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Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Atmospheric trace gas measurements aid in the understanding of air quality, climate change, and biogeochemical processes. Open-Path Fourier Transform Infrared (OP-FTIR) spectroscopy can be used to measure many infrared ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Forward stratigraphic modelling of the central Scotian Basin is used to evaluate proposed provenance pathways in the Early Cretaceous and exploration risk. Modelling results confirm proposed pathways, supporting the diversion ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)In many species, the mating advantage associated with sexually-selected traits may vary with operational sex ratio (OSR; the number of sexually active males to fertilizable females in a population), and this metric is often ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)There is a high prevalence of mental health disorders among youth, however there is not a corresponding high level of help seeking behavior. Currently, there is little research on the barriers that post-secondary students ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Inadequate government regulation of for-profit corporate water extraction is a significant issue in Canada but lacks scholarly research, notably in the field of criminology. The thesis aims to examine and critically analyze, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an EEG-derived event-related potential (ERP) elicited by any violation of a predicted auditory ‘rule’ and is thought to reflect updating of the stimulus context. In MMN research, sex ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Satellite galaxies around massive central galaxies can provide important information about galactic environmental effect. In this thesis, we selected thousands of massive (log(Mcen/M☉) > 11.15) ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Little is known about how salinity tolerance evolves in fishes. In this study I measured salinity tolerance, and candidate mechanisms underlying tolerance, in Common Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus), Banded Killifish ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)My research aims to understand the lived experiences of the contemporary and ongoing migration journeys of women arriving “irregularly” in Greece. By collecting qualitative data through interviews with asylum seekers who ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)In 2015 Canada introduced a new law criminalizing the non-consensual distribution of intimate images (s.162.1, Canadian Criminal Code), however, to date the empirical literature surrounding non-consensual distribution of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The roots of most land plants are colonized by mycorrhizal fungi under normal soil conditions, yet the influence of soil moisture on different types of mycorrhizal symbioses is poorly understood. In wet soils, colonization ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Starting in 2012, several industry-insiders described a system of corruption to the Charbonneau Commission, an inquiry by the Quebec Government to investigate corruption in Montreal’s public works contract tenders. Many ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Interrogations in North America are guided by the Reid Model of Interrogations. The model comprises nine steps, and the two studies presented in this paper investigate step seven: alternative questions (AQs). Alternative ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)My aim is to show that if the privation theory of evil is true, then at any moment in which there is actual evil in the world necessarily there exists a thing whose essence is identical to its existence, namely, Existence ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Studying the evolution of galaxies is important in understanding many other astrophysical phenomenon. However, this process required numerical work due to long timescales over which evolution occurs. To study the effects ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Negotiation is a critical component of job performance across a variety of occupations. Though many factors influencing negotiation performance have been studied, research on individual (specifically personality) traits ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Water uptake from vegetation can govern plant productivity through different mechanisms in natural terrestrial ecosystems. However, the ability of plants to regulate water can be viewed as an ecosystem service in urban ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)X-ray observations of two Seyfert AGN were analysed in an effort to characterise the nature of their variability. A spectral analysis was performed on a Suzaku observation of the Seyfert 1.5 AGN Mrk 530, and a timing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Uranium-rich, polymetallic “five-element” (Ni-Co-As-Bi-Ag) veins at the Eldorado Mine were investigated using complementary microanalytical techniques with the goal to improve understanding of the origins of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The issue with using self-report measures of psychopathy in selection is that they are highly susceptible to faking. Conditional Reasoning Tests (CRTs) are a rarely used method for measuring implicit personality that could ...
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