Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This is a 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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Electrophysiology of memory consolidation and epileptogenesis in the primate mesial temporal lobe. Effects of focal seizures with impaired awareness
Epilepsy is a disorder characterized by unprovoked, recurrent seizures and affects approximately 350,000 Canadians. A third of this population have seizures that are refractory. This leaves over 100,000 people with ... -
Simulations and Observations of Galaxies Constrained through Scaling Relations
Understanding galaxy formation and evolution requires robust comparisons of observations and simulations of galaxies. This thesis contrasts rich observations of galaxies with simulations (hydrodynamical and semi-analytical ... -
The Neuromechanical Mechanisms of Exertional Dyspnea Across the Continuum of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Severity
Rationale: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have burdensome exertional dyspnea (breathlessness) during exercise, which is associated with an elevated inspiratory neural drive (IND). The neurophysiologic ... -
Dynamics of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential and Clinical Outcomes Following Chemotherapy in Lymphoma Patients
Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is a potentially premalignant condition of aging that arises upon the expansion of somatically mutated hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in hematological malignancy-free ... -
Numerical Study of Detonation Propagation in a Nonuniform Hydrogen-Oxygen Layer Bounded by an Inert Gas
This numerical study investigates the propagation failure and limits of a detonation through stoichiometric hydrogen-oxygen layer stratified above an inert gas with a diffuse interface at atmospheric pressure. The study ... -
Development of Two Novel Families of Platinum(Ii) Coordination Complexes for Nucleic Acid Recognition
Nucleic acids can adopt shapes other than the widely recognized double helix duplex form of DNA. In fact, they can also self-assemble into alternative higher order architectures, such as guanine quadruplexes (G4s). These ... -
Investigating the therapeutic potential of cannabidiol for Alzheimer’s disease: Using Caenorhabditis elegans that express the amyloid-beta protein
Roughly 55 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, and its prevalence is predicted to increase to about 139 million by 2050. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60-70% of ... -
From Military to Civilian Primary Care: A Study of Veteran Transition
Background: Military-to-civilian transition (MCT) is generally understood as the process of leaving military service and transitioning to civilian life. Each year, approximately 5000 Regular Force Canadian Armed Forces ... -
A Critical Laboratory Investigation of Multi-Stage Direct Shear Testing Procedures on Rock Joints Using Synthetic Replica Specimens
Direct shear testing is a common laboratory method used to define the geomechanical parameters of rock fractures for numerical inputs and rock engineering design. Of the standardized procedures, multi-stage direct shear ... -
Racializing Sexual Response: The Role of Identification and Racial Attitudes on Black and White Women’s Responses to Race Congruent and Incongruent Sexual Stimuli
Identification, or taking the actor’s perspective in a sexual film, is a strong predictor of women’s self-reported sexual arousal, and similarity between the viewer and actors in a film, such as similarity in race, is ... -
Three Essays on Optimal Decisions under Uncertainties or in the Presence of Strategic Customers
Three essays on decision-making form this thesis under uncertainties or in the presence of strategic customers. In the first essay, we studied subscription pricing. Subscriptions are agreements between customers and a ... -
Genomic evidence of long-term asexuality at the northern range limit of wetland plant, Decodon verticillatus (Lythraceae)
Many plant species shift from sexual to asexual reproduction at geographic range edges, but the impact of asexual reproduction on range expansion is largely unknown. If asexuality allows genotypes well-adapted to range ... -
Es-PACES on Mexican Campuses: Cultural Adaptation of the Physical Activity Campus Environmental Supports Audit
Introduction: Increasing physical activity is a global priority yet most physical activity promotion research comes from high-income countries. Physical activity research is needed in low- and middle-income countries, such ... -
Exploring Characteristics of Patients with Acute Low Back Pain in Ontario Primary Care Settings
Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a common and disabling condition. It impacts the individual, the community and the healthcare system. Patients with LBP are primarily managed in ambulatory settings such as primary care. ... -
Investigating the Effect of Anxiety on Test Takers’ Performance on a Large-scale High-stakes Computer-based English Listening and Speaking Test
Previous research have suggested that anxiety may affect test takers’ performance on high-stakes tests, such as the National College Entrance Examination (Guangdong) Computer-based English Listening and Speaking Test (the ... -
The Shelter of Prophets: A journey within autonomous migration networks
This MA thesis is a creative and poetic examination of everyday relationships and moments of cross-border solidarity taking place within informal autonomous mobility networks. It argues that in the connections and habits ... -
Towards a Theory of Ambient Capitalism: An Inquiry into How Data Creates ValueTowards a Theory of Ambient Capitalism: An Inquiry into How Data Creates Value
By asking foundational questions about data, specifically how it creates value in the market economy and the form in which it is traded in the market economy, this text constructs a new, more theoretical model to understand ... -
What is the role of phosphorylation of the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent glutamate decarboxylase isozyme, AtGAD1, in response to phosphate nutrition of Arabidopsis thaliana?
Orthophosphate (H2PO4−; Pi) is an essential but limiting macronutrient required for many fundamental aspects of plant metabolism, particularly photosynthesis and respiration. Pi starved (-Pi) plants elicit a Pi starvation ... -
Bucolic Irony: A Close Reading of Theocritus Idyll One
Irony, like many abstract Greek nouns, is difficult to pin down to a single definition. Through his sonorous hexameters, Theocritus immediately recalls the Greek oral poetic tradition. In addition to archaic epic traditions, ... -
Harnessing Digital Technologies for Entrepreneurial Innovation
This thesis, organized in a 3-paper format, explores the potential of digital technologies to support entrepreneurial innovation using a capability-based perspective. The fast emergence of powerful, readily accessible, and ...
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