Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Meningitis Research Foundation of Canada was born from a mother's tragic loss of her son, Michael Longo, who died at 19 years of age of fulminant meningococcemia. The foundation is based in Waterloo, Ontario. Its major objectives are: to provide support and information about meningitis to patients and their families; to increase public awareness of meningitis; to promote better understanding of the disease among health care professionals; and to support research to prevent death and disability from meningitis and other infections of the central nervous system. Because it is new, the foundation is not yet in a position to fund research. Fundraising that has been coducted during the past two years gives hope that the foundation will be able to begin to support research projects in the near future. The foundation has made impressive progress in its educational activities. It has created a Web site that contains a general information statement on meningitis and other infections of the central nervous system, as well as specific statements on infections caused by meningococcus, pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, group B streptococcus, Escherichia coli and viruses. The statements cover pathogenesis, symptoms and signs, treatment, complications, sequelae and prevention of these infections. There are additional statements on vaccines and antibiotic prophylaxis, and the control of meningococcal outbreaks in schools, colleges and other special settings. For an example of one of these statements, turn to page 126 of the present issue of Paediatrics & Child Health. All of the statements on the foundation's Web site can be printed and distributed freely. The statements on meningococcal disease and control of meningococcal outbreaks have been reviewed by a group of Ontario medical officers of health, and are distributed to the public during outbreaks. In addition to the Web site, the foundation has a telephone hotline and an e-mail address for patients and/or their families seeking additional information or advice. Direct medical advice is not provided, but general questions about diagnosis, treatment, complications and the prevention of meningitis are answered. At present, the medical advisor answers 12 to 15 queries per month. Physicians are urged to inform patients and their families about the foundation and its Web site whenever questions about meningitis or other central nervous system infections arise.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.130 | 0.030 |
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".