THE VEGETATIVE STATE: MEDICAL FACTS, ETHICAL AND LEGAL DILEMMAS. 20021. By Brian Jennett, Arthur L. Day. Published by Cambridge University Press. 228 pages. C$67.00 approx.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
testing in concussion and some redundancy there.In general, the sections on concussion suffer from the fact that the field of concussion is moving forward rapidly and logistics do not allow for up-to-date information to be included in a textbook format.This is understandable but the book has that limitation.For example, even the chapter written by Bob Cantu describing various grading systems and concussion management approaches does not include his most recent grading system published in 2001 which has significant changes from that of his previous guidelines.Perhaps reflecting this advancement in the science of a concussion, it would have been of some use to include some of the newer data perhaps in the future/research section.For example, along with discussion of neuroimaging and functional imaging, data published from a number of groups regarding electrophysiological concussion analysis might have been of some interest.Moreover, although up-to-date data can not necessarily be included in such a textbook, at least reference should be made to some of the significant controversies in the concussion literature regarding grading systems, return to play and the relative importance of loss of consciousness, post-traumatic amnesia and post-concussion symptoms.A particularly nice feature of the book is the attempt to include a chapter by a helmet manufacturer to reflect the state of the art of that piece of equipment.There would probably be some interest as well to look at other equipment such as visors, mouthguards, elbow pads and cowboy collars.This has practical implications for trainers and team doctors alike.Also of some potential value would have been a section on concussion rehabilitation, as there is much current interest and effort in that particular approach to management.In summary, while no book can be entirely comprehensive for such a large and rapidly progressing field, this book contains a remarkable amount of solid information, well-written and presented, well-illustrated with appropriate figures and tables and will be a great addition to any collection in the sport medicine office, athletic training room/locker room and indeed parts of it relevant directly to the sideline itself.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.053 | 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".