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Lack of Settling Contributed to Canadian Crypto Outbreak

2002· article· en· W4243523503 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueOpflow · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicParasitic Infections and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOutbreakEnforcementCommissionCertificationUpstream (networking)Environmental planningGeographyBusinessEnvironmental protectionPolitical scienceEngineeringLawMedicine

Abstract

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Many circumstances led to the April 2001 cryptosporidiosis outbreak that affected 5,800 to 7,100 people in the region of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. Among the factors implicated were a highly susceptible watershed, insufficient water treatment facilities, lack of adequate operator training and certification requirements, problems at an upstream wastewater plant, and inadequate and inconsistent governmental regulation, oversight, and enforcement. This excerpt from the “Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Matters Relating to the Safety of Public Drinking Water in the City of North Battleford, Saskatchewan” addresses the issues that were attributed to water treatment plant failure.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
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: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.240

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0140.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.239 · 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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Published2002
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