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President's Note

2009· article· en· W7002709977 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueWBI Studies Repository · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRace, Genetics, and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCrueltyCorollaryAltruism (biology)EnforcementPoliticsLaw enforcement
DOInot available

Abstract

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A Call to ActionIf you were to sit in my chair as president of The HSUS, you'd get an unobstructed view of the human spirit and character.The fact that an organization like ours exists-and happens to be one of the world's most powerful advocacy groups-says a great deal about the good of people.On display at The HSUS are the values of kindness, generosity, and sacrifice.I am thankful every day that millions of Americans support such a force for the good.Yet that The HSUS must exist at all reflects a harsh truth: that a species capable of so much altruism is equally capable of selfishness, greed, and cruelty.Not a day goes by when I am not shaken and confounded by acts of indifference and malice-whether it is individual cases of cruelty or large-scale exploitation by industries that are themselves models of unnerving efficiency and creativity.Indeed, we live in a society aswirl with countervailing, contradictory, and self-negating forces.But a corollary principle at The HSUS is that our broader circumstance is not static.We believe that while cruelty and greed are intensely powerful forces, they can be overcome or at least constrained through the development and enforcement of the law; the advance of logic, philosophy, and science; and the unyielding ambition of individuals to innovate and solve problems.The advance of our ideals is not self-executing, but a matter of moral agency.We must act.We must act as individuals-in the political process, in the marketplace, and as educators.And we must act as institutions, as we do at The HSUS, where our staff mobilizes rank-and-file citizens for collective action.With our experts in law, politics, the sciences, investigations, communications, and other disciplines-and the backing of millions of Americans-we have the strength to drive reform.And we are doing so to great effect, as you'll read in the pages of All Animals.We won two landmark victories in the November election.We passed Proposition 2 in California to ban the confinement of 20 million farm animals in cages and crates, winning 63.5 percent of the vote despite a $9 million campaign by factory farming interests.And in Massachusetts, we won Question 3 to ban greyhound racing after two previous efforts fell short at the ballot box and in the courts.The California campaign reminds us that we must be bold in striving to end cruelty, and the Massachusetts victory shows that we must be unrelenting in the face of occasional setbacks.All in all, we secured passage of 92 new state laws to protect animals in 2008.We also raided cockfights, dogfights, puppy mills, and other dens of cruelty.We headed into floods, fires, and hurricanes to rescue animals displaced or left behind.And we drove programs to spay and neuter dogs and cats and promote adoptions from shelters, most recently urging President Obama to choose a shelter dog for his family.While we celebrate the progress, we must resolve to press ahead.We have much unfinished business, including stopping the Canadian seal hunt, halting the wildlife trade, putting the lid on captive hunting, opening the cage doors at puppy mills, and ending the confinement of animals on factory farms in scores of other states.Especially in this turbulent economic time, we need your financial support for our lifesaving programs.But we also need other forms of action.You are The HSUS, and every one of you can be an ambassador, advocate, consumer, educator, and political activist.It is when millions of us do this work in concert that we will see the status quo altered.The HSUS is prepared to lead the way.Thank you for your support.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.168
Threshold uncertainty score0.520

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.270 · 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