Ontario Ministry of the Environment laboratory sediment biological testing protocol
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The protocol provided in this document is to replace the previous Provincial Sediment Bioassessment Protocol (Lomas and Krantzberg, 1988). The procedures can be used in the evaluation of contaminated sediments by providing information on lethal and sublethal biological effects. Test applications include the assessment of sediments at remedial action plan sites, general surveillance and monitoring and spills action. In addition, it is intended to be used for the assessment of acute toxicity as prescribed in the "Guidelines for the Protection and Management of Aquatic Sediment Quality in Ontario" (Persaud et al., 1992). This document provides a background and rationale for sediment bioassessment and provides detailed methodology for conducting sediment bioassays and for the rearing and maintenance of test organisms.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.071 | 0.030 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".