Bibliographic record
Abstract
history. Beginning in the mid-1800s, it enjoyed local and non-local fame, alike, as an immensely popular summer destination. However, in the mid-twentieth century, the famous recreation and leisure site succumbed to the adverse effects of commercial sand and gravel mining. The practice had been taking place there throughout the 1940s until the early 1970s- prior to the beach’s protection under the province’s first Beaches Preservation and Protection Act (1967), in 1971, and even by provincial permit up until 1972. The negative impacts of extraction were vast – and the beach is still recovering today, under its current jurisdiction as municipal parkland. Observing this particular landscape thus brings past tensions to the forefront – most significantly, the competition between nineteenth and twentieth century notions of recreation and leisure, versus the environmental pressures of the resource extraction industry in Nova Scotia during the mid-twentieth century. Along with analyzing these trends and events, this thesis also examines the present significance of Silver Sands, as both a coveted coastal access point and as a heritage landmark. It does so by making use of a wide range of materials, within the realm of social and environmental history, geography, beach morphology, cultural studies and landscape studies. It also makes use of oral history, and includes an appendix of photographs and figures.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".