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The role of primary oral healthcare clinicians in the detection and diagnosis of oral and oropharyngeal cancer in New Zealand

Kennedy-Langley, Donna Therese (Thesis, Master of Community Dentistry, 2017)

Background Oral and oropharyngeal cancer (commonly referred to collectively as oral cancer, or OC) is the sixth most common cancer. Cancer Registry records show that the incidence of OC in New Zealand (NZ) has increased ...
The Waitaki Canyon - An investigation of the Late Quaternary development of a shelf-indenting submarine canyon using high-resolution boomer seismic data

Abbey, Cameron James (Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)

Submarine canyons are well documented, both around New Zealand and globally, but questions remain around the processes involved in their formation and evolution as well as around how their morphology reflects their ...
The Hear and Now: Sound and Technology in the Avant-Garde Poetics of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and Caroline Bergvall

Edmeades, Lynley Carol (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis examines avant-garde poetry's engagement with sound and sound technology over the last eighty years. Focusing on the work of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and Caroline Bergvall, I investigate the ways in which ...
The Cellular Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in vivo in the rat

Matheson, Natalie (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a form of non-invasive brain stimulation. A magnetic field is pulsed through the skull and into the brain where it induces electrical currents in underlying tissue and activates ...
Modeling Continuous Time Series With Many Zeros

Wang, Yunan (Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)

Earthquake activity is generally modeled using point processes as earthquake events usually occur at random times and locations. Recent studies have found it mathematically challenging and computationally complex to ...