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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« Tu m'arracheras de moi » : la limite de la représentation dans la poésie de René Lapierre (1990-2008)
Les recueils de poésie publiés par René Lapierre de 1990 à 2008 participent d’un questionnement de la forme poétique, laquelle, en plus d’interroger la posture énonciative mise en scène par le texte, propose comme moteur ... -
Liberal Order and Climate Control: Ontario Parks as Environmental Settler Colonialism
Ontario parks were born out of an oligarchic political structure in the 19th century that employed an enclosure-reserve practice to take control of wilderness lands for the preservation of lucrative timber resources, and ... -
Sheaves of Phi-Principal Parts
This thesis studies sheaves of phi-principal parts, a modification of the well-known sequence of sheaves of principal parts. In Chapter 1, we construct the sheaves of phi-principal-parts, and undertake their general study. ... -
A Historical Analysis on Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and Abed's Reception of Paulo Freire's Critical Literacy in Designing BRAC's Functional Education Curriculum in Bangladesh From 1972 to 1981
In this study, I examine the characteristics of the reception of Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire’s critical literacy by Building Resources Across Communities in Bangladesh (BRAC) from 1972 to 1981.The central questions ... -
Not a Joke: Women's work and feminist laughter in stand-up comedy
Live feminist stand-up comedy, and the shared laughter it generates, is a potent form of popular cultural performance that has become increasingly politically relevant and commercially successful in contemporary North ... -
Bare Majorities: On Voting in Constitutional Adjudication
In this thesis, I question the use of a majority voting rule (hereinafter 'majority rule') to control the constitutionality of legislation. This thesis mainly applies to jurisdictions that are generally considered ... -
A New Approach to Preparing Bio-Synthetic Hybrid Materials Using Starch Nanoparticles
Starch nanoparticles (SNP) are a new class of innovative biopolymers that can be obtained from native starch using different methods. Interest in bio-synthetic hybrid materials based on polysaccharides has been increasing ... -
The Spectacular Environmentalism of Cecil the Lion
In July 2015, Cecil the lion’s death sparked international furore over the practice of lion trophy hunting. Interest in the Cecil story was truly spectacular. The story cut across space and scale ensnaring actors from ... -
And Chaos Whence? Canadian Energy Politics, 1973-1984
This thesis investigates the impact of the 1973 oil shock, its sequel in 1979, and the counter-shock of the mid-1980s on Canada’s socio-economy. Over a decade of uncertainty, beginning when members of the Organization for ... -
Coupling reactions and hydrogenations catalyzed by abundant transition metal complexes
The field of homogeneous catalysis in the laboratory and on an industrial scale is dominated by transition metal catalysts. Most of these transformations require precious metal (PM) catalysts. However, due to their cost, ... -
Defiance, Reclamation, and a Call to Mino Bimaadiziwin/ The Good Life Through Ceremonial Performance Praxis
This MA thesis is a bundle that weaves time, space, and form. It includes personal narrative, considerations and reflections on creation and research as well as the production/ performance script, stage directions, and ... -
Examining What Institutional Structures and Forms of Leadership Support the Growth and Development of Non-Academic Professional Staff in Universities
The study of career development pathways and support for the population of university employees who do not hold an academic appointment is lacking. Many departments across one eastern Ontario institution are coming to rely ... -
A Narrative Approach to Understanding the Experience of Becoming and Being a Nurse: Professional Identity Formation Among New Nurses
Research into how nurses form their professional identity is crucial to the development of the nursing profession as well as to understanding the factors that contribute to transition to practice and retention of new nurses. ... -
End-to-End Quality Assurance of Complex Radiation Therapy Treatments
Radiation treatments have become increasingly complex, making quality assurance (QA) of radiation therapy deliveries of vital importance. In order to measure complex dose deliveries, it is crucial to have the proper ... -
Behavioral Modelling from Encrypted Remote Desktop Protocol Network Traffic
Traditional traffic monitoring relies on availability of unencrypted payload data inside of network packets, on which pattern match analysis is performed. With the growth in network traffic encryption, user behavioral ... -
Athlete perceptions of "playing up" in youth soccer
A common practice in sport is to “play up” youth athletes with exceptional sport-specific skills against older players with similar skill sets. Playing up is believed to facilitate expertise by exposing athletes to high ... -
Velocity Acquisition Methods for Stable Haptic Simulation Systems
Haptic simulation systems enable the perception of virtual environments through the sense of touch. These systems are composed of a haptic device through which an operator interacts with the virtual environment that is ... -
Three Essays In Applied Econometrics
In this thesis, I use both structural- and reduced-form econometric models to analyze economic issues relating to the mortgage and labour markets. In chapter 2, I use a dynamic discrete choice model to quantify the impact ... -
Between the Dreamtime and the GPS / The Metaphysics of Indigenous Mapping
Although many scholars have written about the relationships between land, mapping, power relations, and sovereignty, very few have explored the relationship between the imbricated fields of Aboriginal mapping, Indigenous ... -
Using 3D transperineal ultrasound imaging to study pelvic floor muscle functional characteristics in women with and without provoked vestibulodynia
Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is the most common form of chronic vulvar pain and cause of painful sexual intercourse in pre-menopausal women. Pelvic floor muscle (PFM) dysfunction is thought to play a role in the development ...
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