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Record W3125050108 · doi:10.26685/urncst.192

Bioremediation: How to Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Cattle

2020· article· en· W3125050108 on OpenAlexaffabout
Atiya Sekyi-Otu, Alexa Smith

Bibliographic record

VenueUndergraduate Research in Natural and Clinical Science and Technology (URNCST) Journal · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicRuminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGreenhouse gasCarbon footprintAgricultureRumenPopulationEnvironmental scienceBeef cattleLivestockBioremediationBiotechnologyMethaneBiologyEnvironmental protectionEcologyAnimal scienceFood scienceContaminationEnvironmental health

Abstract

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Introduction: The concentration of greenhouse gases within the atmosphere is currently on the rise. With the increase in human population comes a growing need for greater food security in order to support our population. The agricultural industry has a carbon footprint comparable to that of other extensive producers such as oil production facilities, waste sectors and industrial processors. This study aims to establish an experimental design to modify the current microbiome in cattle, as cattle farming practices account for a majority of agricultural methane production in North America. Methods: Young Canadian Holstein cattle with developing ruminal microbiomes will be placed into control and treatment groups and studied over the duration of 4 weeks. Ruminococcus hydrogenotrophicus will be inserted into the rumen of the experimental groups of cattle. Results: Results will generate findings on the basis of reducing methanogenic activity among the rumen of cattle, and therefore the results may propose a feasible answer towards the decreasing of the agricultural carbon footprint among the cattle industry. Discussion: The ability to decrease or eliminate the methane produced from agriculture would be a significant finding in current global studies. Through/by combining knowledge from environmental biology, agricultural science, microbiology and animal biology, solutions can be found for reducing the agricultural carbon footprint. Conclusion: The use of bioremediation methods to decrease methane production is a new area of research. By cultivating a microorganism that can compete with the methanogenic bacteria within the rumen of cows, less methane yield is plausible. Ultimately, leading to a proposed answer to curb climate change values to a decreasing end.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.101
GPT teacher head0.380
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
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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