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Record W3175639744 · doi:10.1201/b10598-23

Radionuclides in Biota

2011· book-chapter· en· W3175639744 on OpenAlex
Bradley E. Sample, Cameron Irvine

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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

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicRadioactive contamination and transfer
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRadionuclideBiotaEnvironmental scienceRadiochemistryChemistryEcologyBiologyPhysicsNuclear physics

Abstract

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This chapter presents a brief introduction to radiation physics, summarizes how exposure to radioactive elements is measured, and how radiation can affect biological tissue. It provides an overview of the considerable research that has been conducted to quantify environmental exposure of and effects on biota from both naturally occurring and man-made radioactive elements since the 1950s. The chapter reviews a limited selection of studies extracted from current publications and the extensive databases developed by others, to provide an overview of the current understanding of exposure and effects of radionuclides in mammals, birds, terrestrial invertebrates, fish, and aquatic invertebrates. Studies were selected to represent multiple types of responses to ionizing radiation including molecular-level and genetic effects, immune and endocrine responses, reproductive effects, and mortality. Estimated no-effect values for exposure of biota to radionuclides were developed by Environment Canada and Health Canada as part of their effort to assess environmental impacts of releases from nuclear facilities.

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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 categoriesInsufficient 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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.934
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1230.005

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.175 · 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

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Citations33
Published2011
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