Life in the Industrial North of England (1700 – 1850) as seen through Human Dental Calculus: \nA Tale of Two Cities
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis investigates living conditions and health during the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) in two industrial towns in the north of England, Manchester and Halifax, through the medium of human dental calculus. This research employs established methods of micro-debris analysis, observed in dental calculus, in conjunction with skeletal analysis, comparison with other contemporary skeletal populations, and historical documentation. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of debris trapped in the mouths of individuals allows for direct observation of particles ingested by the individual, a pseudo in situ observation which compliments and enhances understanding of the lived experience in the past. Unexpected direct observation of food adulterants and fungal evidence of substandard housing and food storage reveals the extent of pervasive adulteration and low hygiene levels in all types of housing. Skeletal analyses and dietary documentation confirm the poor state of health for all socio-economic levels, but also reveals that residents of Halifax were healthier than all contemporary populations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 it