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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An Approach to Represent and Transform Application Specific Constraints for an Intrusion Detection System.
While the need for newer and more efficient network security techniques is increasing, refining the existing and proven techniques can also have potential benefits and outcomes. One of the aspects of such improvements in ... -
RIGHT HEART ADAPTATION TO PRESSURE AND VOLUME OVERLOAD: EPIDEMIOLOGY, ANIMAL MODELS, AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS
Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a syndrome in which an increase in mean pulmonary artery pressure>20 mmHg is associated with adverse pulmonary vascular remodeling, which results in right heart failure and death. ... -
Interprofessional Primary Care for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Access to high-quality primary care has been identified as a pressing need for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Adults with IDD live with complex physical and mental health conditions, use ... -
Effect of Coating Defect, Desiccation, and Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Geosynthetic Clay Liner (GCLS) – Geomembrane Interface Transmissivity
A series of laboratory tests were conducted to investigate the effect of prehydration fluid, a 4-mm diameter central coating defect, coating defect position and nature, and the effect of coating orientation of a multi-component ... -
Modelling and Analysis of Flare Stack Thermal Radiation on Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities
This research studied the capabilities of RANS-based computational fluid dynamics to model large scale 2-phase propane jet flares with considerations for thermal radiation, soot development, and other key flare properties. ... -
Vertical Jump Landing Fatigue: the Kinetic, Kinematic, and Muscular Adaptations
Understanding how fatigue affects task performance is crucial for understanding injury risk. Historically, the tests used to measure fatigue and the effects of that fatigue were not always similar to the tasks that generated ... -
Effects of the Gut Microbiota on Intestinal Function
A growing emphasis has been placed on the importance of the gut-brain axis (GBA) and its role in normal physiological functions of the body. This bidirectional axis links cognitive functions of the central nervous system ... -
Essays In Empirical Corporate Finance
This thesis explores several aspects of empirical corporate finance. The three essays in my dissertation are in line with the two streams of empirical corporate finance research: mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is with the ... -
Trace Evidence Analysis of Forensic Samples Using Inductively Coupled Plasma
At many crime scenes, little evidence is left behind; thus, the more tools available for the analysis of minute samples, the better. For instance, trace elemental impurities are not regulated in many commercial materials ... -
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Borenium Ions: Decomposition Pathways and Applications in Organic Synthesis
Borocations have been synthetically accessible entities for over 35 years, thought of as chemical curiosities too reactive to be synthetically useful until recently. Our group has contributed to the development of a class ... -
Validity of an Inertial Measurement Unit System for Evaluating Gait Quality in Healthy Adults and People With Stroke
Ambulation in the community is more challenging than walking indoors on level ground due to variable conditions including uneven terrain and slopes, but particularly so for people with hemiparesis due to stroke. Measurement ... -
Environmental Art and Our Relationship With Road-killed Animals
The broad aim of this research creation project is to explore my emotional encounters with road-killed animals. This project involves the current road ecology issue of road-killed animals; the encroachment of human settlements ... -
Optimization of spherical proportional counter backgrounds and response for low mass dark matter search
The NEWS-G collaboration uses Spherical Proportional Counters to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP). The first detector developed for this goal is a 60 cm diameter sphere installed at the Laboratoire ... -
Becoming Pornography: White Women, Voyeuristic Surveillance, and Image-Based Sexual Abuse
This dissertation examines the gendered and racialized discourses that inform how we understand the problem of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in the West. Specifically, it traces out the role that whiteness, and white ... -
High Spatial Resolution Measurement of Tendon Reinforcement in Underground Construction Works
Distributed optical fiber strain sensing is investigated as a technology to enhance the assessment of tendon reinforcement elements that are commonly used in mines and tunnelling projects. Central to this research effort ... -
The effects of increasing chloride concentrations and temperatures on freshwater zooplankton communities
Across the Northern Hemisphere, chloride concentrations in lakes are increasing from decades of road salt use, imperiling aquatic ecosystems. Elevated chloride concentrations threaten aquatic organisms, and zooplankton are ... -
Biomass production and nutrient removal by Chlorella vulgaris as monoculture and in a consortium from centrate wastewater: optimization through acclimation
Microalgae-based wastewater treatment has shown promise in the removal of contaminants such as nutrients and heavy metals. Municipal wastewaters could be used as low-cost cultivation media as they provide the necessary ... -
High sensitivity of freshwater zooplankton to low chloride concentrations is unaltered by nutrient level
Driven by decades of road salt use, freshwater salinization is prevalent across North America. Increasing chloride concentrations threaten freshwater species, and zooplankton are particularly sensitive. In Canada, the ... -
What Factors and Experiences Motivate Innovators? An Expectancy-Value-Cost Approach to Promoting Student Innovation
This multi-manuscript dissertation integrated a systematic literature review, interviews, and a developed survey instrument to investigate the expectancies, values, and costs that are involved in motivating current Canadian ... -
Novel Current Sensor-less MPPT Algorithm for Solar Applications
This thesis presents a novel Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique for photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. The proposed method eliminates the need for current sensing by injecting high-frequency perturbations and ...
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