Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Case of Twelve by Julia Gedeon-Matusky is a fictional coming-of-age story that explores the challenges facing a teenaged boy and his Slovak-Canadian family during the politically and socially tumultuous period in Quebec from 1964 to 1967. The family struggles financially and personally as it witnesses its Slovak immigrant community dissipate into the anonymity of the larger society. The members ofthe Danco family resist adapting to an increasingly French milieu within Montreal because they consider themselves part of English Canada rather than Quebec. They become pitted against the frustration, anger and occasionally violent actions of some Quebecois who feel their French language, culture and business opportunities continue to be thwarted by the predominantly English business elite. The novel also relates how various ethnic cultures intersect daily within an increasingly cosmopolitan Montreal as the city prepares to welcome the world at Expo '67. At the same time, it conveys some of the prejudices that were alive and well against women, divorced parents, people with disabilities, homosexuals, and the hippie culture then coming into vogue. Marek Danco filters all these experiences as a 13-to-15-year-old boy who is striving to attain his personal space and freedom as well as sexual experience, all while trying to figure who might have abused a little girl who he helps to rescue from a manhole.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| 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".