THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE SHIPPING CHANNEL: SOVEREIGNTY FIRST AND FOREMOST AND SOVEREIGNTY TO THE SIDE
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the 1940’s, Canada’s attention was brusquely turned to the Arctic Archipelago. The nuclear age focused attention on the Arctic: Canada’s undefended north and its proximity to the Soviet Union meant that the Canadian government had to abandon its laissez-faire attitude of the 1930’s and pursue a policy of active monitoring and intervention. Today, Canada’s claim to the Northwest Passage is still not recognized by the United States. But now, because of the findings of a group of international scientists studying the effects of global warming, Canada’s attention has turned to its North once more. Results from the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) and the Arctic Council suggest that the Northwest Passage – a sea passage along the northern coast of Alaska through the Canadian Arctic joining the Atlantic and Pacific – could soon be a busy shipping channel. Impassable most of the year, global warming could make the Passage ice-free allowing ships to travel from Europe to Asia lending evidential weight to the US claim that the Passage is really an international strait, and therefore, beyond the jurisdiction of Canada. The majority of research sounds the alarm for quick and determined action by the Canadian government as a result of this new finding to secure Canada’s sovereignty. But, this paper suggests the alarm need not be sounded and that a hurried approach may be the real threat to Canada’s sovereignty. Measured, considered and creative action in conjunction with other states (including the US) will prove the wiser course of action.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
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".