Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

The purpose of this thesis was to simultaneously test a new theoretical model,
vicarious hypocrisy, which has been shown to produce changes in people’s
sunblock usage attitudes and behavior, and to apply this model to another
important health domain, dental…

Forecast models based on climatic conditions are of great interest in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs. The success of these models depends, among other factors, on the knowledge of the temperature effect on the pests? population dynamics. In this direction,…

Sucrose is one of the compounds in the raw coffee bean that has been identified as an important precursor of coffee flavour and aroma. In order to increase our knowledge of sucrose metabolism in coffee species, sucrose and reducing sugar…

En el desarrollo de sistemas basados en la interacción, es necesario transcribir y analizar una gran cantidad de corpus. Este análisis es desarrollado a través de distintos niveles lingüísticos, entre los que se encuentra el nivel pragmático. Este trabajo presenta…

An ontology is an effective formal representation of knowledge used commonly in artificial intelligence, semantic web, software engineering, and information retrieval. In open and distance learning, ontologies are used as knowledge bases for e-learning supplements, educational recommenders, and question answering…

The paper suggests that Tourism and Geography are closely intertwined, because tourists are in search of experience and geographer has as its main purpose the pursuit of knowledge. Models and hypotheses need always to be verified in theterritorial context of daily fieldwork,…

Los sistemas insulares han sido áreas modelo para explicar las variaciones espaciales en la composición, riqueza y abundancia de las especies, donde tales variaciones pueden ser resultado de las diferencias interinsulares en la heterogeneidad y variabilidad ambiental. A pesar de…

An important element of open educational resources (OER) is the permission to use the materials in new ways, including revising and remixing them. Prior research has shown that the revision and remix rates for OER are relatively low. In this…

The methodology of this paper continues the work I have done writing the ‘subjective academic narrative’ for publication within refereed academic journals. Storytelling is a basic human activity and the academy since the mid 20th century has begun to see…