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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MULTI-SENSOR BASED LAND VEHICLES’ POSITIONING IN CHALLENGING GNSS ENVIRONMENTS
The car industry has a growing demand for reliable, continuous, and accurate positioning information for various applications, including routing to a specific destination, asset tracking, and, eventually future self-driving. ... -
Seasonal ground surface change detected by DInSAR at Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut
Differential interferometry of synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) analysis can be used to generate high-precision surface displacement maps in continuous permafrost environments, capturing isotropic surface subsidence and ... -
Implications of macrophage recruitment and activation in the immunopathophysiology of endometriosis
Endometriosis is an inflammatory gynaecological disease that affects 1 in 10 women globally. Characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissues found proliferating outside the uterus, the disease is associated with ... -
PREDICTING THE DOWNSTREAM IMPACTS OF HEADWATER BURIAL IN KEMPTVILLE CREEK WATERSHED (ONTARIO) USING THE SWAT MODEL
Headwater streams can compose up to 80% of the total stream length within a watershed but remain most susceptible to stream burial during land use change or management. Rerouting streams into tile drains, canals, non-perforated ... -
Accelerated Monte-Carlo Techniques for Modeling of Chain Architecture and Semi-Batch Radical Polymerization Process Optimization
This thesis introduces a new strategy to develop a comprehensive stochastic polymerization simulation with the capacity of considering the secondary reactions attributed to the radical acrylate/methacrylate/styrene ... -
PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND WELL INSTALLATION OPTIMIZATION FOR CONTAMINANT PLUME DELINEATION
Groundwater contamination by dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) continues to be a significant environmental problem. DNAPL site characterization forms the basis of DNAPL site remediation success and requires attention. ... -
Autonomous Misdirection
This thesis will examine how the way we experience knowledge has changed due to the ubiquity of electronic media. Specifically, there will be an examination of how the new digital media – and social media in particular – ... -
Variations in government spending across time and countries: evidence and theory
This dissertation examines the sources of government spending variations across time and countries. Overall, both theory and evidence indicate that government spending variations originate not only from economic forces, ... -
N-Heterocyclic Carbene as Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold and Carbon
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have been shown to be exceptional ligands for molecular coordination chemistry due to their ability to form strong carbon-metal bonds. Only recent, our group and others have demonstrated that ... -
Patient narratives and medical decision making: The role of transportation in treatment selection bias
Patient decision aids (PDAs) are tools that help patients select a treatment option for a medical condition. PDAs often include narratives about other patients’ experiences, but this inclusion may lead to biased decisions ... -
Conceptualization of Community Wellness in Three First Nations Communities
Introduction: It is well known, and well documented that Indigenous conceptualizations of wellness differ from Western conceptualizations. Using Western parameters and formulations to appraise Indigenous health and wellness ... -
Using a Novel Complexity-based Human Dissection Course for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners of Physical Manipulation: Utility and Effect on Clinical Practice
Background and Purpose: There will always be a discrepancy between theory and practice. The coevolution of the theory and practice of anatomy has become more difficult with the passage of time, and the advancement of ... -
Lightweight Authenticated Encryption for Vehicle Controller Area Network
Vehicle manufacturers are installing a large number of Electronic Control Units (ECU) inside vehicles. ECUs communicate among themselves via a Controller Area Network (CAN) to ensure better user experience and safety. CAN ... -
THE ADVANCEMENT OF HADAMARD-TRANSFORM EXCITATION-EMISSION-MATRIX SPECTROSCOPY
A multiplexed approach to multidimensional fluorescence spectroscopy is presented. Numerous modifications were made to a home-built Hadamard-Transform Excitation-Emission Matrix (EEM) spectrometer resulting in a greatly ... -
Norms, Reasons, and Moral Progress
In the literature of moral progress, there is an ongoing debate over the role of moral reasoning in enabling large-scale behavioural change. On the one hand, rationalists argue that more and better moral reasoning is key ... -
Assessing long-term changes in chironomid assemblages linked to past fluctuations in Leach’s Storm-Petrel populations on islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean
Nutrient loading is an important factor that can indirectly deplete dissolved oxygen concentrations in lakes. In environments where seabirds nest and breed, guano is a prominent source of nutrients that can eutrophy ... -
The Peer Context of Sexual Harassment in Early Adolescence
This dissertation is composed of three studies that examined the relationship between early adolescents’ sexual harassment experiences (as targets, witnesses, and perpetrators) and the peer environments in which they are ... -
Deep Learning for Legal and Medical Text Analytics
Applications of deep learning using text have shown wide success in detecting human emotions, analyzing social media feeds, classifying text and creating compressed representations. While deep learning has been widely ... -
Hypoxia and the metabolic phenotype of Daphnia
Environmental hypoxia is a phenomenon in which low oxygen conditions force organisms to respond behaviourally and physiologically to survive in an otherwise lethal habitat. Animals display different mechanisms to cope with ... -
Investigating Efficiency and Stability of Gait Using a Two Triaxial IMU Sensor System
This work aimed to develop a simple, two-sensor system to measure gait efficiency and stability. The system was tested by measuring the compromised gait pattern of 15 healthy adults (aged 18-30). The gait pattern was altered ...
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