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Decline and Adjustment at the Periphery, West Coast of Newfoundland

2002· article· en· W3143714468 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Marc L. Johnson

Bibliographic record

VenueEspaceINRS (National Institute for Scientific Research (Canada)) · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicRural development and sustainability
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyShorePeninsulaWest coastPopulationPort (circuit theory)ArchaeologyOceanographyGeologyDemography
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this study, we have focussed on the West Coast of Newfoundland, a region
\nthat faces the North Shore in Quebec and Labrador, along the Gulf of
\nSt. Lawrence. The only urban centre in this vast, sparsely populated
\n(2.9 pers./km2
\n) and mostly rural (64 percent) region is Corner Brook. Historically,
\nthe small francophone population of about 800 souls has been concentrated on the
\nPort-au-Port peninsula.
\nThe West Coast region of Newfoundland and Labrador cuts across the three
\ndistricts of South West Port-aux-Basques in the south, Corner Brook in the centre
\nand Northern in the north. This is the economic region of the same name defined
\nby Statistics Canada, minus Labrador, which we have left out for reasons of homogeneity. From the provincial standpoint, the West Coast is itself divided
\ninto five economic zones, each governed by a regional development board. We
\nhave organized our study around these five zones (see map): Nordic, Red Ochre,
\nHumber, Long Range and South Western Marine and Mountain. While the West Coast is one of the access points to the island of
\nNewfoundland and Labrador, owing to the Port-aux-Basques ferry service, it is
\nstill basically remote from any new developments in this province. It is in the
\ncapital city of St. John’s, located at the other end of the island, some 700 km from
\nCorner Brook, that the major economic decisions are being made and the new
\nNewfoundland and Labrador economy is being constructed.2
\n There is of course
\nthe urban area of Corner Brook, in the centre of the region, which is still thriving
\nthanks to the forest industry, but the risk of a downturn in this growth axis is real.
\nThe combination of a very low population density and human resources that are
\nill-equipped for an economic adjustment adds to the weight of the challenge that
\nawaits the inhabitants of this peripheral region. However, among the shadows that seem to hover over this region’s economy,
\nthere are some bright spots. The province has done a considerable amount of
\ncatching up in the areas of education and literacy. The fishing industry has diversified, and its landed values are twice those of the pre-moratorium period. The
\nnumber of jobs has begun to grow again since the last census. In the St. Anthony
\nsub-region, the SABRI (St. Anthony Basin Resources Inc.) initiative offers a
\npromising community economic development model, based on fishing profits.
\nThe tourist attractions of the West Coast are becoming better known, owing to the
\nmillennium celebration of the Viking settlement at L’Anse-aux-Meadows.
\nIn the pages that follow, we will present a demographic and socio-economic
\nprofile of the region, followed by a discussion of the principal challenges that
\nmust be met to give a new impetus to the region’s development.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.621
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.050
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.235 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
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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