Use of the Brix value with cuticle indices to describe haemolymph biochemistry parameters in Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Decapoda: Malacostraca: Nephropidae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Brix value was incorporated into a classification system in combination with the indices of carapace rigidity and setal stage to provide a framework for studying haemolymph biochemistry. The system was applied to a pre-existing dataset to generate descriptive statistics and reference intervals, where possible, for 18 parameters from commercial-size male and female American lobsters, Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837, in Atlantic Canada. The lobsters were sampled on fishing vessels within 5 min of the hauling of commercial traps, providing a good representation of the range of values expected for trappable American lobster in their natural environment. In addition to expected trends in protein associated with the moult cycle, trends apparently related to reproductive status of females, region, and season were also observed in the concentrations of triglycerides, cholesterol, and lactate as well as alkaline phosphatase activity. The classification system could prove useful in other studies of crustacean physiology, especially where haemolymph-derived parameters are examined.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".