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101.

Groundwater potential of pampa aquifers in two glacial watersheds, Cordillera Blanca, Peru
Chavez, Daniel

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	As climate change continues to drive glacier retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, the fraction of dry season runoff derived from groundwater baseflow is increasing. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of proglacial hydrogeology to forecast how groundwater…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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102.

Mining hospital admission-discharge data to discover the chance of readmission
Hosseinzadeh, Arian

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The rising cost of unplanned hospital readmissions has sparked calls for identifying medical system failures, best practices, and interventions in order to reduce the incidence of avoidable readmission. Readmissions currently account for 18% of total hospital admissions among Medicare patients…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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103.

Molecular mediators of breast cancer bone metastasis
Mourskaia, Anna

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in Canadian women. The most devastating and deadly feature of the disease is the emergence of metastases. Breast cancer most commonly metastasizes to bone, often…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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104.

Understanding human impacts on the phosphorus cycle: implicatons for agronomic and environmental management at multiple scales
MacDonald, Graham

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Modern agriculture has led to fundamental changes in the phosphorus (P) cycle that pose agronomic and environmental challenges at all scales. Phosphorus is a non-renewable resource that is critical to food production because of its role as an essential plant…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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105.

Discovering the postmodern nomad: a metaphor for an artful inquiry into the career stories of emerging adults transitioning under the Caribbean sun
Arora, Ramona

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This qualitative study explored the educational and occupational decisions of emerging adults from a small Caribbean island (referred to as "SCI") during a time of robust socioeconomic and infrastructure development, followed by a sudden change in the labor market resulting…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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106.

Mean field game theory: consensus, leader-follower and major-minor agent systems
Nourian Aval Noghabi, Mojtaba

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis focuses on Mean Field Game (MFG) theory with applications to consensus, flocking, leader-follower and major-minor agent systems. The MFG methodology addresses a class of dynamic games with a large number of minor agents in which each agent interacts…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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107.

Collaborative information behavior in learning tasks: a study of engineering students
Saleh, Nasser

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Collaborative information behaviour is an emerging area in information science that deals with the identification, seeking, searching, and use of information by two or more people to accomplish a task. This dissertation investigates the collaborative information behaviour of senior undergraduate…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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108.

Hip fracture rehabilitation: where are we now and where are we going?
Auais, Mohammad

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Hip fracture is a major public health problem in many developed nations. An estimated 30,000 hip fractures occur each year in Canada. To initiate adequate preventive measures, a thorough understanding of hip fracture patients' characteristics and the healthcare services they…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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109.

Contribution of information science to other disciplines as reflected in citation contexts of highly cited JASIST papers
Tabatabaei, Nahid

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Information Science is an interdisciplinary field that interacts with other disciplines through its intellectual borders. While there is much research into the interdisciplinary nature of Information Science, little research exists that identifies the nature, extent, and quality of these extra-disciplinary…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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110.

Material - processing - quality relationships during the consolidation of out-of autoclave prepregs
Centea, Timotei

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Out-of-autoclave (OOA) prepreg processing is a new manufacturing method for high performance composites that seeks to reduce costs and increase production flexibility relative to traditional autoclave processing. OOA prepregs may be vacuum bag-only cured in conventional ovens to produce autoclave-quality…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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111.

Freeing philosophy from metaphysics: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's philosophical approach to the study of natural phenomena
Ibrahim, Bilal

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation examines the views of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) as advanced in his two major philosophical works, al-Mabāḥith al-Mashriqiyya and al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-Ḥikma. It argues that Rāzī seeks to develop a philosophical programme that provides an alternative to…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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112.

Incorporating issues of social justice and equity into transportation planning and policy
Manaugh, Kevin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	For most of the 20th century transportation planning goals were almost entirely mobility-based; transportation systems were primarily seen as a means to efficiently, safely, and quickly connect people and freight to desired destinations. However, as the century progressed, cultural, societal…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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113.

The influence of information use strategies on ill structured-domain graduate learning tasks
Weerapura, Kaushilya

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation presents a user-centred, interdisciplinary study on information use strategies. In complex learning contexts such as ill-structured-domains, there are three ways of using information. The first is to make sense of the information fragments to construct a cohesive whole.…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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114.

An integrated education intervention to improve infant and young child nutrition growth in Ghana
Cofie, Agartha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Inappropriate complementary feeding (CF) practices and inadequate nutrient intakes contribute to the high level of malnutrition among children 6-24 months of age in Ghana. In communities where the economy is agricultural-based, interventions aimed at addressing malnutrition among infants and young…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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115.

Antenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment and the Epigenome
Crudo, Ariann

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In late gestation, fetal endogenous glucocorticoids increase exponentially. This dramatic increase in glucocorticoids acts to mature several organ systems. As a result, synthetic glucocorticoids (sGCs) are administered to pregnant women at risk of delivering pre-term (>10% of all pregnancies). While…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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116.

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and Erythropoietin Receptors (EPoR) expression as prognostic indicators in oropharyngeal cancer
Almarzouki, Hani

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is recognized as an independent risk factor for squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the head and neck, and the presence of HPV DNA is associated with a better prognosis. Recent evidence indicates a broader role…
Fecha:	2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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117.

The Power of Reason – Views of Knowledge
Ragep, F. Jamil

Formato:	Other
Enlaces:	The question of rationality and modernity has played a key role in defining the West’sunderstanding of itself in relation to “the other.” Much of this self-defining was done in a waythat privileged a western model of rationality, which itself was…
Fecha:	2012, July 3, 2013
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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118.

On Being ‘Actionable’: Clinical Sequencing and the Emerging Contours of a Regime of Genomic Medicine in Oncology.
Cambrosio, Alberto - Nelson, Nicole - Keating, Peter

Formato:	Postprint
Enlaces:	This article explores commercial, academic, and national initiatives aimed at usingsequencing technologies to generate “actionable” genomic results that can beapplied to the clinical management of oncology patients. We argue that the term“actionable” is not merely a buzzword, but signals the…
Fecha:	2013, June 2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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119.

21st Century Oncology: A Tangled Web
Cambrosio, Alberto - Keating, Peter

Formato:	Postprint
Enlaces:	Researchers and clinicians in the field of oncology have now entered the second decadeof targeted therapy, widely held to be a revolutionary new form of cancer therapyresearch. The present era is regarded as the end of brute empiricism: as laboratoryresearchers…
Fecha:	2013, June 2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Therapy’s Shadow: A Short History of the Study of Resistance to Cancer Chemotherapy
Cambrosio, Alberto - Keating, Peter - Nelson, Nicole - Mogoutov, Andrei

Formato:	Other
Enlaces:	This article traces the history of research on resistance to drug therapy in oncology using scientometric techniques and qualitative analysis. Using co-citation analysis, we generate maps to visualize subdomains in resistance research in two time periods, 1975–1990 and 1995–2010. These…
Fecha:	2013, June 2, 2014
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL