Bibliographic record
Abstract
During his career as a consulting engineer, Philip Louis Pratley of Montréal, Quebec, was responsible for the design and erection of many of Canada's most outstanding long-span highway bridges. Among them are the Jacques Cartier Bridge (1930) at Montréal; the Île d'Orléans Bridge (1935) at Québec City, Quebec; the Lions' Gate Bridge (1938) at Vancouver, British Columbia; the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (1955) at Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the Burlington Bay Skyway Bridge (1958) at Hamilton, Ontario. For over 40 years Pratley was at the forefront of his profession in Canada in designing and supervising the erection of bridge structures that embodied the latest state-of-the-art advances in design theory, construction technologies, and structural materials; his published technical writings conveyed the latest developments in bridge design and construction practice. Two of his structures; namely, the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the Lions' Gate Bridge, have attained a symbolic importance as national icons. The present article provides an overview of his outstanding career as a bridge design engineer. Key words: Philip Pratley, Monsarrat & Pratley, bridge design, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.044 | 0.010 |
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".