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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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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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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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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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Can the use of cognitive and metacognitive self-regulated learning strategies be predicted by learners' levels of prior knowledge in Hypermedia-learning environments?
Taub, Michelle

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Research on self-regulated learning (SRL) in hypermedia-learning environments is a growing area of interest. One major issue is the role of prior knowledge, which can influence how students interact with hypermedia-learning systems in terms of their use of SRL strategies.…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The implementation of configurable technologies : negotiations between global principles and local contexts
Pozzebon, Marlei

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This investigation focuses on configurable technologies, a term which refers to technologies that are highly parameterizable and are built from a range of components to meet the very specific requirements of a particular organization. They cannot be seen independently of…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Integrating new technologies in university second language instruction : teachers' perspectives
Georganta, Angeliki

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explores the relationships among technology, language literacy and instruction in University Continuing Education Institutions. Adult second language education strives to update media resources in an information era in which literacy encompasses the abilities to communicate both in different…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The dynamics involved in same-sex dyadic sport teams
Wickwire, Tamara L.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to identify and explain the dynamics involved in dyadic sport teams, as well as to differentiate dyads from larger teams. Semi-structured individual interviews consisting of open-ended questions were conducted with seven beach volleyball athletes.…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Islamic ethical views in vitro fertilization and human reproductive cloning
Al-Qasem, Leena

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	For Muslims all over the world, whether in North America where they form minorities or in all-Muslim societies, their religion permeates every aspect of their lives and ethical decision-making. It is no wonder that when deliberating the treatment of infertility…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Issues in the thought of Paul Tillich : the quest for truth, meaning and certainty
Jones, Maureen, 1973-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Tillich frames the question of truth, meaning, and certainty within the spiritual and social crises of the 20th century. Specifically, be addresses the fragmentation of religion, culture, faith, reason, emotion, and the displacement of religion to the periphery of human…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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13.

Self-regulation during a kicking task by expert and novice soccer players, and children who are physically awkward
Silva, Karine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Soccer experts (N = 18), novices (N = 16), and children who are physically awkward (N = 18), were studied for differences in self-regulatory forethought and self-reflection processes during a soccer kicking task. The participants (age range 12--14 years) were…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

A sociolinguistic inquiry into wax-dyed cloth names in Togo and Côte d'Ivoire /
Davis, Glenda

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	According to Domowitz (1992), the Agni women of Cote d'Ivoire assign proverbs and aphorisms as names to wax-dyed cloth. Women then use the imagery and associated proverbs behind cloth names to send non-verbal messages they would otherwise be unable to…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

The application of the sag power index to ore body hardness characterization for the design and optimization of autogenous grinding circuits /
Amelunxen, Peter

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The SAG Power Index test (SPI) is a tool for forecasting autogenous mill performance. Much effort has been directed towards the development of the process models relating SPI to throughput estimates, but little has been directed towards ore body modeling.…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Factors associated with diet behaviour among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending an outpatient clinic
Belfer, Bonnee

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Diet recommendations to achieve target metabolic control for prevention of micro and macrovascular complications have been outlined. Although previous studies in individuals with type 2 diabetes have identified certain factors associated with adherence to diet recommendations, adherence is multi-factorial in…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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17.

Risks associated with conduct disorder in girls
Green, Tara

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Conduct disorder is the second most common psychiatric disorder in adolescent girls. In a secondary analysis of an existing data set from a study of pregnant adolescent girls, recruited from three different sites in a Canadian city (N = 252),…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Social context regulates internalizing versus externalizing responses in children and adolescents during interpersonal conflict
Dolenszky, Eva

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The current study examined the hypothesis that in the presence of a stressor, the social context (dyad relationship versus a group relationship) can influence whether children and adolescents display internalizing as opposed to externalizing emotions and behaviors. Specifically, it was…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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19.

High strain rate deformation and fracture of engineering materials
Dabboussi, Wael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Containment structures for aircraft engines must withstand impacts of failed engine components, which may be traveling at extremely high velocities. Therefore, the design of such structures requires a thorough knowledge of material behaviour at high rates of deformation. It is…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Theory and simulation of texture selection mechanisms in mesophase carbon fibers
Sharma, Dinesh, 1972-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Carbon fiber precursors are spun from carbonaceous mesophases using standard melt spinning techniques. These melt spun carbon fibers exhibit a multitude of cross sectional fiber textures. The two widely reported textures in literature are planar radial (PR) and planar polar…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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One of the last Ottoman şeyhülislâms, Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869-1954) : his life, works and intellectual contributions
Karabela, Mehmet Kadri

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The aim of this work is to make some contributions towards understanding the stagnation of Islamic theology and the intellectual life of Muslims by concentrating on the life and works of Mustafa Sabri Efendi, one of the last Ottoman seyhulislams…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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22.

Teachers' understanding of inquiry
Manconi, Lynn

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This multi-case study compared the practices and knowledge of six experienced teachers who perceive themselves to use an inquiry approach to instruction, to those of two teachers who do not, and compared their conceptualizations to a portrait of the inquiry…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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23.

The natural history and epidemiology of cervical human papillomavirus infections in Montreal university students
Richardson, Harriet

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Introduction. Only a small proportion of women with oncogenic HPV infections will eventually progress to high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) or invasive cervical cancer (ICC), although the reasons why are not well understood. Additional knowledge about viral transmission and persistence…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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24.

Wireless channel estimation using Kalman Filtering for space-time block coded systems
Jin, Haizhen, 1977-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the recent years, we have witnessed an increased interest in space-time coding, because of its effectiveness in overcoming the impairments due to the signal fading phenomenon. A large number of such codes require channel knowledge for decoding. Therefore, research…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Mechanisms of flocculation with poly(ethylene oxide) and novel cofactors : theory and experiment
Gaudreault, Roger

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In modern papermaking, the use of retention aids, which help to effectively incorporate fines and fillers into a sheet of paper, is widespread. Various single, dual and multi-component retention aid systems are available, one example of which is poly(ethylene oxide)…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

The genomics of labour : global gene expression profiling and oxytocin receptor gene expression
Gould, Barbara

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Premature labour and subsequent premature birth is a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. We studied marine labour at term and preterm with models of intrauterine infection and ovariectomy using Affymetrix microarray U74Av2 (containing 12,488 probe sets) and real-time…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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27.

Beliefs of value similarity between romantic couple members : protective functions and compensatory responses to disconfirmed or suspended beliefs
Hurley, Stefani

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In two related studies with dating and married couples, the protective function of beliefs about personal value similarity was examined. Relational threat was measured when couple members' value similarity beliefs were disconfirmed or when couple members reported beliefs of value…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Nonlinear control of center-node UPFC and VSC-based facts controllers
Lu, Bin, 1969-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Voltage-Source Converters form the basic modules of a class of power electronic controllers of Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) which include the STATic COMpensator (STATCOM), the Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) and the Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC). The mathematical…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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29.

Control and protection of multi-terminal DC transmission systems based on voltage-source converters
Tang, Lianxiang, 1970-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis deals with the control and protection of Multi-Terminal DC (MTDC) transmission systems based on Voltage-Source Converters (VSCs). The MTDC system enables several AC systems to be integrated by way of a DC network. Potential applications of the MTDC…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

Indoor radio-wave behavior at 850 and 1900 MHz with electromagnetic compatibility applications in hospitals : an experimental, theoretical, statistical and morphological characterization
Davis, Donald P.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis aimed to provide a knowledge base and methodologies to help minimize electromagnetic interference (EMI) in healthcare. Two methods were developed, for the first time, to quantify EMI risk due to radio frequency (RF) sources in hospitals. The first…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

"Le Canada est un païs de bois" : forest resources and shipbuilding in New France, 1660-1760
Delaney, Monique

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The colonial contribution to the French naval shipbuilding industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, explored within the context of the forest from which the resources for the industry were taken, was a remarkably successful venture that came to an…
Fecha:	2003
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

Development of a KT intervention to promote the use of dance as a therapeutic modality in rehabilitation
Demers, Marika

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background: Dance is a modality of choice in rehabilitation, because it combines the benefits of aerobic exercise with an enjoyable social activity. Despite the scientific evidence supporting the use of dance in rehabilitation, this treatment modality is rarely used in…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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34.

The reading comprehension of deaf/hard-of-hearing Jamaican students: the contributions of intellectual ability, sign-language comprehension, vocabulary, knowledge and metacognitive awareness
Dockery, Karla

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A large number of deaf/hard-of-hearing (hh) students never attain grade-appropriate reading comprehension levels. Studies, primarily with North American and European countries, have established that the median reading comprehension level achieved at graduation is grade 4. The present study sought to…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Regularized reinforcement learning with performance guarantees
Milani Fard, Mahdi

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reinforcement learning covers a broad category of control problems in which the learning agent interacts with the environment in order to learn to maximize the collected utility. Such exploratory interaction is often costly, encouraging sample-efficient algorithms to be used in…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

An investigation of the role of legends and storytelling in a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) early childhood facility
Deer, Sandra

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	AbstractThrough the course of our history, Indigenous cultural and spiritual knowledge remains, in many places as faint as the smoke rising from the embers of last nights fire; in other places, with enough flame to ignite another log. In spite…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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37.

Knowing children: telepathy in Anglo-American fiction, 1846-1946
Holmgren, Lindsay

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	"Knowing Children" describes the means by which telepathic devices present the mind of the child in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers. An intellectual interest in the child and childhood flourished not only during the…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

"They gon' study some [things]": representation of schools and schooling in HBO's «The Wire»
Siam, Habib

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This qualitative inquiry is a close reading of the representations of public schools and schooling in HBO's television drama The Wire. I pay particular attention to the experiences of school administrators, educators, and students. The Wire draws from the ethnographic…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

Anxiety and depression among participants in an early ovarian cancer diagnosis program
Grigorie, Maria Simona

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background: Despite its low incidence, ovarian cancer is associated with very poor prognosis and this is common knowledge in the general population. There is limited knowledge about the levels of anxiety and depression in women who undergo diagnostic testing for…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Epistemic beliefs and assessment practices:effects on learning strategies and learning outcomes
Chevrier, Marianne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The aim of this thesis was to better understand the impact of different evaluative tasks on student learning by considering the role that learners’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing might have in this relationship. This study explored whether students’ task…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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41.

The use of laboratory and participatory ergonomic research models to investigate working posture in industry
Antle, David

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Consensus on physical mechanisms linking work posture to discomfort and disorder risk has not been reached. The objective of this dissertation was to use a series of laboratory studies to identify measurements associated with discomfort and disorder risk in lower…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

Elementary school teachers and the ethics and religious culture course
Pelchat, Alex

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In 2008, a new course entitled Ethics and Religious Culture was introduced in Quebec for students from first grade to secondary five, with the exception of secondary three students. The implementation of the course was controversial and many parents and…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

Wellbeing and expression with youth dancing Hip Hop in an urban multiethnic neighborhood
Lyke, Claire

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Situated in a Canadian multiethnic urban neighbourhood, this exploratory study examines the experiences of youth dancing Hip Hop. Critical and performance ethnographic research was conducted at a drop-in Hip Hop class at a community centre using participant observation and dyadic…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Habitus, charisma, and hysteresis in the United Arab Republic: a Bourdieu-inspired interpretation
Foldy, Benjamin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis synthesizes different elements of Bourdieu’s writings on practice, politics, and charisma to provide a new interpretation of Egypt and Syria’s three-year merger into a unified state, the United Arab Republic (UAR). It begins with a theoretical chapter that…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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45.

"These aren't the drones you're looking for" secrecy and the weapon legitimation process, 2009-2013
Anderson, Sean

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines variations in specific framing used by the Obama administration and New York Times journalists during the public legitimation process of armed unmanned aerial vehicles. It employs a theoretical framework that examines the socially thick agency created through…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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46.

The bias of libraries: Montréal's Grande Bibliothèque
Mickiewicz, Paulina Maria

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation is centered on the Grande Bibliothèque (GB) which opened in Montreal in the spring of 2005, and was a library project of unprecedented scale in the city. The Grande Bibliothèque project unfolded during a significant moment in the…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A multiscale approach to mechancial modeling of a leaf petiole: integrating cell wall, cellular tissues, and structural morphology
Faisal, Md Tanvir

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A plant is a natural hierarchical structure, which exhibits remarkable mechanical properties. The macro (scale) mechanical properties of a plant are the cumulative outcome of the structural properties of its preceding level of structural hierarchy. To develop engineering structures inspired…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Comparison of methodologies for induction motor design
Kibby, Devon

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the last few decades, the world of electric machine design, specifically induction machine design, has been reinvigorated by the introduction of power electronics. Where designers were once limited to a single alternating current waveform with constant voltage and frequency,…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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49.

Determinants of stress reactivity and memory performance in older adults
Sindi, Shireen

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It is commonly believed that memory capacities decline with advanced age. Among various biological mechanisms investigated, the stress hormone (cortisol) has received much attention. When cortisol levels are elevated, they impair cognitive performance. Yet evidence shows that there is considerable…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Perceptions of dental students about the role of the dentist in the prevention of HPV-OPC
Amir, Nida

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection is now recognized as an antecedent for the development of cervical cancer and over the last two decades has been increasingly recognized as a major risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer (OPC). The last twenty years…
Fecha:	2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL