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Lilly, Frank R. "Teaching outside of the box : studying a creative teacher." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38221.

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The following is a qualitative portrait of a creative teacher and her teaching process. It has been written as chronological narrative using an evolving systems approach as a methodology for an instrumental case-study design. The creative teacher is a 47-year-old female with over 20 years experience with elementary, secondary, college, and university students. Five interviews were conducted with the teacher before, during, and following the course. Data sets include classroom observations revealed in field notes, documents such as course materials and audiotaped interviews. Two interviews were

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Yang, Xiaohua. "Numerical methods for box-constrained integer least squares problems." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22038.

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Integer least squares (ILS) problems arise from many applications, such as communications, lattice design, and global navigation satellite systems. However, an ILS problem is NP-hard. The objective of this thesis is to design efficient algorithms for solving box-constrained overdetermined integer least squares (BOILS) problems and box-constrained underdetermined integer least squares (BUILS) problems. A typical method to solve ILS problems consists of two stages: reduction and search. For solving the BOILS problems, we propose a new reduction algorithm and a modified search algorithm. Unlike

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Spencer, Justina. "Baroque perspectives: looking into Samuel Van Hoogstraten's perspective box." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21966.

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This thesis examines visual devices that distort, invert and toy with the conventions of linear perspective. The main object of analysis is Samuel Van Hoogstraten's Perspective Box with Views of a Dutch Interior (1655-1660), a work that is unique for its consummate application of three distinctive modes of visual representation: linear perspective, trompe l'oeil and anamorphosis. Drawing on recent literature with regard to renaissance and baroque perspectival theories and practices, this thesis argues that Van Hoogstraten's Perspective Box exposes the manner in which baroque forms of perspecti

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Carozza, David. "Carbon cycle box modeling studies of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66818.

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Approximately 55 million years ago, an unprecedented amount of light carbon was abruptly released into the ocean and atmosphere. This event, known as the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), is documented by large negative carbon isotope excursions in marine and soil carbonates and by global environmental changes. Models have been applied to constrain the amount of carbon released during the PETM. In this study, the Walker-Kasting carbon cycle box model is revisited and, after correcting its carbon isotope equations, it is used to resolve a discrepancy in previous emissio

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Erras, Michael. "HRM and organisational performance : an attempt to open the black box." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2002. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=25327.

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Over the last decade, much research has been conducted in the field of HRM and its association with organisational performance. Encouraged by substantial positive evidence for statistical associations between sophisticated HRM practices and enhanced organisational performance, HRM researchers have become more assertive in their claims that HRM contributes to performance. However, most of the research is based on questionnaire surveys and still leaves key questions unanswered, in particular by which processes HRM contributes to performance. This lack of knowledge about the processes involved in

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Noble, Stacey Leigh McPhail. "Opening the black box of the health technology assessment process at NICE." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2016. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27059.

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The thesis addresses the diversity of concerns to be represented in the calculative practices of clinical efficiency decisions. The empirical site taken is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and its Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process. The HTA process represents many diagnostic areas within one centralised, calculable process. The qualities of calculative practice, which mediate such complexity within one central framework, are explored. The theoretical lens used to examine the perceptions of calculative practices, from diverse human contributors in HTA, is

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Chan, Man Kid. "The interaction between Y box binding protein 1 and DNA replication proteins." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66802.

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A coordinated response to DNA damage is vital to maintain cellular viability and prevent the onset of disease. In mammalian cells, the intra-S phase checkpoint regulator, ATR (Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated and RAD3-related) kinase coordinates the response to DNA damage to ensure the genome is accurately and completely replicated before the cell enters mitosis. Y box Binding Protein 1 (YB-1), a transcription and translation factor, has previously been implicated in cell proliferation and the development of chemotherapeutic resistance. YB-1 has been linked to a wide variety of

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Hanssian, Sevan. "Succes rates of estimators of integer parameters in box- constrained linear models." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110510.

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In some applied areas such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and communications, etc., there is a linear model y = Ax + v, where the unknown parameter vector x is an integer vector and the noise vector v follows a normal distribution N(0, sigma^2 I). The typical methods for estimating x are the integer rounding (IR), the Babai nearest plane (BNP), and the integer least squares (ILS) methods. While IR and BNP are polynomial-time methods, the ILS method solves an NP-hard problem. The most effective approach to validating an integer estimator is to find its success rate, which is the probabi

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Khaled, Amar. "Behaviour of a two-cell prestressed concrete box girder bridge : analytical study." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64019.

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Ferdjani, Omar. "Behaviour of a one cell prestressed concrete box girder bridge : analytical study." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66163.

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Joucdar, Karim. "Behaviour of a two-cell prestressed concrete box girder bridge : experimental study." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63981.

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Robitaille, Daniel Y. "A box model study of the Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Arctic Ocean /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69689.

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A simple box model of a a high-latitude two-layer ocean, first developed by Martinson et al., 1981, is applied to four Arctic regions connected together: the Greenland Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and the Greenland Gyre. The latter, in fact, is a small convective region embedded in the northwest corner of the Norwegian Sea region. The model for each region consists of a thermodynamic ice layer that covers two layers of salty water which can, under specific conditions, become statically unstable and hence create a state of active overturning. The system is forced by monthly mean at

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Bradley, Helen. "Learning out of the funding box: investigating ruling relations through the funding work of community organizations." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119404.

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This study is an institutional ethnography that examines the social relations of power organizing the work of non-profit community organizations, specifically through funding processes. Starting in the experiences of workers at three Montreal community organizations, it draws attention to the ways in which the capitalist state downloads the responsibilities of health and social services onto 'community', and coordinates the depoliticization of community organizations through funding agreements that limit political work. The study also attends to the informal and incidental learning that happ

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Ma, Jing 1978. "The requirement of the DEAD-box protein DDX24 for the packaging of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA /." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116084.

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the causing agent of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Like all retroviruses, HIV carries two copies of viral genomic RNA in each virion. HIV genome encodes three structural genes, including gag, pol and env, as well as two regulatory genes (rev and tat) and four accessory genes (vif, vpr, vpu and nef). It is noted that none of these nine viral proteins bears the helicase activity. Helicases are able to unwind RNA duplex and remodel the structure of RNA-protein (RNP) complexes using energy derived from hydrolysis of nucleotide triphosphates (

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McMahon, Graham. "Getting the HOTS with what's in the box: Developing higher order thinking skills within a technology-rich learning environment." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2007. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=17067.

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Educators are divided with regards to the value of computer technology as a learning tool. Some maintain that computers have had little impact on students’ learning; others suggest that computers have the potential to enhance learning. Within this second group there are those who believe that computers are having a significant impact, while others believe that their potential is yet to be realised. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between students working in a technology rich environment and their development of higher order, critical and creative, thinking skills. Sta

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Nelson, Wade Gordon James. "Reading cycles : the culture of BMX freestyle." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102820.

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This dissertation draws from and contributes to many traditions within the (interdisciplinary) discipline of communication studies. Serving the two primary objectives of the examination of the figure of the BMX freestyle cycling Pro and the analysis of the role of the magazines within this particular culture or field in the construction and maintenance of this figure, this project brings together studies of cultural intermediaries, magazine history, advertising history and theory, subcultures, audiences, commodification, cultural industries, celebrity, stars and professional athletes. The cult

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Rattle, Jean. "Dissolved nitrogen dynamics in an ombrotrophic bog." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98773.

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Research for a dissolved nitrogen budget was conducted at Mer Bleue bog near Ottawa, ON, from May 20, 2003 to May 21, 2004. Mer Bleue is located within an area experiencing the highest levels of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in North America, although these levels are only low to moderate compared to those in Europe. Continuous measurements of precipitation, evapotranspiration, bog water table level and outflow water depth were used in conjunction with discrete measurements of precipitation and outflow to determine the hydrologic budget. Water samples were taken from precipitation collectors

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Bounhar, Younes. "The prion protein protects against Bax-mediated cell death /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29415.

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The prion protein (PrP) is known for its implication in a number of neurological disorders. Interestingly, overexpression of Bcl-2 in these PrP-/- cells protects against serum deprivation, suggesting that PrP may function like Bcl-2 to prevent cells from undergoing apoptosis.<br>Based on this idea, this thesis demonstrates that PrP is a potent protective agent against Bax-mediated death of cultured human primary neurons. This neuroprotective function appears to require the presence of the octapeptide repeat region of PrP. Surprisingly, while the majority of PrP resides on the cell surface as a

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Basile, Paola. "Lahontan et l'évolution moderne du mythe du "bon sauvage"." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28041.

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The purpose of this work is to measure the influence of the Dialogues of Lahontan (1702--3) on contemporary thought relative to the myth of the Noble Savage. The text is divided into two parts: (1) Lahontan and the idea of the "noble savage" at the beginning of the 18th century in which we deal with the life of Lahontan, the historical and cultural background in New-France and in Europe at the turn of the 18th century, the Indian tribes of Northeastern America, and finally the Dialogues of Mr le Baron de Lahontan et d'un Sauvage, which consist in a comparison between two ways of life: the "civ

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Lalonde, Mark. "The hyperspectral determination of Sphagnum water content in a bog." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121269.

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Sphagnum's strong water-holding capacities, its dominance in bogs, and the overall importance of water in regulating photosynthesis make it a key ecosystem engineer. Though its effectiveness in this context has rarely been tested, Spectral Vegetation Indices (SVIs) derived from hyperspectral data allow for efficient modeling of Sphagnum gravimetric water content over large scales. This study tests whether a linear model relating a SVI to Sphagnum gravimetric water content (i.e. S. capillifolium, S. magellanicum, S. angustifolium/S. fallax, or all Sphagnum species pooled together) can be applie

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Poon, Diane. "Spatial structure of vegetation at the Mer Bleue peat bog, Ontario." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18735.

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Peatlands which are valued for their long-term carbon storage are subject to climate change impacts. Many of the mechanisms regulating carbon flux in peatlands are not well understood. Studies have hypothesized that spatial heterogeneity and patchiness of vegetation associated with micro-topography and hydrological gradients within peatlands play an important role in controlling trace gas exchange. Following this hypothesis, the objectives of my research is to characterize the spatial distribution of vegetation properties and water table level linked to hummock and hollow structures using grou

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Goudin-Desphelippon, Laurence. "Du bon usage de la jalousie dans quatre romans de Colette." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56941.

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This thesis tackles the theme of jealousy considered as a genuine Art de vivre in four of Colette's novels: Le Ble en herbe, La Chatte, Duo, and La Seconde.<br>The first part of the thesis deals with the years of learning when protagonists gradually discover love's hardships. It's through their pangs and suffering that each one of them will become aware of his or her place in society.<br>In the second part devoted to young couples will appear the progressive awareness, painful though necessary, that the partner is hopelessly a stranger.<br>The last part studies the differences in behavioral pa

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Laroche-Pierre, Stéphanie. "Structure-function analysis of the anti-Bax function of the Prion protein." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32410.

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The Prion Protein (PrP) prevents Bax activation in primary human neurons and in MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells. To identify the PrP elements necessary for this anti-Bax function, we performed structure-function analyses on cytosolic PrP (CyPrP). Partial but not complete deletion of the N-terminal BH2-like octapeptide repeats (BORs) abolish CyPrP's anti-Bax function. Deletion of the third and last alpha-helix (PrP23-199) eliminates CyPrP's protection against Bax-mediated cell death, as do further C-terminal

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Wilson, Paul. "The relationship among micro-topographical variation, water table depth and biogeochemistry in an ombrotrophic bog." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110663.

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Peatlands store 30% of global terrestrial organic carbon. At the Mer Bleue research site in southern Canada (45.40° N, 75.50° W), it has been shown that changes in water storage affect carbon fluxes in and out of the peatland. Mer Bleue has a distinct hummock – hollow surface topography. The micro-topographical features affect the temporal and spatial variations in water table. Sampling the temporal and spatial variations on two separate plots with varying degrees of micro-topographic relief took place during the 2010 field season. Each plot has 100 manual observation wells in a 2 x 2 metre gr

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Pratte, Steve. "History of atmospheric trace metal deposition along the St.Lawrence Valley (Quebec) using peat bog records." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114512.

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Human activities, especially since the Industrial Revolution, have left a legacy of trace metal contamination that is potentially harmful for natural ecosystems and human health (e.g. As, Cd, Pb) and affected their geochemical cycles. Atmospheric metal pollution is recorded in different environmental archives such as lake and marine sediments, snow and ice and peat bogs. Among these archives, peat bogs have proven to be effective in reconstructing the history of atmospheric metal deposition throughout Europe, but few studies have been carried out in North America or in Quebec. Being an importa

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McEnroe, Nicola A. 1973. "Carbon biogeochemistry of open water pools on an ombrotrophic raised bog, James Bay, Québec, Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115691.

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Carbon (C) biogeochemical cycling studies in northern peatlands, in particular the production, consumption, storage and emission of C gases (CO2 and CH4) over space and time between different peatland landforms can help in understanding their current and future role in the global C cycle. In some peatlands, a distinct surface patterning of vegetation, interspersed with open water pools, controls the spatial and temporal variability in CO 2 and CH4 exchange to atmosphere. These open water pools initially develop from shallow, flooded hollows to deeper water bodies and at some point reach a limi

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Szollosy, Michael. ""La théorie c'est bon mais ça n'empêche pas d'exister" : subjective ontology and the ethics of interpretation." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20479.

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This study seeks to confront the ontological crises of the subject. Through an examination of twentieth century texts (including fiction, autobiography and Freudian case studies), I demonstrate the effects of subjective compliance with disembodied discourses. Using psychoanalytic theory, I ask: What are the ethical limits of interpretation within the psychoanalysis and literary criticism? And what alternative strategies of intersubjective exchange could we employ that would aspire to avoid instances of such hermeneutic tyranny?<br>Further, what evidence is there that the subject, in the face o

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Ring, Giselle Natasha. "Identification and characterization of TMEM 85, a novel suppressor of bax-mediated cell death in yeast." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112352.

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The ability to evade apoptosis is an acquired characteristic associated with many normal and pathophysiological processes. TMEM 85 represents a novel transmembrane domain containing human protein isolated in our previous screen for Bax suppressors, but whose function is currently unknown. Using viability and growth assays, we confirmed that TMEM 85 is anti-apoptotic. Four unique human cDNA sequences containing regions distinct from and of perfect identity to our cDNA were present in the database. Analysis of TMEM 85 suggests that it consists of five exons, alternatively spliced to produce at l

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Bailey-Jourdain, Catherine. "Male age effects, cytoplasmic incompatibility and the localization of Wolbachia in Chelymorpha alternans Boh (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae)." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100760.

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Wolbachia are bacteria that infect and induce reproductive alterations in a large number of arthropods. The present study was undertaken to improve our understanding of the effects that Wolbachia have on the reproductive biology of the leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans Boh, in Panama. Two strains of Wolbachia occur in C. alternans, both of which induce some degree of cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), a reproductive problem occurring when individuals bearing different infection status are mated together resulting in lowered levels of egg fertility. I attempted to localize where Wolbachia occurs

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DesJardins, J. F. Marc. "A preliminary field-report on the Bön community of the Songpan area of North Sichuan /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68082.

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The following essay is the result of approximately two years of research and fieldwork on the Bon religious community of the Songpan Prefecture in the Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China. The research was carried on between September 1991 to Spring 1993. The candidate uses translations of Tibetan Bon historical texts and information provided during field work by Bonpos informants to summarize the view of the Bonpos and contrast it with the historical data available in Western writings to establish a provisional definition of Bon. Translations from a Chinese historical report on the ma

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Khoury, Chamel Michael. "Identification of novel anti-apoptotic sequences by screening for suppressors of the effects of Bax in yeast." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18762.

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Elucidating novel anti-apoptotic regulatory pathways is central to further understanding the molecular basis of several pathologies, including cancer. The Bcl-2 protein family includes central regulators of the apoptotic process in mammalian cells, such as the antiapoptotic Bcl-2 and the pro-apoptotic Bax. Descriptions of apoptotic phenotypes in yeast induced by certain stressful stimuli, including the heterologous expression of Bcl-2 proteins, indicate the presence of an evolutionarily conserved apoptotic programme. We have previously reported the identification of several mammalian cDNAs eff

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Ball, Tom. "Seasonal transitions in fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane from an ombrotrophic peatland, Frontenac Bog, southern Quebec." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27274.

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A climate controlled, dynamic chamber was used to measure carbon dioxide (CO$ sb2$) and methane (CH$ sb4$) exchange on an ombrotrophic peatland. The study periods were July to early November 1995, and early May to July 1996. Five sample sites, showing ecological and hydrological contrast, were investigated. Measurements of Net Ecosystem Exchange showed peak photosynthetic capacity (GP$ sb{ max})$ ranging from 0.52 $ pm$ 0.04 mg C m$ sp{-2}$ s$ sp{-1}$ (June 1996) to 0.03 $ pm$ 0.02 mg C m$ sp{-2}$ s$ sp{-1}$ (early November 1995). Dark respiration measurements ranged from $-$0.21 $ pm$.02 mg C

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Holoch, Adele Johnsen. "Beyond the bon sauvage : questioning Canada's postcoloniality in Nancy Huston's Plainsong and Thomas King's Green grass, running water." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98542.

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This thesis approaches the question of Canada's postcoloniality through two novels, Nancy Huston's Plainsong and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water. Published in 1993, both novels problematize a postcolonial articulation of marginality in Canada, suggesting that it reduces the complexities of otherness to binary divisions of center and margin, colonizer and colonized. While Plainsong imagines the restrictive consequences such a reading may have on the others with which it engages, Green Grass, Running Water pushes past those boundaries to affirm the complex nature of alterity in contempo

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Lai, Yuk Fo. "Spatial and temporal variations of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes measured by autochambers at the Mer Bleue bog." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110514.

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The net ecosystem carbon (C) balance and radiative forcing impact of northern peatlands are largely governed by the exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) gases with the atmosphere. To predict the effects of perturbations on peatland C exchange, the relationships between gas fluxes and environmental correlates should be established at the plant community and microtopographic level to capture the spatial heterogeneity of peatlands. In this research, I use an autochamber system to quantify CO2 and CH4 fluxes at a sub-daily time scale among three vascular plant communities at the Mer

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Tkac, Jennifer May. "Estimating willingness to pay for the preservation of the Alfred bog wetland in Ontario : a multiple bounded discrete choice approach." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29480.

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The Alfred Bog wetland is the largest high quality bog ecosystem and one of the most important natural areas in southern Ontario. The 4,200 hectare bog provides habitat to a large number of rare and endangered species and plays an integral role as a natural water filter. This study used the contingent valuation survey method to estimate respondents' willingness to pay for the preservation of the Alfred Bog wetland, which is threatened by the competing activities of drainage, burning, and the extraction of peat. A multiple bounded discrete choice model was used to analyze the survey results. Re

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Dolansky, Lila. "Controls on the genesis of hydrothermal cobalt mineralization: insights from the mineralogy and geochemistry of the Bou Azzer deposits, Morocco." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18693.

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The cobalt deposits at Bou Azzer, Morocco, represent an unusual type of mineralization and an important source of cobalt to the global economy. The orebodies are distributed along the borders of Neoproterozoic serpentinite massifs and consist predominantly of (Co,Ni,Fe) arsenides and sulpharsenides, with accessory sulphides and gold in a quartz-carbonate gangue. The ore minerals were deposited from acidic (pH<5), highly saline brines (~36-51 wt. % NaCl + CaCl2 eq.) under moderately reducing conditions, at temperatures of ~200-400C and pressures of more than 880 bars. The metals were leached

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Chong, Mandy. "The microclimatic response to increasing shrub cover, and its consequent control on «Sphagnum»carbon dioxide exchange in an ombrotrophic bog." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97174.

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Shifts in vegetation from a moss-shrub peatland to one more dominated by shrubs will influence the microclimate. I analyzed the seasonal effect of increasing shrub cover in response to two NPK treatments (5NPK and 20NPK, with addition rates of 3.2 g N m-2 y-1 and 6.4 g N m-2 y-1, respectively) compared to the control (0NPK) in triplicate 3 x 3 m plots in an ombrotrophic bog located in Ottawa, Ontario. Half-hour measurements of light, soil temperature and moisture were measured in each plot. During the growing season, increases in LAI resulted in a decrease in soil temperature by 0.3 to 1.5

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Reimer, Adam. "The role of bog plants in the exchange of carbon dioxide and water between the atmosphere and the Mer Bleue peatland /." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33829.

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The exchange of carbon and water between a temperate peatland and the atmosphere was studied directly for the vascular plants; Chamaedaphne calyculata, Kalmia angustifolia, Vaccinium myrtilloides, and Maianthemum trifolium and indirectly for the bryophytes; Sphagnum rubellum and S. magellanicum. In vascular plants, carbon and water fluxes were well coupled (&sim;2.27 mumol CO 2 mmol-1 H2O) except in the post-deciduous period where temperature constrained water flux more than carbon flux. The seasonal cycle of Sphagnum water content was driven by water table depth; rain depth, rain frequency an

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Carlson, David. "Dynamic process model of palsa genesis and development based on geomorphologic investigations at the Boundary Ridge Palsa Bog near Schefferville, Quebec." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18192.

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Numerical simulation of forming processes has been an important means for material selection, tool design, and process optimization. A critical component of simulation, however, is an accurate material constitutive model, describing the response of the material under possible modes of deformation. The accuracy, in turn, is linked to the tests and techniques applied for identification of constitutive models: the more elaborate the identification, the more reliable the material parameters. For textile composites, uncontrollable factors such as contact friction, misalignment, slip, variations in

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Lehoux, Francis. "Le sacré dans la pièce Bob de René-Daniel Dubois, suivi du texte de création Ludvig et moi (1-2-3)." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107610.

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In the first section of this Master's thesis, we study the concept of sacred, more precisely the phenomenon of "re-enchantment" at work in Bob (2008), a theatre play by René-Daniel Dubois. Through an analysis of religious patterns, discourse segments related to the sacred, and of the mise en abyme of Lorenzaccio (1834), a romantic drama written by Alfred de Musset, we demonstrate that the romantic discourse of characters Madame Fryers and Lorenzo (played by Bob) exerts a salutary influence on both the discourse and the life of the two male protagonists, and thus creates a form of "re-enchantme

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Traoré, Fatoumata Diahara. ""Mother and I, we are Muslim women" : Islam and postcolonialism in Mariama Ndoye's Comme le bon pain and Ken Bugul's Cendres et braises." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98589.

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This thesis is a literary analysis of two novels, Comme le bon pain (2001) by Mariama Ndoye and Cendres et braises (1994) by Ken Bugul. It examines the representation of Islam in relation to African women's identity, with particular emphasis on its relationship with the postcolonial context of francophone West Africa. Chapter I reviews the emergence of African francophone literature by women authors and the trends of criticism that developed as a result of it. It also presents the theoretical framework of this research, namely feminist and postcolonial theories inspired by Frantz Fanon and Afr

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Thermitus, Tamara. "«La justice reste à venir»: la déconstruction appliquée à la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada dans l'arrêt Bou Malhab c Diffusion Métromédia CMR Inc." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114161.

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Although there have been certain advances with respect to equality rights, which are protected in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Quebec Charter of the Human Rights and Freedoms, judicial decisions often ignore race as a social construct. To give full effect to the principles of equality and to advance justice, courts need to take race into account, recognize it as a social construction, and make visible what is often invisible. The technique of deconstruction, by bringing to light history and relations of power, allows us to understand social context in all of its complexi

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Moran, Anthony F. "Imagining the Australian nation settler- nationalism and Aboriginality /." Click here for electronic access to document, 1999. http://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/R/U1L2H28HB18MC24L4CL743PII8DUPUQSDYN9NGAGLBXL8YA8BU-00451?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000013.

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Liu, Li-Wei, and 劉力維. "Bow wave and Hydraulic jump induced by cylindrical piers in open channel flows." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cjb9d7.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>土木工程研究所<br>96<br>Bow waves in front of cylindrical piers under different flow conditions, especially supercritical flows, are explored in this study by employing both flume experiments and 3D numerical simulation. An ultrasonic velocity profiler (UVP) is used to measure the downward/upward flow right in front of the pier, and the downward flow and the stagnation point along the profile are also measured. The magnitudes and the frequencies of bow waves are analyzed by image analysis. The vortex sizes are mainly determined by pier diameter alone. The dimensionless amplitude of bo

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