Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book, to begin with, tells the story of Alexander Mclnnes (Mac) Runciman, a man who is best known as a former president of United Grain Growers (UGG).However, the book is more than Mac's story.It also provides an analysis of one of the most difficult public policy issues faced by the federal government, farmers, the grain industry, and the railways in the last half-century: the modernization of grain handling and transportation in western Canada over the 1960s and 1970s.Moreover, it chronicles a major paradigm shift in farm opinion in western Canada, in which the wisdom of maintaining the highly centralized and regulated grain marketing and transportation systems came under increasing criticism within the rural community.A word about each of these stories is in order, beginning with Mac's.Mac played his most prominent role in public life as the president of United Grain Growers from 1961 to 1981, and as an outstanding leader in western Canadian agriculture.However, he was much more than that, and others will remember him as a director of a number of major Canadian companies, as the founding president of the Rapeseed Association of Canada (now the Canola Council of Canada), as a former chair of the University of Manitoba Board of Governors, as an appointee to the Order of Canada, or as filling one of several prominent roles he played in Canadian affairs.Mac was born in Scotland in 1914, and emigrated to Canada when he was thirteen years old, in 1928.His family had farmed in Scotland and they took up holdings in Saskatchewan, not far from Balcarres, shortly after they arrived.Mac first farmed with his father and continued to live on the family farm until the war.However, in 1934, in addition to his responsibilities at home, he began to work, on his own, a quarter section that had been purchased by his grandfather for him (Mac) and six other grandchildren (his brother and sister and their cousins).In 1940, he joined the Canadian Army (Ordnance Corps) and served overseas until the spring of 1945.It was during the war that his leadership abilities began to emerge in a substantive way.He started his military career
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.574 | 0.394 |
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".