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Record W4387743107 · doi:10.1080/02757540.2023.2263427

Aerobic biotransformation of <i>Sargassum fluitans</i> in combination with sheep manure: optimization of control variables

2023· article· en· W4387743107 on OpenAlex
María I. López-Torres, José Aurelio Sosa Olivier, José Ramón Laines Canepa, Alejandro Padilla‐Rivera, Irma Santiago-Cortez, Fabiola J. Jiménez-Hernández

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Bibliographic record

VenueChemistry and Ecology · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicComposting and Vermicomposting Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCompostManurePulp and paper industryTotal organic carbonGreen wasteVermicompostChemistryEnvironmental scienceAnimal scienceEnvironmental chemistryAgronomyNutrientBiology

Abstract

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Sargassum fluitans was composted alongside sheep manure, in a transformative process that significantly enhanced the algal material’s properties. Post the screening/washing/screening pretreatment, the content of total volatile solids escalated to 73.20%, while ash content reduced to 16.45%. Concurrently, lignin values surged to 30.12% as the biodegradability factor declined to 21%. The pretreatment decreased electrical conductivity from 11.60 to 1.32 DS/m. Employing a central composite design and response surface analysis pinpointed the optimal substrate combinations for carbon/nitrogen ratios of 35:1 and 25:1. The chosen combinations presented a high coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.9589, carbon/nitrogen ratio; R2 = 0.6584, pH), indicative of a robust statistical fit. Over a 45-day period, composting was conducted using bioreactors or biopiles, maintaining near-neutral pH values and temperatures slightly above ambient levels. The composting process reduced up to 94% of fecal coliforms in the 1:1 combination. Physicochemical analyses confirmed that the final product is a valuable compost-soil improver, with great potential for usage in organic agriculture, reforestation, and urban green spaces. Hence, this research underscores composting as an efficient technique in managing organic waste, including the emergent and seasonal Sargassum fluitans, thus addressing a pressing environmental concern with an innovative, effective solution.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.233
Threshold uncertainty score0.106

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.187
Teacher spread0.181 · 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