Bibliographic record
Abstract
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Elwood W. Stringam on July 9, 2011 at the age of 93 at Ridge Meadows Hospital, Maple Ridge, BC. Dr. Stringam was predeceased by his first wife Gabrielle (Wellington) in 1989 and his second wife Lila (Morrow) in 2004. He leaves to mourn his passing one brother and six children and their families. Dr. Stringam was born on December 10, 1917, in Glenwood, Alberta. He grew up ranching and attended the University of Alberta receiving a B.Sc. (Agric.) in 1940 (CSTA Gold Medalist) and his M.Sc. (Nutrition) in 1942. That same year he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and spent the next three years (1942 1945) with the RCAF and was a prisoner of war in Germany from 1944 to 1945. After the war Dr. Strigam continued his studies in genetics and animal reproduction at the University of Minnesota, receiving his Ph.D. in 1948. Dr. Stringam began his academic career at the University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor (1948 1951) and the University of Guelph as an Associate and Full Professor (1951 1954). In 1954, Dr. Stringam returned to the University of Manitoba as Professor and Head, Department of Animal Science, where he provided outstanding service to the Department, Faculty, University and livestock industry until his retirement in 1983. One of the most dynamic periods in the Department occurred during his period as Head (1954 to 1973). Dr. Stringam had a vision for the Department and worked relentlessly to achieve his goal. The new Animal Science building was opened in 1962 with spacious offices, laboratories, lecture rooms and a bright and pleasant courtyard, the envy of many. This building provided a more than tenfold increase in teaching and research capacity. Almost concurrently, two poultry research units, one sheep unit and a feed mill were constructed on campus, and new swine, dairy and beef units were established at the Glenlea Research Station. At the same time, Dr. Stringam negotiated for and recruited eight new academic staff needed to initiate the new programs envisioned, including the Ph.D. program. This development also resulted in a substantial increase in undergraduate students. As a scientist, Dr. Stringam authored or co-authored more than 60 publications and was frequently interviewed on radio and TV regarding livestock production and agricultural education. Dr. Stringam provided service on numerous boards, councils and committees within the University, nine professional and scientific societies and industry. He served on the General Faculty Council of the University, Board of Graduate Studies, Senate and numerous Senate committees. He served as a Director (1961 1963), VicePresident (1962 1963), President-Elect (1965 1966) and President (1966 1967) of the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC) and Registrar (195
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.200 | 0.087 |
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".