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Research approaches, adaptation strategies, and knowledge gaps concerning the impacts of climate change on plant diseases.
GHINI, R. - HAMADA, E. - ANGELOTTI, F. - COSTA, L. B. - BETTIOL, W.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	This review discusses the present trends in studies on the impacts of climate change on plant diseases. Firstly, the approaches used for studying the potential effects of altered temperature, water availability, CO2 and O3 air concentrations, and UV-B radiation on…
Fecha:	2012-08-14
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Breeding programs and availability of non-GM IP seeds for farmers in Brazil.
CATTELAN, A. J.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Embrapa is the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. It coordinates the national agricultural research system in Brazil and has for mission to provide solutions for the sustainable development of Brazilian agribusiness through knowledge and technology transfer. As such, it is involved…
Fecha:	2013-01-14
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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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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Technology : a fundamental structure?
Van Wyk, Rias J.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-02-25
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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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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Environmental impacts of agricultural activities in irrigated area growing grapes in the Submédio São Francisco River Valley, Brazil.
BRITO, L. T. de L. - SOARES, J. M. - MOURA, M. S. B. de - MELO, R. F. de - SOUZA, L. S. B. de

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2008
Fecha:	2011-04-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Completing description logic knowledge bases usign formal concept analysis
Baader, Franz - Ganter, Bernhard - Sertkaya, Baris - Sattler, Ulrike

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

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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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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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Antimicrobial activity of amazonian medicinal plants.
OLIVEIRA, A. A. - SEGOVIA, J. F. O. - SOUSA, V. Y. K. - MATA, E. C. G. - GONÇALVES, M. C. A. - BEZERRA, R. M. - MJUNIOR, P. O. M - KANZAKI, L. I. B.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The aqueous extracts of currently utilized Amazonian medicinal plants were assayed in vitro searching for antimicrobial activity against human and animal pathogenic microorganisms. Medium resuspended lyophilized aqueous extracts of different organs of Amazonian medicinal plants were assayed by in vitro…
Fecha:	2014-01-14
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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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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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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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

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Computerized interface control documents
Rahmani, Keyvan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Interfaces between subsystems in collaborative product development projects are presently defined by interface control documents. These documents are created after agreements are made between designers on how to design subsystem interfaces. The designers must commit to the definitions given by…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Soil and plant responses to pyrogenic organic matter: carbon stability and symbiotic patterns.
SAGRILO, E.

Formato:	Teses/dissertações (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Soil amendment with pyrogenic organic matter (PyOM) can sequester carbon, increase mutualistic root symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, and hence improve crop yield. However, there is still a gap in our knowledge about the effects of PyOM…
Fecha:	2015-01-10
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Publication bias and quality of reporting of Pharmacodynamic Studies utilizing invasive research procedures within early phase cancer trials
Freeman, Georgina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Invasive research procedures, such as biopsy for pharmacodynamic study, often have no value for patient-volunteers in terms of diagnosis or clinical management. Accordingly, their burdens are generally justifiable only by appeal to knowledge value (that is, the benefit to future…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Scientia in Twelfth Century philosophy in the Latin West
Nájera Carvajal, Rafael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis a study of the notion of scientia in thinkers of the Latin West in the twelfth century. Scientia is a Latin word that has served to refer to important conceptions of science. Important in medieval philosophy is its…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Case-based reasoning for the creative design of electromagnetic devices
Ouyang, Jun

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Design is concerned with the question of how to construct an artifact or system to meet the desired specification and is normally categorized as either routine, non-routine or creative. Up until now, the study of knowledge-based design has concentrated on…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Towards the identification of family physician learning needs through a reflective process
Lewis, Denice

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background Continuing professional development stakeholders are continually searching for better ways of collecting and using data to determine the educational needs of physicians. Research questions1) What, if any, family physician learning needs are revealed through the reflective process prompted by…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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In search of a citizenship education model for a democratic multireligious Indonesia: case studies of two public senior high schools in Jakarta
Syafruddin, Didin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Concerned with interreligious conflict in Indonesia, this study seeks to describe and evaluate the current citizenship education that has been designed and implemented for a democratic multireligious Indonesia. The context for the study, outlined in Chapters 1 and 2, is…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The role of teachers' pedagogical and subject-matter knowledge in planning and enacting science-inquiry instruction and in assessing students' science-inquiry learning
Birlean, Camelia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explored the relation between pedagogical knowledge and subject-matter knowledge, in the context of inquiry-driven science instruction, and their relation to instructors' performance in the instructional process. This multiple case study focused on three distinct categories of teachers--Novice in…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Show me the truth: the conditions of possibility for the invention of photography
Delmas, Didier

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The popularization of science during the eighteenth century generated, toward the end of the century, an epistemological anxiety that reached all levels of the population from the most literate scientist to the poorest peasant, the expert in differential calculus like…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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A distributed storage system for use in the Multiuser Bioinformatic's Laboratory of Embrapa.
CINTRA, L.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The idea is to analyse the data to generate knowledge in biology, and to do that it is necessary a lot of storage space to data., 2012, X-MEETING 2012.
Fecha:	2013-01-28
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Integrated carbon and land management for poverty alleviation: a collaborative project funded under the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme.
BLACK, E. - VIDALE, P. L. - VERHOEF, A. - OSBORNE, T. - WADE, A. - CUADRA, S. V.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2012
Fecha:	2013-05-03
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Biodiversity and human nutrition in a landscape mosaic of farms and forests in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
Powell, Bronwen

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation sought to add to knowledge of the links between human and ecosystem health by examining relationships between biodiversity and human nutrition in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Grounded in a theoretical framework drawing from systems approaches to human…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Alterations in translational control by eIF4E-Homologous Protein (4EHP)
Henderson, Valerie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Tight, yet dynamic, control of translation is critical in order for the cell to respond appropriately to intracellular and extracellular cues. This translational control is achieved by modulating the rate of translation in an mRNA-specific or global manner, often by…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

The algebra of topological quantum computing
Evans, Julia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Topological quantum computing is an approach to the problem of implementingquantum gates accurately and robustly. The idea is to exploit topological propertiesof certain quasiparticles called anyons to obtain a proposed implementation of quan-tum computing which is inherently fault-tolerant. The mathematical…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Vibration measurements on the widely exposed gerbil eardrum
He, Zinan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects. Early identification of hearing loss is very important because even a mild hearing loss can seriously delay language development and compromise communication, educational and social capabilities. Tympanometry is a promising…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A mobile device based identity validation system for online social networks
Shi, Yiwei

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Currently, online social networks (OSNs) do not provide validation mechanisms to verify the identity of a user who is seeking linkage with another user. This shortfall is exploited by attackers to infiltrate other people's social circles to gain access to…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Questions concerning architectural machines: or 'pataphysics in early modern architecture
Olshavsky, Peter

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The primary contention of this study is that there are ways to orient architecture other than technological concerns. By studying the nature of architectural machines and their changes through history, their reduction to instrumental and aesthetic concerns is shown to…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Learning on the picket line: investigating a politico-administrative regime
Sunar, Nakita

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In September 2011, approximately 1700 unionized non-academic staff at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec went on strike. Using institutional/political activist ethnography, this study examines the informal learning of non-academic staff during the strike and assesses how their experiences are coordinated…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Perceptions and attitudes of McGill dental students towards poverty: a case study
Reis, Clarice

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Context: Evidence shows a strong positive correlation between poverty and numerous adverse health conditions, including oral health diseases. Low-income individuals face barriers in accessing and receiving dental care services due to many causes including tensions in their relationship with dentists.…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Vulnerability of Inuit women's food system to climate change in the context of multiple socio-economic stresses - a case study of Arviat, Nunavut
Beaumier, Maude

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Nunavut has the highest incidence of food insecurity in Canada, where 56% of Inuit households are believed to experience difficulties in obtaining sufficient food. Food insecurity occurs when food systems are stressed such that adequate nutrition is not accessible, available,…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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On estimation and testing for change points in the hazard density from right censored prevalent cohort survival data
Rabhi, Yassir

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A practical concern of many studies in survival analysis is the study of the risk patterns of a disease, mortality, or other time-related event in a population. The structural change of these patterns are usually explored via the hazard function,…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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How to draw out the best musical performance: best practices for studio recording in the digital era
Pras, Amandine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis aims to identify best practices for musical recording, involving the capture of multiple takes of a musical work in studio. Digital technologies and Internet file sharing have brought the recording industry to a transitional phase in which studio…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The impact of culture and ethnicity in psychosocial work
Cisternas Cid, Sonia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Over the past decades, the population in Canada has become increasingly culturally diverse. Therefore, helping professionals are required to provide services that are culturally appropriate and effective. The main purpose of this research project was to understand the experiences and…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Segmental representations in interlanguage grammars: the case of francophones and English /h/
Mah, Jennifer

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The concept that knowledge is transferred from a speaker's first language grammar into the interlanguage grammar being constructed for his second language makes testable predictions for how learners should behave given certain combinations of first and second language. This thesis…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Adaptive multiset stochastic decoding of non-binary LDPC codes
Ciobanu, Alexandru

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, we propose a new stochastic decoding algorithm for non-binary LDPC codes with d_v = 2, which is based on the concept of a mutliset, a generalization of the set that allows for multiple occurrences of the same…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Social computing as social rationality
Thomas, Neal

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This project concerns the ways in which social computing functions as a rational steering medium in network societies. Exploring cases that include the structured data protocols of an ascendant "Web 3.0", Google PageRank and collaborative filtering services, the work unearths…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Monte Carlo based electron treatment planning and cutout output factor calculations
Mitrou, Ellis

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Electron radiotherapy (RT) offers a number of advantages over photons. The high surface dose, combined with a rapid dose fall-off beyond the target volume presents a net increase in tumor control probability and decreases the normal tissue complication for superficial…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Dynamic GSCA generalized structured component analysis: a structural equation model for analyzing effective connectivity in functional neuroimaging
Jung, Kwang Hee

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Structural equation modeling (SEM) is often used to investigate effective connectivity in functional neuroimaging studies. Modeling effective connectivity refers to an approach in which a number of specific brain regions, called regions of interest (ROIs), are selected according to some…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Understanding the impacts of the 2007-08 global financial crisis on Brazil's forest sector: a qualitative study
Canova, Natalia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Economic downturns are known to affect the management of natural resources and the environment. Although statistics and industry figures have revealed some impacts of the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), its dynamics and long term consequences for forest management, particularly…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL