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(2024-01-31)This thesis addresses fundamental questions related to the prebiotic evolutionary selection of the building blocks of nucleic acids. The structural tendencies and propensities in today’s nucleic acids are rationalized based ...
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Two-eyed critical sensemaking : an integrative approach for studying post-TRC organizational change (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-09-27)The research method, Two-Eyed Critical Sensemaking, is a novel integrative approach for studying the relationship between policy documents and enactments of respectful reconciliation focused organizational change. Drawing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-06-28)In the second chapter, we rely on collaborative intelligence, which combines human and artificial intelligence (i.e., supervised machine learning), to construct a textual feature that measures firmlevel gender diversity ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-06-13)Using British Airways (BA) PLC as the case study, I undertake a critical discourse analysis of the lack of diversity in top management teams. Organization leadership is important for several reasons including its role in ...
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Microsporidia-host interactions in beneficial lady beetles : factors that influence chronic disease (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-27)Lady beetles produce species-specific defensive compounds (alkaloids) that are toxic to some predators and deters others with their foul taste. Some lady beetle alkaloids, such as harmonine from Harmonia axyridis, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-14)Wind and solar power prediction is a challenging but important area of research. The thesis you described explores various statistical models and deep learning methods to improve the accuracy of wind speed and solar radiation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-10-20)Exotic features like the halo and the (dis)appearance of the magic numbers were revealed by investigating the nuclei towards the neutron-rich region that have a large neutron/proton asymmetry. Investigating the evolution ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-02)Workplace dignity has been an emerging topic in psychology in the last decade and is theoretically tied to employee well-being (Khademi et al., 2012; Utriainen & Kyngäs, 2011). However, dignity at work has been difficult ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-27)Optimal battery scheduling for electric vehicles and energy storage systems when cooperating with renewable energy generation in behind-the-meter applications is studied in this thesis in the framework of Mixed-Integer ...
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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, 2022-04-14)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, 2022-04-25)The aim of this research is to explore how government policies position female entrepreneurs in Canada in order to understand and positively impact inclusive women entrepreneurship policy reform in Canada. By using ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-14)In this dissertation I explore the potential of creative synthesis within the debate of method in management and organizational history by developing an approach that I call ANTi Microhistory. It is an approach ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Introduction: I investigate several key knowledge gaps and inconsistencies observed in coexistence literature, specifically gaps associated with spatial heterogeneity, functional trait divergence, and the storage ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)High-velocity outflows in active galactic nuclei usually manifest as either a collimated jet or diffuse wind. These outflows carry a significant amount of energy from the central environment surrounding the supermassive ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This thesis studies the concept of kindness. The study of kindness is limited in management and organizational studies and this research problematizes the concept of kindness, shows how kindness research is represented ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Work related injuries and fatalities can cause significant human suffering as well as considerable social and economic costs. A growing body of research has demonstrated that leaders can play an important role in enhancing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)By 2010, women made up almost half (47%) of the entire Canadian workforce (Ferraro, 2010) and the majority of women work in the service sector with the highest concentration (82%) in the healthcare and social assistance ...
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