EVALUATION OF FOUR DIETS IN AN EDIBLE CRICKET (ACHETA DOMESTICUS) PRODUCTION SYSTEM IN THE ANDEAN FOOTBALLS OF ECUADOR
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Abstract
The current demand for food implies greater pressure on ecosystems, so it is necessary to find alternatives for animal production that require less use of natural resources.Insects are a viable alternative in this path.In Ecuador there is research on the production of Acheta domesticus, however, there is no information regarding diets that compare biomass gain with local resources.In this study, four diets (squash, cassava leaves, chicken feed, and a mixture of squash and cassava leaves) are evaluated in a completely randomized block design with 4 treatments and 3 repetitions to determine the increase in biomass, mortality, days to maturity, and crickets' length in the shortest time possible.Exclusive feeding with cassava leaves extended the life cycle by 26% compared to chicken feed.The chicken feed and the combination of cassava leaves and pumpkin, on average, showed the lowest mortality rates: 6.97%, 5.15%, respectively, as well as 27% more length.Demonstrating the possibility of obtaining better returns with local resources.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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