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Population dynamics of Leptopharsa heveae (Hemiptera: Tingidae) and Erythmelus tingitiphagus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in rubber tree plants.
SANTOS, R. S. - COSTA, V. A. - SILVA, J. M. - FREITAS, S.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The tingid Leptopharsa heveae, known as the lace bug, occurs in large populations in rubber tree plantations, limiting the production of latex due to losses of photosynthetic area and weakening of the infested trees. The alternative for the use of…
Fecha:	2012-06-27
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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What do college life sciences students need to know about knowledge management?
Castanho, Miguel A. R. B.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2010-11-30
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Spatial variability of physical and hydraulic attributes of a sandy soil in the Northeast Brazil.
TIMM, L. C. - RECKZIEGEL, N. L. - AQUINO, L. S. - BASSOI, L. H. - GUIMARÃES, E. C. - TAVARES, V. E. Q. - VAZ, C. M. P. - MANIERI, J. M. - RAMOS, C. M. C. - RIBEIRO, P. R. de A. - REICHARDT, K.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The knowledge of field management zones based on soil attributes can be helpful for the implementation of site-specific management. This work had the objective of analyzing the spatial dependence of soil attributes of the 0-0.20 m and 0.20-0.40 m layers…
Fecha:	2012-02-28
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Availability of information about sustainable bioenergy technologies: the agro-energy tree of knowledge.
JARDINE, J. G. - SUNDFELD, E. - DURÃES, F. O. M.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	In addition to the efforts undertaken by research institutions to generate new knowledge and technologies, it is also necessary to promote the results of this research. Specifically, there is a need for an information system that aggregates, organizes and systematizes…
Fecha:	2014-01-27
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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Forecasting the expansion of the invasive golden mussel Limnoperna fortunei in Brazilian and North American rivers based on its occurrence in the Paraguay River and Pantanal wetland of Brazil.
OLIVEIRA, M. D. de - HAMILTON, S. K. - JACOBI, C. M.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857), also called golden mussel, is native to Asia but becoming dispersed around the world. The golden mussel resembles the invasive dreissenid bivalves in many respects, and although much less studied it evidently has broader…
Fecha:	2014-07-12
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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An analytical model of the relationship knowledge, learning, innovation and sustainability.
CABRAL, J. E. de O. - COSTA, M. da P. B.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2010
Fecha:	2011-03-10
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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The impact of participation in an online professional community on the development of elementary pre- service teachers' knowledge of teaching mathematics
Lamb, Natasha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This inquiry sought to examine the effects of participating in an online discussion forum on the development of knowledge for teaching mathematics. The participants of this study were among the pre-service teachers from a large urban university, chosen as they…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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From wine to water : optimizing description logic reasoning for nominals
Sirin, Evren - Cuenca Grau, Bernado - Parsia, Bijan

Formato:	Documentos de trabajo
Enlaces:	En: Proceedings of KR-2006, Tenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Lake District of the United Kingdom, june 2-5, 2006, p. 90-99
Fecha:	2011-03-03
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Opportunistic multicasting scheduling using erasure-correction coding over wireless channels
Le, Dang Quang

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In wireless communications, the broadcast nature can be explored to efficiently support multicast services while the difference in channel gains among the wireless links of users promotes multiuser diversity which can be used to improve multicast performance. This thesis proposes…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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12.

Abstraction and concretization of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as seen through biblical interpretation and art
Ovadis, Alyssa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This work examines the patterns inherent to the understanding of the nature of the forbidden fruit in an attempt to demonstrate parallels between the reasoning of biblical interpreters, on one hand, and of artists, on the other., While the biblical…
Fecha:	2010
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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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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The effect of lesson characteristics on dialogue duration in classroom discourse and class content learning outcomes on multiple-choice tests
Lemay, David

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It has been proposed that forms of dialogue (Keegan, 1993) are differentially related to subject knowledge possessed by the student and the roles that teachers and students play within those dialogues. A reading of the socio-constructivist literature suggests that maximal…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Energy storage system scheduling in wind-diesel microgrids
Ross, Michael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis proposes a knowledge based expert system tool that can be used as an on- line controller for the charging/discharging of an energy storage system in a wind-diesel microgrid. The wind-diesel microgrid is modelled, and a typical energy storage…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An algebraic approach to dynamic epistemic logic
Phillips, Caitlin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In reasoning about multi-agent systems, it is important to look beyond the realm of propositional logic and to reason about the knowledge of agents within the system, as what they know about the environment will affect how they behave. A…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The teacher's knowledge community as a third space: tensions and possibilities in curriculum planning
Havard, Kimberly Anne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Interest in curriculum is often divided between the work of curriculum theorists on one end and the manifestation of curriculum in the classroom on the other. Researchers are drawn to the study of both of these groups, but a third…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Extracting semantic information from Wikipedia using human computation and dimensionality reduction
West, Robert

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Semantic background knowledge is crucial for many intelligent applications. A classical way to represent such knowledge is through semantic networks. Wikipedia's hyperlink graph can be considered a primitive semantic network, since the links it contains usually correspond to semantic relationships…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Optimal time scales for reinforcement learning behaviour strategies
Comanici, Gheorghe

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reinforcement Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence addressing the problem of single-agent autonomous sequential decision making. It proposes computational models which do not rely on the complete knowledge of the dynamics of stochastic environments. Options are a formalism used…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/ dissonance on musical signal processing
Rogers, Susan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates possible origins of the distinction between consonant and dissonant auditory events and how persons with and without formal musical training judge the distinction. Two studies comprising six experiments used behavioral methods to explore perceptual and cognitive differences…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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EMBRAPA cassava & fruits.

Formato:	Folderes / Folhetos / Cartilhas (INFOTECA-E)
Enlaces:	World of science Joining scientific Sharing knowledge and technologies with developing countries efforts to develop better solutions., 2011
Fecha:	2012-03-21
Recurso:	Informação Tecnológica en Agricultura (Infoteca-e)

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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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Computer aided design for molecular inhibitors
Lee, Devin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In-silico methods used to aid the development of therapeutic drugs have gained utility in the recent past and continue to grow in importance. Small molecule drugs for the use in the treatment of type 2 diabetes were designed using computational…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Invisible persons, invisible patients: determining the ethics of hormone-blocker therapy through an understanding of the transgender/transsexual adolescent- physician relationship
Bonifacio, Herbert

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A new ethical medical dilemma concerns the use of hormone-blockers or medications that put puberty on hold in the care of transgender/transsexual (TG/TS) adolescents. These medications are taken until she is old enough to legally consent to cross-sex hormones. Such…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The development of an artificially intuitive reasoner
Sun, Yung Chien

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research is an exploration of the phenomenon of "intuition" in the context of artificial intelligence (AI). In this work, intuition was considered as the human capacity to make decisions under situations in which the available knowledge was usually low…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Plotinus' epistemology and his reading of the «theaetetus»
Magrin, Sara

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis offers a reconstruction of Plotinus' reading of the Theaetetus, and it presents an account of his epistemology that rests on that reading. It aims to show that Plotinus reads the Theaetetus as containing two anti-sceptical arguments. The first…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Collaborative environments in RD&I institutions of the brazilian agricultural sector.
TORRES, T. Z. - PIEROZZI JUNIOR, I. - BERNARDES, R. M. - VACARI, I.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Research, development and technological innovation (RD&I) companies promote inter- and intra-organizational interactions based on the formation of research nets. This arrangement prioritizes the use of competencies of both people and institutions, stimulating the generation of new knowledge and competencies, and…
Fecha:	2011-04-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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30.

Diet and infection as predictors of stunting, iron deficiency and anemia in indigenous Panamanian communities
Lardeau, Marie-Pierre

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This cross sectional study evaluated if coffee, associated with reduced linear growth, anemia and immunomodulation could contribute to childhood stunting and iron deficiency (ID) and anemia in Indigenous Ngöbe Buglé children and mothers. Questionnaires on socio-economic status, health, diet, anthropometry,…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Teaching the female adolescent to sing: A survey of choral conductors and voice instructors
Hall, Megan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Although existence of female voice change is not disputed, symptoms are subtle and not widely understood. Due to the recent nature of research conducted on the female adolescent voice, the researcher investigated what information had reached teachers of singing. The…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

Learning approximate representations of partially observable systems
Dinculescu, Monica

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Learning agents that interact with complex environments often cannot predict the exact outcome of their actions due to noisy sensors or incomplete knowledge of the world. Learning the internal representation of such partially observable environments has proven to be a…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

Creation of a personalized stroke risk index calculator
Nobel, Lisa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	For engaging individuals in reducing personal stroke risk, knowledge about factors that are directly under individual control is relevant. Therefore, the objective was to estimate the risk of first ever stroke for specific combinations of health, lifestyle and psychological related…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Policies, leadership, and private daycares
Chivi, Maya

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the legal and ethical obligations of Quebec private daycare owners and directors, towards protecting the rights and safety of children in their care and the staff members who work with these children. Qualitative methodologies included forty-two questionnaires…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Running on a cross-slope: a study of the biomechanical adaptations of the lower leg and foot
Tisseyre, Magali

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	To the author's knowledge, no studies have included an analysis of foot or ankle kinematics during cross-sloped running, a condition frequently encountered in the runner's training environment. The goal of this thesis was to evaluate the kinematic adaptations induced at…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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37.

Using case-based reasoning to learn about ecological engineering
Lanphere, Tania Ruth

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Ecological engineering, the practice of designing, creating or manipulating, and monitoring ecosystems, is applied for a variety of purposes benefiting both human society and the natural environment, often integratively. While there are basic principles that help practitioners in the development…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Spinning blood into gold: science, sex work and HIV-2 in Senegal
Gilbert, Hannah

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Through ethnography, this dissertation chronicles how a West African variant of HIV, known as HIV-2, emerged as a knowable entity. It examines how a nation like Senegal, which exists at the margins of capitalism and the periphery of the biomedical…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Transforming nature's subsidy: Global markets, Burkinabè women and African shea butter
Elias, Marlène

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this dissertation I examine the sustainability of shea butter projects in the centre-west region of Burkina Faso, West Africa. Shea butter derives from the Vitellaria paradoxa tree, which grows in the semi-arid African savanna. Women living in this region…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

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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41.

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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42.

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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Potential hydrologic impacts from deforestation in the southwestern Amazon.
LIMA, L. S. - COE, M. - SOARES-FILHO, B. S. - CUADRA, S. V. - DIAS, L. C. P. - COSTA, M. H.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2012
Fecha:	2013-04-04
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Dynamics of domination and dialogic narrative strategies in Charles Johnson's «Middle Passage», Richard Power's «The Time of Our Singing», and Lesie Marmon Silko's «Almanac of the Dead»
Oltmann, Christina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The dissertation investigates narrative strategies employed by the contemporary American novel to criticize and counteract the dynamics of domination. The study focuses primarily on Charles Johnson's Middle Passage (1990), Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing (2003), and Leslie Marmon…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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45.

Assessing the relationship between propagule pressure and probability of establishment for the aquatic invader «Bythotrephes longimanus» using two complementary approaches
Gertzen, Erin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Estimating the probability of establishment of non-indigenous species is a crucial element in managing their spread. In this thesis, I use two approaches to estimate the probability of establishment of Bythotrephes longimanus, a predatory cladoceran that is invading lakes in…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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46.

Investigating tumor suppressor genes involved in renal cell carcinomas
Hudon, Valerie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Kidney cancer is a complex disease comprising several types of renal carcinomas, which are classified in different subtypes based on their histological characteristics. A small number of cases of renal cancers are due to hereditary predispositions and nearly all the…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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47.

Capturing and representing the reasoning processes of expert clinical teachers for case-based teaching
Gauthier, Geneviève

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Case-based learning has demonstrated its potential in educational and professional environments for its ability to promote reasoning skills and foster independent learning. However, the use of this instructional approach is limited by current assessment practices. Considering that assessment drives and…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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48.

Nutrition education in health services and other determinants of complementary feeding in the Eastern region of Ghana
Robinson, Jasna

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In Ghana, rates of undernutrition peak between 9 and 21 months of age; one major cause is inadequate complementary feeding (CF). This study examined the relationship between hospital-based CF education and caregivers' reported practices through interviews with health workers (n=24),…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A history of the medical control of fertility in Peru, 1895 - 1976
Necochea Lopez, Raul

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Demographic transition theorists posit that, beginning in the 1960s, biomedical contraceptive technologies and foreign countries, the United States in particular, have been primarily responsible for changes in medical fertility control ideas and practices in Peru. This dissertation argues that biomedical…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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50.

Canadian broadcasting regulation and the digital television transition
Taylor, Gregory

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the evolution of Canadian broadcasting regulation since the adoption of the 1991 Broadcasting Act with a specific focus on the digital television transition. For Canada, this technological shift exemplifies many of the greater changes in public policy…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL