Papers and Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific Trade and Development Conference : Technology Transfer in Pacific Economic Development
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Abstract
The Sixth Pacific Trade and Development Conference was held in \nMexico City from 15 to 20 July, 1974 to search for a new objective \nfor the conference series. The first conference in this series \nwas held in Tokyo in January 1968 ; the second in Hawaii in January \n1969 ; the third in Sydney in August 1970; the fourth in Ottawa in \nOctober 1971; and the fifth again in Tokyo in January 1973. The \nconference started with a very simple premise. That is we people \nin the extended Pacific area, including Latin America and Asian developing \ncountries, should pay keen attention to economic devel opment \nand trade expansion among our neighbours who have huge potential \nfor future development. This potential has tended to be neglected \nin the past. Fortunately, since our conference series started, the Pacific trade and development studies have established their \ninfluence upon trade and development policies in the Pacific-Latin American-Asian region. \n \nWe held this year's Conference for the first time outside the \nmore advanced Pacific countries, in Mexico City, one of the most \nthriving centers in the less industrially developed nations. The \nPacific trade and development studies have always to search for a \nnew direction, especially in the present uncertainties in the international \nmonetary and trading system after the oil crisis. The \nnew direction should be the acceleration of modernization and industrialization \nof developing economies, including the oil producing \nareas. Technology transfer, foreign direct investment, trade, and \neven oil money will play a critical role if they are utilized appropriately. \nThis book contains the papers and, proceedings of the Sixth Conference, discussion at which focussed on those important \nissues. \n \n"The role of technology transfer in Pacific economic development," \nthe theme we chose for the Mexican conference, was a topic of wide \ninterest in Latin America and a large number of experts partici pated \nin the conference from various parts of that region. Unfortu~ \nnately the book was not able to include two or. three papers for either \nthey were written in Spanish or not presented to but came after the conference. Also we missed comments from some papers, and \nthe summary of discussion for all papers mainly due to language difficulties. \nWe have to apologize to those contr ibutors. However, all of them will be taken up in a Spanish- language version of this \nbook which will be published somewhat later by the Mexican Organizing \nCommittee. \n \nFinally, we are deeply grateful to all the participants, Consejo \nNacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia and El Colegio de Mexico who made \npossible the success of the conference. We are also indebted to \nthe Government and business circles in Mexico and the Asia Foundation \nfor their financial support to the conference.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.095 | 0.019 |
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".