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Record W596013841

Canadian International: The Making of One Transportation Company's Global Strategy

2007· article· en· W596013841 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueProgressive railroading · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicTransport and Economic Policies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTrainPort (circuit theory)Service (business)Investment (military)BusinessLogistics centerChinaExcellenceTelecommunicationsTransport engineeringEconomyFinanceEngineeringMarketingEconomicsGeographyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Canadian National Railway Co. is expanding its rail network and also adding new services such as freight forwarding and logistics to its business offerings. With its purchase in 1998 of Illinois Central Corp., it became the only rail network in North America to connect three coasts: the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Since then, it has expanded and improved its intermodal service with its Intermodal Excellence (IMX) program, which uses precision railroading, regularly scheduled trains that leave at predetermined times, to draw new customers. The ports of Vancouver, Halifax and Montreal and their connections to the U.S. Midwest are core territories for IMX. Now Canadian National has created CN Worldwide, which links the rail network to European and, more recently, Asian markets. CN now has offices in major Chinese port cities, with some 100 employees around the world in its supply chain/integrated transportation services company. It has also stepped up its investment in warehousing and transloading facilities with a new center at the new Port of Prince Rupert in Prince George, B.C.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.160
Threshold uncertainty score0.977

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.240 · 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