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Effects of climate variability on the harvesting and preservation of Mopani worms

2016· article· en· W2600257938 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueUpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicInsect Utilization and Effects
Canadian institutionsCanadian Society of Intestinal Research
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWoodlandClimate changeGeographyEcologyBiology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The effects of climate variability on the harvesting and preservation of Mopani
\nworms are addressed in this review. Human consumption of insects has occurred
\nfor millennia and has recently received increased attention in the literature.
\nGiven the intimate link between the larvae of lmbrasiabelina (i.e. the
\nMopani worm), Mopani woodlands and rainfall, climate change and weather
\nvariability will likely have negative effects on Mopani worm availability, harvesting,
\npreservation and nutritional status of global communities including sub-Saharan-
\nAfrican (hence forth SSA) countries. The literature review presented in
\nthis article covered the period between 1982 and 2015 relating to the searchfor
\nalternative nutrient food sources which was veiy prominent during the period of
\nvariable climatic conditions. Both qualitative and quantitative literature was read.
\nIntensive data mining of reports and publications using Google search engine
\nwas carried out, using the words Mopani worms, harvesting and preservation as
\nkey search words. Climate variability effect on the Mopani woodlands, Mopani
\nworms developmental stages, harvesting, preservation, economic development
\nand nutrition are discussed. The recommendations made are that the negative
\neffects of climate variability on Mopani woodlands and Mopani worms need
\nto be mitigated to ensure food security and sustained economic development.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.866
Threshold uncertainty score0.184

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.165
Teacher spread0.156 · 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