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The Global Pacific Seafarer

2008· book-chapter· en· W2551404759 on OpenAlex
Alastair Couper

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Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Hawaii Press eBooks · 2008
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMaritime Navigation and Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMultinational corporationChinaCrewGeographyPacific oceanQuarter (Canadian coin)EconomyPolitical scienceEconomic growthInternational tradeBusinessFinanceOceanographyEconomicsArchaeology

Abstract

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This chapter discusses the employment of Pacific sailors in international shipping companies by focusing on the case of Kiribati. One and a quarter million merchant seafarers were supplied to international shipping in the year 2005, and more than half a million came from the Philippines, Indonesia, China, Turkey, and India. The Pacific Islands supplied only about 7,300 officers and ratings, but this number is of great economic significance for many small islands. Pacific islanders serve on overseas merchant ships that belong predominantly to American, British, German, and French companies. This chapter first considers seafarer selection, training, and crewing in Kiribati before analyzing the 100 crew lists of multinational ships, including twelve vessels with I-Kiribati officers. It then describes the life at sea of an I-Kiribati sailor and goes on to examine the seafarers' occupational safety and health, along with the difficulties they experience upon their return home from the sea. It also looks at maritime trade unions in Kiribati and concludes with an assessment of seafaring paradigm in Kiribati.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.863
Threshold uncertainty score0.754

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.163
Teacher spread0.150 · 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