Bibliographic record
Abstract
There are changes on the horizon in the business side of pharmacy in Canada and they will mean a larger footprint for US pharmacy interests in this country. On January 30, 2012, Edmonton-based Katz Group of Canada announced plans to sell its interest in 850 Canadian independent stores — mainly operating under the I.D.A. and Guardian banners — to California-based health care giant McKesson Corp. McKesson is also buying Katz Group's franchise business, which serves 160 Medicine Shoppe outlets across Canada. While announcing plans to put more energy into strengthening its 400 Rexall-brand pharmacies (Rexall and Pharma Plus outlets), Katz Group revealed it has acquired the Dell Pharmacies network. Dell has 18 stores in southern Ontario and all are to be integrated into the Rexall network. At the same time, US discount retailer Target has announced that it is looking for independent pharmacists to own and operate franchises in its new Canadian stores. Beginning next year, Target will take over 189 former Zellers locations in this country — in its first move outside the US market. The retailer says it plans to begin an active search for pharmacist franchise-owners in March.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".