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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Proulx"”.
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Intention Perception and Meaning
… a la the meaning maintenance model (Heine, Proulx, & Vohs, 2006). We did not find threats to meaning to increase perceptions of intentionality for abstract art. However, individuals rated art made by artists to be more intentional and more meaningful than art made by non-artists (toddlers, …
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Les rôles de la personne enseignante et de l’élève dans la pédagogie par projet
… plusieurs modèles théoriques (notamment ceux de Proulx, Pan et al., Arpin et Capra, et Markham et al.) et adopte une méthodologie qualitative descriptive interprétative basée sur l’analyse de pratiques de trois enseignantes. Les résultats mettent en évidence une diversité de rôles, mais aussi des …
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Great Conversations: Systems, Complexity, and Epic Encyclopedic Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction 1960-2007
… to works by John Barth, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, and Junot Díaz, the emergence of the epic encyclopedic narrative as a distinct form signifies the necessity of diversity, ambiguity, and noise in the operation of systems and the production of knowledge. Rather than presenting totalized …
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Wildhoods: Bioregionalism and the Child Figure in Contemporary Canadian Literature
… of Alistair MacLeod, Ernest Buckler, Monique Proulx, Mary Lawson, W.O. Mitchell, Thomas King, Eden Robinson, and Frances Greenslade.
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The impact of a mathematics research experience on teachers' conceptions of student learning
… positive benefits without sufficient evidence (Proulx and Bednarz, 2001). Teacher conceptions of student learning play an important role in lesson development and preparation for classroom work (Penso & Shoham, 2003). Similarities between the processes of mathematics research and student …
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Étude expérimentale des poutres en bois lamellé-collé renforcées de béton fibré à ultra-haute performance et de barres de polymère renforcé de fibres
On assiste à une reprise d’intérêt pour l’utilisation du bois comme matériau structural dans la construction de ponts et d’édifices. Le bois lamellé-collé (BLC) est généralement le produit de bois d’ingénierie retenu pour la fabrication des poutres de bois à longue portée. Cependant, de nouvelles …
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Création théâtrale, inhumain et postmodernité.
La creation d'une piece de theatre sur l'amitie entre quatre etudiantes est le centre d'une reflexion sur l'inhumain dans l'art. Dans la piece, l'absence d'une des amies devient, pour les autres, l'occasion d'exprimer les reproches qu'elles entretiennent envers l'absente. Du babil, on passe …
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Diversified strategies for improving iron bioavailability of maize
<p>Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide, affecting over 2 billion people, especially women and children. Populations consuming maize as a staple food are particularly prone to iron deficiency because of the low iron bioavailability (FeBA). The overall objective of …
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A Pedagogical Guide to Extended Piano Techniques
Extended piano techniques, which mainly involve playing directly on the internal components of the piano, emerged early in the twentieth century, mainly in the United States. Henry Cowell (1897-1965) explored some of these techniques in short piano pieces such as The Tides of Manaunaun (1917; …
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Ethnicité et vieillissement : représentations du vieillissement positif chez des immigrants chiliens de 45 ans et plus de la région de Montréal
Cette recherche qualitative exploratoire vise à identifier les représentations du vieillissement positif chez les immigrants latino-américains chiliens de 45 ans et plus de la région de Montréal. A partir de la recension des écrits, les différentes dimensions du vieillissement biologique, …
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Un examen du lien entre le racisme et la discrimination à l'endroit des autochtones
Bien que la notion d'égalité en ce qui a trait aux autochtones a fait des progrès marquants au cours des dernières années, il n'en reste pas moins que ce concept n'est pas encore une réalité au Canada. Selon certains auteurs, la manière dont les Euro-Canadiens perçoivent les autochtones en général …
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Species, stand, and regional response to forest damage in southwestern Quebec following the 1998 ice storm
The response of four tree species, Acer saccharum Marsh., Acer rubrum L., Populus tremuloides Michx., and Betula populifolia Marsh. to ice storm damage was studied in the Northern Hardwood Forest of southwestern Quebec, Canada. The focus of the study was the analysis of tree damage resulting from …
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Creating subchannels to improve throughput in wireless communication
This thesis focuses on the impact of splitting a single communciation channel into two separate subchannels. One subchannel is used to send large packets, and the other sends small packets. This split allows for the spectrum to be used more efficiently. Large throughput gains are possible, even …
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The impact of farm women's external employment on farm and family functioning: a case study of Virginia
Many American farmers have faced financial stress in the early 1980s unprecedented since the Depression. Simultaneously, farm wives have joined the off-farm labor market at rates exceeding urban women. Since prior research has found different correlates of family functioning and of external …
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Reconfigurable variation risk management database tool
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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Place Matters: An Evolutionary Approach to Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"and "Wamsutter Wolf"
In Annie Proulx's interview with Charlie Rose, she states that her stories come "from place." Ecocriticism has been the predominant lens with which to understand Proulx's work; however, ecocriticism's nebulous tenets and theoretical deficiencies perpetuate sentimental pastoralism of geographical …
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Interactions between ecosystem engineering by burrowing sandprawns (Callichirus kraussi) and nutrients: consequences for benthic community structure and ecosystem functioning
… the context of the grazer-reversal hypothesis of Proulx and Mazumder (1998) that, responses of diversity metrics should alter from a linear decrease at the ambient nutrient level to a unimodal hump-shaped response at the intermediate nutrient level and then to a linear increase at highest …