosis to improve the pneumatic removal of the Colorado potato beetle. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le genie des biosystemes au Canada 47: 2.5 2.12. The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say)) reacts to disturbance by undergoing a defense mechanism known as thanatosis. The insects release their hold from the plant and fall to the ground. In this work, thanatosis was initiated by blowing hot air on the Colorado potato beetles. The fraction of insects falling to the ground was found to be a function of the air velocity, air temperature, and exposure time. These observations led to the design of a thermal-pneumatic device for the removal and collection of the insects from their host plants. This apparatus was equipped with a collection device to collect the insects transported by the blowing air. Adult removal from the plant was increased from about 50 to about 85% when the air was heated from 25 to 100°C. Removal of fourth instars was much less affected by the heat, with average removals of nearly 74% for both ambient-temperature and hot-air runs at an air speed of 25 m/s. On average, about 65% of the insects removed were captured in the collection device.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".