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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Institutional Feedback and Coalition Politics: The Case of School Choice Policies in Advanced Democracies
This dissertation seeks to identify the political forces that have driven the shift towards school choice in advanced democracies and to explain the variation in policy outcomes observable in these countries. To do so, it ... -
Time-Dependency and Long-Term Strength of Rocks - Limitations, Interpretation, and Application in Finite Difference Continuum Models
Many constitutive models have been developed to aid the engineer or scientist in the analysis of material yielding and deformations in the field of rock mechanics. Many of the classical constitutive formulations used are ... -
Exploring measurement and ground thermal influences of snow depth in Nunatsiavut, NunatuKavut and Nitassinan
Snow depth is an essential climate variable critical to global energy balance, basin scale hydrology, vegetation change and human livelihoods. It holds special significance in Indigenous northern communities such as those ... -
Towards a postneoliberal health promotion: A journey of reifying, resisting, and reimagining health promotion in and through sport
At its core, this dissertation is about confronting, and working toward dismantling the ideology of healthism as a key technology of neoliberalism, and specifically in how it manifests in and through behavioural forms of ... -
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Packaging Optimization
Packing, packaging, and layout optimization is required for efficient systems design within a wide range of industries. The increasing demand for lighter, smaller, and more efficient designs to be rapidly produced has ... -
Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Water Temperature from 1985-2020 in Eastern Ontario
Land Cover Change (LCC) has been shown to significantly impact the magnitude and trend of Land Surface Temperature (LST), locally where it occurs. Waterbodies serve as local climate moderators where nearby LCC has the ... -
Security by Design: Reducing Information Exchange in Multi-Agent Search Tasks
Intrinsic to multi-agent systems is the trait of inter-agent dependency on information exchange. During safety-critical tasks, errors in information exchange between agents can lead to vulnerable system behaviour. Consequently, ... -
Neoliberal Pressures, Neoliberal Responses: The Strategic Utilization of Gender in the Canadian Settlement Sector and Implications for Immigrant Women’s Service Organizations
This dissertation examines the effects of neoliberalism within immigrant women’s service organizations and the delivery of gender-specific programs in the Canadian settlement sector. The influence of neoliberalism within ... -
Population genetic differentiation and hybridization in the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
Climate change poses a significant threat to the future of Arctic ecosystems. To effectively conserve Arctic species, genetically differentiated populations must be defined for adaptive and neutral genetic variation to be ... -
Detection of Antibiotic Resistance in Enterococcus spp. by Growth Kinetics Measurements in the Presence of Vancomycin Using the Detection System from TECTA-PDS
The spread of antibiotic resistant organisms has increased in different water environments. This originates from the disposal of antibiotics from hospital wastes, irrigation from farms, domestic antibiotic drug disposal ... -
INVESTIGATION INTO POTENTIAL MAGMATIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS: METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR LA-ICP-MS ANALYSIS OF FLUID INCLUSIONS AND CRITICAL ASSESMENT OF THE WINDY CRAGGY DEPOSIT, NORTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
In recent years, the existence of variable magmatic contributions to the mineralizing fluids in the formation of volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits has been gaining acceptance in the scientific community. The ... -
ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION, AND PRACTICAL DESIGN OF A SPLIT-PHASE DICKSON SWITCHED CAPACITOR CONVERTER FOR HIGH CURRENT APPLICATIONS
The Switched-Capacitor Converter (SCC) topology has been gaining attention from researchers because of their advantages of higher power density, better switch utilization, and low component stress. However, SCCs have a ... -
Disturbing Silence: How the Student Movement Shaped Nixon’s Presidency and the Policies of America
President Richard M. Nixon’s fear and hatred of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) resulted in the SDS having an undue influence on his foreign policies. The SDS was a small faction of the larger Anti-Vietnam War ... -
Interweaving Iiyiyiu (Cree) Ways of Knowing and Land-Based Learning with Science Curriculum at Waapinichikush Elementary School, Chisasibi, Quebec
This study is the result of work done in close collaboration and partnership with local Cree (Iiyiyiu) teachers, Elders and community members at Waapinichikush Elementary School in Chisasibi, Quebec, to identify approaches ... -
Beta-Band EEG Activity and False-Belief Reasoning in Adults
The ability to reason about other’s beliefs, and in particular their false beliefs, is a fundamental part of having a theory of mind (ToM) – an understanding of the role that mental states (i.e., beliefs, desires, and ... -
Childhood Maltreatment and the Association with Life Dissatisfaction
This study examined the association between childhood maltreatment (witnessing violence in the household, and experiences of physical and emotional abuse by an adult prior to the age of 16,) and dissatisfaction with later ... -
Spatial Voting Models: A Dynamical Systems Approach
Spatial voting models have been used extensively to study factors affecting candidate positioning in elections. Most previous research has fixed candidate positioning at one point in time to determine optimal candidate ... -
Investigating ubiquitin-mediated turnover of the key immune signaling protein kinase BOTRYTIS INDUCED KINASE1
Plants are susceptible to infection from bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases; although sessile, they are far from defenseless. Plants have evolved complex immune systems for the detection of pathogens and initiation of ... -
Security of Short-Range Wireless Technologies and an Authentication Protocol for IoT
The number of wireless IoT (Internet of Thing) infrastructures is considerably growing as thousands of new devices are being connected everyday. This has allowed the emergence of various smart applications that have changed ... -
Stray Gas Migration: Multicomponent Mass Transfer Effects on Dissolution and Persistence of Gas in the Subsurface
As the development of deep geological gas reserves increases in the coming years, concern has been raised regarding potential environmental impacts including stray gas migration. The goal of this research was to improve ...