Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Conventional pesticides comprise a diverse group of substances intended to destroy, repel, or control organisms identified as pests. Some are broad spectrum biocides and others are relatively selective, targeting specific organisms such as insects, fungi, or plants. By 1999, the EPA had registered almost 900 active ingredients in pesticides, including 350 approved for use on food crops. The discovery during the 1960s of toxic effects in wildlife linked to bioaccumulation of organochlorines in food chains contributed to public concern and decisions of the U.S. government to form the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 and to ban the use of DDT on food crops in 1972. Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children was a landmark report documenting the vulnerability of children to pesticides and the potential for disrupting growth and development processes (National Academy of Sciences, 1993). This report noted that tests conducted by manufacturers usually involved sexually mature animals and did not assess neurobehavioral, immunologic, and endocrine effects of prenatal and early-life pesticide exposures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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.
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.
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".