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Record W2279559419 · doi:10.1093/geront/gnv087

The Waiting Room: Caregiving as a Liminal Space

2015· article· en· W2279559419 on OpenAlexaff
Debra Sheets

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Gerontologist · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiminalitySpace (punctuation)PsychologyComputer scienceArtAesthetics

Abstract

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I have had my nose in books since early childhood. Reading was the perfect way to make the world fall away and a remarkable way to have an infinite number of experiences. It was with eager anticipation that I read Living in the Land of Limbo, an anthology of poetry and fiction that offers masterfully written and profoundly moving portrayals of caregiving. Carol Levine, the editor, is director of the United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, and has published a number of articles on family caregiving in peer-reviewed journals. This anthology took shape during her 17 years as a caregiver after a car accident left her husband Howard with quadriplegia and a traumatic brain injury. She found that reading fiction and poems about caregiving brought comfort and meaning while she lived in a liminal space with no sense of when, where, or how the caregiving journey would end.

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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: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.014
Scholarly communication0.0140.011
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.051
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.279 · 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 designQualitative
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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