Bio/Technology/Diversity Week, Volume 3 Number 10 (1994)
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Bio/Technology/Diversity Week Produced by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy May 2, 1994 Volume 3, Number 9 CODE NUMBER: NL94028 File size: Text - 25K No associated graphics _____________________________________________ HEADLINES _____________________________________________ - rBGH NEWS OF THE WEEK Six dairy and food industry groups filed a suit in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont last week over Vermont's mandatory labeling law for milk and dairy products derived from cows treated with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH or BST). - DNAP SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH ZENECA OVER TRANSWITCH TECHNOLOGY In April, the DNA Plant Technology (DNAP) company announced it reached an agreement to license its transwitch technology to Zeneca, formerly the agriculture and pharmaceutical operation of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). - MYCOGEN SEEKS TO FEED THE WORLD THROUGH BIOTECH Citing the challenge of feeding the world's growing population, Mycogen Corporation said the products it is developing provide one of the solutions to world hunger. "Tapping into the diversity and reproductive energy of nature" provides agriculture with one of its greatest opportunities, said Mycogen executive Jerry Caulder. - DRUG PRICE REVIEWS PROPOSAL DROPPED In a move seen as a concession to the biotechnology industry, Representative John Dingell (D-MI) announced last week that his Energy and Commerce Committee is dropping a proposal to review drug prices. - CANADIAN BIOTECH COALITION SCORNFUL OF REGULATORY CAPABILITY A coalition of Canadian organizations involved in biotechnology issues is skeptical of the Canadian government's ability to regulate the release of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. - SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ASGROW SUIT The Supreme Court has decided to hear the Asgrow seed company lawsuit. - MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR MEASURES TO PREVENT GENE FLOW The Malaysian government recently called on developing countries to formulate strategies to prevent the exploitation of genetic resources by the industrialized North. - BIODIVERSITY CONVENTION IN SENATE COMMITTEE S- HAMAN EXEC SAYS HIGH COST OF R&D, PRICE CONTROL THREAT NOT HELPING BIOTECH Ratification of the Biodiversity Convention by the United States is currently in the hands of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, which is still working on the issue. Earlier this month, President Clinton encouraged the committee to pass the convention out of committee and on to the Senate floor. - IN CASE YOU THOUGHT WE WERE RUNNING OUT OF SPECIES... The World Wildlife Fund reported recently that scientists have discovered a new giant deer species in Vietnam. - WSJ ECHOES WISE USE ARGUMENTS Echoing the sentiments of the so-called wise use movement, a recent article in the Wall Street Journal criticized environmental regulation in the form of the Endangered Species Act for protecting endangered and threatened species at the expensive of private property. - CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.624 | 0.594 |
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".