Browsing Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects by Title
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Tackling major depressive episodes (MDE) among students at Queen's University
(2014-05-29)The purpose of this project was to develop a tool for students to seek professional help if they were suffering from a Major Depressive Episode (MDE). If depression is left untreated, it can affect students‘ academic ... -
Taking Organizations Seriously: Responsible Agency, Organizations and the Criminal Law
In the post-Enlightenment period, Anglo-American criminal law has been applied with increased force, and an ever expanding scope, to collective actors like corporations and other organizations. Recent scholarship has ... -
Taking the World In
(2013-05-29)It is natural to think that in order to learn about the world from perceptual experience, a person does not need to do anything. All that is required is that she has her eyes open, or her ears unplugged, so that she can ... -
Talkin' Back to Johnny Mac: Interrupting John A. Macdonald & Learning to Curate from an Indigenous Framework
From January to April 2015, I curated Talkin’ Back to Johnny Mac, a five-part performance series that took place in Katarokwi (Kingston, Ontario). The series, which took place during the bicentennial birthday year of ... -
Talking Plant
This doctoral research-creation project focuses on plants in the context of larger efforts by artists and scholars to denaturalize the anthropocentric and hierarchical ordering of species that objectify non-human life. ... -
Talking Scot: English Perceptions of the Scots During the Regal Union
(2011-04-13)From 1603 until 1707, England and Scotland were joined by what scholars have described as the regal union. A dynastic accident that came into being when James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne as well, it forced ... -
Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
(2011-06-14)In the eleventh and twelfth centuries southern Italy passed irrevocably out of Byzantine control and into Norman control, at roughly the same time as the Roman papacy and the Christians of the East were beginning to divide ... -
Target localization in MRI-guided prostate biopsy
(2014-03-03)Prostate cancer is a worldwide health concern for men. Needle biopsy is the most definitive form of cancer diagnosis. Target-specific biopsies can be performed under magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance. However, ... -
Target profitability is represented in the monkey superior colliculus during visuosaccadic foraging
(2011-02-22)Behavioural choices of animals as they acquire resources in the wild are well characterized by foraging theory; however, the neural mechanisms underlying these behaviours are not well understood. The goal of this thesis ... -
Target Tracking in Multi-Static Active Sonar Systems Using Dynamic Programming and Hough Transform
(2009-08-13)Tracking multiple targets in a high cluttered environment where multiple receivers are used is a challenging task due to the high level of false alarms and uncertainty in the track hypothesis. The multi-static active sonar ... -
Targeted 16S rRNA metagenomic analysis of E. coli contaminated private drinking well waters in southern Ontario
(2017-05)Given that water is essential to sustaining life, contamination of drinking water sources poses a potential threat to human and environmental health. In Ontario, a proportion of private well water supplies, which are the ... -
Targeted over-expression of hsp22 and the maintenance of locomotor activity of third instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster at high temperatures
(2007-10-02)Hsp22 has been implicated in stress tolerance and longevity in various organisms though its role in Drosophila melanogaster larval thermal tolerance has not yet been investigated. I undertook this project to determine if ... -
Targeting the actin cytoskeleton in HER2+ metastatic cancer cells using a macrolide toxin
(2016-10-03)Breast and ovarian cancers are among the leading causes of cancer related deaths in women worldwide. In a subset of these cancers, dysregulation of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) leads to overexpression ... -
Task-based language teaching for Chinese as a second language: Teaching practice and teacher cognition
Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), an influential teaching approach used mostly for teaching English and other European languages as a second language, has been advocated for teaching Chinese as a second language (CSL) ... -
Taste and Ambition: Dutch Artists and Their Collections of Works on Paper
This dissertation is a study of Dutch artists as collectors of prints and drawings in the seventeenth century. The presence of works on paper in artists’ workshops and their use as visual reference tools and objects for ... -
The Tate Conjectures for Product and Quotient Varieties
(2013-09-24)This thesis extends Tate’s conjectures from the smooth case to quotient varieties. It shows that two of those conjectures hold for quotient varieties if they hold for smooth projective varieties. We also consider arbitrary ... -
Tax Information Exchange Agreements and the War Against Tax Evasion
(2014-12-15)Illegal tax practices such as tax evasion cost governments billions of dollars of lost revenues. Such practices interfere with tax policy objectives that many nations have adopted to promote equity in the administration ... -
Tax Policy Challenges Facing Developing Countries: A Case Study of Uganda
(2007-10-04)Developed countries have had commendable success in improving their taxation policy systems over the years. However, developing countries face numerous tax policy challenges when they attempt to establish efficient tax ... -
Taxonomy for JavaScript Attacks
(2014-11-26)In the ubiquity era, each user has multiple devices; hence an attractive model is to have applications that execute in a client’s web browser instead of developing a native application for each device. JavaScript is the ... -
Teacher Candidates' Perspectives on Teacher Education and Critical Multiculturalism
(2007-12-18)This research is grounded in my observation that we live in a society that is racist, sexist, classist, heterosexist, able-ist, and oppressive in other ways for a variety of groups and individuals outside of the dominant ...