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Conceptualizing and operationalizing neighbourhoods : the conundrum of identifiying territorial units.

2007· article· en· W2155860126 on OpenAlex
Lisa M. Gauvin, Éric Robitaille, M. Riva, Lindsay McLaren, C. Dassa, Lise Potvin

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueDurham Research Online (Durham University) · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHealth disparities and outcomes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOperationalizationGeographyRegional scienceDifferential (mechanical device)SociologyEconomic geographyEpistemologyEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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Background: Over the past 10 years, there has been a surge of interest in studying smallarea
\ncharacteristics as determinants of population and individual health. Accumulating
\nevidence indicates the existence of variations in the health status of populations living in
\nareas that differ in affluence and shows that selected small-area characteristics are
\nassociated with the occurrence of selected health behaviours. These variations cannot be
\nattributed solely to differential characteristics of populations living within small areas. One
\nvexing problem that confronts researchers is that of conceptualizing and operationalizing
\nneighbourhoods through delineation of small territorial units in health research.
\nGoals and Methods: The aims of this paper are to selectively overview conceptual
\ndefinitions of neighbourhoods and to illustrate the challenges of operationalizing
\nneighbourhoods in urban areas by describing our attempts to map out small territorial
\nunits on the Island of Montreal and in the City of Calgary.
\nConclusion: We outline guiding principles for the construction of a methodology for
\nestablishing small-area contours in urban areas and formulate recommendations for future
\nresearch.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.915
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.155
GPT teacher head0.435
Teacher spread0.280 · 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