Bio/Technology/Diversity News, Volume 4, Number 2 (1995)
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Abstract
Bio/Technology/Diversity News Produced by the Institute for Agriculture\nand Trade Policy February 15, 1995 Volume 4, Number 2 Code Number:\nNL95008 Size of Files: Text: 14K No associated graphics files\n_____________________________________________ HEADLINES\n_____________________________________________ - rBGH Opponents Mark\nOne-Year Anniversary This month, opponents of recombinant bovine growth\nhormone (rBGH) marked the one year anniversary of the lifting of a\nmoratorium on the product with demonstrations throughout the country. -\nFarm Couple Loses in 'Brown Bag' Seed Case The Asgrow seed company won\nits lawsuit against Iowa farmers Dennis and Becky Winterboer after the\nSupreme Court ruled in its favor. - DNAP Tomato Receives USDA Approval\nA second genetically engineered tomato received commercial approval\nfrom the USDA last month. - Upjohn Seeks Renewal of Seven GEO Permits\nThe Upjohn company has asked the USDA's Animal and Plant Health\nInspection Service (APHIS) to renew field testing permits for seven\ngenetically modified plants. - Administering PST Problematic -\nInternational News Roundup Canada's International Development Research\nCentre (IDRC) recently announced a project which will encourage the\ndevelopment of biotechnology in Latin America. - A Believer in Genetic\nDiversity Roger Lemstrom of Washington says upon his return from the\nVietnam War in 1978, gardening became a natural outlet for him. After a\nfriend gave him an heirloom variety of seed, he did research at his\nlocal library and discovered there were several thousand varieties of\nbeans. Since then, he has been involved in seed saving. - Monsanto\nSupports Biosafety Protocol The director of agricultural affairs at the\nMonsanto chemical company recently said his company supports a\nbiosafety protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).\nChester Dickerson said, "Clearly a biosafety protocol is needed; you\njust have to look to the United States. We think it's very important\nthat the public feel confident that the products they will be using in\na few years have been scrutinized by the scientists in the government,"\nhe said. _____________________________________________ NEWS SUMMARIES\n_____________________________________________ BIOTECHNOLOGY\n_____________________________________________ RESOURCES\n_____________________________________________ CALENDAR OF EVENTS\n_____________________________________________ Bio/Technology/Diversity\nNews is produced by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and\nedited by Michelle Thom. Electronic mail versions are available free of\ncharge for subscribers. Fax/mail subscriptions are available at the\ncost of $30/six months; $50/year. For information about fax\nsubscriptions contact: IATP, 1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite 303,\nMinneapolis, MN 55414. For information on subscribing to this and other\nIATP news bulletins, send e-mail to: iatp- info@igc.apc.org. IATP\nprovides contract research services to a wide range of corporate and\nnot-for-profit organizations. For more information, contact Dale\nWiehoff at 612-379-5980, ext. 233, or send email to:\ndwiehoff@igc.apc.org.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.088 | 0.001 |
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 teacher head, 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".