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Point-JEPA : a joint-embedding predictive architecture for self-supervised learning on point cloud (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-30)Recent advancements in self-supervised learning in the point cloud domain have demonstrated significant potential. However, these methods often suffer from drawbacks, including lengthy pre-training time, the necessity of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-05-08)The soil microbiome is essential for ecosystem functioning and influences both above- and below-ground communities. Sable Island is a sand bar with a large feral horse population, which has been shown to affect marram ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-30)This thesis examined levels of knowledge, myth acceptance, and perceptions of personal safety around sex trafficking among Nova Scotian young adults. Violence condition and citizenship were manipulated in this vignette ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-26)Three-dimensional computer vision tasks have gained much attention in recent times, both in academic and industrial research. One of the key tasks of 3D computer vision is object classification. Various approaches based ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-08)A “coffee paradox” – evident through the unequal political and social relations within coffee’s global value – as named by Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte (2005), created a “coffee boom” in consuming countries and a “coffee ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-22)Galaxy mergers are one of the most important processes in the universe - they are a method of galaxy growth and mass assembly, and also the cause of internal dynamic changes in galaxies including star formation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-24)This thesis research examines the intertwining of domesticity and criminality in recent television series Animal Kingdom and Sons of Anarchy. I argue that the series’ key mothers, Smurf and Gemma, challenge ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-24)This thesis investigated the effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the Comprehensibility of adult L2 learners of German. Based on previous research in pronunciation instruction, I predicted that when given ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-21)The recognition of Palestinian statehood, specifically at the United Nations (UN), has been met with questions regarding Palestine’s fulfilment of statehood requirements set out by the Montevideo Convention on the Rights ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-27)The Avon River Estuary is a hypertidal, muddy estuary in the upper Bay of Fundy. The system has been in dynamic equilibrium since construction of the causeway in 1970, but recent construction activities and changes in tide ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-29)The localization delocalization matrix (LDM) is a complete chemical graph that ties the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (AIM) with chemical graph theory (CGT), allowing for quantitative structure activity relationships ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-22)Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a non-linear optical effect in which two identical incident photons interact with a material to generate one photon at twice the frequency of one incident photon. Polarization-resolved ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-11)Exploring neutron-rich nuclei near the drip-line exposes exotic phenomena, including neutron halo or skin and the (dis)appearance of the existing magic numbers. A systematic study of point proton radii along an ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-21)This thesis approaches Season 1 of Netflix's You to unravel the interaction between toxic masculinity and the framing of romantic courtship in relationships. Through a feminist and framing theory lens, this research ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-22)NGC 6814, a Seyfert 1.5 Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) at redshift z = 0.00522, is a compelling object to study due to its high X-ray variability and the presence of photoionized gas outflows. In 2016, a rapid occultation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-01)As previous research shows the rates of child sexual abuse are overly static, with all the previous research we are still unable to help prevent such a traumatic moment in a child's life. The present study compares and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-09)Wine grapes host a community of yeasts that reflects the unique geography, climate, and management of a vineyard. After grapes are crushed to produce must, a dynamic succession of yeasts takes place as fermentation unfolds. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-20)We perform an X-ray timing analysis of the type 1.5 Seyfert galaxy NGC 6814 to characterise its variability as a means of understanding the structure and properties of its active galactic nucleus (AGN). Using data from ...
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(2024-03-08)In 2018, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize recreational cannabis. As legalization plays out, investigation of changes in public health outcomes related to cannabis use and impaired driving is required. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2024-04-19)Using the simulation code GIZMO, two different configurations of dark matter and gas were collided at three different resolutions in order to study the energy transfer between the dark matter and gas. The first configuration ...
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