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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Elucidating isoform specific roles of calpain-1 and calpain-2 in breast cancer
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed women’s cancer in Canada. Average patient survival rates are high, but they are significantly reduced for those patients whose cancer reaches stage IV – metastatic disease. ... -
AN EXPLORATION AND EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF A GENERIC MESSAGING APPROACH TO THE CANADIAN 24-HOUR MOVEMENT GUIDELINES FOR ADULTS
Most Canadian adults do not meet current behaviour recommendations for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep. Historically, movement behaviours were presented in isolation from one another, using complex and ... -
Illuminating Community Experience and Perception of Modern Treaty Implementation Through Photovoice: Photography and Stories From Huu-ay-aht First Nations
Canada is currently operationalizing reconciliation efforts that stress the establishment of respectful and just relationships between Indigenous peoples and provincial and federal governments. British Columbia (BC) is ... -
Should the Rainbow have Black and Brown Stripes?: (Anti)-racism and coalitions in Toronto’s rainbow community
My dissertation research undertakes an in-depth analysis of queer (anti)-racism in Toronto’s rainbow community. My study is informed by ethnographic research methods, including semi-structured interviews with those who ... -
Characterization of Tailings Dust from Two Abandoned Mine Sites: Effects on Nearby Surface Waters and Evaluation of Dust Sampling Methods
Canada’s climate is warming and as a result the hydrological cycle is expected to become more intense, with rainfall concentrated in extreme events with longer dry spells. Consequently, dry tailings may be more likely to ... -
Speaking Volumes: Publishers’ Bindings in English-Canada 1870-1920
The nineteenth century saw a significant shift in how books were produced. Industrialization and the emergence of a mass reading public, whose members also had increased leisure time and money, led to the need for less ... -
The Influence of Catecholamines on Working Memory and the Activational Aspects of Motivation
Catecholamines are thought to have a major modulatory effect on cognition. However, there is only equivocal evidence that catecholamines have a direct impact on cognition. A body of research suggests that catecholamines ... -
Adult Literacy: Challenges Facing Adult Syrian Refugees With Minimal Or No Prior Formal Schooling
The 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees describes a refugee as a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted... is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of ... -
Characterization of Rock Salt Response to Blasting using Terrestrial Laser Scanning Technology
This doctoral research project addresses some of the fundamental aspects for blast design methods in rock salt mines. An experimental field work protocol was devised based on the use of single hole blast (SHB) tests to ... -
Development Length and Bond Strength of FRP Bars Embedded in Normal, High Strength, and Ultra-High-Performance Concrete
This thesis examines experimentally the development lengths (Ld) of small diameter (db) (4 mm, 6 mm, and 8 mm) basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) deformed bars embedded in concrete with compressive strength ranging ... -
Ability to Extract Extrafoveal Information Modulates Object Processing in Naturalistic Scenes
In naturalistic scene processing, individuals adopt multiple resources to facilitate their object identification processes. For instance, scene context information contains many cues to facilitate recognition of an object, ... -
Acute Physiological Effects of Brain-Generated 17β-Estradiol in the Rodent Primary Auditory Cortex
The neuroactive steroid hormone 17β-estradiol (E2) modulates synaptic activity and plasticity in both endocrine and non-endocrine forebrain regions of males and females of a variety of species. Research conducted in songbirds ... -
Machine Learning QoE Prediction for Video Streaming over HTTP
Streaming video services have been growing rapidly in the past decade due to the wide adoption of more capable mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, together with the deployment of higher capacity mobile networks ... -
Impact of Environmental Variability on Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange from 2008-2018 at a High Arctic Mesic Tundra Site
Arctic terrestrial carbon (C) budgets are shifting with respect to net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE), and its component fluxes; i.e., gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (Reco) under amplified high ... -
Romantic Relationships and Leadership: Three Studies
Questions of who becomes a leader, and what predicts the quality of their leadership behaviors, have been of interest to scholars and the public for decades. Although most explorations of antecedents to leadership focus ... -
Essays in High and Low Frequency Price Discovery
In this thesis, I examine high and low frequency price discovery for US equity markets. In Chapter 3, I propose a methodology to disentangle high frequency price jumps into a permanent and transitory component. Using a ... -
The Impact of Marketing on the Financial Services Sector: An Empirical Investigation
We examine the role of marketing within the financial services sector by conducting three empirical examinations that involve pricing, sales force compensation, and targeting/positioning. Beginning with the first essay, ... -
Online Self-Management Treatment Program for Women Diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome
Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS) is a chronic pelvic pain condition. An agreed-upon etiology for IC/BPS remains unspecified and medical treatment is often inadequate. Research has demonstrated the ... -
Neutron Measurements and Reactor Antineutrino Search with the SNO+ Detector in the Water Phase
The SNO+ experiment is a large-scale liquid scintillator neutrino experiment with a wide range of physics objectives. SNO+ has adopted a staged approach where the detector was first filled with ultra-pure water before ... -
Numerical Investigation of an Aircraft Thermal Management System
Thermal management requirements in modern aircraft have been increasing over time, driven by the increase in the thermal loads generated by a variety of electronic components and hydraulic systems. A literature review has ...
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