A Faunistic Study on Scorpions and the Epidemiology of Scorpionism in Bam, Southeast of Iran
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Abstract
<p><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong> Scorpions are arthropods of medical importance which are classified in Arachnida and commonly found in hot and dry environments. Notably, no extensive study has been conducted in Bam County in relation to research involving scorpions.</p><p><strong>METHODS:</strong> The study was piloted from May to November 2013 in the identification of scorpion fauna and epidemiological survey of scorpions sting cases were completed from April 2008 to March 2012. Scorpion specimens were collected at night using UV light.</p><p><strong>RESULTS:</strong> During the study, 390 scorpions were captured from different areas. The samples were identified and categorized; four identified genus and species belonged to the family Buthidea, namely <em>Mesobuthus eupeus</em> (73.1%), <em>Orthochirus zagrosensis</em> (23.8%), <em>Androctonus crassicauda</em> (1.8%) and <em>Compsobuthus kaftani</em> (1.3%). Accordingly, 512 patients were bitten by scorpion; 56% were male and 44% were female. This study revealed that the highest incidence of scorpion sting cases belonged to the 15-24 age group. The highest rate of scorpion stings cases were recorded in summer. With regards to the place of residence, 269 (52.5%) resided in rural districts and 243 (47.5%) abided in urban settings.</p><p><strong>CONCLUSIONS:</strong> It is highly recommended that it is crucial to evaluate the possible relationship between all the stung patients and dangerous species specific to that region. </p>
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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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| 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".