QSpace at Queen's University: Recent submissions
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HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF TENDON REINFORCEMENT IN UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION WORKS
Distributed optical fiber strain sensing is investigated as a technology to enhance the assessment of tendon reinforcement elements that are commonly used in mines and tunnelling projects. Central to this research effort ... -
The effects of increasing chloride concentrations and temperatures on freshwater zooplankton communities
Across the Northern Hemisphere, chloride concentrations in lakes are increasing from decades of road salt use, imperiling aquatic ecosystems. Elevated chloride concentrations threaten aquatic organisms, and zooplankton are ... -
Biomass production and nutrient removal by Chlorella vulgaris as monoculture and in a consortium from centrate wastewater: optimization through acclimation
Microalgae-based wastewater treatment has shown promise in the removal of contaminants such as nutrients and heavy metals. Municipal wastewaters could be used as low-cost cultivation media as they provide the necessary ... -
High sensitivity of freshwater zooplankton to low chloride concentrations is unaltered by nutrient level
Driven by decades of road salt use, freshwater salinization is prevalent across North America. Increasing chloride concentrations threaten freshwater species, and zooplankton are particularly sensitive. In Canada, the ... -
What Factors and Experiences Motivate Innovators? An Expectancy-Value-Cost Approach to Promoting Student Innovation
This multi-manuscript dissertation integrated a systematic literature review, interviews, and a developed survey instrument to investigate the expectancies, values, and costs that are involved in motivating current Canadian ... -
Indigenous holistic education in philosophy and practice, with wampum as a case study
(2017)This article examines holistic educational philosophy from a North American Indigenous perspective, with a particular focus on Anishinaabe philosophy. Holism intercalates every aspect of Anishinaabe and many other Indigenous ... -
Inuit Elder policy guidance for system-wide educational change in Nunavut, 2000-2013
(The Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration, 2020-02-26)Elders have been educators and experts in the Arctic for as long as people have inhabited the region. The involvement of Elders in schools and school systems has a relatively shorter history, but is more significant than ... -
The Role of School Administrator in Providing Early Career Teachers’ Support: A Pan-Canadian Perspective
(Center for the Study of Education Leadership and Policy, 2019)This article is based on an extensive mixed-methods pan-Canadian study that examined the differential impact of teacher induction and mentorship programs on the retention of early career teachers (ECTs). It discusses the ... -
Novel Current Sensor-less MPPT Algorithm for Solar Applications
This thesis presents a novel Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique for photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. The proposed method eliminates the need for current sensing by injecting high-frequency perturbations and ... -
Interpreting Mass Spectrometry Images Using Stacked Learning
Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) allows for hyperspectral analysis of tissue samples non-destructively under ambient conditions. A downside of such a bountiful source of data is that the high ... -
What do first-year university students in Ontario, Canada, know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples and topics?
(2018-09-21)We disseminated the Awareness Questionnaire to the first-year cohorts at 10 Ontario universities in 2014. Co-designed with over 200 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit educators and community members across Ontario, the survey ... -
Niinwi - Kiinwa - Kiinwi: Building Non-Indigenous Allies in Education through Indigenous Pedagogy
(2018-09-21)In this article, we examine the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada (TRC, 2015a) in light of their implications for conscious ally-building in teacher education. Guided by the ... -
Kindergarten Expectations and Outcomes: Understanding the Influence of Educator and Child Expectations on Children’s Self-Regulation, Early Reading, and Vocabulary Outcomes
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)This research examines the influence of educator and child expectations on children’s self-regulation, early reading, and vocabulary outcomes over two time points. Thirty educators (15 early childhood educators [ECEs] and ... -
Preservice early childhood educators' pedagogical beliefs
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Preservice early childhood educators begin postsecondary programs with established beliefs about children, children’s learning, and their roles as future educators. The present study examined 26 first-year students’ beliefs ... -
An Encounter between East and West: The Notion of Truth in William James and Swami Vivekananda
William James considered Swami Vivekananda the exemplary example of a monist, and he comes to reject Vivekananda’s philosophy because it ultimately did not suit his active temperament. However, judging from his assessment ... -
The Bullying Word: Exploring how Students, Parents, Teachers and Principals Interpret ‘Bullying’
Over the past 25 years, research, policies, programming and news reports have proactively tackled the evolving bullying problem, trying to remain ahead of the issue and provide relevant solutions for all educational community ... -
Reliability of Stress Induced Damage Predictions in Hard Rocks With Continuum and Discontinuum Numerical Modelling Approaches
The use of underground repositories known as deep geological repositories (DGR) is globally accepted to be the best solution for long term storage of nuclear waste. In combination with different types of engineered barriers, ... -
Exploring the Quality of life of Polio Survivors in Northwest Nigeria: Selection of an Instrument for Future Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Background: Consequences of paralytic polio may adversely affect the quality of life (QoL) of polio survivors. The promotion of QoL is the ultimate goal of rehabilitation interventions. Thus, QoL evaluation is essential ... -
Computational study of rovibrational spectrum of CO-CO 2
The Lanczos algorithm was used to determine J=0 and J=1 ro-vibrational energy levels for CO-CO2 . The fundamental transition energies have good agreement with previous experiments for both the C-bound and O-bound isomers. ... -
Continuum Damage Modeling of Rocks Under Blast Loading
Rock fragmentation by blasting has been in practice in civil and mining industries for centuries. The controlled use of explosives is considered the dominant approach for the purpose of breaking the rock material in any ...