Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scattered across the globe, some 350,000 Low German Mennonites speak their own language, called Plautdietsch, and adhere to a unique faith-based lifestyle.All are Anabaptists and many are descended from the Old Colony Mennonites who emigrated from Russia during the late nineteenth century to settle in Canada.In the 1920s, many moved on, leaving Canada to establish new homes, predominantly in Mexico.This group is the subject of Judith Kulig's research.A well-known researcher of rural health issues, she has devoted some twenty years of her academic career to studying Low German (LG) Mennonites, with the intent of providing valuable information to both the Low German community and those who interact with it in a variety of professional and personal capacities.Her various studies, which are documented in this book, entailed visiting and interviewing hundreds of LG Men nonites.Her research focuses on their religious beliefs and practices as they relate to health and illness.Since 1995, Judith has travelled ex tensively and made many presentations to caregivers, health practitioners, and interest groups.Her research has met the challenge of gaining access to a distinct group that has traditionally preferred to isolate itself from the rest of society.Judith has been persistent in the pursuit of better health care for LG Mennonites -care based on the findings of her field research.Her work demonstrates LG Mennonites' resiliency in addressing health x Foreword issues after they gain access to and understanding of the available health options.With its abundance of well-documented research, this book provides a deeper understanding of the Low German Mennonite community.Practitioners who care for members of this group will find it an invaluable resource.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.696 | 0.650 |
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".