Computational neuroanatomy is an exciting new area where digital tools are used with great advantage in the analysis of structure and function of the brain. One major area of research in this field involves automatically creating computerized representations of the…

Quantum-confined semiconductors have been synthesized in ionomer microdomains, demonstrating thermodynamic control of nanoparticle sizes via a priori knowledge of ion aggregation numbers. In block ionomers, cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanoparticle sizes are found to scale with the ionic block length (N…

This work examines the effects of the Second World War on Verdun, Quebec, an urban, working-class community with a 1941 population of 67,000. Verdun was the third-largest city in Quebec and the thirteenth-largest in Canada. This study assesses the military,…

hAR mutations cause, or predispose to, androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), spinobulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA, a motor neuronodegenerative disease), and prostate cancer. I investigated the pathogenic mechanism of three AR mutations: expansion of the trinucleotide repeat (CAG)n coding for the polymorphic…

No substantial studies, at least to my knowledge, have yet been dedicated either to Milton's or to Shelley's extensive poetic use of the grotesque. This omission surprises me, especially given the voluminous critical attention both authors receive. Neither Milton nor…

An object recognition system called ORB1 is proposed and implemented for use on a mobile robot. ORB utilizes the QUADRIS sensor platform developed at the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) at McGill University, which is composed of two BIRIS2 laser…

Procedures for the selection of subjects for participation in randomized clinical trials--usually formalized as eligibility criteria in the study protocol--have both scientific and ethical implications. In this thesis, I undertake an examination of eligibility criteria at three stages in the…

This is a study of collective identity formation among Montreal gay men before 1970. Using a theoretical framework based on schema theory and discourse analysis, I show that the success of the gay movement after that date was founded on…

Through an investigation of the acquisition of feature geometric representations in first and second language acquisition, this dissertation demonstrates how the Feature Geometry theory contained in Universal Grammar actively guides and constrains the acquisition of segmental representations by children. In…

The establishment and maintenance of the cardiac phenotype requires the activation of cardiac-specific as well as muscle-restricted genes in a tightly regulated spatial manner. This process is presumably governed by the combinatorial action of cell-restricted as well as ubiquitous transcriptional…