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Theses & Dissertations
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. Most Masters and PhD theses are available in the Dissertations & Theses @ Saint Mary’s University database as well.
If you are a student who is writing your thesis, and you are looking for information and/or required forms, please follow this link .
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.
Full-text reproduction of Saint Mary's theses, dissertations, and major research projects are included here using the terms of the Non-Exclusive License to Reproduce Theses. All other rights are maintained by the author.
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(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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(2023-05-11)I examine seasons one to three of Westworld to extract specific ideas of gender using the characters Dolores and Maeve as primary figures for analysis. I argue that the show uses ideas of creation and gender that imitate ...
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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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(2023-04-23)Seepage data can provide evidence for hydrocarbon migration from underlying mature source rocks. In this study, ArcGIS coupled with seismic analysis of the Shelburne 3D seismic survey is used to better constrain the ...
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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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(2023-04-25)As sea levels rise and coastal flooding increases, our current hard engineering sea defences will get increasingly expensive to maintain. Nature-based solutions, such as salt marsh restoration with the managed realignment ...
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(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 as ...
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Microsporidia-host interactions in beneficial lady beetles: Factors that influence chronic disease (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, exhibit ...
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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, 2023-04-28)This research aims to understand the placement of the Villa di Tito (Villa of Titus) located in the central Apennines in the territory historically known as the Sabine Territory. This research applies ArcGIS Pro and is ...
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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 ...