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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Non-circular flows in HIghMass Galaxies in a Test of the Late Accretion Hypothesis
This thesis investigates the late accretion hypothesis as an explanation for the unusual gas-richness of the HIghMass sample, a collection of 34 galaxies from the recently completed Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey. Accretion ... -
COMPARISON OF FACULTY VERSUS STRUCTURED PEER FEEDBACK: IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNICAL SKILLS TRAINING
The surgical training environment has been required to adapt to multiple changes in recent years. Two challenges have placed significant burdens on traditional training methodology: the emerging need for critically reflective ... -
Unfinished Business: The New Wave of Women's Horror Cinema
My doctoral dissertation, “Unfinished Business: The New Wave of Women’s Horror Cinema,” responds to early considerations in feminist horror studies via the recent surge of horror films directed by women filmmakers for a ... -
3-D DESIGN FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING UTILIZING TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
As the frontier of modern-day engineering challenges pushes forward, the integration of multiple strategies to reduce manufacturing cost and increase component performance has engineers turning to tools such as topology ... -
ROLE OF THE CADHERIN-11/RAC1/STAT3 AXIS IN SRC-MEDIATED TRANSFORMATION AND IN ADIPOCYTIC DIFFERENTIATION
Stat3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription-3) is activated by phosphorylation on tyrosine-705 (Stat3-ptyr705) downstream of cytokines, growth factors, and oncogenes. Our lab has demonstrated that engagement ... -
Inclusive Education for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Accra, Ghana
Inclusive education is the best form of education for all children including those with disabilities, however, children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are often educated in segregated settings or ... -
Reading Development: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Individuals with High Functioning Autism
Reading expands learning opportunities for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by improving their communication and functional skills, and, in the long run, improving their quality of life. Research is needed ... -
Interests and Rights: Minority Communities, Parents, and Children
Children play an integral role in the reproduction and maintenance of cultures. Simultaneously, culture groups inform the identify formation and development of children. For this reason, one would think that theories ... -
The Many Ways to Evaluate Income Taxes: Canadian Income Tax Compliance with Attention to Surplus Stripping: 1917-1972
This study of the relationship between the Canadian taxpayer and the income tax regime examines the manner in which the federal income tax, first established by Finance Minister Sir Thomas White of the Robert Borden ... -
Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
This dissertation explores the representation of early Anabaptism and Mennonitism in the visual culture of the Dutch Republic (1585-1795). Polemical and satirical imagery critical of Anabaptism circulated alongside artworks ... -
The Roles of the Neuropeptide Receptor NPR-14 in the Regulation of Sleep Behaviours in Caenorhabditis elegans
Most animals with a nervous system exhibit sleep behaviour(s) during their life cycle, which appears as a decreased level of physical activity and changes in metabolism. Even animals with a simple nervous system like ... -
Talking Plant
This doctoral research-creation project focuses on plants in the context of larger efforts by artists and scholars to denaturalize the anthropocentric and hierarchical ordering of species that objectify non-human life. ... -
The First Moving Load Simulator for Testing Bridges in Canada and its Application on a Full Scale Precast Box Girder
This thesis describes the development of a unique Moving Load Simulator (MLS) for testing bridge superstructure with a footprint up to 4x17 m, and its first application to test a full scale B900 prestressed concrete box ... -
Deep Cancer Classifier: Exploring microRNA Regulation of Cancer with Deep Learning
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression. Differential expression observed in miRNAs, combined with advancements in deep learning (DL), have the potential to improve ... -
Study of Kinetics and Mechanism of Pyrite Oxidation in Sulfuric Acid Solution
There is a significant interest in studying pyrite oxidation in terms of refractory gold ore processing and acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment. However, the mechanism of pyrite oxidation has not been well understood yet. ... -
Mining development knowledge to understand and support software logging practices
Developers insert logging statements in their source code to trace the runtime behaviors of software systems. Logging statements print runtime log messages, which play a critical role in monitoring system status, diagnosing ... -
Spatial variations of pressure-temperature-timing-deformation conditions of ductile thrusts: Examples from the Himalayan and Variscan orogens
Orogen-scale thrust-sense shear zones evolve dynamically through time and space as they accommodate crustal shortening during continental collision. When these shear zones activate in different parts of an orogen is central ... -
Apologists, Prohibitionists, and Systemic Inertia: The Origins of Global Drug Control, 1900-1945
This thesis examines the early evolution of the global prohibitory regime surrounding the production, manufacture, distribution, and consumption of illicit drugs --notably opium, cocaine, and cannabis. The primary focus ... -
MAKING HOME: PERFORMANCE, SOCIABILITY, AND IDENTITY IN ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, 1810-1860.
St. John’s, Newfoundland underwent an economic and cultural transformation in the early nineteenth century. With a growing year-round resident population, and mercantile operations increasingly headquartered out the town, ... -
Deformation-Induced Phase Transformation in a Quaternary Zirconium Alloy
Zirconium alloys are used extensively in the nuclear industry, largely due to the very low neutron capture cross-section of zirconium. Alloying of zirconium with substitutional solutes, like Sn, Mo or Nb, is common to ...
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