Bibliographic record
Abstract
Paul Michael Brunelle (Figure 1), 67-years-old, Atlantic Canadian odonatologist, and notable graphic designer, passed away unexpectedly on 18 January 2020.His frozen body was discovered by his former wife in his cabin-cum-laboratory in rural Middle New Cornwall, Nova Scotia.An autopsy revealed cause of death as heart failure.Paul was born 7 November 1952 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the eldest among two sons (the second dying shortly after birth) and a younger sister, the children of Paul Joseph Brunelle (1918Brunelle ( -2012) ) and Gwendolyn Pearl Brunelle (1920-1997; nee Myers).Although for much of his adult life Paul's relationship with his father, a one-time military man, was sometimes strained, they shared a diverting interest in natural history, and he acknowledged his parents support in one of his earlier published journal papers (Brunelle 1997).While the senior Brunelle pursued a retirement passion for the greenhouse culture of cacti and succulents, eventually donating his large collection to Dalhousie University, for the junior Brunelle, the biology of dragonflies and damselflies became so diverting, nigh consuming, that it led to a life of penury, privation, mild alcoholism, considerable accomplishment, and the esteem and affection of scientific colleagues continent-wide.Paul graduated from Dartmouth High School in the then city of Dartmouth ("the City of Lakes"), Nova Scotia, since absorbed into the Halifax Regional Municipality.A talented artist, Paul attend the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (since 2003 NSCAD University) at a period when NSCAD was recognized internationally as "the best art school in North America" (Levine 1973: 15).Opportunities to study aspects of design in England, Scotland, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland broadened his background.Graduating, with a Bachelor of Design in Communication Design in 1976, he founded Graphic Design Associates (GDA) in Halifax, with partner Dereck Day.A variety of significant regional and national design projects followed, including extensive work for Parks Canada, oversight of multi-volume environmental im pact statements for Mobil Oil Canada's Venture Develop ment Project and Newfoundland's Hibernia Offshore Development, the design of the Nova Scotia Health card featuring Kejimkujik National Park, and a series of fishing fly stamps for Canada Post.From 1992 to 1994 Paul served as President of the Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), an organization of design professionals in media and design-related fields and Canadaʼs national certification body for graphic and communication design.He also served as Presi-
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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 | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.062 | 0.030 |
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".