Browsing Queen's Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Wah Eye Nuh See Heart Nuh Leap: Queer Marronage In The Jamaican Dancehall
(2014-01-30)This thesis explores the interweaving of colonial and post-colonial British and Jamaican Laws and the interpretive legalities of sexuality, compulsory heterosexuality, and queerness. The research project begins by exploring ... -
Waiting for Care: a Study of Physical and Psychological Symptoms and Healthcare Utilization for Pain Whilst Waiting for Gynaecological Surgery
(2009-09-28)There is a growing interest in the impact of waiting for surgery, a common experience for many Canadians. Pain and psychological symptoms prior to surgical management are frequently problems for women with gynaecological ... -
Waking (To) Thinking Being: A Study of Education, Metaphysics, Mind, and Language
(2016-09-29)This dissertation articulates the basic aims and achievements of education. It recognizes language as central to thinking, and philosophy and education as belonging profoundly to one another. The first step is to show that ... -
Walking Toward Respect: Historical Geographies of Nature and Possibility in UNESCO MAB’S Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve
This thesis employs an innovative methodological approach to provide a historical geography of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve (FABR), an area designated by the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ... -
The Wandering Mind: An Examination of the Predictors and Consequences of Mind Wandering
It has been reported that when listening to a lecture, the average student spends approximately one third of lecture time thinking about things unrelated to the lecture material (Szpunar et al., 2013). With that said, ... -
Warming and Chronic High Nutrient Manipulations Yield Differing Legacy Effects on the Soil Microbial Community and Nutrient Pools in the Low Arctic
(2016-08-05)Climate warming is predicted to increase summer air temperatures in the Arctic, warming soils and enhancing microbial decomposition of soil organic matter. Given the size of the soil carbon stores in the Arctic, even a ... -
Warriors of choice : the (Re)articulation of militarized masculinities in private and public special forces
(2008-08-15)My thesis is an examination militarized masculinity in Canada's JTF2 Special Forces and the Private Security Firm Blackwater. I employ a gender analysis to highlight how militarized masculinity impedes women's participation ... -
Watching the War and Keeping the Peace: the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in the Middle East, 1949-1956
(2009-05-28)By virtue of their presence, observers alter what they are observing. Yet, the international soldiers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) did much more than observe events. From August 1949 until ... -
Water Distribution System Design and Rehabilitation Under Climate Change Mitigation Scenarios
(2013-04-22)The water industry is a heavy consumer of electricity to pump water. Electricity generated with fossil fuel sources produce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to climate change. Carbon taxation and economic ... -
Water Quality Spatial Heterogeneity in Wastewater Stabilization Ponds at Elevated pH
This thesis consists of work investigating the causes of and solutions to elevated pH in secondary facultative wastewater stabilization ponds (WSPs). Loyalist Township, Ontario, operates a water pollution control plant ... -
Water Sorption Properties of Sub-Micron Thin Ionomer Films
(2016-02-25)This thesis is focused on the water uptake and swelling properties of sub-micron thin ion conducting polymer (ionomer) films. One motivation for this work stems from the need to resolve the discrepancy between high water ... -
Water Wars and Warriors: Field Actors and the International Water Crisis
(2015-10-03)The actions of a variety of actors in the institutional or organizational field shape the rules of the game as well as the tactics, actions and forms of organization that are considered possible and legitimate. Yet despite ... -
Wave Characteristics of Tsunamis Generated by Landslides of Varying Size and Mobility
Landslide generated tsunamis are a natural phenomenon, capable of causing catastrophic consequences at the site of impact as well as some kilometers away. In order to increase understanding of these hazards, a series of ... -
Wavelength-Preserving Polarization-Insensitive All-Optical 3R Regenerator Based on Self- and Cross-Phase Modulation and Offset Filtering Utilizing Raman Amplification
(2009-10-19)Optical regeneration has the potential to significantly increase the reach of long-haul transmission systems. In this thesis, wavelength-preserving polarization-insensitive all-optical 3R regeneration is investigated and ... -
Wavelet Frequency-Temporal Relative Phase Pattern of the Surface Electromyogram for Investigation of Intramuscular Synchronization
(2011-09-13)Cross-correlation is often used as the primary technique to compare two biological signals. The cross-correlation technique is an effective means to measure the synchronization of two signals if the relative phases at all ... -
“We have a roof over our head, but we have to eat too": Tracing the impact of shifting foodsapes on health and wellbeing from homelessness to supportive housing
Background: People facing extended periods of homelessness, whose daily routines are often highly structured around securing basic necessities, exhibit a remarkable degree of agency and resilience procuring food. Within ... -
Wearable Sensor-Based Sign Language Recognition Using Bio-Acoustic Signals from High-Frequency Accelerometers
Disabling hearing loss has a profound impact on an individual’s ability to interact and engage with those around them. Sign languages enable members of the Deaf community to communicate easily and effectively with one ... -
A Wedding Fit for a Bride: Neoliberal Consumerism, Postfeminism, Dramaturgy and the North-American Wedding
(2014-07-07)Despite declining marriage rates and an increased acceptance of common-law couples in North America (Milan, 2013), the wedding is still constructed as a meaningful life event through the use of reality wedding shows, which ... -
Weight Loss in the Chiropractic Profession
Background: Excess weight places a significant burden on health. Clinical practice guidelines advise healthcare professionals to provide weight management interventions to patients with overweight and obesity. Chiropractic ... -
The Weight of the World: Rhetorics of Choice, Freedom and Responsibility in Green Consumption
(2009-09-25)This thesis begins with the simple observation that the term ‘green consumption’ would have appeared, at the very least, oxymoronic to those concerned with environmental issues some thirty years ago. Yet now it is a ...