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Honours Theses: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Crude petroleum products have impurities that are harmful to industrial equipment, vehicles, and the environment. The American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) is a regulatory body that controls the standards for ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Examining population dynamics within fisheries science is an effective way to investigate the size and age structure of a given fish population, and to understand how that stock might change over time. Porbeagle sharks are ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Microsporidia are unicellular eukaryotic parasites that cause chronic diseases in invertebrates, as well as some other species in the animal kingdom, such as fishes, crustaceans and even humans. Microsporidia are known to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), and increased affordability, have proliferated their use in the scientific community. Despite these innovations, UAS attempts to map a site’s true elevation using Structure ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Sexual selection can lead to the development of secondary sex traits and mating behaviours. Morphological and behavioural traits may increase individual reproductive success, however, under varying sexual selection types ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The ‘White’ Threespine Stickleback is a form of stickleback endemic to Nova Scotia, Canada, which exists sympatrically with the ‘common’ marine Threespine Stickleback. These fish differ in both morphology and behaviour. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)In order to ensure food security for the steadily increasing population, intensive, carefully managed agricultural practices are a necessity. In an attempt to increase crop yields, mineral and organic fertilizers have been ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The operational sex ratio is the number of fertilizable females to mature males in a population at a particular time. Variation in this ratio is often associated with change in behaviour during mating, including differences ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)I analyze the impact of diagnosed mental health disorders and mental health services on peoples’ potential to work by using the Canadian Community Health Survey, 2012: Mental Health Component. I use mood and anxiety disorders ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Accurate abundance estimates are important for the management of species. Many abundance estimates are based off of capture-mark-recapture analyses which have several limitations that can reduce the accuracy of abundance ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2018)Environmental stresses have had a major impact on gene expression and evolutionary adaptation as a whole. What has been discovered is that polyploids have a genetic advantage compared to their diploid relatives in allele ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)With a growing demand for energy, and a desire to reduce anthropogenic climate change, the use of renewable energy sources is becoming increasingly popular. A major source of renewable energy that is readily available is ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Guantanamo Bay is commonly referred to as a ‘legal black hole’ where the United States violated the international prohibitions of torture in the years following the 9/11 attacks. The Bush administration justified these ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)This thesis examines restorative justice principles and theories in order to determine if the program Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) can be considered a restorative justice program. Six face-to-face unstructured ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2018)Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to a variety of blazars to examine X-ray spectral variability. Data from nine different objects are analysed in two ways: long-term, which examines variability trends across ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary#s University, 2018)When Supreme and Family Court Judges in Nova Scotia are tasked with deciding custody arrangements for divorced parents and their children, the children’s wellbeing should be put first. This leaves however, several questions ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2018)The Cambridge Platonist Anne Conway, in her only treatise, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, articulates a complex metaphysical system, partly formed as an alternative to the mechanistic philosophy ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The Government of Canada will spend $20.1 billion over the next ten years, through the Budget 2017, to improve public transit infrastructure in Canada. Previous literature shows that public transit can reduce traffic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Nestlings vocalize while begging to elicit food from parents, and although many studies examine their begging behaviour, surprisingly little is known about vocal development in nestling passerines. European Starlings ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)In parent-offspring interactions, nestlings signal their hunger to parents by begging. Parents typically respond by increasing their provisioning rate. This type of communication involves specific vocalizations, postures, ...
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