Bibliographic record
Abstract
Francis Petrie (1920-1983) was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario and attended Maple Street School and Niagara Falls Collegiate and Vocational Institute (NFCVI) before briefly enrolling at Niagara University in Niagara Falls, N.Y., to study chemistry. He later worked at Cyanamid of Canada as a research technician at the Welland Plant, retiring in 1980. However, Petrie is best known for his love and knowledge of Niagara’s history. He wrote a regular column on local history for the Niagara Falls Review from 1961 until shortly before his death in 1983. In total, he wrote 1092 articles for the newspaper. In 1970 he was appointed the first official historian of the city of Niagara Falls. He also held many other offices, including first chairman of the Niagara Falls Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee, director of the Niagara Falls Board of Museums, and was a member of the historical advisory board of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, and Welland County Historical Society. Petrie also offered courses on local history to interested community members and taught in local high schools, as well as writing several historical publications. He acquired a vast collection of Niagara material, most of which can be found at the Niagara Falls Public Library in the Francis Petrie collection. In 1978, Petrie won the Murie Misty Award, given to a person who makes significant contributions in promoting Niagara Falls without being directly related to the tourism industry. In 1980, Petrie suffered a debilitating stroke which temporarily caused him to cease writing his regular columns, but with the help of his family he was able to resume writing. In May, 1983 he broke his hip and died on September 23, 1983. His last column was published on August 29, 1983.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.087 | 0.046 |
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".