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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Advances in 5-(Hydroxymethyl)Furfural Production From Cellulose Via CO2-Catalysis
The global economy must make a radical shift to lower carbon emissions to avert large-scale impacts from climate change. Fuels derived from widely available biomass such as macroalgae, have the potential to limit the CO2 ... -
Optical Visualization of Two Phase Flow in PEM Electrolyzers
Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers are ideally suited to pairing with renewable energy sources given the capability to operate at high current densities and transition between different potential loading. ... -
Mechanisms of Social Cognition in Early Episode Psychosis
The mental abilities required to identify, understand, and respond to social information are broadly referred to as social cognition, and individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders display significant impairments ... -
Electrochemical Water Oxidation by Heterogenized Iridium-NHC Precatalyst
Hydrogen production from water splitting provides a potential source for clean energy storage. However, this process requires catalysts that can oxidize water to provide a source of electrons for proton reduction. Various ... -
Assessing long-term environmental trends in Ontario lakes that support Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush)
Oxygenated habitats for Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) are projected to deteriorate with climate warming. However, a paucity of long-term limnological monitoring data impedes the ability to determine if concentrations ... -
Suppression of the Efficiency Roll-Off Characteristics in Solution-Processed Lanthanide-based Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have gained a tremendous amount of interest, due to their applications in display and solid-state lighting technologies. This interest mainly arises from the easy and inexpensive ... -
Inequalities in Educational Choice and Outcomes
This thesis examines several topics relating to family background and educational achievement. Chapter 2 examines the influence of credit constraints and government policy on college choice and educational attainment in ... -
Modification of Polysaccharides and their Use as Pickering Emulsifiers in Oil/Water Emulsions, Miniemulsion, and Microsuspension Polymerization
Emulsion and suspension systems are the basis for the formulation of a wide variety of products including pharmaceuticals, consumables such as food, personal care or cosmetics and commodity materials such as adhesives, ... -
Robert Lowth's Hebraic Sublime and the "Ample Field of Poetry"
This dissertation is a study of Robert Lowth’s theorizing of the Hebraic sublime and its posterity in the second half of the eighteenth century. I begin with an exploration of Lowth’s description of the sublime across ... -
Confidence intervals and measures of significant change for KINARM Standard Tests
Neurological assessment plays a pivotal role in the overall diagnostic and prognostic process of patient care. The effectiveness of the various examinations and methods of neurological assessment are based on the accuracy ... -
Frictional Markets, Asset Liquidity and Business Cycles
This thesis consists of three essays that use dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models to study the interactions between the goods sector and the financial sector of the economy in the presence of search frictions ... -
Radical Copolymerization of Hydroxy-Functional Monomers
Solvent-borne acrylic resins are commonly used in automotive coatings formulations due to the superior characteristics they provide to the final products. Hydroxyl-functionality, incorporated by selection of 2-hydroxyethyl ... -
Screening Assessments for Aquatic Invasive Species Using Species Distribution Models
Invasive species are a major cause of biodiversity loss in North American freshwaters. Once established, aquatic invasive species (AIS) can restructure food webs and change the abiotic or physical conditions of a water ... -
Exploring Different Approaches to Improve the Analytical Performance of Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry with Pneumatic Nebulization or Electrothermal Vaporization
This thesis is aimed at exploring new diverse approaches for improving the analytical performance of inductively coupled plasma (ICP) optical emission spectrometry (OES) with pneumatic nebulization (PN) or electrothermal ... -
Novel Methods of Factor VIII Tolerance Induction in Hemophilia A Mouse Models
The most serious complication of factor VIII (FVIII) replacement therapy in hemophilia A (HA) patients remains the development of anti-FVIII antibodies (inhibitors). At this time, there are no methods to prevent inhibitor ... -
The Design and Personalization of Aim Assistance Algorithms
Aiming is the act of directing an action toward a target object, location, or direction. Many activities in games require aiming. In order for players to perform these activities successfully, they must be able to aim ... -
Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Early Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is diagnosed and treated primarily on the basis of histopathological assessment of biopsies and cancer extent. Unfortunately, this assessment, performed by pathologists on very small amounts of biopsy tissue, ... -
PDMS-Containing Polyurethane Forumulation for Anti-Smudge Coatings and Superhydrophobic Textiles
Durable and transparent anti-smudge coatings that repel both water- and oil-borne contaminants have many potential applications. Perfluorinated moieties were commonly used in the past to prepare water- and oil-repellant ... -
An Examination of Personal Financial Literacy Teaching and Learning in Ontario High Schools
The purpose of the study was to examine the experiences of current high school students, teachers, and high school graduates in Ontario regarding their experiences with personal financial curriculum and teaching at the ... -
‘To recover a sense of the sacred in ourselves and in everything around us’: Exploring the place of spirituality in Canadian health promotion
The field of health promotion advocates a socioecological approach to health which addresses a wide variety of physical, social, environmental, political and cultural factors. Encouraging a holistic approach, health promotion ...
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