Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction T his is the second special issue of Illumine to emerge from the relationship between the Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia (MEICON BC) and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (CSRS) at the University of Victoria.This edition of Illumine presents the scholarship of four authors who delivered papers during the fifth annual MEICON Student Conference, held at the University of Victoria on March 23, 2013.Their work comprises inquiry into issues of law, identity, the agricultural landscape and its image, the problematic categorization of militants outside the requirements for humanity, the efforts to reconcile Islamist political sensibilities with the Republican Turkish State, and the convergent political and religious expressions of Near and Middle Eastern societies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.These articles offer a cross-section of the pressing questions that are actively shaping communities within the Islamic world and their interactions with non-Islamic societies.They also provide a distinctly Canadian perspective in graduate student scholarship on Islamic and Middle Eastern issues.Amber Ayers opens this issue with "Idealism 'must not blind us:' British legislators and the Palestine Mandate, 1929Mandate, -1934." This article examines the complexities faced by the British Mandate in Palestine as they attempted to formulate and enforce the legislation of agricultural rights.The dual goals of balancing a free market land economy with the needs of the fellahin peasant population, and the equally dichotomous promises made to newly arriving Zionists and the Arabs following the First World War were brought to their apex by the violence of the 1929 August Revolt, that saw many dead and
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.515 | 0.307 |
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".