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This community includes theses, dissertations, and major research projects written by Saint Mary's University students. It includes links to the full-text version where available. Search for authors, titles, or subjects using the search box above, or browse the collection using the menu on the left.
Use can also the library catalogue to search for other theses and dissertations in our collection, all of which should be available either online or in the library stacks.
If you are a student who is writing your thesis, instructions and required forms can be found here .
Please note that Major Research Projects, undergraduate theses and some masters theses are coursework and not held to the same standards as peer-reviewed research.
Geographical Mapping of Nova Scotia-related Masters Theses
This map contains locations around Nova Scotia that are related to, or were studied for, a Masters thesis at Saint Mary's University from 1956 onwards, with links back to the individual full text theses in this repository.
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(2025-04-28)The province of Nova Scotia, Canada, is abundant with coastal landscapes and diverse terrain; and is the chosen study area because of the coastal lagoons that exist on the Atlantic coast. Coastal lagoons, inland waterbodies ...
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(2025-04-30)The broad term ‘pesticide’ encompasses a variety of chemicals belonging to subcategories including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides.1 The latter, fungicides, is the type of pesticide studied in this thesis research. ...
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(2025-04-25)Wildfire disturbance events are increasing in both frequency and intensity across Canada. Historically, due to their proximity to the ocean, Maritime natural disturbances have been limited primarily to strong wind events ...
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(2025-04-23)A spectral analysis was performed on two X-ray observations separated by six years, of the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy IRAS 05078+1626. The first observation was taken in 2007 with XMM-Newton and the second in 2013 with Suzaku. The ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-04-23)In this thesis, I challenge a prevalent misinterpretation within the historiography of German positivism regarding Ernst Laas’ empiricist epistemology. The prevailing post-World War II interpretation inaccurately portrays ...
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(2025-04-24)One of the most detrimental seed and storage diseases affecting potato agriculture is the fungal disease known as dry rot. This disease is caused by various species of Fusarium, which enter tubers through ruptures in the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-04-21)This research looks at the wrongful conviction of three Indigenous men in Alberta to understand (1) why they were wrongfully convicted and (2) whether the factors that contributed to their wrongful convictions are systemic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-04-22)Workplace sexual harassment is a form sexual violence and sex discrimination that is prohibited in Canada under human rights law. Sexual harassment is a complex issue that exists in a grey area that has led to gaps in legal ...
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(2025-04-21)This thesis explores the historical, political, and cultural entanglements between the Mexican state and women’s bodies with the latter serving as both targets of violence and tactics of resistance. In so doing, this ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-04-23)In this thesis, I argue that nostalgia arises as an embodied response to disruptions in our temporal–affective field—ruptures that may concern the past, the present, or the future—rather than as a simple longing for an ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-04-18)This research breaks down fourth downs in the NFL by identifying crucial player positions and evaluating how coaches incorporate different factors in their decision-making process. Using a newly engineered dataset that ...
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(2025-04-14)This study assesses tidal wetland vegetation across three Nova Scotia ecoregions: the Atlantic Coastal, Fundy Shore, and Northumberland/Bras d’Or. Field surveys in 2023 (264 plots across 30 sites) were compared with ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-04-17)This study investigates how football match outcomes affect the stock prices of publicly traded European football clubs. Using panel data from Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Lazio, and Lyon over the 2017–2024 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-03-31)In active galactic nuclei (AGN), the soft excess refers to the emission below 2 keV where the flux exceeds the extrapolated high energy continuum. The phenomenon was first observed in the 1980s and there is currently no ...
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(2025-03-14)This research, Energy Management of Microgrids for Off-Grid Communities: A Metaheuristic Optimization Approach, advances engineering optimization by developing and applying two novel metaheuristic algorithms. The first, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-04-08)Historical representations of sex workers have discursively linked sex workers to concepts of contagion, disease, public nuisance, vermin, and disposal. More recent public attitudes and changes in legislation have attempted ...
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(2025-04-22)This dissertation examines the role of organizational inclusion as a foundational element in fostering sustainable change in workplaces, education, and institutional systems. While diversity efforts are often prioritized, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-01-31)The preparation and reactivity of a 1,3-bis(dimethylamino)iodopropargyl salt (3‧2I) will be discussed. Prepared via a multistep pathway, the cations possess three potentially reactive ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1972-08-01)The term 'Family Compact' was used in British North America to refer to the ruling clique or oligarchy which dominated the political and social life of Upper Canada in the years prior to 1848. It has been employed more ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2025-02-19)Abstract: Halo nuclei, such as 11Li, exhibit a unique structure characterized by a few neutrons that extend far from the core, forming a diffuse neutron halo. Understanding the resonance states in 11Li is ...