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Effects of a long-term recurrent selection program on the genetic structure of the BSSS maize population.
GUIMARAES, P. E. de O.

Formato:	Teses/dissertações (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Evaluating of Recurrent Selection (RS) programs can lead to increase knowledge of methods, populations, and traits and give support for better management of breeding programs. The objective herein was to evaluate the effects of seven cycles of half-sib selection followed…
Fecha:	2002-04-02
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Knowledge Partitioning in the Inter-firm Division of Labor: the case of Automotive Product Development
Takeishi, Akira

Formato:
Enlaces:	Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers know about the component…
Fecha:	2002-06-12
Recurso:	MIT

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Briefing Paper on Industrial Ecology and EPA
Allen, Derry

Formato:
Enlaces:	Industrial Ecology (IE) is a systems approach to efficient resource use and protection of the environment. Instead of just devising improved methods of waste treatment and disposal, we look for the best opportunities to reduce waste throughout the total material…
Fecha:	2002-09-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge transfer in neural networks : knowledge-based cascade-correlation
Rivest, François

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Modern indigenous curriculum : teaching indigenous knowledge of handicraft at Sami colleges in Finland and Norway = Oddaaigasaš eamialbmoga oahppoplanat : arbevealuš diedu oahpaheapmis duoddji oahpaheapmi Sami allaskuvlaiid, Oddaaigasaš eamialbmoga oahppoplanat :
Stevenson, Charles Blair.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Sami people have struggled for centuries to maintain their culture in spite of pressures against it from colonialism. The formal education systems of Norway and Finland have acted in discord with Sami decision-making since their inception. In response to…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Lay reasoning and decision making related to health and illness
Cytryn, Kayla N.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Research in decision making has identified the importance of prior knowledge and heuristics on decision making behaviour. These develop with experience in a fashion similar to how domain experts develop specialized knowledge structures and heuristic reasoning patterns. This research is…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The depiction of boxing in classical Athenian art /
Boivin, Lawrence J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The aim of this study is to test the assumption that the depictions of ancient boxing found on Attic Black and Red Figure pottery are accurate. Due to the scarcity of ancient written material and physical evidence, most of our…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Experientialist epistemology : Plantinga and Alston on Christian knowledge
Dyck, Timothy Lee.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examines Christian experientialist epistemology as articulated of late by Alvin Plantinga especially and also William Alston. It situates their approach to the epistemic status of Christian belief claims within the overall outlook they have respectively developed on what…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Walter Stace's philosophy of mysticism : a critical analysis
Fanaei Nematsara, Mohammad.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Mysticism can be examined from various viewpoints: historical, theological, sociological, and psychological. This study primarily examines the philosophical status and implications of mysticism, an issue investigated many times, particularly over the last four decades. Walter T. Stace's work in the…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Inuit values in adult education : a Nunavik case study
Mount, Christopher B. J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to investigate Inuit values and needs in Inuit Adult Education. These can only originate from the Inuit themselves: those attending and employed in Adult Education Centres in Nunavik, graduates of both vocational and academic…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Individual instructor's perceptions of teaching context : identifying facilitators and barriers to completion of teaching projects
Moxness, Katherine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Frameworks seeking to explain teaching competency and development in higher education indicate that context and personal perspectives, as well as knowledge and action are crucial components in the understanding of how and why faculty teach as they do and how…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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12.

The cultural right to practice traditional medicinal knowledge in Zimbabwe /
Frommer, Chloe Giselle

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Cultural resources like traditional medicinal knowledge need to be recognized in their role tied to important regional practices in Zimbabwe. This is especially as a nexus of legal definitions for biological, intellectual and cultural resources will inform a National Sui…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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13.

Composite products as conceptual combinations : issues of perception, categorization and brand evaluation
Gill, Tripat

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation addresses the issues pertaining to composite products (CPs). CPs are defined as products formed by combining knowledge from two distinct domains, for example, digital cameras, which combine knowledge from digital products and cameras. The three research questions addressed…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

Three essays on aspects of patent-related information as measures of revealed technological capabilities
Lee, Yender, 1953-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation consists of three papers on the theme of technological capabilities. Patent information can be viewed as indicators of inventive activities emanating from a certain underlying technological capability. Cumulative patents may, therefore, be considered as the r&barbelow;evealed manifestations of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

Machine-learning assisted development of a knowledge-based system in dairy farming
Pietersma, Diederik.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The goal of this research was to explore the use of machine learning to assist in the development of knowledge-based systems (KBS) in dairy farming. A framework was first developed which described the various types of management and control activities…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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16.

That we might love him the more : an Irenaean theodicy built on Christ crucified
Gallaher, Brandon.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	[B]ut when He became incarnate, and was made man, He recapitulated in Himself the long history of human beings, and furnished us, in brief, with salvation (Irenaeus of Lyons. Against Heresies [= AH] III.xviii.1).This thesis attempts to clarify the mystery…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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17.

Home and away : the female artist in academia
Gamelin, Anastasia Kamanos.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation explores the conflicts, contradictions and paradoxes inherent in the lives of those women who, as artists and academics, seek to connect their personal and professional lives in their work. It explores how creativity and the pursuit of self-knowledge…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Determinación de la constante de propagación de líneas de transmisión no homogéneas utilizando mediciones en el dominio del tiempo y su comparación con métodos en el dominio de la frecuencia, Determination of the propagation constant of lines embedded in transitions by time domain measurements methods and its comparison with frecuency methods
Marco Antonio Panduro Mendoza

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Enlaces:	Para medir fielmente y de una manera más exacta los parámetros pl_S de dispositivos de microondas, las técnicas de calibración (LRL, LRM, etc.) necesitan conocer la impedancia ZL de las líneas de la base de pruebas donde se encuentra montado…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	CICESE

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19.

Remediating conduct problems in children : examining changes in children and parents following consultation
Illsley, Staci D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of these investigations was to compare changes in child conduct problem behavior and parental ability and to examine the relationship between parent and child outcome. An A/B research design was used across two studies with a total of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A comparison of the role of the frontal cortex and the anterior temporal lobe in source memory and in the accurate retrieval of episodic information /
Thaiss, Laila Maria.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It has been argued that patients with frontal lobe lesions are impaired in temporal context memory and, more generally, in retrieving the source of one's knowledge or ideas. Furthermore, it has been speculated that a failure to retrieve source information…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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21.

Integrating information about mechanism and covariation in casual reasoning
Rapus, Tanja L.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Causal reasoning is an important and complex process, in which individuals have multiple sources of information available to inform their judgments. An enduring tension exists between what cues to causality people use and focus on in acquiring causal knowledge and…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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At the border : a dramatic one-act play, Nineveh, and relevant discussion on informal education, imagination, and the development of identity and applied knowledge
Tannis, Derek.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis is a theoretical and practical investigation of the role played by informal learning and teaching in the development of identity and applied knowledge. With the advent of mass schooling, there came to be a distinction between formal and…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Accurate radiation dosimetry using liquid- or air-filled plane-parallel ionization chambers
Stewart, Kristin J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	To optimize delivery of radiation therapy treatments, accurate knowledge of absorbed dose in the clinical beam is essential. In this work we investigated issues related to the use of different types of ionization chambers for accurate radiation dosimetry. We determined…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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24.

Detecting heritability of brain structure using magnetic resonance imaging
Bellera, Carine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A method is described that allows one to assess heritability of brain structures using magnetic resonance images (MRI). We have obtained MRI images for a group of identical twins and another group of fraternal twins. Each MRI image was segmented…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Assessing the economic feasibility of a carbon tax on energy inputs in Ontario's pulp and paper industry : an econometric analysis
He, Miaofen, 1976-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Knowledge of price responsiveness of energy is important for designing effective price-based controls to curb the GHG emissions in Canada. The translog and logit models are developed in this study to analyze the demand for four types of energy inputs:…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

Group comparisons in the presence of length-biased data
Addona, Vittorio.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The effects of length-bias and left-truncation in survival data have been well studied in the statistical literature. To a lesser extent, the phenomena of length-bias and left-truncation have also been investigated when group comparisons are of interest. This literature examines…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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27.

Cultivating Aristotelian rationality through the arts : a philosophical and practical perspective
Honig, Valerie Amelina.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents a description of a five-month project involving the educational unit of a large urban museum and its interaction with a group of elementary-aged students from a disadvantaged community. The description is framed within a philosophic premise that…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

Islamic Fiqh and the contract of international carriage of passengers by air
Naji, Alaa A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	GOD says in the Holy Qur'aan "O' people, I have created you from a single pair of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other. Verily the most honored of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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29.

Conceptions of teaching in higher education : challenges and recommendations
Jazvac, Marian.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Research on academics' conceptions of teaching hopes to enhance understanding of how and why the process of teaching in higher education looks and works the way it does. The following work critically examines this body of literature and identifies problems…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

Adolescent learners' awareness of first language influence on their second language knowledge
Lepine, Christine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research is a replication and expansion of Lightbown and Spada (2000) which investigated the metalinguistic awareness of 11--12 year-old francophone learners of English as second language (ESL). Their research examined whether young L2 learners were able to make explicit…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

Art and secular spirituality
Walsh, Dale.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Despite the numerous examples throughout history, the study of secular spirituality in art was mostly ignored until recently by contemporary writers, critics, historians, philosophers and educators. In my thesis, through the examination of selected images and writings, I determine how…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

Fine mapping of the nuclear restorer locus for cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassica napus
Stollar, Rachel.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis will discuss the 'Polima' cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system (pol) in Brassica napus (Canola) and detailed genetic mapping of the region surrounding restorer gene ( Rfp) for that system This fine mapping of the Rfp region will facilitate…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

Modeling information-seeking expertise on the Web
Tabatabai, Diana

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Searching for information pervades a wide spectrum of human activity, including learning and problem solving. With recent changes in the amount of information available and the variety of means of retrieval, there is even more need to understand why some…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Data mining and knowledge discovery in financial research : empirical investigations into currency
Wu, Qionglin, 1964-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Since there exist drawbacks for linear models such as those based on regression techniques, which have been the basis of traditional statistical forecasting models, neural networks are used in this thesis to train and test the input data. This thesis…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

MR based frickle-gelatin dosimetry : uncertainty evaluation and computerised analysis of measured dose distributions
Belanger, Philippe.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Dynamically delivered intensity modulated beams (IMBs) pose unique verification problems that may be addressed with the use of integrating continuous 3D dosimeters such as gel based Fricke dosimeters. Accurate knowledge of the ability of these dosimeters to measure adequately and…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

An early Sufi concept of qalb : Hakim al-Tirmidhi's map of the heart
Pavlis, Natalie A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Spiritual Journey is of pivotal importance to Sufis. Various mystics have conceived of this journey in different ways. For one early Sufi, al-H&dotbelow;akim al-Tirmidhi, this journey is conceived as an inward one through the concentric circles of the Heart.…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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37.

The efficiency and mechanisms for pollutant removal in biological wastewater treatment systems /
Cameron, Kimberley A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The research project was initiated to refine the knowledge available on the treatment of rural municipal wastewater by constructed wetlands. Field and laboratory studies were conducted to determine the treatment capacity of a constructed wetland system and to determine a…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Investigation of lateral effects on shock initiation of homogeneous liquid nitromethane
Jette, Francois-Xavier.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An experimental study of the process of shock initiation of detonation in liquid nitromethane sensitized with diethylenetriamine (DETA) was conducted. In particular, the effect of the lateral boundary conditions on the sensitivity of the explosive to shock stimuli was investigated.…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

Theory and simulation of texture formation in mesophase carbon fibers
Yan, Jun, 1974-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Carbonaceous mesophases are discotic nematic liquid crystals that are spun into high performance carbon fibers using the melt spinning process. The spinning process produces a wide range of fiber textures and cross-sectional shapes. The circular planar polar (PP), circular planar…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Joint mechanics during movement : experimental and theoretical studies
Lortie, Mireille.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the first of three manuscripts, we describe a study in which we measured the electromyographic (EMG) and mechanical responses to brief stretches of the ankle plantarflexors applied at various instants during an imposed movement of the ankle. The results…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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41.

An investigation of the dual mechanism model of past tense formation : does the model apply to non-native speakers?
Dougherty, Timothy.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this research is to further investigate the ongoing debate between the Dual Mechanism Model and the Connectionist Model of language processing by investigating how knowledge of second language (L2) inflectional morphology is represented and processed by learners…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the auditory cortex : an event-related study using pure tone stimulation
Samaha, Mark.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Introduction. The use of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in studying central auditory pathways expanded our knowledge of the neurophysiology of hearing. In various studies, an array of diverse auditory stimuli has been used, including pure tones and words, in…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

Se creer des ancetres. : les ecrits historiques et genealogiques des de Forest et des Forest d'Amerique du Nord, 19e et 20e siecles
Caron, Caroline-Isabelle.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the exercise of genealogy in North America in the 19th and 20th centuries through an analysis of the historical and genealogical writings by and about the (real and presumed) descendants of two Walloon brothers, Jesse (c 1580--1624)…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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44.

Wounds : theories of violence in theological discourse
Faber, Alyda.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	My dissertation presents a survey of theories of violence in contemporary theological discourse. I consider four positions that represent a range of current trends within theology: Girardian anthropology, the radical orthodoxy movement, liberation theology, and feminist theology., Rene Girard creates…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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45.

Epistolary constructions of identity in Derrida's "Envois" and Coetzee's Age of Iron
Hogarth, Claire Milne.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, I argue that identity construction is a postal effect: it results from a transmission of some sort, received or sent. I examine three instances of postal effect. In a chapter on Jacques Derrida's "Envois," a collection of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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46.

Le livre en serie : histoire et theorie de la collection letteraire
Montreuil, Sophie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This doctoral thesis examines the literary series [collection litteraire], considered at one and the same time as a form of publication defined and redefined by the publisher since the invention of the printing press and as a paratextual component that…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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47.

Sweet blood and power : making diabetics count
Rock, Melanie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	As recently as 1995, sweet blood did not resonate broadly as an urgent transnational concern. This thesis chronicles how diabetes mellitus, sweet blood, became recognized as a social problem besetting Canada, among many other countries., This ethnographic study brings anthropological…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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48.

Nerve growth factor modulation of basal forebrain neuron acetylcholine release : new perspectives on a classic interaction
Auld, Daniel Scott.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis addresses long- and short-term neurotrophin modulation of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs), focusing on acetylcholine (ACh) release and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT; the enzyme responsible for ACh synthesis) activity. (1) Initially, ACh release was characterized from primary embryonic basal…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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49.

Geometry and spatial intuition : a genetic approach
Jagnow, René

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, I investigate the nature of geometric knowledge and its relationship to spatial intuition. My goal is to rehabilitate the Kantian view that Euclid's geometry is a mathematical practice, which is grounded in spatial intuition, yet, nevertheless, yields…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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50.

Hume, history and the science of human nature
Perinetti, Dario

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis sets out to show that a philosophical reflection on history is, in the strongest possible way, an essential feature of Hume's project of a science of human nature: a philosophical investigation of human nature, for Hume, cannot be…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL