Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ADRESSING 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, ... -
Know Thyself: Marsilio Ficino on Revelation, Wisdom, and Reform
(2015-01-15)Marsilio Ficino’s Latin writings contain within them a program of clerical, social, and political reform. The agent of such reform was a disciplinary apparatus called know thyself. Through know thyself, an ideal philosopher ... -
L'Autre en Soi : l'identité entre deux mondes dans la Trilogie des dragons et le Dragon bleu de Robert Lepage
(2013-01-04)Robert Lepage’s play The Dragons’ Trilogy stretches across space and time, travelling through three generations and three major Canadian cities, each section named for a dragon in the Chinese game Mahjong. The Blue Dragon ... -
L'esthétique du métissage dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Henri Lopes
(2015-05-27)Literary critical discourse nowadays tends to classify African texts within global literature by drawing links among works through writing. Therefore, to achieve this purpose, African writers use forms and poetics of ... -
L'écriture contre l'oubli. Hétérogénéité et socialité dans l'oeuvre de Kateb Yacine.
(2014-09-02)Through a diachronic study of a large selection of writings (composed within a period of a half century), marked, for the most part, by the seal of a constitutive undetermined genre, this thesis attempts to grasp the rapport ... -
L'évolution des voix/voies de femmes dans leurs écrits sur l'Église aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
(2016-07-05)Feminist movements have allowed many female authors to become decisive and influential figures in literary history by studying their experiences, voices and forms of resistance. This thesis, however, focuses specifically ... -
l'Humour et l'ironie en litterature francophone subsaharienne. Une poétique du rire
(2008-04-02)Humour and Irony are identity markers that have long since been associated with Sub-Saharan francophone literary works. Intimately linked to Africa throughout the years, humour and irony have evolved hand to hand with ... -
L'impact du cinéma dans le roman francophone d'Afrique noire
(2010-07-26)In this thesis, I am interested in studying how African writers incorporate cinema in their works while focusing on the impact of Western and Asian films on the African public. My corpus includes writers such as Abdoulaye ...