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Ice work: : building roads in Canada's frozen north

2015· article· en· W2760982952 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bruce McMichael

Bibliographic record

VenueIndustrial Minerals · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArctic and Russian Policy Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTruckWork (physics)ArchaeologyEngineeringEnvironmental scienceGeographyMeteorologyMining engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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If Toronto-based Avalon Rare Metals' project near the Warren Township at Timmins, Ontario is given the go-head, it will need seasonal ice roadwork. Likewise, its calcium feldspar project is still in pre-feasibility stage and might need ice road support. The Nechalacho rare earth project at Thor Lake in the Northwest Territories is expected to complete permitting in 2015, while its lithium project at Separation Rapids, also in Ontario, is seeking investment for a demonstration plant and is preparing to restart permit applications with the state government. Once the ice thickens to 70cm over the entire road, trucks with very light loads are allowed to cross; when it becomes a metre thick along the entire road, it is strong enough for a Super B tanker (a truck hauling two tanks of fuel and weighing up to 42 tonnes) fully loaded with up to 50,000 litres of fuel to drive across, according to U-Haul. At this point, ice roads are officially open for the winter season. Depending on the region and seasonal temperatures, ice roads can last from a few weeks to several months.

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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)0.002
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 score0.061
Threshold uncertainty score0.440

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0220.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0300.004

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 head0.138
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.185 · 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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