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Record W4231357764 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511545566.019

Assisted reproduction

2008· book-chapter· en· W4231357764 on OpenAlexaff
Roxanne Mykitiuk, Jeff Nisker

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2008
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPrenatal Screening and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsWestern UniversityYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReproductionComputer scienceBiologyEcology

Abstract

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Ms. F and Mr. G are trying to have a child. They have been having sexual intercourse approximately three times a week for the past year, and daily around the time when Ms. F thinks she is ovulating. They are both 38 years old. Ms. F has had regular menstrual cycles up to the last three months, in which she has had only two. They are worried they have delayed starting a family too long and will not be able to afford the expensive fertility treatment they may require at Ms. F's age. They have questions regarding the success of in vitro fertilization and the possibility of having twins or triplets. What is assisted reproduction? Assisted reproduction enables the deliberate manipulation of the processes and materials of human reproduction outside of sexual intercourse. In describing the practices that constitute assisted reproduction, it must be understood that all such practices are embedded with ethical issues, whether standard therapies such as ovulation induction (Messinis, 2005), insemination with donor sperm (Daniels et al ., 2006), and in vitro fertilization (IVF) (Steptoe and Edwards, 1978); emerging practices such as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) (Handyside, 1990; Nisker and Gore-Langton, 1995); or practices prohibited under law in many countries, such as the purchase or bartering of oocytes (Gurmankin, 2001; Nisker, 1996, 1997, 2001). Ovulation induction through clomiphene citrate has been practiced for over 30 years (Messinis, 2005).

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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)0.000
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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.263
Threshold uncertainty score0.881

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2630.170

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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.180 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2008
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