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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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14.

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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15.

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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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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The impact of participation in an online professional community on the development of elementary pre- service teachers' knowledge of teaching mathematics
Lamb, Natasha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This inquiry sought to examine the effects of participating in an online discussion forum on the development of knowledge for teaching mathematics. The participants of this study were among the pre-service teachers from a large urban university, chosen as they…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

Opportunistic multicasting scheduling using erasure-correction coding over wireless channels
Le, Dang Quang

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In wireless communications, the broadcast nature can be explored to efficiently support multicast services while the difference in channel gains among the wireless links of users promotes multiuser diversity which can be used to improve multicast performance. This thesis proposes…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Abstraction and concretization of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as seen through biblical interpretation and art
Ovadis, Alyssa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This work examines the patterns inherent to the understanding of the nature of the forbidden fruit in an attempt to demonstrate parallels between the reasoning of biblical interpreters, on one hand, and of artists, on the other., While the biblical…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The effect of lesson characteristics on dialogue duration in classroom discourse and class content learning outcomes on multiple-choice tests
Lemay, David

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It has been proposed that forms of dialogue (Keegan, 1993) are differentially related to subject knowledge possessed by the student and the roles that teachers and students play within those dialogues. A reading of the socio-constructivist literature suggests that maximal…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Energy storage system scheduling in wind-diesel microgrids
Ross, Michael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis proposes a knowledge based expert system tool that can be used as an on- line controller for the charging/discharging of an energy storage system in a wind-diesel microgrid. The wind-diesel microgrid is modelled, and a typical energy storage…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

An algebraic approach to dynamic epistemic logic
Phillips, Caitlin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In reasoning about multi-agent systems, it is important to look beyond the realm of propositional logic and to reason about the knowledge of agents within the system, as what they know about the environment will affect how they behave. A…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The teacher's knowledge community as a third space: tensions and possibilities in curriculum planning
Havard, Kimberly Anne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Interest in curriculum is often divided between the work of curriculum theorists on one end and the manifestation of curriculum in the classroom on the other. Researchers are drawn to the study of both of these groups, but a third…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Extracting semantic information from Wikipedia using human computation and dimensionality reduction
West, Robert

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Semantic background knowledge is crucial for many intelligent applications. A classical way to represent such knowledge is through semantic networks. Wikipedia's hyperlink graph can be considered a primitive semantic network, since the links it contains usually correspond to semantic relationships…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Optimal time scales for reinforcement learning behaviour strategies
Comanici, Gheorghe

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reinforcement Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence addressing the problem of single-agent autonomous sequential decision making. It proposes computational models which do not rely on the complete knowledge of the dynamics of stochastic environments. Options are a formalism used…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/ dissonance on musical signal processing
Rogers, Susan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates possible origins of the distinction between consonant and dissonant auditory events and how persons with and without formal musical training judge the distinction. Two studies comprising six experiments used behavioral methods to explore perceptual and cognitive differences…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An analytical model of the relationship knowledge, learning, innovation and sustainability.
CABRAL, J. E. de O. - COSTA, M. da P. B.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2010
Fecha:	2011-03-10
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Completing description logic knowledge bases usign formal concept analysis
Baader, Franz - Ganter, Bernhard - Sertkaya, Baris - Sattler, Ulrike

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-03-03
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing
Gruber, Thomas R.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-03-25
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Computer aided design for molecular inhibitors
Lee, Devin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In-silico methods used to aid the development of therapeutic drugs have gained utility in the recent past and continue to grow in importance. Small molecule drugs for the use in the treatment of type 2 diabetes were designed using computational…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Invisible persons, invisible patients: determining the ethics of hormone-blocker therapy through an understanding of the transgender/transsexual adolescent- physician relationship
Bonifacio, Herbert

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A new ethical medical dilemma concerns the use of hormone-blockers or medications that put puberty on hold in the care of transgender/transsexual (TG/TS) adolescents. These medications are taken until she is old enough to legally consent to cross-sex hormones. Such…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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46.

The development of an artificially intuitive reasoner
Sun, Yung Chien

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research is an exploration of the phenomenon of "intuition" in the context of artificial intelligence (AI). In this work, intuition was considered as the human capacity to make decisions under situations in which the available knowledge was usually low…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Plotinus' epistemology and his reading of the «theaetetus»
Magrin, Sara

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis offers a reconstruction of Plotinus' reading of the Theaetetus, and it presents an account of his epistemology that rests on that reading. It aims to show that Plotinus reads the Theaetetus as containing two anti-sceptical arguments. The first…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Diet and infection as predictors of stunting, iron deficiency and anemia in indigenous Panamanian communities
Lardeau, Marie-Pierre

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This cross sectional study evaluated if coffee, associated with reduced linear growth, anemia and immunomodulation could contribute to childhood stunting and iron deficiency (ID) and anemia in Indigenous Ngöbe Buglé children and mothers. Questionnaires on socio-economic status, health, diet, anthropometry,…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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49.

Teaching the female adolescent to sing: A survey of choral conductors and voice instructors
Hall, Megan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Although existence of female voice change is not disputed, symptoms are subtle and not widely understood. Due to the recent nature of research conducted on the female adolescent voice, the researcher investigated what information had reached teachers of singing. The…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Learning approximate representations of partially observable systems
Dinculescu, Monica

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Learning agents that interact with complex environments often cannot predict the exact outcome of their actions due to noisy sensors or incomplete knowledge of the world. Learning the internal representation of such partially observable environments has proven to be a…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL