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Record W4412608585 · doi:10.1101/2025.07.22.25332023

Data Resource Profile: the Physical Activity Cohort Repository (PACe)

2025· preprint· en· W4412608585 on OpenAlexaff
Leonessa Boing, Andrea Ramírez Varela, Saud Abdulaziz M Alomairah, Derrick Bennett, Lucimére Bohn, Clare Hume, Elli Kontostoli, Jacqueline L. Mair, Clarice Martins, Andréia Pizarro, Jenny Rossen, Jakob Tarp, Kirstie F. Tew, Philip Rosen, Terry Boyle, Brigid M. Lynch

Bibliographic record

VenuemedRxiv · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPhysical Activity and Health
Canadian institutionsMichael Smith Health Research BC
FundersCancer Council Victoria
KeywordsPaceResource (disambiguation)CohortBusinessGeographyComputer scienceStatisticsMathematics

Abstract

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Key Features * The Physical Activity Cohort Repository (PACe) project created a searchable online database of cohort studies that have prospectively collected data on physical activity and/or sedentary behaviour (self-report and/or device-based measurement) at three or more timepoints. Only cohorts with ≥ 1,000 participants at baseline were included. * The PACe is a freely available resource created to encourage researchers to return to existing cohorts to apply contemporary causal inference methods that appropriately deal with time varying exposures and confounders, to improve the quality of evidence pertaining to physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health. * Two hundred and nineteen unique cohorts were included in the initial iteration of the PACe, representing all World Health Organization regions. The earliest included cohort started in 1922 (the Terman Life-Cycle Study) and extends to ongoing cohorts. * The development of the PACe was an international effort; this resource was designed to facilitate global collaboration and building research capacity in low- and middle-income countries. * We will update the repository every two years, to ensure that new cohorts and cohorts adding additional waves of follow-up are captured.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

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)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.069
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Dataset · Consensus signal: Dataset
Teacher disagreement score0.489
Threshold uncertainty score0.728

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.069
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.001
Bibliometrics0.0080.013
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0040.004
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.4890.195

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 head0.075
GPT teacher head0.365
Teacher spread0.290 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreDataset

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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Citations0
Published2025
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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