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Record W4408319899 · doi:10.1111/1365-2478.70011

On signal contribution functions and sensitivity for frequency‐domain electromagnetic and direct current electrical resistivity methods

2025· article· en· W4408319899 on OpenAlexafffund
S. L. Butler

Bibliographic record

VenueGeophysical Prospecting · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicGeophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsElectrical resistivity and conductivityDirect currentCurrent (fluid)SIGNAL (programming language)Sensitivity (control systems)Frequency domainElectrical currentGeologyEconomic geologyGeophysicsTelmatologyElectrical engineeringHydrogeologyVoltageElectronic engineeringComputer scienceEngineeringMathematical analysisGeotechnical engineeringMathematics

Abstract

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Abstract Signal contribution functions can be integrated over space to calculate the response of an electrical or electromagnetic technique to a given resistivity distribution. On the other hand, sensitivity functions show how the measured signal changes with a change in resistivity in a region of the ground. Signal contribution functions and sensitivity have been previously presented for the direct current resistivity technique. While useful forms of both the signal contribution function and sensitivity are proportional to the correlation of the current densities from the normal and reciprocal configurations, it has not previously been shown how sensitivity can be derived directly from the signal contribution. For frequency‐domain electromagnetic techniques, there are existing expressions for sensitivity but not for the signal contribution. In this contribution, I show how the direct current signal contribution can be differentiated to obtain the sensitivity. I also derive an expression for the signal contribution function for frequency‐domain electromagnetics and show how it can be differentiated to obtain the sensitivity. The new signal contribution function has a term that, like the sensitivity, is proportional to the electrical current densities from the normal and reciprocal configurations and an additional term that is proportional to the correlation of the magnetic fields from the normal and reciprocal configurations. I show plots of these two terms and investigate their magnitudes as a function of the induction number. This new expression will be useful for testing numerical models and aids in understanding the measured results in frequency‐domain electromagnetics.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.049
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.054

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.049
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.271 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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