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Studies in the Arctic plankton, comprising a faunistic survey of certain of the marine planktonic groups collected in the Canadian eastern arctic, and an investigation of the breeding cycles of five of the most important species in the eastern arctic and in west Greenland. --.
Dunbar, M. J. (Maxwell John).

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	[...] There is a great deal more to be done in the Canadian arctic. Large portions of the area between Alaska and Greenland are still blank on the biological map. Scientific activity in this region, with the exception of the…
Fecha:	1941
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Relationship between the parathyroid and the gastric glands in the dog : the experimental production of peptic ulcer.
Schiffrin, Milton J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Our knowledge of the fundamental mechanisms of gastric secretion is still incomplete. The cells which secrete acid or pepsin have been identified, but the secretory process is as yet unknown. Fortunately, certain of the factors which influence gastric secretion are…
Fecha:	1941
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Some factors affecting fat and vitamin : a metabolism of fowl with specific reference to the effect of the anterior pituitary.
MacIntyre, Thomas Martin.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An attempt has been made to advance the knowledge with respect to factors affecting fat and Vitamin A metabolism in the domestic fowl through a study of the effect of a saline extract of the anterior pituitary. An extended bibliography…
Fecha:	1941
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The synthesis and properties of glycosides related to lignin plant constituents. --.
Fisher, John Henry.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The original print is faded. The output is the best quality possible at this time. , The object of this investigation was to obtain certain fundamental information on the question of a possible lignin-carbohydrate union in wood and the nature…
Fecha:	1941
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The determination of the thickness of overburden by geophysical methods. --.
Fu, Ch’eng-Yi.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A knowledge of the thickness of overburden is of utmost importance both in ore exploration and in disclosing underground structure. Owing to the cost of drilling and to the fact that geological features upon the earth's surface are not always…
Fecha:	1941
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Water in silica gels and sodium silicate in water. : The chlorination of tetrachloroethane. A study of heat evolution during the sorption of gases by charcoal. A new method of studying sorption in a flow system and some experimental values for the sorption of butane. --.
Pearce, Jesse Arthur.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	[...] Within recent years silica gel has received considerable attention because of its use as a sorbent, catalyst and catalyst support. The sorption of about fifty materials on silica has been recorded (2). There is an analogy between gelation of…
Fecha:	1941
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Studies on the proteins of Hen’s egg yolk and serum.
Mok, Chi-Ching.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The proteins of the hen's egg are classical objects of chemical and biochemical research, partly because of the ready availability and practical importance of the egg, but also because of its great scientific interest. As a consequence, the state of…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Studies on the Mesostigmata and Trombidiformes (Acarina) of two Quebec woodland humus forms.
Marshall, Valin. G.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The present investigation in Soil Zoology was initiated in 1960 at Macdonald College, McGill University. The problems relative to the study of the soil fauna are complex, requiring at the very outset, not only familiarity with the soil itself but…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The influence of Andrew Melville on the development of the Scottish Reformed Church’s system of government before 1625.
Anderson, Frederic. R.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It was the fortune of Andrew Melville, no less than of John Knox, to have received sufficient training outside his native land to make a European out of one who might otherwise have been a parochial Scotsman. The intellectual stimuli…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Studies in the novels of Thomas Wolfe.
Blachford, Janet. S.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this thesis is the study of the four novels of Thomas Wolfe. Wolfe’s work is centered in a single protagonist; a figure that is largely autobiographical, and is dominated by a number of themes. In ‘Look Homeward’,…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The metabolism of tritium-labelled folic acid in man.
Johns, David. G.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The beginning of our knowledge of the vitamin folic acid dates back to the discovery of Wills (1) in 1931 that the macrocytic anemia of pregnancy frequently observed in the tropics responded to oral administration of concentrated extracts of autolysed…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The effects of intracranial injection of electrolytes upon the behaviour of rats.
Nakajima, Shinshu.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The reticular activating system has attracted the interest of psychologists for more than a decade. Theories have been developed, and the concept of arousal has become quite popular in a number of fields of psychology. There are, however, not many…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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George Berkeley’s theory of notions.
Park, Désirée. U.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	More than two hundred and fifty years have elapsed since George Berkeley first published his Principles of Human Knowledge and thereby divided the intelligible world into “notions” and “ideas". In the ensuing period, the more articulate world has shown a…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

The Poisson distribution.
Sproule, Raymond. N.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Note: Missing Page 118., In 1837 a paper by Poisson [61] was published in France, establishing the Poisson distribution. Since then a great deal of research has been done on this distribution and the distributions stemming from it. It enjoys…
Fecha:	1963
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The Senate and contemporary politics, 1925-1961 : a re-appraisal.
Kunz, Frank A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	When I came to Canada five years ago, leaving a turbulent and politically unlucky land behind me, I knew nothing about the Canadian Senate. My interest in it does not extend farther back than three years. This comparatively short acquaintance…
Fecha:	1963.
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Towards a philosophy of imagination : a study of Gilbert Durand and Paul Ricoeur
Joy, Mavourneen M.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A satisfactory definition of the imagination has proved elusive in Western philosophy. Two contemporary French thinkers, Gilbert Durand and Paul Ricoeur, are concerned with establishing a fundamental philosophy of imagination. For Durand the imagination is the source of symbolic mediations…
Fecha:	1981
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The land wants me around : power, authority and their negations in traditional hunting knowledge at Wemindji (James Bay, Québec)
Nasr, Wren.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study investigates the importance of traditional hunting knowledge to Cree identity and experience. My fieldwork was conducted in Wemindji, James Bay, Quebec, with Cree trappers and on the interactions of scientific researchers and Cree trappers. I explore the connections…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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What is the nature of university professors' discipline-specific pedagogical knowledge? : a descriptive multicase study
Berthiaume, Denis.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research project investigates the nature of university professors' discipline-specific pedagogical knowledge (DPK). Traditionally, DPK has been examined with the help of constructs from two distinct lines of research: the knowledge base for teaching and disciplinary specificity in university teaching.…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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Examination of the historical sensemaking processes representing the development of knowledge management programs in universities : case studies associated with an emergent discipline
Sutton, Michael J. D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this qualitative study was an investigation of the phenomenon of Knowledge Management (KM) program design and development. The interest in KM programs has grown during the last decade because of the increased demand for KM educational research…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Cognitive assessment in a computer-based coaching environment in higher education : diagnostic assessment of development of knowledge and problem-solving skill in statistics
Zhang, Zhidong, 1957-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Diagnostic cognitive assessment (DCA) was explored using Bayesian networks and evidence-centred design (ECD) in a statistics learning domain (ANOVA). The assessment environment simulates problem solving activities that occurred in a web-based statistics learning environment. The assessment model is composed of…
Fecha:	2007
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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Robust beamforming for collaborative MIMO-OFDM wireless systems
Kwun, Byong-Ok.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Collaborative beamforming is a powerful technique to increase communication energy efficiency and range in an energy-constrained network. To achieve high performance, collaborative beamforming requires accurate knowledge of channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters (collaborative nodes). In practice, however, such…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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24.

Inuit knowledge and perceptions of the land-water interface
Heyes, Scott Alexander

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Inuit of Kangiqsualujjuaq have maintained functional and spiritual connections with the landscape and waters of Arctic Quebec (Nunavik) for over four thousand years. While ethnographic studies about this ocean-going population have revealed their pragmatic relationships with the arctic milieu,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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25.

Nutrient dynamics and nitrogen-based production in the western Canadian Arctic Ocean
Simpson, Kyle G. F.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Inclement climate conditions have made the Arctic Ocean logistically difficult to study, and thus, our historical knowledge of Arctic Ocean processes are limited. Recent observations indicate rapid and abrupt changes in climate. These changes are thought to includes rising temperatures,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

Harvest and post-harvest of cassava in Brasil: a case study.
DANTAS, J. L. L. - CUNHA, M. A. P. da.

Formato:	Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Enlaces:	The cassava, originary from Brasil. received little attention from agricultural research institutions in the past. Its wide adaptation to the most diverse edaphic and climatic conditions as well as the traditional knowledge about this crop accumulated through many years of…
Fecha:	1996-09-30
Recurso:	Informação Tecnológica en Agricultura (Infoteca-e)

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Gene expression of the mycoparasite Stachybotrys elegans during interaction with a fungal host and a hon-host
Arts, Monique R.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The mycoparasite Stachybotrys elegans represents a potential biocontrol agent of Rhizoctonia solani, the causal organism of potato stem canker. The differential expression of two mycoparasitism-induced genes was monitored in S. elegans during interactions with its host, Rhizoctonia solani, and a…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

Student teachers' understanding of inquiry instruction, Understanding of inquiry
Syer, Cassidy A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Curriculum reform emphasizes the importance of inquiry instruction for learners. For inquiry-oriented curriculum to occur, attention must be focused on teacher education. Using a mixed-methods design, I investigated if and how groups of student teachers who receive different types of…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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29.

Camera-independent learning and image quality assessment for super-resolution
Bégin, Isabelle.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An increasing number of applications require high-resolution images in situations where the access to the sensor and the knowledge of its specifications are limited. In this thesis, the problem of blind super-resolution is addressed, here defined as the estimation of…
Fecha:	2007
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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32.

The determinants of adiponectin in female adolescents : offspring of gestational diabetes and non-diabetes affected pregnancies
Gallo, Sina.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Daughters of gestational diabetes (GDM) affected pregnancies are at greater risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) later in life. Adiponectin is an early marker of DM risk. Dietary fat quality has been proposed to be involved…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship : separating the effects of species richness, from those of species identity and environmental heterogeneity in a tropical tree plantation
Healy, Chrystal.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study attempts to expand existing knowledge on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, by studying a four year old tropical tree plantation. The growth of trees coming from monocultures, three species mixtures and six species mixtures was compared.…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Classical and quantum strategies for bit commitment schemes in the two-prover model
Simard, Jean-Raymond.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	We show that the long-standing assumption of "no-communication" between the provers of the two-prover model is not sufficiently precise to guarantee the security of a bit commitment scheme against malicious adversaries. Indeed, we show how a simple correlated random variable,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Fear of dental implants among edentulous patients
Nemes, Jordan.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Despite implant-supported overdentures' advantages over conventional dentures, edentulous patients often refuse dental implants for reasons that may be related to fear. Objective. The purpose of this study was to uncover and explain the various forms and sources of dental implant-related…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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On knowledge representation and decision making under uncertainty
Tabaeh Izadi, Masoumeh.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Designing systems with the ability to make optimal decisions under uncertainty is one of the goals of artificial intelligence. However, in many applications the design of optimal planners is complicated due to imprecise inputs and uncertain outputs resulting from stochastic…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Essays on asset pricing with heterogeneous beliefs and bounded rational investor
Lu, Lei, 1975-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis includes two essays on asset pricing. In the first essay, "Asset Pricing in a Monetary Economy with Heterogeneous Beliefs", we shed new light on the role of monetary policy in asset pricing by focusing on the case where…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Integrative bioinformatics for the discovery of genetic modifiers of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis
Cory, Sean M.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis (BIPF) is a disease caused by the chemotherapeutic bleomycin in which normal lung tissue is replaced with fibrous tissue that is unable to fulfill the normal functions of oxygen exchange in the lung. The development of this…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Widely linear minimum variance channel estimation with application to multicarrier CDMA systems
Abdallah, Saeed.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Conventional Minimum-Variance (MV) channel estimation is affected by two sources of error, namely the finite number of samples used to estimate the covariance matrix and the asymptotic bias due to interference and additive noise. On the other hand, widely linear…
Fecha:	2007
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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Talin : a novel inducible antagonist of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-[beta]1) signal transduction
Rafiei, Shahrzad.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The survival of breast cancer patients declines when tumors are invasive and have an increased possibility of metastasizing to distal sites. Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF-beta) suppresses breast cancer formation by preventing cell cycle progression in mammary epithelial cells. However, at…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

Applied imagination : Giordano Bruno and the creation of magical images
Storch, Michael.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The creation and manipulation of infinite images is central to Bruno's thought, but to the best of my knowledge, this has never been properly treated before. This project is a departure from much of the current scholarship on Bruno which…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Long-term changes in the organization of lithic technology : a case study from the Imjin-Hantan River Area, Korea
Yoo, Yongwook, 1969-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study is intended to furnish an explicability of hunter-gather's organizational model on the lithic technology. The fieldwork area is the Imjin-Hantan River Area (the IHRA) located at the midwestern part of the Korean Peninsula. The archaeological sites included in…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Actual versus best practices for young children with cerebral palsy : a survey of pediatric occupational therapists and physical therapists in Quebec, Canada
Saleh, Maysoun.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background and rationale. Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common disabling disorders of childhood and constitutes a substantial portion of pediatric rehabilitation. This condition demands comprehensive rehabilitation using age-appropriate tasks and activities and encompassing aspects of body function…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Transcriptional and genetic profiling of human uveal melanoma from an immunosuppressed rabbit model
Marshall, Jean-Claude.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumour in adults. Despite improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of the primary tumour, patients continue to have the same mortality rate as several decades ago, reflecting our poor understanding of…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Mechanisms of vitamin D receptor and retinoid X receptor mediated hormone resistance and cell differentiation in normal and cancer cells
Macoritto, Michael.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Vitamin D is a precursor to a steroid hormone, 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D). After its discovery and the characterization of its receptor, the vitamin D receptor (VDR), it was initially thought only to be involved in calcium homeostasis, but further…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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47.

Robustness in ASR : an experimental study of the interrelationship between discriminant feature-space transformation, speaker normalization and environment compensation
Keyvani, Alireza.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis addresses the general problem of maintaining robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance under diverse speaker populations, channel conditions, and acoustic environments. To this end, the thesis analyzes the interactions between environment compensation techniques, frequency warping based speaker normalization,…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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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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49.

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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Statistical modeling of extreme rainfall processes in consideration of climate change
Cung, Annie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Extreme rainfall events may have catastrophic impacts on the population and infrastructures, therefore it is essential to have accurate knowledge of extreme rainfall characteristics. Moreover, both the scientific community and policymakers have recently shown a growing interest in the potential…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL