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  • Buckle, Ashley D. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)
    In Nova Scotia, rural residents experience access barriers to health care linked to unplanned temporary emergency department closures. Nurse staffing challenges are a persistent and complex reason behind these closures. ...

  • Corney, Rachel Helen (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    During speciation, mate choice can reproductively isolate one group from another through selection on divergent traits and behaviours such as colouration, courtship behaviour, and/or body size. Reinforcement can also ...

  • Blazer, Maddy B. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    While ‘sink or swim’ training is a well-known concept to practitioners, it has not garnered much attention within an academic setting. ‘Sink or swim’ can be described as a form of training by default, where an individual ...

  • Lopez Romo, Alexia Mercedes (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    In this thesis, twenty-five selected fairy-tales from the first two Valor anthologies, featuring female protagonists, have been analysed using a multi-thematic methodology and an intersectional queer feminist lens. ...

  • Thakur, Sumesh (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Three-dimensional point cloud datasets are becoming ubiquitous due to the availability of consumer-grade 3D sensors such as Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), and RGB-D cameras. Recent advancements in 3D deep learning ...

  • Power, Cameron (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Open-Path Fourier Transform InfraRed (OP-FTIR) spectroscopy is an established technique used to measure boundary layer trace gas concentrations, consisting of a spectrometer and a retroreflector separated by a measurement ...

  • Thewage, Sanjeewa Niroshan Perera (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Hybrids of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench have potential as second-generation biofuel feedstock crops in Canada. This study's objective was to screen five plant growth-promoting microbial strains (Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus ...

  • Coller, Kristene E. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Using ANTi-History this dissertation sets out to understand the development of management studies in a Canadian context. The dissertation traces 18 human scholars by analyzing Administrative Sciences Association of Canada ...

  • Cadieux, Danielle M. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    This thesis investigates the island of Grand Manan, New Brunswick. The study focuses on perceptions which residents of Grand Manan have of their natural environment, whether they see change as necessary, and what their ...

  • Dufour, Gena (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Victim impact statements (VIS) are testimonies that convey the emotional, physical, and financial harm that victims have suffered as the result of a crime. This study sheds light on this victims' experiences with the justice ...

  • Faitakis, Martina Elena (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    This thesis sought to create a behavioural measure to assess for primary hebephilia (i.e., a primary sexual interest in pubescent children between the ages of 11 and 14) in male perpetrators of child sexual abuse, and to ...

  • Burgess, Brandon Arthur Everett (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Previous research has suggested that a subset of adult-onset sexual offenders (AOSOs) may be at an increased risk for re-offending against children. Despite this evidence, research on the trajectories of AOSOs is limited. ...

  • McGrath, K. Maiti (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Five jetted sources are used in this work to probe the relationship between the X-ray and Radio emission from radio-loud active galactic nuclei. Timing techniques probing variability, light curve correlation, and power ...

  • Leste, Ophelie Karishma (Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.), 2021)
    We use 21 208 galaxies at redshifts 0.05 < z < 0.45 with images from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) and accompanying spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to study ...

  • Melanson, Patrick (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    The Language Server (LaSer ) is a website created to ask and answer various questions pertaining to regular languages. One of its main features is testing property satisfiability, that is, does a given regular language ...

  • Jn Baptiste, Frejhan (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Saint Lucia, like many other Caribbean islands have not had consistent coastal monitoring programs. This research looks into coastal risk and vulnerability associated with sea level rise and anthropogenic climate change ...

  • Sheppard, Julien (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Once known as the "singing island" by folklorist Helen Creighton, Nova Scotia's Devil's Island has been sorely neglected by academics. By uncovering its history, mapping the community, and exploring Creighton's role in ...

  • LeBlanc, Jacob (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    This thesis analyzes the levels of marine debris on the coastline of Southwest Nova Scotia and draws possible conclusions for the observed degree of pollution. The plentiful stocks of lobster, scallop, herring, and other ...

  • Biricik Gulseren, Duygu (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    Over the past few decades, scientists and practitioners have shown a great deal of interest in the topic of abusive supervision. The first generation of abusive supervision researchers focused on defining abusive supervision ...

  • Poole, Maxwell Grimshaw (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials actively promoted messaging on quarantine, isolation, and social distancing to reduce viral transmission and keep people safe. This paper examines the possibility of ...