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Tacit-knowledge of linguistic theories
Barber, Alexander.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	What is the best way to understand 'applies to' when it is said of a linguistic theory that it applies to a particular language-user? We can answer by saying that a linguistic theory is applicable to an individual language-user just…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Fault diagnosis in mobile mining equipment
Knights, Peter Fielden

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The development of decision support systems for equipment diagnosis has been found to be an iterative process whereby functionality and knowledge are continually added to a prototype until satisfactory performance is achieved. In order to reduce both the dependency on…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Technical language and experience in the mystical philosophy of Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnavī
Shaker, Asaad.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Sadr al-Din Qunavi (605/1207-673AH/1274 CE)--stepson and pupil of Ibn $ rm sp{c}$Arabi (d. 638 AH/1240 CE)--played a pivotal role in the development of Islamic intellectual history. His contributions in the medieval period helped alter the course of mystico-philosophical tradition, which…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Patient data management system medical knowledge-base evaluation
Kairouz, Joseph.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the medical data management expert system at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Montreal Children's Hospital. The objective of this study is to provide a systematic method to evaluate and, progressively…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The effects of prior knowledge on concept learning : an issue of function compatibility
Varshney, Nicole Memorice.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examines how prior knowledge influences future learning. Although it has been established that prior knowledge does have a strong impact on later learning, it is not clear how this effect manifests itself. Previous research suggests that one way…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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intelligent power system design
Atanackovic, Djordje.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, the concept of an intelligent system for the design and planning of electric power systems is developed. Such a system serves to preserve the vast body of power system design knowledge by identifying, structuring and consolidating it…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The utility of a pre-developed conceptual framework for learning about national human resources development needs : the case of Nicaragua, Human resource development in Nicaragua
Bracegirdle, Peter.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis examines the utility of a pre-developed conceptual framework for learning about the human resource development (HRD) needs in a national context. The literature review focuses on knowledge-building within the main development theories and paradigms, two mainstream approaches to…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Decision making in an intensive care environment in medicine
Leccisi, Michael S. G.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Medical professions associated with time pressured environments, incorporate apprenticeship as part of training. While our understanding of decision making has moved towards examining these environments, how does this knowledge apply to instruction in these contexts?, Specific reasoning strategies identified by…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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General education, aesthetic education and value awareness : rationale for a phenomenological research
McNeil, Isabelle.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Literature in art education suggests a link between aesthetic experiences and value awareness. The existence of such a link could have important implications for the role of art education in our schools, answering to the often expressed need to address…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Semantic hyperpriming in dementia of the Alzheimer's type : a distributed representation approach
Geva, Anat.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Semantic knowledge was investigated in patients diagnosed with Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (DAT) by means of an off-line probe question battery and an on-line measurement of semantic priming in a lexical decision task (LDT) that varied the stimulus onset…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The road to sainted motherhood : women in the medical discourse in Québec, 1914-1939
Taylor, Nadine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In Quebec, between 1914 and 1939, women were portrayed as keepers of the hearth, roles established since the mid-19th century, and further reinforced in the early 20th century when the Western World was threatened with drops in population, high infant…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An automatic EEG monitoring system in the pediatric ICU
Si, Yixia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A knowledge-based expert system was developed to automatically assess the level of EEG abnormality of pediatric patients monitored in the ICU. The system receives six hours of 8-channel EEGs and classifies the background EEG as one of seven abnormality levels.,…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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L2 acquisition of English psych predicates by native speakers of Chinese and French
Chen, Dongdong, 1960-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates the second language acquisition of English psych predicates by Chinese-speaking and French-speaking adult learners of English within the Government and Binding Theory. Two major parts comprise the whole work: a study of psych predicates across Chinese, English…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

The Institutional basis of national advantage in biotechnology
Bartholomew, Susan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study investigates the relationship between national institutional context andnational advantage in the biotechnology sector. It is argued that differences in nationaltechnological advantage may be traced to differences in deep-rooted, country-specificinstitutional systems which support the accumulation and diffusion of knowledge…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Quality of life : spouses of persons who have had a laryngectomy to treat cancer
St-Hilaire, Sylvie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A qualitative study design was used to describe the quality of life as perceived by spouses of persons who have had a laryngectomy within the preceding two years to treat cancer. A convenience sample of 17 spouses of individuals with…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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16.

Seasonal structure of the Gulf of St. Lawrence upper-layer thermohaline fields during the ice-free months
Doyon, Patrick.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans play a critical role in determining our climate. These generally consist of various exchanges of heat, mass and momentum between the two media through the air-sea interface. Therefore, the physical state of…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Mobile robot teleoperation using enhanced video
Lonji, Kadima.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the context of teleoperated mobile robotics, the use of video data is one of the most desirable sensing modalities for vehicle guidance. Unfortunately, maintaining reliable noise-free video transmission, especially in cost sensitive teleoperation applications is a frequent problem., We…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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18.

Dickens and food : realist reflections in a puddle of chicken grease
Trefler, Caroline.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Food has a near-ubiquitous role in the fiction of Charles Dickens. From the action that does and does not take place, to the appearance and essence of the characters, and to the language and style in which they were written,…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Understanding older adults in education : decision-making and Elderhostel
Arsenault, Nancy.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This qualitative study explores how older adults, who are retired or contemplating retirement, make choices regarding their non-formal educational experiences. This national study collected data from 154 Elderhostel participants, aged 42 to 85 and, consistent with Moustaka's five phases of…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Dynamic object localization via a proximity sensor network
Petryk, Gregory Allen.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Autonomous robotic operation in an unstructured or partially known environment requires sensing and sensor-based control. To overcome the problems with current "eye-in-hand" systems, miniature amplitude-based, infra-red proximity sensors are being studied. Obtaining position and velocity estimates of a rigid body…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The evolution of air law in Kenya and its current challenges /
Okumu, Hannington Owuor.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the historical evolution of air law in Kenya, its content and current challenges. Part One is a historical introduction designed to provide a brief background knowledge and information necessary for a proper understanding of the geo-political and…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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22.

Unnatural desires : cultural dissidence in metaphysical literature
Holmes, Michael M. (Michael Morgan)

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Throughout much of the twentieth century, early modern metaphysical literature has been interpreted as an upholder of traditional morals and cosmic unity. By re-examining the early critical reception of these works in connection with current theories of cultural reproduction, we…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Information epidemics and the growth of physics
Tabah, Albert N.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examined the prevalence of information epidemics in the physics literature. The primary interest was to find out whether outliers observed on time series charts of literatures are due to information epidemics, whether these epidemics are widespread occurrences in…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Evaluation of the quality of an injury surveillance system
MacArthur, Colin.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The health care burden associated with childhood injury is huge. Surveillance--the collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data--is seen as an important step towards understanding and controlling the injury problem. The usefulness of surveillance data, however, depends on their quality.…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Development of a portal imager and of tools for radiation treatment verification
Wang, Hui, 1964-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A prototype electrostatic imager has been developed for megavoltage portal imaging in radiation therapy. The imager utilizes amorphous selenium (a-Se) with a front metal plate as the imager receptor and a high resolution voltmeter probe for image readout. Imaging characteristics…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An analysis of utilization of health services by the elderly in Canada /
Newman, Edward, 1957-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Population aging in Canada is expected to result in a sharp increase in the use of health services by the aged. The purpose of this thesis, is to enhance the knowledge of the utilization of the health system by the…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Female community health workers in developing countries : How effective are they? An evaluation of a community intervention in Afghan refugee villages in Pakistan (1987-1994)
Bell, Lori

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been advocated as a means of providing primary health care to under-served populations in developing countries since the late 1960's. These community based workers are usually volunteers who receive basic training in health education, antenatal/delivery/postnatal…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

An intelligent environment for the preliminary design of power transmission networks.
Loud, Lester.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The design of AC/DC power transmission networks is a complex, time-consuming problem. Although a variety of power system analysis tools are available for this purpose, planning engineers still rely heavily on their experience to determine which alternative network designs are…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Cavity perturbation technique for measurement of dielectric properties of some agri-food materials.
Venkatesh, Meda S.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Optimal utilization of microwave energy requires more basic knowledge of the dielectric properties of the material under investigation. The dielectric properties of materials subjected to microwaves are known to depend on moisture content, temperature and density of the material as…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Exploring reliability in epidemiology and clinical research
Rodella, Stefania

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Quality of measurement is a fundamental issue in medical research and clinical practice, of relevance for any inference or decision-making process. Reliability, as an estimate of the variability in the domain of repeated measurements, is an important component of the…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Self-efficacy and goal choice among acting-out adolescents
Melrose, Regalena G.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The goal of this study was to investigate self-efficacy and goal choice among acting-out adolescents in comparison to nonacting-out adolescents. One hundred and sixteen adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 participated. The adolescents were categorized as either acting-out…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

Cognitive multi-tasking in situated medical reasoning
Farand, Lambert

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study evaluates the hypothesis that medical reasoning in real clinical situations involves multiple cognitive tasks whose complex interactions are coordinated in an opportunistic manner. A problem-solving architecture originating from research in artificial intelligence, the blackboard model, is proposed as…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

Extracellular matrix metabolism in injury-induced atherosclerosis
Wang, He, 1965-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Remodelling of extracellular matrix (ECM) is a prominent feature of atherosclerotic lesions and contributes to lipoprotein retention as well as smooth muscle cell (SMC) activation. To gain further knowledge about ECM, certain ECM components and their degrading enzymes were studied…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Learning to be indigenous or being taught to be Kenyan : the ethnography of teaching art and material culture in Kenya
Rajan, Firoze H. Somjee (Firoze Hassanali Somjee)

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Several independent African states promote teaching of a national culture as one culture and learning about ethnic cultures as separate and distinct aspects of other cultures of the nation. This is often articulated in development philosophies and political discourses that…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Reflection of solar radiation by inhomogeneous clouds
Várnai, Tamás.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The goal of this study is to improve knowledge about how cloud inhomogeneities affect the reflection of solar radiation. In particular, it addresses two main questions: what the processes through which inhomogeneities influence solar reflection are, and how this influence…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

The gestalt line /
Boudewijnse, Geert-Jan A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis specifies how Franz Brentano inspired some of his students and how those students, in their turn, influenced the next generation of psychologists. After outlining the essentials of Aristotle's psychology, the thesis explains some general positions that Brentano borrowed…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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37.

Industrial development in an era of structural adjustment : the growth of export informatic services in Jamaica
Mullings, Beverley.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Based on a case study of the export informatic$ sp1$ services industry, this dissertation examines the prospects for industrial development in Jamaica in the twenty first century. It contends that the island's current strategy of neo-liberal industrial restructuring will not…
Fecha:	1996
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Harvest and post-harvest of cassava in Brasil: a case study.
DANTAS, J. L. L. - CUNHA, M. A. P. da.

Formato:	Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Enlaces:	The cassava, originary from Brasil. received little attention from agricultural research institutions in the past. Its wide adaptation to the most diverse edaphic and climatic conditions as well as the traditional knowledge about this crop accumulated through many years of…
Fecha:	1996-09-30
Recurso:	Informação Tecnológica en Agricultura (Infoteca-e)

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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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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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Pharmacotherapy of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the impact of information interventions on parental knowledge, attitudes and their child's adherence to medication
Gomes, Paul

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Objective: Despite the established effectiveness of medication in improving symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Spencer et al 2000), rates of adherence to pharmacotherapy are low, ranging from 34% to 91% (Gau et al., 2006). Since higher adherence rates are…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Learner, text, and context factors on conceptual change in biology
Trevors, Gregory

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigated how instructional environments might be optimally designed for all students to restructure prior knowledge and learn counter-intuitive science concepts, referred to as conceptual change. Three independent variables were examined in relation to real-time cognitive processes and subsequent…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Meaningful main effects or intriguing interactions? examining the influences of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representations on cognitive processing and conceptual change when learning physics
Franco, Gina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representations in cognitive and metacognitive processing and conceptual change when learning about physics concepts through text. Specifically, I manipulated the representation of physics concepts in…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Beliefs and motives behind the paper: examining relations between epistemic beliefs, achievement goals, writing strategies, and academic writing achievement
Duffy, Melissa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Throughout university, students are required to complete complex writing tasks that involve a host of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, yet little is known about the differences in students' approach to the writing process. In particular, the role of students' beliefs…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Placebos in medicine: from conceptualizations in medical school to integration in clinical practice
Campbell, Natasha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Placebo effects constitute context-dependent medical phenomena, and exemplify the link between psychosocial factors and physiological processes. By surveying medical students (Study 1) and practicing physicians (Study 2), the present thesis explores the knowledge and attitudes towards the role of placebos,…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Text classification using labels derived from structured knowledge representations
Perreault, Mathieu

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Structured knowledge representations are becoming central to the area of Information Science. Search engines companies have said that constructing an entity graph is the key to classifying their enormous corpus of documents in order to provide more relevant results to…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The effect of scarcity on product evaluation
Lee, Seung Yun

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Marketers often use scarcity to influence consumers, with announcements such as "limited quantities," "until stocks last," "few tickets left for this event," "limited time offer," or "24 hour sale." Past research indicates that scarcity often has a positive effect on…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Computerized interface control documents
Rahmani, Keyvan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Interfaces between subsystems in collaborative product development projects are presently defined by interface control documents. These documents are created after agreements are made between designers on how to design subsystem interfaces. The designers must commit to the definitions given by…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Publication bias and quality of reporting of Pharmacodynamic Studies utilizing invasive research procedures within early phase cancer trials
Freeman, Georgina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Invasive research procedures, such as biopsy for pharmacodynamic study, often have no value for patient-volunteers in terms of diagnosis or clinical management. Accordingly, their burdens are generally justifiable only by appeal to knowledge value (that is, the benefit to future…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL