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Record W3047956562

Cold chain management of perishable distribution in northern communities of Canada.

2003· article· en· W3047956562 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
J. P. Emond, Franck Mercier, É Laurin

Bibliographic record

Venue21<sup>st</sup> IIR International Congress of Refrigeration: Serving the Needs of Mankind. · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicFood Supply Chain Traceability
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCold chainDistribution (mathematics)Winter stormProcess (computing)BusinessOrder (exchange)SnowChain (unit)Environmental resource managementEnvironmental scienceGeographyMeteorologyComputer scienceEngineeringMathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Transport of perishables, such as fruits and vegetables, to isolated northern communities as part of Canada Post, and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Food Mail Program has always been a big challenge. Because of the unique conditions (extreme cold, strong winds, snow storms, abundant rain) encountered throughout the distribution process, the cold chain is rarely maintained resulting in enormous losses of perishables. The objective of this project was: 1) study the actual situation of the cold chain; 2) identify the weaknesses of the distribution process. In order to learn about the conditions encountered during transportation and to identify the critical points, temperature and relative humidity were monitored with sensors placed inside the loads and inside the cargo holds of the airplane. Qualities of fruits and vegetables, handling procedures and packaging materials were accessed at each transit point. Results showed that several aspects of the distribution process needed to be improved in order to deliver fruits and vegetables with a better quality. Thus, improvement of the cold chain management, handling operations, and development of new packaging are necessary. Furthermore, this complex distribution process needs to be accessed as a whole since one missing step in the cold chain may jeopardize the entire effort.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.181
Threshold uncertainty score0.966

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 studies0.0000.000
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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.198 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
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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