Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects
This community is a joint endeavour of the School of Graduate Studies and Research and the Library to make available Queen's University graduate theses and projects in electronic form via the university's digital repository, QSpace.
Depositing their theses, dissertations and graduate projects in QSpace, offers Queen's graduate students timely, broad exposure of their research to other researchers, students and prospective students.
Graduate Projects. Students who submit a research project and master's essays in fulfillment of their degree requirements, instead of thesis, deposit their projects in the Graduate Projects Collection.
QSpace also offers an opportunity to preserve supplementary material that may currently become lost in paper format, such as data sets, images, performances, etc.
For more information on SGSR thesis requirements, please see Completing Your Degree on the SGS website.
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DOMESTIC DEPICTIONS: WOMEN OF THE HOME IN 5TH-CENTURY ATTIC VASE PAINTING
Mortal women in the Ancient Greek world are generally understudied when compared to their male counterparts. This is partially due to a lack of information from antiquity and a lack of interest from modern scholars. Second ... -
Classroom Assessment Culture in Ghana’s Education System
Assessment culture is context-specific teachers’ classroom assessment approaches and students’ assessment experiences, shaped by interactions of teachers’ and students’ conceptions about assessment, sociocultural, political, ... -
Empirical studies on managing code clone evolution using machine learning techniques
The duplication of code snippets with or without minor modifications creates a code clone. The number of code clones is expected to increase as the software expands in size. The maintenance of code clones can be challenging ... -
Toward a transformational roadmap to end pj paralysis: A mixed-methods impact study on patient ambulation initiative at hospitals in Alberta
Background: Pajamas (PJ) paralysis describes the adverse physiological effects experienced by patients with low mobility during hospitalization. Therefore, preventing pj paralysis during hospitalization is the primary ... -
Electrochemical Gold Deposition on Conductive Electrode Surfaces Towards Sensing Applications
Detecting bacterial toxins is incredibly crucial for environmental monitoring and clinical diagnostics in order to inform the public of potential concerns. Currently, bacterial species have been successfully monitored using ... -
Enhancing Perception for Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have made great progress with the advancements in high performance computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. AVs are equipped with Automated Driving Systems (AVS) that are able ... -
Multi-Level Responses of Benthic Macroinvertebrates to Experimental Microplastic Pollution in a Boreal Lake
The effects of plastic pollution on freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates are not well understood. In the present study, we investigated the effects of microplastics on benthic macroinvertebrates under an environmentally ... -
Standardizing Automated Licence Plate Recognition Policy in Canadian Policing
Automated licence plate recognition (ALPR), a popular policing tool is minimally regulated in Canada. I document historical and contemporary patterns of ALPR use and procedures governing ALPR through a national survey of ... -
Structure, Evolution and Engineering of Polyproline Type II Helical Antifreeze Proteins
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) bind to ice crystals to prevent organisms from freezing. A diversity of AFP folds has been found in fish and insects, including isolated and bundled alpha helices, globular proteins, and several ... -
Repression, Resistance, State of Exception: The Case of Peace Academics of Turkey
This dissertation examines the embodied impact of a 2016 petition statement, namely the Peace Petition, for the signatory public intellectuals, known as Peace Academics, in the intensifying authoritarian context of Turkey. ... -
An Intelligent Email Response System (IERS)
Email is one of the most common methods of official and personal communication to exchange information. For the administration department, dealing with hundreds of emails with the same type of inquiries or requests results ... -
Missing Parts: A Critical Analysis of Amputees and Disability History in Three Canadian Archives and Museums
This thesis examines the ways that disability history in Canada—specifically amputee history—is constructed and presented in different museums and archives through three case studies: The Middleville and District Museum, ... -
A Numerical Study of Unsteady Natural Convective Heat Transfer From Thin, Two-Sided Heated Horizontal Plates of Various Shapes
In this study, natural convective heat transfer from thin, two-sided, horizontal flat plates has been numerically investigated. The objective of the study is to explore the mechanics of unsteady natural convection at various ... -
CO2-Responsive Polymer Particles and Gels for Forward Osmosis
CO2-responsive polymers are typically amine- or amidine-containing polymers that can be reversibly switched between hydrophobic and hydrophilic forms. The addition or removal of CO2 from water containing the responsive ... -
Self-Regulation in Play-Based Kindergarten Contexts: A Document Analysis of Kindergarten Curriculum Frameworks in Canada and China
Self-regulation is a known early predictor of academic and life success, and its development during kindergarten is crucial (Calkins, 2007; McCain et al., 2011; Montroy et al., 2016; Solomon et al., 2018). Although policy ... -
The Application of Magnetic Adsorbents in Gold Recovery
Gold is a highly valuable precious metal that plays a crucial role in both economic and technological domains. Hydrometallurgy is a widely adopted process for extracting gold from both primary ores and secondary sources. ... -
Evaluation of Turbulence Models for Unsteady Separation
Unsteady separation occurs in many physical flows due to time-varying adverse pressure gradients. This phenomenon may result in increased drag, decreased lift, and loss of efficiency or failure in flow devices. It is, ... -
Who Acts for Women? An Analysis of Women's Substantive Representation in the Canadian Senate
Why might legislators decide to act in women’s interests? This dissertation investigates the institutional rules that motivate legislators’ behaviour when it comes to representing women. Feminist institutionalism suggests ... -
Small-scale Cocoa Farming and Mechanisms of Access to Support Services Bridging Producers With High-Value Market Participation: A Comparative Analysis Between Ecuador & Peru
Worldwide over 5 million farmers cultivate cocoa beans from the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) and rely on trade and export of cocoa for their livelihoods. This booming agricultural sector is led by small-scale farmers, 90% ... -
Entangled: Three Arctic Communities, Textiles, and Mid-Century Modernisms in Canada
The emergence of modern Inuit women’s textiles began in the 1950s through efforts of southern Canadian instructors and government-backed intermediaries. Inuit textile works became enmeshed in intersections of discourse, ...
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