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Record W2595964960 · doi:10.32396/usurj.v3i1.261

Letter from the Editors-in-Chief

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Courtney Ballantyne, Katya C. MacDonald

Bibliographic record

VenueUSURJ University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal · 2017
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPacePower (physics)PublishingCompassionScholarshipPsychologyPublic relationsMedia studiesSociologyPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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This year has generated more growth for our journal. We have moved to a system of continuous publication, allowing papers to be published as they are ready, as opposed to waiting until the end of each term. Authors are able to see the outcome of their work more quickly, and the articles are more immediately accessible to readers. It’s been valuable to explore new approaches to publishing to keep pace with the volume and quality of undergraduate research on campus.The articles in this issue represent a breadth of research across disciplines, methodologies, time periods, and geographies. Each of them brings insightful analysis to original research questions, and offers new perspectives in larger scholarly conversations.Kendra Schreiner compares the leadership styles and legacies of two influential political figures in southeast Asia, to highlight the significance of not only the leaders’ own life histories, but also their subjects’ experiences, when explaining how particular personalities come to power. Evaluating current trends in the field of nursing, Kira Marie Olson argues for better testing of nasogastric tube placement methods in order to improve patient care. Arjun Singh Jabbal and Adam Baxter-Jones address a central question for many athletes: which training method is most effective for building endurance. They call for ongoing attention to the issue. Lauren Tarasoff, Leah Ferguson, and Kent Kowalski seek out ways to foster healthy experiences for competitive dancers by examining the kinds of barriers to self-compassion that dancers themselves may experience. Recognizing pervasive trends in trades professions, Leanne Jaeb, Evan Parker, Courtney Black, and Karissa Cooper examine and measure how sexism can affect workplace safety. Amani Khelifa brings a new analytical lens to accounts about two Indigenous women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, demonstrating the value of reading colonial texts “between the lines” to seek out marginalized voices. Finally, Sarah Wist compares the effectiveness of several types of pesticides for cabbage productivity, with implications not only for home gardeners but also for commercial canola growers and market gardens.As one of many initiatives at the University of Saskatchewan supporting research at the undergraduate level, USURJ offers the opportunity for students and editors to disseminate undergraduate research and enhance the visibility and accessibility of work that might otherwise go unshared. This endeavour would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of student volunteers, reviewers, authors, and faculty and staff advisors, the Office of the VP Research, and the University Library. We extend our sincere gratitude as we celebrate another successful issue of USURJ.Katya MacDonald & Courtney BallantyneGraduate and Undergraduate Editors-in-ChiefJanuary 26, 2017

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.045
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.140

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.045
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0070.005
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0130.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0420.049

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 head0.036
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread0.240 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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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