Health, nutritional condition, and productivity of female moose (Alces alces) in Northwestern Ontario / by John Alan Crouse. --
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Creation or maintenance of moose habitat through logging requires an understanding of how particular timber-harvest practices affect nutritional interactions of adult females and their subsequent production of young.I compared ultrasonographic fat measurements of free-ranging adult female moose in northwestern Ontario, Canada, 1998-2001, inhabiting two forest management regimes; a modified clear-cut, following the Timber Management Guidelines fo r the Provision o f Moose Habitat, and an unmodified, progressive, and contiguous clear-cut.I also determined pregnancy and in utero twinning by radioimmunoassay of pregnancy-specific protein B (PSPB) and compared the number of expected calves bom to the number of calves surviving to winter.As an adjunct to evaluation of reproductive performance, I also examined blood parameters, hair mineral content, and stress hormone metabolite concentration in feces.For these comparisons to be made, however, reference ranges for blood and hair parameters needed to be established and the effects of handling, individual, temporal, and spatial factors on blood parameter variability measured.Likewise, the radioimmunoassay used to quantify stress hormone metabolites in feces had not been previously used in moose and the affinity of the antibody to the fecal glucocorticoid (GC) metabolites of moose was unknown.In Chapter 1, Validation o f a generalized fecal glucocorticoid assay fo r use in moose, I investigated whether a commercially available multi-species assay (ICN Biomedicals) accurately reflected acute adrenal activation in moose.Recent development of assays for GC metabolites has provided a non-invasive means to assess a variety of human-induced disturbances and environmental conditions on free-ranging animals.Fecal samples are easy to collect year-round and provide an integrated reflection of all GC secretion over a period of time prior to sample collection; however, species-specific differences in steroid metabolism necessitate validation of 11 R ep ro d u ced with p erm ission o f th e copyright ow ner.Further reproduction prohibited w ithout perm ission.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".