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EMBRAPA Soybean: generating technology, cultivating partnerships.

Formato:	Folderes / Folhetos / Cartilhas (INFOTECA-E)
Enlaces:	Main technologies, recommendations and generated knowledge. Embrapa Soybean and the comunity. Employees: commitment and development of skills. Important challenges: vision on the future., 2005, 1 folder.
Fecha:	2014-01-16
Recurso:	Informação Tecnológica en Agricultura (Infoteca-e)

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Creating knowledge in a geographically dispersed context : process and moderating variables
Assudani, Rashmi H.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Increasingly, knowledge-based tasks such as new product development and market research are being conducted by geographically dispersed teams. Early evidence from knowledge-based view of the firm and geographically dispersed work literatures suggests that at least four kinds of knowledge gaps---transactive…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowledge selection, mapping and transfer in artificial neural networks
Thivierge, Jean-Philippe.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Knowledge-based Cascade-correlation is a neural network algorithm that combines inductive learning and knowledge transfer (Shultz & Rivest, 2001). In the present thesis, this algorithm is tested on several real-world and artificial problems, and extended in several ways. The first extension…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowing about not knowing : a cognitive view of mathematics anxiety, Cognition and mathematics anxiety
Franz, Erika Katharina Elizabeth.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In order to close the gap that exists between the research areas of mathematics anxiety and mathematics learning, this study examined cognitive, metacognitive, and affective aspects of mathematics anxiety as well as students' mathematics performance and competence. One hundred and…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Can the use of cognitive and metacognitive self-regulated learning strategies be predicted by learners' levels of prior knowledge in Hypermedia-learning environments?
Taub, Michelle

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Research on self-regulated learning (SRL) in hypermedia-learning environments is a growing area of interest. One major issue is the role of prior knowledge, which can influence how students interact with hypermedia-learning systems in terms of their use of SRL strategies.…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Collaborative GIS process modelling using the Delphi method, systems theory and the unified modelling language (UML)
Balram, Shivanand

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Efforts to resolve environmental planning and decision-making conflicts usually focus on participant involvement, mutual understanding of the problem situation, evaluation criteria identification, data availability, and potential alternative solutions. However, as the alternatives become less distinct and participant values more diverse,…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The knowledge of elite level coaches of swimmers with a physical disability /
Cregan, Kerry

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The last decade has seen an increase in empirical research pertaining to coaching science and education. A great deal of research has focused on coaches of elite able-bodied athletes, while coaches of athletes with a disability have generally been overlooked.…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The role of frontal oculomotor structures in the predictive control of eye movements /
Gagnon, Danny

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The role of the FEF/FPA and SEF in oculomotor prediction was investigated using psychophysics, functional MRI (fMRI) and TMS. The separate contribution of advance knowledge of target direction and target timing to predictive saccades, and neural activity in frontal oculomotor…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Data mining with relational database management systems
Zou, Beibei, 1974-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	With the increasing demands of transforming raw data into information and knowledge, data mining becomes an important field to the discovery of useful information and hidden patterns in huge datasets. Both machine learning and database research have made major contributions…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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More robust security specifications for 1 out of 2 Oblivious Transfer
Ahsan, Abdul Hannan.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An 1 out of 2 Oblivious Transfer (( 21 )-OT) is a two-party computation in which a sender A owning two secret bits b0, b 1 can transfer one to them, bc, to receiver Bob who chooses c. This is…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Canadian psychiatrists' current attitudes, practices, and knowledge related to fitness-to-drive in persons with mental illness
Ménard, Ingrid.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Mental illness is characterized by alterations in thinking, mood and behavior and is associated with significant distress and impaired functioning. Many mental illnesses and medications used in their treatment, can in some way impair fitness-to-drive., This thesis comprises two independent…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The typical developmental trajectory of early numerical concepts : the relationship between approximate arithmetic and nonverbal intelligence across childhood, Typical trajectory of early number concepts
Ostfield, Danielle.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The developmental trajectory of basic numerical skills and sequential processing was systematically investigated among a sample of 5 to 11-year-old typically developing boys. Performance was defined in terms of reaction times and error rates during novel computerized tasks that measured…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Development of a KT intervention to promote the use of dance as a therapeutic modality in rehabilitation
Demers, Marika

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background: Dance is a modality of choice in rehabilitation, because it combines the benefits of aerobic exercise with an enjoyable social activity. Despite the scientific evidence supporting the use of dance in rehabilitation, this treatment modality is rarely used in…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

Production of conjugated linoleic acid and conjugated linolenic acid by Bifidobacterium breve JKL03 and its application
Jung, Yun-Kyoung, 1979-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is predominantly found in foods of ruminant origin such as milk and processed cheese, and has gained much interest recently due to its beneficial health and biological effects on animals and humans., The bioconversion of linoleic…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

Who manages home garden agrobiodiversity? : patterns of species distribution, planting material flow and knowledge transmission along the Corrientes River of the Peruvian Amazon
Perrault-Archambault, Mathilde

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Agrobiodiversity constitutes an essential resource for traditional rural populations. Home gardens are "hotspots" of agrobiodiversity and important loci of in situ conservation efforts. This study seeks to understand the factors affecting gardeners' choices and to assess the accessibility of planting…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Theoretical orientations to reading and instructional practices of eleven grade five teachers
Elliott-Johns, Susan E.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explores the nature of teachers' understandings of theoretical orientation to reading and the relationships between theoretical orientations to reading and instructional practice. The participants were eleven Grade Five classroom teachers, seven female and four male, in one particular…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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17.

Data mining using relational database management system
Ma, Xuesong, 1975-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	With the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent demands to transform the raw data into useful information and knowledge, data mining has become an important research field both in the database area and the machine learning…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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18.

The reading comprehension of deaf/hard-of-hearing Jamaican students: the contributions of intellectual ability, sign-language comprehension, vocabulary, knowledge and metacognitive awareness
Dockery, Karla

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A large number of deaf/hard-of-hearing (hh) students never attain grade-appropriate reading comprehension levels. Studies, primarily with North American and European countries, have established that the median reading comprehension level achieved at graduation is grade 4. The present study sought to…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Regularized reinforcement learning with performance guarantees
Milani Fard, Mahdi

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reinforcement learning covers a broad category of control problems in which the learning agent interacts with the environment in order to learn to maximize the collected utility. Such exploratory interaction is often costly, encouraging sample-efficient algorithms to be used in…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Drawing inferences : drawing, discourse, and spatio-motor representation in an animation storyboarding activity
Blatter, Janet

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A case study of collaborative storyboarding in an animation studio grounded this investigation of visual discourse---discourse about and with visual displays. The focus was on a problem occurring during a 40-minute task between the head storyboard artist and his junior…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Running out of place : the language and architecture of Lewis Carroll
Dionne, Caroline

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examines the links between architecture and literature through the work of English author/mathematician/geometrician Lewis Carroll/Charles L. Dodgson. The premise is that throughout Carroll's work, questions concerning the position of the body in relation to its surroundings---the possibility for…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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22.

Bioinformatic approaches to the discovery of apoptotic proteins
Acoca, Stephane

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The core of this research project revolves around the development of knowledge and expertise in the field of sequence homology identification techniques, as applied towards the discovery of Bcl2 family members. The use of such methods resulted in the uncovering…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Heart rate telemetry and time-motion analysis of ice hockey referees
Kahn, Bradley

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Referees have a job to ensure a safe and fair playing environment. The purpose of this study was to quantify on-ice intensities (heart rate) and on-ice movements (forward or backwards skating or stationary) of referees during ice hockey games. 15…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Risk-directed exploration in reinforcement learning
Law, Edith L. M.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reinforcement Learning is a class of methods for solving sequential decision problems when the model of the environment is not known. In this framework, the agent must explore the environment to gather more information about the model and the utility…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental education essential elements in school field trip programming
Futer, Mariam

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigated the apparent effectiveness of environmental education essential elements in school field trip programming. First, the elements essential to environmental education field trips were identified from the literature. Second, these elements were incorporated into a questionnaire that was…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

Filtering Islam : an analysis of 'the expert on Islam' in Canadian news media
Popowich, Morris

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A standard element of many news stories that mention Islam is the 'expert.' An expert contributes what is presented as objective knowledge about Islam to a news story. Through ostensibly objective statements, an expert plays a significant role in the…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Islamic feminist community organizing for combatting violence against women : a case study of Rifka Annisa, Women Crisis Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Setiawan, Dorita

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis focuses on an Islamic feminist community organization, and its activities in combating violence against women. The case example discussed in this study is the Rifka Annisa Women's Crisis Center (WCC Rifka Annisa) located in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. By examining…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Bipedal running with one actuator per leg
Neville, Neil

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	RHex is a cockroach-inspired hexapod robot capable of walking, running, and climbing. This thesis presents the development of a novel, three dimensional, bipedal running gait for RHex using only two actuated degrees of freedom (DOF), one per compliant leg. To…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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29.

Kondo resonance in double quantum dots : a Green's function analysis
Ji, Tao, 1981-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, an overview of non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) technique is presented. The entire formulism is derived from the starting point of the definitions of Green's functions. The special application of NEGF to transport problems is discussed in details.…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Microfabrication : using bulk wet etching with TMAH
Duan, Xuefeng, 1981-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In November 2002 a Microfabrication Lab was established in the physics department of McGill University to support research in nanoscience and technology. At the same time, I arrived at McGill to begin my graduate study. So I was assigned to…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

The application of Web Ontology Language for information sharing in the dairy industry /
Gao, Yongchun, 1977-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis the Semantic Web and its core technology---Web Ontology Language (OWL)---were studied. Considering the features of the different units involved in the dairy industry, OWL, in its capacity as an ontology description language, can be used to encode…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Genetic and phenotypic analysis of clk-1 growth suppressors in Caenorhabditis elegans
Nguyen, Thi Phuong Anh, 1982-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Ubiquinone (UQ) is a lipid found in all cellular membranes. It is involved in multiple cellular processes, either directly or through its effect on the redox status of the cell. clk-1 encodes a highly conserved hydroxylase required for UQ biosynthesis.…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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How does what's bred in the bone come out in the flesh? : Devora Neumark's interventions and the concept of flesh
Kiriloff, Vera.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines seven of Devora Neumark's artistic interventions that activate an embodied transfer or continuity of knowledge. I am inspired by phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of "the flesh of the world," that is the element enabling a reversibility between…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Constructive alignment in teacher education : identifying contextually dependent student presage factors and associated learning outcomes, Alignment in teacher education
Redden, Krista Corinne.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A sequential exploratory design (Creswell, 2003) was used to measure how a social-constructivist oriented educational psychology course could move beyond the inert knowledge Mandl, Gruber, and Renkl (1996) reported to be the outcome of student teacher engagement with formal university…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

The effect of banked-curves on electromyographic activity in the lower leg during running : by Jennifer Gow.
Gow, Jennifer.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The biomechanics of running on level surfaces has been extensively researched, but there is limited knowledge on the biomechanical adaptations of curvilinear running. The purpose of this study was to investigate the electromyographic activity (EMG) of the lower leg muscles…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Competition law and international trade from the GATT to the WTO : the undeniable reality of an emergent jurisprudence
Malek-Bakouche, Farah.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Liberalising trade is not limited to diminishing trade barriers or decreasing tariffs rates, but also ensuring that these efforts are maintained: this is the role of competition rules., It is common knowledge that for decades Countries have been trying to…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An investigation of the role of legends and storytelling in a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) early childhood facility
Deer, Sandra

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	AbstractThrough the course of our history, Indigenous cultural and spiritual knowledge remains, in many places as faint as the smoke rising from the embers of last nights fire; in other places, with enough flame to ignite another log. In spite…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowing children: telepathy in Anglo-American fiction, 1846-1946
Holmgren, Lindsay

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	"Knowing Children" describes the means by which telepathic devices present the mind of the child in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers. An intellectual interest in the child and childhood flourished not only during the…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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"They gon' study some [things]": representation of schools and schooling in HBO's «The Wire»
Siam, Habib

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This qualitative inquiry is a close reading of the representations of public schools and schooling in HBO's television drama The Wire. I pay particular attention to the experiences of school administrators, educators, and students. The Wire draws from the ethnographic…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Anxiety and depression among participants in an early ovarian cancer diagnosis program
Grigorie, Maria Simona

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background: Despite its low incidence, ovarian cancer is associated with very poor prognosis and this is common knowledge in the general population. There is limited knowledge about the levels of anxiety and depression in women who undergo diagnostic testing for…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Epistemic beliefs and assessment practices:effects on learning strategies and learning outcomes
Chevrier, Marianne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The aim of this thesis was to better understand the impact of different evaluative tasks on student learning by considering the role that learners’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing might have in this relationship. This study explored whether students’ task…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

On distance measurement methods for turbo codes
Ould Cheikh Mouhamedou, Youssouf.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	New digital communication applications, such as multimedia, require very powerful error correcting codes that deliver low error rates while operating at low to moderate ratios (SNRs). Turbo codes have reasonable complexity and can achieve very low error rates if a…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

Roles of zinc cluster protein transcription factors in conferring drug resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans
MacPherson, Sarah A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Multi-drug or pleiotropic drug resistance (PDR) is a universally acquired mechanism that is evolutionarily conserved. Saccharomyces cerevisiae serves as an excellent model organism for studying this phenomenon in pathogenic fungi, such as Candida albicans. In yeast, PDR is most often…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Peasant adaptation to environmental change in the Peruvian Amazon : livelihood responses in an Amerindian and a non-Amerindian community
Manzi, Maya

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	One of the primary challenges facing researchers and practitioners in their efforts to address issues of poverty and environment is the need to deepen our understanding of the logic that guides local people's decisions over resource use, particularly among the…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Giovanni Battista Cavalieri's Ecclesiae militantis triumphi : Jesuits, martyrs, print, and the counter-reformation
Tsoumis, Karine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Five hundred years of Christian martyrdom are represented in the Ecclesiae militantis triumphi (1583). Engraved by Giovanni Battista Cavalieri, the series that was bound into a book reproduces a fresco cycle in the church of San Stefano Rotondo in Rome.…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Educational reform : an investigation of democracy and the place of the self in Québec education
Rabinovitch, Lori Diane

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Province of Quebec launched a province-wide reform of its schools and adult education centres in 1997 to respond to the exigencies of an increasingly multicultural population, and the requirements of a knowledge-based society. The reform aims to enhance democracy…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The impact of the legal system on parental alienation syndrome /
Vassiliou, Despina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of the present study was to examine Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and to expand the research based knowledge in the area. PAS entails both psychological processes and legal dimensions as it occurs primarily within the context of custody…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Seeing music : integrating vision and hearing in the perception of musical performances
Vines, Bradley W.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates cross-modal interactions in auditory and visual perception, focusing on the perception of expressive musical performances. A primary aim of the work is to advance knowledge pertaining to how and when musicians' body movements influence an observer's overall…
Fecha:	2005
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The use of laboratory and participatory ergonomic research models to investigate working posture in industry
Antle, David

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Consensus on physical mechanisms linking work posture to discomfort and disorder risk has not been reached. The objective of this dissertation was to use a series of laboratory studies to identify measurements associated with discomfort and disorder risk in lower…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Elementary school teachers and the ethics and religious culture course
Pelchat, Alex

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In 2008, a new course entitled Ethics and Religious Culture was introduced in Quebec for students from first grade to secondary five, with the exception of secondary three students. The implementation of the course was controversial and many parents and…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL