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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Microstructural Characterization of 3D Deposited Metal Structures
The microstructure of deposited materials is characterized using a variety of techniques. The two specific types of deposited materials studied are electrodeposited nickel and additive manufactured stainless steel. A focus ... -
Characterization and Age of North-Verging Back Structures in the Tethyan Sedimentary Sequence, Hidden Valley, Central Nepal Himalaya
(2006)Throughout the central Nepal Himalaya, the Tethyan sedimentary sequence (TSS) is structurally dominated by a train of north-verging folds, in apparent contradiction to the dominantly south-propagating Himalayan orogen. The ... -
O antigen biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria: Characterization of alpha1,4-glucosyltransferase WclY from Escherichia coli O117 and development of glycosyltransferase inhibitors.
Gram-negative bacteria have a polysaccharide coat (O antigen) consisting of repeating units of oligosaccharides that is assembled by glycosyltransferases. Many of these bacteria are associated with disease, and the ... -
The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism
This dissertation examines the intellectual origins of the Canadian federal government’s official policy of multiculturalism. The first half employs the methodology of historical biography and examines the life and thought ... -
Effect of Terminal Electron Acceptors on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Oil Sands Tailings
Surface mining of Alberta's oil sands produces large volumes of water and solid wastes stored in oil sands tailings ponds. Tailings ponds contain numerous contaminants that have negative effects on the environment (air, ... -
Modelling Methane Emissions from Arctic Lakes
Climate change in the Arctic is moving at a greater rate than the rest of the world, and the urgency of characterizing greenhouse gas emissions from water bodies located in high latitudes has become a subject of intensive ... -
Engagement of Children, Families, and Care Providers in the Selection or Development of Patient Reported Outcomes
BACKGROUND: The growing prevalence of chronic conditions in childhood calls for a child and family engaged approach to research. Engaging with children and families across the selection of outcomes and development of ... -
Towards a sustainable Arctic fishery: Population genomics of lake whitefish in a hybrid species complex
Genetic variation is an important predictor of population persistence under changing or stressful environmental conditions. Consequently, efforts to preserve genetic variation by identifying genetically distinct populations ... -
Provenance, mineralogy, geochemistry, geochronology and Pb isotope systematics of meta-siliciclastic rocks in the Mesoproterozoic Upper Vazante Sequence, Brazil: Implications for metal sources and base metal metallogeny
The objective of this research is to investigate the origin and evolution of meta-siliciclastic rocks within the Mesoproterozoic Upper Vazante Sequence (1300 to 1100 Ma) in order to improve understanding of metal sources ... -
Rhodium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation of Enolates and Homoenolates: Enantioselective Construction of α- and β-Stereogenic Carbonyl Compounds
The asymmetric alkylation of enolates is a particularly versatile method for the construction of -stereogenic carbonyl motifs, which are ubiquitous in synthetic chemistry. Over the past several decades, the focus has ... -
Pre-compensation of nonlinear distortion of a silicon microring modulator in short reach systems
Silicon photonics has attracted significant attention due to its compatibility with CMOS technology and the potential for both discrete and integrated devices. As a critical component in silicon-based communication systems, ... -
Crosstalk Signaling Between cAMP and Calcium on the Leading Edge of Migrating Human Arterial Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are phenotypically plastic. Thus, while the VSMCs in healthy blood vessels are ‘contractile’ and control vascular tone, these cells can increase their synthetic, migratory and proliferative ... -
Sustainable Masonry: Mortar Containing Biochar and Recycled Aggregate in Concrete Blocks
The building and construction industry is the third-largest producer of CO2 in Canada. Additionally, emissions from this industry are expected to go up by more than nine megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2 eq) ... -
Advanced Devolatilisation model for Lagrangian particles in OpenFOAM
To study the devolatilisation process associated with coal combustion, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a very useful tool. The aim of this thesis is to accurately model coal devolatilisation at high temperatures ... -
Partial Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of a Sandhoff Mouse Model
Sandhoff Disease (SD) is a rare genetic disorder which results in progressive neurodegeneration. SD is caused by a build-up of GM2 Gangliosides, a lipid which is stored in the lysosome of neurons. It can occur in infantile, ... -
Witnessing Public Drinking and its Relevance to Discrimination Against Individuals Living With Alcohol Use Disorders
Objective: The primary goal of this study was to determine if a relationship existed between how often a person perceives public drinking in their neighbourhood and if they discriminate against individuals living with ... -
Expert Tattooing: The Development of a Profession in Canada, 1891-1986
Expert Tattooing: The Development of a Profession in Canada, 1891-1986 examines professional tattooing in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the mid 1980s, a period that saw the practice’s emergence, expansion, and ... -
Electrical Double Layer in Polar and Nonpolar Media in the Presence of Surfactants
The objective of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the concept of electrical double layer (EDL). The EDL is the basis of all electrokinetic phenomena. Despite numerous studies in the span of over a century, ...
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