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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Enthymemes in the letters of Paul
Debanné, Marc J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	While Pauline studies today are grappling with the question of the core of Paul's thought, the investigation of the apostle's social world is also gaining interest among scholars. The study of Paul's argumentation offers a fundamental contribution to both endeavours.…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Insights into the mechanism of CD45-mediated apoptosis in lymphocytes, and establishment of related flow cytometric assays for the detection of cell surface antigens and apoptotic cells
Fortin, Marylene.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The CD45 protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) is a large transmembrane glycoprotein abundantly expressed on all nucleated cells of the hematopoietic system. CD45 plays an essential role in signal transduction through the antigen receptor in T and B lymphocytes, mainly through…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A trans-disciplinary approach integrating farm system data to better manage and predict Striga infestations /
MacLean, Roger R.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The following research developed an approach and methodology to simultaneously gather and integrate social and natural science farm system data of developing countries into one data base. The overall approach was based on Weber's theory of abstraction, which requires the…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Integrated dual frequency permittivity analyzer using cavity perturbation concept
Meda, Venkatesh.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Optimal utilization of microwave energy requires more basic knowledge of the dielectric properties of the material under investigation. The dielectric properties of materials subjected to microwaves are known to depend on moisture content, temperature and density of the material as…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Monoamine oxidases and aggressive behaviour : clinical studies and animal models
Mejia, Jose.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Monoamine oxidases (MAOs) are phylogenetically old enzymes which catalyze the deamination of monoamines. Interest in a relationship between MAO and aggressive behaviour derives from the report of a single family with a mutation which obliterates the activity of MAO A,…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Signaling pathways implicated in p75 neurotrophin receptor-mediated neuronal survival and death
Roux, Philippe P.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The neurotrophins are growth factors involved in the development, maintenance, survival, and death of the nervous system. The signal transducing systems that mediate the diverse biological functions of the neurotrophins are initiated by their interactions with two categories of cell…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Re-evaluating vaginismus : an empirical investigation of diagnostic reliability, vaginal spasm, pain, and associated etiological correlates
Reissing, Elke D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Vaginismus is a sexual dysfunction that has received insufficient empirical attention. The first chapter of this thesis consists of a critical review of the literature and demonstrates the overall paucity of research studies and their poor methodological quality. The second…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Sulfur functionalized cubane and related derivatives
Priefer, Ronny

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Chapter one of this thesis reviews some work on cubane, from its initial synthesis by Eaton in 1964, to the recent studies of explosive and medicinal applications. Considering the wide variety of compounds that have been synthesized, it is curious…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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RNA folding : synthesis, structure and biological properties of hairpins based on 2',5'-linked RNA loops
Hannoush, Rami Nabil

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Ribonucleic acids (RNA) are polymers of ribonucleotides linked together by 3',5'-phosphodiester linkages and play a prominent role in protein biosynthesis. Much less common are ribonucleic acids based on 2',5'-phosphodiester linkages (2',5'-RNA). In this study, the synthesis, physical and biological properties…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Fruits of democratic education transformation in a South African university in 1998 : perspectives of administrators, teachers, and students in the School of Education : University of Cape Town
Taylor, Philip J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This is a study of educational change that was carried out at the School of Education (SOE) of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) in July 1998. It is about institutional and human transformation in South African higher education in…
Fecha:	2002
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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Geoweb: indigenous mapping of intergenerational knowledge
Eades, Gwilym

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the transmission of intergenerational cultural knowledge on eastern James Bay Cree lands. Geospatial technologies and the representation of Cree knowledge are explored, with emphasis on the geoweb. A geoweb with two parts, old and new, is theorized…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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Increasing knowledge of best practices in occupational therapists treating post-stroke unilateral spatial neglect
Petzold, Anita

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A significant gap exists between evidence-based practice (EBP) and actual occupational therapy (OT) practice in the management of a disabling post-stroke impairment - unilateral spatial neglect (USN). With improved patient outcomes linked to the use of best practices, it is…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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HPV knowledge and self-sampling for the detection of HPV-DNA among Inuit women in Nunavik, Quebec
Cerigo, Helen

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV), a necessary cause of cervical cancer has been found to be high in Inuit populations. This study examined 1) the level of knowledge about HPV infection and its relation to cervical cancer and 2)…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An epistemic analysis of authentication
Frydrychowicz, Maja

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Authentication protocols aim to prevent agent impersonation: A is authenticated to B if B knows who A is. Many formal approaches have been used to verify authentication in distributed systems; however, although authentication is directly related to agent knowledge, it…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL