Peter W. Price: On the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Almost Everything Went Wrong
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Peter W. Price is Regents’ Professor Emeritus at Northern Arizona University and author of the classic textbook Insect Ecology . He was born 14 miles south of London in Carshalton Beeches in Surrey, England, on 17 April 1938 and attended Stanley Park Primary School and Sutton County Grammar School. Boyhood activities included Boy Scouts and natural history, with a preference for plants. In secondary school, he was a member of the soccer, boxing, and athletics teams. Each summer, his family camped near the north Devon coast on the southwest English peninsula. He served two years in the Royal Air Force as a radar technician in West Germany. Price earned his B.S. Honors (1962, Forestry) from University College of North Wales and his M.S. (1964, Forest Entomology) from the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He was then employed in the Canadian Forest Service as a research entomologist. He obtained his Ph.D. (1970, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) from Cornell University with a research focus on the coexistence of parasitoids on the Swaine jack pine sawfly. Following his Ph.D., Price was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, where research developed into the study of three trophic-level interactions between natural enemies, insect herbivores, and plants. In 1979, he joined the Museum of Northern Arizona as a research ecologist. The following year, he accepted a professorship in the Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, where he retired in 2002. He published more than 200 research papers, with the most cited being his 1980 paper co-authored with his graduate students, “Interactions Among Three Trophic Levels,” which has been cited more than 1,900 times.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.038 | 0.017 |
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".