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Record W2913206124 · doi:10.1017/9781787443457.025

Down Below the Volta River

2018· book-chapter· en· W2913206124 on OpenAlexaff
Adolph Kwesi Afordoanyi Agbadja

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDecolonial Thought and Epistemologies
Canadian institutions123 Certification (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyWater resource managementEnvironmental science

Abstract

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Many years ago, a young man and his father were carrying gallons of palm oil, from Eweland, to Dodowa for sale. In their journey, they eventually reached the Senchi Ferry, and were put on the ferry-boat. The young man, together with his friends, on board, went to the edge of the boat, and were looking at the smooth gliding of the water, when all of a sudden, he tumbled into the River. He became so frightened that his high screams from the surface of water kept ringing in the ears of the people outside, for several minutes, as he struggled to swim ashore. But it was a desperate attempt; he sank into the deep River. In fact, he never expected to live any more; never hoped to see any better thing with his eyes again; never believed, that he could ever come out of this deep water and see human life. His only thought was that sooner or later, he would be swallowed by a big hippopotamus, or be wedged between the sawteeth of a cruel crocodile. But it was rather astonishing to him, that none of these mishaps overtook him in the water. Breathing slowly through his nostrils, with his mouth tightly closed, he was just gradually and straightly descending, as if by means of a parachute, until at last to his utter amazement, he landed on a smooth and sparkling flat ground—a vast limitless floor. Here at once, he began to see a big market of all sorts of pleasurable and delightful things; all sorts of valuable merchandise for human interest, including high-scented perfumes and aloes, precious stones, silver, and gold. The whole ground was overspread with florins, florins, nothing but florins, so beaming that his eyes could not rest on them for a minute. But something awe-struck him about the whole place. The area looked desolate and remained quiet. There were no signs of human beings or animals living there. Not a shrill of birds, not a buzz of a bee, nor the tone of a human voice, could be heard by him. There were no halls, no rooms, in short, no shelter of any description. Also no vegetation what-ever could be found there. According to him, the thunders of rain which seasonally pour over us here, did not reach there at all.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.120
Threshold uncertainty score0.400

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1200.023

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 head0.043
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.257 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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