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Record W7131630743 · doi:10.1163/18253911-bja10172

A Most Useful Man

2025· article· W7131630743 on OpenAlexaffabout
Victoria J.L. Fisher

Bibliographic record

VenueNuncius · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTwentieth Century Scientific Developments
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGovernment (linguistics)PoliticsWorld War IIScientific instrumentFirst world war

Abstract

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Abstract The emergence of university physics research in Canada in the 1920s was closely linked to the emergence and development of on-site workshops staffed by skilled scientific instrument makers to make instruments for research. Social and political changes in the First World War triggered increased government and societal interest in research. Canadian proponents of research recognized that on-site workshops and highly skilled scientific instrument makers were a crucial component of competitive research programs and sought to acquire these by developing department workshops and ‘importing’ European makers with the necessary experience. Using Queen’s University’s physics’ department as a case study and featuring surviving material objects that were produced in university workshops across Canada, this paper examines the roles of onsite workshops and unearths the contributions of instrument makers in Canadian research in the interwar period.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.148
Threshold uncertainty score0.495

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.006
Scholarly communication0.0080.007
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1480.072

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.216 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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