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Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system
Stamatoiu, Oana L. (Oana Liana), 1981-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that we humans have…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Growth strategies of small nations : with special reference to Ireland, Finland and Singapore
Yeo, Lionel, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis is based on the premise that small nations face unique challenges in the quest for economic prosperity. They have a small domestic economy and are more dependent than larger economies on international trade. Smallness typically entails a lack…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Real-time analysis of physiological data and development of alarm algorithms for patient monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit
Zhang, Ying, 1976-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The lack of effective data integration and knowledge representation in patient monitoring limits its utility to clinicians. Intelligent alarm algorithms that use artificial intelligence techniques have the potential to reduce false alarm rates and to improve data integration and knowledge…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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System for the online assessment of distributed projects
Shiraishi, Fumiaki, 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The collaboration of researchers in different fields, institutions, and nations continues to be important as new ideas and solutions result from the combination of different knowledge and experiences. The Cambridge MIT Institute (CMI) Online Project Assessment System(OPAS) aims to collect…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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The potential business impacts of Semantic Web for system integration
Saita, Akio, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis presents research about the potential business impacts of the Semantic Web. The concept of the Semantic Web is an expansion of the Web for computers, enabling them to comprehend the meaning of information. In addition, Semantic Web Services…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Characterization and modeling of polysilicon MEMS chemical-mechanical polishing
Tang, Brian D. (Brian David), 1980-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Heavily used in the manufacture of integrated circuits, chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) is becoming an enabling technology for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). To reliably use CMP in the manufacturing process, designers must be able to accurately predict the CMP process and control…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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The key elements of advocacy marketing
Yamaoka, Takashi, 1968-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Customer power is growing, and customers now have tools that inform them of the true state of affairs. This power enables them to avoid the pushy messages of marketers, make their own decisions, and determine what to buy. A company…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Spatiotemporal brain imaging and modeling
Lin, Fa-Hsuan, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis integrates hardware development, data analysis, and mathematical modeling to facilitate our understanding of brain cognition. Exploration of these brain mechanisms requires both structural and functional knowledge to (i) reconstruct the spatial distribution of the activity, (ii) to estimate…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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The role of consideration in the pursuit of market share : a study of the U.S. automobile industry
Knight, Kenneth Darnell, 1960-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The state of business in the U.S. automobile industry is such that competition is fierce, and consumers have a perplexing number of alternatives from which to choose. The final purchase decision by the consumer is where most industry experts focus…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Distributed coordination of autonomous agents by communicating on a need-to-know basis
Chen, Judy Y. (Judy Yann-Yun), 1980-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Intelligent autonomous agents working cooperatively accomplish tasks more efficiently than single agents, as well as tasks that were infeasible for the single agent. For example, a single agent transporting a ton of blocks will need to take multiple trips, possibly…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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11.

Self-organizing event maps
Tardiff, Seth Ronald, 1981-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	To take further steps along the path toward true artificial intelligence, systems must be built that are capable of learning about the world around them through observation and explanation. These systems should be flexible and robust in the style of…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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12.

Obligations abroad : towards a just foreign policy
Rothkin, Karen, 1966-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This dissertation considers three implications of collective self-government for just foreign policies in an imperfect world. Individuals are the appropriate moral unit of analysis, constrained to govern themselves justly, together with compatriots. First I derive limits to state autonomy that…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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13.

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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14.

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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15.

Compréhension et utilisation des connaissances dans la résolution de problèmes en électronique
Bédard, Denis, 1960-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The main objective of the present work is to investigate the nature of the cognitive processes responsible for the problem-solving operations of novices, intermediates, and experts in a semantically rich and complex domain, i.e. electronics trouble shooting, in relation to…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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16.

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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17.

Exploring the role of knowledge in small business teams
Flynn, William J

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by William J. Flynn, III., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).
Fecha:	2005-08-15
Recurso:	MIT

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18.

A learning approach to knowledge acquisition for intelligent interface agents
Kozierok, Robyn Arlene Edelson

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Robyn Arlene Edelson Kozierok., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-100).
Fecha:	2005-08-15
Recurso:	MIT

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19.

Connected mathematics : builiding concrete relationships with mathematical knowledge
Wilensky, Uriel Joseph

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Uriel Jospeh Wilensky., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-209).
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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20.

Microdevelopment of co-construction of knowledge during problem solving : puzzled minds, weird creatures, and wuggles
Granott, Nira

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Nira Granott., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-442).
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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21.

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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22.

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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23.

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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24.

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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25.

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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26.

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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27.

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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28.

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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29.

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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30.

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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31.

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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32.

De la "fantaisie" humaine : Montaigne et l'imagination
Fontaine, Guylaine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study proposes an in-depth analysis of the concept of imagination in the Essais as it emerges through various occurrences of the words "imagination" and "fantasie" (synonymous in the XVIth century) and their numerous derivatives. By focusing on two fundamental…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

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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34.

Textpragmatik der Holocaust-Rede von Philipp Jenninger
Barnes, Colin Dean

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The following thesis sets out to analyse the holocaust speech given by former Bundestag president Philipp Jenninger on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Reichskristallnacht in 1988. Through international media attention, pragmatics, and rhetorical analysis, I shall interpret a…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

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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36.

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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37.

"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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38.

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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39.

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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40.

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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41.

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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42.

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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43.

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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44.

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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45.

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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46.

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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47.

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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48.

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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49.

L' ironie dans la prose fictionnelle des femmes du Québec: 1960-1980
Joubert, Lucie, 1957-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis explores the various manifestations of irony in prose-fiction by women in Quebec from 1960 to 1980. Traditionally used by men, irony is gradually becoming more widespread in women's writing, which in itself is an interesting reversal: more often…
Fecha:	1993
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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50.

The value of knowledge and intangible capital : a methodological investigation
Newman, William Henry

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by William Henry Newman., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994., Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124).
Fecha:	2005-08-16
Recurso:	MIT