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Knowledge transfer in neural networks : knowledge-based cascade-correlation
Rivest, François

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Breadth and depth of English vocabulary knowledge : which really matters in the academic reading performance of Chinese university students?
Huang, Hsing-Fei, 1979-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explored the relationship between vocabulary size (i.e., breadth of knowledge), depth of vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension of Chinese-speaking ESL (English as a second language) university students in Canada. Both aspects of vocabulary knowledge, breadth and depth, continue…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The cultural right to practice traditional medicinal knowledge in Zimbabwe /
Frommer, Chloe Giselle

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Cultural resources like traditional medicinal knowledge need to be recognized in their role tied to important regional practices in Zimbabwe. This is especially as a nexus of legal definitions for biological, intellectual and cultural resources will inform a National Sui…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Composite products as conceptual combinations : issues of perception, categorization and brand evaluation
Gill, Tripat

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation addresses the issues pertaining to composite products (CPs). CPs are defined as products formed by combining knowledge from two distinct domains, for example, digital cameras, which combine knowledge from digital products and cameras. The three research questions addressed…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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The acquisition of coaching knowledge of a unique sample of expert team sport coaches /
Carter, Adam D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to identify how coaches who have surpassed their athletic achievements acquired their coaching knowledge. Six University coaches from basketball, volleyball, and hockey, with a combined total of fourteen coach of the year awards were…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The protection of indigenous medicinal knowledge in international intellectual property law /
Lassonde, Marie-Claire

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	For 20 years, and more intensively during the last decade, indigenous knowledge has challenged the regime of intellectual property. If this field of law has been, in the past, challenged by new technology, it is now, with the problematic of…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Articulatory, perceptual, and phonological determinants of accurate production of s
Ohberg, Alyssa.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Children's speech sound errors may reflect deficits in acoustic-phonetic, articulatory-phonetic, or phonological knowledge of those sounds. The purpose of the current study was to explore the factors believed to contribute to accurate articulation of /s/ in children with typically developing…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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At the border : a dramatic one-act play, Nineveh, and relevant discussion on informal education, imagination, and the development of identity and applied knowledge
Tannis, Derek.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis is a theoretical and practical investigation of the role played by informal learning and teaching in the development of identity and applied knowledge. With the advent of mass schooling, there came to be a distinction between formal and…
Fecha:	2002
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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Modeling information-seeking expertise on the Web
Tabatabai, Diana

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Searching for information pervades a wide spectrum of human activity, including learning and problem solving. With recent changes in the amount of information available and the variety of means of retrieval, there is even more need to understand why some…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Etiology and epidemiology of Pythium root rot in hydroponic crops: current knowledge and perspectives.
SUTTON, J. C. - SOPHER, C. R. - OWEN-GOING, T. N. - LIU, W. - GRODZINSKI, B. - HALL, J. C. - BENCHIMOL, R. L.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The etiology and epidemiology of Pythium root rot in hydroponically-grown crops are reviewed with emphasis on knowledge and concepts considered important for managing the disease in commercial greenhouses. Pythium root rot continually threatens the productivity of numerous kinds of crops…
Fecha:	2009-12-01
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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14.

Geometry and spatial intuition : a genetic approach
Jagnow, René

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, I investigate the nature of geometric knowledge and its relationship to spatial intuition. My goal is to rehabilitate the Kantian view that Euclid's geometry is a mathematical practice, which is grounded in spatial intuition, yet, nevertheless, yields…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

Hume, history and the science of human nature
Perinetti, Dario

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis sets out to show that a philosophical reflection on history is, in the strongest possible way, an essential feature of Hume's project of a science of human nature: a philosophical investigation of human nature, for Hume, cannot be…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Intellectual capital governance and the knowledge economy in Canada
Hoffman, Anthony Michael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Intellectual capital, as opposed to traditional conceptions of intellectual property, is neither as simple to define nor as straightforward to protect and regulate. As companies in the financial services sector attempt the efficient management of increasingly voluminous and strategically important…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Farmers' local ecological knowledge in the biotech age : a multi-sited ethnography of fruit farming in the Okanagan Valley
Askew, Hannah.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this Master of Arts Thesis in Anthropology I examine the controversy in the Okanagan Valley over the introduction of GM seed technologies into local agricultural processes. I explore via a multi-sited ethnography how local fruit farmers in this region…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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18.

The self and the sublime : a comparative study in the philosophy of education
Humphreys, Julian.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis I discuss personal identity (the self) as it relates to authoritative contexts (the sublime). I show how these contexts confer meaning on personal and cultural narratives, which in turn confer meaning on facts and knowledge claims. I…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The examination of nurse, organizational and infant factors associated with effective procedural pain care in hospitalized infants /
Latimer, Margot.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background. Hospitalized infants still experience pain from regularly performed tissue-damaging procedures. Nurses have knowledge to manage the pain but do not apply that knowledge. There is agreement that hospital organizational factors influence quality of care outcomes and some indication that…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The state of near-native grammar : a study of aspect in L2 Polish
Kozłowska-Macgregor, Martyna

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Sorace (1993) suggests that competence at the final stage of non-native acquisition falls into qualitatively distinct categories: (1) incomplete grammar, which lacks a representation for a part of the target system; (2) divergent grammar, which has the target distinctions with…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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21.

A critical analysis of the child welfare system and attempts to reclaim clinical practice /
St. Hillaire, Kim

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Stress and burnout have received a great deal of attention in the child welfare field. This has been due to such issues as the high workload, the complexity of the cases, working with resistant and at times violent clients and…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Determining University Professors' Practical Teaching Knowledge Constructs in Exemplary Incidents of Teaching
Hum, Gregory

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philosophy across the…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Crisis and regime change : the nuclear nonproliferation regime and the challenge from nuclear terrorism
Thompson, Jean-Philippe

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An indirect crisis, the terrorist attacks of September 1 1 , is used as a catalyst to review the tasks of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime. However, it is insufficient to initiate a comprehensive change to the regime to incorporate the…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Self-regulation of sport specific and educational problem-solving tasks by children with and without developmental coordination disorder
Lloyd, Meghann

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose was to examine the domain specificity of the self-regulatory skills of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) compared to their peers without DCD. Participants included 10 children with DCD and 10 without. A sport specific problem-solving task (shooting…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Iris Murdoch on knowledge and freedom
Conlin, Alice

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In chapter one, I describe the different conceptions of self that Murdoch and Nussbaum have, and I show how these affect their depictions of human good. And I relate how each one defends the internal logic of her claims against…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Plays on "the Indian" : representation of knowledge and authenticity in Indianist mimetic practice
Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, is an expression of a typically European fascination with Native American peoples which involves crafting "museum-quality replicas" of clothing and artifacts as well as reenactment of slices of Native American nineteenth-century life by non-Native practitioners in…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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27.

Knowledge mapping : the consolidation of the technology management discipline
Pelc, Karol I.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-03-14
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Reading skills of deaf adults who sign : good and poor readers compared
Chamberlain, Charlene.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Functional literacy is difficult to achieve for the deaf population. Sixty percent of deaf high school students read at or below grade four, eight percent read at or above grade eight. The present study investigated two factors that may contribute…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A review of the literature on co-occurring severe mental illness and substance misuse : epidemiology, terminology, etiology, treatment, and recovery
Lavergne, Martin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The complexity of information produced since the 1980's on co-occurring severe mental illness and substance misuse makes it difficult for social workers to grasp the current state of the question. This is a new field of study, and much of…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

L'autre féminin dans les traités de démonologie (1550-1620)
Hotton, Hélène

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century, western Europe is the stage for one of history's demonological crisis. Many critics associated this witch hunt with an episode of collective delirium and perhaps also…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

Directions in knowledge networking : Advances and opportunities
Olson, Gary M. - Atkins, Daniel E.

Formato:	Other
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2009-10-13
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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A level set vortex hybrid method for simulating the motion of vortex filaments /
Ghuneim, Abeer George

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	We present a novel approach to simulate the motion of vortex filaments in three dimensional, incompressible flows. We represent vortex filaments as thin tubes on a 3D-grid and use a Lagrangian vortex filament method to describe their motion within a…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

Germanic mythology in Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring'
Berger, Emile.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Richard Wagner, in writing the text which would become the libretto of his four operas comprising the Ring was influenced greatly by German Mythology as well as old Norse writings. His main sources are the Volsungensaga, the Thidreksaga and the…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Making space : the subversion of authoritarian language in Lewis Carroll's Alice books
Bourgeois, David C. C.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The works of Lewis Carroll show an abiding interest on the part of the author in the relationship between education, language and authority. In particular, the Alices are the story of a young girl who must learn to deal with…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Understanding the concept of asset securitization in the Canadian context
Pelletier, Anne-Barbara

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis has been written to provide the reader with a general understanding of a securitization transaction. It should be considered constructive reading for persons engaged in the practice of Canadian corporate, banking and securities law, the financial services industry…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Assessment of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) water stress : lipo-chitooligosaccharides application and spectral response
Atti, Sarra

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study was conducted to improve knowledge of the impact of chronic soil water deficit and to test a novel technique of water management consisting of Lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCO) spray application. It also aimed at evaluating changes in canopy reflectance due…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Gene expression analysis of the proteinase inhibitor gene PiA of potato (Solanum tuberosum) by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
Zhang, Tieling, 1968-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this study the gene expression pattern of a novel proteinase inhibitor II (PI-II) gene, PiA, in potato (Solanum tuberosum ), was analyzed using RT-PCR. The PiA gene was found to have enhanced expression in expanding tubers of a greenhouse-grown…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

A slippery terrain : struggle and learning in Baltistan's women organizations
Tharani, Samira Kamil

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	For the purposes of this thesis, I can say that the educational work that I have addressed represents 'informal education' in that it is oriented towards transforming gendered power relations and shares the basic methodological principle building analytically and practically…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

Redefining compliance education
Cochrane, Lorna June

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Calls for innovations and research echo in the latest reviews and meta-analyses of methods to enhance compliance (Haynes, McDonald, Garg, & Montague, 2003; Pekkala & Merinder, 2002; Peterson, Takiya, & Finley, 2003). In spite of effective therapy emerging daily from…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

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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Factors that influence the attitude of academic librarians in Saudi Arabia toward copyright laws
AlReyaee, Sulaiman

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this research is to study the factors influencing the attitude of male academic librarians towards copyright laws in Saudi Arabia. The Tripartite Model is used to evaluate the overall attitude of academic librarians, defined in terms of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

Becoming an engineering communicator : a study of novices' trajectories in learning genres of their profession
Artemeva, Natalia.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The study presented in this dissertation focusses on the analysis of novices' trajectories in learning genres of their profession, engineering. The goals of the study are: (a) to refine the current understanding of what constitutes professional genre knowledge and of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

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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44.

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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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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46.

Women of valour : literacy as the creation of personal meaning in the lives of a select group of Hassidic women in Quebec
Sepinwall, Sharyn Weinstein.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this ethnographic inquiry, I examine the way in which literacy creates personal meaning in the lives of ten Hassidic women in Quebec, Canada. Using an integrative qualitative methodology, I draw from Goldberger, Tarule, Belenky and Clinchy (1996), theories of…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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47.

Isolation and characterization of Jurkat-derived signaling-deficient T cell lines
Majdalawieh, Amin F.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this study, we describe the isolation and characterization of a functionally signaling-deficient Galpha16-negative somatic mutant (hereafter referred to clone 43) derived from the wildtype Jurkat T cell line by means of an activation-induced cell death resistance-based selection strategy. The…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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48.

Construction of an induction machine database for a case-based reasoning system
Zhang, Fan, 1965-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Case-based reasoning is a field of artificial intelligence research that emphasizes the importance of specific past experiences to the solution of new problem. The ability to suggest a solution to a novel problem based on the recall and reuse of…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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49.

Man the machine : a history of a metaphor from Leonardo da Vinci to H. G. Wells
Tombs, George, 1956-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	During the Italian Renaissance, artists and anatomists compared man to various mechanical devices, in an attempt to uncover knowledge about the structure and processes of the human body. In so doing, they drew on ancient Greek notions of instrumentality and…
Fecha:	2002
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