Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects
This community is a joint endeavour of the School of Graduate Studies and Research and the Library to make available Queen's University graduate theses and projects in electronic form via the university's digital repository, QSpace.
Depositing their theses, dissertations and graduate projects in QSpace, offers Queen's graduate students timely, broad exposure of their research to other researchers, students and prospective students.
Graduate Projects. Students who submit a research project and master's essays in fulfillment of their degree requirements, instead of thesis, deposit their projects in the Graduate Projects Collection.
QSpace also offers an opportunity to preserve supplementary material that may currently become lost in paper format, such as data sets, images, performances, etc.
For more information on SGSR thesis requirements, click here .
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IMPLICATIONS OF FIBER NONLINEARITIES ON COHERENT OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS
A primary objective of optical system design is to satisfy the ever-increasing capacity demand for communication services. Fulfilling this target by increasing the cardinality of modulation formats is at the expense of a ... -
Whose Government and What Law? A Political Sociological Investigation of Corruption in Lebanon and its Effect on Government, Legality, and the People
Levels of corruption in Lebanon are at an all-time high. According to the Transparency International Index, Lebanon ranks 143rd out of 180 in level of corruption (with 180 being the worst). The citizens are also disenchanted ... -
Integration of GNSS Precise Point Positioning and Inertial Technologies for Land Vehicle Navigation
The last decade has witnessed a growing demand for precise positioning in many applications such as autonomous car navigation and precision agriculture. Precise positioning can be obtained from the global navigation satellite ... -
Formation of a Normative Comparison Base by Physiological Factors, Personality Dimensions and Neural Correlates
Introduction: There is variance in a healthy population, but it is poorly characterized and understood. Variations can come from common factors like demographics, experience of early life stress (ELS), physiological factors ... -
Control of nonholonomic mechanical systems using virtual surfaces
In this report we study the modelling of simple mechanical systems evolving on trivial principal bundles, specifically \emph{locomotion} systems with nonholonomic constraints. We show how we can model motion via group ... -
Exploiting the Unique Plasmonic Phenomenon of Metallic Nanostructures for Sensing and Biosensing Applications
Real-time, accurate sensing promoted by analytical sensors is extremely important for advances in drug discovery, disease diagnosis and for studying biological systems. In particular, label-free surface plasmon resonance ... -
Childhood Parental Invalidation and Young Adult Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent behaviour that serves many functions, but is associated with increased distress, impairment, and risk of death by suicide (Andover, Morris, Wren, & Bruzzese, 2012; Burke, ... -
Territorial Control and Minority Reforms: A Study of the Kurdish Borderlands in Turkey
This study seeks to explain the failure of the Kurdish Opening in Turkey. I theorize that an important, hitherto largely ignored, factor in explaining this failure is the state’s policy of territorial control, which has ... -
Fine-Scale Ground Surface Vertical Displacement and Soil Water Processes in the Canadian High Arctic
The fine-scale physical response of soils to thaw, ice content and soil water conditions in the High Arctic are poorly understood. This thesis introduces the topic and identifies knowledge gaps in the literature and secondly, ... -
Mundane Surveillance: Tracking mobile applications and urban accounting in Canadian Business Improvement Areas
In response to splintering streetscapes and in order to remain relevant amidst “smart cities” and “urban big data”, Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) have moved away from clipboards and ledgers, to become early adopters ... -
N-heterocyclic Carbene Synthesis Towards Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold
Modifying surfaces with self assembled monolayers (SAMs) is a simple and effective way to create functional materials. Traditionally compounds containing a thiol head group are used to generate SAMs on gold surfaces. ... -
Multi-Stage Electrolysis for Reduction of Electricity Consumption in Hydrogen Production
A novel approach to perform electrolysis in stages is developed for reducing the share of electric work in the process and replacing the same with thermal energy. The study is divided into two parts, the first part is a ... -
Names Versus Numbers: Exploring how planning for social inclusion could help alleviate the stigmatization of poverty in a small town
(2019-06-04)While poverty is often measured and understood as a comparison of income or lack of material goods, literature reveals the importance in understanding intangible elements of one’s well-being, such as happiness, self-esteem ... -
Theory and Modelling of Pulse-Driven Quantum Dots in Nanophotonic Structures
Quantum dots (QDs) integrated in nanophotonic environments provide an excellent platform for quantum information technologies and engineerable light-matter interactions. One application is a solid-state single photon source ... -
Direct Energy Measurement of Short Hydrogen Bonds in Solution by 17O NMR Spectroscopy
Hydrogen bonding interactions are of paramount importance in many chemical and biological processes. Although the physicochemical parameters to identify hydrogen bonds (HBs) have been established in the literature, direct ... -
Partitioning resources through the seasons: a test of the competitive ability – cold tolerance trade-off hypothesis in seasonally breeding beetles
Understanding the factors that maintain and constrain biodiversity and species coexistence is a major goal in ecology. Closely related species that use similar resources often differ in their seasonal patterns of activity, ... -
Evaluation of Open Source Software Platform For Transperineal In-Bore MRI-Guided Targeted Prostate Biopsy
Current targeted prostate biopsy methods often rely on commercial systems to support the procedure. These systems tend to lack the export of analysis results for secondary analysis studies used in research. Transperineal ... -
Does Gender Play a Role?: Judges and Trial Outcomes in Sexual Assault Cases in Canada
Canada undertook a major reform of the laws surrounding rape beginning in 1983. As a result of this reform, rape was re-conceptualized as ‘sexual assault’, and laws surrounding consent and earlier sexual history were ... -
Simulations and validation of an axial-flow pit turbine
The geometric design of an axial-flow pit-turbine is essential as flow separation will decrease turbine efficiency. In this thesis, steady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) simulations were conducted with a two-equation ... -
Advanced digital modulation formats for optical coherent transmission systems
Field modulation with coherent detection leverages the use of optical channel bandwidth and allows mitigating transmission impairments by exploiting the two quadrature components of the optical carrier and providing a ...
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