{"data":[{"id":"10.82308/7163","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/7163","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:m039k785v","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/115644","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Francois, Roselor","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Roselor","familyName":"Francois","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"An investigation of catholic education and the predicament of democracy in Haiti"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Integrated Studies in Education"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Cere, Daniel M. (Supervisor2)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Boudreau, Spencer (Supervisor1)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-19","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Cere, Daniel M. (Supervisor2)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"","description":"Boudreau, Spencer (Supervisor1)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Cette dissertation est une recherche mixte transformative qui comprend deux parties conduites de façon séquentielle et qui a le double but (a) d'explorer en profondeur la nature de la pédagogie des écoles congréganistes catholiques, et (b) d'examiner de façon critique l'impact d'une telle pédagogie sur la démocratie haïtienne. À cause de la nature transformative de l'étude, la théorie postcoloniale a été placée au centre de toute la démarche méthodologique. En particulier, la théorie de l'hybridité de Homi K. Bhabha a fait ressortir l'importance du vodou et de la langue créole dans le domaine de l'éducation pour la démocratie en Haiti. S'appuyant sur cette perspective critique, cette étude transformative a présenté le vodou et le créole comme étant deux éléments historiques de base qui peuvent créer des espaces d'apprentissages démocratiques dans les écoles haïtiennes et aussi fortifier mentalement l'élève haïtien. Considérant que \"different histories and cultures produce different democracies\" (Koelble \u0026amp; Lipuma, 2008, p.1), l'étude a montré que toute éducation pour la démocratie doit être impérativement basée sur ces \"cultures hybrides.\" Cependant, grâce à la signature du Concordat de 1860 entre le Vatican et l'État haïtien, les écoles congréganistes catholiques étaient devenues responsables de la formation académique des élites haïtiennes. Les résultats de la recherche ont révélé que ces écoles congréganistes représentent un modèle d'école coloniale anti-vodou et anti-creole qui a été établi en Haiti dans le cadre d'un projet néocolonial français conçu par Gaspard Théodore Mollien pour reconquérir Haiti. Les résultats des deux phases qualitative et quantitative ont fortement souligné l'exclusion et la marginalisation du créole et du vodou par les leaders de ces écoles catholiques. Au moyen de cette forme de \"mal-éducation\" (Woodson, 1933), ces écoles congréganistes ont formé une classe dirigeante subalterne, aliénée, raciste, autocratique et violente qui a toujours servi les intérêts des occidentaux tout en opprimant et marginalisant les masses créolophones et vodouisantes haïtiennes. En 1994, de telles femmes et de tels hommes \"mal-éduqués\" ont été qualifiés de \"most repugnant elites\" (Fatton Jr., 2002) par l'ambassade américaine en Haiti. Ainsi, se basant sur un cadre théorique et une littérature qui supportent le fait que les écoles coloniales ont grandement contribuer à fabriquer la nature prédatrice des élites indigènes subalternes, cette étude a pu établir une relation significative entre le type d'éducation coloniale dispensée dans les écoles congréganistes catholiques et l'absence de démocratie en Haiti. Dans cette optique, la présente recherche plaide pour un changement radical dans l'ensemble du système éducatif haïtien.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"The purpose of this sequential transformative mixed methods study is twofold: (a) explore in-depth the nature of the Catholic congregational school pedagogy in Haiti, and (b) critically examine how such pedagogy impacts democracy in Haiti. For the transformative paradigm used in this research, the interpretive standpoint of the results has been purveyed by the postcolonial theory which broughtout the importance of Haitian Vodou and Creole in the matter of educating for democracy in Haiti. Particularly, the theory of hybridity from Homi K. Bhabha acknowledges Vodou and Creole as two basic historical elements that would foster democratic learning spaces in the school context and empower the Haitian student. By considering that \"different histories and cultures produce different democracies\" (Koelble \u0026amp; Lipuma, 2008, p.1), the study stressed that educating for democracy should be based on these \"hybrid cultures.\" However, since the signing of the Concordat of 1860 between the Vatican and Haitian State, Catholic congregational schools have borne the responsibility for educating the Haitian elites. The whole result of the study revealed that these schools are a model of anti-Vodou and anti-Creole colonial school established within the framework of a French neocolonial project engineered by Gaspard Theodore Mollien to reconquer Haiti. Both the qualitative and quantitative findings strongly drew attention to the total exclusion and marginalization of Haitian Creole and Vodou by Catholic school leaders. Through this type of \"mis-education\" (Woodson, 1933), the congregational schools prepared a type of subaltern, alienated, racist, autocratic, and violent elites that have always served the interests of the West while oppressing and marginalizing the Vodouists and Creole speaking Haitian masses. In 1994, such \"mis-educated\" women and men were considered the \"most repugnant elites\" by the U.S Embassy (Fatton Jr., 2002). Thus, since the literature and theoretical framework of the study are in line with the fact that the predatory nature of subaltern indigenous elites has been molded in colonial schools, this research has established a significant relationship between this type of colonial education promoted in Catholic congregational classrooms and the absence of democracy in Haiti. In light of the findings, the present investigation advocates for a radical change in the whole Haitian educational system.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/115644","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T07:30:18Z","registered":"2026-05-21T07:30:19Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:57:36Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/4815","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/4815","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:bg257h642","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/101157","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Mollaei, Fatemeh","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Fatemeh","familyName":"Mollaei","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Speech and auditory brainstem processing in Parkinson's disease"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Communication Sciences and Disorders"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Baum, Shari (Supervisor2)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Gracco, Vincent (Supervisor1)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-18","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Baum, Shari (Supervisor2)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"","description":"Gracco, Vincent (Supervisor1)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"La maladie de Parkinson (MP) est une maladie neurodégénérative qui touche principalement le système moteur. Elle est traditionnellement décrite comme un trouble hypokinétique de l'action motrice. Cependant, des troubles sensoriels et perceptuels ont également été identifiés et pourraient être d'importants éléments pour comprendre les troubles moteurs observés dans la MP. Le projet de recherche actuel est motivé par l'idée que les troubles sensoriels et perceptuels dans la MP pourraient contribuer, et en partie expliquer, les troubles hypokinétiques observés lors de la production de la parole. Des déficits dans le traitement ou la discrimination auditive et des limitations dans l'auto-surveillance des erreurs pendant la production de la parole ont été reportés. Dans la MP différents aspects de la parole sont affectés à différents stages de la maladie. Par exemple, les troubles phonatoires précèdent les déficits articulatoires qui apparaissent au cours de la progression de la maladie. Nous avons mené trois études pour déterminer le rôle des systèmes moteur et sensoriel dans le contrôle et la surveillance de la fréquence fondamentale (hauteur de la voix) et d'un paramètre spectral (premier formant) de la parole dans la MP. Pour la première étude nous avons utilisé une méthode de perturbation en direct de la rétroaction auditive pendant la production de la parole. Nous avons montré que les réponses des participants avec MP différaient quand la hauteur ou les formants étaient manipulés. Comparés aux participants contrôles, les participants avec la MP lorsque comparés à des participants contrôles du même âge et sexe. Les individus avec la MP démontrent une meilleure capacité pour la discrimination des modifications de la hauteur de la voix pendant la production de la parole, mais une capacité réduite pour la discrimination des modifications formantiques pendant l'écoute passive. Enfin, à l'aide d'une étude de la réponse en fréquence du tronc cérébral, qui reflète le traitement auditif par cette structure, nous avons observé des différences dans la sensibilité de traitement de la hauteur du son qui sont cohérents et qui expliquent en partie les résultats obtenus sur le traitement de la hauteur du son des deux premières études. Toutefois, lorsqu'on regarde la réponse en fréquence du tronc cérébral associée au premier formant du stimulus, nous n'obtenons pas de différences entre les deux groupes. Ces résultats montrent qu'il existe à la fois des composantes sensorielles et sensorimotrices dans les déficits de la parole associés à la dysarthrie hypokinétique de la MP.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder mainly affecting the motor system. Traditionally, Parkinson's disease has been characterized as a hypokinetic motor output disorder. However, sensory and perceptual deficits have been identified in this disorder and may be important contributors to understanding the movement impairments in PD. The current research project is motivated by evidence that sensory and perceptual disorders in PD may contribute to, and in part, underlie hypokinetic disorders of speech production. In addition to limited reporting of self-monitoring of speech errors and auditory discrimination/processing deficits, speech parameters appear to be affected in PD in different phases of the disorder. For example, phonatory deficits precede the articulatory deficits, which emerge as the disease progresses. We carried out three studies to investigate the role of sensory and motor systems in the control and monitoring of fundamental frequency (voice pitch) and spectral parameters (first formant frequency) of speech in PD. Using perturbation of auditory feedback during speech production and measuring the compensatory response, the first study revealed a differential response of PD participants to pitch and formant manipulations. Pitch alterations resulted in enhanced compensation while formant alterations resulted in a reduction in the compensation compared to the control group. The second study revealed a complex pattern of differences in the perceptual ability of individuals with PD, with enhanced ability to discriminate pitch modulations during speech production and reduced ability to discriminate formant modulations during passive listening, compared to the age- and gender-matched control participants. Lastly, using the Frequency Following Response (FFR) reflecting brainstem auditory processing, we observed differences in the sensitivity of pitch processing consistent with and partially explanatory for the pitch-related findings of the first two studies. However, we did not observe any differences between the two groups in the FFR associated with the frequency range of the first formant frequency of the stimulus. These results point to both a sensory and sensorimotor component to the speech deficit associated with hypokinetic dysarthria of PD.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/101157","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T11:19:00Z","registered":"2026-05-21T11:19:01Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:56:54Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/10361","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/10361","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:02870z673","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/132838","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Hao, Jun Ming","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Jun Ming","familyName":"Hao","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"The effectiveness of form-focused instruction, textual enhancement and corrective feedback on second language word order acquisition"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Integrated Studies in Education"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Lyster, Roy (Internal/Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-21","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Lyster, Roy (Internal/Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"en","description":"Taking the sequencing assumption (for which this study proposes the term \"sequencing hypothesis\") as theoretical underpinnings, this study applies a particular research design of form-focused instruction (FFI), that is, a sequential FFI (SFFI). In the SFFI treatment, language was always the focus, but meaningful context was provided in the form of written texts followed by opportunities for output practice as implemented by the teachers based on the textbook. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of SFFI on word order learning by second language (L2) learners of Mandarin.Participants were 59 international adult Mandarin learners in a language training program at a university in Shanghai. They were assigned randomly to one of four groups: the FFI-prompt group, the FFI-recast group, the FFI-only group, and the Control group. The FFI-only group received sequential instruction composed of noticing (taking the form of textually enhanced input) and awareness activities followed by controlled and communicative practice. In addition to receiving this same instruction, the FFI-prompt and FFI-recast groups received prompts or recasts, respectively. The Control group received similar instruction, minus the noticing activity, and no corrective feedback. Before the instruction, a written pretest was administered on participants in four groups. After 4.5 hours of instruction on Mandarin comparative word order, two assessment tasks were administered, including an immediate posttest, and a delayed posttest in written production, which took the form of a grammaticality judgment and error correction test. In addition, an immediate posttest and a delayed posttest were administered to assess oral production, which took the form of a description and a discussion test.Results from paired sample t-tests and one-way ANCOVAs with pairwise comparisons revealed that (a) the SFFI treatment effect was significant with and without the mediation of textually enhanced input, and with or without the provision of corrective feedback; (b) textually enhanced input did not show significant effects in target form acquisition; (c) the groups with corrective feedback outscored the other groups in 3 of 4 posttests, but only the FFI-prompt group outperformed the Control group in written posttest 1 and the Control group and the FFI-only group in written posttest 2. The findings of this study demonstrate the effectiveness of the sequential FFI, and partially of corrective feedback, but no positive evidence for textually enhanced input in this particular instructional setting.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Prenant l'hypothèse de séquençage comme fondements théoriques, cette étude applique un modèle de recherche particulier de l'enseignement axé sur la forme (EAF), qui est, un EAF séquentiel (EAFS). Dans le traitement de l'EAFS, les traits linguistiques sont d'abord mis en évidence dans un contexte signifiant fourni sous forme de textes écrits et ensuite mis en pratique par le biais d'activités de production adaptées à partir du manuel. Cette étude a pour but d'examiner l'efficacité de l'EAFS sur l'apprentissage de l'ordre des mots par les apprenants du mandarin langue seconde (L2).La cohorte de participants était composée de 59 apprenants adultes internationaux qui apprenaient le mandarin L2 dans un programme de formation linguistique dans une université à Shanghai. Ils ont été divisés au hasard en quatre groupes: le groupe EAF-incitation, le groupe EAF-reformulation, le groupe EAF-seul et le groupe témoin. Le groupe EAF-seul a reçu l'EAFS composé d'activités de perception (sous forme de la mise en évidence visuelle) et de conscientisation, suivi de la pratique contrôlée et communicative. En plus de recevoir ce même traitement, le groupe EAF-incitation et le groupe EAF-reformulation recevaient des incitations ou des reformulations, respectivement. Le groupe témoin a reçu un enseignement similaire, sans l'activité de perception (soit la mise en évidence visuelle) et sans rétroaction corrective. Avant l'intervention, un prétest écrit a été administré aux participants en quatre groupes. Au bout de 4.5 heures d'enseignement sur l'ordre des mots dans la phrase comparative en mandarin, deux tâches d'évaluation ont été administrés, y compris un posttest immédiat, et un posttest différé en production écrite, exigeant le jugement de grammaticalité et la correction des erreurs, ainsi que le test 1 et le test 2 à l'oral sous forme de description et de discussion.Les résultats indiquent que (a) l'EAFS a des effets significatifs avec ou sans mise en évidence visuelle et avec ou sans rétroaction corrective; (b) la mise en évidence visuelle avaient quelques effets négatifs; (c) les groupes recevant de la rétroaction corrective ont dépassé les autres groupes dans 3 des 4 tests après l'EAFS, mais seulement le groupe EAF-incitation a fait significativement mieux que le groupe témoin en posttest 1 écrit et que le groupe témoin et le groupe EAF-seul en posttest 2 écrit. Les résultats de cette étude témoignent de l'efficacité de l'EAFS, et partiellement de la rétroaction corrective, mais aucune preuve positive pour la mise en évidence visuelle dans ce contexte d'enseignement particulier.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/132838","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T05:45:18Z","registered":"2026-05-21T05:45:19Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:56:36Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/31352","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/31352","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:9306t194z","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/134563","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Kassis, Marco","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Marco","familyName":"Kassis","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Macromodel order reduction and passivity enforcement using Hamiltonian Matrix pencil perturbation"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Khazaka, Roni (Internal/Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-21","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Khazaka, Roni (Internal/Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"en","description":"Model Order Reduction is one of the most successful methods to minimize computational complexity in circuit simulation. Order reduction could be done as a part of the macromodeling process of frequency domain data into a highly accurate and compact time domain model. This macromodeling is done by converting the frequency domain Y-parameter or S-parameter data, which were extracted using full-wave simulation of the physical model at hand, into a descriptor state space based time domain model. Using the system identification method of Loewner Matrix, the order selection process can only be done to a certain threshold, below which a non-passive model would be produced. Such a non-passive model could become unstable when connected to other terminations, even if such terminations are stable themselves. This thesis presents a novel approach of utilizing passivity enforcement schemes, such as Hamiltonian Matrix Pencil Perturbation, to convert a system with mild passivity violation into a passive system. This would allow the macromodeling process to use an order lower than the minimum threshold, making order reduction much more efficient and effective. This whole methodology can be used to create compact time domain macromodels for the recently popular microwave applications, which otherwise would be difficult, or impossible, to find their closed form expressions using their physics based information.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Le modèle de réduction de séquence est une des méthodes les plus réussites afin de réduire au maximum la complexité computationnel en simulation de circuit. La réduction de séquence pourrait être faite dans le cadre du processus de macromodélisation de données du domaine des fréquences dans le modèle de domaine temporel extrêmement exact, précis et compact. Cette macromodélisation est faite en convertissant le paramètre-Y ou le paramètre-S des données du domaine des fréquences, qui on été extraites en utilisant la simulation à deux alternances du modèle physique à portée de mains, dans l'état descripteur du modèle de domaine d'espace-temps. Utilisant la méthode d'identification du système de Loewner Matrix, le processus de sélection de commande peut être fait qu'à un certain seuil, en dessous duquel un modèle non passif serait produit. Un tel modèle non passif pourrait devenir instable lorsque connecté à d'autre terminaisons, même si ces terminaisons sont stables eux-mêmes. Cette mémoire de maitrise présente une nouvelle approche de l'utilisation des schémas d'applications de passivité, tel que la perturbation du faisceau de matrices hamiltonienne, afin de convertir un système avec une légère violation de passivité dans un système passif. Cela permettrait au processus de macromodélisation d'utiliser une commande inférieure au seuil minimum, faisant de la réduction de séquence beaucoup plus efficace. Toute cette méthodologie peut être utilisée afin de créer un macromodèle compact du domaine temporel pour l'utilisation des récentes applications de micro-ondes, qui serait difficiles autrement, voire impossible, de trouver leur expression en forme analytique utilisant leur informations basées sur la physique.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/134563","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T21:18:41Z","registered":"2026-05-21T21:18:42Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:56:16Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/10966","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/10966","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:4t64gr02g","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/91304","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Xie, Jingwei","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Jingwei","familyName":"Xie","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Functional and structural characterization of cytoplasmic poly(A) binding protein"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Biochemistry"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Gehring, Kalle Burgess (Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-18","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Gehring, Kalle Burgess (Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"en","description":"Cytoplasmic poly(A) binding protein (PABP) binds the 3' poly(A) tail of mRNA and plays an important role in translation of genetic information. Here, I review our knowledge of PABP with a focus on the C-terminal MLLE domain, and present the results of functional and structural studies of PABP. I elucidated the interactions between PABP and its binding partner Paip2. These interactions could regulate PABP and potentially affect PABP dissociation from mRNA. I found a link between PABP and formation of P-bodies, which suggests that PABP is important in mRNA decay and remodeling of mRNA-protein complexes. I also identified a new PAM2 motif in RNA-related LARP4. Structural characterization revealed a conserved pattern of residues in the PAM2 motif and enabled us to look for additional PAM2-containing proteins. Finally, I report a study of PABP isoform specific functions. The study utilized new genome editing technology and RNA-seq analysis to detect transcriptome changes that correlate with PABP isoform usage. In all, the thesis presents multidisciplinary studies of PABP function and structure.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"fr","description":"La protéine poly(A) binding protein (PABP) se lie à la queue poly(A) à l'extrêmité 3' et joue un rôle important dans la traduction de l'information génétique. Ici, je passe en revue notre connaissance de PABP en mettant l'accent sur le domaine C-terminal, appelé MLLE, et présente des études fonctionnelles et structurelles de PABP. J'élucidé les interactions entre PABP et son partenaire de liaison Paip2. Cette interaction pourrait contrôler PABP et affecter la dissociation du PABP de l'ARNm. J'ai trouvé un lien entre PABP et la formation de P-bodies. Cela suggère que PABP était important dans la dégradation des ARNm et le remodelage des complexes ARNm en protéines. J'également identifié un nouveau motif de PAM2 dans LARP4. La caractérisation structurale a raffiné la définition des acides aminés dans le motif PAM2. Cela nous a permis de chercher d'autres protéines contenant un motif PAM2. Enfin, j'ai étudié les fonctions spécifiques d'isofomes de PABP. L'étude a intégré des nouvelles technologies d'édition du génome et d'analyse de l'ARN-Seq pour détecter des changements du transcriptome dus á l'utilisation d'isoformes de PABP. En tout, la thèse rapporte des études multi-disciplinaires des fonctions et structures de la protéine PABP.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/91304","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T02:58:14Z","registered":"2026-05-21T02:58:15Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:56:07Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/9344","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/9344","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:f7623g26c","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/110052","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Zhang, Jian","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Jian","familyName":"Zhang","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Unraveling the genetics of cancer using whole-exome sequencing"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Human Genetics"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Foulkes, William (Supervisor2)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Majewski, Jacek (Supervisor1)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-19","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Foulkes, William (Supervisor2)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"","description":"Majewski, Jacek (Supervisor1)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Les études sur les cancer héréditaires ont aidé à la compréhension de la génétique du cancer. Les composantes héréditaires sont particulièrement importantes dans les cancers du sein et de l'ovaire. La technique du séquençage de l'exome (WES), qui cible la région codant pour la protéine dans le génome, a émergé comme une méthode puissante pour révéler des altérations génétiques liées au cancer. Le travail de doctorat présenté dans cette thèse porte sur la découverte de la base génétique sous-jacente du cancer du sein et de l'ovaire familial. En utilisant la technique WES comme outil d'enquête primaire, nous avons identifié les mutations délétères dans SMARCA4 présent dans tous les cas de carcinomes à petites cellules familiales de l'ovaire, de type hypercalcémie (SCCOHT) que nous avons étudié. L'analyse génomique a révélé que SCCOHT est universellement caractérisé par la perte totale de SMARCA4. Nous avons également effectué une analyse WES sur des familles québécoises avec cancer du sein sans mutations dans les gènes BRCA1 et BRCA2. Le criblage du gène candidate par séquençage de type Sanger dans des cas québécois supplémentaire a permis d'identifier RECQL comme un nouveau gène de susceptibilité au cancer du sein. Nos résultats indiquent l'importance des complexes de remodelage chromatique SWI/SNF dans le développement du SCCOHT et de la voie de réparation de l'ADN dans le développement du cancer du sein. L'identification de ces nouveaux gènes fournit des nouvelles cibles thérapeutiques de ces maladies. Dû l'importance des mutations somatiques à faible fraction allélique dans les cancers, nous avons développé un outil appelé « variant caller ». Cet outil utilise les donnés WES d'un échantillon tumoral, un échantillon apparié sain ainsi qu'un panneau de commande définie par l'utilisateur d'échantillons non-cancéreux. En comparaison avec d'autres outils existants, nous avons démontré une performance supérieure de notre algorithme, en particulier pour les échantillons de cancer de faible qualité tels que des échantillons formaline fixé et paraffine intégrée « as formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) ».","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"Hereditary cancer studies have shed light on the understanding of cancer genetics. Inherited components are particularly important in breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) that targets the protein-coding region of the genome has emerged as a powerful method to reveal genetic alterations in cancer. This thesis work focuses on uncovering the genetic basis underlying familial breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Using WES as the primary investigative tool, deleterious germ-line mutations in SMARCA4 were identified in all the small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT) families that we studied. Genomic analysis revealed that SCCOHT is universally characterized by the complete loss of SMARCA4. By performing WES analysis on French-Canadian, BRCA1 and BRCA2-negative breast cancer families followed by validation of the candidate gene in additional cases, RECQL was discovered as a new breast cancer susceptibility gene. These findings indicate the central roles of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex and the DNA repair pathway in driving the development of SCCOHT and breast cancer, respectively, and provided novel targets for the therapeutic development of these diseases. Furthermore, motivated by accurately identifying somatic mutations with low allelic-fraction from WES data, I developed a variant caller using tumor sample and matched normal sample, plus a user-defined control panel of non-cancer samples. In comparison to other existing tools, I showed superior performance of this algorithm, especially for calling variants from low-quality cancer samples such as formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/110052","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-20T14:13:33Z","registered":"2026-05-20T14:13:34Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:55:55Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/15994","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/15994","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:xd07gw596","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/138004","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Coumans, Jason","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Jason","familyName":"Coumans","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Magmatic and volcanic processes at near-ridge seamounts"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Earth and Planetary Sciences"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Stix, John (Supervisor1)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Minarik, William (Supervisor2)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-21","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Stix, John (Supervisor1)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"","description":"Minarik, William (Supervisor2)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"en","description":"Short chains of seamounts are common on the flanks of fast- to intermediate-spreading mid-ocean ridges in the Pacific Ocean. They have been studied extensively in order to understand the nature of off-axis magma production from melting anomalies in an upwelling mantle. One of the most important characteristics of near-ridge seamounts is their larger trace element and isotopic variation when compared to an adjacent spreading center. This larger variation implies that near-ridge seamount magma bypasses mixing and homogenization processes at the axial reservoir, thus making them excellent geologic targets for investigating heterogeneity in the depleted upper mantle. However, a number of important questions remain regarding the spatial and temporal scale of mantle heterogeneities, melting processes in the mantle, modification during transport to a shallow crustal reservoir, and magmatic processes occurring in a sub-caldera reservoir.Taney Seamount-A, the largest and oldest seamount in the Taney near-ridge chain, exhibits complex shallow and surface processes such as repeated caldera collapses and explosive volcanism. Taney Seamount-A has four well-defined calderas with clear cross-cutting relationships, providing a relative chronology of volcanism. Therefore, Taney Seamount-A represents an ideal target site to investigate the unresolved questions outlined above. To address these questions, I have undertaken a multi-tiered approach incorporating submersible sampling and observation, geochemical analysis and modelling, and scaled analogue experiments.Geochemical analyses and modelling of lavas, crystals, and melt inclusions show that the magmatic history beneath Taney Seamount-A is complex. Lavas vary from typical peridotite-derived mid-ocean ridge basalt compositions (N-MORB) to those with an apparent residual garnet signature. Geochemical modelling suggests that the observed garnet signature can be reproduced by decompression melting of a MORB mantle peridotite which has been re-fertilized by garnet pyroxenite partial melts. Large anorthite-rich plagioclase crystals entrained in lavas have textural evidence of melt-rock interaction. Furthermore, melt inclusions within plagioclase exhibit a non mantle-derived geochemical signal indicating partial melting of a plagioclase-rich cumulate. Volatile saturation pressures from H2O-CO2 relationships in the melt inclusions imply that the large plagioclase crystals formed at the Moho. During transport from the mantle to a shallow magma reservoir, melts ponded at the Moho and underwent melt-rock interaction characterized by episodic partial melting, magma mixing, and recrystallization of plagioclase cumulates. Temporal changes of major elements of the lavas are consistent with an open-system sub-caldera reservoir that undergoes periodic caldera collapse, replenishment, shallow crystallization and eruption. In summary, the magmatic history at Taney Seamount-A comprises magma generation by melting of a two-component mantle, melt-rock interaction at the Moho, open system evolution in a sub-caldera magma reservoir, and caldera collapse. Caldera collapse processes at Taney Seamount-A and other near-ridge seamounts are complex and dependent upon the orientation of the edifice above the magma reservoir. Scaled analogue experiments of caldera collapse at near-ridge seamounts suggests that an offset position of the volcanic edifice induces a trapdoor style of caldera collapse. This style of collapse is characterized by initial subsidence on a reverse fault resulting in the buildup of antithetic flexural tension in a hinge area and formation of a graben structure. The tilting of offset near-ridge seamount calderas towards the ridge axis, as well as structures observed on trapdoor basaltic volcanoes, suggest that complicated asymmetric caldera collapse processes illustrated in analogue experiments also occur in nature.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Courts chaînes de monts sous-marins sont communs sur les flancs de fast- à dorsales médio-océaniques intermédiaires répartition dans l'océan Pacifique. Ils ont été largement étudiés afin de comprendre la nature de la production de magma hors axe de la fonte des anomalies dans un manteau d'upwelling. Taney Seamount-A, le mont sous-marin grand et plus ancien dans le Taney chaîne quasi-crête, présente les processus de surface peu profondes et complexes tels que l'effondrement de la caldeira répétées et volcanisme explosif. Taney Seamount-A dispose de quatre caldeiras bien définis avec des relations transversales claires, fournissant une chronologie relative du volcanisme. Par conséquent, Taney Seamount-A représente un site cible idéale pour enquêter magmatiques et volcaniques processus de génération de fusion pour le manteau à l'éruption sur la thèse seafloor.This utilisé une approche à plusieurs niveaux intégrant échantillonnage submersible et l'observation, l'analyse et la modélisation géochimique, et mis à l'échelle expériences analogiques.Les analyses géochimiques et de la modélisation de laves, des cristaux, et fondre inclusions montrent que l'histoire magmatique sous Taney Seamount-A est complexe. Laves varient de compositions typiques de péridotite dérivé dorsale basalte (N-MORB) à ceux qui ont une signature grenat résiduelle apparente. La modélisation géochimique permet de croire que la signature de grenat observé peut être reproduite par décompression fusion d'un manteau péridotite MORB qui a été re-fécondé par grenat pyroxenite fusions partielles. Gros cristaux de plagioclase anorthite riche entraînées dans les laves ont des preuves de texture de l'interaction fusion-rock. En outre, faire fondre inclusions dans plagioclase présentent un signal géochimique non mantellique indiquant fusion partielle d'un cumul de plagioclase riche. Pressions de saturation volatils issus de relations H2O-CO2 dans les inclusions vitreuses impliquent que les grands cristaux de plagioclase formés au Moho. Pendant le transport du manteau à un réservoir magmatique peu profonde, des masses fondues sont accumulées au Moho et a subi une interaction fondre-rock caractérise par la fusion partielle épisodique, mélange de magmas, et la recristallisation de plagioclase cumule. Les changements temporels des éléments majeurs des laves sont compatibles avec un réservoir sous-caldeira système ouvert qui subit effondrement périodique de la caldeira, le réapprovisionnement, la cristallisation superficielle et éruption. En résumé, l'histoire magmatique au Taney Seamount-A comprend la production de magma en fusion d'un manteau à deux composants, l'interaction fondre-rock au Moho, l'évolution de système ouvert dans un réservoir de magma sous-caldeira, et effondrement de la caldeira.Processus d'effondrement Caldera à Taney Seamount-A et d'autres monts sous-marins quasi-crête sont complexes et dépend de l'orientation de l'édifice au-dessus du réservoir de magma. Expériences analogiques en écailles effondrement de la caldeira de monts sous-marins quasi-crête suggère que une position décalée de l'édifice volcanique induit un style de trappe d'effondrement de la caldeira. Ce style de l'effondrement est caractérisé par la subsidence initiale sur une faille inverse provoque l'accumulation de la tension de flexion antithétique dans une zone de la charnière et la formation d'une structure de graben. Le basculement du décalage quasi-crête caldeiras de monts sous-marins vers l'axe de la crête, ainsi que les structures observées sur les volcans basaltiques trappe, suggèrent que les processus d'effondrement de la caldeira asymétrique complexes illustrées dans les expériences analogiques se produisent aussi dans la nature.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/138004","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T19:11:33Z","registered":"2026-05-21T19:11:34Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:55:36Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/43295","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/43295","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:6t053j923","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/134113","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Reed, Graeme","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Graeme","familyName":"Reed","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Assessing the role of social networks in agricultural cooperatives in the Niayes region of Senegal"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Natural Resource Sciences"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Hickey, Gordon (Internal/Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-21","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Hickey, Gordon (Internal/Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Les coopératives agricoles sont rapidement devenues l'un des contributeurs les plus importants de développement rural dans le monde. Des législateurs, des chercheurs, ainsi que des donateurs ont identifié ces coopératives comment des mécanismes essentiels pour faciliter le partage d'information, accroître la collaboration, diffuser l'innovation agricole, et améliorer l'accès au marché pour les producteurs oeuvrant dans des contextes variés. La recherche empirique soutient que les bénéfices des coopératives sont équivoques, révélant des succès et des échecs, en plus de soulever des questions sur la capacité des coopératives à faciliter des changements équitables et durables. Également, la plupart des études menées jusqu'à présent ont négligé d'étudier de manière combinée l'identité sociale et économique des coopératives agricoles, se concentrant davantage sur les aspects économiques en accordant peu d'attention aux relations sociales s'établissant au sein de celles-ci.Ce mémoire cherche ainsi à mieux comprendre comment l'organisation sociale interne des coopératives agricoles est susceptible d'influencer leur fonctionnement et leur performance, tout en s'attardant à agrémenter la recherche et la politique. Plus spécifiquement, cette recherche i) examine comment les réseaux sociaux au sein d'une coopérative peuvent influencer sa capacité à faciliter le partage des connaissances et la diffusion de l'innovation ; 2) évalue comment les coopératives agricoles peuvent contribuer à développer des moyens durables pour assurer la subsistance des membres; 3) inspire la recherche future et les efforts de développement plus durables et résilients lorsque les politiques issues des coopératives agricoles sont concernées. En utilisant des études de cas de la région des Niayes au Sénégal, cette étude révèle la complexité des relations sociales des coopératives agricoles du pays, et démontre comment les relations sociales peuvent influencer la performance des coopératives et la qualité des services rendus aux membres. Les résultats obtenus démontrent que les analyses économiques des coopératives ne prennent pas suffisamment en compte les configurations de pouvoir, les statuts sociaux, et la diversité socioéconomique en existence entre les petits producteurs dans les régions dites en développement, entrainant ainsi des asymétries de pouvoir inappropriées et une distribution inéquitable des bénéfices.Selon nos résultats, les initiatives de développement agricole, grâce à une étroite collaboration avec des coopératives agricoles existantes, pourront bénéficier d'une large connaissance endogène des relations et des réseaux sociaux en existence affectant les interactions des coopératives, et éventuellement les efforts de développement. Cependant, pour y parvenir, l'agrégation des analyses économiques (i.e. l'impact de l'adhésion à une coopérative sur le revenu agricole, l'accès au marché, les prix de commodités, etc.) et des analyses sociales (qui bénéficient de la participation à une coopérative, comment les membres partagent les savoirs et les connaissances, comment les décisions sont-elles prises, etc.) dans la recherche liée à l'économie coopérative s'avère nécessaire afin de mieux prendre en compte leur double identité approche présente le potentiel de mieux contextualiser la conception, la gestion, et le fonctionnement du modèle coopératif agricole, dans l'optique d'améliorer l'accès à l'innovation et aux ressources agricoles pour les membres.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"Agricultural cooperatives are fast becoming one of the most prominent contributors to rural development internationally. Policymakers, academics, and donors have identified these cooperatives as being an essential mechanism to facilitate information exchange, improve collaboration, disseminate agricultural innovation, and improve market access among smallholder farmers in diverse settings. However, despite significant international support, empirical research on the benefits of agricultural cooperatives has been equivocal, revealing both successes and failures, and raising questions about the ability of cooperatives to equitably and sustainably facilitate change. Further, many existing studies have tended to overlook the dual social and economic identity of agricultural cooperatives, instead focusing on their economic functioning with comparatively little attention being paid to social relationships.This thesis seeks to better understand how the internal social structure of agricultural cooperatives can influence their function and performance with a view to inform research and policy. More specifically, the research seeks to 1) analyze how social networks within a formal cooperative can influence their ability to facilitate knowledge flow and innovation dissemination; 2) assess how agricultural cooperatives can contribute to developing the sustainable livelihoods of their members; and 3) inform future research and development efforts directed towards ensuring more equitable and resilience-focused agricultural cooperative policy frameworks. Using case studies in the Niayes Region of Senegal, this study reveals the complexity of the social relationships that can underpin agricultural cooperative development in Senegal and how these relationships can impact their overall performance and service provision to members. Results highlight that economic analyses of cooperatives can only partially account for the impacts of existing power arrangements, social structures, and socio-economic diversity present among smallholder farmers in developing areas, often leading to inappropriate power asymmetries and inequitable distribution of benefits. Based on our findings, agricultural development initiatives seeking to establish or collaborate with agricultural cooperatives could benefit from conducting a priori assessments of the existing social relations and networks affecting producer interactions in the cooperative. There remains a need for better merging economic analyses (i.e. the impact of cooperative membership on farm income, market access, commodity prices, etc.) with social analyses (such as who is benefiting from being a cooperative member, how are members interacting and sharing knowledge, and how are collective decisions being made) in cooperatives-related research in order to better address their dual-identity and multiple objectives in developing areas context. Such an approach has the potential to better contextualize their design, operation, and function in order to facilitate innovation and resource access for members.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/134113","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-22T04:49:08Z","registered":"2026-05-22T04:49:10Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:54:49Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/27081","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/27081","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:2n49t496t","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/87805","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Couldwell, Sandrine","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Sandrine","familyName":"Couldwell","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Effect of a high fat diet and exercise on circulating mediators of bone and glucose metabolism"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Dentistry"},{"subject":"FOS: Clinical medicine","schemeUri":"http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf","subjectScheme":"Fields of Science and Technology (FOS)"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Kaartinen, Mari Tuulia (Internal/Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-18","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Kaartinen, Mari Tuulia (Internal/Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Il est établi que l'exercice a des effets positifs sur le poids et la sante en général, cependant, les mécanismes par lesquels ces effets sont transmis ne sont pas complètement élucides. Dans cette étude nous examinons les effets que l'exercice et une diète haute and gras ont sur les protéines sanguines reliées au profile de sante; soit la fibronectine dans le plasma et l'osteocalcine non carboxylee dans le sérum. La fibronectine qui circule dans le plasma est une glycoprotéine qui forme des reseaux de matrice extracellulaire a travers le corps et joue un role essentiel dans la différenciation de l'adhesion cellulaire et dans la survie de différentes cellules. La forme soluble de fibronectine est produite par les hépatocytes du foie et constitue un élément du plasma sanguin capable de se déposer dans les tissus. De hauts niveaux de fibronectine dans le plasma sont associes a des effets néfastes pour la sante, incluant des complications cardiovasculaires, le cancer, l'arthrite, et l'inflammation chronique. L'osteocalcine est une hormone libérée par l'os dans le sérum au cours de la résorption osseuse. L'osteocalcine non carboxyle dans la circulation a des effets bénéfiques sur le métabolisme du glucose. Dans cette étude, des souris males ont été randomisées en quatre groupes: 1) Diète normale, sédentaires; 2) Diète normale, actives en exercice; 3) Diète haute en gras, sédentaires et; 4) Diète haute en gras, actives en exercice et soumises à une période d'intervention de 24 semaines. Des mesures de tolérance au glucose et a l'insuline on été prises et le sérum des souris a été recueilli. Nos données démontrent qu'une diète haute en gras, tel que prévu, a augmenté le poids, la masse adipeuse et la densité osseuse et a diminuée la tolérance glycémique. Ces effets ont été renverses par l'exercice. Les niveaux de fibronectine dans le plasma, mesures dans les échantillons sanguins de tous les groupes de souris, ont démontres des altérations dramatiques. Les niveaux de fibronectine plasmatique sont diminués de façon significative dans les groupes actifs en exercice sur diete normale et sur diete haute en gras. L'analyse des niveaux d'osteocalcine démontre une tendance vers de hauts niveaux d'osteocalcine non carboxylee suite a l'exercice et des niveaux réduits associes a la diete haute en gras. La résorption osseuse est demeurée stable, l'accumulation de fibronectine dans les os est augmentée en association avec l'exercice et est réduite suite a la diète haute en gras, alors que l'inverse est démontré pour la fibronectine dans la moelle osseuse. En conclusion, ces résultats suggèrent que l'exercice diminue les niveaux de fibronectine dans le plasma et augmente les niveaux d'osteocalcine dans le sérum, ces deux effets favorisant un profile métabolique sain. Fondeé par CIHR.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"Exercise is known to have positive effects on weight and general health, however, the mechanisms of how those effects are mediated are not fully understood. In this study we examined the effects of exercise and high fat diet on circulating proteins linked to health profile; plasma fibronectin and uncarboxylated osteocalcin. Circulating plasma fibronectin, a glycoprotein, which forms networks of extracellular matrices throughout the body, plays an essential role in cell adhesion differentiation, proliferation, and survival of many cells. The soluble form of fibronectin is produced by hepatocytes in the liver and it is a major component in blood plasma able to uptake and deposit into tissue. Increased levels of circulating plasma fibronectin are linked to adverse health consequences including cardiovascular complications, cancer, arthritis, and chronic inflammation. Osteocalcin, is a hormone released from bone to serum during bone remodeling. Circulating uncarboxylated osteocalcin has beneficial effects on glucose metabolism. In the study male mice were randomized into four groups: 1) Normal diet, sedentary; 2) Normal diet, exercising; 3) High fat diet, sedentary and; 4) High fat diet, exercising and subjected to a 24-week intervention period. Measures of glucose and insulin tolerance were taken and serum from mice was collected. Our data show that a high fat diet, as expected, increases bodyweight and fat mass, density of bone and impairs glucose tolerance, which is reversed with exercise. Plasma fibronectin levels, measured in serum samples of all mouse groups, showed dramatic alterations. Plasma fibronectin levels were significantly decreased in exercising groups on normal diet and high fat diet groups. Osteocalcin analysis shows a trend which suggests that uncarboxylated osteocalcin levels are elevated with exercise and reduced with high fat diet. Bone resorption was unchanged. However, bone-accumulated fibronectin showed a trend towards being increased with exercise and reduced with HFD while the reverse was shown when we tested for plasma fibronectin in bone marrow. In conclusion, these data suggest that exercise lowers plasma fibronectin levels and may increase serum osteocalcin levels, linking both with a healthier metabolic profile.  Funded by CIHR.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/87805","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T18:36:33Z","registered":"2026-05-21T18:36:34Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:54:21Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.10273069","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.10273069","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"hereIstand","nameType":"Personal","familyName":"hereIstand","affiliation":["none"],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Fayenceschale / Faience Bowl"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[],"contributors":[],"dates":[{"date":"2016-07-25","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":null,"types":{"ris":"DATA","bibtex":"misc","citeproc":"dataset","schemaOrg":"Dataset","resourceType":"","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.10273069","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 2.0 Generic","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-nc-sa-2.0","rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX"}],"descriptions":[{"description":"***Fayenceschale***\n\n*Wittenberg, Lutherhaus Collegienstraße 54, 1. 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Dresden, 2016, No. 259\n\nSource: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10273070","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2023-12-28T10:56:37Z","registered":"2023-12-28T10:56:37Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:54:16Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/7391","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/7391","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:70795b578","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/95400","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Pedruski, Michael","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Michael","familyName":"Pedruski","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"The ecological niche: historical, modelling, and experimental approaches to one of ecology's central concepts"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Biology"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Fussmann, Gregor (Supervisor1)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Gonzalez, Andrew (Supervisor2)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-18","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Fussmann, Gregor (Supervisor1)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"","description":"Gonzalez, Andrew (Supervisor2)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"La niche écologique est au coeur de notre compréhension des interactions trophiques, la répartition des espèces, l'évolution des traits, et les dynamiques compétitives. La vaste gamme des applications de la niche est reflétée par la diversité de ses définitions, et elle a été définie comme les opportunités écologiques qui sont disponibles dans une communauté, les rôles fonctionnels que les espèces jouent dans leurs communautés, les conditions environnementales qui sont nécessaires pour la survie des espèces, la distribution de l'utilisation des ressources des espèces, ou des combinaisons de ces dernières. Malgré cette hétérogénéité, toutes les définitions de la niche ont assumé que les espèces diffèrent dans leurs relations avec l'environnement, et que la compréhension de ces différences est essentielle pour les questions dans l'écologie et l'évolution.Ma thèse utilise des méthodes historiques, de modélisation, et expérimentales pour explorer la façon dont la niche a façonné la pensée écologique, et comment son utilisation peut guider des recherches écologiques et évolutives, particulièrement dans le cadre de la compétition. J'ai utilisé une analyse de réseau de citation pour explorer la structure de la littérature de la niche entre 1917 et 1999 et la mainère de sa propagation disciplinaire de ses origines chez les chercheurs zoologiques. Étonnamment, cette analyse a montré que, bien que la niche s'est propagée à plusieurs sous-disciplines par la fin du 20ième siècle, l'intégration entre les sous-disciplines clé dans le réseau n'était pas forte, ce qui suggère qu'une littérature commune n'avait pas encore été matérialisée. La théorie neutre de l'écologie a récemment contesté la théorie de la niche en suggérant que dans quelques cas, les compétiteurs pourraient être équivalent, et donc la compétition pourrait être dirigée par des processus stochastiques, au lieu des différences entre des compétiteurs. J'ai utilisé une approche de modélisation pour évaluer la caractère prévisible des résultats de la compétition le long des gradients de l'inégalité de fitness (la différence entre compétiteurs dans la force compétitive) et de la stochasticité démographique, et j'ai trouvé que les deux gradients ont interagi pour affecter les résultats de la compétition. Des résultats qui n'avaient pas été prédits par la théorie de la niche étaient fréquents dans certaines conditions, ce qui suggère que les dynamiques compétitives peuvent être structurées dans une façon niche ou neutre, dépendamment des conditions environnementales affectant les inégalités de fitness et la stochasticité. Finalement, j'ai approché la question de l'effet des stress environnementaux sur l'évolution de la niche d'une façon expérimentale, et j'ai trouvé que bien que les niches de certaines populations n'aient pas été relativement fortement affectées par certaines formes de stress, d'autres populations ont connu des contractions de la taille de leur niche, et des baisses de fitness dans la niche après la sélection dans certains environnements.Bien que ma thèse montre que l'utilisation et les prédictions de la théorie de la niche sont dépendantes du contexte, la théorie de la niche a utilement inspirée la pensée écologique dans plusieurs domaines, et est en constant changement en réponse à ses propres limitations. En tant que pierre angulaire de la pensée écologique sur la relation entre les organismes et l'environnement, la niche continuera à être à l'avant-garde des réponses aux questions émergentes dans l'écologie et l'évolution.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"The ecological niche is key to our understanding of trophic interactions, species distributions, trait evolution, and competitive dynamics. The wide array of applications of the niche is matched by the diversity of its meanings, and it has been variously defined to be the ecological opportunities available in a community, the functional roles that species play in their community, the environmental conditions necessary for species persistence, the resource-use distribution of species, or combinations of these. Despite this heterogeneity all the niche definitions have assumed that species differ in their relation to the environment, and that understanding the ways in which these relations differ is essential for responding to questions in ecology and evolution.My thesis uses historical, modelling, and experimental methods to explore how the niche has informed ecological thought, and how its current use can guide ecological and evolutionary research, especially as it regards competition. I used a citation network analysis to explore the structure of the niche literature from 1917-1999 and the pattern of its disciplinary spread from its origins among animal researchers. Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that while the niche had spread to a number of sub-disciplines by the close of the 20th century, integration between key sub-disciplines in the network was not strong, suggesting that a common niche literature had not yet emerged. Neutral theory has recently challenged niche theory by suggesting that in some cases competitors may actually be equivalent, and thus that competition may be driven by stochastic processes and not inherent differences between competitors. I applied a modelling approach to assess the predictability of competitive outcome along gradients of fitness inequality (the difference in competitive ability between competitors) and demographic stochasticity, and found that both gradients interacted to affect competition. Outcomes not predicted by niche theory were common in some conditions, which suggests that competitive dynamics may be niche or neutrally structured dependent on how environmental conditions affect fitness inequality and stochasticity. Finally, I experimentally approached the question of how ecological niches might change in response to the imposition of environmental stressors, and found that while the niches of some populations were relatively unaffected by some forms of stress, other populations saw contraction in the size of their niches, and declines in their fitness within the niche after selection in some environments. While my thesis demonstrates that the use and predictions of niche theory are context dependent, niche theory has productively inspired ecological thought in many areas, and is perennially changing in response to its own limitations. As the corner-stone of ecological thought for how organisms relate to their environments it will no doubt continue to be at the forefront of responses to emerging questions in ecology and evolution.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/95400","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T15:57:00Z","registered":"2026-05-21T15:57:02Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:54:12Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/48582","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/48582","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:cn69m665q","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/103386","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Schott, Esther","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Esther","familyName":"Schott","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Perceptual similarity across sixteen languages"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Psychology"},{"subject":"FOS: Psychology","schemeUri":"http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf","subjectScheme":"Fields of Science and Technology (FOS)"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Baldwin, Mark W (Internal/Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-19","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Baldwin, Mark W (Internal/Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"en","description":"Learning perceptually similar, and thus hard to separate, languages may be different from learning perceptually dissimilar, easy to separate, languages. To test this hypothesis, a measure of perceptual language similarity is needed. The purpose of this thesis is to establish, describe and explore such a measure. In Study 1, implicit language similarity across 16 languages was tested. Adult participants were presented simultaneously with two recordings that were either of the same, or of two different languages. They responded whether they heard 1 or 2 languages. Responding \"1\" when two languages were presented is an indication that these languages sound similar. To understand why some language combinations were more likely to be perceived as a single language, parameters relating to properties of the listener population, language family, geographic closeness, and properties of language were investigated. In a multidimensional scaling analysis, geography and properties of the languages explained which language combinations were more likely to be perceived as a single language. To test which aspects of the results from Study 1 were task-dependent or task-independent, an explicit measure of language similarity was used in Study 2. Participants listened to each language separately and were asked to arrange languages that sound more similar closer together. The results from a multi-dimensional scaling analysis of the explicit judgments of language similarity could be explained by properties of the listener population, language family, geography, and properties of the languages. In comparison to Study 1, the explicit task may be more affected by listeners' meta-linguistic knowledge than by properties of the language. Finding out why some languages may be perceived as more similar can shed light on which properties of languages are salient to a naïve listener. The implicit and explicit measures of language similarity described in this thesis can be used to test hypotheses about the role of language similarity in infants' and adults' language learning.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"fr","description":"L'apprentissage de langues qui sont similaires sur le plan perceptif, et conséquemment plus difficile à dissocier, devrait être différent de l'apprentissage des langues qui, elles, sont différentes sur le plan perceptif, et plus facile à dissocier. Pour vérifier cette hypothèse, une mesure de la similarité perceptuelle des langues est nécessaire. Le but de ce mémoire est d'établir, de décrire et d'explorer cette mesure. Dans l'Étude 1, la similarité implicite de 16 langues différentes a été mesurée. Deux enregistrements, provenant ou non de la même langue, ont été présentés à des participants adultes. Les participaient devaient ensuite énoncer s'ils avaient entendu 1 ou 2 langues. Si les participaient répondaient «1», cela indiquait que les langues paraissaient semblables. Afin de mieux comprendre pourquoi certaines combinaisons de langues étaient plus souvent perçues comme étant une seule langue, des paramètres relatifs aux caractéristiques de la population du participant, la famille linguistique, la proximité géographique et les caractéristiques des langues ont été examinés. À l'aide d'une analyse de positionnement multidimensionnel, il a été possible de déterminer que la proximité géographie et les caractéristiques des langues permettaient d'expliquer quelles combinaisons de langues étaient plus propices à être perçu comme une seule langue. Pour vérifier quels aspects des résultats de l'Étude 1 étaient dépendants ou indépendants de la tâche, la similarité des langues a été mesurée à l'aide d'une tâche explicite dans l'Étude 2. Les participants ont écouté chaque langue séparément et devaient subséquemment regrouper les langues en fonction de leurs similarités sonores. Les résultats issus de l'analyse de positionnement multidimensionnel des jugements explicites de similarité des langues peuvent être expliqués par les caractéristiques de la population, la famille linguistique, la géographique et les caractéristiques des langues. En comparaison avec l'Étude 1, la tâche explicite de l'Étude 2 pourrait être plus influencée par les connaissances métalinguistiques de l'auditeur que par les caractéristiques des langues. Comprendre pourquoi certaines langues seraient perçues comme plus similaires permet de mieux saisir quelles sont les caractéristiques des langues auxquelles un auditeur naïf porte attention. Les mesures implicites et explicites de la similarité des langues présentées dans cette étude peuvent être utilisées afin de mieux comprendre le rôle de la similarité des langues dans l'apprentissage des langues.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/103386","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-22T02:13:17Z","registered":"2026-05-22T02:13:19Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:52:49Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.10273025","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.10273025","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"mauricesvay","nameType":"Personal","familyName":"mauricesvay","affiliation":["none"],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Hachikō"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[],"contributors":[],"dates":[{"date":"2016-01-08","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":null,"types":{"ris":"DATA","bibtex":"misc","citeproc":"dataset","schemaOrg":"Dataset","resourceType":"","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.10273025","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-4.0","rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX"}],"descriptions":[{"description":"![Photo of Hachikō](http://i.imgur.com/yHOBmw6.jpg?2)\n\nThe statue of Hachikō is located [near the Shibuya Station](https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Hachik%C5%8D/@35.6590463,139.7005079,19.81z/data=!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x60188b5832e31057:0x8064180af8c9b5df!2sShibuya+Station!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x0217e9d9fe306fba) in Tokyo. The legend says that Hachikō waited at the station many years for his deceased owner to come back. The dog is now the mascot of the Shibuya district and the statue is a popular meeting point.\n\n\nThis model was reconstructed from 45 photos taken with a Canon 6D. Conditions were not ideal (heavy rain, tourist taking selfies with the statue) but I managed to get some photos. The model was reconstructed with Agisoft Photoscan, retouched with Blender and retopoligized with Instant Meshes.\n\nSource: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10273025","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":1,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2023-12-28T10:56:11Z","registered":"2023-12-28T10:56:12Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:51:55Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.10273026","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.10273026","identifiers":[{"identifier":"oai:zenodo.org:10273026","identifierType":"oai"}],"creators":[{"name":"mauricesvay","nameType":"Personal","familyName":"mauricesvay","affiliation":["none"],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Hachikō"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[],"contributors":[],"dates":[{"date":"2016-01-08","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":null,"types":{"ris":"DATA","bibtex":"misc","citeproc":"dataset","schemaOrg":"Dataset","resourceType":"","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.10273025","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-4.0","rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX"}],"descriptions":[{"description":"![Photo of Hachikō](http://i.imgur.com/yHOBmw6.jpg?2)\n\nThe statue of Hachikō is located [near the Shibuya Station](https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Hachik%C5%8D/@35.6590463,139.7005079,19.81z/data=!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x60188b5832e31057:0x8064180af8c9b5df!2sShibuya+Station!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x0217e9d9fe306fba) in Tokyo. The legend says that Hachikō waited at the station many years for his deceased owner to come back. The dog is now the mascot of the Shibuya district and the statue is a popular meeting point.\n\n\nThis model was reconstructed from 45 photos taken with a Canon 6D. Conditions were not ideal (heavy rain, tourist taking selfies with the statue) but I managed to get some photos. The model was reconstructed with Agisoft Photoscan, retouched with Blender and retopoligized with Instant Meshes.\n\nSource: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10273026","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":1,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2023-12-28T10:56:11Z","registered":"2023-12-28T10:56:12Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:51:55Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/43859","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/43859","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:2514np331","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/87013","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Ifimov, Gabriela","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Gabriela","familyName":"Ifimov","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Detection of an experimental mass grave over time and at different spatial scales in a temperate environment"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Geography"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Kalacska, Margaret (Internal/Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Leblanc, George (Internal/Cosupervisor2)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-18","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Kalacska, Margaret (Internal/Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"","description":"Leblanc, George (Internal/Cosupervisor2)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"en","description":"In the past decades, the detection of clandestine mass graves has become a topic of high interest for the international forensic community. Hyperspectral remote sensing may provide complementary and novel techniques to detect mass graves in regions with human conflict by detecting changes in site surface reflectance, which can potentially be different from a non-grave area. In this research study, I assessed differences in spectral reflectance between an experimental mass grave and a non-grave in a temperate environment at three different spatial scales: leaf level and plot level using field spectroscopy and airborne hyperspectral imagery. To test the application of hyperspectral remote sensing as a tool in the detection of mass graves, three experimental study sites were established in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: an experimental mass grave containing pig carcasses (Sus Scrofa domesticus) at one meter depth, a reference site containing only disturbed soil, and an undisturbed control site. Soil and vegetation samples and spectral data using field spectrometry and airborne hyperspectral imagery were collected in the first 15 months post-disturbance. The main findings of this research show that differences in spectral reflectance depend on spatial scale, disturbance stage and time in the growing season. Overall differences were found between the grave and control in soil chemistry, vegetation pigmentation and spectral reflectance throughout the study period. In the first 13 months post-disturbance, differences in soil chemistry (e.g. calcium and manganese), vegetation pigmentation (i.e. chlorophyll and carotenoids), and spectral reflectance between the mass grave and reference can be attributed to the overall site disturbance and not as a result of the decomposition process. In contrast, 13 months after burial there are differences in soil chemistry (i.e. ammonium, nitrate, and available phosphorus) and vegetation pigmentation between the mass grave and reference. In terms of spectral reflectance, differences were found along the 400 – 700 nm wavelength range between mass grave and reference during this period. It was also found that the combination of different vegetation indices on airborne imagery increases the spectral separation between mass grave, reference and control depending on time since disturbance. Given that spectral differences emerge towards the end of the data collection, detectable differences between the mass grave and the reference may be delayed due to (1) a slow cadaver decomposition rate and/or (2) the depth of burial that provides a greater barrier to nutrient uptake in surficial plants as previously shown in others studies for deep and shallow graves.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Au cours des dernières décennies, la détection des fosses communes clandestines a pris une grande importance au sein de la communauté médico-légale internationale. La télédétection hyperspectrale fournit des techniques complémentaires et nouvelles concernant la détection des fosses communes dans des zones de conflits humanitaires en détectant des changements dans la signature spectrale des surfaces qui peuvent potentiellement être différentes de celles n'ayant pas de fosses communes. Dans cette étude, je vise à évaluer les variations dans les signatures spectrales entre une fosse commune expérimentale et un site neutre dans un environnent à climat tempéré à trois échelles spatiales: au niveau de la végétation et du site en utilisant la spectrométrie du terrain et d'images aériennes hyperspectrales. Pour tester l'utilisation de la télédétection hyperspectrale en tant qu'outil complémentaire dans la détection des fosses communes enfouies profondément, trois sites expérimentaux ont été établis à Ottawa en Ontario au Canada: une tombe expérimentale ayant carcasses de porcs (Sus Scrofa domesticus) a une profondeur d'un mètre, un site neutre ayant seulement un sol mélangé, et un site de contrôle où aucune altération n'a été faite. Des échantillons du sol et végétation et données sur les signatures spectrales, utilisant la spectrométrie du terrain et l'image aérienne hyperspectrale, ont été recueillies pendant les 15 premiers mois suivant la création des sites. Les principaux résultats de cette étude montrent que les différences en signatures spectrales dépendent de l'échelle spatiale, l'ancienneté du site, ainsi que les conditions environnementales. Des différences ont été trouvées entre la fosse commune et le contrôle dans la chimie du sol, la pigmentation de la végétation et en signatures spectrales pendant toute la période de l'étude. Dans les premiers 13 mois suivant la création des sites, les différences dans la chimie du sol (ex. présence de calcium et manganèse), la pigmentation de la végétation (ex. les concentrations de chlorophylle et caroténoïdes), et les signatures spectrales entre la fosse commune expérimentale et le site neutre sont dues aux effets causés par le mélange du sol. Cependant, les données recueillies après le 13ème mois suggèrent des différences dans la chimie du sol (ex. présence de phosphore, ammonium et nitrate), les concentrations de chlorophylle et caroténoïdes, et les signatures spectrales. Des différences dans les signatures spectrales dans la gamme de longueur d'onde de 400-700 nm ont été découvertes entre la fosse commune expérimentale et le site neutre durant la période d'étude. Nous pouvons aussi ajouter que la combinaison des différents indicateurs de la végétation pour les images aériennes hyperspectrales peut augmenter la séparation spectrale entre la fosse commune, le site neutre et le contrôle dépendamment de l'avancement temporelle de celle-ci. Puisque les changements des signatures spectrales ont été trouvés pendant les derniers mois de la collection des données (c.d.a. après 13 mois de la création des sites), la possibilité de différencier la fosse commune profonde d'un site neutre peut être retardée à cause de (1) une lente décomposition des cadavres, et/ou (2) de la profondeur de la tombe qui est une barrière pour l'absorption des nutriments par la végétation en comparaison avec des études précédentes sur les fosses communes en surface ou peu profondes.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/87013","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T20:36:21Z","registered":"2026-05-21T20:36:22Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:51:38Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/49667","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/49667","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:b2773z44j","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/100492","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Long, Jenny","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Jenny","familyName":"Long","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"ZASP mediates integrin activation"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Biology"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Schöck, Frieder (Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-18","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Schöck, Frieder (Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Les cellules interagissent avec la matrice extracellulaire (ECM) pour adhérer à leur environnement externe. Au cours de la myogenèse, les cellules musculaires doivent s'ancrer de façon stable à l'ECM afin de ne pas se détacher lors des contractions musculaires. Cet attachement des cellules musculaires à l'ECM est appelé jonction myotendineuse (MTJ). Les MTJ sont maintenus ensemble par l'action de protéines transmembranaires, les Intégrines, qui sont capable de lier à la fois des protéines dites adaptateur et les ligands de l'ECM. Les intégrines sont des protéines dynamiques, qui passent d'une conformation fermée ou inactive à une conformation ouverte ou active; et l'adhésion cellulaire n'est effective que lorsqu'elles se trouvent dans une conformation ouverte. L'activation des intégrines correspond au passage de la conformation fermé à celle ouverte, et ce processus est régulé par des protéines adaptateurs. L'association entre la queue cytoplasmique des intégrines et la taline, une protéine adaptateur, est cruciale pour l'activation des intégrines. Zasp, une autre protéine adaptateur, co-localise avec les intégrines et la talin au niveau des MTJ. Zasp est nécessaire au maintien de la fonction musculaire chez la Drosophile et l'Homme. Chez l'Homme, les mutations du gène zasp provoquent des myopathies; causant des faiblesses musculaires ainsi que leur dégénérescence. La myogenèse est un processus conservé entre l'Homme et la Drosophile. Dans cette thèse, nous utiliserons donc la Drosophile comme modèle pour étudier les dérégulations causant les myopathies. Nous avons analysé la localisation des différents variant d'épissage de Zasp, démontré que Zasp coopère avec la taline pour induire l'activation des intégrines et enfin, exploré un mécanisme d'activation indirecte des intégrines par Zasp. Nous démontrons que Zasp modifie la conformation et la phosphorylation de la taline, et qu'elle interagit génétiquement et biochimiquement avec la protéine Stérile 20 kinase Slik. De plus, nous établissons que Slik localise au niveau des MTJ et phosphoryle la Taline sur le résidu T152. Cette thèse propose un modèle dans lequel Zasp et Slik coopèrent dans une voie de signalisation commune pour induire indirectement l'activation des intégrines, un mécanisme possiblement dérégulé dans les myopathies.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"Cells adhere to their external environment by interacting with extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. During myogenesis, strong cell to ECM adhesion is essential to anchor muscle cells to the ECM in order to withstand tension without cell detachment. The attachment of a muscle cell to ECM is called a myotendinous junction (MTJ). MTJs are held together by integrin transmembrane proteins, which bind to intracellular adaptor proteins and to ECM ligands. Integrins shift dynamically between inactive (closed) and active (open) conformations; they function in cell adhesion only in their open conformations. This shift into open conformation is termed integrin activation and is regulated by adaptor proteins. The binding of talin, a crucial adaptor protein, to the integrin cytoplasmic tail, induces integrin activation. Another adaptor protein, Zasp, colocalizes with integrin and talin at MTJs. Zasp is required for the maintenance of muscle function in Drosophila melanogaster and humans. In humans, mutations in zasp lead to myopathies, diseases characterized by muscle weakness and degeneration. This thesis employs Drosophila as a model system to study myopathy as myogenesis is conserved in humans and Drosophila. We document the localization of Zasp splice variants; demonstrate that Zasp cooperates with talin to mediate integrin activation; and explore a mechanism for Zasp to indirectly mediate integrin activation. We show that Zasp alters talin conformation and phosphorylation; that Zasp interacts genetically and biochemically with Sterile 20 kinase Slik; and that Slik localizes to MTJs and phosphorylates talin at T152. Finally, we propose a model in which Zasp and Slik cooperate in a common pathway to indirectly mediate integrin activation. The data presented provide insight on possible mechanisms that are misregulated in myopathies.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/100492","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T05:00:52Z","registered":"2026-05-21T05:00:53Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:51:20Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/53874","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/53874","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:z029p7590","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/130825","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Klassen, Jeffrey","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Jeffrey","familyName":"Klassen","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Second language acquisition of focus prosody in English and Spanish"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Linguistics"},{"subject":"FOS: Languages and literature","schemeUri":"http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf","subjectScheme":"Fields of Science and Technology (FOS)"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Wagner, Michael (Supervisor2)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"White, Lydia (Supervisor1)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-20","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Wagner, Michael (Supervisor2)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"","description":"White, Lydia (Supervisor1)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Le premier objectif de cette thèse est de décrire avec précision le focus prosodique en anglais (L1) et en espagnol (L1), et d'établir la meilleure façon de décrire les différences entre les deux. Nous fournissons des données qui aident à choisir entre deux explications actuelles de la proéminence, la première qui attribue la réduction prosodique à l'activation de bas niveau (la théorie d'accessibilité, ex. Arnold and Watson 2015), et la deuxième qui l'attribue à un foncteur syntaxique qui exige un antécédent, similaire à un pronom (la théorie anaphorique, Rooth 1992, Wagner and Klassen 2015). Nos données de production anglaises montrent que les anglophones déplacent la proéminence dans la phrase selon le contraste que les locuteurs veulent exprimer, en utilisant des adverbes qui ne sont compatibles qu'avec certains choix d'antécédents. Nous soutenons que cela peut seulement s'expliquer par la théorie anaphorique. Quant aux différences dans le marquage de focus prosodique entre l'anglais et l'espagnol (et, provisoirement, entre les langues germaniques et latines en général), nous montrons qu'elles peuvent s'expliquer par une théorie syntaxique-sémantique: la portée du domaine de focus doit être large, englobant l'acte de parole, tandis qu'en anglais il peut porter sur des constituants plus petits, comme anticipé par l'hypothèse de portée (Scope Hypothesis) (vander Klok et al. 2014). De plus, l'observation faite dans Ladd (2008) que le focus en espagnol doit être de nature correctionnelle peut s'avérer juste, ce qui entraîne que l'interprétation du foncteur de focus en langues latines est limitée, tout comme sa portée. Nos données montrent en plus que les différences entre le marquage du focus en anglais et en espagnol ne peuvent pas s'expliquer par des contraintes sur la phrase prosodique. Nous nous servons de notre hypothèse L1 sur la variation interlinguistique du focus prosodique comme point de départ pour une hypothèse sur l'acquisition de deuxième langue du focus prosodique, basée sur des suppositions standards sur la disponibilité de preuves dans une deuxième langue (White 2003). Nous suggérons que les anglophones ont des difficultés avec le déplacement de l'accent en espagnol parce que son utilisation est limitée à un groupe de contextes plus restreint. Par conséquent, pour acquérir les contraintes spécifiques (c'est-à-dire seulement des contextes correctionnels), les apprenants doivent intégrer deux preuves séparées; sinon, ils peuvent tout simplement postuler l'existence de deux grammaires, donnant lieu à la facultativité. Nos données de production soutiennent cette hypothèse. En outre, nous examinons le traitement en temps réel du focus cataphorique prosodique en anglais par les hispanophones - la nature du traitement L2 étant un problème très discuté (Kaan 2014). Nous montrons que l'interférence de la première langue joue un rôle dans le traitement du focus prosodique en L2: les hispanophones apprenant l'anglais sont capables de prendre en compte les indices prosodiques pendant le traitement d'une phrase anglaise, seulement dans les cas où ces indices sont utilisés de façon similaire en espagnol. Nous n'avons trouvé aucune preuve pour des stratégies différentes de traitement entre les locuteurs natifs et non-natifs d'anglais.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"The first goal of this thesis is to properly characterize prosodic focus in (L1) English and (L1) Spanish, and to establish to best to way to characterize the differences between the two. We provide data that help choose between two prevailing accounts of prominence, the first which attributes prosodic reduction to low-level activation (Accessibility Theory, e.g. Arnold and Watson 2015), and the second which attributes it to a syntactic operator that requires an antecedent, much like a pronoun (Anaphoric Theory, Rooth 1992, Wagner and Klassen 2015). Our English production data show that native English speakers shift prominence in the sentence according to the contrast that speakers intend to convey, using additional adverbs which are only compatible with certain choices in antecedents. We argue that this can only be accounted for by the Anaphoric Theory. With respect to the differences in prosodic focus marking between English and Spanish (and, tentatively, Germanic and Romance more generally), we show that the crosslinguistic differences can be explained by a syntactic-semantic account: the scope of the focus domain in Spanish must be wide, encompassing the entire speech act, while in English it can scope over smaller constituents (the Spanish pattern of narrow scope has also been found for French (vander Klok et al. 2014)). Additionally, the observation in Ladd (2008) that focus in Spanish must be correctional in nature may indeed be correct, meaning that the interpretation of the focus operator in Romance is also restricted in addition to its scope. What is more, the data show that the differences between English and Spanish focus marking cannot be explained by phonological constraints on phrasing (contra Féry 2013).Using our L1 hypotheses about the crosslinguistic variation of prosodic focus as a starting point, we form a hypothesis regarding the L2 acquisition of prosodic focus, based on standard assumptions about the availability of evidence in L2 (White 2003). We suggest that English speakers have issues with Spanish prosodic stress shift because its use is constrained to a narrow set of contexts. Therefore, in order to acquire the specific restrictions (i.e. only corrective contexts), learners must integrate two separate pieces of evidence, or else they may simply posit the existence of two grammars, resulting in optionality. Our production data support this hypothesis. After this, we examine the online processing of English cataphoric prosodic focus by Spanish native speakers–the nature of L2 processing being a debated issue (Kaan 2014). We show that L1 transfer plays a role in L2 processing of prosodic focus; however, beyond the effect of the L1, we do not find evidence for different processing strategies.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/130825","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-22T05:31:06Z","registered":"2026-05-22T05:31:08Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:50:51Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/9283","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/9283","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:t722hc48t","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/137376","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Garver, Geoffrey","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Geoffrey","familyName":"Garver","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Law for the Anthropocene: an adaptive eco-bounded legal system for a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Geography"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Brown, Peter Gilbert (Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-21","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Brown, Peter Gilbert (Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"L'Anthropocène est sans précédent, marquée par les impacts de l'homme sur les systèmes de la Terre. Cette thèse encadre une analyse systémique du rôle du droit dans l'émergence du dilemme entre l'homme et la Terre dans l'Anthropocène, afin de proposer comment le droit peut faciliter une transition vers une relation d'amélioration mutuelle entre l'homme et la Terre.L'histoire de l'appropriation de la matière et de l'énergie par les hommes, les impacts écologiques qui en découlent et les normes sociétales qui ont émergé de cette évolution mettent en évidence d'importants facteurs matériels et conceptuels ayant contribué à l'émergence de l'Anthropocène. La capacité humaine à l'apprentissage collectif est importante et doit sous-tendre une transition vers une meilleure relation entre l'homme et la Terre. Le droit reflète l'évolution constante de la compréhension humaine collective de cette relation. Depuis la montée de l'agriculture, le droit a promu les hiérarchies sociales, la spécialisation, le droit de propriété, les inégalités de richesse, la dépendance aux régions éloignées pour l'approvisionnement et l'expansion, et le développement. De l'échelle locale à l'échelle mondiale, les systèmes juridiques modernes soutiennent un engagement dominant à la croissance économique perpétuelle, ce qui entraîne des défis critiques dans la relation entre l'homme et la Terre. Favoriser une relation d'amélioration mutuelle entre l'homme et la Terre dans un cadre systémique mettant l'accent sur les limites écologiques constitue un objectif fondamental qui est plus souhaitable que celui qui domine actuellement, la poursuite d'une croissance économique perpétuelle. Des concepts et des approches provenant de la restauration écologique et d'études d'une intégration réussie de l'homme dans les écosystèmes locaux donnent une cohérence à la notion de relation d'amélioration mutuelle entre l'homme et la Terre, ainsi qu'à des concepts connexes tels que l'intégrité écologique. Reconnaître le droit en tant que système adaptatif complexe interagissant et évoluant avec d'autres systèmes dans une panarchie mondiale contribuera à la transition vers une relation d'amélioration mutuelle entre l'homme et la Terre. Cette approche peut révéler des stratégies et des priorités permettant de surmonter les obstacles et d'introduire des éléments durables. Une telle approche doit prendre en compte la hiérarchie des éléments clefs ayant le potentiel de modifier les comportements des systèmes, des changements de paradigme aux ajustements superficiels. En outre, elle doit reconnaitre la dépendance antérieure qui limite les possibilités futures pour le système global. Les mesures et les indicateurs clés dans cette analyse sont fondés sur la façon dont la manipulation humaine du matériel et de l'énergie affecte les systèmes qui soutiennent la vie. Des stratégies d'adaptation, un suivi rigoureux et une mise en garde contre le franchissement des seuils des systèmes clés constituent des éléments centraux de ce cadre d'évaluation. L'application de ce cadre révèle que l'approche des États-Unis en matière de commerce et de finance entrave les progrès vers une relation d'amélioration mutuelle entre l'homme et la Terre. Une approche écocentrique donnerait préséance à la réalisation d'une relation d'amélioration entre l'homme et la Terre, à l'intégrité écologique et au partage équitable de la capacité de soutien de la vie sur Terre entre les générations actuelles et futures, pour les hommes et tout autre être vivant. La recherche orientée vers des politiques se fondant sur les points de levier, les évaluations et les mesures décrites dans cette thèse, contribuent à illustrer comment atteindre une meilleure relation entre l'homme et la Terre. La recherche proposée fait écho aux approches de l'économie écologique, du mouvement de décroissance et de nombreux autres mouvements à travers le monde qui visent une relation d'amélioration mutuelle entre les êtres humains et la Terre.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"The Anthropocene is an unprecedented phase of history defined by human impacts on Earth systems. This thesis uses the Anthropocene to frame a systems-based analysis of the role of law in the rise of the human-Earth dilemma in the Anthropocene and to propose ways for law to help shift to a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. The history of human appropriation of matter and energy, the consequent ecological impacts and the societal norms that arose alongside this evolution, reveal key material and conceptual factors leading to the Anthropocene. The human capacity for collective learning is significant in this history and must underlie a transition to a better human-Earth relationship. Law reflects the ongoing evolution in collective human understanding of the human-Earth relationship. Since the rise of agriculture, law has often supported social hierarchies, specialization, property-based entitlements, inequalities in wealth, dependence on remote places for provisioning, and expansion and development. Modern legal systems, local to global, support a dominant commitment to perpetual economic growth, which drives critical challenges in the human-Earth relationship. Fostering a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship in a limits-insistent systems framework is a more desirable overarching goal than the current dominant commitment to perpetual economic growth. Concepts and approaches from ecological restoration, as well as studies of successful human integration in local ecosystems, give coherence to the notion of a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship and to related concepts such as ecological integrity. Acknowledging law as a complex adaptive system that interacts and evolves with other systems in a global panarchy will help in the transition to a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship in the Anthropocene. This systems-based approach can reveal strategies and priorities for overcoming barriers to, and for instilling enduring elements of, a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. This approach should take into account a hierarchy of potential leverage points for changing systems behavior—from paradigm shifts to superficial adjustments. As well, it must acknowledge path dependency that limits future possibilities for the human-Earth system. Key metrics and indicators in this analysis are grounded in how human manipulation of material and energy affects Earth's life support systems. Adaptive strategies, rigorous monitoring and caution against crossing key systems thresholds are central elements in this assessment framework. Applying this framework reveals that the United States' approach to international trade and finance, which reflects the dominant global approach, impedes progress toward a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. An alternative human-inclusive ecocentric approach to international trade and finance would give primacy to ensuring a mutually-enhancing human-Earth relationship, ecological integrity and fair sharing of Earth's life support capacity among present and future generations of humans and the rest of Earth's commonwealth of life. Policy-oriented research using the leverage points, lock-in assessments and metrics described in this thesis will help show how to achieve a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. The proposed research agenda resonates with approaches in ecological economics, the degrowth movement and numerous other movements around the world that seek a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/137376","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T15:56:13Z","registered":"2026-05-21T15:56:14Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:49:55Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/36490","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/36490","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:z890rx11b","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/131290","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Schneider, Julia","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Julia","familyName":"Schneider","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Tailoring the properties of organic semiconductors through heteroatoms"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Chemistry"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Perepichka, Dmytro (Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-20","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Perepichka, Dmytro (Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"L'incorporation d'hétéroatomes est une technique puissante permettant de mettre au point les propriétés de semi-conducteurs organiques. Comprendre les relations entre les structures et les propriétés associées au hétéroatomes est impératif pour la conception de nouveaux matériaux pour l'électronique organique. Dans cette thèse nous étudions l'effet des hétéroatomes de soufre et d'azote sur les propriétés électroniques, optiques et d'assemblage supramoléculaire de semi-conducteurs organiques. Ce travail se concentre sur la synthèse de nouveaux polymères et des molécules qui contiennent des hétéroatomes dans le centre pi-conjugué et/ou dans des substituants, ainsi que sur la caractérisation complète de ces matériaux. Les structures présentées comprennent des polymères thiénothiophène vinylène avec des substituants d' alkylsulfanyle et alkylsulfonyle, un trimère de thiénothiophène—thiazolothiazole, diazabenzopyrene et diazaperylene. Afin de mieux comprendre les relations entre les structures et les propriétés et l'effet des hétéroatomes, des études de ces matériaux dans des photovoltaïques et des transistors à effet de champ ont été effectuées.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"Incorporating heteroatoms is a powerful technique to tune the properties of organic semiconductors. Understanding the structure-property relationships associated with heteroatoms is imperative for the design of new materials for organic electronics. In this dissertation we study the effect of sulfur and nitrogen heteroatoms on the electronic, optical, and supramolecular assembly properties of organic semiconductors. This work focuses on the synthesis of new polymers and small molecules that contain heteroatoms in the pi-conjugated core and/or in substituents, as well as the full characterization of these materials. The structures presented include thienothiophene vinylene polymers with alkylsulfanyl and alkylsulfonyl substituents, a thienothiophene—thiazolothiazole trimer, diazabenzopyrene, and diazaperylene. Device studies in photovoltaics and field-effect transistors were performed to gain insight on structure-property relationships and the effect of heteroatoms.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/131290","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T03:02:37Z","registered":"2026-05-21T03:02:38Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:49:22Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.10272922","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.10272922","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"archaeobotics","nameType":"Personal","familyName":"archaeobotics","affiliation":["none"],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Risch-Rotkreuz ZG, partial mammoth skeleton"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[],"contributors":[],"dates":[{"date":"2016-02-23","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":null,"types":{"ris":"DATA","bibtex":"misc","citeproc":"dataset","schemaOrg":"Dataset","resourceType":"","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.10272922","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-4.0","rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX"}],"descriptions":[{"description":"[Deutsche Version siehe https://skfb.ly/TPAW.]\n\nIn July 2015, a tusk and several bone fragments (marked in red) of an adult bull mammoth have been found in Risch-Rotkreuz, Canton of Zug. They have been radiocarbon dated to the end of the last ice age at around 15'000 BC. See https://skfb.ly/6BRT6 for all 3D models.\n\nTracing of the Rotkreuz bones by Eva Kläui, ADA ZG, on a laser scanned specimen from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., see [here](https://skfb.ly/6QS7F).\n\n\n**References**\n\n\"Das letzte Zuger Mammut?\" (2016). [http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-632509](http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-632509).\n\n\"Durchleuchtet und analysiert. Ein Update zur Genetik, Isotopie und Radiografie des 'letzten Zuger Mammuts'\" (2018). [http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-787150](http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-787150).\n\n\"CT-based Age Estimation of a Mammoth Tusk\" (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.220265](https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.220265).\n\nSource: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10272922","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":1,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2023-12-28T10:55:41Z","registered":"2023-12-28T10:55:41Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:49:20Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.10272923","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.10272923","identifiers":[{"identifier":"oai:zenodo.org:10272923","identifierType":"oai"}],"creators":[{"name":"archaeobotics","nameType":"Personal","familyName":"archaeobotics","affiliation":["none"],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Risch-Rotkreuz ZG, partial mammoth skeleton"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[],"contributors":[],"dates":[{"date":"2016-02-23","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":null,"types":{"ris":"DATA","bibtex":"misc","citeproc":"dataset","schemaOrg":"Dataset","resourceType":"","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.10272922","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-4.0","rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX"}],"descriptions":[{"description":"[Deutsche Version siehe https://skfb.ly/TPAW.]\n\nIn July 2015, a tusk and several bone fragments (marked in red) of an adult bull mammoth have been found in Risch-Rotkreuz, Canton of Zug. They have been radiocarbon dated to the end of the last ice age at around 15'000 BC. See https://skfb.ly/6BRT6 for all 3D models.\n\nTracing of the Rotkreuz bones by Eva Kläui, ADA ZG, on a laser scanned specimen from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., see [here](https://skfb.ly/6QS7F).\n\n\n**References**\n\n\"Das letzte Zuger Mammut?\" (2016). [http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-632509](http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-632509).\n\n\"Durchleuchtet und analysiert. Ein Update zur Genetik, Isotopie und Radiografie des 'letzten Zuger Mammuts'\" (2018). [http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-787150](http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-787150).\n\n\"CT-based Age Estimation of a Mammoth Tusk\" (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.220265](https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.220265).\n\nSource: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10272923","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":1,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2023-12-28T10:55:40Z","registered":"2023-12-28T10:55:41Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:49:20Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.82308/44978","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.82308/44978","identifiers":[{"identifier":"hyrax:2v23vw67g","identifierType":"other"},{"identifier":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14905/88120","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Andre-Morin, Daphnee-Maude","nameType":"Personal","givenName":"Daphnee-Maude","familyName":"Andre-Morin","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"An interpretative phenomenological analysis of university athletes' experiences with protracted concussion symptoms"}],"publisher":"McGill University","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[{"lang":"","subject":"Kinesiology and Physical Education"}],"contributors":[{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"DataManager","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"McGill University","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Bloom, Gordon (Internal/Supervisor)","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[],"contributorType":"Supervisor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-03-18","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2016","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"ris":"THES","bibtex":"phdthesis","citeproc":"thesis","schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceType":"https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated."}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"","description":"Bloom, Gordon (Internal/Supervisor)","descriptionType":"Other"},{"lang":"fr","description":"Les chercheurs ont estimé qu'il y a 1,6 à 3,8 millions de commotions cérébrales qui se produisent chaque année (Langlois, Rutland-Brown, \u0026amp; Wald, 2006), dont la majorité d'entre elles se produisent dans le sport (Marshall et al., 2015). Alors que la plupart des commotions cérébrales se résous entre 7 à 10 jours, 10 à 20% des athlètes souffrent de symptômes prolongés qui comprennent souvent des symptômes physiques et psychologiques qui peuvent persister de quelques semaines à plusieurs mois ou années (Caron, Bloom, Johnston, \u0026amp; Sabiston, 2013; McCrory et al., 2013). À l'heure actuelle, peu d'études ont porté spécifiquement sur les expériences des athlètes souffrant de symptômes d'une commotion cérébrale prolongés. De ce fait, le but de cette étude était de mieux comprendre les expériences d'athlètes féminines canadiennes universitaires qui ont souffert de symptômes de commotion cérébrale prolongés. Cinq athlètes féminines canadiennes universitaires ont participé à un entretien face-à-face individuel. Une « Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis » (Smith, fleurs, et Larkin, 2009) a été utilisé pour analyser les données inductives provenant des entretiens individuels. Les résultats ont révélé qu'en plus de souffrir physiquement de leurs commotions cérébrales, les cinq participantes ont souffert émotionnellement immédiatement après leur commotion cérébrale, ainsi que tout au long de leur réadaptation. Leurs réponses comportementales comprenaient des descriptions de frustration, d'irritabilité, des sauts d'humeur, des problèmes de poids ainsi que des symptômes de dépression. Ces réponses peuvent avoir été liées aux facteurs uniques associés à la réhabilitation des commotions cérébrales que les athlètes ont souligné, y compris d'être isolé de leur équipe, le manque de date de retour, le programme de réhabilitation non-physique et le manque de connaissances sur les commotions cérébrales. En outre, la réhabilitation prolongée des athlètes a conduit à plusieurs répercussions académiques, telles qu'une présence en classe réduite, des difficultés liées à l'étude ainsi que des mauvais résultats scolaires. Ces répercussions académiques ont eu des effets négatifs sur leur parcours académique, puisque certains des athlètes ont été forcées de prendre un semestre supplémentaire ou ont été renvoyées de leurs programmes d'études respectifs. Enfin, les résultats ont révélé que le soutien social est un élément crucial durant la réhabilitation des athlètes. Le réseau de soutien social des participantes comprenait des membres de la famille, des entraîneurs, des professionnels de la santé, et leurs coéquipières. Les méthodes de soutien social préférées des athlètes étaient les « check-in » quotidiens de la part des entraîneurs et de leurs coéquipières ainsi que de recevoir un soutien informationnel sur les commotions cérébrales provenant du personnel médical. De plus, les athlètes ont souligné certaines méthodes de soutien social qui étaient inefficaces, tels que se faire poser des questions par ses coéquipières au sujet de leur date de retour au jeu ou de se faire dire par ses coéquipières qu'elles ne semblent pas bien. En somme, cette étude fournit l'un des premiers comptes empiriques sur les effets de symptômes de commotion cérébrale prolongés dans un cadre universitaire. Étant donné que les entraîneurs, les professionnels de la santé et les professionnels de psychologie du sport et de l'exercice interagissent régulièrement avec les athlètes blessés, les résultats actuels peuvent leur fournir des renseignements afin d'améliorer leur travail pratique avec cette population.","descriptionType":"Abstract"},{"lang":"en","description":"Researchers have estimated that 1.6 to 3.8 million concussions occur each year (Langlois, Rutland-Brown, \u0026amp; Wald, 2006), with the majority of them occurring in sport (Marshall et al., 2015). While most concussions resolve within 7 to 10 days, 10 to 20% of athletes experience protracted concussion symptoms that often include both physical and psychological symptoms that can persist from weeks to months to years (Caron, Bloom, Johnston, \u0026amp; Sabiston, 2013; McCrory et al., 2013). Presently, few studies have specifically focused on the experiences of athletes suffering from protracted concussion symptoms. As such, the purpose of this study was to better understand the experiences of Canadian University female athletes who suffered from protracted concussion symptoms. Five Canadian female University athletes participated in face-to-face individual interviews. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, Flowers, \u0026amp; Larkin, 2009) was used to inductively analyze the interview data. The results revealed that in addition to suffering physically from their concussions, all five participants suffered emotionally immediately following their concussion, as well as throughout their rehabilitation. Their injury responses included descriptions of frustration, irritability, mood swings, weight issues, and depression. Such responses might have been related to the unique factors athletes associated to concussion recovery including isolation from their team, lack of return date and the non-physical rehabilitation program, as well as the lack of knowledge concerning concussions. Furthermore, athletes' prolonged concussion recovery led to several academic repercussions, such as reduced class attendance, difficulty studying, and poor grades. These academic repercussions negatively impacted their academic path, as some of the athletes were forced to take an extra semester or were dismissed from their respective study programs. Finally, results disclosed that social support was a crucial element of the athletes' recovery. Participants network of social support included family members, coaches, health professionals, and teammates. Athletes' preferences for social support were daily check-ins from coaches and teammates, as well as receiving informational support about concussions from medical personnel. Moreover, athletes felt some forms of social support were ineffective, including being asked by teammates about their expected return to play date or being told by teammates that they did not look well. In sum, this study provides one of the first empirical accounts of the effects of experiencing protracted concussion in a university setting. Given that coaches, medical professionals, and sport and exercise psychology professionals regularly interact with injured athletes, the present results may provide them with information that can enhance their applied work with this population.","descriptionType":"Abstract"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/handle/20.500.14905/88120","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-05-21T09:34:44Z","registered":"2026-05-21T09:34:45Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-05-26T00:49:04Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"iyfw.kddaax","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.10272914","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.10272914","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"sparsh.batra","nameType":"Personal","familyName":"sparsh.batra","affiliation":["none"],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Longpi Traditional Teapot"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2016,"subjects":[],"contributors":[],"dates":[{"date":"2016-01-15","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":null,"types":{"ris":"DATA","bibtex":"misc","citeproc":"dataset","schemaOrg":"Dataset","resourceType":"","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dataset"},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.10272914","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-4.0","rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX"}],"descriptions":[{"description":"2020 New Year Update:\nMaking the model downloadable for you all to use in your projects.\nWould love to see what you create with it !\n\n_____________\n\nNamed after the village of Longpi in Manipur, India the\nThankul Naga tribes practice this exceptional pottery\nstyle. 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