This inquiry explores six Greek trilingual adults' perceptions about becoming and being trilingual. The six participants are "children of Bill 101", that is, as allophones (speakers of other languages than English and French) they were formally schooled in the French…

Clathrin-mediated membrane budding mainly occurs at the cell surface, where it drives the formation of endocytic vesicles necessary for the internalization of membrane proteins, and at the trans-Golgi network (TGN), where it mediates the trafficking of cargo proteins from the…

Recently, there has been a growing movement toward an Electronic Health Record (EHR) to improve quality of care. The paper-based medical record is still the primary source of information in today’s medical practice. In order to design the EHR, knowledge…

This research studied Quebec producers’ environmental attitudes and perceptions on environmentally friendly practices on farm, such as an environmental management system (EMS), using a survey. The contingency valuation method (CVM) was applied to elicit producers’ mean willingness to accept compensation…

High-pressure (HP) depresses the phase-transition point of water especially in the case of ice-I (down to -21°C at about 210 MPa). This phenomenon has several potential advantages in food processing applications, such as pressure shift freezing (PSF) and HP thawing.…

Task uncertainty and noise---generically referred to as uncertainties in the thesis---in the design and operation of robotic mechanical systems pose a major challenge to the designer. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the laying down of the…

Since the declaration of “War on cancer” in 1971, and with the insight provided by recent advances in human genetics and in molecular technology , the field of cancer biology has been expanded rapidly providing hope that a cure for…

Abstract: In today’s competitive global economy characterized by knowledge acquisition, the concept of knowledge management has become increasingly prevalent in academic and business practices. Knowledge creation is an important factor and remains a source of competitive advantage over knowledge management.…

El creciente interés por conocer el origen y los efectos de los contaminantes en la
atmósfera y el impacto que estos provocan en la salud de la población, se debe a
los efectos adversos que en la actualidad se han…

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are merely blind search algorithms, which only make use of the relative fitness of solutions, but completely ignore the nature of the problem. Their performance can be improved by using new multirecombinative approaches, which provide a good…