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Browsing PhD Dissertations by Title
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)For this thesis, I examined the relationship between positive leadership and follower work behaviours through two studies. In the first, 313 employees participated in a study to examine how leaders’ positivity and positive ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)Within the field of organizational analysis, Joan Acker's concept of the gendered substructure is one of the most widely cited in terms of potential for change yet under-explored in terms of application. In this thesis ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-14)Wind and solar power prediction is a challenging but important area of research. The thesis you described explores various statistical models and deep learning methods to improve the accuracy of wind speed and solar radiation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This dissertation examines the impact of contemporary capitalist globalization on class relations, class conflict, and economic development in the Paraguayan countryside. It offers a political economy analysis of agrarian ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Co-operative organizations operate as an economic commons and focus on meeting the needs of their members. Co-operatives operate through an identity of values and principles that center the actions of the organization on ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Using ANTi-History this dissertation sets out to understand the development of management studies in a Canadian context. The dissertation traces 18 human scholars by analyzing Administrative Sciences Association of Canada ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)Information on 72 confirmed or candidate pre-main-sequence [delta]-Scuti stars is collected and analysed to varying degree of sophistication and completeness. A systematic asteroseismic analysis of around 40 of these stars ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This dissertation sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies by creating an alternative methodology for history, one that I have come to call ANTi-History . In the development of this ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)Seasonal influenza vaccination of Health Care Workers (HCWs) is the most effective method to protect staff and patients during influenza epidemics. Although Canadian provincial and territorial governments offer a publically ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis presents a new probabilistic method for the asteroseismic analysis of stellar structure and evolution with the goal of providing a universal tool to improve our knowledge of stellar modelling. This new method ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The taxonomy and architecture of foreign aid today is the result of a chaotic evolution that has made it into a flawed concept and project. The extensive literature on its effectiveness, dating almost as far back as aid’s ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This thesis adopts “performance” as a metaphor and participates with the dramatic by acknowledging the messiness of social interaction and by matching this with a proposed research method capable of dealing with heterogeneity. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Research has extensively documented the negative consequences associated with the experience of stress. An expanding body of psychological research has focused on the concept of recovery, and suggests that individuals can ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This dissertation contains three sequential studies that use a mixed-methods approach. The first study involved qualitative interviews with 29 individuals using the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1949) and Peterson ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)Climatic and non-climatic factors affect small-scale agriculture leading to high cases of food insecurity and subsequent human mobility in Zimbabwe’s communal areas. These farming areas were established by the colonial ...
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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, 2024-01-31)This thesis addresses fundamental questions related to the prebiotic evolutionary selection of the building blocks of nucleic acids. The structural tendencies and propensities in today’s nucleic acids are rationalized based ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)Evidence is presented implying that the classical Cepheid VI[subscript c] period-Wesenheit function is relatively insensitive to metallicity. The results indicate that variations in chemical composition among Cepheids are ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)This dissertation revisits the socio-historical origins and perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practice and its relationship to OHS studies in Canadian business schools by concentrating on the first ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)In this dissertation, I investigate how ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ relate to non-white immigrants’ socio-economic marginalization, such as job ghettoization, underemployment and unemployment. Over the last three decades, the ...
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