Bibliographic record
Abstract
Product Design for Manufacture \n \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. \n \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. \n \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. \n \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. \n \nRecognition \n \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) \n \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 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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.438 | 0.329 |
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".