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Record W51447881 · doi:10.4324/9780429045264-6

The U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan Mineral Resources

2019· article· en· W51447881 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John F. Shroder

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAfghanSoviet unionMineral resource classificationPolitical scienceSubsidyGeologyLawPoliticsGeochemistry

Abstract

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Afghanistan is a geological complex in which plentiful minerals and fuels were formed. During the last 100 years, geologists from Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and the United States explored that country and produced many excellent reports and maps. Real progress in a systematic analysis of Afghanistan&s;s natural resources, however, was not made until the intensive efforts of the U.S.S.R. in the past two decades. By diplomatic and economic maneuvers, the Soviets took control of Afghanistan&s;s nascent hydrocarbon industry during the 1960s. After the Daoud coup of 1973, the Russians and their Afghan supporters replaced pro-Western technical advisors, made all geological reports and maps state secrets, and hampered Western-linked development projects. By 1977, intensive field investigations by numerous Russian geologists led to the discovery of hundreds of mineral deposits, occurrences, or shows---as well as several excellent petroleum prospects. Many have claimed that Afghanistan is poor in natural resources; this conclusion is incorrect. Total Russian aid to that country since 1955 has been $1.3 billion, and in 1979, some $652 million was committed to mineral-resource exploration and development. The present Russian military occupation of Afghanistan is partially subsidized with Afghanistan resources. Resource acquisition by the U.S.S.R. in Afghanistan is thus a most important factor in the world mineral situation today.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.216
Threshold uncertainty score0.430

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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Published2019
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