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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"St. Denis"”.
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Significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of Chartres Cathedral
<p>This study investigates three significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Chartres. The first area of influence lies in the cultural environment of the eleventh century, the second in the construction of the cathedral at Chartres, and the third in …
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Modern Yoginis: How Western Women Have Fundamentally Changed the Practice of Yoga
<p>Western women yoga practitioners, yoginis, have played an essential role in the evolution, teaching, and propagation of modem yoga and are deserving of recognition previously overlooked in academic and popular literature. For millennia, yoga was an esoteric practice taught by and for select …
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Réalisation du langage OCCAM-S
… d'un langage dérivé d'OCCAM et de la construction d'un compilateur. Il s'agit de l'approfondissement d'une idée de messieurs Gabriel Girard et Richard St-Denis. Le projet initial consistait à développer un outil permettant de faciliter l'élaboration d'un système réparti. Le langage OCCAM, …
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Delineation of Surface Water Features Using RADARSAT-2 Imagery and a TOPAZ Masking Approach over the Prairie Pothole Region in Canada
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is one of the most rapidly changing environments in the world. In the PPR of North America, topographic depressions are common, and they are an essential water storage element in the regional hydrological system. The accurate delineation of surface water bodies is …
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Understanding Magnetic Flux Leakage from Gouges and Dents Containing Gouges
Magnetic flux leakage (MFL) is the most widely used non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technique for operating gas and oil transmission pipelines. The Queen’s Applied Magnetics Group (AMG) has been studying MFL signals from dents for the past 5 years, and recently began considering MFL signals from …
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The Evolution of Yeats's Dance Imagery: The Body, Gender, and Nationalism
… to read Yeats's dance emblems in light of symbolist-decadent portrayals of Salome has led to exaggerated charges of misogyny, and to neglect of these emblems' relationship to the poet's nationalism. Drawing on body criticism, dance theory, and postcolonialism, this project rereads the politics …
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Characterization of surface soil hydraulic properties in sloping landscapes
… into infiltration and runoff. The goal of this study was to characterize near-saturated surface soil hydraulic properties and water-conducting porosity in sloping landscapes. The specific objectives included exploration of tension and double-ring infiltrometers for estimation of soil hydraulic …
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Improved leaf area index estimation by considering both temporal and spatial variations
… between the land surface and the atmosphere. Customarily, such models are initiated by LAI estimated from satellite-level Vegetation Indices (VIs) including routinely produced Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) products. However, the accuracy from LAI-VI relationships greatly varies …
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Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Land Use on Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) Presence and Health in Central Saskatchewan
… diverse habitat requirements and unique life histories and ecologies. The Canadian Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is home to several amphibian species, but they are threatened by large-scale conversion of habitat to agriculture. One of the more common amphibians in this region is the wood frog …