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Record W3211935389

El empacho: una significativa enfermedad popular en el Caribe

2019· article· es· W3211935389 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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

VenueCuadernos del Caribe · 2019
Typearticle
Languagees
FieldPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
TopicPsidium guajava Extracts and Applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLatin AmericansDocumentationLibrary sciencePolitical scienceMedicineTraditional medicineFamily medicineEthnologyGeographyHistoryLawComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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«Empacho» is one of the most recognized culture-bound syndromes both in Latin America and among Latino migrants in the United States and Canada. In this paper a summary showing the results of the review of old and contemporary documentation that accounts for the validity and persistence of this popular disease is presented. 133 texts coming from public and private libraries in Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, among other countries were reviewed. The information so found covers some contributions supporting a definition as well as a description of the symptoms of the disease and an epidemiological approach. Some recommendations intended to prevent and manage it have also been identified together with treatments involving medicinal plants, massages, religious remedies, special domestic maneuvers inherited from one generation to the next, homeopathic and patent medicines. The review revealed descriptions of treatments combining two or more techniques and even the existence of some specialists who can perform remote treatments. The article concludes that there must be an approach in the intercultural field to understand and overcome the tension between popular knowledge (contained in traditional medicine) and scientific knowledge, since empacho has been little recognized and valued by the academic medicine

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.771
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.007

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 head0.073
GPT teacher head0.437
Teacher spread0.364 · 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