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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, 2022-05-16)Discussions on the role of gender in migration have increased significantly in the last few years. This study explores the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on immigrant women living in Canada as reported and constructed ...
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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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(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, 2022-04-07)HBO’s Westworld is a widely viewed and critically acclaimed network television program centered on robotic characters in a science fiction setting. Westworld’s success has been attributed in part to HBO’s ...
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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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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-20)In this thesis, I introduce a theoretical approach called Intersectional History (IH). IH is theorized by bringing together a critical approach to intersectionality with a postmodern approach to the study of the past. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04)This paper quantifies rates of shoreline change and investigates the influence of surficial geology on shoreline dynamics between 1950 and 2018 on Pelly Island, located 10 km off the Mackenzie Delta. Long-term changes in ...
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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, 2022-04-29)Grocery flyers are an important component of the informational food environment that can affect food purchasing behaviour. This thesis used a repeat cross-sectional design to examine the food group content and nutrient ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-14)Drawing from the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR), small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and management system standards, this study explored the motivations of SMEs – an understudied subpopulation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-11)Multiple polymetallic vein-type occurrences with a suspected but unconfirmed genetic relationship and polymetallic critical metal-bearing assemblages occur in the Meguma Terrane metasediments in southwestern Nova Scotia. ...
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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, 2022-04-05)There is an abundance of literature on the need to contemplate sites of dissonant heritage, and a growing body of literature that is interested in the spatiality of commemoration, or how narratives are told through space. ...
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