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Record W4238216877 · doi:10.24124/2008/bpgub1346

Feasibility study: utilization of wood pellets as an institutional heat energy source at the University of Northern British Columbia

2008· dissertation· en· W4238216877 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Steven Storch

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicThermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser UniversityUniversity of Northern British Columbia
FundersUniversity of Northern British Columbia
KeywordsBiomass (ecology)Environmental scienceHeating systemRenewable energyEngineeringCivil engineeringWaste managementBusinessMechanical engineeringEcology

Abstract

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The three main factors that underpin the project study were: 1) Biofuels and alternative energy are becoming more important parts of the British Columbia energy matrix. 2) In central BC, the mountain pine beetle infestation has led to increased harvesting opportunities for lumber, pulp and paper and wood pellet producing companies. 3) In 2007, the University of Northern British Columbia branded itself as the Green University and introduced six green objectives as part of the process. It was from the intersection of these three facts that an investigation was undertaken to determine the feasibility of utilizing wood pellet derived heat energy for campus heating and cooling.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.599
Threshold uncertainty score0.797

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.205
Teacher spread0.193 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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