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Professional competencies among librarians and information professionals in the knowledge era
Gulati, Anjali - Raina, R. L.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2009-07-21
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Isolation and enzyme bioprospection of endophytic bacteria associated with plants of Brazilian mangrove ecosystem.
CASTRO, R. A. - QUECINE, M. C. - LACAVA, P. T. - BATISTA, B. D. - LUVIZOTTO, D. M. - MARCON, J. - FERREIRA, A. - MELO, I. S. de - AZEVEDO, J. L.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Abstract: The mangrove ecosystem is a coastal tropical biome located in the transition zone between land and sea that is characterized by periodic flooding, which confers unique and specific environmental conditions on this biome. In these ecosystems, the vegetation is…
Fecha:	2014-12-20
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Geoweb: indigenous mapping of intergenerational knowledge
Eades, Gwilym

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the transmission of intergenerational cultural knowledge on eastern James Bay Cree lands. Geospatial technologies and the representation of Cree knowledge are explored, with emphasis on the geoweb. A geoweb with two parts, old and new, is theorized…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Increasing knowledge of best practices in occupational therapists treating post-stroke unilateral spatial neglect
Petzold, Anita

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A significant gap exists between evidence-based practice (EBP) and actual occupational therapy (OT) practice in the management of a disabling post-stroke impairment - unilateral spatial neglect (USN). With improved patient outcomes linked to the use of best practices, it is…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The knowledge in knowledge management
Nickols, Fred

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-03-02
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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HPV knowledge and self-sampling for the detection of HPV-DNA among Inuit women in Nunavik, Quebec
Cerigo, Helen

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV), a necessary cause of cervical cancer has been found to be high in Inuit populations. This study examined 1) the level of knowledge about HPV infection and its relation to cervical cancer and 2)…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An epistemic analysis of authentication
Frydrychowicz, Maja

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Authentication protocols aim to prevent agent impersonation: A is authenticated to B if B knows who A is. Many formal approaches have been used to verify authentication in distributed systems; however, although authentication is directly related to agent knowledge, it…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Knowledge management and communication in Brazilian agricultural research: an integrated procedural approach.
TORRES, T. Z. - PIEROZZI JÚNIOR, I. - PEREIRA, N. R. - CASTRO, A. de.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Abstract. The great contemporary organizational challenge for enterprises is to create a conceptual and methodological framework allows the management of knowledge by means of networks designed for social interaction. This statement is based on the premise that the competitive drive…
Fecha:	2011-04-26
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Analysis of the vocabulary used by a community of practice over time: a case study of scientific knowledge transfer
Mondou, Evelyne

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Knowledge management (KM) offers a variety of tools to share and preserve knowledge. In particular, communities of practice (CoPs) have emerged as a KM approach that allows people from different disciplines to better share what they know and to build…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Pre-service education teachers' understanding of the transition planning process
Sobel, Hailey

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	For individuals with disabilities the transition from school to adopting adult roles within the community often presents numerous challenges. In a sample of pre-service education teachers, perceptions of school to community transitions of students with disabilities were investigated. Pre-service education…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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11.

Learning with visual representations through cognitive load theory
Jankowska Gierus, Bogumila

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examined two different strategies of learning with diagrams: drawing diagrams while learning or learning from pre-constructed diagrams. One hundred ninety six junior high school students were randomly placed in a condition either to draw while learning about how…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Two Ottoman intellectuals on the issue of God's knowledge: Khojazāda and 'Alā' al- Dīn al-Tūsī
van Lit, Lambertus

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Through the study of three chapters dealing with a philosophical discussion of God's knowledge (especially of particulars as opposed to universals) from two Ottoman studies on Ghazālī's (Algazel, d. 1111) Tahāfut al-Falāsifah (‘The Incoherence of the Philosophers'), this thesis offers…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An investigation into Canadian wheelchair rugby coaches: their role in the development of athletes with a spinal cord injury.
Tawse, Holly

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to explore wheelchair rugby coaches lived experiences in the development of their athletes who had acquired a spinal cord injury (SCI). Four elite wheelchair rugby coaches in Canada were interviewed using a semi-structured open-ended…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Problematizing social studies curricula in Nova Scotia
Rogers, Pamela

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study questions the implementation of social studies curriculum in Nova Scotia. Indigenous knowledge, and anti-racism educational principles form the basis of high school curricula created from the perspective of African Nova Scotian and Mi'kmaq histories. The courses, African Canadian…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Comparison of evidence-based practice behaviours on a simulated case among occupational therapy students and experienced occupational therapy clinicians
Thomas, Aliki

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The national occupational therapy (OT) professional association of Canada expects graduates and practicing clinicians to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and attitudes to carry out evidence-based practice (EBP). Evidence-based OT practice involves a process whereby therapists combine expert judgment and clinical…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Let us make man: politics and logical positivism in the work of Thomas Hobbes
Planinc, Emma

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis I argue against the contemporary scholars of Thomas Hobbes who claim that Hobbes's theory of language was an anticipation of modern semantic theories of truth. I claim that a more valuable comparison is to the logical positivism…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Application of the Knowledge-to-Action Framework: delayed administration of systemic corticosteroids in children with acute asthma
Bhogal, Sanjit

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	As part of the best evidence, it has been demonstrated that the administration of systemic corticosteroids in the emergency department prevent hospital admissions in children with moderate and severe asthma. Although timing in the administration of systemic corticosteroids is critical…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An analytical model of the relationship knowledge, learning, innovation and sustainability.
CABRAL, J. E. de O. - COSTA, M. da P. B.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2010
Fecha:	2011-03-10
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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Using AI in knowledge management : knowledge bases and ontologies
O'Learly, Daniel E.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-03-03
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Knowledge mapping : the consolidation of the technology management discipline
Pelc, Karol I.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-03-14
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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In pursuit of a valid Information Assessment Method
Bindiganavile Sridhar, Soumya

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Context and objective: The Information Assessment Method (IAM) is a unique tool for continuing education and knowledge translation research. IAM allows health professionals to report search objectives, cognitive impact, use and patient health benefit associated with objects of clinical information…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A Bayesian Framework for Online Parameter Learning in POMDPs
Atrash, Amin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Decision-making under uncertainty has become critical as autonomous and semi-autonomous agents become more ubiquitious in our society. These agents must deal with uncertainty and ambiguity from the environment and still perform desired tasks robustly. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs)…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Identifying the gaps towards an inclusive educational system within Québec: collectively examining the perceptions of different groups of educators
Daniel, Kim

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The studies presented in this thesis examine the perceptions and experiences of different groups of educators working in inclusive settings in Montréal, Québec at the elementary school level. In Study 1, survey data from 600 educators (regular classroom teachers, resource…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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24.

Capability development in the early stages of firms: internal building, external leveraging, and flexibility
Wu, Yuanyuan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation aims to understand the capability development processes in the early stages of a firm. Empirically, most research has focused on established firms, or on explaining the variance in capabilities across firms at a given time. Theoretically, despite the…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Predicting language and literacy outcomes of typically-developing and at-risk English-speaking elementary students in French immersion programs
Erdos, Caroline

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Many children around the world are educated in a second language, be they speakers of the majority language of the community in which they are educated or speakers of a minority language. Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of second language…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Mid to late Holocene coastal landscape change in eastern James Bay
Pendea, Ionel Florin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Following deglaciation, Canadian coastlines, particularly those around Hudson and James Bay region were affected by large crustal rebound and associated sea level change, the largest glacio-isostatic recovery process known during the Holocene. Recent archaeological work in the uplifting eastern James…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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27.

Bridging the ontological gap between semantic web and the RESTful web services
Jin, Yuan

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Data are produced in large quantities and in various forms around the globe everyday. Researchers advance their research depending on the availability of necessary data and the discovery of them. As people's demand to manage the data grows, however, three…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

Limits of thought and Husserl's phenomenology
Redekopp, Brian

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis I develop an account of the nature of limits of thought in terms of Husserl's phenomenology. I do this by exploring in terms of Husserl's phenomenology various ways thought-limits are encountered. Chapter One employs Husserl's analyses of…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Identification of soft tissue material constants using tailored finite element model based regressions
Bufi, Nathalie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Efficient and reliable tools are needed to accurately characterize the mechan- ical properties of soft tissue. A knowledge of Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio is essential to model mechanical behavior and quantify stresses and strain within soft tissues. The goal…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

Beyond racism: mapping ruling relations in a Canadian university from the standpoint of racialized female student activists
Nazemi, Mahtab

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study is an institutional ethnography which employs a critical race feminist theoretical framework in order to explicate the social relations that coordinate the experiences of racialized female student activists at McGill University. Interviews with students, administrators, faculty and staff,…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

Understanding cultural adherence and the use of traditional medicine in Waskaganish First Nation
Tabib, Christine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Changes in the Cree way of life over the last century are reflected by an increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Since traditional medicine (TM) is considered an appropriate complementary approach for T2D treatment and management, suitable delivery methods…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

Student outcomes in inquiry instruction
Gyles, Petra

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A literature review of student outcomes from inquiry instruction generated a list of 23 criterion-referenced student outcomes. These included more commonly addressed outcomes such as content knowledge and process skills, and less commonly addressed outcomes such as creativity, motivation, collaborative…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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An examination of the factors influencing parents' perceptions of the effectiveness of inclusive education
Dupasquier, Marina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Inclusive education has had a long history of support from research and policy, yet remains controversial within some parent groups. Montréal parents of typically developing children and children with disabilities of elementary school age learning in an inclusive classroom were…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Attuning storytelling with silence: «The Silent Woman», «The English Patient», and «In the Skin of a Lion»
Sedlak, Dominika

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines how silent mediums of expression in The Silent Woman, The English Patient and In the Skin of Lion widen the breadth of knowledge accessible to readers through storytelling. This study scrutinizes Michael Ondaatje's and Janet Malcolm's self-conscious…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Content-based instruction (CBI) in Japanese college classrooms: focusing on language, content, or both?
Moriyoshi, Norie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examined the ways in which CBI classes are taught, including teachers' comprehensible input, the amount of student output, and the perceptions of both students and teachers regarding CBI. Two intact postsecondary CBI classes in Japan, totaling 76 students…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

Chinese business managers' perceptions in KM-related decision making: environmental, informational, individual, and decision-specific perspectives
Lin, Yang

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Knowledge Management (KM) to date has been poorly recognized, explained, and applied in China, and lack of empirical evidence has become a major barrier to the development of KM research in the Chinese academic community. The purpose of this study…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Three essays on the optimal degree of enforcement of property rights:determination and impact
Sen Choudhury, Eesha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation formulates and analyzes three original models dealing with aspects of optimal property rights protection, in varying contexts. Chaper 1 is a survey of the literature on the importance of property and property rights in economic thought beginning from…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

A study of the role of the 'teacher factor' in washback
Wang, Jing

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The current study seeks to explore the washback effects of the CET (College English Test) on teacher beliefs, interpretations and practices, and in particular seeks to discover the way the 'teacher factor' is manifested in the washback phenomenon. It also…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

In saecula saeculorum: transhumanist philosophy, biogerontology, and the Roman Catholic magisterium on the ethics of radical life extension
Labrecque, Cory Andrew

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The roots of the human desire for agelessness and the want to surpass the limitations of the human condition go deep into the reaches of history. The religious disposition for immortality is ancient. However, the concept of transcending human nature…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Evaluation of a peer education program for HIV prevention among hotel-based sex workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: .a social support framework
Sarafian, Isabelle

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study evaluated the outcome and process of a peer education program for sex workers, with social support proposed as an organizing framework. Program outcomes were assessed through a pre-post design without comparison group. Sex workers naïve to peer education…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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41.

Stochastic decoding of low-density parity-check codes
Sharifi Tehrani, Saeed

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes are one of the most powerful classes of error-control codes known to date. These codes have been considered for many recent digital communication applications. In this dissertation, we propose stochastic decoding of state-of-the-art LDPC codes and…
Fecha:	2011
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

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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43.

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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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