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Record W2903919323 · doi:10.1093/ae/tmy066

Dr. Lloyd Vernon Knutson (1934–2018)

2018· article· en· W2903919323 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Entomologist · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedical History and Innovations
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGenealogyHistory

Abstract

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Lloyd Vernon Knutson was born 4 July 1934 in Ottawa, Illinois, and died 10 January 2018 near Gaeta, Italy, after a brief illness. Son of Floyd V. Knutson and Jennie J. Valesano, he was preceded in death by both parents and his sister, Phylliss A. Baker, and is survived by his spouse, Edmea Demeglio Knutson, Gaeta; son, David R. Knutson, Poolesville, Maryland; daughter, Kari L. Kopp, Arden, North Carolina; brother, Gary B. Gaffney, Sandwich, Illinois; and seven grandchildren. Dr. Knutson earned a B.A. from Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota) in 1957, an M.S. from Cornell University in 1959, and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1963; his dissertation was on the biology of European snail-killing flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). He worked for Cornell University (1963–1967) as a research associate before joining the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in 1968. As a research entomologist, he worked in the ARS Systematic Entomology Laboratory (1968–1973) at the U.S. Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, researching the systematics of flies important in biological control. He spent 1972 on leave from ARS, serving as resident ecologist for the Smithsonian. In 1973, he became Chief of the Systematic Entomology Laboratory and later Chairman of the Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute in Beltsville, Maryland. There he continued his lifelong passion—studying snail-killing flies—while engaging in a wide range of other important activities. He spent 1983–1984 on leave from ARS, serving as program director of the Systematic Biology Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.

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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 categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.785
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

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 studies0.0000.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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 head0.054
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.228 · 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