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Ski Rider

2008· other· en· W7013557570 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueCardiff Metropolitan Research Repository (Cardiff Metropolitan University) · 2008
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProduct (mathematics)Product designFeature (linguistics)New product developmentPublicitySuspension (topology)Investment (military)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Product Design for Manufacture
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\nAim: PDR was initially commissioned to design and manufacture prototype mechanisms to be attached to existing fibreglass boards for testing the Ski Rider concept on a ski slope. Following successful evaluation, PDR were asked to aesthetically enhance the design and produce graphical treatments for the Ski Rider brand. Following acceptance of these designs, the client commissioned PDR to produce the parts necessary to build 10 Ski Riders.
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\nSki Rider is an innovative piece of sports equipment designed for winter sports, resembling a foldable ski-scooter/snowboard with a steering facility created by a secondary smaller front ski. It has built in suspension and adjustability for various height individuals, and a disengagement feature enabling it to be folded flat for transportation. 
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\nThe innovative feature of Ski-Rider is its inclusive design, in particular the design significantly reduces impact on the user's joints (especially knees and hips) compared to traditional ski and snow-boarding equipment. This opens new markets by allowing people with minor joint problems to enjoy winter sports. 
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\nSki Rider gained industry certification, with the product being approved by the Whistler resort in Canada, which is renowned as having the highest safety standards in the world. 
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\nRecognition
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\nSki Rider featured on 'The Big Idea', a television programme screened on 'Sky One', aimed at discovering the next great British invention. Ski Rider was selected to partake from a series of regional competitions, winning the programme’s third episode and progressing to the final. Ski Rider, as specified by one of the judges on The Big Idea 'changes the market place for sports equipment' and came runner up overall. The product had significant impact in the media and was featured in BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/3981585.stm)
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\nSki Rider is the only new product to be approved by the Whistler resort, Canada.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Bibliometrics, Science and technology studies, Open science, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.142
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.004
Bibliometrics0.0310.015
Science and technology studies0.0030.010
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0060.003
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.011

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 head0.047
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread0.259 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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