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Record W2497659047 · doi:10.1385/0-89603-208-6:1

Ethics of Animal Models of Neurological Diseases

2003· book-chapter· en· W2497659047 on OpenAlexaff
Ernest D. Olfert

Bibliographic record

VenueHumana Press eBooks · 2003
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldVeterinary
TopicAnimal testing and alternatives
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWonderAnimal ethicsEngineering ethicsAnimal welfareResearch ethicsProtocol (science)Animal testingProcess (computing)MedicinePsychologyEnvironmental ethicsAlternative medicinePathologyEngineeringComputer scienceSocial psychologyBiology

Abstract

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Some people might wonder about the propriety of asking a laboratory animal veterinarian to author a chapter on the ethics of animal use in neuropsychiatric research. After all, she or he is part of the infrastructure that supports biomedical research rather than an independent ethicist or philosopher. On further reflection, however, it makes a lot of sense. Laboratory animal veterinarians are involved in making ethical decisions on a daily basis, decisions that directly affect the well-being of the animals used in biomedical research, teaching, and testing. They are involved (by law in some countries) in the research protocol review process. They are regularly involved in the management of facilities where research animals are housed and used. And in the animal room or laboratory, they are directly involved in ministering (providing veterinary care) to the animals being used, a vital aspect of which is the prevention and relief of pain and suffering. Veterinarians take the role of the “animal’s advocate” in this whole process.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.846
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
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 head0.494
GPT teacher head0.409
Teacher spread0.085 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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Published2003
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