This thesis investigates what knowledge is necessary to solve mechanics problems. A program NEWTON is described which understands and solves problems in mechanics mini-world of objects moving on surfaces. Facts and equations such as those given in mechanics text need…

Four teachers & their eight classes of 179 5th-grade (10-11-year-old) students participated in this quasi-experimental classroom study, which investigated the effects of form-focused instruction (FFI) & corrective feedback on immersion students' ability to accurately assign grammatical gender in French. The…

Semantic, Syntax and Pragmatic represent in themselves three different
approaches to the same concern: semiotic structure.
The aim of this paper is to provide a general view of Landowskian Semiotics,
discussing the results achieved from different fields of knowledge to…

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

This project investigates how doctoral students make
‘learning leaps’ to recognise and cross conceptual
and skills thresholds in their research and ways in
which they can be best supported to do so. It
responds to current national and international
concerns…

Depuis plusieurs années, on assiste à la création de programmes en prévention du suicide à l’adolescence. L’un de ces programmes repose sur le principe des pairs aidants. Il consiste à former des jeunes dont le rôle est d’apporter du soutien…

This paper presents an overview of a theory of discourse structure, and discusses a model for assimilating text into a frame-based data structure. The model has been applied to the analysis of news articles. The theory assumes sentences contain links…

La thérapie germinale est une avenue médicale qui est loin de pouvoir être appliquée de
manière sécuritaire et responsable car les connaissances médicales actuelles sont
insuffisantes. De surcroît, l'encadrement normatif qui l'entoure est unanime et clame la
non-acceptabilité de son…

The report describes a recognition system called GROPER, which performs grouping by using distance and relative orientation constraints that estimate the likelihood of different edges in an image coming from the same object. The thesis presents both a theoretical analysis…

The terminology of Right is an age long undertaking of the human mind, by means of which it
has tried to respond to the necessities, progressively more complex and marked by multiple tensions.
This paper has dedicated the first section…