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Honours Theses: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)To survive, fish must maintain ionoregulatory and osmoregulatory homeostasis during changes in environmental salinity. In hypersaline water, fish must actively excrete salts and drink water to counterbalance the passive ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Green roofs, also known as vegetated roofs, have been shown to provide a wide range of environmental benefits in urban areas. However, runoff from green roofs may contain soil nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, as ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Homelessness is a problem that exists in every city around the world. Citizens want this problem to go away, but instead the homeless population continues to grow. The laws that are put in place in cities are supposed to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary/s University, 2019)With the spread of bat White-nose Syndrome decimating regional bat populations, finding a safe antifungal agent able to combat the causative agent Pseudogymnoascus destructans is a necessity. Upsetting the already fragile ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The synthesis of biphenyl substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands are described. The synthetic route is accomplished through the reaction of aryl lithium reagents with cobaltocenium salts, followed by oxidation of the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Plasmonics is the field of research which explores the unique optical and electronic effects observed when certain nanoscale metals interact with light. Plasmonic nanostructures that are uniform in size and shape are highly ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)In the [5+1+2+1] cycloaddition reaction, hydroxydihydroindanones can be synthesized from vinylcyclopropanes and alkynes under a carbon monoxide atmosphere to produce five new C-C bonds in a single step. Dihydroindanones ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)During mating, animals use both behavioural and morphological traits to compete for and attract mates. In some species, one of the sexes may exhibit nuptial colouration, a type of signal that is under sexual selection. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)There is a lack of research on the pollinator communities of flowering plant species within coastal barren habitats. This study examined four closely related plant species in the Ericaceae that have a similar flower ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Pollinators provide an important service to ecosystems worldwide. This includes Sable Island, located in the North Atlantic Ocean ~160 km offshore Nova Scotia. Two plant communities on Sable Island, heath and marram ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)While the world witnesses the overall warming of the globe and environmental destruction, due to human activity, conservation areas have become a popular model for environmental preservation and regeneration. This thesis ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis examines the therapeutic aspect of education that can be pivotal in the rehabilitation of refugee children. The focus of the research is on Turkey and the lack of attention that has been paid to the rehabilitative ...
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(Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.), 2019)This thesis focuses on poverty alleviation and development in Ethiopia related to Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans, the Millennium Development Goals, and to a lesser extent, the Sustainable Development Goals. Issues debated ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)There were two main objectives for this study. The first, to understand the detrital mineral assemblages at different depths in a group of wells in the Central Scotian Basin, eastern Canada. The second, to determine the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Undernutrition in very young children can have long lasting effects for them personally, as well as for the economy that is impacted by their lowered human capital formation. Despite its higher than average undernutrition ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Uganda has what is widely regarded by the international community to be a progressive approach to refugee management, outlined in the state’s 2006 Refugee Act which provides refugees with the right to land, free movement, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Language Equations is an area of Theoretical Computer Science that is concerned with expressing desirable constraints on formal languages of interest and answering algorithmic problems about such languages. Language Equations ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Forested wetlands in Nova Scotia are an understudied and ephemeral ecosystem type with high predicted ecological value. They are thought to cover a broad geographical area; however, their distribution is difficult to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis addresses the effects of seventeen chronic health conditions as defined by the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey on labour market outcomes as measured by their labour force status: employed full-time, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Many studies were done to reveal that individual’s perception towards certain group of people is established and influenced by outside sources. Female is considered the vulnerable group in the society and their presence ...
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