The impact of Operation Full Stop, New Orleans, Louisiana on suppressing Formosan subterranean termite (<i>Coptotermes formosanus</i>) colonies: 10 years later
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Formosan subterranean termite management initiative dubbed "Operation Full Stop", sought to protect structures within New Orleans' historic French Quarter. This program, lasting from 1998 to 2012, was able to decrease the overall population of Formosan subterranean termites in the area but did not eliminate all detectable colonies. Since Operation Full Stop ended in 2012, there has been a significant decrease in the number of alates observed in the French Quarter during reproductive flight season. Pedigree analysis was conducted on alates trapped during major swarm events in 2021. It was determined that an average of 7.25 (SD = 2.95) distinct colonies per glue trap were contributing to these swarm events. A bait-use survey was also conducted in the French Quarter, in which all accessible properties were checked to determine whether termite bait products were still in use within the French Quarter. We determined that approximately half (51.00%) of the structures in the French Quarter still currently have bait products installed around their perimeter. The interception of durable baits by neighboring termite colonies may be the reason why there has not been an increase in alate numbers since Operation Full Stop ended.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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".