Market review: Sic Transit Gloria Dux
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The beginningIn the third quarter of 1987 simultaneous announcements in Sweden and Switzerland made public the news that an agreement had been concluded which would see the merger of Asea AB and BBC Brown Boveri Ltd to form the new company ABB.Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland each parent company held 50 percent of the new company and operations began on January 5, 1988.Over the next two years ABB acquired about 55 companies. Sic Transit Gloria Duxthe demand in emerging markets for new infrastructure drove expansion through internal growth acquisitions and majority joint ventures.In Asia, ABB now had 30,000 employees and 100 plants, engineering, service and marketing centres.ABB also completed the merger at Board level in 1996 with the integration of its parent companies' Boards into the ABB Group Board.Continuing with its expansion plans, ABB purchased Elsag Bailey, a process automation group, in 1997 which included Some of the major events are as follows:In 1990, ABB purchased Westinghouse's metering and control business Also, in the early 1990s, ABB purchased Combustion Engineering (C-E) 1994 saw ABB emerge from a twoyear consolidation phase to begin new volume and profit growth.The company concentrated on the fast-growing service markets in Western Europe and North America.Through the mid 1990' s
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.074 | 0.061 |
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".