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The ecological knowledge of Belcher Island inuit : a traditional basis for contemporary wildlife co-management
Nakashima, D. J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis focuses upon the traditional ecological knowledge of southeastern Hudson Bay Inuit. It provides a detailed assessment of Inuit use and knowledge of a single species, the Hudson Bay Eider (Somateria mollissima sedentaria). Data collected on Inuit classifications of…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An intelligent CAD system for DC machines /
Zhu, Zongfan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents the development of an intelligent CAD system (ICADS) for DC machines. This system was implemented on a PC using Common Lisp provided by Gold Works II and connected with a Sun Workstation working under the Unix system…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The effects of prior knowledge and staging on the processing and comprehension of procedural text /
Roy, Marguerite Claire

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The present experiment was designed to investigate the effects of staging (the sequencing of information) and readers' prior content knowledge on the on-line processing and acquisition of procedural text information. An "expert model" of the procedure was used to manipulate…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The development, implementation and evaluation of a skill assessment instrument to evaluate expertise in defensive football /
Proudfoot, John A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of the study was to develop, implement and evaluate a skill assessment instrument to evaluate expertise in defensive football. The Skill Assessment Scale: Defensive Backs (SAS:DB) was based on a knowledge-based approach to sport expertise which emphasized the…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Food selection and preparation by a group of mildly mentally handicapped students
Meredith, Gaye

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Food choices, food purchases and convenience food preparation by a group of mildly intellectually handicapped students are investigated. These students attend John Grant High School, in Lachine, Quebec, for continued academic intervention and vocational training. Results indicate most of these…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The effects of concept mapping on prior knowledge and meaningful learning /
Gryspeerdt, Danielle

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Undergraduates' conceptual knowledge of important concepts in a Pre-historic Archaeology course was investigated with a pre-post open-ended test procedure. Students were randomly assigned to one of three levels of a concept mapping intervention. All students were given an introductory lecture…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Use of expert systems in the preliminary design of high voltage DC point-to-point transmission systems
Truong, Quoc-duy

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The present thesis is concerned with the development of an expert system for the preliminary design of point-to-point HVDC transmission systems, TRANSEPT-DC. This expert system module complements other expert system modules concerned with AC design, insulation coordination, and reliability, all…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Visual object processing in a case of category-specific agnosia
Decter, Matthew

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A single case study of a brain damaged patient with a category-specific visual agnosia for living things is described. The patient's deficit is manifested as a profound inability to identify, label or classify biological visual objects at the basic level.…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The role of metalinguistic knowledge and skill in comprehending, producing, and revising lexical and pronoun reference /
McAnaney, Donal F.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The relationship between metalinguistic and unassisted linguistic performance was investigated within a well defined framework of literacy tasks (comprehension, production and revision) and language structure (anaphoric reference). Metalinguistic performance was operationalized in terms of two constructs, metalinguistic knowledge about lexical…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Second-language text comprehension : knowledge and text type
Goyette, Els Spekkens

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to compare first- and second-language text comprehension across passage types., Results indicate that there was no main effect for language when the total texts were compared. In contrast, a large difference was found for…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Rural development programmes : their impact on women : a Bangladesh study
Halim, Sadeka

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Rural development is a serious problem in Bangladesh, and so is the situation of women. This thesis assesses the programmes offered by a particular non-governmental organization, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which simultaneously promote rural development and improve the…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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12.

Searching for ways to voice women's truths : a feminist interpretation of the Badgley report
Solari, Pauline

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study records an attempt to apply feminist epistemology to the conduct and communication of social science research, specifically of the Badgley Report. When I began, I wanted to understand why and how mainstream social science research persists in evading…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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13.

Reasoning about causality and treatment of childhood nutritional deficiencies in rural India : role of indigenous knowledge and practices
Sivaramakrishnan, Malathi

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examines the relative influence of traditional and biomedical theories of health and disease on the reasoning about childhood nutritional problems by mothers in rural South India. Mothers with different levels of schooling, traditional practitioners, and medical experts were…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

Professional and personal adaptation of returning Indian academics
Van Balkom, Wilhelmus Duffie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Indian academics leave India in large numbers to study or work abroad, primarily in the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Canada. Some subsequently return to India with new skills, knowledge, behaviour patterns, views and expectations., This study focuses, within the context…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

Value as part of reality : an internal realist response to non-cognitivism in ethics
François, Any Marie-Gérard

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The possibility of considering the ethical domain as cognitive is a principal concern of contemporary moral philosophy. Following an analysis of Hilary Putnam's internal realism, I discuss how our usual conceptions of truth and factuality should be modified in order…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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16.

Speaker-independent consonant classification with distinctive features
Flammia, Giovanni

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	We study the problem of classifying stop and nasal consonants in continuous speech independently of the speaker. We consider some acoustic parameters computed from the auditory spectrogram, and other parameters computed from the speech waveform. The classification algorithm uses a…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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17.

The political practice of home : the Bluest eye, Beloved, and feminist standpoint theory
Light, Susan A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The larger issue of the relationship between theory, fiction and experience provides the backdrop for a study of constructions of home in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved. Feminist standpoint theory contends that knowledge is socially and historically constructed.…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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18.

Standpoints : the dramaturgy of Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden
Graham, Catherine (Catherine Elizabeth)

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The political popular theatre which has developed in the West since the 1960s challenges the current hegemony in Western cultures by attacking its basic models of knowledge, yet little critical attention has been paid to the dramaturgies particular to this…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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19.

John Donne's Apocalypse
Holmes, Michael M. (Michael Morgan)

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis explores John Donne's vision of the Apocalypse as revealed by his religious poetry and prose. Donne believed himself to be alive in the last age of the world; however, he rejected historicist interpretations of the Apocalypse. Instead, he…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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20.

Hayim Zelig Slonimski and the founding of ha-Tsefirah : the early career of an East European Jewish enlightener and popularizer of science, 1810-1862
Sneh, Itai

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	There has been relatively little historical analysis of the life and work of Hayim Zelig Slonimski (1810-1904), the foremost popularizer of the sciences in the Eastern European Jewish Enlightenment movement. Initially inspired by the rationalist trend and discussion of scientific…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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21.

Artificial neural networks and their application to sequence recognition
Bengio, Yoshua

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis studies the introduction of a priori structure into the design of learning systems based on artificial neural networks applied to sequence recognition, in particular to phoneme recognition in continuous speech. Because we are interested in sequence analysis, algorithms…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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22.

The confessional and apologetic aspects of Gordon Kaufman's thought : an interpretation
Stoesz, Donald B.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Several contemporary theologians have maintained that the proper setting for Christian theology is an ecclesiastical one. The formation of character, the internalization of beliefs and values, and the representation of these principles and behavioural patterns in religious and political practices…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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23.

Independent and correlated properties in artifact and natural kind concepts
McRae, Ken, 1962-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The roles of independent and correlated properties in real world object concepts were explored. Property norms were collected for 190 natural kinds and artifacts. The norms were used to design behavioral experiments and computational models of concept similarity. Property intercorrelations…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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24.

Effects of observer's experience and skill level on learning and performance in motor skill modeling
Downey, Margaret J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Expertise effects on response acquisition (learning) and performance reproduction (performance) (Bandura, 1986) in dance observational learning were investigated. Over an acquisition period, forty university students with varied movement backgrounds observed dance demonstrations, arranged still photos to represent the dances, and…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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25.

The eye of the guest : Icelandic nationalist discourse and the whaling issue
Brydon, Anne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Icelandic government continues to campaign for regulated commercial whaling in its territorial water, and advocates the maintenance of this practice as part of what it terms the "rational management of the ocean ecosystem," despite international pressure for a termination…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

Reason and finality in Ibn Zakarīyāʾ al-Rāzī's philosophical works
Shaker, Asaad

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this study, the relationship between medical thought and philosophy is investigated through the works of the famous Islamic thinker, Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Zakariya al-Razi (ca. 250-323/864-935). In one of the texts we shall be examining Razi thought that…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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27.

Experimental investigation of the fatigue characteristics of silver loop interconnectors
Kosseim, Nadia M.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Thin silver interconnectors are used in the space communication industry to ensure electrical conductivity between neighbouring electronic modules. In order to accommodate a large range of strains, these interconnectors are manufactured with a stress-relief loop shape. The main goal of…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

Clinical case similarity and diagnostic reasoning in medicine
Arocha, José F. (José Francisco)

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis describes a study of novice problem solving in the domain of medicine. The study attempts to answer questions pertaining to the diagnostic accuracy, the generation and change of diagnostic hypotheses, and the use of clinical findings in the…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Gallium solvent extraction from sulphate solutions using organophosphoric acid reagents (D2EHPA, OPAP)
Mihaylov, Indje O. (Indje Ognianov)

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The subject of this work is gallium extraction from sulphate solutions--an additional source of this metal from hydrometallurgical zinc production--with organophosphorus acid reagents: di-2-ethyl hexyl phosphoric acid (D2EHPA) and OPAP, a mixed extractant consisting of mono- and di-octyl phenyl phosphoric…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

A Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Methods
Mataric, Maja

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper analyzes the suitability of reinforcement learning (RL) for both programming and adapting situated agents. We discuss two RL algorithms: Q-learning and the Bucket Brigade. We introduce a special case of the Bucket Brigade, and analyze and compare its…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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31.

Phase Space Navigator: Towards Automating Control Synthesis in Phase Spaces for Nonlinear Control Systems
Zhao, Feng

Formato:
Enlaces:	We develop a novel autonomous control synthesis strategy called Phase Space Navigator for the automatic synthesis of nonlinear control systems. The Phase Space Navigator generates global control laws by synthesizing flow shapes of dynamical systems and planning and navigating system…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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32.

Extracting and Representing Qualitative Behaviors of Complex Systems in Phase Spaces
Zhao, Feng

Formato:
Enlaces:	We develop a qualitative method for understanding and representing phase space structures of complex systems and demonstrate the method with a program, MAPS --- Modeler and Analyzer for Phase Spaces, using deep domain knowledge of dynamical system theory. Given a…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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33.

Techniques for the continuous measurement of melt temperature
Choi, Hyeon-Soo

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Continuous temperature measurement of molten steel in new as well as existing steelmaking processes is not always feasible with current technology. However, it is a well known fact that molten steel temperature, especially during the continuous casting operation, can have…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Retrieval of radiation budgets in the Arctic from satellite measurements
Li, Zhanqing

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study addresses the problems associated with each step of the process of retrieving radiation budgets at the top of atmosphere (TOA) and at the surface from satellite measurements in the Arctic. The data used are from the Earth Radiation…
Fecha:	1991
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Observations on Cognitive Judgments
McAllester, David

Formato:
Enlaces:	It is obvious to anyone familiar with the rules of the game of chess that a king on an empty board can reach every square. It is true, but not obvious, that a knight can reach every square. Why is…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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36.

Automatic Design of a Maglev Controller in State Space
Zhao, Feng - Thorton, Richard

Formato:
Enlaces:	We describe the automatic synthesis of a global nonlinear controller for stabilizing a magnetic levitation system. The synthesized control system can stabilize the maglev vehicle with large initial displacements from an equilibrium, and possesses a much larger operating region than…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
Recurso:	MIT

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37.

Breadth and depth of English vocabulary knowledge : which really matters in the academic reading performance of Chinese university students?
Huang, Hsing-Fei, 1979-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explored the relationship between vocabulary size (i.e., breadth of knowledge), depth of vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension of Chinese-speaking ESL (English as a second language) university students in Canada. Both aspects of vocabulary knowledge, breadth and depth, continue…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Moral experience and the moral problem
Beaulieu, Gerald Denis

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the relationship between moral experience and moral knowledge in contemporary analytic meta-ethics. It begins with a critical examination of the work of Michael Smith, notably his book The Moral Problem, which leaves out of consideration the notion…
Fecha:	2004
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

Sparse data estimation for knowledge processes
Lari, Kamran A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	During recent years, industry has increasingly focused on knowledge processes. Similar to traditional or manufacturing processes, knowledge processes need to be managed and controlled in order to provide the expected results for which they were designed. During the last decade,…
Fecha:	2004
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

The acquisition of coaching knowledge of a unique sample of expert team sport coaches /
Carter, Adam D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to identify how coaches who have surpassed their athletic achievements acquired their coaching knowledge. Six University coaches from basketball, volleyball, and hockey, with a combined total of fourteen coach of the year awards were…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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41.

Articulatory, perceptual, and phonological determinants of accurate production of s
Ohberg, Alyssa.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Children's speech sound errors may reflect deficits in acoustic-phonetic, articulatory-phonetic, or phonological knowledge of those sounds. The purpose of the current study was to explore the factors believed to contribute to accurate articulation of /s/ in children with typically developing…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The concept of ta'līm and tarbiyah in Mutahharī's thought /
Zolghadr, Khadijeh

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Due to the significance of education and upbringing in the individual and social life of human, these two subjects have received a great deal of attention from Muslim thinkers. The present work looks at Murtaḍa Mutahhari's (1920--1980) thought on these…
Fecha:	2004
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Religión, modernidad y globalización: otras formas de observar los saberes y prácticas médicas de indígenas tenejapanecos inmigrados a un contexto de diversidad médica y religiosa., Religion, modernity and globalization: other ways of observing the knowledge and medical practices of the tenejapaneco indians as immigrants in a cultural context of medical and religious diversity.
Magaña Ochoa, Jorge

Formato:
Enlaces:	, Salud mental y globalización, necesidad de una nueva etnopsiquiatría., Mental health and globalization, the need of a new ethnopsychiatry., Clarac de Briceño, Jacqueline, Religión, modernidad y globalización: otras formas de observar los saberes y prácticas médicas, de indígenas tenejapanecos…
Fecha:	2006-04-26
Recurso:	Universidad de los Andes Venezuela

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Conocimiento de la biología del venado de páramo (Mammalia, Cervidae, Odocoileus) por los campesinos de Los Andes de Mérida, Venezuela., The knowledge of the biology of the «Paramo Deer» (Mammalia, Cervidae, Odocoileus) by the andean countrymen of Merida.
Molina, Misael

Formato:
Enlaces:	, Salud mental y globalización, necesidad de una nueva etnopsiquiatría., Mental health and globalization, the need of a new ethnopsychiatry., Clarac de Briceño, Jacqueline, Religión, modernidad y globalización: otras formas de observar los saberes y prácticas médicas, de indígenas tenejapanecos…
Fecha:	2006-06-15
Recurso:	Universidad de los Andes Venezuela

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Relative Uncertainty and Additively Representable Set Rankings
BOSSERT, Walter - SLINKO, Arkadii

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This paper proposes a definition of relative uncertainty aversion for decision models under complete uncertainty. It is shown that, for a large class of decision rules characterized by a set of plausible axioms, the new criterion yields a complete ranking…
Fecha:	2006-09-22
Recurso:	Université de Montreal

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Boletín informativo., Informative bulletin.

Formato:
Enlaces:	, Salud mental y globalización, necesidad de una nueva etnopsiquiatría., Mental health and globalization, the need of a new ethnopsychiatry., Clarac de Briceño, Jacqueline, Religión, modernidad y globalización: otras formas de observar los saberes y prácticas médicas, de indígenas tenejapanecos…
Fecha:	2006-04-18
Recurso:	Universidad de los Andes Venezuela

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Recensiones., Review.

Formato:
Enlaces:	, Salud mental y globalización, necesidad de una nueva etnopsiquiatría., Mental health and globalization, the need of a new ethnopsychiatry., Clarac de Briceño, Jacqueline, Religión, modernidad y globalización: otras formas de observar los saberes y prácticas médicas, de indígenas tenejapanecos…
Fecha:	2006-04-18
Recurso:	Universidad de los Andes Venezuela

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Museos, saberes y diversidad cultural., Museums, knowledge and cultural diversity.
Galindo C., Luis Adrián

Formato:
Enlaces:	, Migraciones rurales andinas: un estudio a ambos lados de la frontera colombo-venezolana., Andean rural migrations: a study of both sides of the colombian-venezuelan frontier., Freire, Germán, Territorialidad conflictiva en la aldea de Horcáz-estado Mérida., Conflicting territoriality in the village…
Fecha:	2006-04-26
Recurso:	Universidad de los Andes Venezuela

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Rainforest fisheries : regional organization and household participation in the aquarium fish trade of the Peruvian Amazon
Moreau, Marie-Annick, 1976-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Conservation of the world's biodiversity is increasingly viewed as a development problem, requiring the alleviation of poverty together with the promotion of alternative livelihoods in resource-reliant communities. To be successful, such efforts must recognize the underlying logic of resource-users' livelihood…
Fecha:	2004
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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50.

Boletín informativo., Informative bulletin.

Formato:
Enlaces:	, Migraciones rurales andinas: un estudio a ambos lados de la frontera colombo-venezolana., Andean rural migrations: a study of both sides of the colombian-venezuelan frontier., Freire, Germán, Territorialidad conflictiva en la aldea de Horcáz-estado Mérida., Conflicting territoriality in the village…
Fecha:	2006-04-19
Recurso:	Universidad de los Andes Venezuela