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Record W4306777492 · doi:10.1093/bjs/znac357

Weitlaner retractor

2022· article· de· W4306777492 on OpenAlex
Tyler Rouse

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueBritish journal of surgery · 2022
Typearticle
Languagede
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineGermanEmperorAncient historyAdventureClassicsHistoryArt historyArchaeology

Abstract

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This hand-held, self-retaining retractor (Fig. 1) can be found in operating theatres around the world; however, its creator has been somewhat forgotten to history. This is particularly noticeable in English-speaking centres, as it is often referred to as the Wheatlander, Weetlaner, or even just ‘Wheatie’, and not by its proper name, the Weitlaner (pronounced VIGHT-lahn-er). Franz Weitlaner (Fig. 2) was born on 17 September 1872, in the town of Welsberg, a German-speaking municipality in the South Tyrol province of northern Italy, in the foothills of the Dolomite mountains, a range that is part of the Alps, and, as of 2009, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Initially studying theology at the Diocesan Seminary, Franz switched from theology to medicine, beginning his studies at the age of 20 years at Innsbruck Medical University. This historic university was inaugurated by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I on 15 October 1669. Weitlaner obtained his doctorate of medicine from the university in 1898, and, after completing his clinical training in 1902, served as a ship’s surgeon with the Austrian Lloyd Shipping Company, sailing to countries in Asia, and writing on various topics including sea-sickness, syphilis, and plague. Following his nautical adventures, Weitlaner returned to terra firma, marrying a classical pianist named Leopoldine Kraubmann in 1903, and settling in the remote village of Ottenthal, in the northeast of Austria. It was here, where he ran a general practice with no assistants available, where necessity led to the birth of his invention.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.565
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.000

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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.166 · 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