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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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Three-dimensional representations of video using knowledge based estimation
Holtzman, Henry Neil

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Henry Neil Holtzman., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).
Fecha:	2005-08-15
Recurso:	MIT

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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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11.

Contextural knowledge and the diffusion of the technology in construction
Brach, Ann M. (Ann Margaret), 1962-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Ann Margaret Bush., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-208).
Fecha:	2005-09-21
Recurso:	MIT

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Making "implicit" explicit--toward an account of implicit linguistic knowledge
Dwyer, Susan Jane

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Susan Jane Dwyer., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991., Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-289).
Fecha:	2005-09-21
Recurso:	MIT

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13.

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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14.

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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15.

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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16.

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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17.

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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18.

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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19.

Adolf Loos and theories of architecture and the practical arts in nineteenth century Austria and Germany
Schwarzer, Mitchell William

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This dissertation investigates changes that occurred in architectural culture in respect to conditions of modernity. Large-scale industrialization and urbanization caused dramatic ruptures with traditional social and economic hierarchies, forcing a reconceptualization of the theoretical constructs underlying architecture. During the course…
Fecha:	2005-09-21
Recurso:	MIT

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20.

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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21.

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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22.

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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23.

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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24.

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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25.

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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26.

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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27.

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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28.

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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29.

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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30.

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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31.

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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32.

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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33.

The Automatist Storytelling System : putting the editor's knowledge in software
Murtaugh, Michael Luke

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Michael Luke Murtaugh., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996., Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76).
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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34.

Roles of knowledge in motor learning
Atkeson, Christopher Granger

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Christopher Granger Atkeson., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitaker College of Health Sciences, Technology, and Management, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1986., MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCE, Bibliography: leaves 143-154.
Fecha:	2005-10-07
Recurso:	MIT

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35.

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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36.

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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37.

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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38.

Predicting the triple beta-spiral fold from primary sequence data
Scanlon, Eben Louis, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The Triple β-Spiral is a novel protein structure that plays a role in viral attachment and pathogenesis. At present, there are two Triple β-Spiral structures with solved crystallographic coordinates - one from Adenovirus and the other from Reovirus. There is…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
Recurso:	MIT

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39.

Dynamic power allocation and routing for satellite and wireless networks with time varying channels
Neely, Michael J. (Michael James), 1975-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Satellite and wireless networks operate over time varying channels that depend on attenuation conditions, power allocation decisions, and inter-channel interference. In order to reliably integrate these systems into a high speed data network and meet the increasing demand for high…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
Recurso:	MIT

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40.

Probabilistic risk analysis of restructured electric power systems : implications for reliability analysis and policies
Felder, Frank Andrew

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Modem society requires reliable and safe operation of its infrastructure. Policymakers believe that, in many industries, competitive markets and regulatory incentives will result in system performance superior to that under command-and-control regulation. Analytical techniques to evaluate the reliability and safety…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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41.

Computational comparative genomics : genes, regulation, evolution
Kamvysselis, Manolis, 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Understanding the biological signals encoded in a genome is a key challenge of computational biology. These signals are encoded in the four-nucleotide alphabet of DNA and are responsible for all molecular processes in the cell. In particular, the genome contains…
Fecha:	2005-08-24
Recurso:	MIT

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42.

Cognitive and neural correlates of memory retrieval in young and older adults
O'Kane, Gail, 1965-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) increased activity whenever recollection was attempted, independent of the level of recollection success. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that increased left-lateralized retrieval activity in older adults supports recollection attempt. Age deficits in semantic memory are more subtle…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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43.

Knowledge repair
Rao, Satyajit, 1965-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Satyajit Rao., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992., Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).
Fecha:	2005-08-15
Recurso:	MIT

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44.

A knowledge-based preprocessor for approximate joins in improperly designed transaction databases
Brodsky, Lloyd

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Lloyd Brodsky., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-210).
Fecha:	2005-08-10
Recurso:	MIT

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45.

Creating knowledge in a geographically dispersed context : process and moderating variables
Assudani, Rashmi H.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Increasingly, knowledge-based tasks such as new product development and market research are being conducted by geographically dispersed teams. Early evidence from knowledge-based view of the firm and geographically dispersed work literatures suggests that at least four kinds of knowledge gaps---transactive…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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46.

Knowledge selection, mapping and transfer in artificial neural networks
Thivierge, Jean-Philippe.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Knowledge-based Cascade-correlation is a neural network algorithm that combines inductive learning and knowledge transfer (Shultz & Rivest, 2001). In the present thesis, this algorithm is tested on several real-world and artificial problems, and extended in several ways. The first extension…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowing about not knowing : a cognitive view of mathematics anxiety, Cognition and mathematics anxiety
Franz, Erika Katharina Elizabeth.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In order to close the gap that exists between the research areas of mathematics anxiety and mathematics learning, this study examined cognitive, metacognitive, and affective aspects of mathematics anxiety as well as students' mathematics performance and competence. One hundred and…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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48.

A nonlinear analysis for clean and noisy speech
Rouat, J.; Dept. des Sci. Appliquees, Quebec Univ., Chicoutimi, Que., Canada - Yong, Chun Liu; Dept. des Sci. Appliquees, Quebec Univ., Chicoutimi, Que., Canada - Lemieux, S.; Dept. des Sci. Appliquees, Quebec Univ., Chicoutimi, Que., Canada

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, Conference Proceedings, Actes de congrès
Enlaces:	The research in speech analysis is recognized to be an important aspect in the area of speech processing, with applications in speech coding, speech recognition, etc. Depending on the application, the speech analyzer has to extract the most appropriate parameters.…
Fecha:	1991-09-01
Recurso:	Canadian Acoustics

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49.

Collaborative GIS process modelling using the Delphi method, systems theory and the unified modelling language (UML)
Balram, Shivanand

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Efforts to resolve environmental planning and decision-making conflicts usually focus on participant involvement, mutual understanding of the problem situation, evaluation criteria identification, data availability, and potential alternative solutions. However, as the alternatives become less distinct and participant values more diverse,…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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50.

Argument Evaluation Contest Results
Adler, Jonathan E.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, research-article,
Enlaces:	In Vol. XI, No.1, this journal announced an argument analysis contest. Two eminent colleagues agreed to serve as judges-Professor Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. and Professor Michael Scriven. In short order, four entries were received and sent off to the judges,…
Fecha:	1991-01-01
Recurso:	Informal logic