QSpace at Queen's University: Recent submissions
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Exploring the relationship between quality and quantity of participation in an online community-based exercise program
The Quality Participation Framework conceptualizes how to promote full and effective participation in exercise programs for individuals with disabilities. Prior to this investigation, it was believed that repeated quality ... -
Vascular Function in Women and Children Following a Pregnancy Complicated by Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is a severe hypertensive complication of pregnancy that poses significant maternal and fetal risk. Evidence suggests that preeclampsia is linked to later-life cardiovascular disease development in both mother ... -
The study of time representations for chemical production scheduling models
Optimal scheduling has been extensively investigated in the Process Systems Engineering (PSE) community. Most of the existing mathematical programming models for scheduling can be classified into two categories in terms ... -
COMBINING BCG IMMUNOTHERAPY WITH STING PATHWAY ACTIVATION TO INDUCE TERTIARY LYMPHOID STRUCTURES IN THE TREATMENT OF NON-MUSCLE-INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER
Following surgical resection, high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is best treated with intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy. BCG is the live-attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis ... -
Quasinormal-mode theory and design of elastic Purcell factors, mechanical cavity modes and Fano resonances in optomechanical beams
In optomechanical systems, the radiation forces exerted by photons are exploited to manipulate and measure mechanical motion, finding applications is optics, nanophotonics, mechanics, and gravitational wave detection. To ... -
In the lie of this Multicultural Land: An Analysis of Barbados-Canada Relations, 1966 -1990.
Barbados-Canada relations spanned many decades, from November 30, 1966, those relations entered a new dimension, since Barbados now an independent state, was no longer ruled by Britain. This new relationship witnessed new ... -
A Morphological Awareness-based Intervention for Struggling Readers
Morphological awareness is the awareness of and ability to manipulate the smallest units of meaning in words, and it enables children to identify meaningful units in words. Studies have shown morphological awareness predicts ... -
Confinement and Complex Viscosity: Experiements
(2021-03)Whereas much is known about the complex viscosity of polymeric liquids, far less is understood about the behaviour of this material function when macromolecules are confined. By confined, we mean that the gap along the ... -
Characterization of pyrene films for background rejection in liquid argon dark matter experiments
About a hundred years after the first references to dark matter, the mystery around the nature of that elusive type of matter has still not been solved. Direct detection dark matter experiments are getting more and more ... -
The Impact of Primary Care Practice Models on Indicators of Unplanned Health Care Utilization for Ontario Adults Newly Diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent chronic disease among Ontario’s general population. Most of the care for this population occurs within the primary care setting; however, the ... -
The Use of Carotid Artery Ultrasound for the Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease and Cardiovascular Risk
Background: It is well known that the majority of cardiovascular (CV) events are caused by atherosclerotic plaque. However, it has recently been shown that it is not the quantity of plaque, but rather its vulnerability to ... -
A Machine Learning Framework for Oncological Margin Detection
Cancer is the cause of one in four deaths in North America. A common phase of early-stage oncological treatment is the surgical resection of cancerous tissue. The presence of cancer cells on the resection margin, referred ... -
Understanding Educator Perspectives of French Language Instruction in Play-Based Kindergarten
This study examined issues related to additional language acquisition in French Immersion play-based kindergarten contexts, from the perspective of educators. Little is currently known about the impacts of play-based ... -
LAW ENFORCEMENT PERCEPTIONS OF YOUTH DIVERSION: A CASE STUDY OF THE DURHAM REGIONAL POLICE SERVICE
Enacted in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) began the transition into a new era of youth justice in Canada (Bala 2015). As a result, the CJS saw a drastic increase in the use of extrajudicial measures and decrease ... -
Volunteering the Valley: Designing Technology for the Common Good in the San Francisco Bay Area
How can digital technologies be designed for good rather than harm? Dozens of civic organizations under the “tech for good” banner have emerged in recent years to address exactly this question. Although these organizations ... -
The path to Antioch: an analysis of the Norman and Greek relationships of Bohemond of Taranto
Bohemond of Taranto has been painted by modern scholars as an opportunistic knight who embarked for the east from Sicily with the Latin armies of the First Crusade in order to acquire a significant lordship for himself. ... -
Automatic material classification via proprioceptive sensing and wavelet analysis during excavation
(IEEE, 2021-07-12)This paper presents an excavation material classification methodology that uses wavelet analysis and unsupervised learning on acceleration measurements. The technique was validated by using acceleration data that were ... -
Multi-resolution and multi-domain analysis of off-road datasets for autonomous driving
(IEEE, 2021-07-05)For use in off-road autonomous driving applications, we propose and study the use of multi-resolution local binary pat- tern texture descriptors to improve overall semantic segmentation performance and reduce class imbalance ... -
A self-supervised near-to-far approach for terrain-adaptive off-road autonomous driving
(IEEE, 2021-07-05)For use in off-road autonomous driving applications, we propose and study the use of multi-resolution local binary pattern texture descriptors to improve overall semantic segmentation performance and reduce class imbalance ... -
Rocks and Stars, Earth and Mars: a Deluge of Distinct Dark Sector Detectors
The nature of dark matter remains among the most confounding conundra in modern physics. This thesis studies the potential consequences of the existence of relatively high-mass, strongly-interacting dark matter. In particular, ...