Context and objective: The Information Assessment Method (IAM) is a unique tool for continuing education and knowledge translation research. IAM allows health professionals to report search objectives, cognitive impact, use and patient health benefit associated with objects of clinical information…

Decision-making under uncertainty has become critical as autonomous and semi-autonomous agents become more ubiquitious in our society. These agents must deal with uncertainty and ambiguity from the environment and still perform desired tasks robustly. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs)…

The studies presented in this thesis examine the perceptions and experiences of different groups of educators working in inclusive settings in Montréal, Québec at the elementary school level. In Study 1, survey data from 600 educators (regular classroom teachers, resource…

This dissertation aims to understand the capability development processes in the early stages of a firm. Empirically, most research has focused on established firms, or on explaining the variance in capabilities across firms at a given time. Theoretically, despite the…

Many children around the world are educated in a second language, be they speakers of the majority language of the community in which they are educated or speakers of a minority language. Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of second language…

Following deglaciation, Canadian coastlines, particularly those around Hudson and James Bay region were affected by large crustal rebound and associated sea level change, the largest glacio-isostatic recovery process known during the Holocene. Recent archaeological work in the uplifting eastern James…

Data are produced in large quantities and in various forms around the globe everyday. Researchers advance their research depending on the availability of necessary data and the discovery of them. As people's demand to manage the data grows, however, three…

In this thesis I develop an account of the nature of limits of thought in terms of Husserl's phenomenology. I do this by exploring in terms of Husserl's phenomenology various ways thought-limits are encountered. Chapter One employs Husserl's analyses of…

Efficient and reliable tools are needed to accurately characterize the mechan- ical properties of soft tissue. A knowledge of Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio is essential to model mechanical behavior and quantify stresses and strain within soft tissues. The goal…

This study is an institutional ethnography which employs a critical race feminist theoretical framework in order to explicate the social relations that coordinate the experiences of racialized female student activists at McGill University. Interviews with students, administrators, faculty and staff,…