Biographical Sketches of Elsa Amadio, Annamarie Castrilli and Maria Minna
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I was born in Toronto on April 22nd, 1932 -a depression baby, and an only child.The socio-economic conditions of Italy convinced my father to leave the Veneto Region in 1926.After three years in Canada, he returned to Italy to marry and, persuading my mother of the opportunities the young country offered to skilled professionals, they settled in Toronto in 1930.They established a successful business in a Victorian house on Avenue Road near Bloor.This had been the family home of D.R. Keys, a professor of English in University College who also taught Italian.The retired professor and his sisters too, used to drop in on occasion to reminisce about their visits to Italy and to practice their Italian.The war years were base and humiliating.Although my parents were Canadian citizens without political ties to Italy, they were treated as enemy aliens.Their business eventually folded and the house was sold.I recall feeling disparagingly different under the WASP influence that prevailed in Toronto.Shame at my Italian heritage resulted in private Italian lessons when I learned that I pertained to an illustrious civilization.As my appreciation of Italian culture developed, and the Toronto attitude became more tolerant, I came to realize the advantage I possessed.Upon graduation from St. Joseph's College School in 1951, I enrolled in the honours course of Modern History and Modern Languages at the University of Toronto.The course curricuclum was heavy, but I found time to participate in the activities of the fledging Italian Club.The highlight was the enactment of Scampolo -a three-act play in Italian -at the Women's Union Theatre on February 10th, 1954.In addition to playing the role of Franca, I was responsible for the production under the direction of Professor J. Molinaro.French immersion courses at Laval University in the summer of 1953 developed language proficiency and exposure to another part of Canada.My summer holidays were employed working as an interviewer for credit accounts with the Robt.Simpson Company, and as assistant to the Italian delegation at the International Trade Fair in Toronto.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.040 | 0.013 |
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".