Fire detection and suppression studies at Kemano Village
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Kemano, British Columbia, was a company town built 50 years ago by Alcan Smelters and Chemicals Ltd. to support its hydroelectric station. When the station became essentially automated, making the town obsolete, an idea was born. The deserted town was donated to British Columbia's fire services for training and research, which has been known as the Kemano Public Safety Initiative (KPSI). In addition to becoming a proving ground for firefighting, abandoned houses filled with donated furniture and props made an ideal, full-scale experimental site. Using this unique opportunity, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) completed two series of fire experiments at the Kemano Village: one to study the response of smoke detectors in houses, and the other to evaluate the performance of a cross-linked-polyethylene (PEX-a) pipe sprinkler system. The sprinkler project is now complete and the results of the experiments are presentedin this paper. NRC researchers are still analyzing the experimental data produced from the smoke detector tests. This paper includes an overview of the smoke detector project.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".