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Procedural and declarative knowledge of ball-catching in children with physical disabilities, Knowledge of ball-catching in children with physical disabilities
Kourtessis, Thomas

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It was hypothesized that children with physical disabilities would show a deficit in procedural and declarative knowledge of ball catching compared to age-matched non-disabled children. The first group of children consisted of sixteen children with physical disabilities, three girls and…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowledge, attitudes and behavior of Cree secondary school students in relation to AIDS
Corbeil, Sylvie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The high rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies among the Cree adolescents indicate that this population frequently engages in unprotected sexual activities. AIDS is a critical health problem worldwide and AIDS contamination within a Cree community could be…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Bringing home methylmercury : the construction of an authoritative object of knowledge for a Cree community in Northern Quebec
Scott, Richard T. (Richard Tolchard)

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis examines aspects of the construction of methylmercury as an authoritative object of knowledge for Chisasibi, a Cree community on the James Bay coast in northern Quebec. I describe the evolution of a particular set of spheres of exchange…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The educational thought of Al-Ghazālī : theory and practice
Asari, Hasan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis tries to bring together al-Ghazali's thoughts about different aspects of education, scattered in numbers of works of different kinds and aims at presenting his educational theory in its complete picture. His life, his intellectual career, his mental crises,…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowledge, understanding, and attitudes of family planning by Iranian males
Tavakoli, Reza

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Rapid population growth is now one of the biggest socio-economic and consequently, health problems in the world. The significance of this dramatic increase in population becomes apparent when the limited possibilities of socio-economic growth are considered among developing countries. The…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The method of Muslim learning as illustrated in al-Zarnūjī's Taʻlīm al-Mutaʻallim Ṭarīq al-Taʻallum /
Afandi, Mochtar

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	By combining a descriptive meihod with a comparative one, this thesis attempts to understand the ideas of method of Muslim learning as illustrated in a medieval Muslim treatise, Ta'lim al-Muta'allim Tariq al-Ta'allum (Instruction of the Student: the Method of Learning),…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Household decision-making : the adoption of agricultural technologies in Ethiopia
Kebede, Yohannes

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Technology adoption has been seen as key to the development of more productive agriculture in lesser developed countries. But the adoption and adaptation of new agricultural technology occurs at the level of farm families where decisions are made based on…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A rule-based system for vital sign monitoring in intensive care
Hosseinzadeh, Abolfazl

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The implementation of a knowledge-based expert system to check on inpatients' conditions is described. In our development of a bedside computerized ICU, graphical user interface (GUI) and graphical visualization have been extensively exploited to facilitate the natural and effective representation…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Disturbing (dis)positions : interdisciplinary perspectives on emotion, identification, and the authority of fantasy in theories of reading performance, Disturbing dispositions
Biggs, Karen L. Holland, 1953-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis is about a problem of interest to reading theorists, psychological anthropologists and cultural studies researchers alike: why we find some narratives, plots, and images compelling and what this phenomenon can tell us about the cultural bases of human…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Health locus of control and HIV : a study of beliefs, attitudes, and high-risk behaviours among homosexual men attending a general medical clinic
Deitcher, Rebecca Ulman

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains an epidemic illness with no known cure. Survival time after infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has been lengthened considerably. Rates of new infection among the at-risk male homosexual populations have decreased. Prevention is…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Geometry, kinematics, and computer simulations of thrust faulting, central Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta
Lebel, Daniel

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the central Canadian Rocky Mountain thrust-fold belt, three types of first order decollements are outlined within or along the border of the present orogenic wedge: one basal decollement, three intermediate or internal decollements and one upper decollement. Structural relationships…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Learnability and the lexicon in second language acquisition : Chinese learners' acquisition of English argument structure
Juffs, Alan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates the knowledge of semantics-syntax correspondences in second language acquisition (SLA) within the Principles and Parameters framework. A parameter of semantic structure is proposed to account for crosslinguistic syntactic differences between two previously unrelated, and superficially distinct, verb…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Gender differences in teachers' interactions with students from disrupted families : a case study of language arts and mathematics teachers in an urban high school
Lo, Elsa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explores gender differences in the ways teachers interact with high school students from disrupted families. Four language arts teachers and five mathematics teachers from an urban high school in Montreal, Quebec were interviewed and observed in their classroom…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Evaluation and implementation of an automated blood sampling system for positron emission tomographic studies
Vafaee, Manouchehr S.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Quantification of physiological functions with positron emission tomography requires knowledge of the arterial radioactivity concentration. Automated blood sampling systems increase the accuracy of this measurement, particularly for short-lived tracers such as oxygen-15, by reducing the sampling interval to a fraction…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An evaluation and comparison of software process engineering support environments and tools /
Toubache, Kamel

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis proposes the evaluation and comparison of software process engineering support tools and environments. The two dimensions our work focuses on are the goals pursued when processes are engineered, and the roles, related to software processes, played in a…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Improved learning strategies for small vocabulary automatic speech recognition
Cardin, Régis

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	There are basically three areas which can be explored to improve an HMM based recognizer, namely, parameter extraction, training methods and vocabulary representation., The goal of parameter extraction is not only to find a compact and robust parametric representation of…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The concept of pleasure propounded by Nāşir-i Khusraw /
Abbas Hunzai, Ghulam

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study is intended to investigate the concept of pleasure as developed by Nasir-i Khusraw, a prominent Isma'ili philosopher and theologian of the fifth century hijrah. This concept seems to be one of the central themes of Nasir's thought system.,…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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"Prostitution", "risk", and "responsibility" : paradigms of AIDS prevention and women's identities in Thika, Kenya, Paradigms of AIDS prevention and women's identities in Thika, Kenya.
Kielmann, Karina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The focus of this thesis is an AIDS education programme targeting prostitutes in the industrial town of Thika, Kenya. The thesis challenges three key assumptions underlying the programme, namely: (1) prostitutes in Kenya form a readily identifiable, homogenous social category;…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Theory of mind and deliberate rule use in individuals with Down syndrome
Benedetto, Elizabeth-Anne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The goal of this study was to examine theory of mind and deliberate rule use in children with Down syndrome as compared to children of normal intelligence. Theory of mind was defined as the ability to understand that other people…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Universal grammar and second language acquisition : the effect of modality of presentation on a grammaticality judgment task
Murphy, Victoria A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Typical experiments investigating the accessibility and/or role of principles of Universal Grammar (UG) in adult second language acquisition (SLA) use a written grammaticality judgment (GJ) task to infer knowledge of principles of UG. The present investigation examined whether subjects would…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An investigation of the instructional role of communication technologies in distance education /
Rogerson, Marie-Hélène

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this study, two courses from the McGill Distance Education program with very different learning goals were examined to investigate the instructional role of two communication technologies (i.e., fax and e-mail) in distance education. The data set included verbatim e-mail…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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the Concept of Pleasure Propounded by Nasir-I Khusraw.
Hunzai, Ghulam Abbas.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study is intended to investigate the concept of pleasure as developed by Nasir-i Khusraw, a prominent Isma'ili philosopher and theologian of the fifth century hijrah. This concept seems to be one of the central themes of Nasir's thought system.…
Fecha:	1993.
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Dynamic transformation of austenite to ferrite in low carbon steel
Pandi, Rassoul

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The design of thermomechanical processing schedules to control microstructures requires the knowledge of the austenite-to-ferrite transformation start temperature (Ar$ sb3$). Further, in curved mold continuous casting, transverse cracking occurs during the unbending procedure to straighten the solidified curved strand, and…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Persistent proliferation of smooth muscle cells cultured from rabbit aorta following endothelial injury accompanied by enhanced biosynthesis of proteoglycan and collagen
Li, Zhihe.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation in response to injury leads to the development of a neointima, which resembles, in many aspects, atherosclerotic lesions. Studies on experimental atherosclerosis have highlighted the role of SMC in atherogenesis. To gain further knowledge on…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Second language acquisition of reflexive binding by native speakers of Serbo-Croatian
Bennett, Susan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the role of transfer of first (L1) language properties and access to knowledge of Universal Grammar in second language (L2) acquisition. Two empirical components are included: a study of the syntax of anaphora in Serbo-Croatian and an…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Flow of liquid-solid mixtures down inclined chutes
Malekzadeh, Mohammad Jafar e

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The ability to model and predict debris flows, mudflows and sediment transport is currently hindered by a poor understanding of the fundamental aspects of solid-liquid flows. The present work attempts to further our knowledge through experimental studies of flows of…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Using, reusing and describing object-oriented frameworks
Lajoie, Richard

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Software reuse is concerned with capturing software components in some form and then applying them to the construction of another application. The ultimate goals of software reuse are: to improve the quality of software produced; reduce the costs of software…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Hyperlipidemia post heart transplantation
Schafer, Donna

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Hyperlipidemia is prevalent following heart transplantation, and may play a role in the development of late graft atherosclerosis. The charts of 35 heart transplant recipients (n = 32 males and 3 females) were reviewed retrospectively up until three years post…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Mechanizing dynamic security analysis
Marceau, Richard J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The object of software frameworks is to mechanize human processes in order to accomplish high-level tasks that call upon diverse software tools. This thesis describes the ELISA framework prototype which performs power-system dynamic security analysis in the operations planning environment.…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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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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Making effective use of international personnel.
ALVES, E. R. de A. - YEGANIANTZ, L.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Existence of knowledge and technology backlog; Difficulties of technology transfer; International institution building specialists; International problem solving specialists., 1983
Fecha:	1993-06-25
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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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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The knowledge of elite level coaches of swimmers with a physical disability /
Cregan, Kerry

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The last decade has seen an increase in empirical research pertaining to coaching science and education. A great deal of research has focused on coaches of elite able-bodied athletes, while coaches of athletes with a disability have generally been overlooked.…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The role of frontal oculomotor structures in the predictive control of eye movements /
Gagnon, Danny

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The role of the FEF/FPA and SEF in oculomotor prediction was investigated using psychophysics, functional MRI (fMRI) and TMS. The separate contribution of advance knowledge of target direction and target timing to predictive saccades, and neural activity in frontal oculomotor…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Data mining with relational database management systems
Zou, Beibei, 1974-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	With the increasing demands of transforming raw data into information and knowledge, data mining becomes an important field to the discovery of useful information and hidden patterns in huge datasets. Both machine learning and database research have made major contributions…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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More robust security specifications for 1 out of 2 Oblivious Transfer
Ahsan, Abdul Hannan.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An 1 out of 2 Oblivious Transfer (( 21 )-OT) is a two-party computation in which a sender A owning two secret bits b0, b 1 can transfer one to them, bc, to receiver Bob who chooses c. This is…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Canadian psychiatrists' current attitudes, practices, and knowledge related to fitness-to-drive in persons with mental illness
Ménard, Ingrid.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Mental illness is characterized by alterations in thinking, mood and behavior and is associated with significant distress and impaired functioning. Many mental illnesses and medications used in their treatment, can in some way impair fitness-to-drive., This thesis comprises two independent…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The typical developmental trajectory of early numerical concepts : the relationship between approximate arithmetic and nonverbal intelligence across childhood, Typical trajectory of early number concepts
Ostfield, Danielle.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The developmental trajectory of basic numerical skills and sequential processing was systematically investigated among a sample of 5 to 11-year-old typically developing boys. Performance was defined in terms of reaction times and error rates during novel computerized tasks that measured…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Production of conjugated linoleic acid and conjugated linolenic acid by Bifidobacterium breve JKL03 and its application
Jung, Yun-Kyoung, 1979-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is predominantly found in foods of ruminant origin such as milk and processed cheese, and has gained much interest recently due to its beneficial health and biological effects on animals and humans., The bioconversion of linoleic…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Who manages home garden agrobiodiversity? : patterns of species distribution, planting material flow and knowledge transmission along the Corrientes River of the Peruvian Amazon
Perrault-Archambault, Mathilde

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Agrobiodiversity constitutes an essential resource for traditional rural populations. Home gardens are "hotspots" of agrobiodiversity and important loci of in situ conservation efforts. This study seeks to understand the factors affecting gardeners' choices and to assess the accessibility of planting…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Theoretical orientations to reading and instructional practices of eleven grade five teachers
Elliott-Johns, Susan E.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explores the nature of teachers' understandings of theoretical orientation to reading and the relationships between theoretical orientations to reading and instructional practice. The participants were eleven Grade Five classroom teachers, seven female and four male, in one particular…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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44.

Data mining using relational database management system
Ma, Xuesong, 1975-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	With the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent demands to transform the raw data into useful information and knowledge, data mining has become an important research field both in the database area and the machine learning…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Drawing inferences : drawing, discourse, and spatio-motor representation in an animation storyboarding activity
Blatter, Janet

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A case study of collaborative storyboarding in an animation studio grounded this investigation of visual discourse---discourse about and with visual displays. The focus was on a problem occurring during a 40-minute task between the head storyboard artist and his junior…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Running out of place : the language and architecture of Lewis Carroll
Dionne, Caroline

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examines the links between architecture and literature through the work of English author/mathematician/geometrician Lewis Carroll/Charles L. Dodgson. The premise is that throughout Carroll's work, questions concerning the position of the body in relation to its surroundings---the possibility for…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Bioinformatic approaches to the discovery of apoptotic proteins
Acoca, Stephane

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The core of this research project revolves around the development of knowledge and expertise in the field of sequence homology identification techniques, as applied towards the discovery of Bcl2 family members. The use of such methods resulted in the uncovering…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Heart rate telemetry and time-motion analysis of ice hockey referees
Kahn, Bradley

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Referees have a job to ensure a safe and fair playing environment. The purpose of this study was to quantify on-ice intensities (heart rate) and on-ice movements (forward or backwards skating or stationary) of referees during ice hockey games. 15…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Risk-directed exploration in reinforcement learning
Law, Edith L. M.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reinforcement Learning is a class of methods for solving sequential decision problems when the model of the environment is not known. In this framework, the agent must explore the environment to gather more information about the model and the utility…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental education essential elements in school field trip programming
Futer, Mariam

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigated the apparent effectiveness of environmental education essential elements in school field trip programming. First, the elements essential to environmental education field trips were identified from the literature. Second, these elements were incorporated into a questionnaire that was…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL