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Record W7112832655

Baptism of Fire : Regarding five men within the Canadian army and their experiences on the western front of the First World War

2022· article· sv· W7112832655 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueJonkoping University Library (Jönköping University) · 2022
Typearticle
Languagesv
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWorld Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBaptismFirst world warFront (military)Relation (database)World War IIContent analysisPeriod (music)Point (geometry)
DOInot available

Abstract

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The main purpose of this study was to bring history to life in order to contribute to a greater understanding of historical characters. Being able to relate to historical individuals will greatly increase student's interests in relation to the subject, and thereby their knowledge. This is one of the main struggles amongst history teachers, which would make a study like this significant in regards to history as a school subject. This was done by analyzing personal documents belonging to five individuals of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One. These documents consisted of seventeen letters which were sent from the western front to the families of these five men. The process of gathering these letters also made sure to involve letters sent from the beginning and end of the particular soldier's war. The analysis was comprised of three main questions which were answered and eventually contributed to the fulfillment of the main purpose. The three questions were as follows. What did these servicemen choose to involve in the letters to their families? Why did they choose to involve this particular content? How was the initial content changed in comparison to the latter? The letters were examined using a qualitative content analysis which made it possible to identify three main themes of content, and thereby answering the first question. The why and how question however, required the use of a theoretical starting point and some previous research. Sigmund Freud's theory about the so called death drive proved to be an intriguing jumping-off point to these questions. Not only did it provide the study with the conclusion that soldiers are driven by a will to live, and being reunited with their families. It also implied that the procedure of reaching this goal might result in the desire of inflicting harm upon others, although in a non-personal way. The analysis came to the conclusion that letters are a good way to bring history to life, which were strengthened by the small details in each letter. This study can also function as a template for future studies, meaning that the backbone of this study can be applied to any theatre of war which contains a correspondence between family and soldier.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.518
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.171
Teacher spread0.160 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it