Bibliographic record
Abstract
For Canadians, this fine book gives a view of essentially a faunistic "alternate universe" to what they are familiar with -an amphibian assemblage evolving independently from that of North America since the Miocene yet coping with the same northern environmental problems.Previous overviews have been available in English translation of Russian classics textbooks; this is a new text written in English.The Preface comments on past major texts for the area, the former USSR retained here as the area covered with the terse comment that "The Soviet Union is no longer respected as a single political entity because of its dissolution and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and several Baltic Republics".The information presented is selected from the author's database of 4000 bibliographic sources [a vast majority not available in English] and 7500 localities; still in progress, explanations with diagrammatic illustrations of standard measurements used for various groups and life stages, and use of a compilation on ecology for each species.Chapters 1-5 (the first 99 pages) cover History, Faunistics and geography, Ecology, Anthropogenic pressure and conservation, and Keys for species identification.The book ends with a 66-page bibliography, 26 pages of detailed spot distribution maps, 32 pages of habitat and species colour photographs, a 4-page glossary, 5-page systematic index of amphibians, 4-page Subject Index, and finally a 3-page list of species and subspecies of the area covered.The bulk of the book, 300 pages, is Chapter 6, "Species accounts".Genera are briefly characterized here as well, before each group of species they contain.Each species account is headed by English and Latin name, synonymy, and Russian, German and French names.The sections for most include Taxonomic notes, Description (Morphology and Karyology),
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.005 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".