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Record W625416983

A CANADIAN CITY FIGHTS SNOW AND ICE: DIGGING DEEP

2000· article· en· W625416983 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
M. B. H. Dunn

Bibliographic record

VenuePublic works · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSmart Materials for Construction
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSnowSnow removalDiggingWinter stormCrewPopulationGeographyFreezing rainClearingPhysical geographyEnvironmental scienceMeteorologyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Sault Ste. Marie is an industrial town in Northern Ontario, Canada with a population of 80,000. Winters are harsh, with city crews working day and night to keep roads and highways clear of ice and snow. A typical winter will bring 6 feet (1.8 m) of snow to the area. In addition to the heavy volume of snow, crews must respond to volatile temperature changes. A 52-member crew is responsible for clearing city streets working 8-12 hour shifts. Winter control operations begin with the first snowfall and end in late spring. This article describes Sault Ste. Marie's operations and methods for winter road maintenance including plowing/grading, sanding/salting, and snow and ice removal.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.038
Threshold uncertainty score0.237

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0360.004
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0380.005

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.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.183
Teacher spread0.177 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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