Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This is an on-line collection of the Queen's University Masters Degree and PhD Theses and Dissertations. Submissions are limited to officially registered Queen's University graduate students, only.
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Feature Engineering and End-to-End Deep Learning in Tool Wear Monitoring
Machinery health monitoring is an important tool for improving the productivity of today's manufacturers. Two data-driven techniques are prominent in machinery health monitoring: feature engineering and end-to-end deep ... -
Ruling Islamists’ Approaches to Minorities in Sudan and Turkey
Ruling Islamists’ interactions with ethnic minorities have been largely understudied and undertheorized. This research study examines ruling Islamists’ treatment of minorities, asking two questions. The first question is ... -
EXPLORING FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS TO MEETING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CANADIAN 24- HOUR MOVEMENT GUIDELINES FOR ADULTS
The majority of university students do not meet the recommended amounts of physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviour (SB) and sleep, which can impact academic success. The forthcoming Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines ... -
Neural Correlates of Sexual Response: An ERP Investigation of Responses to De-Contextualized Sexual Cues
Sexual response relies on the perceptual and cognitive processing of sexual stimuli. With its high temporal resolution, the event-related potential (ERP) technique offers an ideal tool for studying early processes involved ... -
BDSM and Women’s Gendered Embodiment: Other-Than-Sex Pleasure, Pain, and Power
Bondage/Discipline/Dominance/submission/Sadism/Masochism (BDSM) is most frequently conceptualized as only non-normative, ‘kinky’ sex. In this dissertation, I combine feminist ethnographic accounts of women’s experiences ... -
Essays on US Business Dynamics
This dissertation investigates the life cycle dynamics of US firms. In Chapter 2, I summarize a set of recent trends which I refer to as the ``Decline in US Business Dynamism". I then build and calibrate a model of firm ... -
Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing-based Parts Consolidation of an Aircraft Avionics Pedestal
An avionics pedestal is the structure located in the center of the cockpit that houses the flight controls and critical electronics for the operation of the aircraft. This thesis presents a parts consolidation design ... -
Fluid-Structure Interaction of Large Viscoelastic Vessels Under Pulsatile Conditions
The current threshold diameter for aortic aneurysm repair is based on Laplace's law. However, aneurysms below this threshold have undergone dissection, while some larger aneurysms remain stable. An accurate understanding ... -
The Compositional associations of time spent in sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity with all-cause mortality
INTRODUCTION: Daily time spent in sleep, sedentary behaviour (SED), light intensity physical activity (LIPA), and moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) are compositional, co-dependent variables. The ... -
Sessile Droplet Microfluidic Platforms for Improvements in Mass Spectrometry Sample Preparation
Sessile droplet microfluidic devices (SDMF) allow for small, uniform liquid volumes to be arrayed, addressed, and manipulated independently. SDMF platforms diverge from typical flow-based lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices while ... -
PROSPECTIVE BINDER SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF GUANINE QUADRUPLEXES
Guanine Quadruplex (G4) architectures have been a hot research topic for decades, claiming much of their fame due to their demonstrated potential for regulating various diseases, such as cancer, infections, and neurological ... -
MACHINE LEARNING ENHANCEMENTS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN MINERAL EXPLORATION AND IMPROVED MINERAL RESOURCE CLASSIFICATION
Contemporary issues of the mining industry, such as declining grades, increasing depth of deposits, cost per discoveries and demand for the raw materials are driving the mining industry to develop and adopt improved ... -
Re-imagining Canada’s Child Welfare Paradigm: A Collective Ethnographic Case Study of Canadian and Finnish Child Welfare Systems
This dissertation analyzes state-family relations in Canada, and collectively alongside Finland, as they relate to mothering and child welfare. In response to calls from the Canadian Federal Ministry of Child and Youth ... -
Unsupervised Multi-Modal Representation Learning using Convolutional Autoencoders for Affective Computing with Wearable Data
With recent developments in smart technologies, there has been a growing focus on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for affective computing to further enhance the user experience through emotion ... -
On Optimal Codes for Additive Noise Channels
One of the fundamental goals of coding theory is to find optimal codes, in terms of achieving the largest probability of correct decoding. Most of the foundational works on optimal codes use three assumptions. First, ... -
Toll-like receptor mediated responses to adsorbed damage-associated molecular patterns on biomaterial surfaces
The foreign body reaction is a chronic inflammatory response to an implanted biomaterial that ultimately leads to fibrous encapsulation of the implant. It is widely accepted that the host response to implanted biomaterials ... -
The Role of Sociability in Political Philosophy
This dissertation identifies, and argues in support of, the fundamentally important role that accounts of sociability play in the project of political philosophy. I will show that assumptions about the nature of human ... -
A Deep Learning Network for Validation of 3D Point Cloud Surface Registration
This thesis proposes a novel deep learning architecture called ValidNet to automatically validate the correctness of a 3D surface registration outcome. The performance of many tasks such as object detection mainly depends ... -
Repeats-In-Toxin Adhesion Proteins: What Makes Them Stick?
Bacteria use adhesion proteins (adhesins) to bind substrates on biotic and abiotic surfaces to initiate biofilm formation. These bacterial communities can be detrimental to a host when, for example, they cause teeth plaques, ... -
Changes in climate and catchment processes over the middle and late Holocene in the boreal region of northeastern Ontario, Canada
The climate of North America has varied substantially over the Holocene. Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) warmth occurred earlier in the west with associated aridity, compared to the east which was humid. Specific regions ...
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