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Record W4366140982 · doi:10.33137/ic.v10i.40947

Italian Regional Organizations

2023· article· en· W4366140982 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueItalian Canadiana · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Systems and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusinessRegional sciencePolitical scienceGeography

Abstract

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The purpose of this paper is not to offer a complete history of all the Italian regional organizations in the Greater Toronto Area, but an attempt to review the most representative organizations, to describe their general aims and provide the background necessary for a better appreciation than has so far been possible. 1 The full story of these associations will only be within our reach when all the available archival and statistical sources are considered together with "memory culture."Upon beginning our research, we had to grapple with the preconceived notion that all regional groups concentrate almost exclusively on spaghetti dinners and festivities held at clubs dedicated to some obscure Italian town. 2 As we met and spoke with the representative members of the various groups we were surprised by the degree to which this opinion was unfounded.While festive elements are certainly a fundamental part of their activities, all groups adamantly declared that their goals are far broader.To this end, we were made aware of the numerous activities successfully concluded or planned for the near future.These ranged from lectures, conferences, publications, theatrical and operatic performances, concerts, films, exhibitions, to sporting events, workshops, and care for the elderly.To do justice to the subject matter we decided to supplement our studies and research by sending each regional group a brief letter outlining the nature and scope of our investigations, and the information requested of them.After having followed up on this with telephone conversations, appointments, wherever possible, were made to meet and discuss their activities and collect all the pertinent information.The complexity of the structural aspect of these organizations is _ not to be underestimated.Our research has revealed approximately 250 Italian regional groups of the over 400 Italian organizations of all types present in the Greater Toronto Area.The varied nature of these organizations spans everything from professional, sport, religious, social welfare, to social, cultural, and recreational

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.758
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.289
Teacher spread0.262 · 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