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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The Performance of HDPE Geomembrane Fusion and Bituminous Geomembrane Seams
The properties of geomembrane (GMB) sheet material and seams are critical factors controlling the design life of a constructed barrier system. In particular, the resistance to stress cracking and retention of antioxidants ... -
"Our Kind of Love": Black and White Interracial Relationships in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ontario
The subject of Black and White interracial relationships is one that has been neglected in the existing historiography of Black Canadian studies. Historically, scholars have treated these relationships as salacious stories ... -
Attentive Cross-Modal Connections for Learning Multimodal Representations from Wearable Signals for Affect Recognition
We propose cross-modal attentive connections, a new dynamic and effective technique for multimodal representation learning from wearable data. Our solution can be integrated into any stage of the pipeline, i.e., after any ... -
TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF COST-EFFECTIVE DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS: AN INVESTIGATION OF TRANSACTION PROCESSING TIMES ON THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM
Ethereum is one of the most popular blockchain platforms for the development of blockchain-powered applications (i.e. ÐApps). When engineering ÐApps, developers need to translate requests captured in the frontend of their ... -
Multistream Gaze Estimation with Anatomical Eye Region Isolation by Synthetic to Real Transfer Learning
We propose a novel neural pipeline, MSGazeNet, that learns gaze representations by taking advantage of the eye anatomy information through a multistream framework. Our proposed solution comprises two components, first a ... -
Dynamic Reinforcement Learning-based Resource Allocation For Grant-Free Access
Cellular networks have evolved to deliver high-speed broadband services to support the requirements of IoT applications, which demand high speed, low latency, and massive capacity. A primary market goal is to provide support ... -
FAMILY QUALITY OF LIFE IN ETHIOPIA: EXPLORING THE PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILY MEMBERS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND SUPPORT PROVIDERS
Background: Family quality of life (FQOL) is an important outcome for families of children with disabilities globally; however, minimal research has focused on families in low-income contexts, specifically in Africa. ... -
Oh The Places You'll Go: The Assessment of Self-Regulation in Grade 1 to 3 Classrooms
In the 21st century a greater emphasis has been placed on learning skills, such as self-regulation, to help prepare students for their academic future and time beyond school. Research has indicated a predictive relationship ... -
Baked in like a muffin: the culture of whiteness in Ontario elementary schools
As a newly certified teacher in 2015, I began my teaching journey in the Peel District School Board with limited experience developing my critical consciousness nor recognizing the importance of doing so. I thought teaching ... -
Blue Planet: Place, Paradox, and Staying on Earth in Contemporary Science Fiction
This project examines the intersection of contemporary environmental and social anxieties present in the science fiction (sf) of the 2010s by close reading and analyzing a range of sf texts, films, and other multimedia ... -
EVALUATING NEW ADJUVANT COMBINATIONS FOR IMPROVING PRE-CLINICAL CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY IN A B16-MELANOMA MODEL
Whole tumour cell vaccines require the cells to be dead or dying, constituting a dead tumour cell vaccine (DTCV). A DTCV alone can be poorly immunogenic and requires the addition of adjuvants to promote a robust anti-tumour ... -
Fantasies of Containment: Entanglements Between the Nuclear Family and Therapeutic Culture in the Making of the Self
This dissertation is about the way that larger power dynamics are rendered invisible at the very site where they are felt most acutely: in our own bodies and in our most intimate relations. Using the white, middle-class ... -
Olfactory Bulb Proteome Changes in Response to Alzheimer's Disease-Related Pathologies in Mouse and Rat Models
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, and it is one of the leading causes of death globally. Identification and validation of biomarkers that herald the onset and progression of AD is of paramount ... -
Corporal Punishment Bans, Childhood Adversity, and Adolescent Suicide Rates: An International Ecological Study
Corporal punishment is associated with poor mental health outcomes, including suicidal behaviour, in adolescents. At a population level, legislation banning corporal punishment is associated with many health outcomes in ... -
Determination of Nickel and Platinum Species in Electrolyte Solutions With Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Coupled to Cation Exchange Chromatography
Two methods utilizing cation exchange chromatography (CEC) coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) were developed in this thesis. The first method, for direct determination of trace nickel concentrations ... -
PKA INHIBITION DURING FGD1 DYSREGULATION UNMASKS A DOMINANT ROLE FOR RHOGDI⍺ IN COORDINATING THE ANGIOGENIC ACTIONS OF CDC42
Angiogenic sprouting, the growth of blood vessels from pre-existing vasculature, underlies normal development, but its dysregulation contributes to the pathologies of life-threatening medical conditions, including cancer ... -
EVALUATING THE GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOTA OF HOSPITALIZED NEONATES USING CULTUROMICS AND METAGENOMICS
Background: The developing gastrointestinal microbiota (GIM) of neonates plays an important role in long and short-term health. ‘Culturomics’, the use of specialized media in conjunction with metagenomics has the potential ... -
Comparison and Continuity Properties of Equilibrium Values in Information Structures for Stochastic Games
In stochastic games where players measure a cost-relevant exogenous state variable through measurement channels, an information structure is the joint probability measure induced on the state space and player measurement ... -
Down the TikTok Rabbit Hole: Testing the TikTok Algorithm’s Contribution to Right Wing Extremist Radicalization
(EN) Using a new moderately conservative TikTok profile, and insight from an auto-ethnographic exploration, this study suggests TikTok’s loose guidelines, inaction, and recommendation algorithms have the potential to ... -
Moral Phenomenology in a More-Than-Human World: A New Approach to Buddhist Environmental Ethics
This dissertation works to accomplish two goals. First, it defends Jay Garfield’s interpretation of Buddhist ethics as a moral phenomenology and develops this ethical system through the Tibetan framework of lta sgom spyod ...
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