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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 machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.061

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.006
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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