McGill University Theses and dissertations published in 1964

The pain experienced by the patient in the hospital bed differs in many respects from that inflicted upon the subject of a laboratory experiment. The fact that both are called "pain" indicates more the broadness of this designation than the number of similarities between the two phenomena. On the one hand, clinical pain is characterized by its persistence, its high intensity which may fluctuate over time, and the fear aroused in the patient concerning its origin. The principal sources of laboratory pain, on the other hand, have been pin prick, pinch, electric shock and thermal radiation: all of very short …  Read more

Sugar cane has been the mainstay of the economy of Barbados since 1645 and it has, in spite of the vicissitudes of the sugar industry, maintained this unique position ever since; this can be realised from the fact that it contributes over 90 per cent of the annual income of the island (Macpherson, 1963, p. 75). The predominance of this crop has led to great interest being taken in measures by which a potential yield can be attained. The potential yield, according to Dillewijn (1952, p. xxii), is the maximum yield attainable given that the following five factors are fully …  Read more

Lloyd, L. E. (Supervisor)  Read more

Cohen, Ronald.  Read more

Although he apparently never used it himself, Fick in 1870 elaborated the well known principle, bearing his name, for measuring cardiac output. He expressed it in the same form as it is presently used, i.e. that if one knows the amount of oxygen taken up by the lungs per unit time (or the amount of carbon dioxide eliminated also per unit time) and the difference in concentrations of oxygen (or carbon dioxide) between the arterial and the venous blood, then one can calculate the amount of blood flowing through the lung during that time. [...]  Read more

Warkentin, B. (Supervisor)  Read more

Il semblera d'abord paradoxal que les trois mots de MATIERE, de CONJOINTURE et de SENEFIANCE, appartenant au vocabulaire du roman courtois, servent, chacun, de titre aux trois parties de cette étude consacrée à une chanson de geste du cycle carolingien. Cela est dû, en partie, à ce que, Huon de Bordeaux constituant une oeuvre complexe, l'objet de la présente thèse sera d'établir jus-qu'à quel point l'oeuvre, d'apparence épique, a subi la contamination du genre romanesque. [...]  Read more

La Tordeuse du Pommier, Archips argyrospilus (Wik.), pullule périodiquement dans les pommeraies du Québec et cause alors des dégâts onéreux en détériorant les pousses et les fruits. Au cours d'une récente invasion, qui a débuté en 1956, des travaux de recherches ont été entrepris à la fois sur la biologie, l'écologie et la répression de ce ravageur. Ces recherches s'imposaient premiaèrement pour connaître le cycle évolutif et la biologie générale de l'insecte sous les conditions climatiques du Québec, études qui n'avaient jamais été entreprises auparavant et, deuxièmement pour connaître le comportement des populations naturelles en mesurant leurs fluctuations saisonnières et …  Read more

John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563-1570) is one of the most famous books in the canon of English Literature. And, among famous books, it is one of the least read. Ever since the day of its publication, just 400 years ago, it has always enjoyed some sort of fame and, at times, notoriety. We have much evidence attesting the book's long-established fame and many reasons for its diminished popularity. [...]  Read more

A knowledge of the basic atmospheric parameters and their variability is required both for climatological purposes and theoretical studies. Meteorologists generally use constant pressure maps at a number of levels to study the broad scale structure of the atmosphere. Vertical cross sections are then used to provide a finer structure and also to permit a vertical integration of the various constant pressure levels. Research meteorologists at McGill have analysed hemispheric weather maps and meridional cross sections along 80oW on a daily basis for a three year period to determine major parameters in the general circulation. This study attempts to provide …  Read more

A quick perusal of present medical literature adequately demonstrates the preoccupation of countless observers with unravelling the many facets that together comprise the entity of shock. Since Wiggers published his classic on the physiology of shock in 1950, there have appeared a host of scientific efforts dealing with the experimental production of shock, the gross physiologic derangements, the altered histopathology, and more recently, the biochemical changes that emerge as the organism progresses through the various stages until its demise. In all this maze of scientific investigation, various therapeutic agents and procedures have been assessed, keeping in mind at all times, …  Read more

Several investigations suggest that the amygdala plays a significant role in behavioral inhibition. Brutkowski, Fonberg and Mempel (1960) reported that bilateral lesions of the amygdaloid complex in dogs severely impaired inhibitory conditioned responses, while excitatory conditioned responses remained unaffected. Bilateral lesions of the amygdala have also been shown to impair the acquisition of the conditioned emotional response (Kellicutt & Schwartzbaum, 1963), and the retention of an auditory frequency discrimination in a bar pressing situation for food (Schwartzbaum, Thompson & Kellicutt, 1964). In the latter study, amygdaloid lesioned rats typically persisted in responses that were no longer adaptive, that is, they …  Read more

Rose, B. (Supervisor)  Read more

Scott, Hugh S.  Read more

Taxonomy has been defined as "the study of classification, including its bases, principles, procedures and rules;" (Simpson 1961). An alternative definition (of systematics) is "the scientific study of the kinds and diversity of organisms and of any and all relationships among them." Taxonomy is therefore, one of the oldest fields of biological science; because in order to classify, even at the most elementary levels, man had to identify organisms. This necessitated observing, and making comparisons, integrating specific data and developing generalizations from these. Since this is the case, one may suggest that taxonomy is an outdated science, as almost everything …  Read more

Parry, J. (Supervisor)  Read more

McCorriston, James R.  Read more

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Gabor, Ivan.  Read more

Steppler, H. A. (Supervisor)  Read more

This thesis describes the design, installation, and analysis of the external beam transport system of the McGill Proton Synchrocyclotron. A review of the basic theory of magnetic deflection and focusing systems is also presented. [...]  Read more

Leroux, E. J. (Supervisor)  Read more

Little information has been published regarding the American plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides platessoides (Fabricius), a subarctic species which is distributed from Cape Cod to Labrador. In recent years plaice has risen rapidy in commercial importance in eastern Canada. In 1940 only 3 million lb were landed compared to a total of more than 74 million lb in 1960. American plaice in 1961 made up 64 per cent by weight of the total Canadian flounder landings, excluding halibut. [...]  Read more

Saffran, M. (Supervisor)  Read more

Estes (l962) has stated that there may be as many outcomes in the evaluation of a learning experiment as there are changes in performance. Since performance is the basic datum from which learning is inferred, the question arises as to when a performance measure ceases to reflect performance, per se, and when it begins to reflect learning. This thesis is concerned with the above problem as it relates to one form of simple learning, viz., classical conditioning, and one response system, namely the galvanic skin response (GSR). The assessment of learning through classical conditioning of the GSR involves three related …  Read more

Both laymen and psychologists have often observed that certain features of a familiar word change when it is continuously repeated. In the psychological literature, this phenomenon has been called "verbal satiation". The studies to follow are concerned with the effects of sustained repetition on the meaning of both familiar and unfamiliar words. [...]  Read more

MacKinnon, Kenneth J.  Read more

This study was designed to investigate the effect of background on the disappearance of luminous figures. The basic observation is the Ditchburn-Riggs effect obtained with stabilized images. Stabilized images of simple visual objects, like straight lines, disappear and reappear rapidly from time to time. Pritchard, Heron, and Hebb (1960) observed that stabilized images of complex figures disappear and reappear in a meaningful fashion. McKinney (1963) demonstrated a similar phenomenon with luminous figures in the darkroom. He observed that luminous figures also tend to disappear and reappear like stabilized images. McKinney showed that there are more disappearances when the figure is …  Read more

The term "bark" is applied in common parlance to denote the material that surrounds the woody substance (xylem) in a mature tree. It is thus situated outside the cambium which is the living tissue of a growing tree. The anatomical structure of bark is rather complex but in general it can be said that the bark tissue is composed of different kinds of cella, such as sieve, longitudinal parenchyma, ray parenchyma, fiber cella, etc., some of which are also typical of the wood tissue. The physiological function of these tissue elememts in the bark is mainly concerned with the translocation …  Read more

The significance with wbich ACh is attributed in the role of a neurotransmitter is reviewed.The sparcity of the chemical evidence used to characterize ACh is described and this evidence is criticised. The difficulties which arise by assuming a general transmitter function for ACh are discussed and the alternatives are reviewed.It is pointed out that many cholinergie materials are present in the brain and ACh itself is often present in very small amounts.  Read more

The affects of cue position and rewarded pretraining on successive black-white discrimination learning were studied using 48 naive hooded rats. Two degrees of cue-reward separation and 60 vs.0 pretraining trials with the positive cue were employed in a go-no go paradigm in a runway. Thirsty Ss were to learn to run down the runway on trials with the positive cue and to withhold this response on trials with the negative cue. [...]  Read more

Steinberg, Roy  Read more

The course on which this study embarks is largely uncharted by positive law. Although man's technical achievements in outer space already stand as monumental guideposts to scientists, the framers devoted to founding the legal regime are only beginning to formulate the structure through which law and order can be effected in this new region. It is, I believe, wise and commendable that the policy making bodies of the world have not been driven by a modern cry for progress in space law and have not set about solving with a sense of urgency imaginary problems based on prophecies of disputes …  Read more

Freedman, S. O.  Read more

The question of prematurity and its role in the development of spasticity is investigated in this study. 319 spastic quadriplegic and 112 spastic paraplegic children from The Montreal Children's Hospital were selected as probands. The incidence of prematurity in this group was 33.8 per cent. [...]  Read more

The object of this study is a descriptive comparison of the informai organization of two aggregates of prison inmates.The essential difference between the two is that one group is awaiting trial while the other consists of regular, convicted offenders. Because of this, the wards containing each group differ considerably in formal organization. It is hypothesized that these formal differences (to be outlined later) will be reflected in the kinds of informal organization arising in each ward. That is, it is held that any informal differences encountered are at least partially a result of the different formal organization of the two …  Read more

Taylor, T.  Read more

Johnstone, R. M.  Read more

Dale, D. G.  Read more

Gunn, K. L. S. (Supervisor)  Read more

Wisenthal, M. (Supervisor)  Read more

Dawson, J. F. (Supervisor)  Read more

Les essais de Marivaux sont peu connus. Rarement publiés, il faut les chercher dans les recueils d'"oeuvres complètes". Il ne faut pas s'étonner, car ces essais, publiés sans vraie continuité, ne sont en fait, que des pièces détachées. La Vie de Marianne et Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard allaient les reléguer dans l'ombre. [...]  Read more

Julien Gracq est un écrivain relativement jeune dont l'oeuvre n'a pas encore touché le grand public. Pour cette raison il nous semble utile de donner quelques indications sur la vie du romancier. [...]  Read more

Mont St. Hilaire is situated about 25 miles south-east of Montreal. The top of this mountain consista of an outer rampart surrounding an inner basin. In the lowest part of the inner basin lies Lake Hertel, at approximately latitude 45 32' north and longitude 73 09 1 west. Mont St. Hil1aire and environs are shown on Map No. 1. The Lake is fed by two smal1 streams which drain the western and northern parts of the basin. The surface area of the Lake varies between about 71 and 75 acres, the average area being 72.73 acres at water surface elevation …  Read more

Leblond, C. P. (Supervisor)  Read more

The possibility of using a wire-wound cryotron as an amplifier is examined and it is shown that current and voltage gains greater than unity are possible. Advantages of a superconducting ground plane are investigated and it is subsequently used in all experimental work.The frequency response of the deviee is determined by the time constants of the control circuit and load impedance,resulting in an upper frequency limit of approximately 10 Ke/s. Barkhausen noise is the dominant noise, due to diseontinuous movements of superconducting and normal domain in the intermediate state of the gate. The difficulty of nucleating superconducting domains in a …  Read more

Breton, Raymond (Supervisor)  Read more

This thesis was begun in 1959 whan I first took interest in the cyclical behaviour of the balance of payments. My intention at that time was to try an integration of the business cycle theory into the theory of the balance-of-payments adjustment. Soon, however, I realised that a combination of two already over-simplified models would only take me further away from the practical reality of life, and that a great deal more empirical study would have to be made before a theoretical work could be ventured. [...]  Read more

This paper describes an investigation into the efrect of "above ground" procedures and equipment involved in the making of the standard penetration test in soil. In the course of the experimental work an ana:qsis of the dynamics of the process was made. Certain conclusions as to the desirability of a truly standardized test were then deduced.  Read more