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Record W4378980926 · doi:10.32920/23276741

Urbanization in the North? An Examination of Urban Land Cover/Land Use Change in Nunavut

2023· preprint· en· W4378980926 on OpenAlexaffabout
Melanie MacDonald

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicIndigenous Studies and Ecology
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUrbanizationHuman settlementGeographyCensusLand coverLand useCover (algebra)PopulationPopulation growthPhysical geographyCartographyRegional scienceEconomic growthDemographyArchaeologyEcologySociology

Abstract

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This study examines population growth and artificial land cover change in Nunavut, Canada’s newest, largest, and northernmost territory. It provides a useful, repeatable methodological framework for identifying and analyzing urban change by analyzing GlobeLand30 (GLC30) data from 2000 and 2010. While previous studies have examined the accuracy of GLC30, this study uses the dataset for a regional analysis of a specific class of land cover/land use (i.e. artificial) in order to answer the question of whether or not urban growth is taking place. Results demonstrate that GLC30 data was useful in detecting the location of human settlements in Nunavut but not in measuring urban growth over time in absolute terms – combining land cover data with Census data was necessary to further examine the specific question of urbanization.

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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)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.068
Threshold uncertainty score0.136

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.145
GPT teacher head0.382
Teacher spread0.238 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2023
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