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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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Collaborative environments in RD&I institutions of the brazilian agricultural sector.
TORRES, T. Z. - PIEROZZI JUNIOR, I. - BERNARDES, R. M. - VACARI, I.

Formato:	Artigo em periódico indexado (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Research, development and technological innovation (RD&I) companies promote inter- and intra-organizational interactions based on the formation of research nets. This arrangement prioritizes the use of competencies of both people and institutions, stimulating the generation of new knowledge and competencies, and…
Fecha:	2011-04-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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The current knowledge on Anastrepha Schiner (Dip., Tephritidae) in the State of Amapá, Brazil.
SILVA, R. A. da - DEUS, E. G. - PEREIRA, J. D. B. - ZUCCHI, R. A.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2010, Resumo simples.
Fecha:	2011-04-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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TaXEm: a tool for aiding the evaluation of domain topic.
CONRADO, M. S. - MOURA, M. F. - REZENDE, S. O.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The notorious advances in textual information storage need fast and effcient tools to organize, retrieve and browse this information and tools for knowledge extraction. A very interesting way to organize specific domain information is the topic taxonomy building. Moreover a…
Fecha:	2011-04-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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CNBi: the new Brazilian National Consortium for Bioinformatics.
HERAI, R. H. - VIDAL, R. O. - CARAZZOLLE, M. F. - COSTA, G. G. L. - FALCAO, P. R. K. - YAMAGISHI, M. E. B. - FRANCHINI, K. G. - PEREIRA, G. G. A.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	PRESENTATION: The National Consortium for Bioinformatics (CNBi) is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to research, development, management and technical support on questions arising from bioinformatics. It was created by a joint effort between three laboratories from São Paulo state in Brazil:…
Fecha:	2011-04-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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What do college life sciences students need to know about knowledge management?
Castanho, Miguel A. R. B.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2010-11-30
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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Effects of hormonal administration in two different shifts and ovulatory dynamics in nonbreeding season on Toggenburg goats.
ZAMBRINI, F. N. - COSTA, E. P. - BRUSCHI, J. H. - SOUZA, J. M. G. - AMORIM, L. S. - FONSECA, J. F. da.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Assisted reproduction has been used to optimize reproduction in goats. Ultrasound technology has resulted in a definite gain of knowledge in terms of ovulation time. The aim of this study was to evaluate if the shift (morning or afternoon) of…
Fecha:	2011-12-10
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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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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Spatial variability of crop and soil properties in a crop-livestock integrated system.
ANDRADE, R. G. - BERNARDI, A. C. de C. - GREGO, C. R. - INAMASU, R. Y. - RABELLO, L. M. - VAZ, C. M. P.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	The knowledge of spatial variability soil properties is useful in the rational use of inputs, as in the site specific application of lime and fertilizer. The objective of this work was to map and evaluate the spatial variability of the…
Fecha:	2011-04-09
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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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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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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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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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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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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Knowledge discovery in virtual community texts : clustering virtual communities
Oudshoff, A. M. - Bosloper, I. E. - Klos, T. B. - Spaanenburg, L.

Formato:	Articulo
Enlaces:	Automatic knowledge discovery from texts (KDT) is proving to be a promising method for businesses today to deal with the overload of textual information. In this paper, we first explore the possibilities for KDT to enhance communication in virtual communities,…
Fecha:	2010-11-09
Recurso:	Universidad Veracruzana

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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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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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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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31.

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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32.

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

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Dynamics of domination and dialogic narrative strategies in Charles Johnson's «Middle Passage», Richard Power's «The Time of Our Singing», and Lesie Marmon Silko's «Almanac of the Dead»
Oltmann, Christina

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The dissertation investigates narrative strategies employed by the contemporary American novel to criticize and counteract the dynamics of domination. The study focuses primarily on Charles Johnson's Middle Passage (1990), Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing (2003), and Leslie Marmon…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Assessing the relationship between propagule pressure and probability of establishment for the aquatic invader «Bythotrephes longimanus» using two complementary approaches
Gertzen, Erin

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Estimating the probability of establishment of non-indigenous species is a crucial element in managing their spread. In this thesis, I use two approaches to estimate the probability of establishment of Bythotrephes longimanus, a predatory cladoceran that is invading lakes in…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Investigating tumor suppressor genes involved in renal cell carcinomas
Hudon, Valerie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Kidney cancer is a complex disease comprising several types of renal carcinomas, which are classified in different subtypes based on their histological characteristics. A small number of cases of renal cancers are due to hereditary predispositions and nearly all the…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Capturing and representing the reasoning processes of expert clinical teachers for case-based teaching
Gauthier, Geneviève

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Case-based learning has demonstrated its potential in educational and professional environments for its ability to promote reasoning skills and foster independent learning. However, the use of this instructional approach is limited by current assessment practices. Considering that assessment drives and…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Nutrition education in health services and other determinants of complementary feeding in the Eastern region of Ghana
Robinson, Jasna

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In Ghana, rates of undernutrition peak between 9 and 21 months of age; one major cause is inadequate complementary feeding (CF). This study examined the relationship between hospital-based CF education and caregivers' reported practices through interviews with health workers (n=24),…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A history of the medical control of fertility in Peru, 1895 - 1976
Necochea Lopez, Raul

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Demographic transition theorists posit that, beginning in the 1960s, biomedical contraceptive technologies and foreign countries, the United States in particular, have been primarily responsible for changes in medical fertility control ideas and practices in Peru. This dissertation argues that biomedical…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Canadian broadcasting regulation and the digital television transition
Taylor, Gregory

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the evolution of Canadian broadcasting regulation since the adoption of the 1991 Broadcasting Act with a specific focus on the digital television transition. For Canada, this technological shift exemplifies many of the greater changes in public policy…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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41.

Effects of multiple interviews on children's verbal expressive behavior of true and fabricated events
Saykaly, Christine

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Verbal expressive behaviour of children giving true and fabricated reports over multiple interviews was examined. Seventy-eight elementary aged children between the ages of 4 and 11 years played a game with a research assistant (RA) over three consecutive days. Children…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

Barbadians on the Geoweb: visualizing environmental change with volunteered geographic information
Ricker, Britta

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study investigates the use of volunteered geographic information to visualize environmental changes in Barbados. The aim of this research is to identify the extent to which participation in the Geoweb allows Bajans to communicate their concerns and observations regarding…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

Patterns and processes of digit number reduction
Heppleston, Audrey

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Our knowledge of limb development has increased dramatically in the last decades. However, our understanding of how gene expression is translated into morphology remains very limited. Using a variety of experimental approaches, I attempted to uncover the mechanistic factors underlying…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Green leafy vegetables of rural India: ethnobotany and contribution to eye health
Bélanger, Julie

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Recognition of the contribution of biological diversity to human health demands more scientifically sound evidence than currently exists, while the multifactorial nature of this relationship calls for innovative research frameworks. This thesis presents a multidisciplinary case study on the contribution…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Improv ed: changing thoughts about learning
Ross, David

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Improvisation has long been regarded an integral element of artistic work, but has received less attention for ways it may inform education and learning. This dissertation explores understandings central to improvisation, interrogates how they are embodied in music (Western classical…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Development and organisational practice: ethnography at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Dionne, Geneviève

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Anthropologists have analysed development from several angles: some have critiqued development on the grounds that it is a modernising project, while others have sought to understand relationships between actors in development work and proposed alternative methods of pursuing development. Rarely…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A framework for integrating environmental modeling towards enhancing bundled environmental services: an example from an Andean watershed
Otero, Martha

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	There is an increasing interest in environmental benefits provided by ecosystems. Among the wide range of environmental services, hydrological services are important not only because they affect all sectors of human behavior, but because they are closely tied to other…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Damping of electromechanical oscillations in wide-area power systems such as the Trans-Canadian grid
Golestanifar, Hamed

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents two methods to damp electromechanical oscillations in large power systems such as Trans-Canadian grid. A control method, used in conjunction with Wide Area Measurement System (WAMS), is proposed to damp very low frequency inter-area modes of very…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Culturally situated self-regulated learning in statistics in a computer-supported collaborative environment
Shi, Yongchao

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the role of context, especially cultural context, in contemporary theoretical models of self-regulated learning. A critical review of prominent models revealed that although current models of self-regulated learning recognize the role of social contexts in forming self-regulatory…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Involvement of the polyamine system in suicide
Fiori, Laura

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The polyamine system plays an essential role in a myriad of cellular functions, and dysregulated polyamine metabolism and functioning has been implicated in a number of pathological conditions, including neurological and psychiatric disorders. In recent years, gene expression and genetic…
Fecha:	2010
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL