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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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Silvipastoral systems on Amazon river floodplains: identification of multipurpose forest species based on traditional knowledge of riverside inhabitants.
MARTINEZ, G. B. - OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, M. C. M. de - BRIENZA JUNIOR, S.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2009, Resumo.
Fecha:	2013-12-11
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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The impact of participation in an online professional community on the development of elementary pre- service teachers' knowledge of teaching mathematics
Lamb, Natasha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This inquiry sought to examine the effects of participating in an online discussion forum on the development of knowledge for teaching mathematics. The participants of this study were among the pre-service teachers from a large urban university, chosen as they…
Fecha:	2010
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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17.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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32.

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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33.

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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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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35.

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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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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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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38.

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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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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40.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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48.

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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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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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