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Record W4402811402 · doi:10.1002/awwa.2345

The Shape of AWWA

2024· article· en· W4402811402 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David B. LaFrance

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Water Works Association · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Leadership and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeography

Abstract

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I t took less than a minute on Oct. 26, 1881.In that moment, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clanton Gang engaged in the historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral.Since then, numerous movies have been produced and books published about this fateful incident in Tombstone, Ariz.While much less documented, another significant, life-changing event occurred seven months earlier.It took days, not seconds, 1,400 miles away from Tombstone.The spot was Engineers' Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.Twenty-two water utility employees from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee gathered for the first time to share best practices in water treatment, leading to the creation of the American Water Works Association.Together, they drafted and adopted AWWA's original constitution, stating the organization's purpose was "to exchange information about water-works management and to advance both consumers and water companies, and for the purpose of securing the economy and uniformity in the operations of water-works."During the 143 years of AWWA's history, its members have grown from the original 22 to more than 50,000.Also, AWWA is now known as the leading standards-writing organization for the water sector.The first AWWA standard was published in 1908 on the Specifications for Cast Iron Water Pipes and Special Castings.Today, AWWA offers water professionals more than 190 ANSI (American National Standards Institute)approved standards.As AWWA's membership grew, it recognized the benefit of disseminating knowledge that originated from the association as well as from local cohort groups.This strategic realization brought AWWA to create its first local section, the New York Section, in 1914.Two years later, there were eight AWWA sections, including one in Canada (which encompassed the entire country).By 1930, AWWA needed a headquarters office, which it established in New York City, along with a newly hired staff.AWWA now has 43 sections that span geographically from Maine in the eastern United States to Alaska on the western edge, and from Canada to the north to Mexico to the south.Add to that an association staff of 150, located in Denver and Washington, D.C.During the second half of the 1900s, AWWA focused on the critical need for research about water treatment and management.Its board of directors formed a water research foundation in 1966.Today, The Water Research Foundation is a One Water organization, delivering research programming to help address the water sector's

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.902
Threshold uncertainty score0.242

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.340
Teacher spread0.321 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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