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Honours Theses
Please note that undergraduate theses are coursework and not held to the same standards as peer-reviewed research.
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(2017-04-21)The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that 13 Canadian women will die from breast cancer every day. Epigenetic modifications, like aberrant DNA methylation contribute to breast cancer progression and must be addressed ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-18)Halifax, Nova Scotia is experiencing a major rental housing affordability and availability issue. Many Haligonians are under increasing financial pressure, posting their complaints via online forums and on social media ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-15)The Anthropocene, our current geological era, is defined by increased anthropogenic environmental alteration that is reducing great ape populations globally. As this occurs, there becomes an increased need to not only ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022)This paper explores age and other factors that affect the use of the third person pronoun they for singular and non-binary antecedents in English. Two methods were used for data collection: an online survey and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-02)Advancing the “push-pull debate” (Hughes, 2003), this research draws on Budig’s (2006) disadvantaged worker and class-mobility hypotheses to identify the push and pull-factors that inform mothers’ decisions to self-employ ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-12)France was a major European imperialist country and increased its reach by colonizing many parts of Africa, Asia, North America, and the Caribbean. This brought the French into contact with different cultures and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)One of the defining characteristics in sexual dimorphism is that there are morphological differences between the sexes. Sexual selection favors traits that are advantageous for reproduction, usually acting on males due ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-27)The ocean floor surface sediments of the Scotian Slope, Nova Scotia are host to a complex network of microbially mediated reactions that knit together the carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles. Limited ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-06-07)The current study examined the effects of relationship behaviors and dating-age on codependency. Specifically, associations between codependency scores and the initial age of dating, or whether or not participants dated ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-27)Much has been said about the structure of the Cuban biotechnology sector in development literature. The collaborative and integrated structure of the Cuban sector has facilitated development and widespread distribution of ...
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Investigating the excitation spectrum of [superscript 8]He from inelastic scattering with deuterons (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-26)Rare isotopes are nuclei with very short half-lives and can have a large asymmetry of neutrons to protons. These isotopes can have unusual structures such as halos that can exhibit a phenomenon known as a Soft Dipole ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-11)Current, state-of-the-art equilibrium mass models of globular clusters assume that all stars are single, making the effects of binary systems an unknown quantity. In this thesis we develop a method to include realistic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-06)The discovery of 11Li halo nuclei structure sparked the development of research of exotic nuclei close to the neutron drip line. This includes research on 12Li which is unbound beyond the neutron drip ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-06)Identifying X-ray variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN) has been a longstanding issue due to spectral model degeneracies. It often occurs on timescales too short to employ regular spectral analysis, but colour-colour ...
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The importance of language to minorities in urban areas : Acadian identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Acadians in Halifax Regional Municipality use French to index their identity, including the importance of language in doing so. Halifax, Nova Scotia is home to an English majority as well as ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)This thesis examines how the relationship between archaeology and heritage impacts a historic site, using the Grand-Pré National Historic Site (GPNHS) as a case study. Particularly, looking into whether this relationship ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-28)Regular expressions encode text patterns and define languages of symbolic words. The membership problem decides if a given word is an element of the language described by a given regular expression. This problem has various ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04)Industrial whaling in the early to mid 20th century severely depleted the population of blue whales in the North Atlantic. Due to this reduction in population it is likely that the current population of blue whales in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary`s University, 2022-04-11)Avian nests provide critical shelter for offspring and differ in structure according to the species. They typically consist of natural materials such as dried grass, feathers from other species, and anthropogenic materials ...
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The effect of ectoparasite load on the condition of nestling European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary`s University, 2022-04-28)Nest-dwelling ectoparasites are commonplace among-cavity nesting birds such as the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), and can be detrimental to the health of nestlings. To determine if this was also the case for ...