Ellavut/Our Yup'ik World & Weather: Continuit and Change on the Bering Sea Coast, by Ann Fienup-Riordan and Alice Rearden
Bibliographic record
Abstract
REVIEWS • 481the essays break down assumed distinctions between conservative and liberal political positions, with each author drawing from the approaches of many political parties and stakeholders.For non-expert readers, it offers a clear and accessible introduction to Arctic issues, supplemented by a helpful acronym guide.Yet the depth of its coverage and nuanced analysis means that specialists, too, will find much of interest.Each chapter is clearly written and free of jargon, and the organizing strategy of addressing each issue in turn makes it easy to compare points of convergence (for example, the need for a more clearly defined Canadian northern strategy and the direct participation of the prime minister) and divergence (such as the probability of international conflict in Arctic regions at home and around the world) between the authors' positions.Colour maps interspersed throughout the book provide useful visual references for the various geopolitical issues discussed, and the appendix helps contextualize and compare the authors' recommendations with the federal government's strategy.Although not part of the book's stated objective, one notable omission is a chapter from a northern Aboriginal group.Each author criticizes the marginalization and lack of recognition of Aboriginal voices in Canadian Arctic politics, but the absence of a dedicated chapter in Canada and the Changing Arctic reproduces this exclusion.This voice could perhaps be included in a foreword, introduction, or conclusion in a future edition.This is the only noteworthy flaw in an otherwise compelling book that delivers on its promise to provide a range of opinions and allow the reader to come to his or her own conclusions.With the Arctic increasing in importance in both Canadian and international politics, this book will have enduring relevance.Instructors and graduate students in Northern Studies, Political Science, and Policy Studies, as well as policy analysts and writers, will find this an essential read.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.004 |
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".