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Honours Theses: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-06)Identifying X-ray variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN) has been a longstanding issue due to spectral model degeneracies. It often occurs on timescales too short to employ regular spectral analysis, but colour-colour ...
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The importance of language to minorities in urban areas : Acadian identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Acadians in Halifax Regional Municipality use French to index their identity, including the importance of language in doing so. Halifax, Nova Scotia is home to an English majority as well as ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-29)This thesis examines how the relationship between archaeology and heritage impacts a historic site, using the Grand-Pré National Historic Site (GPNHS) as a case study. Particularly, looking into whether this relationship ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-28)Regular expressions encode text patterns and define languages of symbolic words. The membership problem decides if a given word is an element of the language described by a given regular expression. This problem has various ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04)Industrial whaling in the early to mid 20th century severely depleted the population of blue whales in the North Atlantic. Due to this reduction in population it is likely that the current population of blue whales in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary`s University, 2022-04-11)Avian nests provide critical shelter for offspring and differ in structure according to the species. They typically consist of natural materials such as dried grass, feathers from other species, and anthropogenic materials ...
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The effect of ectoparasite load on the condition of nestling European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary`s University, 2022-04-28)Nest-dwelling ectoparasites are commonplace among-cavity nesting birds such as the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), and can be detrimental to the health of nestlings. To determine if this was also the case for ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-26)Although N-heterocyclic carbene ligands are highly versatile and powerful ligands in transition metal catalysis, complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes with 3d metals are uncommon and frequently unstable. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-25)Nova Scotia has a long history of gold mining dating back to the mid-1800’s. Early mining techniques depended on the use of liquid mercury (Hg). As there were little or no environmental regulations at the time, over ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04)Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) migrated to the St. Lawrence Estuary near the end of the Holocene glacial retreat, when dry land emerged. The population currently inhabiting the St. Lawrence shows strong ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-26)Three-dimensional object detectors are essential components of the perception sys tems of autonomous robots. Most of the 3D object detection methods are point-based, voxel-based, or point-voxel-based (uses both point-based ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-28)The Tekes River alluvial fan is located in Xinjiang Province which has an arid to semi-arid climate as well as a historically unpredictable precipitation rate. Further, increasing population and urbanization means that ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-28)In this thesis, we consider the problems of numerically solving ordinary differ ential equation (ODE) and partial differential equation (PDE) Covid-19 models with discontinuities. We then tackle the issue of computing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-27)Early diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is challenging. Its prevalence rate in Canada is 9.2%. Experiencing stress for a sustained period can lead to a prolonged release of cortisol that causes negative ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-28)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used by nation-states for decades to conduct intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in addition to lethal operations; however, they have recently entered the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-20)A common cardiovascular disease is acute myocardial infarction (AMI), which is characterized as an ischemic event within the myocardium that results in irreparable damage to the heart. Unfortunately, current clinical ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-26)Food insecurity is an emerging concern in the world, as global populations are increasing and the yield and quality of crops are declining. Excessive use of agrochemicals designed to improve plant growth is very damaging ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-24)Coastal erosion rates on Prince Edward Island (PEI) are increasing due to climate change. Wave action continuously works on the unconsolidated till and sandstone banks, eroding and receding coastlines, while nourishing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-24)As a scientist and philosopher writing in the nineteenth century, Hermann von Helmholtz attempts to use the emerging findings of physiology and his own theories of learning, memory, and perception (what we would now ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-11)Placemaking is a phenomenon that occurs in many parts of the world to enhance the livability, attractiveness, and/or identity of places for their residents and visitors. This thesis explores motivations for citizen-led ...
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