McGill University Theses and dissertations by author name (F)

Melzack, Ronald (Advisor)  Read more

Les muscles sont essentiels pour la locomotion et les mécanismes de force utilisés par les organismes. Le sarcomère est l’unité de base de la contractilité pour créer cette force. Le sarcomère est composé de filaments antiparallèles mince d’actine et épais de myosine, avec les filaments d’actine ancrés sur le disque z, un complexe multiprotéique, aux deux bouts du sarcomère. Plusieurs des protéines trouvées dans le disque z sont impliquées dans les myopathies quand elles sont mutées. La filamine-C est un réticulant de filaments d’actine qui est un composant principal de le disque z et qui est muté dans plusieurs myopathies. …  Read more

The elections of 1876 and 2000 were two of the most controversial elections in American history. In both cases the politics of race and the right to vote were at the centre of the controversies that erupted around the election of a candidate who had lost the popular vote. Although there are important differences that separated the two elections the 2000 election revealed that the right of Blacks merely to register and vote was still not guaranteed by the federal government much as it was not guaranteed in the nineteenth century. In both elections the issue of Black voting rights …  Read more

This study explores the letters which Flaubert wrote to Louise Colet between 1851 and 1854, and scrutinizes more particularly the dynamics of their epistolary relationship as well as the nature of the "contract" between the author and his mistress. A letter justifies and exists only by virtue of the distance and absence of the other person, and its appears that Flaubert resolutely availed himself of this mode of communication with Louise, and thus preserved efficiently the necessary solitude and silence for the composition of his work. The first part of the inquiry, which attempts to define the status and function …  Read more

This dissertation is devoted to an exploration of Baudelaire's correspondence from the sociopoetic perspective. Elements of form or style in the poet's letters, their unique pragmatics and social dimensions, are primary targets of inquiry. For Baudelaire, as for any epistolier, the writing of letters rests on the author's specific education, the traditions of his time, his philosophy, imagination and economic situation. As it is only through these different "filters" that Baudelaire's particular letter writing can be understood, the first part of this dissertation summarizes the main aspects of the socio-cultural history of epistolary practice in the nineteenth century. The second …  Read more

De architectura libri decim, the oldest extant treatise on Architecture in the Greco-Latin tradition, has historically constituted the archetype of architectural discourse, if its specific content would now seem largely irrelevant. And yet to the extent that we still distinguish theoretical activity and practice, we remain de-limited by the essential terms of the Vitruvian text, and the rational order which they prescribe, an order of the logos. But within the prescription itself we find the traces of a diversity and richness largely repressed, traces of an other logos, another understanding of the traditional world of artifice--including the artifice of writing--that …  Read more

Trehearne, Brian (Supervisor)  Read more

DDT in its own right and as a typical representative of that class of insecticides now known as chlorinated hydrocarbons has proved one of our most important and interesting insect toxicants. Its mode of action though extensively studied still eludes us. [...]  Read more

We describe the thin cactus property and the energy criterion, two conditions on 2-complexes developed by Wise that imply the vanishing of the second L^2-Betti number. We then apply them to certain subclasses of (4,4,3)- and (3,9,3)-complexes  Read more

The grounds of Canadian homes typically consist of trimmed lawns sparsely planted with ornamental trees and shrubs. Despite their low initial cost and immediate impact, conventional landscapes require significant annual capital and physical resources, such as fuel, water, herbicides and fertilizer. However, low-maintenance alternatives exhibit lower consumption rates and annual cost savings. This paper investigates the saving potential of four low-maintenance alternatives when compared to a conventional option through an evaluation of life cycle cost and annual maintenance resource consumption. The five options were simulated using the proposed site and building of a low-rise, multi-residential housing project in Ottawa, where …  Read more

Kanaris, Jimmy Demetrios (Supervisor1)  Read more

Zadworny, David (Supervisor2)  Read more

The purpose of this social work research project is to inquire into the life situations and personal adjustment patterns of a group of eighteen elderly Jewish men and women who have immigrated to Canada during their adult life. In approaching the study the writers will attempt to evaluate the life functioning of these patients from a three-dimensional focus. They will evaluate the patient as a physical organism, as a group member in society, and as a personality within a culture, and attempt to explore the interactions between these three areas of functioning.  Read more

Radioactive nuclides are identified through the emissions given off in passing from one energy state to another. The type of emission and its energy is characteristic of the nuclide. The unstable nuclide may reach stability in a number of ways. These are dependent on several factors, among them being the excitation energy, nuclear spin, nuclear composition and nuclear shell structure. One of the most common ways for an active nucleus to reach stability is by emission of electromagnetic radiation.  Read more

The purpose of this investigation was to study the ability of various anterior pituitary hormones to act as antigens, and if antisera to one or more of these hormones could be obtained, to carry out immunologie studies on such antisera. Since pituitary hormones are proteins there is reason to believe that they must have some antigenic ability under the proper circumstances.  Read more

This thesis examines the social accommodations made by prisoners' wives as their husbands pass through various stages in the criminalization process. A combination of methods--in-depth interviews with wives, structured interviews with married prisoners, systematic examinations of prison records, summaries of women's "rap sessions," and a variety of other sources of data--were used to construct an ethnographic account of the social worlds of thirty women married to men incarcerated in two prisons in Vermont. Wives' accounts are quite consistent with other data sources. Prisoners' wives display considerable ingenuity in devising explanations and interpretations of their husbands' criminal behavior which allow their …  Read more

The investigation to be described in this thesis forms part of a research project carried out in the Department of Biochemistry, McGill University on the problems of the preservation of human blood. This larger study was initiated early in 1940, under the guidance of Dr. O.F. Denstedt, and has been in progress since that time. Although the use of preserved blood dates back to World War 1 when O.H. Robertson used specimens stored up to twenty-two days in the treatment of battle casualties, little attention was paid to the question until the Russians revived it in 1930.  Read more

"A study of the effect of digging depth on the speed of wheel-type sub drainage trending machines revealed an inverse linear relationship for the range of depths observed in several different soils. Both soil texture and machine characteristics affected the depth-speed relationship to a degree which prevented the use of a generalized formula for all machines in all soil types. Data are presented for 20 delay factors which occurred during normal trenching operations. An analysis of these delays showed that an average of 58.6 percent of the available digging time was lost. Delays which could most easily be reduced included …  Read more

The relationships that exist among soils, plants and phosphatic fertilizer are not only numerous in their nature but also complex. The classification of the different soils into proper groups and families is one factor which has been valuable in assessing the general nature of each sail. [...]  Read more

DeLong, W. (Supervisor)  Read more

Moores-François, Audrey (Supervisor1)  Read more

The paper details and discusses the compositional issues and techniques employed in the candidate's M.Mus. Thesis Composition Filigranes pour les Freres Limbourg. The piece takes its title and inspiration from the work of the fourteenth-century master-illuminators and also makes reference to music of the same period, while at the same time being grounded in a post-serial aesthetic. The composition's relationship to these models and the specific compositional processes derived from the resulting fusion of certain aspects of mediaeval music (including modality and numerology) with serial technique are described and illustrated. Special emphasis is placed on the interaction of abstract organisational …  Read more

The acetylcholine (ACh) stores of cat sympathetic ganglia were determined following a variety of patterns of preganglionic nerve stimulation and poet-stimulation rest periods. They increased by 38% over a 20 min rest following 60 min, 20/sec stimulation and remained elevated for at least 3 hr. The increase was less with 10 min stimulation and absent with 4/sec stimulation. The excess ACh was released during stimulation in the presence of hemicholinium-3. The time course or Ach release from stimulated plasma-perfused ganglia was followed. The release rate was highest near the onset of 20/sec stimulation and declined over 5 min to a …  Read more

The research examined the relationship between counsellor awareness of client-identified helpful events and session and event level outcome. Furthermore, counselling participants' experiences of the change processes in high and low counsellor awareness were also examined. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyze ratings and word responses of clients' and counsellors' perspectives about how therapeutic change came about in helpful therapy events. Results of the quantitative study indicated no association between counsellor awareness and session and event level outcome. Results of the qualitative study indicated that in helpful events that therapists were most aware of, clients described the process as …  Read more

The project describes the development and standardization of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator into the Greek language. Statistical properties of the Greek version were comparable to those of the original American version providing evidence of its adequacy as a psychometric tool. The comparison of the distribution of types of Greek university students (N = 946) with that of French Canadians, and Americans showed a preference for "thinking" and "perceiving". Further, gender associated preferences for thinking and feeling evident in the American and French Canadian norms were also present in the Greek data.  Read more

Abnormal glutamate transmission is implicated in stress-related psychiatric disorders. Our ability to study the transmitter’s role in disease states and responses to therapeutic interventions would be greatly improved by the availability of a non-invasive method for the in vivo quantification of human brain glutamate release. One option is positron emission tomography (PET) with the labeled tracer, [11C]ABP688. ABP688 is a highly selective antagonist that binds to an allosteric site of the type 5 metabotropic glutamate receptor. Pharmacological challenge studies have raised the possibility that it might be responsive to acute glutamate fluctuations. Here, we explored [11C]ABP688’s sensitivity to a laboratory …  Read more

The currently accepted ideas on the formation of the pancreas revolve around the belief the organ developes from two separate primordial which arise from distinctly different points along the longitudinally disposed wall of the foregut. Accordingly it has been contended that certain portions of the duct system in the adult gland are associated with one or the other primordium developmentally. Many variations in the patterns displayed by the intraparenchymal duct system have been described but little attention has been given as to how such a wide range of variation might be explained from a developmental point of view. By studying …  Read more

Rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees that have been separated from their mothers, either at birth or some months later, and raised under restricted conditions in the laboratory, display stereotyped behavior patterns that are not usually seen in primates captured in the field (Davenport & Menzel, 1963; Mason & Green, 1962; Nissen, 1956) or in animals raised by their mothers in the laboratory (Jensen & Tolman, 1962). One of the most commonly observed forms of stereotypy in monkeys and chimpanzees is toe- or thumb-sucking (Masan, 1963); monkeys also display patterns of crouching, self-clasping, and rocking (Bernstein & Masan, 1962). Chimpanzees reared in …  Read more

The research to be reported was concerned with the patterns of values among college women in a Canadian university. Through the study of a matched sample of freshmen and seniors, three interrelated problems were investigated: age differences in patterns of values, differences between usual and ideal patterns of values, and the relationships between patterns of values and behaviour. A study of the relevant literature reveals the patterns of values do charge during the four years of college, as well as after the college years, and that differences between usual and ideal patterns of values have been reported.  Read more

La population des cellules-T CD4+ naïves périphériques est maintenue par des mécanismes homéostatiques qui fonctionnent en balancent la sortie du thymus, la survie et la mort des cellules, et la prolifération périphériques des cellules-T. Les cellules-T naive CD4+ se divisent en plusieurs sous-ensembles en fonction de leur expression de CD31 en surface: Les cellules ayant un plus haut niveau d'expression de CD31 correspondent aux émigrants thymiques récents (CD4+ ETRs), alors que les cellules CD31-négatif (CD31neg) ont perdu l'expression de CD31 et sont éloignées de l'origine du thymus. Nous avons constaté que chez les patients atteints de SPPS, l`homéostasie des lymphocytes-T …  Read more

The production of contrastive stress was studied in normal-hearing and severely and profoundly hearing-impaired children. A picture description task was used to elicit utterances. Contrastive stress was assigned by changing one element in the second and third pictures in sets of three pictures. Stress production was assessed perceptually and acoustically. The normal-hearing and the severely hearing-impaired children were judged to have consistently stressed the element that was changed in the pictures. Some of the profoundly hearing-impaired subjects were judged to have stressed the changed element more often than chance but some did not perform above chance. Acoustic measurements indicated that …  Read more

Various initiatives by regulators in different jurisdictions over the past two decades have completely reshaped the airline industry in ways that were unimaginable in 1992. From an industry dominated by Pan Am and Trans World Airlines (TWA), and newly privatized airlines such as British Airways, today's industry is dominated by government-owned intercontinental airlines based in the Middle East and carrying passengers the majority of whom are ultimately destined for States other than the States where the airlines are based. Insufficient thought has been given to whether this evolution is desirable, whether it involves profound competitive distortions or whether it is …  Read more

In the inter-war period Great Britain lost its pre-eminence in aviation. The new industries centered on civil aviation were not appropriately nurtured. The roots of this decline were in policies struck for military considerations in the pre 1914 period. The emergent institution of the war, the Air Ministry, continued the military priority. Civil Aviation was controlled by an essentially military institution. In the immediate post-war period airline development was inadequately subsidized. The government's chosen instrument, Imperial Airways, failed to nurture civil aviation development. Emergent national aspirations within the Empire and hostile and indifferent governments without frustrated airline route growth. Equally …  Read more

In section A a review has been made of single crystal studies done 1960-1973. This review has been put into tubular form (See Tables 1, 2, 4-9). A critical analysis and INDO calculations of some of the radicals are reported. [...]  Read more

The lack of a chronological framework for 16th and 17th century northeastern North America has impeded local and regional cultural reconstructions. Based upon the changing style of 16th and early 17th century European glass beads and the settlement patterning of the Neutral Iroquoians of southern Ontario, a chronology has been created. It provides the means to investigate native and European cultural trends during that era, and within this dissertation three topics are examined--the development of the commercial fur trade and its archaeological manifestations, an archaeological definition of the Neutral Iroquoian confederacy, and changes in European material culture recovered from pre-ca. …  Read more

Le nombre d'étudiants étrangers est en augmentation sur les campus nord-américains. L'amélioration de leur expérience d'apprentissage, notamment en ce qui concerne leurs compétences informationnelles, est une clé du succès scolaire de cette population grandissante. Avant d'élaborer des stratégies pour améliorer le savoir-faire des étudiants, il est important que les bibliothécaires passent outre les différences culturelles et linguistiques pour comprendre la nature du processus de recherche des étudiants étrangers dans leurs devoirs, et pour identifier les différences potentielles avec les étudiants nationaux.Cette étude se concentre sur l'expérience des étudiants de premier cycle japonais des universités canadiennes. L'objectif principal est de comprendre …  Read more

This thesis is an examination of the extant psychological treatises of Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, the ninth century A.D. Arab scholar who was among the first of his race to interest himself in strictly philosophical questions. Al-Kindi's writings were among the first fruits of the translation of Greek philosophical and scientific works into Arabic. It is under that aspect that this thesis approaches his views on soul and intellect - as an instance of the passage of Greek philosophical ideas to the Muslim Arabs. Apart from his specifically Islamic position on the nature and value of divine revelation, …  Read more

This thesis is an examination of the extant psychological treatises of Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, the ninth century A.D. Arab scholar who was among the first of his race to interest himself in strictly philosophical questions. Al-Kindi's writings were among the first fruits of the translation of Greek philosophical and scientific works into Arabic. It is under that aspect that this thesis approaches his views on soul and intellect - as an instance of the passage of Greek philosophical ideas to the Muslim Arabs. [...]  Read more

Anomalously high concentrations of arsenic and phosphate are found in the sediments of the Saguenay Fjord in comparison to those of the Gulf and St. Lawrence Estuary. The source of arsenic is unclear. It could be supplied to the Fjord by the marine waters which enter from the St. Lawrence Estuary or may have accumulated as a result of historically high levels of effluent input. The waters of the Saguenay Fjord are also characterized by anomalously high particulate aluminum concentrations (i.e., [Al]tot/[Al] diss > 1), introduced as a result of the aluminum refining activity along the shores of its tributaries. …  Read more

Photographic, film and video representations of dying and dead subjects bring to light delicate balancing acts of agency involving representational perspective. In this thesis, I examine contemporary, lens-based artworks by Sarah Charlesworth, Eric Fischl (whose sculptural medium is an exception), Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Gillian Wearing, Andres Serrano, Nan Goldin, AA Bronson and Jorge Zontal, as well as works by photojournalists Richard Drew and Theresa Frare, to show how they effectively convey facets of identity to dying and dead subjects. The voice, visuality, touch and embodiment (in particular, the body's weight and its materiality) are considered dimensions of intersubjectivity in order …  Read more

Robinson, Jonathan (Supervisor)  Read more

Le trafic polarisé a un rôle critique à jouer dans plusieurs fonctions cellulaires, et le dérèglement de ce processus peut provoquer des maladies. Le développement de la vulve chez C. elegans représente un excellent modèle pour l’étude du trafic polarisé. La localisation basolatérale de l’homologue du récepteur du facteur de croissance épidermique (EGF-R, epidermal growth factor-receptor) LET-23 du C. elegans est essentiel à l’activation de la voie et l’induction de la vulve. L’adaptateur de clathrine AP-1 a un effet antagoniste sur la localisation basolatérale de LET-23. En même temps, la signalisation LET-23 a un effet antagoniste réciproque sur l’expression de …  Read more

Ce travail analyse les difficultés et adversités des nouveaux professeurs entrant le milieu de l’éducation au Québec. À ce jour, ces nouveaux professeurs font face à de nombreux obstacles affectants entre autres leur qualité de travail, santé mentale ainsi que relations interpersonnelles avec les étudiants, parents ainsi que collègues.Cette étude analyse en profondeur ces obstacles en utilisant la méthodologie qualitative d’auto-ethnographie, plus précisément d’expériences vécu via d’importants moments à travers mes 10 ans de carrière.L’analyse de ces expériences révèles de profonds troubles au sein du système éducatif du Québec, principalement le manque de soutiens et support pour les enfants à …  Read more

Le cycle caucasien de Lev Tolstoï comprend des nouvelles écrites en début de carrière comme «L’incursion» (1853) et «Une coupe en forêt» (1855) ainsi que des œuvres plus longues: Les Cosaques (1863), “Le prisonnier du Caucase” (1872) et Hadji-Mourat (1912). Il est bien établi que ces œuvres contiennent une abondance de détails ethnographiques concernant divers groupes de personnes ciscaucasiennes. Ce mémoire examine la façon dont les narrateurs de ces œuvres présentent cette information ethnographique. Les narrateurs des premières œuvres du cycle ont une orientation ouvertement académique envers leurs sujets ethnographiques. Avec ce style de narration, Tolstoï espérait supplanter les images …  Read more

These studies investigated relationships between the working alliance, client good moments, therapist verbal response modes, and client experiencing. Correlations between increased levels of the working alliance and increased occurrence of good moments were only between the bond aspect of the alliance and good moments of provision of significant information. The best fitting models of the working alliance, therapist verbal response modes, and client good moments indicated that a 3-way interaction was a good fit in the provision of significant information modality. Two-way interactions between the working alliance and therapist response modes revealed that low structure response modes, Particularly reflection/restatement occurred …  Read more