McGill University Thèses et mémoires publiés en 1961

A youthful nun is robbed of her new set of gold and ivory false teeth; a muscular physiologist peddles furiously on a stationary bicycle, ostensibly to make an experiment on the process of perspiration; a dissipated murderer listens with absorption to Beethoven's A-Minor Quartet before he brings about his own death; a dog, hurled from an airplane, "explodes" on a rooftop and causes a violent quarrel; an elderly earl goes on a diet of carp's gut and converts himself into something resembling an ape; a deceased uncle refuses to dissolve into the "Light," and consequently becomes a candidate for reincarnation; …  Lire la suite

The object of this work is to provide a morphological guide for the conduct and analysis of experiments carried out on the brain stem of the cat. In particular, the work contains a series of photomicrographic illustrations of the cat brain stem upon which are delineated the major nuclei as distinguished by the classical cytoarchitectural criteria and a set of stereotaxic coordinates referrable to modern adaptations of the Horsley-Clarke stereotaxic instrument.  Lire la suite

The importance of Labrador-Ungava as one of the main gathering grounds and centres of dispersal of the Laurentide ice sheet, and as the location of the final disappearance of the ice was recognized as early as 1896 with the publication of the reports of the government geologist, A.P. Low. Despite this knowledge the peninsula has received very little attention until recently, due undoubtedly to its inaccessibility, and to the practical difficulties of field research in the subarctic environment. Until about 1945 the studies of glacial geomorphology that had been completed ( with the exception of the early work of Low) …  Lire la suite

Tout comme le "pauvre diable" de Voltaire, l'abbé Ladvocat a passé la majeure partie de sa vie active à compiler. La poussière du temps et de l'oubli s'accumule rapidement sur le nom et l'œuvre des compilateurs, et l’auteur du Dictionnaire historique portatif n’a pas échappé au destin de son espèce. Les manuels d'aujourd'hui ne mentionnent pas son nom, et l'influence qu’il a pu exercer en son temps échappe complètement à l'attention des dix-huitièmistes.  Lire la suite

The peasant settlement of Orange Hill, in the parish of St. James, lies midway between the highest land in Barbados, and the leeward coast. It is set around the bluff of the second lowest of a series of terraces of marine origin, which are best developed on this side of the island. Sugar plantations which surround the village cover much of this and the lower terrace, gradually giving way near the coast to a high rental resort strip along the shore line. The great majority of the peasant population of Barbados lives in small villages of which Orange Hill is …  Lire la suite

Miescher, who may be regarded as the founder of the knowledge of the chemistry of the cell nucleus, carried out his initial investigations on isolated pus nuclei obtained from discarded surgical bandages. He showed (1) that the nuclear material contained an unusual phosphorus compound which he called ‘nuclein’, and which we now know to have been nucleoprotein. In later studies, he became interested in salmon sperm as a source of nuclear material, and he found that the isolated sperm heads contained an acidic compound which gave analytical figures for phosphorus, carbon and nitrogen corresponding to what is now known as …  Lire la suite

Dans l’Avant-propos de ‘La Comédie Humaine’, ou Balzac montre l'origine de l'œuvre et en explique le plan. Dans le vaste tableau qu’est La Comédie Humaine, où Balzac propose de présenter l'homme et la vie, une histoire des mœurs de la société française, et d'étudier les raisons de ces effets sociaux, les différentes professions sont nécessairement une partie intégrale de cette société. Puisque les lois d'une société pourvoient un cadre qui permet à l'individu de mener une vie règlée, qui détermine ses droits et ses privilèges, qui précise ses rapports avec la société, il n'est pas surprenant de trouver que, dans …  Lire la suite

Tests have been conducted to determine heat transfer coefficients on the surface of fins. The range of Reynolds numbers covered, based on the distance from hydrodynamic leading edge are 1.85 x 105 to 1.43 x 106. Expressions for heat transfer film coefficients based on experimental data have been obtained in terms of fin flow-channel centre-line velocity for the case of fins with a height of 1.5 inch, with spacings of 3/8, 1/2, 5/8 and 3/4 inch, using a film coefficient transducer designed specifically for this purpose.  Lire la suite

‘La conscience du mal’. Le mal est dans le monde; on ne le nie pas, et ce mal est un problème pour l'homme. Chaque personne considère tout d'abord le mal dans sa propre vie; ses souffrances, ses maladies, ses plans échoués, l'injustice qui lui est faite par d'autres ou par le pur hasard. Certains font un effort pour trouver les racines du mal, dans l'espoir de l'arracher, mais ils découvrent un organisme compliqué et qui garde bien ses secrets.  Lire la suite

At his conversion, Augustine accepted a system of rational categories with which he believed himself capable of gaining insight into the true nature of reality. At the same time, he considered that God had enabled him to transfer his affections from the inferior things, which are desired through the senses, to those spiritual things which are loved with the pure rational mind.[...]  Lire la suite

Rasmussen, T.This study was conducted during the years 1960-61 when I was appointed a Hosmer Teaching Fellow in the Department of Otolaryngology, McGill University, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. The original plan of this study was to evaluate the possible effect of some temporal lobe lesions upon vestibular function. It has been reported that a lesion of the temporal lobe may produce directional preponderance of nystagmus to the side of the lesion in response to calorie stimulation. (Fitzgerald and Hallpike 1942, and Carmichael, et al, 1954).  Lire la suite

Research in the field of pulmonary function has been moving forward at an increasing pace in the past few years. The major stimulus intensifying this work came from Great Britain where the morbidity and mortality of chronic bronchitis has become the principal health problem. There are very few comprehensive studies dealing with the changes of pulmonary function with increasing age. A majority of the work available for review has involved only one or two specific tests of lung function, or has covered too wide a range of ages, thus making valid comparisons difficult.  Lire la suite

An understanding of radial flow between confined boundaries is of practical importance in the design of, for example, radial diffusers and air bearings. To this end a combined experimental and theoretical study has been made of radial flow, without swirl, between parallel disks using air at incompressible speeds. Emphasis has been placed on the pressure distribution sufficiently far downstream of the channel inlet for the entry conditions to be unimportant. However a study has also been made of the main features of the flow near the inlet, particularly within the annular separation bubble.  Lire la suite

In the bibliography of this thesis, the authors are listed in alphabetical order. In the text, the references are given by the name of the author or authors and the year of publication. When the same author or authors published two or more papers in the same year, to avoid confusion, the papers are indicated in their order of publication by adding to the year small letters of the alphabet. Thus Moore, Sandberg and Watne published two papers in 1960. The first is listed as Moore, Sandberg and Watne (1960 a), and the second as Moore, Sandberg and Watne (1960 …  Lire la suite

A one-exchange-meson potential is derived using a modified Tamm-Dancoff approximation. This is done within the framework of a static, cut-off theory. It is round that this potential corresponds to that which would be obtained by an appropriate selection of terms in the Brillouin-Wigner perturbation series solution. The transcendental equation for the potential thus formed is then solved exactly; and this is compared with the one-meson- exchange potential of ordinary perturbation theory.  Lire la suite

It may be regarded as established that exogenous estrogen administered orally or by injection induces increases in the liver lipid, liver crude protein, total liver ribonuoleic acid phosphorus (RNAP) and to a lesser extent, total liver deoxyribonucleic acid phosphorus (DNAP) of the immature fowl. Furthermore, it has been shown that estrogen induces great increases in the serum lipid. This increase in large measure represents an increase in phospholipid and it is associated with an increase in serum phosphoprotein, which is also evoked by estrogen. It is further known that estrogen induces great increases in the level of the serum calcium …  Lire la suite

This thesis presents the results of a reconnaissance seismic program carried out by the Geophysics Division of the Geological Survey of Canada during the months April to August, 1960, in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, N. W. T. The seismic investigations were a part of a continuing, comprehensive, Arctic research program directed by the Polar Continental Shelf Project (P.C.S.P.). The P.C.S.P. was created by a Federal Cabinet directive in 1959 and is a division of the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. The seismic operations in the summer of 1960 were of a preliminary and reconnaissance nature designed to measure the …  Lire la suite

This thesis is concerned with an exploratory study and analysis of the recreational and informal educational experiences of a sample of ten juvenile delinquents selected from the Girls' Cottage School. The purpose of the study is to examine the sample's recreational experiences with a view to drawing implications for the role of recreational and informal educational agencies in delinquency prevention.  Lire la suite

A Precambrian layered gabbroic intrusion about 560 km 2 in area, of the Skaergaard type, crops out on the middle north coast of Labrador. Border zones and a Layered series are recognized, and have the following characteristics and approximate mean thicknesses. The intrusion displays extreme fractionation resulting in larvikite consisting of mesoperthite, fayalite, ferroaugite, and ore as the uppermost differentiate. Mineral variation and differentiation are described by means of quantitative mineralogy.  Lire la suite

The present investigation was undertaken to examine in man the reactions of the cells within the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei to stalk section and hypophysectomy. Although there are a number of reports of similar studies in a variety of experimental animals, information on the effects in man is scanty. [...]  Lire la suite

The aim of this thesis is to answer the following question: Did the saying about disciples, outsiders, and the mystery of the Kingdom of God originate with Jesus; and if so, what did he intend by it? Phrased in another fashion, this inquiry concerns the authenticity and meaning of Mark 4:11-12. In reality there are two questions, but the latter grows out of the former if the former receives an affirmative answer. Even if the question about authenticity were to receive a negative answer, the investigator would find it necessary to account for the saying, its meaning, and intention, though …  Lire la suite

In the history of Islam in Indonesia, the Islamic movement of Nahdlatul Ulama may be regarded as a unique one. A bit more than a quarter of a century ago it rose to face “the endangering elements” from reformist-modernist group who introduced and carried on the ideas of Abduh and Al Afghani in Indonesia. The N. U. suspected that this group intended not only to lead Indonesian Islam away from the idea and principles of mazhabite teachings, but also to weaken the traditional position of ulama in the ymmat society. From one angle, the N.U. movement, therefore, was similar to …  Lire la suite

The 19th Congress of N.U., which was held in Palembang the latter part of April, 1952, was a decisive one. It turned the page in the history of the development of the N. U. It represented a breaking point in the tradition of the movement which had been held for a quarter of a century. The N.U., until then purely a social, educational and religious Islamic movement, now became also a political party. It now became itself like a miniature structure of Islam which embraces every aspect of Life.  Lire la suite

The primary concern of this thesis is the consideration of the sermons of Gerard Manley Hopkins as literature, that is, their style, structure, thought, the sermons as written. But any sermon involves more than these things: it involves the success or failure as communicated in preaching; and it involves the approach to the difficulties or sermon conventions. These cannot be entirely separated from the main study, but they will be taken for granted from time to time.  Lire la suite

A survey of Table of Isotopes, published in 1958 by Strominger, Hollander and Seaborg / 64 /, will reveal on first glance in the area of the neutron-deficient isotopes near number 180 that much information, and in particular, decay schemes and disintegration energies, are missing. This applies for ytterbium, Yb166 and Yb167, lutetium, Lu169, 171, Lu174, 178/9, hafnium, Hf170, 171, 172, 173, tantalum, Ta173, 174, 175, and tungsten, W176, 177, 178, 179.  Lire la suite

The teaching of spelling is an important task because spelling is more than a school subject -- it is one of the most essential media of written communication. If students are to write successfully in school or in later life, they must learn to spell correctly the necessary words of their language. It is through the mastery of spelling skills and principles encountered in childhood that children learn to spell for adulthood. Thus the schools are faced with the problem of having a satisfactory spelling programme to meet the needs of the students in school and in later life.  Lire la suite

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This is a study of public-owned and privately-owned telephone systems. It compares four aspects of their operations: rates, operating costs, efficiency, and quality of service. Data covers the period from July 1957 to June 1959, or the financial years 1957 and 1958. The study is based on material obtained from four companies. Three of them are publicly owned: Manitoba Telephone System, Saskatchewan Government Telephones, and Alberta Government Telephones. All three are located in Western Canada.  Lire la suite

Numerous attempts have been made to classify the various types of lentic environments. None of the systems of classifying lakes, whether based on dissolved oxygen, thermal conditions, chironomid larvae or numerous other criteria, has been wholly successful, nor are they likely to be until lakes in the more inaccessable regions of the world are investigated. Welch (1941) wrote, "In fact, I am disposed to view most of them as premature and worthy of little attention." Though the volume of limnological knowledge has increased greatly since then, attempts at classification are still largely premature.  Lire la suite

The study of various aspects of the wilt diseases of plants which are caused by fungi inhabiting the vascular systems of the host plants has engaged the attention of a number of research workers for over half a century. Various theories have been proposed to explain the wilt symptoms in several species of plants, yet none can be considered to fully explain how the fungus in the vascular elements causes the plant to become diseased and die. The wilt disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. lycopersici (Sacc.) Snyder & Hansen is specific to the tomato, Lycopersicon app.  Lire la suite

Aerodynamic heating of a swept wedge airfoil was investigated in a Mach Number 2.58 flow for various sweep angles. The 2 in. x 1 1/4 in. surface size airfoil was made of stainless steel with a sharp leading edge and a wedge angle of 22.0 degrees. The angle of attack in a plane normal to the leading edge was constant at 5 degrees, the sweep angle varied from 0 to 35 degrees in five degree increments. Forty chromel-alumel thermocouples were welded to one surface of the wedge, in order to measure the temperature distribution of the surface.  Lire la suite

This survey does not purport to be exhaustive or comprehensive. It is an introduction to the activities of ICAO, a U. N. specialized agency, in the field of air navigation facilities or services as carried out by the interested states in the North Atlantic. ICAO's programme for the international financing of services necessary to civil aviation in areas which did not receive sufficient local support for them, now comprises the series of air navigation services in Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands and a network of ocean vessels in the North Atlantic.  Lire la suite

The origin of anorthosite has been for a long time a subject of controversy in geological literature. While most geologists agree that anorthosites are igneous rocks produced from a basic magma by some process of magmatic differentiation, others maintain that they are of metamorphic origin. One possible approach to the origin of anorthosites leads through the study of their trace elements. It is well known that some trace elements are typically concentrated in minerals formed in early stage differentiation, while others are preferentially incorporated in the late differentiates.  Lire la suite

Cyanocobalamin bound to normal human gastric juice (NHGJ) or to guinea pig stomach extract (GPSE) is taken up by guinea pig ileum to a greater extent than unbound cyanocobalamin. Almost all of the cyanocobalamin taken up in the presence of GPSE is removable by washing the intestinal tissue with ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA), whereas the same washing procedure removes only one third of the cyanocobalamin taken up in the presence of NHGJ. The cyanocobalamin which is removed by washing with EDTA may be the same as that which is actively absorbed by guinea pig intestine.  Lire la suite

Trouver un sujet de thèse qui soit à la fois intéressant et nouveau, c'est chose difficile. Jusqu'à 1957 nous ne savions pas grand'chose sur Marcel Proust. Nous avions lu Jean Santeuil, mais nous ignorions le Proust de La Recherche. C'est en cette année-là que nous avons suivi, à l'Ecole Française d'Eté de l'Université McGill, un cours sur Proust merveilleusement donné par Mme L. Fearn, professeur à l'Université de Londres. Experte sur Proust, elle a su éveiller en nous un grand intérêt pour l'œuvre du célèbre écrivain. Si bien que, vers la fin de la session, nous avions décidé du sujet …  Lire la suite

For the past twenty years, almost the whole of North America has been concerned with the widespread shortage of teachers. The Province of Quebec has not escaped this problem. One of the results of the shortage of teachers has been the issuing of emergency permits to people without teacher training, and sometimes to people with very doubtful educational background. A report published by the Institute of Education of McGill University in May, 1956, made the following statement.  Lire la suite

The evaporation of liquid drops into a gaseous medium is of considerable theoretical and practical interest. It is involved in a growing number of industrial processes such as spray drying, cyclone evaporation, spray crystallization, combustion of liquid fuels, and evaporative cooling, to cite only a few. It also represents the basic operation in a new high-temperature solids-gas contacting method called the Atomized Suspension Technique (1, 2, 3) in which a finely divided suspension of droplets can be passed very rapidly through a sequence of physical operations (such as evaporation and drying) followed by chemical reaction, in a single piece of …  Lire la suite

The connexions between lreland and Scotland reach far back. Geographically close and to some extent ethnically similar, the lnhabitants of the Western Isles of Scotland and those of Ulster bad constant communication with each other since the times of St. Columba and the Dalriadic kingdom, if not before. So near akin did these peoples appear to outsiders that the central government in Scotland referred to its lslesmen as Irish, though, from the point of view of government the Isles definitely constituted part of Scotland.  Lire la suite

Exothermic Reactions. The high temperatures sought in the experiments were produced by heat released from exothermic reactions. Two such reactions were used, that of thermite and that of silicon-ferric oxide. Thermite is a mixture of aluminum and iron oxide. Ferric oxide was used in the experiments because its reaction with aluminum releases more heat per gram of reactants than do those of ferrous oxide or magnetite. For complete reaction, the mixture should contain 54 parts of aluminum and 159.7 parts of ferric oxide by weight.  Lire la suite

This work was originally undertaken to establish whether there are cells in the cerebral cortex which repolarize at different rates along their length during recovery from a discharge. This property of cortical cells was suggested by the fact that many responses to electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex could be accounted for by the presence of such differentially-repolarizing cells in the cortex. Of these responses the paroxysmal or epileptiform afterdischarge caused by strong repetitive stimulation of the cerebral cortex seemed a likely candidate for investigation.  Lire la suite

Chlorpromazine and phenobarbital exert different effects on the avoidance response. Doses of chlorpromazine, too small to markedly affect escape from noxious stimulation, suppress or prevent the occurrence of a trained avoidance response. But phenobarbital, even at ataxic doses, does not produce this decrement. An investigation of this difference might not only elucidate the modes of action of these drugs, but might also throw some light on the mechanisms involved in the avoidance response.  Lire la suite

The physiology of catechol amines bas been subject to intensive investigations ever since it was recognized or more precisely postulated that differences exist in the nature and actions of Adrenaline and its demetylated precursor the Noradrenaline. There are indeed few subjects in physiology which have been studied and given rise to more controversies. Part of the confusion which arose was probably due to different nomenclature of authors and compounds studied; part of it was undoubtedly due to the multiplicity of actions and variability of effects under different experimental conditions.  Lire la suite

Historically the United States has been built upon the principles of free competitive enterprise. Americans pride themselves that rivalry in production and markets has created the richest country in the world. Free competition has directed the essential energies of the workers to world leadership in industrial productivity and technological development. Political and social freedoms are dependent upon a private enterprise economy which has brought about the best possible product at the best margin of profit including the most rapid rate of growth commersurate with the ability of the populous to absorb technological advancement.  Lire la suite

The first description of an American field cricket of the genus Gryllus was published by Fabricius in 1775 when he described Acheta assimilis from Jamaica. By beginning of the 20th century no less than forty-seven New World species of Gryllus had been described (Blatchley, 1903), thirty-three of these were as recognized valid by Kirby (1906). Practically all the early workers on this group considered macro-morphology only: such characters as size, coloration, wing venation, body proportions, number and relative length of tibial spines, and the length of tegmina, wings, ovipositor and the hind femora.  Lire la suite

In an article on binocular perspective, Verhoff (1925) made passing mention of his observation that if the centre of a bent line were viewed "steadily with one eye for a short time" and the eye then fixed on a straight line, the latter appeared bent in the opposite direction. Verhoff suggested that this effect might be due to “unconscious mental comparison” of the second line with the after-image of the first. Gibson (1933) found that Ss who had worn lenses which made verticals appear curved remarked, on removing the glasses, that verticals now appeared curved in the opposite direction.  Lire la suite

Rougnon, a French physician published the first case in 1768, (164), and Heberden, an English physician, in the same year gave the name angina pertoris to the clinical state of coronary ischaemia.(87). Since then many authors have concerned themselves with the nature of the disease while the treatment concerned Duchenne (55) and the rest as early as 1855. At the present time the terms atherosclerosis and occlusive vascular disease of the coronary arteries are synonymously used in the consideration of ischaemic heart disease.  Lire la suite

In one of his many letters to Rose Leicester in The Lake, Father Oliver Gogarty warns her against falling into “a divorce between the world of sense and of the spirit.” Rose was first ostracized and later exiled from her native Ireland for having borne a child out of wedlock, and Gogarty fears that he and the persons in his parish have driven her into a non-Catholic environment where she is losing her faith and, as he puts it, over-indulging in the senses, to the detriment of her spiritual life.  Lire la suite

Climatology as a branch of Geography and even of Meteorology has been mainly a descriptive subject. Hare (1960) has pointed out that only in comparatively recent years has there been an attempt to explain quantitatively how the various parameters of climate evolve and thus to approach the ultimate question of how it is that one climate varies from another. Most of the answers are to be found through Meteorology, and must be, since the tools required for this work have been developed there. The following is an attempt to explain what processes, and of how great a magnitude, cause temperature …  Lire la suite

Settlement characteristics of silt have been studied in relation to those of sand and clay. This involved investigation of the immediate elastic settlement due to deformation occurring under constant volume, and consolidation as a function of pore pressure dissipation. Oedometer and Triaxial compression tests (undrained and consolidated-undrained) with pore pressure measurements were performed to obtain the values of the parameters my, the modulus of volume change, E, the elastic modulus, and pore pressure coefficient ’A’.  Lire la suite