Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Journey Toward Engagement in Self-care Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcer: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study
Background: Worldwide, diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is the leading cause of emergency room admissions, long hospital stays, and long-term disability for individuals living with diabetes. Of all individuals with diabetes, 15–25 ... -
Journeys Into the Winter Wilderness: an Exploration of the Traditional Winter Camping Experience
(2015-08-20)This thesis reports on a phenomenological study designed to examine the traditional winter camping experience from the perspective of the participant. The specific research questions that guided this study were: (a) What ... -
Journeys of the Body, Journeys of the Mind: Ectypal and Archetypal Studies of Cervantes’ The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
(2015-08-26)ABSTRACT This thesis offers an ectypal as well as an archetypal analysis of six characters from Miguel de Cervantes’ posthumous novel The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617). It examines these characters both as ... -
Judicial review and the enforcement of human rights : the red and blue lights of the judiciary of Ghana
(2008-07-16)Constitutional democracy requires a constitutionalisation of Human Rights and the empowerment of judiciaries to enforce and protect such rights. In Ghana, these requirements have been put in place by the 1992 Constitution. ... -
The just urban food system: Exploring the geographies of social justice and retail food access in Kingston, Ontario
(2010-09-24)This dissertation explores poor retail food access in low-income, class-segregated communities through a social justice lens. Disadvantaged communities with poor food access—often called ‘food deserts’—have received ample ... -
Justice and Official Languages in Canada
(2012-02-29)This is a study of the politics of language in Canada from the perspective of francophone minority communities – the close to one million French-speakers living in provinces and territories outside Québec. The analysis ... -
The Kahnawà:ke Schools’ Diabetes Prevention Project: Perspectives on Data Sovereignty in Indigenous Community-Academic Partnered Health Research
Introduction. Data sovereignty in Indigenous research recognizes the authority of Indigenous peoples over research data and processes. Data sovereignty is an important tool for the self-determination of Indigenous communities, ... -
Karst hazard analysis towards the development of predictive karst models for southern Ontario
(2016-10-03)An investigation into karst hazard in southern Ontario has been undertaken with the intention of leading to the development of predictive karst models for this region. The reason these are not currently feasible is a lack ... -
Keeping it in the Family: The (Re-) Production of Conjugal Citizens Through Canadian Immigration Policy and Practice
(2013-03-07)This is an examination of how conjugality acts as an access point for Canadian citizenship. The conjugal family unit — married or common-law — continues to be privileged in Canadian law and policy; this is especially evident ... -
Keeping Variables within Bounds: Using Information between Observations
This research develops an econometric framework to analyze time series processes with bounds. The framework is general enough that it can incorporate several different kinds of bounding information that constrain continuous-time ... -
'A Kind of Logic, A Kind of Dominant Logic': Navigating Colonialism, Honoring Black Mobility, and Thinking on Moving Through
(2016-06-22)My thesis thinks through the ways Newtonian logics require linear mobility in order to produce narratives of progress. I argue that this linear mobility, and the resulting logics, potentially erases the chaotic and non-linear ... -
Kinetic And Kinematic Adaptations To Use Of A Personal Lift Assist Device
(2008-10-02)The purpose of this work was to quantify the effect of the personal lift assist device (PLAD) on kinetic and kinematic variables commonly indentified as risk factors for low back pain (LBP). As such, three investigations ... -
Kinetic Modeling of Homo- and Co- Polymerization of Water-Soluble N-vinyl Monomers
(2011-12-22)Functional water-soluble polymers find applications in a variety of fields including waste-water treatment, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, drug delivery, and hygiene. Despite the increased demand for these products, understanding ... -
Kinetics and Modeling of Free Radical Aqueous Phase Polymerization of Acrylamide with Acrylic Acid at Varying Degrees of Ionization
(2015-09-03)Water soluble polymers find applications in both consumer (e.g. superabsorbers in diapers, antiscalants in laundry detergent, and thickeners in shampoo) and industrial applications (e.g. antiscalants, antiflocculants and ... -
Kinetics, Synthesis and Characterization of copolymers containing the bio-renewable monomer g-methyl-a-methylene-g-butyrolactone (MeMBL)
(2011-04-26)The bio-renewable monomer γ-methyl-α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone (MeMBL) has been thoroughly investigated in this thesis. MeMBL is a relatively unstudied monomer that had received little attention since the early 1980’s but ... -
Kingston Adolescents’ Knowledge About the Social Determinants of Health: Assessing and Addressing the Gap
(2012-09-27)Upstream social determinants of health (SDH) have become widely acknowledged as lying at the root of poor health outcomes in Canada and globally. Conditions of social disadvantage restrict access to both social and physical ... -
Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
This dissertation expands upon the vibrant field of medieval queer studies by considering literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, ... -
Kinome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screen to identify kinases involved in Taxol resistance in breast cancer
(2016-08-31)Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women, accounting for over 25% of cancer diagnoses and 13% of cancer-related deaths in Canadian women. There are many types of therapies for treatment or management ... -
Knee Joint Biomechanics in People with Medial Compartment Knee Osteoarthritis
(2009-08-27)Background: Sagittal plane external flexion moment in early stance has been reported to be both higher and lower in people with medial knee OA compared to control subjects. Purpose: Sagittal plane knee joint kinetics and ... -
Knot/Knotting Practice in Craft and Space
(2016-09-07)Knot/knotting Practice in Craft and Space is a three part research-creation project that used a study of knotting techniques to locate craft in an expanded field of spatial practice. The first part consisted of practical, ...