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101.

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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102.

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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103.

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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104.

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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105.

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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106.

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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107.

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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108.

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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109.

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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110.

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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111.

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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112.

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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113.

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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114.

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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115.

"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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116.

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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117.

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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118.

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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119.

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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120.

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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121.

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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122.

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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123.

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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124.

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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125.

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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126.

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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127.

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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128.

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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129.

Statistical tools to uncover genetic architecture of tick resistance using highdensity oligonucleotide gene expression microarrays.
CARDOSO, F. F. - GIACHETTO, P. F. - YAMAGISHI, M. E. B. - HIGA, R. H.

Formato:	Artigo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	2011
Fecha:	2011-12-16
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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TORNADO: an automated pipeline for de novo hybrid genome assembly based on free software packages for sanger and next generation sequencing technologies (NGS).
HERAI, R. H. - COSTA, G. G. D. L. - R. JÚNIOR, O. - VIDAL, R. O. - NASCIMENTO, L. C. - PARIZZI, L. P. - PEREIRA, G. G. A. - CARAZZOLLE, M. F.

Formato:	Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE)
Enlaces:	Next generation sequence technologies (NGS) made possible to sequence entirely genomes in a fast way and low cost, from unicellular to complex organisms, like plants and mammals. These sequences can be assembled (i ) using a reference genome or by…
Fecha:	2010-12-02
Recurso:	Repositório Acesso Livre à Informação Científica da Embrapa (ALICE)

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131.

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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132.

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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133.

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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134.

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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135.

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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136.

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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137.

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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138.

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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139.

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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140.

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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141.

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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142.

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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143.

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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144.

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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145.

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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146.

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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147.

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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148.

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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149.

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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150.

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