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Record W2043309423 · doi:10.2753/ijp0891-1916350203

Canada's Oil and Imperialism

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Edward H. Shaffer

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Political Economy · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Policy and Governance
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceEconomicsPolitical economyHistoryEconomic history

Abstract

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During most of the nineteenth century, coal fueled the world's most technologically advanced economies. Oil began to displace coal at the onset of the twentieth century when the British recognized its military potential. Marcus Samuel, the head of Shell, began campaigning to convert the British Navy from coal to oil (Sampson 1976). Initially, the admirals resisted his proposal, suspecting that it had been motivated by self-interest. They also had doubts about the technical feasibility of using oil. Nevertheless Samuel managed to convince the First Sea Lord, Admiral Fisher, of the soundness of his ideas. Whether Samuel's offer of a Shell directorship played a role in his conversion is still a matter of conjecture (ibid.). Fisher found an ally in Winston Churchill, who became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1 91 1 . Fearing the growing strength of the German Navy, Churchill wanted to ensure the supremacy of the British fleet in the war that he knew was sure to come. In 1912 he established the Royal Corn-

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.123
Threshold uncertainty score0.894

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0210.017
Scholarly communication0.0090.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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