Bibliographic record
Abstract
The post is the vector for and expression of myriad interactions which shape the sinews of modern and contemporary globalizations. Administrative and commercial correspondence, tourist postcards, migrants’ letters and money orders, parcels with licit and illicit content: though relatively neglected in comparison with telecommunication in the historiography of global communication, these postal communications do more than simply reflect the administration of distant territories, commerce, tourism, and planetary migrations. They shape and are reciprocally shaped by these factors. This perspective sees the emergence of postal global governance as crucial, through the founding of the General Postal Union in 1874, which became the Universal Postal Union in 1878. A specialized agency of the United Nations since 1947, the mission of this international organization is to forge “a single postal territory” of standards, tariffs, and regulations. At the same time, the organization offers its members a space to construct sovereignty in an age of interdependence. Postalizing globalization and, conversely, globalizing national posts: these are the two main contributions of this special issue on postal traffics in a global history perspective.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.285 | 0.070 |
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".