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Determining University Professors' Practical Teaching Knowledge Constructs in Exemplary Incidents of Teaching
Hum, Gregory

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philosophy across the…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Three essays on generativity and caring in constructing partnership orientation in learning organizations and the society
Chu, Hankyu.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The three essays in the present dissertation build on and expand the notion of generativity in the context of a learning (i.e., knowledge creating) organization, and learning (i.e., knowledge based) economy in sequential progression with increasing levels of analysis. Essay…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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How does faculty research activity affect undergraduate instruction in chemistry? An exploration of the perceived impacts of inquiry on pedagogy
Hua, Olivia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Academics believe in a symbiotic relationship between research and teaching, though evidence challenges its existence. Previous studies may have defined these constructs too narrowly to detect the perceived relationships. This study used a qualitative approach to investigate chemistry professors' beliefs…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowledge transfer in post-disaster reconstruction: the problem of post-post-disaster reconstruction
Gharaati Kopaei, Mehran

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The history of post-disaster reconstruction programs, especially in developing countries, is replete with the failure to provide safe-construction methods that can be sustained and repeated over time, in spite of the usually acclaimed success of these projects by those in…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Traditional food consumption, anthropometry, nutrient intake and the emerging relationship between Inuit youth and traditional knowledge in a Baffin Island community
Yohannes, Sennait.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In 2006 a youth health survey was conducted in Pangnirtung, Nunavut as part of a community collaboration. The survey assessed food use, nutrient status and anthropometry. Thirty four percent of youth were above healthy weight; soft drink consumption averaged 1…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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What do we mean by 'gender' and how should it be addressed? Exploring the inclusion of gender in a teacher education curriculum
Airton, Elizabeth

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In education, 'gender' is consistently operationalized as a body of 'common sense' knowledge that can be freely invoked in an explanatory fashion. This study names such knowledge practices as artefacts of gender-normative privilege and links 'how' knowledge of gender conveyed…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Fire, plants and people: exploring environmental relations through local knowledge of postfire ecology at Wemindji, Quebec
Scott, Katherine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the forests of Wemindji Cree Territory on the eastern shores of James Bay, north-western Quebec, forest fires burn frequently, human interventions are rare, and fire is the key agent of forest transformation. This thesis examines Cree perceptions of spatial…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Multicultural counselling competencies with adolescents : a qualitative examination of client experiences, MCC with adolescents
Kassan, Anusha.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In recent years, an important focus has been placed on training counsellors to attend to cultural diversity. In an effort to assist counsellors in this process, models of Multicultural Counselling Competencies (MCC) have been developed for work with adult populations.…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The state of health information technology standards: the conflation of the technical and the political in the development of a pan-Canadian electronic health record system
Mardis, Nicole

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The convergence of political and technical challenges is demonstrated in a case study on a collaborative initiative to develop a pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. It is argued that the juxtaposition of different domains, procedures, knowledge bases, and entities…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Quality of service routing using decentralized learning
Heidari, Fariba.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents several decentralized, learning-based algorithms for on-line routing of bandwidth guaranteed paths. The presented routing algorithms do not need any a-priori knowledge of traffic demand; they use only their locally observed events and update their routing policy using…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Epistemic strategies and games on concurrent processes
Knight, Sophia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	We develop a game semantics for process algebra with two independent, interacting agents. The purpose of the semantics is to make manifest the role of knowledge and information flow in the interactions between agents and to control the information available…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Anal human papillomavirus infection and anal intraepithelial neoplasia in HIV-seropositive men having sex with other men
De Pokomandy, Alexandra

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	HIV-seropositive men having sex with other men (MSM) are at increased risk for anal Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection, anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) and anal cancer. Because most studies on the subject were cross-sectional, longitudinal investigations were needed to improve our…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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How we see this place: an intergenerational dialogue about conservation using Photo-Voice around Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone
Thompson, Jennifer

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	You can express a different story through art. What happens when you use arts-based inquiry to explore environmental knowledge? How can artistic expression value and construct alternative knowledges that might otherwise be overlooked or silenced? Holistic and justice-oriented trends in…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Visualizing the margins: the experiences of queer people of colour
Lee, Woo Jin Edward

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study incorporates a critical AOP theoretical framework in order to answer the central research question which seeks to reveal the ways in which queer people of colour conceptualize their intersecting identities and resist interlocking systems of domination. Photovoice, a…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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15.

Quantum entropic security
Desrosiers, Simon Pierre

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	We present full generalizations of entropic security and entropic indistinguishability,notions introduced by Russell and Wang and then Dodis and Smith, to the quantumworld where no assumption other than a limit on the knowledge of the adversary ismade. This limit is…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Light interaction with the human retinal photoreceptor: finite-difference time-domain analysis
Haji Aboli, Amir

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Approximately 70% of the total sensory receptors in the human body reside in the eye and they provide 80% of the acquired information during life. The initial stage of activating these sensory receptors is the light interaction with photoreceptors, which…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Beyond borders: unaccompanied refugee minors and access to protection
Diab, Soha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis seeks to explore the challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee minors when seeking refugee protection. It will examine the way in which discourses and policies, both in Canada and internationally, undermine unaccompanied refugee minors accessing refugee protection or being…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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18.

Expecting to quit: An implementation evaluation of a smoking cessation intervention for pregnant and parenting women
Gillam, Susan Lydia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Abstract Women who are disadvantaged have higher rates of smoking during pregnancy and are at higher risk of tobacco-related harm. Smoking cessation interventions have been developed for pregnant and parenting women who smoke however, improvements to smoking cessation interventions for…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Puzzles rather than answers: co-constructing a pedagogy of experiential, place-based and critical learning in Indigenous education
O'Connor, Kevin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research examines the current educational challenges facing First Nation students of northern Canada, through the exploration of two experiential and place-based educational programs. These programs of study are presently being applied in the public school system (primary and secondary)…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Designing a well-formed activity system for an ICT- supported constructivist learning environment: A CHAT perspective
Park, Jonghwi

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Much educational research has suggested that information and communication technologies (ICTs) promote constructivist classroom. In contrast, most teachers in actual classrooms continue to struggle with the pedagogical and practical challenges in using ICTs to facilitate student knowledge construction and collaboration.…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Analysis of shock dynamics in supersonic intakes
Tahir, Råbi

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This work investigates fluid mechanical processes involving movement of shock waves inside channels. In particular, the prediction and control of shock motion in intakes is of great importance to high-speed flight and future spacecraft engines--it is a fundamental problem whose…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among college students in Gujurat, India
Nath, Yogini

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Research on suicidal behaviors from non-Western countries is limited, and knowledge from Western studies may not be suitable for developing appropriate intervention strategies in other cultures. An understanding of the sociocultural context within which suicidal behaviors take place can provide…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Dynamics, function and evolution of regulatory networks
Wilds, Roy

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Biochemical regulatory networks are involved in many essential processes of life, such as maintaining homeostatic conditions, cell-cycle division, and responding to environmental stimuli. Such networks contain a staggering degree of complexity, inhibiting our ability to understand how they function. Two…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The role of Pax2/8 and Gata3 transcription factors during mouse urogenital system development
Grote, David

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The urogenital system performs essential functions for life and reproduction in all vertebrate species. In humans, congenital malformations of the urogenital system rank among the most common birth defects and can cause life-threatening complications in adults. Therefore, understanding urogenital system…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Measuring information-sharing behavior : the case of supply chains in operational contexts
Bao, Xiaowen, 1973-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study is to explore the theoretical foundation for conceptualizing information-sharing behavior and to develop a composite index or a global scale for measuring the overall level of information sharing in the context of supply chains. Specifically,…
Fecha:	2009
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

Dirty-paper coding over noisy feedback channels with ISI
Sollund, Tomas

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This work generalizes the Liu and Elia dirty-paper coding scheme to include feedback channels with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and intersymbol interference (ISI). An optimal scheme is derived which achieves lossless interference cancellation, performs arbitrarily close to the feedback…
Fecha:	2009
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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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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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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31.

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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Parasitic infections in pirarucu fry, Arapaima gigas Schinz, 1822 (Arapaimatidae) kept in a semi-intensive fish farm in Central Amazon, Brazil.
ARAÚJO, C. S. O. - GOMES, A. L. - TAVARES-DIAS, M. - ANDRADE, S. M. S. - BELEM-COSTA, A. - BORGES, J. T. - QUEIROZ, M. N. - BARBOSA, M.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Studies regarding parasite fauna in farmed fish are of great relevance to lhe knowledge of the parasites species. allowing interference in their proliferation in order to avoid epizooties and consequently. economical losses, This study was designed to investigate the prevalence…
Fecha:	2009-11-12
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Meaningful main effects or intriguing interactions? examining the influences of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representations on cognitive processing and conceptual change when learning physics
Franco, Gina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representations in cognitive and metacognitive processing and conceptual change when learning about physics concepts through text. Specifically, I manipulated the representation of physics concepts in…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Beliefs and motives behind the paper: examining relations between epistemic beliefs, achievement goals, writing strategies, and academic writing achievement
Duffy, Melissa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Throughout university, students are required to complete complex writing tasks that involve a host of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, yet little is known about the differences in students' approach to the writing process. In particular, the role of students' beliefs…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Placebos in medicine: from conceptualizations in medical school to integration in clinical practice
Campbell, Natasha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Placebo effects constitute context-dependent medical phenomena, and exemplify the link between psychosocial factors and physiological processes. By surveying medical students (Study 1) and practicing physicians (Study 2), the present thesis explores the knowledge and attitudes towards the role of placebos,…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Text classification using labels derived from structured knowledge representations
Perreault, Mathieu

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Structured knowledge representations are becoming central to the area of Information Science. Search engines companies have said that constructing an entity graph is the key to classifying their enormous corpus of documents in order to provide more relevant results to…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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37.

The effect of scarcity on product evaluation
Lee, Seung Yun

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Marketers often use scarcity to influence consumers, with announcements such as "limited quantities," "until stocks last," "few tickets left for this event," "limited time offer," or "24 hour sale." Past research indicates that scarcity often has a positive effect on…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Computerized interface control documents
Rahmani, Keyvan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Interfaces between subsystems in collaborative product development projects are presently defined by interface control documents. These documents are created after agreements are made between designers on how to design subsystem interfaces. The designers must commit to the definitions given by…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Publication bias and quality of reporting of Pharmacodynamic Studies utilizing invasive research procedures within early phase cancer trials
Freeman, Georgina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Invasive research procedures, such as biopsy for pharmacodynamic study, often have no value for patient-volunteers in terms of diagnosis or clinical management. Accordingly, their burdens are generally justifiable only by appeal to knowledge value (that is, the benefit to future…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Scientia in Twelfth Century philosophy in the Latin West
Nájera Carvajal, Rafael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis a study of the notion of scientia in thinkers of the Latin West in the twelfth century. Scientia is a Latin word that has served to refer to important conceptions of science. Important in medieval philosophy is its…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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41.

Case-based reasoning for the creative design of electromagnetic devices
Ouyang, Jun

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Design is concerned with the question of how to construct an artifact or system to meet the desired specification and is normally categorized as either routine, non-routine or creative. Up until now, the study of knowledge-based design has concentrated on…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

Towards the identification of family physician learning needs through a reflective process
Lewis, Denice

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background Continuing professional development stakeholders are continually searching for better ways of collecting and using data to determine the educational needs of physicians. Research questions1) What, if any, family physician learning needs are revealed through the reflective process prompted by…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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ASK in Latin America and the Caribbean: options for the future.
ARMBRECHT, I. - AVILA, A. F. D.

Formato:	Capítulo em livro técnico-científico (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2009, Autores: Jorge Blajos, Patrick Lavelle, Dalva M. da Mota, Lucia Pitalluga, Sergio Salles Filho, Jorge Irán Vásquez.
Fecha:	2011-10-17
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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In search of a citizenship education model for a democratic multireligious Indonesia: case studies of two public senior high schools in Jakarta
Syafruddin, Didin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Concerned with interreligious conflict in Indonesia, this study seeks to describe and evaluate the current citizenship education that has been designed and implemented for a democratic multireligious Indonesia. The context for the study, outlined in Chapters 1 and 2, is…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The role of teachers' pedagogical and subject-matter knowledge in planning and enacting science-inquiry instruction and in assessing students' science-inquiry learning
Birlean, Camelia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explored the relation between pedagogical knowledge and subject-matter knowledge, in the context of inquiry-driven science instruction, and their relation to instructors' performance in the instructional process. This multiple case study focused on three distinct categories of teachers--Novice in…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Show me the truth: the conditions of possibility for the invention of photography
Delmas, Didier

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The popularization of science during the eighteenth century generated, toward the end of the century, an epistemological anxiety that reached all levels of the population from the most literate scientist to the poorest peasant, the expert in differential calculus like…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Biodiversity and human nutrition in a landscape mosaic of farms and forests in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
Powell, Bronwen

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation sought to add to knowledge of the links between human and ecosystem health by examining relationships between biodiversity and human nutrition in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Grounded in a theoretical framework drawing from systems approaches to human…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Alterations in translational control by eIF4E-Homologous Protein (4EHP)
Henderson, Valerie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Tight, yet dynamic, control of translation is critical in order for the cell to respond appropriately to intracellular and extracellular cues. This translational control is achieved by modulating the rate of translation in an mRNA-specific or global manner, often by…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The algebra of topological quantum computing
Evans, Julia

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Topological quantum computing is an approach to the problem of implementingquantum gates accurately and robustly. The idea is to exploit topological propertiesof certain quasiparticles called anyons to obtain a proposed implementation of quan-tum computing which is inherently fault-tolerant. The mathematical…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Vibration measurements on the widely exposed gerbil eardrum
He, Zinan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects. Early identification of hearing loss is very important because even a mild hearing loss can seriously delay language development and compromise communication, educational and social capabilities. Tympanometry is a promising…
Fecha:	2012
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL