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Honours Theses
Please note that undergraduate theses are coursework and not held to the same standards as peer-reviewed research.
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-08-28)In this thesis, we investigate the performance of available methods and tools for sequence alignment in assembly and de Bruijn graphs. Sequence alignment tools are employed to detect antimicrobial (AMR) gene sequences ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-05-03)Increased greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are altering the global climate including changes in air temperature and precipitation patterns that are linked to increasing storms and sealevel rise. In coastal regions, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-06-01)In this thesis, we consider three scientific computing projects. The first project investigates a mathematical model [16] associated with the study of misinformation from the Twitter feed associated with the death of George ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-05)This study aims to investigate the heavy-ion particle identification in an experiment designed to determine the astrophysical rate of the 15O(α,γ)19Ne reaction.
The 15O(&a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-14)Safe supply programs rolled across Canada amidst two public health emergencies: the opioid crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier research demonstrated safe supply’s efficacy, but confusing messages rooted in a history of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04)Changes in coastal environments are a result of interacting hydrodynamic and aerodynamic processes. Spatial and temporal changes in beach width and foredune condition, some of which are influenced by climate change and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-05-01)Soil salinity impacts crop plants globally and can lead to the death of the plant due to incapacitation of cellular processes. To increase survival, plants have evolved many adaptation mechanisms to tolerate salt stress ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-05-01)Interspecific hybridization occurs when two species successfully mate to produce offspring. This phenomenon is relatively common in nature and can produce hybrids with advantaged, disadvantaged, or intermediate physiology ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-20)Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a deadly disease wherein the coronary arteries become blocked, causing irreversible death to myocardial wall tissue which can result in heart failure. Current clinical methods lack the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary`s University, 2023-04-30)The Abitibi Greenstone Belt’s VMS mineralization has been largely constrained to several key chronostratigraphic volcanic assemblages. The most productive of these is the Blake River assemblage (2704 – 2695 Ma). Blake River ...
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A microbe-derived treatment to help inhibit white-nose syndrome in hibernating North American bats (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-26)Pseudogymnoascus destructans (P. destructans) is known to be the causative agent of White-Nose Syndrome in hibernating North American bats. To date, this disease has caused largescale mortality in bat ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-14)Endochondral ossification is a bone developing process in which a cartilaginous template gets replaced by bone. Zebrafish, Danio rerio, are teleost fish that undergo this process throughout their skeletons. This ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-26)Every bird requires a mate to have a successful breeding attempt. After each brood, they are faced with the choice to stay with or separate from this mate. The choice to stay together is referred to as mate fidelity and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-25)In his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," Louis Althusser criticizes the ideology-theory developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology. Althusser characterizes the ideology-theory ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021-04-16)This thesis examines the eighteenth-century Missionary Thomas Wood, the first Anglican clergymen to translate religious texts in the Mi’kmaq language. The central argument of this Theses is that Wood influenced and shaped ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-14)Collagen is one of the main macromolecular components in the extracellular matrix (ECM), and its structure undergoes changes during cell differentiation and cancer progression in the tumour microenvironment. The main goal ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-29)Studies have shown that offspring provisioning is one of the most demanding of parental activities in terms of both time and energy. European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) are a socially monogamous yet facultatively ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-26)In the early to mid 1900s the American wetland was considered a forbidden wasteland with the purpose of being dominated by humans. This perception remained dominant throughout the first half of the century and lessened ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-26)Third harmonic generation (THG) microscopy uses the nonlinear optical effect called harmonic generation (HG) to study materials and compounds. It is an advantageous technique for biological imaging, as unlike fluorescence ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-04)The North End of Halifax has witnessed drastic changes to its urban landscape since the beginning of this millennium. Once a historically low-income neighbourhood, the North End now attracts a more affluent demographic ...