Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the conclusion of the War of 1812 the British navy needed to establish a new naval yard on the upper Great Lakes. Penetanguishene became the site for the main establishment, but its isolated location off of Georgian Bay necessitated a naval depot on Lake Erie where the British squadron was anticipated to spend much of its time. This paper examines the selection process resulting in choosing the mouth of the Grand River as the best location from among a less than optimum set of options for the naval dockyard. Elements such as depth of water, the ease of entering the space, what shelter from weather the land provided, the ease of fortifying the area, location of the navy yard along the shore and the site for ship building had to be considered. The convenience of the supporting supply line and its accessibility to enemy incursions were two further points in the decision-making exercise. The life of the naval establishment from conception through its closing in 1834 is described in light of British economic, military defence decisions, and British-American diplomatic agreements. À la fin de la guerre de 1812, la marine britannique devait établir un nouveau chantier naval sur la partie supérieure des Grands Lacs. Penetanguishene est devenu le site du principal établissement, mais son emplacement isolé au large de la baie Georgienne a nécessité un dépôt naval sur le lac Érié où l’escadron britannique devait passer la majeure partie de son temps. Cet article examine le processus de selection qui a abouti au choix de l’embouchure de la rivière Grand comme meilleur emplacement parmi un ensemble d’options loin d’être optimales pour le chantier naval. Des éléments tels que la profondeur de l’eau, la facilité d’accès à l’espace, l’abri offert par le terrain contre les intempéries, la facilité de fortification de la zone, l’emplacement du chantier naval le long du rivage et le site de construction navale devaient être pris en compte. La commodité de la ligne de ravitaillement de soutien et son accessibilité aux incursions ennemies étaient deux autres points de l’exercice de prise de décision. La vie de l’établissement naval, depuis sa conception jusqu’à sa fermeture en 1834, est décrite à la lumière des decisions britanniques en matière de défense économique, militaire et des accords diplomatiques anglo-américains.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.002 |
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".