Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alun Owen Hughes was born on May 4th, 1942 in Bridgend, South Wales. He attended Cowbridge Grammar School and graduated from St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1965. He received a teaching certificate as well as an MA from Cambridge. He also earned a diploma in cartography from the University College of Swansea. From 1967-1969 Alun was employed in London, England as a cartographic editor. He joined the faculty of the Department of Geography at Brock University in 1969. He also co-founded and coached the Brock Rugby Club. He retired from Brock in 2012. Alun was very involved in promoting and teaching the Welsh language in North America. His love of the language began when he was a child raised in a Welsh-speaking home. For the last 20 years of his life, Alun’s research focused on local history – primarily the history of Thorold, Ontario. He served on numerous committees, boards and historical societies. He was a very popular speaker, field trip leader and published researcher. Professor Hughes won numerous awards including: the British Cartographic Society’s Design Award in 1988; the Thorold Citizen of the Year in 2003 and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013. He was also named the Honorary Historian of the City of Thorold.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.204 | 0.080 |
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".