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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EXPLOITING THE UNIQUE PLASMONIC PHENOMENON OF METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURES FOR SENSING AND BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS
Real-time, accurate sensing promoted by analytical sensors is extremely important for advances in drug discovery, disease diagnosis and for studying biological systems. In particular, label-free surface plasmon resonance ... -
Childhood Parental Invalidation and Young Adult Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent behaviour that serves many functions, but is associated with increased distress, impairment, and risk of death by suicide (Andover, Morris, Wren, & Bruzzese, 2012; Burke, ... -
Territorial Control and Minority Reforms: A Study of the Kurdish Borderlands in Turkey
This study seeks to explain the failure of the Kurdish Opening in Turkey. I theorize that an important, hitherto largely ignored, factor in explaining this failure is the state’s policy of territorial control, which has ... -
FINE-SCALE GROUND SURFACE VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT AND SOIL WATER PROCESSES IN THE CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC
The fine-scale physical response of soils to thaw, ice content and soil water conditions in the High Arctic are poorly understood. This thesis introduces the topic and identifies knowledge gaps in the literature and secondly, ... -
Mundane Surveillance: Tracking mobile applications and urban accounting in Canadian Business Improvement Areas
In response to splintering streetscapes and in order to remain relevant amidst “smart cities” and “urban big data”, Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) have moved away from clipboards and ledgers, to become early adopters ... -
N-heterocyclic Carbene Synthesis Towards Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold
Modifying surfaces with self assembled monolayers (SAMs) is a simple and effective way to create functional materials. Traditionally compounds containing a thiol head group are used to generate SAMs on gold surfaces. ... -
Multi-Stage Electrolysis for Reduction of Electricity Consumption in Hydrogen Production
A novel approach to perform electrolysis in stages is developed for reducing the share of electric work in the process and replacing the same with thermal energy. The study is divided into two parts, the first part is a ... -
Theory and Modelling of Pulse-Driven Quantum Dots in Nanophotonic Structures
Quantum dots (QDs) integrated in nanophotonic environments provide an excellent platform for quantum information technologies and engineerable light-matter interactions. One application is a solid-state single photon source ... -
Direct Energy Measurement of Short Hydrogen Bonds in Solution by 17O NMR Spectroscopy
Hydrogen bonding interactions are of paramount importance in many chemical and biological processes. Although the physicochemical parameters to identify hydrogen bonds (HBs) have been established in the literature, direct ... -
Partitioning resources through the seasons: a test of the competitive ability – cold tolerance trade-off hypothesis in seasonally breeding beetles
Understanding the factors that maintain and constrain biodiversity and species coexistence is a major goal in ecology. Closely related species that use similar resources often differ in their seasonal patterns of activity, ... -
Evaluation of Open Source Software Platform For Transperineal In-Bore MRI-Guided Targeted Prostate Biopsy
Current targeted prostate biopsy methods often rely on commercial systems to support the procedure. These systems tend to lack the export of analysis results for secondary analysis studies used in research. Transperineal ... -
Does Gender Play a Role?: Judges and Trial Outcomes in Sexual Assault Cases in Canada
Canada undertook a major reform of the laws surrounding rape beginning in 1983. As a result of this reform, rape was re-conceptualized as ‘sexual assault’, and laws surrounding consent and earlier sexual history were ... -
Simulations and validation of an axial-flow pit turbine
The geometric design of an axial-flow pit-turbine is essential as flow separation will decrease turbine efficiency. In this thesis, steady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) simulations were conducted with a two-equation ... -
Advanced digital modulation formats for optical coherent transmission systems
Field modulation with coherent detection leverages the use of optical channel bandwidth and allows mitigating transmission impairments by exploiting the two quadrature components of the optical carrier and providing a ... -
Imperceptible Pattern Embedding: Structured Light Steganography For Augmented Reality Applications
In this work, we describe a novel PROCAM sensor which uses steganographic techniques to embed imperceptible patterns in structured light, allowing a projector to function both as a versatile display device and a sensor for ... -
The Role of Mode of Delivery in Postpartum Sexuality
This research program explored the role of mode of delivery in postpartum sexuality. The first study was an online survey of nulliparous individuals’ perceptions of how childbirth impacts sexuality (Chapter 2). The results ... -
An Exploration of the Intestinal Bacteria of Two Anadromous Arctic Salmonids
In teleost fish, the microbiome plays a variety of roles in host physiology and adaptability to different environments. Anadromous fish (migrating to sea after maturation and returning to freshwater to spawn) are reported ... -
From The East And West Indies To The Mother Country: The House of Daljinder Kaur And Out Of Left Field
“From the East and West Indies to the Mother Country: The House of Daljinder Kaur and Out of Left Field” is a PhD research-creation project consisting of two outdoor installations and a written component. It takes as a ... -
Interrogating the Double Standards of Accountability Standards in Global Development: The Cases of Malawi and the United Kingdom
Corruption is seen as major hindrance to development, and anti-corruption measures form a significant part of international development strategies. In 2013, the United Kingdom (UK)’s Department of International Development ... -
Driving Market Change: A Multi-Level Perspective on Institutional Disruption and Defense
In recent years, many industries – from transportation and accommodation to finance and automobiles – have been disrupted by platform businesses that ostensibly remove middlemen from market transactions. Much of this work ...
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