Book reviews
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Thomas Markram, A Decade of Disarmament, Transformation and Progress: An assessment of the development and implementation of policy on disarmament, non‐proliferation and arms control in South Africa 1994–2004. Pretoria: SaferAfrica, 2004, ISBN 0–620–32738–3, (A4 paper‐back), 238 pages. Pippa Norris, Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0–521–53671–5, 375 pages. S Krishna and Shirin Madon (eds), The Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 0–7546–3445–0, $94.95, 367 pages. Cedric Thornberry, A Nation is Born: The Inside Story of Namibia's Independence. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers, 2004, ISBN: 99916–0‐521–5, R175 plus R50 delivery fee (paperback), 412 pages. Robert Guest, The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future. London: Macmillan, 2004. ISBN: 14050–3‐388–6, 288 pages. Kenneth Good, Bushmen and Diamonds: (Un)Civil Society in Botswana. Discussion Paper no. 23. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2003. ISBN: 91–7106–520–2. £7.95, 40 pages. Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Pretoria, 1959–1976. South Africa: Galago Publications, 2003. ISBN: 1919–8‐541–0‐X, 552 pages. Lucky Mathebe, Bound By Tradition: the World of Thabo Mbeki. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 2002. ISBN: 1868–88–169–5, $34.95, 225 pages. UN Economic Commission for Africa, Striving for Good Governance in Africa: Synopsis of the 2005 African Governance Report Prepared for the African Development Forum IV. Addis Ababa: UNECA, October 2004, 63 pages.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.505 | 0.490 |
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".