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First record of Seticornuta Morley (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Metopiinae) from Brazil and description of a new species., Primeiro registro de Seticornuta Morley (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Metopiinae) do Brasil e descrição de uma nova espécie.
ARAUJO, C. R. - PENTEADO-DIAS, A. M.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	A new species of Seticornuta from Brazil is described and illustrated, the frst record of this genus for the Brazilian fauna. This new species was found in a study that aimed to enhance knowledge of the Brazilian fauna of Metopiinae,…
Fecha:	2012-11-29
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Explaining variation in Brazil nut fruit production.
KAINER, K. A. - WADT, L. H. de O. - STAUDHAMMER, C. L.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Brazil nut is widely recognized as the cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy. Tight linkages between Brazil nut production, regional income, and intact mature forests have thrust this species into focus as a key component of Amazonian conservation and income…
Fecha:	2008-01-11
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Digestibility of feed ingredients for the striped surubim Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum.
SILVA, T. S. C. - MORO, G. V. - SILVA, T. B. A. - DAIRIKI, J. K. - CYRINO, J. E. P.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Knowledge on apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) is necessary to maximize the feed efficiency, thus lessening dietary nutrient and energy losses. This study tasks the determination of apparent digestibility of selected feedstuff to striped surubim Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum, a carnivorous, South American…
Fecha:	2012-11-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Areas of natural occurrence of Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the state of Bahia, Brazil.
ALVES, R. M. O. - CARVALHO, C. A. L. - SOUZA, B. A. - SANTOS, W. S.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The bee Melipona scutellaris is considered the reared meliponine species with the largest distribution in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, with records from the state of Rio Grande do Norte down to the state of Bahia. Considering the…
Fecha:	2012-11-28
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Evapotranspiration and crop coefficient of drip irrigated watermelon in Piaui coastline, Brazil ., Evapotranspiração e coeficiente de cultivo da melancia irrigada por gotejamento no litoral do Piauí.
BASTOS, E. A. - SILVA, C. R. - RODRIGUES, B. H. N. - ANDRADE JUNIOR, A. S. de - IBIAPINA, L. M. M.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The knowledge of the evapotranspiration (ETc) and crop coefficient (Kc) is fundamental to plan and to manage the irrigation of any crop. The aim of this study was to determine the daily and hourly evapotranspiration of drip irrigated watermelon (Citrullus…
Fecha:	2012-11-28
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Natural occurrence of deoxynivalenol in wheat from Paraná State, Brazil and estimated daily intake by wheat products.
SANTOS, J. S. dos - SOUZA, T. M. - ONO, E. Y. S. - HASHIMOTO, E. H. - BASSOI, M. C. - MIRANDA, M. Z. de - ITANO, E. N. - KAWAMURA, O. - HIROOKA, E. Y.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The occurrence of deoxynivalenol (DON) was evaluated in 113 wheat samples from the northern and central/ southwestern regions of Paraná State, Brazil during the 2008 and 2009 growing seasons, and this rate of occurrence was used to estimate the DON…
Fecha:	2012-11-23
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Researches is health of Pirarucu, Arapaima gigas: partnership between EMBRAPA-SEBRAE.
MACIEL, P. O. - IWASHITA, M. K. P. - TAVARES-DIAS, M. - MORON, S. E.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Aiming to deepen the scientific knowledge on health aspects of pirarucu, and attempting to improve the fingerlings survival rates a partnership was signed between SEBRAE and EMBRAPA, in collaboration with the UFT., 2012
Fecha:	2012-11-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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The land wants me around : power, authority and their negations in traditional hunting knowledge at Wemindji (James Bay, Québec)
Nasr, Wren.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study investigates the importance of traditional hunting knowledge to Cree identity and experience. My fieldwork was conducted in Wemindji, James Bay, Quebec, with Cree trappers and on the interactions of scientific researchers and Cree trappers. I explore the connections…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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What is the nature of university professors' discipline-specific pedagogical knowledge? : a descriptive multicase study
Berthiaume, Denis.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research project investigates the nature of university professors' discipline-specific pedagogical knowledge (DPK). Traditionally, DPK has been examined with the help of constructs from two distinct lines of research: the knowledge base for teaching and disciplinary specificity in university teaching.…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Examination of the historical sensemaking processes representing the development of knowledge management programs in universities : case studies associated with an emergent discipline
Sutton, Michael J. D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this qualitative study was an investigation of the phenomenon of Knowledge Management (KM) program design and development. The interest in KM programs has grown during the last decade because of the increased demand for KM educational research…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Cognitive assessment in a computer-based coaching environment in higher education : diagnostic assessment of development of knowledge and problem-solving skill in statistics
Zhang, Zhidong, 1957-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Diagnostic cognitive assessment (DCA) was explored using Bayesian networks and evidence-centred design (ECD) in a statistics learning domain (ANOVA). The assessment environment simulates problem solving activities that occurred in a web-based statistics learning environment. The assessment model is composed of…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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12.

Robust beamforming for collaborative MIMO-OFDM wireless systems
Kwun, Byong-Ok.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Collaborative beamforming is a powerful technique to increase communication energy efficiency and range in an energy-constrained network. To achieve high performance, collaborative beamforming requires accurate knowledge of channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters (collaborative nodes). In practice, however, such…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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13.

Inuit knowledge and perceptions of the land-water interface
Heyes, Scott Alexander

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Inuit of Kangiqsualujjuaq have maintained functional and spiritual connections with the landscape and waters of Arctic Quebec (Nunavik) for over four thousand years. While ethnographic studies about this ocean-going population have revealed their pragmatic relationships with the arctic milieu,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

Nutrient dynamics and nitrogen-based production in the western Canadian Arctic Ocean
Simpson, Kyle G. F.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Inclement climate conditions have made the Arctic Ocean logistically difficult to study, and thus, our historical knowledge of Arctic Ocean processes are limited. Recent observations indicate rapid and abrupt changes in climate. These changes are thought to includes rising temperatures,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

Gene expression of the mycoparasite Stachybotrys elegans during interaction with a fungal host and a hon-host
Arts, Monique R.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The mycoparasite Stachybotrys elegans represents a potential biocontrol agent of Rhizoctonia solani, the causal organism of potato stem canker. The differential expression of two mycoparasitism-induced genes was monitored in S. elegans during interactions with its host, Rhizoctonia solani, and a…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Student teachers' understanding of inquiry instruction, Understanding of inquiry
Syer, Cassidy A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Curriculum reform emphasizes the importance of inquiry instruction for learners. For inquiry-oriented curriculum to occur, attention must be focused on teacher education. Using a mixed-methods design, I investigated if and how groups of student teachers who receive different types of…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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17.

Camera-independent learning and image quality assessment for super-resolution
Bégin, Isabelle.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An increasing number of applications require high-resolution images in situations where the access to the sensor and the knowledge of its specifications are limited. In this thesis, the problem of blind super-resolution is addressed, here defined as the estimation of…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The determinants of adiponectin in female adolescents : offspring of gestational diabetes and non-diabetes affected pregnancies
Gallo, Sina.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Daughters of gestational diabetes (GDM) affected pregnancies are at greater risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) later in life. Adiponectin is an early marker of DM risk. Dietary fat quality has been proposed to be involved…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship : separating the effects of species richness, from those of species identity and environmental heterogeneity in a tropical tree plantation
Healy, Chrystal.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study attempts to expand existing knowledge on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, by studying a four year old tropical tree plantation. The growth of trees coming from monocultures, three species mixtures and six species mixtures was compared.…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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20.

Classical and quantum strategies for bit commitment schemes in the two-prover model
Simard, Jean-Raymond.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	We show that the long-standing assumption of "no-communication" between the provers of the two-prover model is not sufficiently precise to guarantee the security of a bit commitment scheme against malicious adversaries. Indeed, we show how a simple correlated random variable,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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21.

Fear of dental implants among edentulous patients
Nemes, Jordan.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Despite implant-supported overdentures' advantages over conventional dentures, edentulous patients often refuse dental implants for reasons that may be related to fear. Objective. The purpose of this study was to uncover and explain the various forms and sources of dental implant-related…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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22.

On knowledge representation and decision making under uncertainty
Tabaeh Izadi, Masoumeh.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Designing systems with the ability to make optimal decisions under uncertainty is one of the goals of artificial intelligence. However, in many applications the design of optimal planners is complicated due to imprecise inputs and uncertain outputs resulting from stochastic…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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23.

Essays on asset pricing with heterogeneous beliefs and bounded rational investor
Lu, Lei, 1975-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis includes two essays on asset pricing. In the first essay, "Asset Pricing in a Monetary Economy with Heterogeneous Beliefs", we shed new light on the role of monetary policy in asset pricing by focusing on the case where…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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24.

Integrative bioinformatics for the discovery of genetic modifiers of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis
Cory, Sean M.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis (BIPF) is a disease caused by the chemotherapeutic bleomycin in which normal lung tissue is replaced with fibrous tissue that is unable to fulfill the normal functions of oxygen exchange in the lung. The development of this…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Widely linear minimum variance channel estimation with application to multicarrier CDMA systems
Abdallah, Saeed.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Conventional Minimum-Variance (MV) channel estimation is affected by two sources of error, namely the finite number of samples used to estimate the covariance matrix and the asymptotic bias due to interference and additive noise. On the other hand, widely linear…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Building a Knowledge Management Model at Brazil's Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation): Towards a Knowledge-Based View of Organizations.
ALVARENGA NETO, R. C. D. de - VIEIRA, J. L. G.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…
Fecha:	2012-09-18
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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27.

Talin : a novel inducible antagonist of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-[beta]1) signal transduction
Rafiei, Shahrzad.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The survival of breast cancer patients declines when tumors are invasive and have an increased possibility of metastasizing to distal sites. Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF-beta) suppresses breast cancer formation by preventing cell cycle progression in mammary epithelial cells. However, at…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

Applied imagination : Giordano Bruno and the creation of magical images
Storch, Michael.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The creation and manipulation of infinite images is central to Bruno's thought, but to the best of my knowledge, this has never been properly treated before. This project is a departure from much of the current scholarship on Bruno which…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Long-term changes in the organization of lithic technology : a case study from the Imjin-Hantan River Area, Korea
Yoo, Yongwook, 1969-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study is intended to furnish an explicability of hunter-gather's organizational model on the lithic technology. The fieldwork area is the Imjin-Hantan River Area (the IHRA) located at the midwestern part of the Korean Peninsula. The archaeological sites included in…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

Actual versus best practices for young children with cerebral palsy : a survey of pediatric occupational therapists and physical therapists in Quebec, Canada
Saleh, Maysoun.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background and rationale. Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common disabling disorders of childhood and constitutes a substantial portion of pediatric rehabilitation. This condition demands comprehensive rehabilitation using age-appropriate tasks and activities and encompassing aspects of body function…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

Transcriptional and genetic profiling of human uveal melanoma from an immunosuppressed rabbit model
Marshall, Jean-Claude.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumour in adults. Despite improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of the primary tumour, patients continue to have the same mortality rate as several decades ago, reflecting our poor understanding of…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

Mechanisms of vitamin D receptor and retinoid X receptor mediated hormone resistance and cell differentiation in normal and cancer cells
Macoritto, Michael.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Vitamin D is a precursor to a steroid hormone, 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D). After its discovery and the characterization of its receptor, the vitamin D receptor (VDR), it was initially thought only to be involved in calcium homeostasis, but further…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

Robustness in ASR : an experimental study of the interrelationship between discriminant feature-space transformation, speaker normalization and environment compensation
Keyvani, Alireza.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis addresses the general problem of maintaining robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance under diverse speaker populations, channel conditions, and acoustic environments. To this end, the thesis analyzes the interactions between environment compensation techniques, frequency warping based speaker normalization,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Bacterial diversity of soil under eucalyptus assessed by 16S rDNA sequencing analysis.
SILVEIRA, E.L. da - PEREIRA, R.M. - SCAQUITTO, D.C. - PEDRINHO, E.A.N. - VAL-MORAES, S.P. - WICKERT, E. - CARARETO-ALVES, L.M. - LEMOS, E.G. de M.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Studies on the impact of Eucalyptus spp. on Brazilian soils have focused on soil chemical properties and isolating interesting microbial organisms. Few studies have focused on microbial diversity and ecology in Brazil due to limited coverage of traditional cultivation and…
Fecha:	2014-08-23
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Statistical modeling of extreme rainfall processes in consideration of climate change
Cung, Annie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Extreme rainfall events may have catastrophic impacts on the population and infrastructures, therefore it is essential to have accurate knowledge of extreme rainfall characteristics. Moreover, both the scientific community and policymakers have recently shown a growing interest in the potential…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

Strongly coupled Bayesian models for interacting object and scene classification processes
Ehtiati, Tina.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, we present a strongly coupled data fusion architecture within a Bayesian framework for modeling the bi-directional influences between the scene and object classification mechanisms. A number of psychophysical studies provide experimental evidence that the object and the…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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37.

Role of cki-2 during development in C. elegans
Kim, Dae Young, 1968-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Rapid progress has been made toward understanding the significance of CDK inhibitor proteins (CKIs) in the regulation of cell cycle progression. The overall goal of this study has been targeted to further expand our knowledge of CKI function through the…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

The in vivo neuroprotective role of the normal cellular prion protein /
Gains, Malcolm J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The role of prion protein (PrPC) as a crucial factor in the pathogenesis of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE's) is well known. However, the physiologic role of this highly conserved protein in vivo is thus far, largely unknown. In vitro…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

Synthesis of aminoglycoside derivatives to combat bacterial resistance
Gao, Feng

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Aminoglycosides are broad spectrum antibiotics that act by binding to 16S rRNA of bacteria. The wide spread of aminoglycoside resistance threatens the use of these important medicines. Two general approaches can be used to address the aminoglycoside resistance problem. One…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Bayesian exploration in Markov decision processes
Castro Rivadeneira, Pablo Samuel

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Markov Decision Processes are a mathematical framework widely used for stochastic optimization and control problems. Reinforcement Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that deals with stochastic environments where the dynamics of the system are unknown. A major issue for…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Cancer prevention and the human papillomavirus vaccine:psychosocial and behavioural factors involved in vaccination decision-making
Krawczyk, Andrea

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of the present thesis was to examine psychosocial and behavioural factors associated with the decision-making process involved in uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. In Canada, the HPV vaccine has been approved for women and men aged…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

B-boy (dance) cipher: an innovative knowledge community's shared activity
Lefebvre, Haidee

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	My study focuses on b-boying, the archetype of hiphop dance, to better understand the informal teaching and learning processes embodied in the freestyle or raw b-boy cipher (improvisational dance circle). I draw from an ethnographic approach to investigate how hiphop…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

Pharmacotherapy of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the impact of information interventions on parental knowledge, attitudes and their child's adherence to medication
Gomes, Paul

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Objective: Despite the established effectiveness of medication in improving symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Spencer et al 2000), rates of adherence to pharmacotherapy are low, ranging from 34% to 91% (Gau et al., 2006). Since higher adherence rates are…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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44.

Learner, text, and context factors on conceptual change in biology
Trevors, Gregory

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigated how instructional environments might be optimally designed for all students to restructure prior knowledge and learn counter-intuitive science concepts, referred to as conceptual change. Three independent variables were examined in relation to real-time cognitive processes and subsequent…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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45.

Governance, sociotechnical systems and knowledge society: Challenges and reflections
Balloni, Antonio José - Bermejo, Paulo Henrique de Souza - Holm, Jeanne - Tonelli, Adriano Olimpio

Formato:	Artigo
Enlaces:	http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/governance-sociotechnical-systems-knowledge-society/66970
Fecha:	2013-08-30
Recurso:	Universidade Federal de Lavras - UFLA

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Meaningful main effects or intriguing interactions? examining the influences of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representations on cognitive processing and conceptual change when learning physics
Franco, Gina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representations in cognitive and metacognitive processing and conceptual change when learning about physics concepts through text. Specifically, I manipulated the representation of physics concepts in…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Beliefs and motives behind the paper: examining relations between epistemic beliefs, achievement goals, writing strategies, and academic writing achievement
Duffy, Melissa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Throughout university, students are required to complete complex writing tasks that involve a host of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, yet little is known about the differences in students' approach to the writing process. In particular, the role of students' beliefs…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Placebos in medicine: from conceptualizations in medical school to integration in clinical practice
Campbell, Natasha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Placebo effects constitute context-dependent medical phenomena, and exemplify the link between psychosocial factors and physiological processes. By surveying medical students (Study 1) and practicing physicians (Study 2), the present thesis explores the knowledge and attitudes towards the role of placebos,…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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49.

Text classification using labels derived from structured knowledge representations
Perreault, Mathieu

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Structured knowledge representations are becoming central to the area of Information Science. Search engines companies have said that constructing an entity graph is the key to classifying their enormous corpus of documents in order to provide more relevant results to…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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50.

The effect of scarcity on product evaluation
Lee, Seung Yun

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Marketers often use scarcity to influence consumers, with announcements such as "limited quantities," "until stocks last," "few tickets left for this event," "limited time offer," or "24 hour sale." Past research indicates that scarcity often has a positive effect on…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL