Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Deceptive Deeds Done With UAVs: A Democratic Deficit in Canada
(2015-10-13)In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), known colloquially as drones, have proliferated throughout North America. Canada, in particular, has been favourable to the growth of the UAV market. Given that this topic ... -
Decision Criterion for Observation-Based Relays in LTE Networks
(2016-04-08)Relay technology has the potential to dramatically improve throughput for Long Term Evolution (LTE) network users. However, the existing 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard for relaying, the Type 1 relay, ... -
Decolonizing Anarchism: Expanding Anarcha-Indigenism in Theory and Practice
(2012-10-01)In this thesis I argue that anarchism, as a political philosophy and social movement practice committed to resisting all forms of oppression and domination, needs to place colonialism more clearly and consistently at the ... -
Decolonizing Public Places and Public Memory: Kingston Ontario
Since the release of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, municipalities are increasingly addressing reconciliation in their practice, including new engagement with Indigenous heritage and public ... -
Deconstructing Attitude Strength: Understanding the Cognitive Structures and Subjective Beliefs Related to Attitudes
(2010-08-24)The effects of various antecedents to cognitive elaboration on the structural properties and subjective beliefs related to attitude strength were examined in 2 experiments. Participants read vaccine-related information ... -
The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
Focusing on the work of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Mina Loy, this thesis argues that late nineteenth-century decorative art had a profound influence on American modernist poetry. Despite the fact that many modernist ... -
Deep and Superficial Pelvic Floor Muscle Responses to a Pain Stimulus in Vestibulodynia
(2008-09-27)Previous studies have suggested that protective responses in the pelvic floor muscles (PFMs), described in terms of hypertonicity and over-reactivity, are associated with and may worsen the symptoms of provoked vestibulodynia ... -
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 ... -
Deepening democracy and cultural context in the Republic of Mali, 1992-2002
(2007-10-11)This thesis challenges the view that the Republic of Mali is a model of democratization in Africa with the aim of opening the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship inherent in the democratization discourse to ... -
A Defence of Associative Duties
In this thesis, I defend associative duties – typically understood as non-contractual, special moral responsibilities that arise from valued relationships – as a genuine class of duties. I do this in the spaces of both ... -
A Defence of Thomas Pogge’s Argument for a Minimally Just Institutional Order
(2009-02-02)In an attempt to illustrate that the developed world has obligations to alleviate severe poverty, Thomas Pogge created a theory driven by human rights to focus on negative rights and duties of the avoidance of harm. His ... -
Defending Against DDoS and Unauthorized Access Attacks in Information Centric Networking
Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a new communication paradigm that focuses on content retrieval from the network regardless of the content storage location. ICN changes the security model from securing the path to ... -
A defense framework for flooding-based DDoS attacks
(2007-08-29)Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are widely regarded as a major threat to the Internet. A flooding-based DDoS attack is a very common way to attack a victim machine by sending a large number of malicious traffic. ... -
Deficits in Eye Movement Control in Adults with FASD
Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) are believed to be overrepresented in the criminal justice system (CJS). However, accurate reporting of prevalence rates of FASD in the CJS is a significant clinical ... -
Deficits in eye movement control in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.
(2011-04-29)Background: The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2 DS) causes a wide variety of symptoms, but the central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction is the one most likely to affect the day-to-day life of those affected by this ... -
Defining clinically relevant subgroups of follicular lymphoma cases according to the functional status of the CDKN2A gene
(2013-03-13)Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the second most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). FL is clinically designated as an indolent disease with a long median survival of 8-10 years. However, the clinical and biological behavior of ... -
Defining gravitational singularities in general relativity
(2008-07-22)Singularities have been a long-standing problem in general relativity. In all other fields of physics, singularities can be easily located and avoided; in general relativity, singularities have an impact on the creation ... -
Defining the Role of the SHP2 Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase in FcepsilonRI Signaling in Mast Cells
(2009-10-08)Mast cells are granulocytes that are a key component of the innate and adaptive immune system, and contribute to allergic disorders. Mast cell activation following clustering of the high affinity IgE receptor (FcepsilonRI) ... -
Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
(2013-08-02)This dissertation investigates how Dissenting writers, among them Samuel Annesley and Richard Baxter, influenced the religious thought of Daniel Defoe. Though some critics, most notably G. A. Starr and J. Paul Hunter, have ... -
Deformable Link Segment Model for Analysis of Prosthetic Foot-ankle Components
Recent literature suggests that passive prosthetic foot-ankle devices, when optimized, may provide similar energy performance as the natural foot, but this has yet to be realized with current designs. Of concern is the ...