Summary of the Presentation at Southern Methodist University (SMU) November 8, 1997: Judicial Reform in the Americas
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The last few years have witnessed the beginning of a reinforcement of democratic processes and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean and, at the same time, a gradual but nevertheless strong transformation of state-run economies toward private enterprise and ownership and toward systems oriented to the market.On the other hand, the two richest and most industrialized countries of the Western Hemisphere, the United States and Canada, have changed their often contradictory policies and priorities, developed during the years of World War II and the cold war, and have begun to look to other aspects of their relationships with their southern neighbors, in which the protection of American and Canadian interests in the region is not the paramount objective of their economic policy, but a more comprehensive and long-term agenda looking for: the expansion of markets; the increase of the flow of trade, in both directions; the growth of private enterprise, both large and small, both national and foreign; the reduction of poverty; and the suppression of inequalities and injustice as a way of fighting terrorism, drug trafficking, and corruption, and as a long term road to strong and lasting democracies and growth.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.068 | 0.010 |
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".