SASKATCHEWAN STATE OF TRADE Prepared by:
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Abstract
Saskatchewan’s current state of trade has largely been influenced by recent major global transitions, including the occurrence of the recent economic downturn, the rise of emerging and transition economies as major players in the world economy and price fluctuations experienced by major commodities. In 2010, Saskatchewan exported $24.2 billion worth of goods to international markets. Recent growth in exports is fairly consistent with export growth over the last ten years. However in 2008, Saskatchewan prospered with record setting trade activity, with exports reaching a staggering $29.6 billion. Buoyed by increases in the prices of major commodities, including record prices in potash, uranium and among several major agri‐food commodities, Saskatchewan exports and exporters benefitted from record sales levels. While this boom (2008) is analysed throughout the report, the figures over the last two years should not be overlooked as they are more indicative of long‐term trends ‐ trends built off of Saskatchewan’s natural advantages and the mentioned major global transitions. The recent economic downturn demonstrated the importance of the United States market for Saskatchewan exports. Emerging markets, such as China and India, quickly moved up the ranks and took their place as major export markets for Saskatchewan products. Beyond these two emerging giants, other emerging markets demonstrated their appetite for Saskatchewan products. Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as the Common Wealth of Independent States (CIS) and Middle East & North Africa (MENA) regions are quickly becoming important markets for Saskatchewan. While exports to most markets around the world receded from the boom in activity in 2008 to more normal levels in
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.503 | 0.273 |
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".