Bibliographic record
Abstract
Barbara Bowman Shuh (1857-1937) was a religious leader amongst Ontario Mennonites at the turn of the twentieth century, exercising her gifts and abilities in both sanctioned and unconventional spheres of spiritual activity.When Mennonite women of Kitchener, Ontario, formally organized a sewing circle in 1908, officially called the Sister's Aid of the Berlin Mennonite Church, Barbara was elected as the first 'chairman' of the organization, which had as its purpose "to aid the poor and distressed, and to do general mission and charitable work."The initiative of the Kitchener women, alongside their counterparts in Waterloo who simultaneously formed the Waterloo Charity Circle, represented the beginning of Mennonite women's formal organizational work in Ontario.Recognized as a capable leader for this endeavour, Barbara was also well known as a midwife and one who had inherited the gift of charming, a traditional spiritual healing art, which she used primarily to treat bleeding, burns, and scalds. 1 Agatha Loewen Schmidt (1927-) was among thousands of Mennonite refugees who fled their homes in Ukraine during the Second World War, arriving in Canada with her mother and sisters in 1948.Having grown up during the Stalinist era, she had minimal experience of formal church life and, given the arrest and exile or death of almost all male ministers in their C H A P T E R T H R E E P r e a c h e r s , P r o p h e t s , a n d M i s s i o n a r i e s : Wo m e n i n t h e C h u r c h
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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".