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Acoustic Challenges for the Pacific Autism Family Centre

2017· article· en· W2773264540 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Katrina Scherebnyj

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian acoustics · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicNoise Effects and Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIsolation (microbiology)ReverberationAutismBuilt environmentArchitectural engineeringBuilding designNoise controlNoise (video)Sound (geography)EngineeringComputer scienceCivil engineeringPsychologyAcousticsElectrical engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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Prior to the construction of the Pacific Autism Family Centre (PAFC) in Richmond, BC, families had to travel to multiple locations to access the resources they needed for their child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Children, youth and adults with ASD, as well as their families, now have treatment support and learning opportunities at a single location. This new facility includes a treatment centre, clinic and research centre, within a dedicated newly constructed building close to Vancouver International Airport. To ensure that comfortable and functional spaces were provided, as with more typical educational and healthcare facilities, careful design of reverberation control, privacy, sound isolation, and mechanical noise control was implemented throughout this new building. However, there were several more unique acoustic challenges for this building. Foremost was its location: the facility is located next to the International Airport, so isolating the building envelope from aircraft and road traffic noise was critical. BKL worked closely with the architects, NSDA, to design acoustical features and recommend building materials to sufficiently minimize noise ingress. In addition to the sound isolation of the building envelope, there were several more specialized spaces that required careful acoustic design. For example, ‘calm rooms,’ where people can withdraw to when feeling anxious or upset, are located throughout the building. These rooms require high levels of sound isolation and privacy for the individuals using the spaces, and must minimize disturbance to others nearby. Feedback suggests that the occupants are pleased with the facility, in particular with the acoustic environment that has been provided.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
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 score0.919
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.082
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.280 · 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 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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