Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recovering the stories from the field of the Quaker-sponsored relief organization commonly known as the China Convoy, from 1941 to 1951, took many unexpected turns in the six years from its conception to completion.It is based upon a diverse range of materials from public archival and pri vate papers held in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and New Zealand.Archivists at Canadian Quaker Yearly Meeting Archives (CQYMA) (Pickering, Ontario); the American Friends Service Committee Archives (AFSCA) and Haverford College (Philadelphia); Friends House London (the Library of the Religious Society of Friends) and the Imperial War Museum (London); the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre (Birmingham); and the National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library (Welland, New Zealand) made my research trips both more profitable and pleasurable.Don Davis at the AFSCA and Jane Zavitz-Bond at the CQYMA merit special thanks for encouraging and tolerating me during this project.The study's direction, however, was refined as a rich trove of untapped private sources informed its critical engagement with the scholarly conversations on humanitarian nursing's contested place within the wider global context.My family will attest that the process of unearthing new sources held by Convoy members or their families became somewhat addictive.What set this project apart was the generosity and trust exhibited by Convoy members and their descendants.They not only consented to be interviewed or to share private letters, diaries, and photos but also opened their homes to me on my research trips, or made connections with other Convoy members' descendants.There was a need to be attentive to the subjectivity of Convoy members in selecting what to record or how they reconstructed their involvement, as well as my own relationship with them; nonetheless, their diaries, memoirs, and letters and my own interviews enlivened, confirmed, or, at other times, corrected the portrait of events painted by official documents.They led to a deeper appreciation of how race, profession, gender, nation, culture, and
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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 | 0.004 | 0.021 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.272 | 0.136 |
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".