The past five years have seen the arrival and extremely rapid expansion of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Western Hemisphere. The rapid sweep across North America has permitted little time for developing knowledge of the virus's potential impacts on…

Se propone un modelo para medir el capital intelectual de un país que tiene en cuenta aspectos no contemplados en el Producto Interior Bruto (PIB) basándose

en la observación de capitales ocultos como generadores de riqueza a largo…

La pérdida del estilo de vida saludable en la sociedad avanzada ha provocado problemas serios en la salud pública, se han desarrollado enfermedades crónicas múltiples, causando millones de muertes prematuras cada año a consecuencia de la obesidad, el alcohol, el…

by William J. Flynn, III., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).

by Nira Granott., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-442).

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…

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…

The main objective of the present work is to investigate the nature of the cognitive processes responsible for the problem-solving operations of novices, intermediates, and experts in a semantically rich and complex domain, i.e. electronics trouble shooting, in relation to…

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…

L’objectif de cette thèse est d’analyser les modes d’émergence de la voix
chez cinq écrivains québécois ayant initié, durant les années 1940-1970,
leur parcours littéraire à travers la pratique de la poésie. Cette thèse
puise à même les ressources de…