Bibliographic record
Abstract
Robert C. Thomsen and Nanette L. Hale (eds), Canadian Environments: Essays in Culture, Politics and History (Brussels: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2005), 316pp. Paper. £26.90. ISBN 90-5201-295-7. This volume arises out of the VII Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association of Canadian Studies (NACS) in Stockholm in 2002 entitled 'Old Environments - New Environments'. It contains 20 articles arranged in four parts: 'Old and New Environments Meet: Aboriginal Canada'; 'Canada in the Global Environment'; 'Natural(?) Environments'; and 'Visualising Environments'. [See also the review below of Britta Olinder (ed.), Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World, which covers the literary papers from the same conference.] Part I, 'Old and New Environments Meet: Aboriginal Canada', is prefaced by a brief synopsis of the evolution of Nunavut by Peter Irniq, Commissioner of Nunavut. Melissa Williams gives a descriptive narrative of past aboriginal participation in Canada's political institutions. Harmut Lutz recounts the disgraceful episode of the exhibiting of two families of Inuit from Labrador - one baptised, one 'heathen' - in Germany in the 1880s. Peter Dorrenbacher explains how some of the shortcomings of the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement have been rectified by the 2002 Agreement between le Gouvernement du Quebec and the Crees of Quebec. David Harding speculates that economic self-sufficiency for aboriginals may increase native integration into the Canadian society at large. Patrik Lannto compares native school policies in Canada and Sweden. Clarice Rudkowski, in a paper pre-edited by Elin Elgaard, presents the views of a native Labradorian Metis on the past and planned hydro developments of the Labrador Churchill River. Part II, 'Canada in the Global Environment', is prefaced by a short article by Mary Simon, Canada's Ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs, arguing for the importance of international governance of the North in Canadian foreign policy. David Haglund gives a conceptual analysis of 'continentalism' and notes that, paradoxically, it may bring Canada and Europeans closer together if Canada has privileged access into the US. Rejean Pelletier gives a comparative study of minorities in the federated states of Canada, Spain and Switzerland. John Erik Fossum discusses three metaphors in their Canadian context - 'two scorpions in a bottle', 'eleven elephants in a maze', and 'the three equalities' - and notes how the Canadian debates on federalism have provided insights into the possibilities and limits of federalism as a way of life. …
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.002 |
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".