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Record W2592943104

BSE in Canada: Market Implications

2003· article· en· W2592943104 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Daniel McDonald, Alistair Davidson, Trish Gleeson

Bibliographic record

VenueAustralian Commodities: Forecasts and Issues · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicPrion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBovine spongiform encephalopathyConsumption (sociology)BusinessInternational tradeAgricultural economicsCommerceEconomicsDiseaseMedicinePrion protein
DOInot available

Abstract

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The discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or 'mad cow' disease) in a single Canadian cow in May 2003 has resulted in a virtual shut down of Canada's beef exports and could cause a downturn in consumption of beef, both in Canada and globally, as consumers reduce their consumption in response to food safety concerns. Canadian authorities have acted swiftly in testing animals linked to the confirmed case and, to date, all tests have come back negative, suggesting that the case may be an isolated one. If no additional cases are discovered then the impacts on the Canadian and global beef market may be fairly small, with the United States reopening trade with Canada relatively quickly. However, if additional cases are discovered, or if there is an adverse effect on global beef consumption, particularly in the United States, then the effects on global beef producers, including Australian producers, could be large.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.048
Threshold uncertainty score0.350

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.001

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.232 · 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 designNot applicable
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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