Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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William Thompson and Anna Wheeler: Equality and Utilitarianism in the 19th Century
(2015-08-07)This dissertation examines the work of William Thompson and Anna Wheeler in relation to more prominent feminist political theorists of the period. It argues that, read in light of Thompson and Wheeler’s "Appeal of One ... -
Williams, Scanlon, and the Normativity of Morality
Most debates about the viability of a given moral theory are won and lost, or at least brought to an end, through resort to a familiar pattern of argument: if a theory calls for that course of action, can it really claim ... -
"A Wind of Darkness": The Origins of Disaster Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century
I argue that the origins of disaster fiction as a literary genre are located in the Long Nineteenth Century. Disaster fiction is a genre as-yet undefined by literary criticism, and my project fills this lacuna by identifying ... -
Wind Shear, Gust, and Yaw-Induced Dynamic Stall on Wind-Turbine Blades
(2016-05-31)This study examined the effect of a spanwise angle of attack gradient on the growth and stability of a dynamic stall vortex in a rotating system. It was found that a spanwise angle of attack gradient induces a corresponding ... -
A Window to the Mind: Validation of a New Method to Measure Thought Dynamics Using Brain Network Meta-State Transitions
In addition to what people are thinking about, researchers are also increasingly interested in how humans flow continuously from one mental state to the next (i.e., the flights and perches of thought; James, 1890). Can we ... -
Windows of opportunity: the timing of dispersal events influences zooplankton community response to environmental change in Subarctic ponds
(2012-09-17)Theoretical and empirical work has shown that community diversity and composition can be influenced by both local conditions and dispersal from a regional species pool. This may be especially true shortly after environmental ... -
Wing Kinematics and Flexibility for Optimal Manoeuvring and Escape
Understanding how animals control the dynamic stall vortices in their wake is critical to developing micro-aerial vehicles and autonomous underwater vehicles, not to mention wind turbines, delta wings, and rotor craft that ... -
Winning At All Costs: Explaining Opposition Party Success and Failure in Hybrid Regimes
Why would anyone form or support an opposition political party in a country where this might land you in prison, in hospital, or even in the grave? And how is it that some of these parties become so powerful and successful, ... -
Winning Friends and Influencing Others: Normative Balancing in the United Nations Security Council
As the game of power politics plays on, scholars have another chance to identify other early warning indicators of a seismic shift. In this dissertation, I offer a soft power mechanism that helps us understand the process ... -
WIPO and the Reinforcement of the Nagoya Protocol: Towards Effective Implementation of an Access and Benefit Sharing Regime for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources
Traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources (TKaGRs) is acknowledged as a valuable resource. Its value draws from economic, social, cultural, and innovative uses. This value places TK at the heart of competing ... -
Wireless Sensor Network Platform for Harsh Industrial Environments
(2013-09-28)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are popular for their wide scope of application domains ranging from agricultural, medical, defense, industrial, social, mining, etc. Many of these applications are in outdoor type environments ... -
Wisdom as a Social Phenomenon: an Inquiry of Wise Acts and Wise Practices
(2015-10-03)This phenomenological inquiry of wise acts and wise practices presents a perspective of wisdom as a social phenomenon. Wisdom is shown to emerge out of unique human interactions in particular contexts between wise-act-catalysts ... -
Wisdom in practice: Socrates' conception of technē
(2007-10-01)The word ‘technē’ frequently appears in the argument and discussions of Socrates and his interlocutors in Plato’s early dialogues; the concept of technē as well as instances thereof often play a crucial role in effecting ... -
Within Arm's Reach: Political Violence, Voluntary Organizing, and the Borderland Press During the Canadian Rebellion, 1834-1842
This project focuses on voluntary organizing by the patriots and their use of the press between 1834 and 1842 in the Canadas and the United States, particularly in relation to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837–1838. The ... -
Witnessing Public Drinking and its Relevance to Discrimination Against Individuals Living With Alcohol Use Disorders
Objective: The primary goal of this study was to determine if a relationship existed between how often a person perceives public drinking in their neighbourhood and if they discriminate against individuals living with ... -
Wnt5a Interaction with Intestinal Ror2 Regulates Villin Expression
(2009-07-16)Regulation of expression of the intestinal actin-binding protein, villin, a marker of intestinal epithelial differentiation, is poorly understood. Activation of the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) on ... -
Women's Citizenship: Between Bloodlines and Patriarchal Conditioning in Postcolonial Algeria
(2014-01-30)My thesis maps a genealogy of patriarchal structures that underpin Algerian history, culture, and institutions between the war of independence and the 1991-2001 civil war. More specifically, I contextualize the ways in ... -
Women, performance, and the household in early modern England, 1580-1660
(2007-09-28)The texts and records of the household performances of early modern women collected and examined in this thesis, which together have not yet been the subject of any extended scholarly work, reveal that women performed in ... -
Words without Deeds: A Toxic Culture of Leadership and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces, 1989-1999
In 1998, the Chief of Review Services (CRS) assessed the Canadian Forces (CF) had fell short in reaching “full integration,” a goal which the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) gave the Canadian military in 1989. The ... -
The Workers’ War: The Character of Class Struggle in World War II
This dissertation explores the nature of workers’ self-activity during World War II and the ensuing responses to these actions by the state and capital. A close examination of wartime strikes demonstrates that top-down ...