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Breadth and depth of English vocabulary knowledge : which really matters in the academic reading performance of Chinese university students?
Huang, Hsing-Fei, 1979-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explored the relationship between vocabulary size (i.e., breadth of knowledge), depth of vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension of Chinese-speaking ESL (English as a second language) university students in Canada. Both aspects of vocabulary knowledge, breadth and depth, continue…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The acquisition of coaching knowledge of a unique sample of expert team sport coaches /
Carter, Adam D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to identify how coaches who have surpassed their athletic achievements acquired their coaching knowledge. Six University coaches from basketball, volleyball, and hockey, with a combined total of fourteen coach of the year awards were…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Articulatory, perceptual, and phonological determinants of accurate production of s
Ohberg, Alyssa.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Children's speech sound errors may reflect deficits in acoustic-phonetic, articulatory-phonetic, or phonological knowledge of those sounds. The purpose of the current study was to explore the factors believed to contribute to accurate articulation of /s/ in children with typically developing…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Pensions and saving: new international panel data evidence
Bebczuk, Ricardo Nestor - Musalem, Alberto

Formato:	Articulo, Documento de trabajo
Enlaces:	This paper contributes to the empirical literature on pensions and saving by studying the influence of funded pension systems on the gross national saving rate using a sample of 48 developed and developing countries over the 1980-2004 period. To the…
Fecha:	2010-06-01
Recurso:	Unversidad Nacional de La Plata

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Patrones de osificación en Tupinambis merianae y Tupinambis rufescens (Squamata: Teiidae) y patrones generales en Squamata
Arias, Federico - Lobo, Fernando

Formato:	Articulo, Articulo
Enlaces:	Se describe la variación ontogenética del esqueleto de 13 embriones de Tupinambis merianae y 11 de Tupinambis rufescens, detectándose heterocronías entre ambas especies. Los resultados muestran que los elementos dermales (tanto del cráneo como de la cintura pectoral) osifican antes…
Fecha:	2010-11-18
Recurso:	Unversidad Nacional de La Plata

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Farmers' local ecological knowledge in the biotech age : a multi-sited ethnography of fruit farming in the Okanagan Valley
Askew, Hannah.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this Master of Arts Thesis in Anthropology I examine the controversy in the Okanagan Valley over the introduction of GM seed technologies into local agricultural processes. I explore via a multi-sited ethnography how local fruit farmers in this region…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The examination of nurse, organizational and infant factors associated with effective procedural pain care in hospitalized infants /
Latimer, Margot.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background. Hospitalized infants still experience pain from regularly performed tissue-damaging procedures. Nurses have knowledge to manage the pain but do not apply that knowledge. There is agreement that hospital organizational factors influence quality of care outcomes and some indication that…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Plays on "the Indian" : representation of knowledge and authenticity in Indianist mimetic practice
Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, is an expression of a typically European fascination with Native American peoples which involves crafting "museum-quality replicas" of clothing and artifacts as well as reenactment of slices of Native American nineteenth-century life by non-Native practitioners in…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Factors that influence the attitude of academic librarians in Saudi Arabia toward copyright laws
AlReyaee, Sulaiman

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this research is to study the factors influencing the attitude of male academic librarians towards copyright laws in Saudi Arabia. The Tripartite Model is used to evaluate the overall attitude of academic librarians, defined in terms of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Becoming an engineering communicator : a study of novices' trajectories in learning genres of their profession
Artemeva, Natalia.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The study presented in this dissertation focusses on the analysis of novices' trajectories in learning genres of their profession, engineering. The goals of the study are: (a) to refine the current understanding of what constitutes professional genre knowledge and of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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11.

Remediating behaviour problems in children with developmental disabilities, Remediating behaviour problems
Viola, Teresa.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The primary purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a highly individualized conjoint behavioural consultation model with group videotape therapy as a means of decreasing externalizing behaviour problems of children with developmental disabilities. The effects of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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12.

Crown wards in child welfare : comparison of access arrangements with best practice
Savoie, Christine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Access arrangements for birth parents of crown wards are a concern for child protection workers. Data on 84 crown wards were collected from 11 in care workers at a Children's Aid Society in Ontario, to determine whether best practice guidelines…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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13.

Investigations into Indigenous research and education through an experiential and place-based lens
O'Connor, Kevin Barry.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The lack of Indigenous cultural knowledge and perspectives in the school curriculum has been identified as a significant factor in school failure amongst Indigenous students. This thesis includes a literature review of Indigenous education, as articulated by Indigenous scholars. Issues…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

Drawing on experience
Markus, Pamela.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation is an autobiographical study that explores how my past experiences related to art and education inform my teaching, and how my teaching informs how I theorize about art. Through the research process, I investigated issues about art and…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

From spiritual matters to economic facts : recounting problems of knowledge in the history of Canadian audiovisual policy, 1928-61
Wagman, Ira.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Using a theoretical model incorporating recent work in the field of historical epistemology and Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality this dissertation reconsiders key moments in the history of Canadian audiovisual policy as sites for examining the production of knowledge about…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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16.

Clock watchers and stargazers: on time discipline in early-modern Berlin
Sauter, M. J. (Michael)

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	This essay contests the view that humanity’s centuries-long experience with clocks is marked by a steady increase in time awareness that culminated in the modern compulsion known as “time discipline”. It argues, in contrast, that modern time discipline emerged during…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	CIDE RI

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17.

Oral health beliefs and dental health care-seeking behaviors among Chinese immigrants
Dong, Mei, 1966-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Understanding culturally related health values and identifying ethnically specific health seeking pathways can help health care providers supply culturally competent services and enhance cooperation with patients of different backgrounds. Cultural competency training, notably through cultural awareness courses, promotes understanding of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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18.

Linking social and ecological dynamics for bird conservation : protecting the endangered Sierra Madre sparrow in Chichinautzin, Mexico
Cabrera-García, Leonardo.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Birds are one of the best studied animal groups in the world but are also amongst the most endangered. The wealth of ecological information has shown habitat protection to be vital to bird biodiversity, but habitat loss and degradation continue…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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19.

A model-driven approach to design engineered physical systems /
Sen, Sagar.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The constant growth in complexity of engineered physical (electrical, mechanical etc.) systems has led to the development of software tools to store and reuse design knowledge to simplify the creation of such systems. Models that encode structure and behaviour of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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20.

Education and technology : a critical study of introduction of computers in Pakistani public schools
Arshad-Ayaz, Adeela.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The importance of technology in education cannot be underestimated. There are compelling reasons for developing nations like Pakistan to introduce technology in their educational systems. Nevertheless the approach and methods used in introducing technology in schools are premised on an…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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21.

True light, true method : science, Newtonianism, and the editing of Shakespeare in eighteenth-century England
Bar-On, Gefen.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The promotion of Shakespeare to the centre of the English literary canon was largely facilitated by ten major eighteenth-century editions of his plays: by Nicholas Rowe (1709), Alexander Pope (1723-25), Lewis Theobald (1733), Thomas Hanmer (1744), William Warburton (1747), Samuel…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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22.

Knowing is not enough : Akrasia and self-deception in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Knowing is not enough :
Shugar, Seth.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Traditionally, Macbeth has been read as a morality tale about the perils of ambition. The question that has implicitly animated most treatments of the play is, "Why does Macbeth kill Duncan?" By shifting the emphasis away from Macbeth's motives for…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Patterns of repression and manipulation towards a topography of authoritarian elections, 1980-2002
Schedler, A.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	Electoral authoritarian regimes represent the modal type of political regimes in the developing world. To control electoral outcomes, such regimes may deploy a broad variety of repressive and manipulative measures. Despite their empirical as well as normative relevance, we possess…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	CIDE RI

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Talbot effect for dispersion in linear optical fibers and a wavelet approach
HARET CODRATIAN ROSU - JUAN PABLO TREVIÑO GUTIERREZ - HUGO CABRERA IBARRA

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Enlaces:	"We shortly recall the mathematical and physical aspects of Talbot’s self-imaging eﬀect occurring in near-ﬁeld diﬀraction. In the rational paraxial approximation, the Talbot images are formed at distances z = p/q, where p and q are coprimes, and are superpositions…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	IPICYT

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25.

Design and assembly of a multimodal nonlinear laser scanning microscope
Bélisle, Jonathan.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The objective of this thesis is to present the fabrication of a multiphoton microscope and the underlying theory responsible for its proper functioning. A basic introduction to nonlinear optics will give the necessary knowledge to the reader to understand the…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

The Parkinson's disease gene, Parkin, ubiquitinates the endocytic accessory protein Eps15 and regulates endocytosis of the epidermal growth factor receptor /
Bélanger, Catherine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Mutations in the parkin gene are responsible for an early-onset autosomal-recessive form of Parkinson's disease. Parkin is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that acts in the covalent attachment of the small protein ubiquitin to substrate proteins. Although many parkin substrates have…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Health & safety rights and transnational liability for harm, Health and safety rights and transnational liability for harm
Philo, John C.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Safety and health is a basic human need and when not met, exacts costs that prevent societies from realizing development goals. Injury is increasing as a leading cause of death and disability. As the result of advances in public health…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

A study in using temporal abstraction and function approximation in reinforcement learning /
Mouadeb, Mark.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The incorporation of temporally extended actions, or options , into the reinforcement learning framework has proven to be useful in planning and knowledge representation. Options provide a form of temporal abstraction, as they represent courses of action of variable duration.…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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29.

Model evolution
He, Amaranth Wei.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	"Model Driven Software Development" is a recent trend in development of software-intensive systems. In the Model Driven Software Development process, all knowledge pertaining to the software system to be built is represented in the form of models, in the right…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

Active learning in partially observable Markov decision processes
Jaulmes, Robin.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	People are efficient when they make decisions under uncertainty, even when their decisions have long-term ramifications, or when their knowledge and their perception of the environment are uncertain. We are able to experiment with the environment and learn, improving our…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

After rationalism : the moral and religious implications of Taylor's and Rorty's epistemological critiques
Sozek, Jonathan.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This paper examines and compares the different ways in which Charles Taylor and Richard Rorty critique the representationalism and foundationalism characteristic of modern epistemology (Chapter One), then considers how their critiques affect their respective understandings of morality (Chapter Two) and…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

'Like dew from heaven:' : honeycomb, religious identity, and transformation in Joseph and Aseneth
Warren, Meredith.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the construction of identity in the pseudepigraphic novel Joseph and Aseneth by means of discussions of conversion, food ritual, and genre. Each of these is invaluable for interpreting the meaning and significance of the honeycomb scene in…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

Neither mechanic nor high priest : moral suasion and the physician-patient relationship
Bigney, Mark W.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The most ordinary man or woman has means of knowledge concerning his own feelings and circumstances that immeasurably surpass those that anyone else can have.-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, One feature that varies within competing conceptions of medical shared decision-making…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Computer vision methods for guitarist left-hand fingering recognition
Burns, Anne-Marie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents a method to visually detect and recognize fingering gestures of the left hand of a guitarist. The choice of computer vision to perform that task is motivated by the absence of a satisfying method for realtime guitarist…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A kindergarten intervention study comparing rime and phoneme based programs and their effects on early literacy through computer literacy software : ABRACADABRA
Comaskey, Erin M.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study investigates the use of a new literacy software ABRACADABRA with pre-reading kindergarten students. The participants ( n=27) from one school were assigned randomly to one intervention group (rime or phoneme) and (n=17) school two served as a control.…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

La enseñanza de las ciencias naturales desde el análisis cognitivo de la acción
Monteiro, Rute Cristina Correia da Rocha

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	The main goal of this PhD Thesis is to understand the teacher's thoughts and action when he or she is immersed in the activity of teaching.To do so, it describes the procedures used to model two teachers' practice with respect…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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37.

La seguridad internacional: vino viejo en botellas nuevas
Sotomayor Velázquez, A. C.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	La seguridad es un concepto complejo y cuestionado, cargado de valores y juicios. Por siglos, el concepto de seguridad internacional fue asociado al estudio de los conflictos internacionales, políticas de defensa, estrategia militar, control de armas, inteligencia, coerción, negociación y…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	CIDE RI

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38.

The representation of frequent word combinations in lexical memory /
McDevitt, Jason.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Many current psycholinguistic theories view the mental lexicon as a listing of (only) unpredictable sound-meaning correspondences (primarily words and morphemes). Under this view, regular complex word forms and syntactic structures are built with rules during language production, obviating the need…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

The effects of specific support to hypothesis generation on the diagnostic performance of medical students /
Nakamura, Carlos.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The hypothetico-deductive method, which involves an iterative process of hypothesis generation and evaluation, has been used for decades by physicians to diagnose patients. This study focuses on the levels of support that medical information systems can provide during these stages…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Diacetyl : identification and characterisation of molecular mechanisms for reduction in yeast and their application in a novel enzyme based assay for quantification in fermentation systems
Van Bergen, Barry.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Diacetyl (2,3-butanedione) is an important flavour active, oxidative compound that has significant impact on cellular health as well as financial impact in industrial fermentations. The presence of diacetyl in certain fermented beverages, such as beer, results in an unpleasant butterscotch-like…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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41.

Insights into the molecular physiology of the P2X receptor family
Raouf, Ramin K.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the source of metabolic energy for a majority of chemical reactions in the cell, is now considered as an ancient messenger molecule used in intercellular communications. The ionotropic effects of ATP are mediated by P2X receptors which…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

The ecological value of hedgerows for conserving temperate forest herbs in agricultural landscapes /
Roy, Valérie, 1981-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	There is growing evidence that the achievement of biodiversity conservation objectives at the regional scale will have to take into account not only habitats within reserves, but also the contribution of semi-natural habitats in production landscapes. This requires knowledge of…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

Computational detection of tissue-specific cis-regulatory modules
Chen, Xiaoyu, 1974-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A cis-regulatory module (CRM) is a DNA region of a few hundred base pairs that consists of clustering of several transcription factor binding sites and regulates the expression of a nearby gene. This thesis presents a new computational approach to…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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44.

Bayesian estimation of diagnostic test parameters in the presence of verification bias
Lu, Ying, 1968-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The statistical evaluation of diagnostic tests may be affected by several potential biases. These biases include those caused by a study design that results in a non-representative sub-sample who are further verified by the reference test (verification bias), and those…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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45.

Examining adaptability of individuals in complex, virtual ecosystems
Abbyad, Marc P.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Natural ecosystems are dynamic and complex, with many being threatened by human activity. However, humans can also be at the root of a solution to this problem by developing ecosystem engineering which can be used to design, construct, modify, upgrade,…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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46.

PNFG : a framework for computer game narrative analysis
Martineau, Félix.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Narratives play a significant role in many computer games, and this is especially true in genres such as role-playing and adventure games. Even so, many games have narratives which possess a certain number of flaws that can deteriorate the playing…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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47.

A methodology for developing optimized electromagnetic devices to populate a case-based reasoning system /
Hammoud, Samer.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	When faced with a new design problem, Engineers most often tend to rely on their accumulated knowledge of science, mathematics, and appropriate experience to reach suitable solutions. Case-Based Reasoning is a new engineering paradigm that reflects this fact by suggesting…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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48.

Social representations and professional knowledge: the representation of mental illness among mental health practitioners
Morant, Nicola

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	The closing decades of the twentieth century saw a dramatic shift from institutional to community-based care for the mentally ill. This paper describes a study of the social representation of mental illness by mental health professionals working in Britain and…
Fecha:	2010-08-12
Recurso:	Anglia Ruskin University

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49.

Endogenous demographic transition, unemployment and complex dynamics in an endogenous growth model
Saura, D. - Vázquez, F. J. - Roa García, M. J.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	The objective of this research is to elaborate an endogenous growth model which allows us to examine the mutual interaction between economic growth, labour market behaviour and population growth. We show how the introduction of disequilibrium and some nonlinearities give…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	CIDE RI

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50.

A simple chaotic model of economic growth and unemployment
Saura, D. - Vázquez, F. J. - Roa García, M. J.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	The study of natural fluctuations has been of great interest for economists for decades. Although the earliest formal models of business cycles, around the 1950s, were endogenous (Hicks, Kaldor, Goodwin), the dominant strategy during the most of the last century…
Fecha:	2006
Recurso:	CIDE RI