Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Bachelor of Health Science Online Program: a Look at Program Development Through the Eye of the Curriculum Committee Members
Delivery of an online education model is a trend that is increasing in popularity in today’s day and age. Although not a recent phenomenon, the technological development within the world of distance education would make ... -
Back Analysis of a Tunnelling Case Study in Weak Rock of the Alpine System in Northern Greece: Validation and Optimization of Design Analysis Based on Ground Characterization and Numerical Simulation
(2009-09-02)The backdrop for this research paper is the tunnelling that is currently nearing completion in the Epirus region of Northern Greece, as part of the Egnatia Odos Highway construction. Highly deformed and altered sediments ... -
Back and Forth: Prediction and Interactive Alignment in Conversation
On a daily basis, we engage in multiple conversations with others that seem to occur effortlessly. Despite this apparent ease, the cognitive processes involved in conversation are complex. The challenges associated with ... -
Background Measurement Techniques and Sensitivity Studies for the SNO+ Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search
(2016-05-30)The control of radioactive backgrounds will be key in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay at the SNO+ experiment. Several aspects of the SNO+ back-grounds have been studied. The SNO+ tellurium purification process ... -
Bacterial low temperature survival, ice nucleation proteins and ice-associating polymers
(2010-01-29)Microorganisms have developed ways to preserve cellular functions under low temperature conditions using a variety of biochemical adaptations including the modification of ice formation. In order to conduct a limited survey ... -
A balancing act between the 'Src-Stat3' and 'p53-caldesmon' pathways dictates the outcome of Src-induced invasive phenotypes
(2010-01-11)Cell migration and invasion are essential physiological processes required for the growth and development of all multicellular organisms. However, they have also been implicated in the pathogenesis of certain vascular ... -
Balancing Energy Demands with the Potential for Threat in the Environment
(2008-09-19)In their natural environment animals must balance their safety requirements (i.e., avoiding predation) with their need to satisfy their energy demands (i.e., securing food). How the brain integrates these competing demands ... -
Ballet's Legacies: Beyond the Phallic Pointe
This thesis examines how an embodied aesthetic of classical ballet comes into being through modernities’ discourses and material realities of nation, state, colonialism, heterosexuality and their constitutive logics. ... -
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 Barkhausen Noise Testing System for CANDU Feeder Pipes
(2009-07-22)A Barkhausen noise (BN) testing system was developed for the non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of residual stresses in CANDU reactor feeder pipes. The system consists of a four-channel arbitrary waveform flux control system ... -
Barriers and Solutions to Open Source Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Development: Innovation Through Collaboration
(2011-08-16)It has been proposed that the field of appropriate technology (AT) - small-scale, energy efficient and low-cost solutions, can be of tremendous assistance in many of the sustainable development challenges, such as food and ... -
Basin Analysis and the Evaluation of Critical Factors for Unconformity-Related Uranium Mineralization, Paleoproterozoic Western Thelon and Otish Basins, Canada
(2011-01-31)Two Paleoproterozoic basins, the western Thelon Basin, and the Otish Basin, Canada, were investigated using basin analysis to evaluate critical factors for the formation of unconformity-related uranium deposits. The results ... -
Basin-Scale Waves Dynamics and Sediment Resuspension Mechanics in Central Lake Erie
(2012-12-20)High-resolution physical and biogeochemical field data in central Lake Erie during the summers of 2008-2009 along with a three-dimensional numerical model were used to investigate the dynamics of basin scale waves and ... -
Basketball With(out) Borders: Interrogating the Intersections of Sport, Development, and Capitalism
(2010-03-18)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the intersection of sport for development and peace (SDP) and global corporate philanthropy through a case study of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) “Basketball Without ... -
Batch and Bench-Scale Fixed-Bed Column Evaluations of Heavy Metal Removals From Aqueous Solutions and Synthetic Landfill Leachate Using Low-Cost Natural Adsorbents
(2008-02-01)In this project, three separate experiments were conducted to assess heavy metal removal from metal aqueous solutions and synthetic landfill leachate by adsorption using low-cost natural adsorbents. Fundamental batch ... -
Battery Characterization and Optimization for use in Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Hardware-in-the-loop duty cycle testing
(2011-03-01)Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) with all-electric range (AER) combine battery driven electric motors with traditional internal combustion engines in order to reduce emissions emitted to the atmosphere, especially ... -
A Bayesian Approach to Convergence Detection in Underground Excavations using LiDAR
(2016-04-29)This thesis deals with the subject of convergence detection in underground excavations --- typically mining operations. Traditional methods for convergence monitoring involve operose surveying procedures that produce ... -
Bayesian Detection of a Change in a Random Sequence with Unknown Initial and Final Distributions
Quickest detection is a class of detection problems whereby the objective is to identify a change in distribution of an observed sequence of random variables as quickly as possible. Quickest detection has been applied to ... -
A Bayesian/MCMC Approach to Galaxy Modelling: NGC 6503
(2010-01-11)We use Bayesian statistics and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques to construct dynamical models for the spiral galaxy NGC 6503. The constraints include surface brightness profiles which display a Freeman Type II ... -
Bazin-Brecht-Straub
In the wake of the ‘post-political’ turn and the foreclosure of politics as a productive space of “contestation and agonistic engagement” (Wilson and Swynegedouw 6) in the neoliberal age, this project seeks to return to ...