QSpace at Queen's University: Recent submissions
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Sick Religion: Towards a Genealogy of Hysterical Stigmata
(2020-08)In 2016, a case report of an Italian woman presenting with stigmata, the spontaneous manifestation of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion wounds, graced the pages of the international medical journal, Medicine. In the report, the ... -
Printing of Electrochemical Energy Storage Device Components
Materials printing is a versatile technology used in a wide range of industrial-scale manufacturing processes that require high-precision transfer of materials on different substrates. Despite the numerous studies available ... -
Alliance Portfolio Configurations and Competitive Action Frequency
(Sage, 2016-05-01)We advance competitive dynamics research by introducing alliance portfolio configuration as an important antecedent of competitive action frequency. We propose and test a model for developing effective alliance portfolio ... -
Racial Diversity and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Competitive Intensity
(Sage, 2014-03-01)The authors examine the mediating role of competitive intensity in the relationship between managerial racial diversity and firm performance (i.e., market share gain and average stock return). Racial diversity relates to ... -
Does It Pay to Compete Aggressively? Contingent Roles of Internal and External Resources
(Sage, 2019-11-22)We examine, in hypercompetitive environments, why some firms fail to benefit from competitive aggressiveness while others experience superior profits. We explore the relationship between competitive aggressiveness and ... -
Forbearance: Strategic Nonresponse to Competitive Attacks
(Academy of Management, 2020-04-14)Evidence suggests that firms often do not respond to competitive attacks even when they are aware of an attack and have the capability to counter it. We believe that this is because they engage in a form of nonresponse ... -
From controlling to connecting: M’Wikwedong as a place of urban Indigenous health promotion in Canada
(Oxford, 2020-10-06)In recent years, health promotion has come under critique for being framed according to the contexts and priorities of Western communities, with the notion of ‘control’ underpinning much of its theoretical and practical ... -
Wonder Turners and Other Optical Oddities: A history of 19th century inventions and their influence on the perception of time, motion and attention.
Early recording devices, inventions and optical toys, such as the thaumatrope and the zoetrope, demonstrated natural causes for optical phenomena and had a direct influence on our understanding of visual perception. In ... -
Stratabound Zinc Mineralization at the Salerno Lake and Calumet-Sud Occurrences hosted in the Proterozoic Central Metasedimentary Belt Marbles of the Grenville Province, Canada
High-grade marbles of the southeastern Central Metasedimentary Belt in the Grenville Province host several stratabound zinc deposits and occurrences, interpreted in previous work to have been formed from exhalative brines ... -
Quality Estimation for Scarce Scenarios within Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems
Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is a paradigm that exploits the presence of a crowd of moving human participants to acquire, or generate, data from their environment. As part of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, MCS serves ... -
The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a “People-Centered” Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
(Oxford University Press, 2020-06-17)This article contributes to ongoing debates on security community-building in international relations (IR) by focusing on the productive role of discursive contestation in this process. It builds on recent work associated ... -
Interface shear behaviour of different geomembranes with rough surfaces in Heap Leaching applications
The interface shear strength properties of the different geosynthetic layers of the liner system are examined for heap leach pads applications. A series of large scale direct shear tests is used to examine the effectiveness ... -
Exploring Victimization Experiences of Sexual Minority Adolescents and their Associations with Mental Health and Help-Seeking Behaviours: A Minority Stress Perspective
Victimization in adolescence is associated with a variety of negative psychopathological and social outcomes, and is predictive of recurrent victimization over the lifespan (Wolke & Lereya, 2015; Feiring & Furman, 2000). ... -
Pulse fitting for event localization in high purity germanium point contact detectors
P-type Point Contact (PPC) detectors are used in rare-event searches, such as neutrinoless double-beta decay and dark matter searches, due to their low radioactive backgrounds and low energy thresholds. The Majorana ... -
Stop ringing the alarm; it is time to get out of the building!
(Springer, 2020-11-02)The volume of calls for governments and public health officials to take concerted action on climate change has become almost deafening. Public health researchers and practitioners need to look beyond what we know about the ... -
DNA Polymerization in Microgravity and the Future of Human Space Travel
The coming decades will represent a quantum leap in the field of crewed space travel, with planned missions back to the Moon, forward to Mars, and possibly beyond. The substantial biological threats of long-term space ... -
Laying Foundations for a Nanophotonics Research Centre and an Emergency Communications Network
An interdisciplinary collaboration at Queen's is aiming to advance the frontiers of nanophotonics through shared equipment that will be introduced to the new Nanophotonics Research Centre (NanoRC), enabling picometer- and ... -
Quantifying and qualifying ecosystem services to enhance Natural Heritage System Planning: A case study in Halton, Ontario Canada
This dissertation explores a means of enhancing current approaches to Natural Heritage System planning through the explicit recognition of the value of natural areas on the landscape. The identification of various landcover ... -
Three Essays in Corporate Finance
In this thesis I present three essays on Corporate Finance. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the thesis, Chapter 2 presents “Cash Flow Volatility, The Opportunity Cost of Missed Investments, and the Financial Crisis.” ...