Nanodielectrics: A "Universal" Panacea for Solving All Electrical Insulation Problems?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
At times new paradigms are observed to emerge. One example of\nthis concerns the introduction of the concept of “Nanodielectrics”\nin 2001. It is often demeaned that with new concepts must come\nnew ways of thinking, opened-minded consideration and unbounded\nexploration. In this spirit, an activity of high-creative intensity\nwas organized at Hydro-Québec’s research institute (IREQ)\non October 31st, 2008. A very diversified crowd of international\nscientists gathered at IREQ to exchange and reflect on the topic. An\nopportunity to be seized to break the established precincts and, to\nquestion and imagine the potentialities.\nProvocative at times, the comments and views were only meant\nto elicit the progress of our thinking. The present paper does not\nsummarize the proceedings of the event that came to be known as\nthe “Brainstorm at the institute”. This paper offers a broad and\ndiverse view of the topic, with many remaining questions of importance\nand feeded by recent progress and further reflection. Although\nlong, the paper gives a vivid picture of the situation allowing\ncriticism and stressing the many unanswered questions. Multidisciplinary\nzest is obvious.\nMost of the participants joined in this new adventure. The list of\nauthors is given at the end with an indication of their respective\ncontribution. In view of the great number of authors, no effort was\nundertaken to reconcile the styles. The end product is a result of a\nparticipatory effort, and every bit does not need to be guarantied\nand accepted by all.\nThe paper benefited particularly from the contributions of some\nscientists stranger to the usual field, namely A. Vijh, L. Utracki and\nH. Alamdari. Ashok Vijh joined us with his background in electrochemistry\nand has enlightened us with analogies of other fields\nconcepts and applications (Chapter II). Leszek Utracki, a polymer\nscientist of many talents, has taught us by linking the polymeric\ncontext of nanocomposites to the dielectric properties. He has produced\nChapter III. This would have been a logical determining\ncobblestone just after the introduction of the concept in 2001. This\nsomewhat warranted a welcomed longer contribution.Finally, Houshang\nAlamdari is back in the mist of academic research. He was\nassociated with the nanodielectrics from the beginning. For this\npaper, he introduced a non-electrotechnical application based on a\nnanodielectric material (Chapter VIII, section B).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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".