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Honours Theses: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-19)A proposed synthetic pathway to produce a cyclic (alkyl)(phosphino) carbene (CAPC)has been investigated. 1-bromo-2,4,6-tritertbutylbenzene (-2,4,6-tritertbutylbenzene =mes*) was used to produce Mes*PCl2. A ring ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-24)This thesis examined the interpretation of ambiguous sentences with relative clauses (RCs) in English as a second language (L2). In Jimmy met the brother of the engineer who has a smart dog, the RC who has a smart ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-30)Earthworms are ecosystem engineers which alter soil structure and impact other organisms and ecosystem functioning. In 2014, pheretimoid “jumping worms” (Megascolecidae spp.) were discovered in Ontario, Canada, with later ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-21)Research into the aetiology of sexual homicide perpetrators often highlights the impact of adverse childhood experiences and deviant sexual interests on offence commission. However, this research traditionally focuses ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-13)This thesis analyses the life and work of the early modern Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-ca. 1654) to understand her sources of inspiration and influence. Artemisia rose to prominence during the 20th century ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-22)The dense environment in the cores of globular clusters enables three-body interactions involving a binary system and a single star to occur frequently, which can eject high-velocity stars from the cluster. The velocities ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-17)The X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) contain many spectral features, such as emission lines, that provide much insight into the inner workings of these objects. In a class of AGN known as Narrow-Line Seyfert ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017-04-21)The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that 13 Canadian women will die from breast cancer every day. Epigenetic modifications, like aberrant DNA methylation contribute to breast cancer progression and must be addressed to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-18)Halifax, Nova Scotia is experiencing a major rental housing affordability and availability issue. Many Haligonians are under increasing financial pressure, posting their complaints via online forums and on social media ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-15)The Anthropocene, our current geological era, is defined by increased anthropogenic environmental alteration that is reducing great ape populations globally. As this occurs, there becomes an increased need to not only ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022)This paper explores age and other factors that affect the use of the third person pronoun they for singular and non-binary antecedents in English. Two methods were used for data collection: an online survey and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-02)Advancing the “push-pull debate” (Hughes, 2003), this research draws on Budig’s (2006) disadvantaged worker and class-mobility hypotheses to identify the push and pull-factors that inform mothers’ decisions to self-employ ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-12)France was a major European imperialist country and increased its reach by colonizing many parts of Africa, Asia, North America, and the Caribbean. This brought the French into contact with different cultures and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)One of the defining characteristics in sexual dimorphism is that there are morphological differences between the sexes. Sexual selection favors traits that are advantageous for reproduction, usually acting on males due ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-27)The ocean floor surface sediments of the Scotian Slope, Nova Scotia are host to a complex network of microbially mediated reactions that knit together the carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles. Limited ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-06-07)The current study examined the effects of relationship behaviors and dating-age on codependency. Specifically, associations between codependency scores and the initial age of dating, or whether or not participants dated ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-27)Much has been said about the structure of the Cuban biotechnology sector in development literature. The collaborative and integrated structure of the Cuban sector has facilitated development and widespread distribution of ...
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Investigating the excitation spectrum of [superscript 8]He from inelastic scattering with deuterons (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-26)Rare isotopes are nuclei with very short half-lives and can have a large asymmetry of neutrons to protons. These isotopes can have unusual structures such as halos that can exhibit a phenomenon known as a Soft Dipole ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-11)Current, state-of-the-art equilibrium mass models of globular clusters assume that all stars are single, making the effects of binary systems an unknown quantity. In this thesis we develop a method to include realistic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-06)The discovery of 11Li halo nuclei structure sparked the development of research of exotic nuclei close to the neutron drip line. This includes research on 12Li which is unbound beyond the neutron drip ...
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