Bibliographic record
Abstract
who succumbed to complications caused by multiple myeloma on Friday 23 July 2010, at the age of 80.Frank Tachau was a pioneer in introducing modern social scientific analysis to the study of the Middle East.After training at one of the handful of institutions specializing in Middle East studies in the 1950s, the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1958, he went on to become one of the founders of the field of Middle East political science.He first taught at Rutgers University and then spent the bulk of his career as Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, where he also served as departmental chair.He continued his connection to the University of Chicago through the years as an Associate Member of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies.In the course of his career, he received numerous honors and visiting positions, including a Fulbright Fellowship; Visiting Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia; Senior Research Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Israel; and visiting professorships in a number of Turkish universities.Dr. Tachau was a key figure in moving the study of the Middle East from a pure regional specialty to one that used comparative methods in political science, placing the politics of the region in a broader perspective.His well-known book, The Developing Nations: What Path to Modernization? (1972) defined many of the interests that he pursued through his career.Before the term "globalization" even existed, Tachau pursued in the book the
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".