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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Geochemical and mineralogical characterization of arsenic in lake sediments impacted by legacy gold mining in the Yellowknife region
Arsenic concentrations in lake sediments in the Yellowknife region, Northwest Territories, Canada are elevated from the weathering of mineralized bedrock and/or from the mining and processing of arsenic (As)-bearing ores ... -
COMMISSIONING OF AN UPGRADED EQUINOX-100 COBALT-60 RADIATION THERAPY UNIT IN THE VARIAN ECLIPSE TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM
The introduction of Cobalt 60 (Co 60) units in the 1950s established megavoltage radiation therapy worldwide. Unfortunately, advances for the Co 60 radiation treatment units were not heavily pursued over the years and Co ... -
HOW TO STAY CONNECTED IN AN ‘OFFLINE’ COUNTRY? STORIES OF CUBANS’ INTERNET EXPERIENCE
Since 2013, Cuban authorities have taken significant steps towards the regularization of public Internet access in the Island. Before that date, policies regarding the Internet benefited specific sectors and limited the ... -
Managing Competing Work Priorities Mindfully: A Multi-Level Investigation of Organizational Paradox and Mindfulness
Organizations are rife with paradox, or the seemingly contradictory yet interdependent forces that surface across organizational levels (Smith & Lewis, 2011). This dissertation seeks to answer the recent call for greater ... -
From Health Care to Self-Care: Workplace Wellness Programs and Health Discrimination
On March 2, 2017, a potential loophole to the United States Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) was presented to the United States Congress. Bill H.R.1313 seeks to amend the GINA, to allow companies to subject ... -
TREATING HUNGER: Medical Expertise, Nutritional Science, and the Development of Technical Food Solutions
This thesis traces the way hunger was transformed into a medical problem and humanitarian food relief mutated into medical treatment from the Second World War until contemporary times. I chart how the medicalization of ... -
SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE BIOSENSORS: NOVEL N-HETEROCYLIC CARBENE BASED SURFACES
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensing is a technique that is increasingly being used to investigate interactions between biomolecules due to its ability to be monitored in real-time and the lack of labelling needed. ... -
SHEAR STRESS AND FLOW-MEDIATED DILATION IN THE NORMOXIC AND HYPOXIC HUMAN
The endothelium is a single cell layer that plays a critical role in determining the health and function of blood vessels. Endothelial function is shaped by shear stress, the frictional force exerted by the speed of blood ... -
Traces of (Un-) Sustainability: Towards a Materially Engaged Ecology of Mind
Discussions of sustainability are usually framed within a dominant Cartesian dualistic paradigm as something that requires material changes in the world, for example, a new technological invention, or alternatively, new ... -
Painting a Portrait of Organizational Evaluation Capacity in the Canadian Art Museum sector
Not only is research on program evaluation practice and capacity in art museums largely absent, but also the actual dimensions of evaluation capacity as they could be observed in these unique professional settings have ... -
Augmented Reality Training Platform for Placement of Neurosurgical Burr Holes
Augmented reality has been used in neurosurgery to aid in the visualization of lesions, though it has not been widely adopted for simulation-based neurosurgical training. This work aims to determine if augmented reality ... -
Automated Generation of Language Use Vector Extractors from TXL Grammars
Software development continues to demand advanced features which current programming languages do not offer. Language developers constantly evolve their languages to simplify common tasks, make the language more natural ... -
Understanding and Supporting Student Thriving in the Ontario Kindergarten Classroom
Human thriving is often counterposed to survival and perceived as the ultimate achievable goal on a spectrum of human development and positive functioning. However, few researchers have attempted to directly tackle thriving ... -
Participation of Persons with Deafblindness in India
Worldwide research on deafblindness is sparse, particularly in low and middle-income countries such as India. Persons with deafblindness often experience participation barriers. Yet little is known about their lived ... -
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Carotid Ultrasound Imaging as Biomarkers to Determine the Severity of Atherosclerosis
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been the number one cause of death in the world for several decades and will continue to worsen as a global epidemic. The underlying cause of CVD is atherosclerosis: most myocardial infarctions ... -
Queer Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary
This Ph.D. is an ethnographic-activist-based project. It first examines the genealogy of popular nationalist-statist and religious enforcements of postcolonial cisheteronormativity in Egypt through the examination of two ... -
The Relationship Among Attachment, Empathy, and Caring in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Empathy and caring are the foundations upon which the fundamentals and principles of nursing practice are grounded, and help to delicately balance scientific knowledge and humanistic behaviours. Three nursing organizations ... -
Degradation and Crystallization Studies of Branched PLA Prepared by Reactive Extrusion
This thesis proposes strategies to improve the crystallinity and mechanical properties of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and investigates the effects of these modifications on hydrolytic degradation. The effect of long-chain ... -
INTEGRATING VISUAL ART AND LANGUAGE, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SCIENCE: UNIT PLANS FOR A TEACHING ARTIST
(2019-04)The broad purpose of the project was to explore what an arts partnership could look like. An arts partnership generally involves an artist—or “teaching artist”—from the community spending time in a classroom, working with ... -
The BEST Trials: Examining Brief Executive Skills Training for Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders
Cognitive remediation is an efficacious treatment for schizophrenia that focuses on enhancing neurocognitive abilities and improving community functioning. However, there is currently no gold-standard cognitive remediation ...
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