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Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	The debate on the relationship between income, income inequality, and health of the last two decades has been based almost entirely on empirical considerations. The ideas prompting the debate are based on the concave relationship observed between health and income…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	CIDE RI

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Statistical modeling of extreme rainfall processes in consideration of climate change
Cung, Annie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Extreme rainfall events may have catastrophic impacts on the population and infrastructures, therefore it is essential to have accurate knowledge of extreme rainfall characteristics. Moreover, both the scientific community and policymakers have recently shown a growing interest in the potential…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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54.

Représentations culturelles et identité d'immigrants adultes de Montréal apprenant le français
Amireault, Valérie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Montreal's cosmopolitan environment becomes richer and is modified as the years go by with the increased mobility and the arrival of new immigrants. In this context, it seems essential to know the development of the immigrants' cultural representations related to…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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55.

Strongly coupled Bayesian models for interacting object and scene classification processes
Ehtiati, Tina.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, we present a strongly coupled data fusion architecture within a Bayesian framework for modeling the bi-directional influences between the scene and object classification mechanisms. A number of psychophysical studies provide experimental evidence that the object and the…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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56.

Role of cki-2 during development in C. elegans
Kim, Dae Young, 1968-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Rapid progress has been made toward understanding the significance of CDK inhibitor proteins (CKIs) in the regulation of cell cycle progression. The overall goal of this study has been targeted to further expand our knowledge of CKI function through the…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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57.

The in vivo neuroprotective role of the normal cellular prion protein /
Gains, Malcolm J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The role of prion protein (PrPC) as a crucial factor in the pathogenesis of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE's) is well known. However, the physiologic role of this highly conserved protein in vivo is thus far, largely unknown. In vitro…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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58.

Synthesis of aminoglycoside derivatives to combat bacterial resistance
Gao, Feng

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Aminoglycosides are broad spectrum antibiotics that act by binding to 16S rRNA of bacteria. The wide spread of aminoglycoside resistance threatens the use of these important medicines. Two general approaches can be used to address the aminoglycoside resistance problem. One…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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59.

Bayesian exploration in Markov decision processes
Castro Rivadeneira, Pablo Samuel

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Markov Decision Processes are a mathematical framework widely used for stochastic optimization and control problems. Reinforcement Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that deals with stochastic environments where the dynamics of the system are unknown. A major issue for…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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60.

Modelado de transistores de potencia a base de GaN, Modeling og GaN ased power transistors
Andrés Zárate de Landa

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Enlaces:	El transistor de alta movilidad electrónica (HEMT) basado en AlGaN/GaN es un serio candidato para aplicaciones de microondas debido a su alta potencia y características de bajo ruido a tales frecuencias. El diseño de amplificadores de potencia de AlGaN/GaN requiere…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	CICESE

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61.

Control Applications Using Computational Intelligence Methodologies
Cerón Aguirre, Oscar - Burbano Romero, Patricio - Prado, A.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	The ambiguity, robustness and performance of systems becomes increasingly evident as the complexity and size increase in industrial processes. Under these circumstances, conventional control techniques such as PID control, nonlinear feedback control, LQG control and H∞ control have several disadvantages…
Fecha:	2007-03-20
Recurso:	Escuela Politécnica Nacional

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62.

Virtual Tools for Remote Analysis and Simulation
Ramos Paja, Carlos Andrés - Ramírez Scarpetta, José Miguel

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This document describes a general structure for the implementation of virtual tools for remote calculation through Internet. Two virtual tools for mathematical analysis (Analys) and simulation of dynamic systems (SimWeb), supported by the Matlab c, are described. These virtual tools,…
Fecha:	2007-03-12
Recurso:	Escuela Politécnica Nacional

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63.

Teoría del encaminamiento en redes ad hoc inalámbricas
Vinagre Díaz, Juan José

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	Las Redes Ad Hoc Inalámbricas gozan de un gran auge hoy en día debido a que dan respuesta a las exigencias actuales referentes al establecimiento de redes que cubran necesidades de comunicación de forma flexible -en tiempo y espacio- y…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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64.

Opportunistic multicasting scheduling using erasure-correction coding over wireless channels
Le, Dang Quang

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In wireless communications, the broadcast nature can be explored to efficiently support multicast services while the difference in channel gains among the wireless links of users promotes multiuser diversity which can be used to improve multicast performance. This thesis proposes…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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65.

Administración del conocimiento como apoyo al proceso de adopción de modelos de mejora de procesos de software, Knowledge management to support the adoption process of software process improvement models
Thelma Violeta Ocegueda Miramontes

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Enlaces:	Desde sus inicios, la industria del software se ha preocupado por mejorar lacalidad de sus productos. En respuesta a esta inquietud, surgen los modelos demejoras de procesos de software (MMPS), cuyo objetivo es el de mejorar lacalidad de los productos…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	CICESE

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66.

Histología, histoquímica y actividad enzimática del sistema digestivo de Paralichthys californicus durante su ontogenia y evaluación de probióticos como promotores de la maduración del sistema, Assesing the ontogeny of the digestive system in paralichthys californicus using histology, histochemistry and enzyme activity and evaluation of probiotics as promotors of its maturation
Magali del Rosario Zacarías Soto

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Enlaces:	El cultivo de peces marinos es una práctica que se ha extendido en nuestro País en los últimos años. La producción y la supervivencia de larvas de alta calidad, representa uno de los principales problemas en la producción masiva de…
Fecha:	2007
Recurso:	CICESE

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67.

Abstraction and concretization of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as seen through biblical interpretation and art
Ovadis, Alyssa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This work examines the patterns inherent to the understanding of the nature of the forbidden fruit in an attempt to demonstrate parallels between the reasoning of biblical interpreters, on one hand, and of artists, on the other., While the biblical…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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68.

The effect of lesson characteristics on dialogue duration in classroom discourse and class content learning outcomes on multiple-choice tests
Lemay, David

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It has been proposed that forms of dialogue (Keegan, 1993) are differentially related to subject knowledge possessed by the student and the roles that teachers and students play within those dialogues. A reading of the socio-constructivist literature suggests that maximal…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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69.

Energy storage system scheduling in wind-diesel microgrids
Ross, Michael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis proposes a knowledge based expert system tool that can be used as an on- line controller for the charging/discharging of an energy storage system in a wind-diesel microgrid. The wind-diesel microgrid is modelled, and a typical energy storage…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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70.

An algebraic approach to dynamic epistemic logic
Phillips, Caitlin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In reasoning about multi-agent systems, it is important to look beyond the realm of propositional logic and to reason about the knowledge of agents within the system, as what they know about the environment will affect how they behave. A…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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71.

Manual prático: dicas para navegação na Catir.
COSTA, A. M. - TOMÉ JÚNIOR, J. B.

Formato:	Documentos (INFOTECA-E)
Enlaces:	2007
Fecha:	2008-04-18
Recurso:	Informação Tecnológica en Agricultura (Infoteca-e)

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72.

The teacher's knowledge community as a third space: tensions and possibilities in curriculum planning
Havard, Kimberly Anne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Interest in curriculum is often divided between the work of curriculum theorists on one end and the manifestation of curriculum in the classroom on the other. Researchers are drawn to the study of both of these groups, but a third…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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73.

Extracting semantic information from Wikipedia using human computation and dimensionality reduction
West, Robert

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Semantic background knowledge is crucial for many intelligent applications. A classical way to represent such knowledge is through semantic networks. Wikipedia's hyperlink graph can be considered a primitive semantic network, since the links it contains usually correspond to semantic relationships…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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74.

Optimal time scales for reinforcement learning behaviour strategies
Comanici, Gheorghe

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Reinforcement Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence addressing the problem of single-agent autonomous sequential decision making. It proposes computational models which do not rely on the complete knowledge of the dynamics of stochastic environments. Options are a formalism used…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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75.

The influence of sensory and cognitive consonance/ dissonance on musical signal processing
Rogers, Susan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates possible origins of the distinction between consonant and dissonant auditory events and how persons with and without formal musical training judge the distinction. Two studies comprising six experiments used behavioral methods to explore perceptual and cognitive differences…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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76.

Saltwater Chronicles: Reading Representational Spaces in Selected Book Clubs in St. John’s, Newfoundland
Lewkowich, David - Robertson, Judith P. - Rottmann, Jennifer

Formato:	article
Enlaces:	Saltwater Chronicles investigates the notion of “islandness” in contemporary Newfoundland readership through two in-depth case studies of book clubs as representational spaces in the elaboration of local knowledge and identities. We demonstrate how select Newfoundland readers perform acts of regeneration…
Fecha:	2010,
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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77.

Cryogenic Technology in the Microwave Engineering: Application to MIC and MMIC Very Low Noise Amplifier Design
Cano de Diego, Juan Luis

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	Some applications such as radio astronomy and deep space communications require very sensitive receivers. This dissertation deals with the cryogenic technology applied to the microwave engineering and focuses on the design of very low noise amplifiers both in hybrid (MIC)…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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78.

Proteomics and secretomics of Penicillium chrysogenum: molecular characterization of proteins relevant for penicillin biosynthesis
Jami, Mohammad Saeid

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	Eighty years after the discovery of penicillin, the interest of this ß-lactam antibiotic at industrial level is still remarkable. Despite the good background knowledge, little is known on how Penicillin chrysogenum became a good penicillin overproducer, and much of the…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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79.

Antitumor activity against murine lymphoma L5178Y model of proteins from cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) seeds in relation with in vitro antioxidant activity
EUGENIA DEL CARMEN LUGO CERVANTES

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Enlaces:	Background: Recently, proteins and peptides have become an added value to foodstuffs due to new knowledge about its structural analyses as related to antioxidant and anticancer activity. Our goal was to evaluate if protein fractions from cacao seeds show antitumor…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	CIATEJ

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80.

La incidencia de la opinión pública en la política exterior de México: teoría y realidad
Velázquez Flores, R. - Schiavon, J. A.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	El propósito de este documento de trabajo es analizar la relación entre opinión pública y política exterior para el caso de México, particularmente el grado de incidencia que tiene la primera en el proceso de toma de decisiones de la…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	CIDE RI

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81.

Racionalidad, uso de información y decisiones financieras
Roa, M. J.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Enlaces:	The objective of this research is to discuss the assumptions of rationality of individuals in their use and acquisition of information to make financial decisions. Traditional literature on financial markets states that financial institutions produce information that is rationally used…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	CIDE RI

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82.

Computer aided design for molecular inhibitors
Lee, Devin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In-silico methods used to aid the development of therapeutic drugs have gained utility in the recent past and continue to grow in importance. Small molecule drugs for the use in the treatment of type 2 diabetes were designed using computational…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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83.

Invisible persons, invisible patients: determining the ethics of hormone-blocker therapy through an understanding of the transgender/transsexual adolescent- physician relationship
Bonifacio, Herbert

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A new ethical medical dilemma concerns the use of hormone-blockers or medications that put puberty on hold in the care of transgender/transsexual (TG/TS) adolescents. These medications are taken until she is old enough to legally consent to cross-sex hormones. Such…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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84.

The development of an artificially intuitive reasoner
Sun, Yung Chien

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research is an exploration of the phenomenon of "intuition" in the context of artificial intelligence (AI). In this work, intuition was considered as the human capacity to make decisions under situations in which the available knowledge was usually low…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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85.

Plotinus' epistemology and his reading of the «theaetetus»
Magrin, Sara

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The thesis offers a reconstruction of Plotinus' reading of the Theaetetus, and it presents an account of his epistemology that rests on that reading. It aims to show that Plotinus reads the Theaetetus as containing two anti-sceptical arguments. The first…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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86.

Definition of a resource management strategy for dynamic performance tuning of complex applications
Guevara Quintero, José Alexander

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	Resource management and performance models constitute important aspects for parallel applications' performance analysis and tuning. Defining performance models associated with the application structure has been proven useful for implementing dynamic tuning tools. However, for extending this strategy to complex pplications…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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87.

A Mesoscopic Study of Plasticity and Fracture in Disordered Materials
Picallo González, Clara Beatriz

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	Understanding how materials deform and break is a subject of critical importance in industry. At the same time, it requires from the knowledge of the basic processes governing the phenomenon and hence, fundamental physics research is a must. The presence…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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88.

Diet and infection as predictors of stunting, iron deficiency and anemia in indigenous Panamanian communities
Lardeau, Marie-Pierre

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This cross sectional study evaluated if coffee, associated with reduced linear growth, anemia and immunomodulation could contribute to childhood stunting and iron deficiency (ID) and anemia in Indigenous Ngöbe Buglé children and mothers. Questionnaires on socio-economic status, health, diet, anthropometry,…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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89.

Teaching the female adolescent to sing: A survey of choral conductors and voice instructors
Hall, Megan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Although existence of female voice change is not disputed, symptoms are subtle and not widely understood. Due to the recent nature of research conducted on the female adolescent voice, the researcher investigated what information had reached teachers of singing. The…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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90.

Learning approximate representations of partially observable systems
Dinculescu, Monica

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Learning agents that interact with complex environments often cannot predict the exact outcome of their actions due to noisy sensors or incomplete knowledge of the world. Learning the internal representation of such partially observable environments has proven to be a…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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91.

Creation of a personalized stroke risk index calculator
Nobel, Lisa

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	For engaging individuals in reducing personal stroke risk, knowledge about factors that are directly under individual control is relevant. Therefore, the objective was to estimate the risk of first ever stroke for specific combinations of health, lifestyle and psychological related…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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92.

Policies, leadership, and private daycares
Chivi, Maya

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the legal and ethical obligations of Quebec private daycare owners and directors, towards protecting the rights and safety of children in their care and the staff members who work with these children. Qualitative methodologies included forty-two questionnaires…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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93.

Running on a cross-slope: a study of the biomechanical adaptations of the lower leg and foot
Tisseyre, Magali

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	To the author's knowledge, no studies have included an analysis of foot or ankle kinematics during cross-sloped running, a condition frequently encountered in the runner's training environment. The goal of this thesis was to evaluate the kinematic adaptations induced at…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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94.

Encadenamiento por inyección óptica con la dispersión de Brillouin, Optical injection locking with brillouin scattering
Marcial Castro Muñoz

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Enlaces:	Se demuestra por primera vez el encadenamiento por inyección óptica(OIL, Optical Injection Locking) de dos láseres de semiconductor a travésde la dispersión estimulada de Brillouin (SBS, Stimulated BrillouinScattering). Ambos procesos han sido extensamente investigados hasta laactualidad por sus múltiples aplicaciones…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	CICESE

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95.

Using case-based reasoning to learn about ecological engineering
Lanphere, Tania Ruth

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Ecological engineering, the practice of designing, creating or manipulating, and monitoring ecosystems, is applied for a variety of purposes benefiting both human society and the natural environment, often integratively. While there are basic principles that help practitioners in the development…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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96.

Spinning blood into gold: science, sex work and HIV-2 in Senegal
Gilbert, Hannah

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Through ethnography, this dissertation chronicles how a West African variant of HIV, known as HIV-2, emerged as a knowable entity. It examines how a nation like Senegal, which exists at the margins of capitalism and the periphery of the biomedical…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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97.

Transforming nature's subsidy: Global markets, Burkinabè women and African shea butter
Elias, Marlène

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this dissertation I examine the sustainability of shea butter projects in the centre-west region of Burkina Faso, West Africa. Shea butter derives from the Vitellaria paradoxa tree, which grows in the semi-arid African savanna. Women living in this region…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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98.

Estudio de la variabilidad espacio-temporal de las comunidades de macroinvertebrados bentónicos en los ecosistemas fluviales de Cantabria. Repercusiones para la aplicación de la Directiva Marco del Agua
Alvarez Cabria, Mario

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	El objetivo de esta tesis es determinar los patrones de variabilidad espacio-temporal que siguen las comunidades de macroinvertebrados en los ríos de Cantabria, aplicando este conocimiento a los procedimientos de evaluación del estado ecológico de los ecosistemas fluviales Cantábricos. La…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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99.

Rule-based methodologies for the specification and analysis of complex computing systems
Baggi, Michele

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	From the earliest hardware and software days to the internet era, complexity of computer systems has been something computer scientists, engineers, and programmers have had to deal with. Important fields of research and technology have originated, developed, or matured as…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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100.

Testbed design for wireless communications systems assessment
García Naya, José Antonio

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	Since Marconi succeeded in carrying out the first wireless transmission in 1894, experimental research has been always linked with wireless communications. Today, most wireless communications research relies only on computer simulations. Although computer simulations are necessary and recommendable for wireless…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)