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Record W767353788 · doi:10.1079/9781845932657.0001

Adventures in biocontrol.

2007· book-chapter· en· W767353788 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueCABI eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBiotechnology and Related Fields
Canadian institutionsAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAdventureControl (management)Order (exchange)Engineering ethicsField (mathematics)Environmental ethicsManagementHistoryPublic relationsLawEngineeringPolitical scienceBusinessArt historyEconomicsPhilosophyFinance

Abstract

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Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus and Captain James Cook were explorers who left their mark in history, not only because they travelled into unknown territories but also because they returned home to write about their fascinating adventures. They faced many obstacles and not infrequently suffered from lack of support. Despite all encumbrances, they laboured on because they believed that what they were doing was important and potentially rewarding. Their stubbornness and perseverance led them to great discoveries, if not always the rewards. Likewise, in this book we bring to you a collection of 44 'adventures', each written by scientists who journeyed into the unknown domains of biological control. They made their way towards a goal and, in doing so, faced numerous and unexpected hurdles, which had to be addressed for them to complete their objectives. The field of biological control encompasses not only biology but, as we will learn, also dozens of other disciplines and human activities, including technology, art, business, psychology, economics, law, international trade, sociology and many more. The chapters presented here illustrate that one needs to master combinations of all these elements in order to deploy a successful biological control programme.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.987
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0100.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.242 · 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