Bibliographic record
Abstract
As we all know, the Prime Minister and other G8 leaders have stated their intention of devoting particular attention to the problems of Africa in their forthcoming meeting in Canada.To place our discussions of Canadian foreign policy in Africa within some context, let me begin by calling attention to at least four other particularly significant international meetings this year, the outcome of each of which is highly relevant to Africa's future.The G8 Summit is not the only meeting that matters.Let me also draw attention to two significant recently launched African initiatives, one widely known, the other not.On the international diplomatic front, first, let me highlight:1) the UN Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in March, in Monterrey, Mexico.This conference will address the means of financing, both domestically and internationally, the achievement by the year 2015 of the agreed development goals of the UN Millennium Summit Declaration.These goals include the halving of the proportion of the world's population living in extreme poverty, without adequate food, nutrition or access to safe drinking water; universal primary education and gender equality in education; a 3/4 decline in maternal mortality and 2/3 decline in mortality for children under five; halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, with special assistance for AIDS orphans; and improved lives for 100 million people who dwell in urban slums.(It is widely recognized by now that, even in the best of circumstances, these targets are unlikely to be met in sub-Saharan Africa.)Thisconference marks the first occasion when the UN has enlisted the full cooperation of the international financial institutions (the IMF and the World Bank) in a financial initiative led by the UN itself.While the preparatory process for the conference has been disappointing so far, all is not yet lost.In any case, the precedent of UN leadership in financial affairs is important in itself.2) The UN Summit Conference on Children, in May, to review progress towards the agreements reached at the unique and remarkable Children's Summit, held at the UN in 1991, ten years later.(This was to be held in New York last September but other events forced its last-minute postponement.)Progress has been made.Only two UN members have still failed to ratify its Convention on the Rights of the Child -Somalia and the U.S.A.But much more remains to be done to translate rhetoric into reality for the world's children.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.145 | 0.049 |
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".