Stimuli-Responsive Water Soluble and Amphiphilic Polymers: Preface
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Abstract
This book is based primarily on the Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Water Soluble and Amphiphilic Polymers held during the 1999 National American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in New Orleans under sponsorship of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc. and the Petroleum Research Fund.From the 56 papers presented, the editor invited principal investigators of the most outstanding work to submit chapters for publication.As a result, this volume includes exten-sive literature background, important concepts, and frontier research conducted by some of the most active and innovative research groups in the area of water-soluble polymers.The international scope of the re-search is attested to by contributions from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan.Stimuli-Responsive water soluble and amphiphilic polymers repre-sent a rapidly growing area with enormous technological and commercial potential.Impetus for innovation has come from the need for environmentally safe, yet "smart" materials synthesized, dispersed, and delivered in aqueous media.In many cases, stabilization in water and subsequent assembly onto appropriate substrates can be controlled by microstructural elements responsive to stimuli such as pH, ionic strength, shear stress, light or temperature.That publication of this book occurs 10 years after an earlier volume, Water-Soluble Polymers: Synthesis, Solution Properties, and Applications, ACS Symposium Series 467, seems appropriate.Readers of both volumes can readily trace the development of new synthetic and analytical procedures as well as key application technologies during this 10 year period.The projected seamless integration of chemistry, biochemistry, polymer science, molecular biology, and engineering into frontier research has become a reality in water-soluble polymer research and should continue to be a source of inspiration for future endeavors.It is also notable that this volume is the first of the ACS Symposium Series to be written, reviewed, compiled, and transmitted electronically via the internet.Special acknowledgements are made to Velda Moore, Geoff Smith, and Andrew Lowe at the University of Southern Mississippi for xi Downloaded via 3.237.7.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.016 |
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".