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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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29.

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.

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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31.

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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32.

Potential hydrologic impacts from deforestation in the southwestern Amazon.
LIMA, L. S. - COE, M. - SOARES-FILHO, B. S. - CUADRA, S. V. - DIAS, L. C. P. - COSTA, M. H.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2012
Fecha:	2013-04-04
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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33.

A distributed storage system for use in the Multiuser Bioinformatic's Laboratory of Embrapa.
CINTRA, L.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The idea is to analyse the data to generate knowledge in biology, and to do that it is necessary a lot of storage space to data., 2012, X-MEETING 2012.
Fecha:	2013-01-28
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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34.

Integrated carbon and land management for poverty alleviation: a collaborative project funded under the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme.
BLACK, E. - VIDALE, P. L. - VERHOEF, A. - OSBORNE, T. - WADE, A. - CUADRA, S. V.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2012
Fecha:	2013-05-03
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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35.

Governance, sociotechnical systems and knowledge society: Challenges and reflections
Balloni, Antonio José - Bermejo, Paulo Henrique de Souza - Holm, Jeanne - Tonelli, Adriano Olimpio

Formato:	Artigo
Enlaces:	http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/governance-sociotechnical-systems-knowledge-society/66970
Fecha:	2013-08-30
Recurso:	Universidade Federal de Lavras - UFLA

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Natural occurrence of deoxynivalenol in wheat from Paraná State, Brazil and estimated daily intake by wheat products.
SANTOS, J. S. dos - SOUZA, T. M. - ONO, E. Y. S. - HASHIMOTO, E. H. - BASSOI, M. C. - MIRANDA, M. Z. de - ITANO, E. N. - KAWAMURA, O. - HIROOKA, E. Y.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The occurrence of deoxynivalenol (DON) was evaluated in 113 wheat samples from the northern and central/ southwestern regions of Paraná State, Brazil during the 2008 and 2009 growing seasons, and this rate of occurrence was used to estimate the DON…
Fecha:	2012-11-23
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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37.

Subtractive library of soybean roots in response to inoculation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum.
CARVALHO, G. A. B. de. - BATISTA, J. S. S. - MARCELINO, F. C. - HUNGRIA, M.

Formato:	Artigo de divulgação na mídia (INFOTECA-E)
Enlaces:	ABSTRACT: Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is the most important legume cropped worldwide, with an economic value attributed mainly to the high protein content of the grain, which, in turn, demands a heavy supply of nitrogen. An environmentally friendly source…
Fecha:	2013-01-15
Recurso:	Informação Tecnológica en Agricultura (Infoteca-e)

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38.

Breeding programs and availability of non-GM IP seeds for farmers in Brazil.
CATTELAN, A. J.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Embrapa is the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. It coordinates the national agricultural research system in Brazil and has for mission to provide solutions for the sustainable development of Brazilian agribusiness through knowledge and technology transfer. As such, it is involved…
Fecha:	2013-01-14
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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39.

Three essays on knowledge teams
Lee, Kyung Young

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In contemporary organizations, it is common to encounter teams that are formed to create novel outcomes and that are supported by Information Communication Technologies (ICT). These knowledge teams are also formed by members with diverse expertise, in order to create…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Building a Knowledge Management Model at Brazil's Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation): Towards a Knowledge-Based View of Organizations.
ALVARENGA NETO, R. C. D. de - VIEIRA, J. L. G.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…
Fecha:	2012-09-18
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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41.

The SpatialCIM methodology for spatial document coverage disambiguation and the entity recognition process aided by linguistic techniques.
VARGAS, R. N. P. - MOURA, M. F. - SPERANZA, E. A. - RODRIGUEZ, E. - REZENDE, S. O.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Abstract. Nowadays it is becoming more usual for users to take into account the geographical localization of the documents in the retrieval information process. However, the conventional retrieval information systems based on key-word matching do not consider which words can…
Fecha:	2013-02-06
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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42.

Soil organic matter regulating greenhouse gases in tropical and subtropical environments: a comparison between integrated crop-livestock and annual cropping systems.
BAYER, C. - DIECKOW, J. - ZANATTA, J. A.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Carbon and nitrogen cycles in grassland, annual cropping and integrated crop-livestock (ICL) systems control soil quality and regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of this study was to review the knowledge on driving factors controlling soil organic carbon (OC) accumulation…
Fecha:	2013-10-21
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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43.

Classifying and recommending knowledge in reference documentation to improve API usability
Chhetri, Yam

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reference documentation is an important source of information on API usage. Programmers, however, can easily overlook reference information because of its tedious nature, and because the information they seek can be buried among irrelevant or boiler-plate text. We propose to…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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44.

Cancer prevention and the human papillomavirus vaccine:psychosocial and behavioural factors involved in vaccination decision-making
Krawczyk, Andrea

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of the present thesis was to examine psychosocial and behavioural factors associated with the decision-making process involved in uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. In Canada, the HPV vaccine has been approved for women and men aged…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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B-boy (dance) cipher: an innovative knowledge community's shared activity
Lefebvre, Haidee

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	My study focuses on b-boying, the archetype of hiphop dance, to better understand the informal teaching and learning processes embodied in the freestyle or raw b-boy cipher (improvisational dance circle). I draw from an ethnographic approach to investigate how hiphop…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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46.

Generating process in adolescent sport participation: a knowledge translation plan bridging research and practice
Dunn, Steven James

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Knowledge translation (KT) has been referred to as "the methods for closing the gaps from knowledge to practice" (Straus, Tetroe & Graham, 2009). During the 2010-2011 academic year, a research project was conducted in the three high schools of the…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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47.

Food for elderly people considerations of ethnographic contributions
Almeida, Ivana Carneiro - Sette, Ricardo de Souza - Rezende, Daniel Carvalho de

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This study aims to investigate how elderly consumers narrate their experience of food consumption. Through a qualitative methodology of "ethnographic inspiration", the study sought to understand how a group of elderly people construct meanings of consumption within their particular worldview.…
Fecha:	2013-01-02
Recurso:	Universidade Federal de Lavras - UFLA

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Mobilizing Inuit knowledge: representation and institutional mediation in the era of global climate change
Johnson, Noor Jehan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the production and mobilization of Inuit knowledge in and beyond the Canadian Arctic in the context of climate change. Drawing on multi-scale, ethnographic research, it focuses in particular on the role of institutions, such as government departments…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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49.

Al-Qaeda and the American counterterrorism community: shifting practices, 1991-2013
DePoyster, Jonathan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines variation in the practices of al-Qaeda and the American counterterrorism community. It posits that the interaction of two permissive factors, background knowledge and relational structure, goes a long way in explaining shifts in the practices of both…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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50.

Towards improving knowledge management and collaborative action in potable water delivery at the local level: case of Buea, Cameroon
Folifac, Fidelis

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The promotion of stakeholders' dialogue and knowledge management at the local level has been heralded by academic researchers as an approach with the potential to address the global challenge of inadequate potable water delivery. However the current design and execution…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL