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Record W4377260533 · doi:10.1515/9780773572003-004

Prologue

2004· book-chapter· en· W4377260533 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill-Queen's University Press eBooks · 2004
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrologueHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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PrologueTravellers in jetliners traversing the skies over Atlantic Canada today are pleased when even from afar they glimpse Prince Edward Island, a slender crescent of verdant land resting in the southern basin of the Gulf of St Lawrence.To the south, the Northumberland Strait separates the Island by at least nine miles from the mainland provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.Lobster and groundfish have abounded in these waters, and dairy farming and potato growing have prospered in the relatively mild climate and arable soil.Whereas maple, birch, pine, and spruce thickly forested much of the land in the early nineteenth century, today the gently rolling landscape shelters golden grainfields and green croplands, which contrast with the rust-red soil, the many sparkling bays and estuaries, the red sandstone cliffs, and the pink sandy shores.The Island is only a hundred and forty miles long and from four to forty miles wide.Each summer nearly one million visitors augment the 135,000 year-round residents who have spread over the three counties -Kings in the east, Queens in the centre, and Prince in the west.In both area and population, Prince Edward Island is Canada's smallest province.Nevertheless, studious excavators still find treasures galore in its cultural endowment.The aboriginal Mi'kmaq people (also spelled Micmac), who for centuries were the seasonal occupants, called the island Abegweit (pronounced Abahquit but may be spelled Epekwitk, meaning "lying parallel with the land," though often popularly translated as "cradled on the waves").French colonists in the early eighteenth century named it Île Saint-Jean.After their takeover in 1758, the British called it St John's Island until it was officially renamed in 1798 in honour of Edward, Duke of Kent, commander of British forces in North America (and the future father of Queen Victoria).In 1873 the colony became a province in the Canadian Confederation.Today's residents of Prince

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.329
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.6710.465

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.197
Teacher spread0.182 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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