Distribution of dioxins and furans in size-fractionated suspended solids in Canagagigue Creek, Elmira, Ontario.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A study was conducted to examine the occurrence and concentration of dioxins and furans in separated size fractions of suspended sediment collected in Canagagigue Creek near Elmira, Ontario. Field-based water elutriation systems were used to collect a time-integrated sample of suspended solids from the creek during a spring storm event. The elutriation system hydraulically sorts suspended solids into five predetermined grain-size classes ( 63 μm). Dioxin and furan compounds were detected in suspended sediment fractions at levels below the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Energy (OMEE) Interim Sediment Quality Guidelines. Average concentrations of the most toxic compounds, 2,3,7,8 T 4 CDD and 2,3,7,8 T 4 CDF, were 20 ppt and 22 ppt, respectively. The data show no trend between grain size and pollutant concentration. Concentrations of dioxins and furans in suspended sediments are consistent with contaminant levels observed in river-bottom and downstream flood-plain sediments. Independent studies show that elevated levels of dioxins and furans in creek sediments accumulate in the tissues of aquatic organisms and may biomagnify through the food chain.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".