Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Auditor Mental Representations and Hypothesis Testing of the Control Environment
(2011-02-22)In this thesis, I examine how auditors construct their mental representations and test their hypotheses about the strength of a client’s control environment. With regard to the former, I hypothesize that management’s frame ... -
Auditors' Career Transitions: Three Studies on Auditors' Recruitment into Public Accounting, Transition to Industry, and the Long-lasting Effects of their Auditing Experience
In my thesis, I investigate the career transitions of auditors. In the first study, I explore students’ experience going through the recruitment process in public accounting. I conducted 51 interviews with undergraduate ... -
Auditory domain speech enhancement
(2008-06-04)Many speech enhancement algorithms suffer from musical noise - an estimation residue noise consisting of music-like varying tones. To reduce this annoying noise, some speech enhancement algorithms require post-processing. ... -
An Augmented Reality Haptic Training Simulator for Spinal Needle Procedures
(2011-11-29)Medical simulators have become commonly used to teach new procedures to medical students and clinicians. Their accessibility allows trainees to perform training whenever they desire, and their flexibility allows for various ... -
An Augmented Reality System for Arthroscopic Computer Assisted Mosaic Arthroplasty
(2014-12-01)Arthroscopic procedures require a difficult mental coordinate transform between the instrument in the surgeon's hand and the image shown on a display mounted near the patient. Significant training and experience is required ... -
Augmented Reality Training Platform for Placement of Neurosurgical Burr Holes
Augmented reality has been used in neurosurgery to aid in the visualization of lesions, though it has not been widely adopted for simulation-based neurosurgical training. This work aims to determine if augmented reality ... -
An Augmented Virtuality Navigation System for Arthroscopic Knee Surgery
(2010-11-30)Arthroscopic knee surgery can be challenging because there is no intuitive relationship between the arthroscopic image, shown on a screen above the patient, and the camera in the surgeon's hand. As a result, arthroscopic ... -
Augmenting Petri Nets to Model Health-Care Protocols
(2011-09-28)An outbreak of an infectious illness can have a devastating impact on a population. Once confirmed, local health care organizations will attempt to reduce the spread of the disease by adopting a set of pre-defined guidelines. ... -
Auguries of Elegy: The Art and Ethics of Ecological Grieving
(2015-10-03)Elegy is an appropriate mode for expressing the complex feelings that may accompany an awareness of the state of human-caused climate change and the concomitant ailing health of the biosphere. In order to understand these ... -
Australia’s Strategic Culture: An investigation of the concept of strategic culture and its application to the Australian case
(2011-09-15)The notion that each state in the international system approaches matters of war and peace somewhat differently because they each possess a unique strategic culture is not a new or obscure one – but it nevertheless remains ... -
Authenticity and the Corporate Brand Saga
(2012-06-21)This dissertation analyzes what a corporate brand is and what motivates it. Using qualitative methods the corporate brand of IBM is investigated from the viewpoint of many of its stakeholders. It is discovered that IBM’s ... -
Authenticity in Teaching: Reflecting Through Narrative Writing and Contemplative Practices
(2012-08-22)This qualitative self-study explores my teaching practice. Three months of on-going daily critical reflections on past and present experiences related to my teaching resulted in 26 written documents illuminating memories, ... -
Author of Prodigies: Representing the Female Letter-Writer in English Renaissance Literature
(2008-12-16)This dissertation seeks to show that the figure of the female letter-writer in English Renaissance literature, rather than reflecting the culture’s desire to contain, undermine, or destroy the notion of women’s textual ... -
The Author's Farce: Satiric Agency, Authority, and the Performance of Eighteenth-Century Satire on Film and the Stage
(2016-01-18)This dissertation investigates how dramatic performance affects satire, its forms of authorisation, adaptation, and interpretation. Focusing on Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatic satires and film adaptations of ... -
The Authority of Deontic Constraints
(2013-08-29)Non-consequentialists agree that Luke may not kill Lorelai in order to prevent Kirk from killing Richard and Emily. According to this view, Luke faces a deontic constraint: he is forbidden from killing Lorelai, even though ... -
Authority, Communication and Discrimination in Agency Models
This thesis develops three theoretical frameworks to investigate questions relating to authority within both firms and governments as well as discrimination in the labor market. The first chapter develops a theoretical ... -
Autocratization of Parliamentary Democracies: the Case of Hungary and Macedonia
In the last decade, the democratic failure that appeared in parliamentary democracies in parts of post-communist Europe defies earlier expectations about democratic consolidation in that region. This doctoral dissertation ... -
Automated Analysis of Load Testing Results
(2013-01-29)Many software systems must be load tested to ensure that they can scale up under high load while maintaining functional and non-functional requirements. Studies show that field problems are often related to systems not ... -
Automated Analysis of Load Tests Using Performance Counter Logs
(2013-08-29)Load testing remains the most integral part of testing and measuring the performance of Large Scale Software Systems (LSS). During the course of a load test, a system under test is closely monitored, resulting in an extremely ... -
An Automated Approach for the Determination of the Seismic Moment Tensor in Mining Environments
(2012-08-22)A study was undertaken to evaluate an automated process to invert for seismic moment tensors from seismic data recorded in mining environments. The data for this study was recorded at Nickel Rim South mine, Sudbury, ...