McGill University Thèses et mémoires publiés en 1966

In this present segment of time and space in which one finds himself there is a great multiplicity of attitudes current that offer one interesting vantage points from which to view contemporary, modern denizens and their thoughts with regard to the study of the Bible. [...]  Read more

Several lines of evidence suggest that the hippocampus is a part of the neural mechanism regulating self-stimulation behavior. Self-stimulation areas in the hypothalamus and septum have reciprocal connections with the hippocampus, in particular via the fornix system (Nauta, 1956). [...]  Read more

During the Norwegian North Polar Expedition of 1893-96, the historie voyage of the Fram ( Sars, G.O. 1900), the first zooplankton collections were taken from the Arctic Basin. In 1931 the Nautilus made collections north of Spitzbergen, being the first submarine to attempt polar research (Farran, 1936). [...]  Read more

This report presents a design technique, suitable for obtaining constant wall temperature condition, especially for cooling of test fluids; and an evaluation of heat transfer coefficients for combined natural and forced convection, (turbulent opposing case), in a vertical pipe. [...]  Read more

The aim of the present study is to demonstrate the nature of the relation of Russell's political philosophy to the other areas of his work, both popular and professional. The nature of the relation can be demonstrated, however, only if two premises are accepted: (1) that Russell has a political philosophy, and (2) that his political theory is related to the other branches of his philosophy. [...]  Read more

It is ironic that the organ which was instrumental in the birth of the science of endocrinology (Berthold, 1849) should itself remain the subject of continual controversy as to the precise role hormones play in its functioning. The testis unlike the other endocrine organs, does not lend itself readily to the classical procedure of extirpation, for with ablation of the endocrine function one has of necessity also removed the primary target in the form of the seminiferous tubules. [...]  Read more

Polar bears are found in Canada in a region which lies between the 60th and 95th meridians and the 63rd and the 75th parallels. They are particularly abundant in Northern Baffin Island, Southampton Island, Simpson Peninsula, and the small islands near Cornwallis Island. [...]  Read more

It is well known both from experimental and clinical observations, that prolonged cortisone administration can result in the induction of de novo ulcera, exacerbation of latent ulcers or the reactivation of previously healed ulcers. The mechanism of this action is still unresolved. [...]  Read more

The pulmonary lesions accompanying shock were noted by early investigators (1) (2) (3 ) (4). Their attention was focused mainly on the anatomical description of the histopathology; namely, congestive atelectasis, pulmonary edema, intra-alveolar hemorrhage and hemorrhagic pneumonitis (1) (2) (3) (4). [...]  Read more

Linguists (Chomsky, 1957 1 1965; Katz & Postal, 1964) have described in detail the kind of competence each speaker needs to cope with the complex structure of his language. Their description outlines what a speaker must intuitively know about his language in order to use it fluently. [...]  Read more

The theory of chemical or neurohumoral mode of nerve transmission is generally accepted today. According to this concept, the arrival of an impulse at the nerve ending in ganglia or at a synapse with a muscle cell results in the release of a chemical substance, called a "transmitter". [...]  Read more

Climatology tries to codense the many aspects of the weather during a long period into a few significant figures. The first approach is usually the calculation of mean and extreme values for a particular element over a specified period. [...]  Read more

In the decade between Canada's first two decennial censuses, taken in 1851 and 1861, the Province, despite internal political difficulties, had become the largest, wealthiest, most populous, and most economically diversified of all Britain's colonies. The lower St. Lawrence was rugged and inhospitable, but above Quebec the valley widened into a fertile plain on both sides of the river which, in conjunction with the fertile Ontario "peninsula" to the west, supported the bulk of Canada's apopulation. [...]  Read more

The widespread interest in the metabolism and enzymology of the erythrocyte in the past 25 years has been stimulated by the need for efficient methods for the preservation of blood. To achieve this, it is necessary to know the nature of the biochemical and physical changes that are responsible for the loss of viability and ultimate breakdown of the cells during storage. In the field of blood preservation the interest in glutathione arises out of evidence that it appears to play an important role in the maintenance of stability and viability of the erythrocytes.  Read more

The Icelandic family sagas were committed to vellum from oral traditions during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Concerned primarily with actual persons and events from about A.D. 825 to the middle of the eleventh century, they also embody tales of supranatural occurrences and accounts of superstitious beliefs and practices, an analysis of which is the subject of this essay. [...]  Read more

The proteins of hen's egg yolk have long attracted the attention and interest of numerous scientists, and especially since the recognition of its nutritional values. The early chemical study of hen's egg yolk resulted in the discovery and isolation of 'vitellin'. This material was obtained by means of dilution precipitation and was considered for a time to be a major protein component of yolk. [...]  Read more

L'abbé Félix-Antoine Savard est né à Québec en 1896. Il fait ses études primaires, secondaires et théologiques à Chicoutimi. Il passe ses vacances dans la forêt ou sur l'eau à faire du cabotage, du Saguenay à la côte Nord. Les contacts avec les habitants, les coureurs des bois et les gens de la mer sont fréquents. [...]  Read more

On September 27, 1947, another page was added to the long and complex history of the Christian Church. At that time in St. George's Cathedral, Madras, South India, a union was constituted giving birth to the Church of South India. [...]  Read more

Economic development implies that a country's real output is growing at a faster rate than its population so that over time per caput output rises. One very simple way of achieving the growth of output is to bring formerly unemployed manpower into the labour force. But, since there is an inevitable limit to this method, a far more important aim is to bring about an increase in output per employed worker. [...]  Read more

Contemporary trends in civil aviation show a noticeable tendency towards integration of national airline enterprises in many regions of the world. This attitude springs from the economic realities of air transport, the progress of which has been retarded generally by excessive competition and, in certain particular regions, also by such factors as shortages in financial resources and experienced personnel, inadequate equipment, and, at times, inherent difficulties in the operation of air services. [...]  Read more

Heat transfer coefficients on the concave surface of an annulus with decaying swirl flow of hot air have been determined experimentally. The annulus tested had a radius ratio of 0.8, and the dacaying swirl flow was produced by the admission of air through two nozzles tangential to the outer cylinder near the closed end of the annulus. Three different inlet nozzle geometries were tested. [...]  Read more

Two DNases have been isolated and separated from Novikoff ascites hepatoma by ammonium sulfate fractionation and have been further purified by chromatography on ion exchange columns of DEAE types. One of these two enzymes, called acid DNase, is active at a pH between 5.4 and 5.8, hydrolyzing native DNA much faster than denatured DNA. The other, known as alkaline DNase, has a pH optimum between 8.9 and 9.4 and hydrolyzes denatured DNA faster than native DNA. [...]  Read more

Yeats was part of a late nineteenth-century European literary movement which, dissatisfied with Western tradition, both scientific and religious, looked towards the Orient for enlightemnent. Unlike Pound, who sought solace in Japanese and Chinese sources, Yeats went to Indian philosophy and literature in his quest for "metaphors for poetry," and he remained a constant student of the Indian view of life. [...]  Read more

In 1948, the title Ceylon: Island Without Problems was thought to be a suitable one for a proposed documentary film of the Island. At present the title would be a misnomer as the whole country is divided by communalism. The problem of communal disunity needs urgent consideration. [...]  Read more

Eosinophilia is such a prominent characteristic of many parasitic infections that it is often used for a presumptive diagnosis. Trichinosis is one of the parasitic diseases in which the eosinophil response may attain considerable magnitude. [...]  Read more

Studies were made of the effects of Vitamin A supplementation on the course of artificially induced lungworm infection in calves. Vitamin A deficient, Jersey bull calves, were infected with 2,000 D. viviparus larvae and supplemented with either 2 ug/lb/day or 60 ug/lb/day of Vitamin A. [...]  Read more

In the pessimistic world of Hans Henny Jahnn it is refreshing to find one subject which the author illuminates with hope. Youth is a theme which Jahnn portrays again and again, sensitively depicting its joys and turmoil even in his later works, when his own youth lay far behind him. The youth Jahnn glorifies is not childhood in general, but rather that time in a child's life when he stands on the threshold to manhood. [...]  Read more

It was first shown by Pauli 1) that from the requirement of Lorentz invariance, microcausality and positive energy and of the assumption that either commutators or anticommutators are c-numbers we must quantize, for the case of free field, half-integer spin field with Fermi-Dirac statistics and integral spin field with Bose-Einstein statistics. [...]  Read more

The study of the biologica1 sciences has led to four great generalizations: 1. (A) Darwin's and Wallace's (100 years ago) theory of evolution by natural selection, which tells us that higher organisms are derived by a continuous evolutionary progression from the first primitive organisms. [...]  Read more

Studies were conducted to ascertain the effects of Ostertagia circumcincta infection in sheep. Three different levels of infection were used, 10,000 larvae, 60 1000 larvae and 120,000 larvae, and the criteria examined were hematocrit values, feed intake, dry matter digestibility, dry matter digested and weight gains. [...]  Read more

Taxonomy, according to Lawrence (1951) is a science that includes identification, nomenclature ahd classification of objects, and is usually restricted to objects of biological origin. He, further says that the plant taxonomy is fundamentally based on morphology vdth the support of all interrelated sciences. [...]  Read more

A review of psychiatric classifications in use throughout the world (STENGEL, 1960) reveals that only four out of 38 diagnostic systems provide a classif1ing label for a condition as familiar to clinicians as the schizophrenic residual, or "defect", state.+ The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ot the A.M.A. (1952) reserves the term Schizophrenic reaction, residual type, for "those patients who, after a definite psychotic, schizophrenic reaction, have improved sutficiently to be able to get along in the community, but who continue to show recognizable residual disturbance of thinking, affectivity, and/or behavior." [...]  Read more

The science of extracorporeal circulation is very new. This past decade has witnessed the introduction and subsequent development of temporary extracorporeal circulation as a routine surgical technique which permits the cardiovascular surgeon to repair otherwise incurable lesions in and around the heart. Since the inception of these techniques a great deal of attention has been focused upon problems relating to blood oxygenation and selection of a particular pump with minimum biological effect on the circulating blood. [...]  Read more

Constancy of the form of living cells is one of their most important psysiological characteristics. This is possible only when intracellular and extracellular osmotic pressure is constant. Equal osmotic pressure between the two sidas of cell membranes is provided by the so-called pump mechaaism(s) of ion movements. [...]  Read more

The fact that the Coulomb force is due to the exchange of scalar and longitudinal photons between two charged particles is well known. In 1935 Yukawa (1) introduced the hypothesis that the strong nucleon-nucleon interaction is due to the exchange of a kind of quantum having a mass intermediate between that of an electron and that of a nucleon. The pion which is identified as the Yukawa particle was found by Lattes et al.(2) in 1947. Since then the interaction between pion and nucleon has became one of the most interesting problems in physics. A lot of experimental and theoretical …  Read more

The flow mechanism of concentrated suspensions of rigid particles undergoing slow Poiseuille flow was studied. It was shown that the deviations tram the parabolic velocity distribution arise from a wall effect of the type described by Vand. Particle accumulation behind an advancing meniscus is caused by the radial flow and particle-particle and particle-wall interactions. In many cases, the motions of particles were reversible when the direction of flow vas reversed. In dilute suspensions, the statistical properties of the particle paths were in good agreement with a theory of collision doublets based on reotilinear paths of approach and recession. [...]  Read more

The nutritional value of fermentation residues for poultry was first demonstrated in 1937 at the University of Kentucky (Insko et al., 1937). Subsequently intensive investigations have been carried out and a considerable volume of information pertaining to these products has accumulated. [...]  Read more

[...] This study attempts to define and articulate the essentially ordered rhythms of meaning governing Wolfe's quest for psychic fulfillment. It seeks to explain his significant relationships and decisions in terms of the 'exile motif': Wolfe's perennial and heroic struggle to overcome the forces of background and temperament, which made him a stranger and exile, in order to establish a normal life for himself. [...]  Read more

As one might expect, many theorems on properties of a ring which are inherited by the matrix ring appear in papers concerned with a particular property of the ring. Basically, the aim of this thesis is to collect such results. There are two advantages in making such a collection. The first is that by suitable organization, the task of proving these theorems may be simplified considerably. This is seen in Sections 1 and 3. Secondly, the question arises: "Are any other properties of a ring inherited by the matrix ring?" Theorems 3.6 and 3.7 provide a partial answer to this …  Read more

The axial dispersion of liquid in a fixed bed of dry randomly packed Raschig rings was investigated in a 1-foot diameter column for three sizes of packing: 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5-inch. The primary variables investigated were particle size, bed height, liquid and gas flow rates. The transient response technique using a step function input was used. [...]  Read more

Transportation networks provide a means of physical access between places which is becoming increasingly more important. As places are brought relatively closer together, or more accessible to one another, greater localized specialization of economic activity is made possible. Cities are not isolated economic and social units. [...]  Read more

The theory of synaptic transmission in the nervous system describes the propagation of nerve impulses through a network of "neurones". "Neurones" was used by Waldeyer (1891) to describe the nerve cells which includes the nucleated cell body as weil as ali of its processes. Nerve cells are separated from but intermingled with its neighbors. There is no continuity between adjacent processes as was previously believed. lnstead, a synapse (Sherrington, 1897) was thought to be present at the point of contact between any two links in the chain of cells (Schafer, 1900). [...]  Read more

The operating characteristics of a direct-current nitrogen plasma jet confined in an 8.00-in. i .d. graphite chamber were obtained for twenty power levels and flow rates of up to 36 kw. and 250 s.c.f.h. respectively. Gas velocity and temperature profiles were measured at a test section 10.5 in. below the entry of the jet, and the recirculation phenomenon was examined. [...]  Read more

[...] The nature of the present investigation may be more specifically stated as a study of what factors determine the growth of an economy, how these factors determine the economie growth, and why the latter are so determined. [...]  Read more