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51.

What could I learn from my interactions as a consultant to principals that would help me to improve my practice as a principal?
Fillatre, Jean

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation describes my work as an educational consultant working with four school principals during a two and a half year period. My original intention was to develop a protocol to help principals in their work. As the study progressed,…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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52.

Temporal discounting of expected value of reward in the medial intraparietal cortex
Tsoulfas, Georgios

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Previous work has shown that expected value of reward associated with a reach modulates neurons in the medial intraparietal cortex (MIP) and that this reward signal can be decoded. In this study, we investigated the reliability of reward coding in…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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53.

"Experimenting with what will become our traditions": adaptive co-management as a bridge to an Atikamekw Nehirowisiw post-treaty world in Nitaskinan, Canada
Houde, Nicolas

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines whether transitioning from current co-management approaches to an adaptive co-management approach would resolve some of the problems experienced in current treaty negotiations contexts between Canadian First Nations and the state government. It first identifies how adaptive co-management…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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54.

Delamination modelling and toughening mechanism of a woven fabric composite
Yamanaka, Tadayoshi

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Efficient and accurate numerical simulation methods for the damage tolerance analysis and fatigue life prediction of fibre reinforced polymers are in high demand in industry. Problems arise in the development of such a simulation method due to the limitations from…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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55.

Exploring the role of episodic memories in people's lives
Philippe, Frederick

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of the present thesis was to investigate the role of specific cognitive representations in some of people's important life outcomes. Episodic memories were chosen as one type of specific cognitive representation and psychological need satisfaction was identified as…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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56.

Bayesian reinforcement learning for POMDP-based dialogue systems
Png, ShaoWei

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Spoken dialogue systems are gaining popularity with improvements in speech recognition technologies. Dialogue systems have been modeled effectively using Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), achieving improvements in robustness. However, past research on POMDP-based dialogue systems usually assumes that the…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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57.

A nonlinear analysis framework for electronic synthesizer effects
Germain, François

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents a theoretical and experimental study of the nonlinear behaviour of analog synthesizers' effects. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate and complete current research on nonlinear system modelling, both in and out of the field of…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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58.

Tackling the anarchy within: the role of deterrence and great power intervention in peace operations
Martin-Brûlé, Sarah-Myriam

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	My dissertation strives to understand the conditions under which peaceoperations in intra-state wars succeed or fail. I address two main questions: Whatis peace operation success, and what contributes to such an outcome? I define thesuccess of a peace operation based…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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59.

Wideband spectrum sensing for cognitive radios in the presence of correlation between subband occupancy
Hossain, Khalid

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Energy detection has emerged as a prime technique for wideband spectrum sensing in cognitive radio applications. Much of the present research in the area of energy detection assumes that the occupancy of any particular frequency subband is independent of the…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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60.

Family environment as the social context for parenting children with a neurodevelopmental disorder: a descriptive synthesis of the literature
Bogossian, Aline

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Social scientists have been interested in studying families of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) for decades. Theoretically, parenting occurs in a family context. Yet, little is known about this relationship from an empirical standpoint among parents of children with NDD.…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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61.

Looking back, seeing forward: an ethnography of women and violence in post-war Guatemala City
Godoy Paiz, Paula

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Drawing on 12 months of fieldwork conducted in Guatemala's Metropolitan Area among indigenous and ladina women, this dissertation offers an ethnographic analysis of violence and women's lives in post-war urban Guatemala. First, this dissertation examines the ways in which intersecting…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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62.

A water-based heat pipe for molten steel applications in a tundish
Madani, Nogol

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the continuous casting of steel shapes, a tundish feeds the molten steel alloy into oscillating moulds. Therefore, a better knowledge of some of the parameters of the steel in this phase of the process will lead to better quality…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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63.

Intersecting and embodied identities: a queer woman's experiences of disability and sexuality
Drummond, Jennifer

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study explores the ways in which the intersections of sexuality and identity are experienced and understood by a queer woman living with a disability. Through a narrative account of critical moments and turning points in the participant's lived experience…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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64.

To be or not to be-able to dance; integrated dance and children's perceptions of dance ability and disability
Zitomer, Michelle

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study investigated children's perceptions of dance ability and disability and changes to perceptions following participation in an integrated dance program. Focus group interviews, field notes, and observations were used with children with physical disabilities (n =5) and without disabilities…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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65.

Peer interaction and corrective feedback: proceduralization of grammatical knowledge in classroom settings
Sato, Masatoshi

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This quasi-experimental study implemented an original instructional unit in second language (L2) classrooms where the learners were taught (a) how to interact with each other (peer interaction), and (b) how to provide corrective feedback (CF) to each other (peer CF).…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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66.

Effects of form-focused instruction on L2 pronounciation development of /r/ by Japanese learners of English
Saito, Kazuya

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This manuscript-based thesis comprises three interrelated studies investigating the acquisitional value of various types of form-focused instruction (FFI) techniques—focused tasks (FT) with and without corrective feedback (CF) as well as with and without explicit instruction (EI). Study 1 investigates the…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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67.

Efecto de la concentración de HUFAs n3 en la dieta sobre el crecimiento, supervivencia, eficiencia alimenticia e índice de condición en juveniles de Totoaba macdonaldi, Effect of the concentration of N-3 hufa in the diet on the growth, survival, feed efficiency and condition index of juvenile Totoaba macdonaldi
Gloria Edith Villarreal Rodarte

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Enlaces:	Con el objeto de incrementar nuestro conocimiento en cuanto a los requerimientos nutricionales de juveniles de Totoaba macdonaldi, se evalúo el efecto de cuatro concentraciones de HUFAs n-3 adicionadas a la dieta (0%, 0.5%, 1% y 1.5% de la dieta)…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	CICESE

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68.

What's in a grade? A mixed methods investigation of teacher assessment of grammatical ability in L2 academic writing
Neumann, Heike

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study investigates how grammatical ability is assessed in L2 academic writing classrooms. In the assessment literature, grammatical ability is defined to include syntax and morphology (Purpura, 2004; Weigle, 2002) and lexical forms, cohesion, and information management on the subsentential,…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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69.

Assessment and treatment of vocal stereotypy in children with autism spectrum disorders
Lanovaz, Marc

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Several children with autism spectrum disorders engage in vocal stereotypy, which are repetitive vocalizations that persist in the absence of social consequences. Although the behavior is physically harmless, vocal stereotypy may considerably interfere with learning and social inclusion. Thus, this…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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70.

Protein folding cooperativity and functional dynamics
Farber, Patrick James

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The research reported in this Thesis has contributed to the development of methodologies in the study of disorder-to-order transitions, as well as given insight into the thermodynamics and kinetics of specific, biologically relevant processes in a small DNA binding protein,…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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71.

Reach amplitude may be encoded in the posterior parietal cortex: preliminary findings
Gross, Catherine Anne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Areas of the brain that encode activity important to an arm reach have been investigated for their potential use in motor neuroprosthetic devices for amputees and paralyzed patients. The components pertinent to an accurate arm reach are the direction and…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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72.

Reconceptualizing international law after 9/11: what role for state responsibility in the prevention and suppression of transnational terrorism?
Proulx, Vincent-Joël

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It is clear that every state has an obligation to prevent terrorist attacks emanating from its territory and injurious to another state. This proposition stems from various multilateral agreements on the suppression of terrorism and Security Council resolutions. It also…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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73.

Insuring the air transport industry against aviation war and terrorism risks in a post-September 11, 2001, environment
Nyampong, Yaw

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	As the saying goes, "the importance of insurance, like many of life's essentials, is most evident when it is not available". The fateful terrorist events of September 11, 2001, amply demonstrated the indisputable fact that, as a risk management tool,…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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74.

GIS-inventory and condition rating of water supply system at McGill Downtown Campus
Sipos, Cristian

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The research project presents a framework for developing a detailed Geographic Information System (GIS) inventory and condition rating of the water supply system at McGill Downtown Campus (MDC), based on the previous work by Sipos (2006), and Sipos and Mirza…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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75.

Immune modulation in cardiovascular disease
Shbat, Layla

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The importance of the adaptive immune response in cardiovascular disease has been increasingly appreciated. However, limited information is available on immune modulation in the context of hypertension and atherosclerosis. In order to fill this knowledge gap, the amount of T…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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76.

Chemotherapy of candidiasis: study of ABC transporter- mediated azole resistance and identification of a novel antifungal therapeutic strategy
Tsao, Tan Ning

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Candida albicans is a major fungal pathogen that causes systemic bloodstream infections with high mortality rate in immune-compromised patients. Current treatment of candidiasis involves the use of azoles (the most widely used antifungal agents that target ergosterol biosynthesis) and echinocandins…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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77.

La construction sociale de la relation adoptive: expériences parentales de l'adoption d'enfants grands à l'international
Piché, Anne-Marie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Current tranformations in the international practice of child adoption has impacts on adoptive family construction. Adoption applicants are constrained to redefine their preparation, their expectations and criteria about the children they are willing to adopt; as those who become available…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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78.

A critical examination of global practices in Korean society: creating socially just diversity in English pedagogy
Kim, Myunghee

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation investigates the impact of globalization on educational policy and contemporary social life in Korea. Using bricolage, a qualitative research methodology that encompasses multiple critical social theories, I interrogate the notion of globalization and its practices. I examine current…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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79.

Localization of the generators of epileptic activity using Magneto-EncephaloGraphy (MEG) data
Chowdhury, Rasheda

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Understanding the mechanisms and locating the brain regions involved during epileptic activity is a primary diagnostic interest during the pre-surgical investigation of patients with pharmaco-resistant epilepsy. Epileptic spikes are abnormal spontaneous neuronal discharges that are characteristic of the epilepsy of…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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80.

Geographic and habitat fidelity in the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)
Keyes, Kristen

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Over the past half a century, the Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) has experienced a severe population decline across North America. Many aspects of Short-eared Owl natural history are poorly understood, thus hampering the development of effective management plans. The overall…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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81.

Natural killer cells in HIV infected slow progressors
Kamya, Nabukenya

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS-related illnesses are a leading cause of infectious disease mortality worldwide. The development of a safe and effective prophylactic HIV vaccine is an imperative global public health priority fraught with significant obstacles because the answers to fundamental…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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82.

Integrated solutions for timing jitter measurement
Oulmane, Mourad

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis we present two integrated solutions suitable for measuring the timing jitter of digital signals in SoCs and data acquisition systems (mainly sampling ADCs). The presented methods are also suitable for time measurement in a variety of timing-based…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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83.

On planning, prediction and knowledge transfer in fully and partially observable Markov decision processes
Castro Rivadeneira, Pablo Samuel

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation addresses the problem of sequential decision making under uncertainty in large systems. The formalisms used to study this problem are fully and partially observable Markov Decision Processes (MDPs and POMDPs, respectively). The first contribution of this dissertation is…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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84.

Forecasting the impacts of climate change with non-stationary models of regional population density
Samson, Jason

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Ecological forecasts under climate change are essential to inform biodiversity conservation plans but their non-falsifiable nature requires a thorough evaluation of their framework. Most ecological forecasts under climate change use ecological niche models that correlate environmental variables with the presence…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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85.

Dual role of SIRT1 as a regulator of retinal development and a therapeutic target in age-related macular degeneration
Maloney, Shawn

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly in developed countries. Aggressive research is underway to elucidate putative molecular targets for therapy for both the atrophic and neovascular forms of this disease. Current pharmacotherapy is…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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86.

Parsing memory structure with reconsolidation
Honsberger, Michael

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Neural populations in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) have been shown to be an essential substrate for associative fear memories. However, it remains unclear whether distinct associative memories are mediated by independent or overlapping populations of BLA neurons. The focus of…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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87.

Before the law: rethinking censorship in late modernist American fiction
DeVuono, Adrian

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examines Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch within the contextual framework of censorship. In particular, the three texts are studied as providing unique challenges to the way that obscenity has…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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88.

Human Papillomavirus DNA testing with cytology triage in cervical screening: Influence of revealed versus concealed Human Papillomavirus Status
Richardson, Lyndsay

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Introduction: The causal association between Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer has enabled developments in modern cervical screening technologies. In place of traditional Papanicolaou (Pap) testing as the sole screening modality, support is mounting for primary screening via tests for…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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89.

The role of RD2 and NOD2 in host-pathogen interactions of the BCG vaccine
Kozak, Robert Andrew

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only vaccine currently in use against tuberculosis. Despite its use for nearly a century, the scope of the global tuberculosis pandemic demonstrates that the vaccine is not providing the necessary protection. Improving BCG requires the…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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90.

Retrospective transcriptional and genomic analysis of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded human uveal melanoma
Di Cesare, Sebastian

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Many of the underlying genetic causes of Uveal Melanoma (UM) metastatic disease still remain to be elucidated. This particular cancer is the most common primary malignant intraocular tumor in adults, comprising approximately 5% of all diagnosed melanoma cases. Despite its…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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91.

A multi-method study of venture capital firm strategy: resource dependence, specialization, and deliberate emergence
King, Brian

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates what drives strategy at United States venture capital firms. These firms work in a turbulent context, and studying their strategy processes may lend insight into how other organizations can develop strategy under uncertain conditions. Many prior studies…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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92.

The development of a health measure for homeless people
McCormack, Dianne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The notable lack of a health status measure specific to homeless persons triggered the development of a new instrument, The McCormack Assessment Scale for the Health of the Homeless (MASHH). This study was directed by five purposes: to delineate the…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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93.

STAND: study on the transition of adolescents with neurological disorders
Oskoui, Maryam

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background: Children with chronic neurological disorders are increasingly surviving to adulthood and transitioning to adult healthcare. Our objectives were to describe, from the neurologists' perspective, current practice and views on health care transition in Quebec, including barriers and facilitators to…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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94.

Regulation of the RIG-I/MAVS antiviral and apoptotic signaling pathways
Nakhaei, Peyman

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The success of the antiviral response by the host relies on several families of pathogen recognition receptors (PRRs) and sensors that recognize structures conserved among microbial species, culminating in the production of cytokines and chemokines to combat viral infection and…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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95.

Beyond the expatriate model: an exploration of global work and reconciliation of work and family demands among global generation X managers in dual-career families
Lirio, Pamela

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this dissertation I explored how women and men global managers from the generation aged 30 to 45 in the United States and Canada called "Generation X", navigated global work and family demands while pursuing a global career. I conducted…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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96.

Narwhal communication and grouping behaviour: a case study in social cetacean research and monitoring
Marcoux, Marianne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) are gregarious, toothed whales restricted to the Arctic, where habitats are changing and shipping traffic is increasing. Challenges associated with the remoteness of narwhal populations and the general difficulty of studying deep diving mammals have resulted in…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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97.

Environmentally-relevant photochemical reactions of oxidized mercury species with selected organics
Si, Lin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Mercury is one of the most toxic environmental pollutants of global concern. Understanding transformation pathways among various mercury species is critical for predicting the fate, transport and potential toxicity of mercury to the ecosystems. The purpose of this research was…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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98.

Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) regulates follicle- stimulating hormone beta subunit (Fshb) expression in gonadotrope cells
Ho, Catherine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Proper follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) synthesis, secretion, and action are required for normal reproductive function in mammals. A major goal of our lab and of this thesis is to reveal the intracellular mechanisms controlling FSH synthesis. The expression of the FSHβ…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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99.

Quantitative assessment of product value and change risk analysis in early design process
Oduncuoglu, Arman

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Many products that we see in our daily life are designed through modifications to existing products. The ever changing trends in current markets, along with customers' rising demands for quality, require many companies to make frequent changes to create new…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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100.

The solubility of gold in water-hydrogen sulphide vapours: an experimental study
Zezin, Denis

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents the results of an experimental study of the solubility of Au in reduced sulphur-bearing vapours at elevated temperature and pressure, as well as the PVTx properties of H2O-H2S gas mixtures. The solubility of gold was measured in…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL