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Record W92412754 · doi:10.2166/wpt.2007.084

Public acceptance and independent certification of biosolids in Canada

2007· article· en· W92412754 on OpenAlexaffabout
Miles Hebert

Bibliographic record

VenueWater Practice & Technology · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicSoil erosion and sediment transport
Canadian institutionsMinistère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiosolidsCertificationBusinessSustainable developmentEnvironmental planningLand reclamationStandardizationSustainabilityTrustworthinessEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental sciencePolitical scienceEnvironmental engineeringComputer scienceLawComputer securityEcology

Abstract

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Reclamation of biosolids through land application generally meets 2 key components of Sustainable Development: environment and economics. Unfortunately, societal acceptance is the weakest part of it, despite the scientific evidence that risks with biosolids are low or lower than with farm manures. Beside unacceptable odor problems in some areas - that have to be dealt with - there is a general pre-conception that biosolids are at risk. This pre-conception has to deal with modern urban culture, beliefs, values and taboos. Communication must therefore be an important part of every biosolids strategy. However, since some actors of the private and public sectors are not always trustworthy in the minds of the general public, it is necessary to have some kind of independent organization that states that a given biosolids is safe. Therefore, third-party standardization and certifications of biosolids appear to be a key component to Sustainable Development. However, it is important that the certification label is well known and trustworthy by stakeholders. Pro's and con's of the Canadian voluntary certification of biosolids will be presented.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.097
Threshold uncertainty score0.704

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.003
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.196 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2007
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