Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This is an on-line collection of the Queen's University Masters Degree and PhD Theses and Dissertations. Submissions are limited to officially registered Queen's University graduate students, only.
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Predicted Position Error Triggers Catch-Up Saccades During Sustained Smooth Pursuit
Humans are largely visual animals and require that images of objects of interest must be held steadily on the fovea, a region on the retina that allows for high visual acuity. In order to maintain gaze on objects in the ... -
Durability of Natural Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites
Fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP) are a composite system which may be able to meet the demands of both new and existing infrastructures. Due to its constituents’ environmental impact, natural alternatives are becoming ... -
All the World's a Stage: Local, National, and Transnational Histories of the Stratford Festival
This dissertation examines the history of the Stratford Festival, a theatre festival founded in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, in 1953, at local, national, and transnational levels. Through the case study of the festival, ... -
Exploring the Genomic Binding Landscape of the Oncogenic Transcription Factor TCF3-PBX1 in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has become quite effective over the last two decades. However, further progress is limited by a lack of understanding of the biological processes that drive this disease. ... -
EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK PREDICTION MODELING
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of non-communicable disease and pre-mature death worldwide. Waist circumference (WC) is a measure of abdominal adiposity that is strongly related to both CVD and all-cause ... -
What is a wearable? A query
Designers go through much trial and error and troubleshooting with stubborn materials and conceptual structures just to get to a working prototype. Eventually, these efforts converge around uncovering successful use-cases ... -
Whose Knowledge, Whose Water, Whose Life: A case study of water governance and mining in Sekhukhune, South Africa
Since news about Day Zero in Cape Town captured public attention, water scarcity in South Africa has become a widely known problem. However, the country has been impacted by similar issues for decades. This is especially ... -
Creating a Map for Surgeons: Direct Blotting Assisted Stamping of Tissue for MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
MALDI imaging mass spectrometry is an attractive technique for the discovery of disease biomarkers from surgically removed tissue sections. It can provide spatial resolution and relative abundance of a wide range of ... -
Reading Attitude as a Predictor of Reading Proficiency for Senior High School English Learners in China
As the concept of key competencies is highlighted as the emphasis and guideline: the pursuit of education should be combined with knowledge, skills, emotional attitude, cultural awareness, and morality, etc., students’ ... -
Field monitoring of pile walls designed to selectively stabilize slow moving landslides in Peace River, Alberta
The Peace River region of Alberta, Canada is a highly active landslide area characterized by creeping landslides in weak lacustrine clays and silts. Much of the infrastructure for the region is built upon historical ... -
Syntactic Priming of Ditransitive and Dative Constructions within and across Languages in High School English Learners
Syntactic priming refers to the phenomenon in which people tend to produce a sentence structure that they have previously encountered. Syntactic priming research, taken as a useful tool for probing into bilingual syntactic ... -
Collective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canada
This thesis documents the 2018 removals of the John A. Macdonald statue in Victoria, British Columbia and the Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Writings on memory by Maurice Halbwachs and Pierre Nora form ... -
Investigating the Initiation of Spreading Depolarizations
Ischemic stroke is one of the most prevalent, devastating and therapeutically challenging medical conditions. Following brain ischemia, failure of the Na+/K+ ATPase is linked with a massive cationic influx through an ... -
Implications of Fiber Nonlinearities on Coherent Optical Fiber Communications
A primary objective of optical system design is to satisfy the ever-increasing capacity demand for communication services. Fulfilling this target by increasing the cardinality of modulation formats is at the expense of a ... -
Whose Government and What Law? A Political Sociological Investigation of Corruption in Lebanon and its Effect on Government, Legality, and the People
Levels of corruption in Lebanon are at an all-time high. According to the Transparency International Index, Lebanon ranks 143rd out of 180 in level of corruption (with 180 being the worst). The citizens are also disenchanted ... -
Integration of GNSS Precise Point Positioning and Inertial Technologies for Land Vehicle Navigation
The last decade has witnessed a growing demand for precise positioning in many applications such as autonomous car navigation and precision agriculture. Precise positioning can be obtained from the global navigation satellite ... -
Formation of a Normative Comparison Base by Physiological Factors, Personality Dimensions and Neural Correlates
Introduction: There is variance in a healthy population, but it is poorly characterized and understood. Variations can come from common factors like demographics, experience of early life stress (ELS), physiological factors ... -
Control of nonholonomic mechanical systems using virtual surfaces
In this report we study the modelling of simple mechanical systems evolving on trivial principal bundles, specifically \emph{locomotion} systems with nonholonomic constraints. We show how we can model motion via group ... -
Exploiting the Unique Plasmonic Phenomenon of Metallic Nanostructures for Sensing and Biosensing Applications
Real-time, accurate sensing promoted by analytical sensors is extremely important for advances in drug discovery, disease diagnosis and for studying biological systems. In particular, label-free surface plasmon resonance ... -
Childhood Parental Invalidation and Young Adult Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent behaviour that serves many functions, but is associated with increased distress, impairment, and risk of death by suicide (Andover, Morris, Wren, & Bruzzese, 2012; Burke, ...
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