Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This is a 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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Life Skills Training for Therapy Assistant Students: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
College students often struggle with basic life skills such as meal preparation and managing finances, which may lead to challenges with academic performance, stress management, practicum performance, and employability. ... -
Investigating the Role of Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor in Cellular Antiviral Responses
Granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a secreted glycoprotein with many well-defined immune-modulating roles; GM-CSF recruits and promotes myeloid cell maturation and acts as a hematopoietic growth ... -
New Stereoselective and Stereospecific Methods for the Preparation of Polysubstituted Olefins and Acyclic α-Ternary Ketones Using Cyanohydrins
The cyanohydrin represents an important functional group in organic synthesis, which can be ascribed to its multidimensional role and the ability to be readily transformed into various functional groups via chemical and ... -
Regulation of the intestinal smooth muscle cell phenotype by the antifibrotic drug nintedanib
The phenotype of the intestinal smooth muscle cell (ISMC) is typically contractile and non- proliferative, but this can be modulated to allow for proliferation as a wound repair mechanism. While phenotypic modulation of ... -
Are Her Boots on the Ground? Women’s Deployment on NATO-led Operations
While women’s representation in many western military forces is increasing, the composition of troop contributions to NATO-led operations is not following suit, despite policy commitments acknowledging the importance of ... -
Unbelonging and the Citizen-Other in Canada and France
Through a theorization of the production of the citizen-other, this dissertation investigates how "radicalization", "terrorism", and "laïcité" have been mobilized to erode citizenship rights of Muslims in two primary sites, ... -
The Neighbourhood Physical Environment and the 24-Hour Movement Behaviour Composition Among Children
INTRODUCTION: The combination of time spent in physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep within a day is known as the 24-hour movement behaviour composition. Recent research using compositional data analysis (CoDA), ... -
Robustness to Approximations and Model Learning in MDPs and POMDPs
This thesis develops a topological approach to robustness to incorrect-incomplete models in MDPs and POMDPs, and applications of this study to approximations, model learning and reinforcement learning. In the first part ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF NANOPLASMONIC PLATFORMS FOR PORTABLE SENSING APPLICATIONS
In the last decade, the need for faster, real-time and highly sensitive methods to characterize biomolecular interactions has yielded tremendous progress in the development of label-free biosensor techniques. The rapid ... -
Compositional Associations of Time Spent in Sleep, Screen Time, and Physical Activity with Polysubstance Use in Adolescents
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the movement behavior composition (time spent in sleep, screen time, and physical activity) and polysubstance use in adolescents. Methods: This ... -
Unsettling Notions of “Islamic Art” and the “Other”: Representations of Islamic Cultures in Contemporary Art in North America and the Middle East
Islamic art is a diverse field, but it is commonly miscategorized and undervalued as a result of Western bias in both historical and contemporary contexts. As a response to this limitation in the scholarly study of Islamic ... -
DIGITAL FINANCIAL REPORTING AND FIRM PRODUCTIVITY
I examine the effect of digital financial reporting on firm productivity. To the extent that digital communication of corporate financial data fundamentally changes how firm-specific information is disclosed, released, and ... -
Measurements of a DC Gas Discharge
To investigate properties of gas discharges and to evaluate the design and implementation of a Langmuir probe diagnostic, an array of several probes was designed and inserted into an intermediate pressure direct-current ... -
The Role of Codes of Conduct and Mentoring as Social Controls that Encourage Honesty
Organizations typically lose 5% of their annual revenues to fraud (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners [ACFE], 2020). Despite the extensive investment in anti-fraud controls, reported fraud statistics are not declining ... -
Military Grade: Maurice Tugwell, the Centre for Conflict Studies and Counterinsurgency on the Canadian Campus.
Towards charting the epistemological expansion of Anglo-American securitization priorities in the service of neoliberal economic modelling, into Canada, this thesis examines the regimented and regulated expansion of the ... -
Valley polarization in biased bilayer graphene using circularly-polarized light
There exist two inequivalent local minima in graphene's electronic band structure known as valleys or Dirac points which are labelled K and K'. The valley index is binary and the concept of using this two-state system to ... -
Neutron Calibration System for the Cryogenic Underground Test Facility (CUTE)
The mystery of Dark Matter in our universe has puzzled scientists over the past century, and a large number of experimental ventures have been conducted hoping to find an answer. The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle ... -
Male advertisement calling tactics in northern and southern populations of spring peepers (pseudacris crucifer)
The evolution of reproductive isolation is the foundation of species formation but identifying the factors that underlie this process can be challenging. Reproductive isolation can arise because of ecological divergence ... -
Individual Heterogeneity in Ecology and Evolution
Among-individual variation in vital rates, such as mortality rates and birth rates, can generate substantial diversity across individual life histories that scales up to influence population-level processes. The effects ... -
USING VIRTUAL SIMULATION GAMING IN HEALTH SCIENCE EDUCATION: ENHANCING COMPETENCY IN TOBACCO BRIEF INTERVENTIONS
Background: Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death worldwide. Health care professionals (HCP) play a crucial role in motivating clients to reduce or quit tobacco, however, few ...
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