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On Recurrent and Deep Neural Networks
(2015-02-18)L'apprentissage profond est un domaine de recherche en forte croissance en apprentissage automatique qui est parvenu à des résultats impressionnants dans différentes tâches allant de la classification d'images à la parole, en passant par la modélisation ... -
On representation learning for generative models of text
(2021-10-21)Cette thèse fait des petits pas dans la construction et la compréhension des systèmes d'apprentissage des représentations neuronales et des modèles génératifs pour le traitement du langage naturel. Il est présenté comme une thèse par article qui contient ... -
On Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian Ethics
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004) -
On sample efficiency and systematic generalization of grounded language understanding with deep learning
(2020-06-04)En utilisant la méthodologie de l'apprentissage profond qui préconise de s'appuyer davantage sur des données et des modèles neuronaux flexibles plutôt que sur les connaissances de l'expert dans le domaine, la communauté de recherche a récemment réalisé ... -
« On se réapproprie le quartier ! » Le rôle des initiatives alimentaires communautaires dans l’affirmation du droit à la ville
(2020-12-16)Ce mémoire interroge le rôle des initiatives alimentaires communautaires dans l’expression du droit à la ville, tel qu’énoncé par Henri Lefebvre en 1968. Une étude de cas portant sur Notre Quartier Nourricier (NQN) (Centre-Sud, Montréal) a été conduite ... -
On settler conceptualism
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On some aspects of coherent risk measures and their applications
(2011-08-04)Le sujet principal de cette thèse porte sur les mesures de risque. L'objectif général est d'investiguer certains aspects des mesures de risque dans les applications financières. Le cadre théorique de ce travail est celui des mesures cohérentes de ... -
On some Density Theorems in Number Theory and Group Theory
(2013-01-04)Gowers, dans son article sur les matrices quasi-aléatoires, étudie la question, posée par Babai et Sos, de l'existence d'une constante $c>0$ telle que tout groupe fini possède un sous-ensemble sans produit de taille supérieure ou égale a $c|G|$. En ... -
On some limitations of the definition of the dispositive "cinema"
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On Space-Time Trade-Off for Montgomery Multipliers over Finite Fields
(2015-09-23)La multiplication dans le corps de Galois à 2^m éléments (i.e. GF(2^m)) est une opérations très importante pour les applications de la théorie des correcteurs et de la cryptographie. Dans ce mémoire, nous nous intéressons aux réalisations parallèles ... -
On Stable Factor Structurs in the Pricing of Risk
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On Stackelberg Equilibria with Differentiated Products: the Critical Role of the Strategy Space
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1985)Nous Considerons Dans Cet Article un Modele de Duopole Avec Produits Differencies; Nous Montrons Que le Caractere Substituts Vs Complements de Ces Produits Est un Facteur Important Dans la Determination du Mode de Concurrence Strategique (Cournot-Bertrand, ... -
On the (Mis)Specification of Seasonality and Its Consequences: an Empirical Investigation with U.S. Data
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1992) -
On the Analysis of Business Cycles Through the Spectrum of Chronologies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1994) -
On the bias-variance tradeoff : textbooks need an update
(2020-03-25)L’objectif principal de cette thèse est de souligner que le compromis biais-variance n’est pas toujours vrai (p. ex. dans les réseaux neuronaux). Nous plaidons pour que ce manque d’universalité soit reconnu dans les manuels scolaires et enseigné dans ... -
On the citation lifecycle of papers with delayed recognition
(Elsevier, 2014-09-18)Delayed recognition is a concept applied to articles that receive very few to no citations for a certain period of time following publication, before becoming actively cited. To determine whether such a time spent in relative obscurity had an effect ... -
On the compliance of women engineers with a gendered scientific system
(Public library of science, 2015-12-30)There has been considerable effort in the last decade to increase the participation of women in engineering through various policies. However, there has been little empirical research on gender disparities in engineering which help underpin the ... -
On the composition of scientific abstracts
(Emerald, 2016-07-11)Purpose Scientific abstracts reproduce only part of the information and the complexity of argumentation in a scientific article. The purpose of this paper provides a first analysis of the similarity between the text of scientific abstracts and the ... -
On the conceptual and methodological aspects of (political) journalistic translation research
(2019-10-30)The significance of translation in news production contexts has been well documented in translation studies (e.g., Schäffner and Bassnett 2010; Bielsa and Bassnett 2009). However, the conceptual and methodological aspects of journalistic translation ... -
On the constrained efficiency of strategy-proof random assignment
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2023-04-25)We study random assignment of indivisible objects among a set of agents with strict preferences. Random Serial Dictatorship is known to be only ex-post efficient and there exist mechanisms which Pareto-dominate it ex-ante. However, we show that there ... -
On the design of customized risk measures in insurance, the problem of capital allocation and the theory of fluctuations for Lévy processes
(2015-02-18)Dans cette thèse, nous étudions quelques problèmes fondamentaux en mathématiques financières et actuarielles, ainsi que leurs applications. Cette thèse est constituée de trois contributions portant principalement sur la théorie de la mesure de risques, ... -
On the distribution of polynomials having a given number of irreducible factors over finite fields
(2023-02-22)Soit q ⩾ 2 une puissance première fixe. L’objectif principal de cette thèse est d’étudier le comportement asymptotique de la fonction arithmétique Π_q(n,k) comptant le nombre de polynômes moniques de degré n et ayant exactement k facteurs irréductibles ... -
On the dynamic effects of fiscal policy
(2016-03-23)Dans le sillage de la récession mondiale de 2008-09, plusieurs questions ont été soulevées dans la littérature économique sur les effets à court et à long terme de la politique budgétaire sur l’activité économique par rapport à son signe, sa taille et ... -
On the Dynamic Specification of International Asset Pricing Models
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1995) -
On the Effects of Mergers on Equilibrium Outcomes in a Common Property Renewable Asset Oligopoly
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2013-11)This paper examines a dynamic game of exploitation of a common pool of some renewable asset by agents that sell the result of their exploitation on an oligopolistic market. A Markov Perfect Nash Equilibrium of the game is used to analyze the effects ... -
On the effects of the reunification on German researchers’ publication patterns
(Springer, 2017-01-28)After developing independently following World War II, the research systems of East and West Germany reunited at the end of the Cold War, resulting in Westernization of East German Research institutions. Using data from the Web of Science over the ... -
On the external validity of laboratory experiments
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On the fly type specialization without type analysis
(2016-04-20)Les langages de programmation typés dynamiquement tels que JavaScript et Python repoussent la vérification de typage jusqu’au moment de l’exécution. Afin d’optimiser la performance de ces langages, les implémentations de machines virtuelles pour langages ... -
On the Game-Theoretic Structure of Public-Good Economies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1995) -
On the importance of noncrystalline phases in semicrystalline electrospun nanofibers
(American Chemical Society, 2021-11-18)Tailoring the properties of electrospun fibers requires a detailed understanding and control of their microstructure. We investigate the structure/property relationships in fabrics of randomly aligned fibers of polylactide, a prevalent biopolymer, ... -
On the Individual Optimality of Economic Integration
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2011-03)Which countries find it optimal to form an economic union? We emphasize the risk-sharing benefits of economic integration. We consider an endowment world economy model, where international financial markets are incomplete and contracts not enforceable. ... -
On the individual optimality of economic integration
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2014-08)Which countries find it optimal to form an economic union? We emphasize the risk-sharing benefits of economic integration. Consider an endowment world economy model, where international financial markets are incomplete and contracts not enforceable. A ... -
On the individual optimality of economic integration
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2015-11)Which countries find it optimal to form an economic union? We emphasize the risk-sharing benefits of economic integration. Consider an endowment world economy model, where international financial markets are incomplete and contracts not enforceable. A ... -
On the Manipulability of Proportional Representation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)This paper presents a new model of voter behaviour under methods of proportional representation (PR). We abstract away from rounding, and assume that a party securing k percent of the vote wins exactly k percent of the available seats. Under this ... -
On the Optimal Order of Natural Resource Use When the Capacity of the Inexhaustible Substitute is Limited
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)Consider a general equilibrium framework where the marginal cost of extraction from several deposits of an exhaustible resource is constant in terms of an inexhaustible perfect substitute and differs between deposits. the instantaneous rate of production ... -
On the optimality of progressive income redistribution
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-08)We compute the optimal non-linear tax policy for a dynastic economy with uninsurable risk, where generations are linked by dynastic wealth accumulation and correlated incomes. Unlike earlier studies, we find that the optimal long-run tax policy is ... -
On the Political Economy of Sequential Reforms
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)This paper proposes an explanation for why efficient reforms are not carried out when losers have the power to block their implementation, even though compensating them is feasible. We construct a signaling model with two-sided incomplete information ... -
On the prevalence and scientific impact of duplicate publications in different scientific fields (1980‐2007)
(Emerald, 2010-03-09)The issue of duplicate publications has received a lot of attention in the medical literature, but much less in the information science community. This paper aims at analyzing the prevalence and scientific impact of duplicate publications across all ... -
On the Profitability of Production Constraints in a Dynamic Natural Resource Oligopoly
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1997)Static oligopoly analysis predicts that if a single firm in Cournot equilibrium were to be constrained to contract its production marginally, its profits would fall. on the other hand, if all the firms were simultaneously constrained to reduce their ... -
On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact
(Association for information science and technology, 2009-12-09)This article analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual articles. Using all the articles published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree of interdisciplinarity of a given article as the percentage of its ... -
On the Repayment of Personal Loans Under Asymmetrical Information: a Count Data Model Approach
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1995) -
On the Residual Dynamics Implied by Rational Expectations Hypothesis
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1995) -
On the role of the simple natures in Descartes’ Metaphysics
(Société Philosophique Ithaque, 2022)Cet article a pour but d’analyser et de critiquer la thèse soutenue par Jean-Luc Marion concernant la relation entre la doctrine des natures simples et la métaphysique cartésienne. D’abord, nous discutons quelques problèmes issus de la méthode ... -
On the Scope of Egalitarian Justice
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006-05)It is not clear whether the social contract is supposed to merely supplement the unequal gains that individuals are able to make through the exercise of their natural endowments with a set of equal gains secured through social cooperation,or whether ... -
On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge
(Springer, 2011-09-06)Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000–2007 period, this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students contribute to about a third of ... -
On the singular status of the human voice : tomorrow’s eve and the cultural series of talking machines
(Amsterdam University Press, 2010) -
On the topicality and research impact of special issues
(MIT Press, 2019)The publication of special issues constitute an important yet underinvestigated phenomenon of scholarly communication. In an attempt to draw attention to the proliferation of special issues, Priem (2006) suggested that their commissioning has an ... -
On the VC-dimension of Tensor Networks
(2022-06-22)Les méthodes de réseau de tenseurs (TN) ont été un ingrédient essentiel des progrès de la physique de la matière condensée et ont récemment suscité l'intérêt de la communauté de l'apprentissage automatique pour leur capacité à représenter de manière ... -
On two sequential problems : the load planning and sequencing problem and the non-normal recurrent neural network
(2020-12-16)The work in this thesis is separated into two parts. The first part deals with the load planning and sequencing problem for double-stack intermodal railcars, an operational problem found at many rail container terminals. In this problem, containers ... -
On watching rather than reading Count Basil
(European Romantic Review, 2004)The performance of « Count Basil » at this year's NASSR conference was a unique opportunity for those in attendance to share a theatrical experience with the actors in ways that are usually not available to readers and scholars of Romantic drama. In ... -
On-the Job Off-the Job Satisfaction and Psychological Well Being: The Moderating Effect of Personnality Traits such as Neuroticism and Extraversion
(Université de Montréal. École de relations industrielles., 2000) -
Les ondes en sommeil lent au cours du vieillissement normal : marqueurs du processus homéostatique et de la cognition
(2014-05-01)Les ondes lentes (OL) et les fuseaux de sommeil (FS) caractérisent le sommeil lent. Ces ondes sont particulièrement vulnérables aux effets du vieillissement, et ce, dès le milieu de l’âge adulte. La signification fonctionnelle de ces changements demeure ...
