The human tongue is a versatile, lithe and structurally complex muscular organ that is of paramount importance for many physiological tasks. The lingual musculature is composed of various orthogonally oriented myofiber populations. Furthermore, coupling this knowledge of tissue myoarchitecture with…

This paper presents an adaptive learning model for market-making under the reinforcement learning framework. Reinforcement learning is a learning technique in which agents aim to maximize the long-term accumulated rewards. No knowledge of the market environment, such as the order…

We have developed a technique called RISE (Random Image Structure Evolution), by which one may systematically sample continuous paths in a high-dimensional image space. A basic RISE sequence depicts the evolution of an object's image from a random field, along…

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

El objetivo de este estudio, es demostrar que
la iconografía constituye una fuente para la
historia de la enfermería. Se ha pretendido
alcanzar este objetivo realizando un estudio descriptivo,
retrospectivo, comparativo, histórico
etnográfico.
El material iconográfico utilizado corresponde
a las…

La planificación del medio físico tiene, entre sus objetivos prioritarios, la aplicación
de una política preventiva, capaz de evitar el deterioro del medio ambiente. La preservación
de espacios de calidad ambiental lleva consigo la creación de figuras de protección
dotadas…

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…

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…

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…

Le contexte culturel particulier à la Chine influe sur le choix du mode de résolution des différends commerciaux comportant un lien d'extranéité. Plusieurs mécanismes de préventions des litiges sont utilisés en Chine. La conciliation et médiation sont issues d'une tradition…