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Record W415840568

Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disruptors in Rivers and On Tap

2001· article· en· W415840568 on OpenAlex
Robert W. Masters

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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

VenueOpenSIUC (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWater Quality and Resources Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTap waterInternational watersEnvironmental scienceLawPolitical scienceEnvironmental engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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National Ground Water Association (NGWA) Pharmaceuticals showing up in rivers downstream from sewage plants have raised concerns now that several public water systems have tested positive for drugs.Tap water in Wheeling, West Virginia, and the Ohio River tested positive for antibiotics according to USA Today November 7, 2000.A 17-year old high school student named Ashley Mulroy won the Stockholm Junior Water Prize for h er project which found three common antibiotics (penicillin, tetracycline, and vancomycin) in the river and more alarming, on tap.She is not the first researcher to find drugs on tap.Thomas Heberer of the University of Berlin, Germany, presented his findings of various drugs in tap water in last year's National Ground Water Association (NGWA) international conference on emerging issues.The NGWA conference held in Minneapolis, June 7-8, 2000, was covered on Minnesota Public Radio on "Morning Edition" June 8.Keynote Speaker Janet Raloff, author of "Drugged Waters," and Dana Kolpin of the U.S. Geological Survey were interviewed.Pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting chemicals in water sparked international interest as scientists from the United States (U.S.), Canada, England, and Germany attended the ground-breaking conference at the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis.Largescale investigations are underway in over 100 of America's rivers and streams.Current drinking water standards do not require testing for any of the over 7,000 pharmaceutical compounds being prescribed, so why bother?

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.565
Threshold uncertainty score0.637

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 studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.197 · 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