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S. aureus alanine racemase: "A target for structure-based drug design"

Scaletti, Emma Rose (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic Gram-positive bacterium which causes a wide variety of diseases ranging from minor skin infections to potentially fatal conditions such as pneumonia, meningitis and septicemia. The ...
Saccades in Alzheimer’s disease: an MRI study.

Wright, Sarah (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)

The body of work described in this thesis used saccades (fast eye movements) and MRI measures to characterise an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) group. Saccades are served by a network of cortical and subcortical regions, and ...
Saccades, eye-hand movement and cognition in Huntington's disease: a 12 month study

Toh, Eng Ann (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

Huntington’s disease (HD), a genetically inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion, is characterised by movement disorders, cognitive impairment, and behavioural disorders. Saccadic ...
Saccadic Eye Movement Control Behaviour in Healthy Adults: Investigations of Clinically Practical Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Protocols

Chen, Po Ling (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

Ageing is associated with declines of cognitive functions, including voluntary control over eye movements, which could be due to natural brain deteriorations. In relation to frontal-lobe deterioration, adult ageing adversely ...
Sailing for Survival

Mennis, Mary R. (Working Paper, 2014)

Sailing for Survival is a comparative study of the trading systems and canoes of two groups of people in Papua New Guinea: the Bel people of Bilbil/Yabob on the North Coast, near Madang and the Motu people on the South ...
Salivary transcriptome biomarkers: For the identification of periodontitis susceptibility.

Hidayat, Mohd Faizal Hafez (Thesis, Doctor of Clinical Dentistry, 2012)

Periodontitis (gum disease) is a chronic infectious disease affecting the supporting tissue around the teeth. Bacteria cause the infection and subsequently activate the natural inflammatory host response. The response to ...
Salt-water and bush : the struggle for Port Resolution, 1835-1868

Bell, Mark Sinclair (Dissertation, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts, 1977)

The island of Tanna lies in the Southern New Hebrides, north-west of Aneityum and south-east of Erromanga, and is about thirty miles long by ten or twelve miles broad. The most significant feature of the social organisation ...
Samba and the Afro-Brazilian favela communities

Baines, Rowena Megan (Thesis, Master of Science Communication, 2013)

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the relationship between samba and the Afro-Brazilian favela community. To achieve this, a thorough literature review was conducted and the responses of six people involved ...
Same-sex Desire and the Asylum: A Colonial Experience

Brickell, Chris (Journal Article, New Zealand Journal of History, 2005)
Samoan women's voices : alternative ways of doing birth

Donnelly, Patricia (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1992)

The aim of this thesis was to examine the way in which migrant Samoan women did birth in Wellington in the mid 1980's. The thesis draws on interviews conducted with fifty Samoan women and interweaves the findings of these ...
Samuel Beckett and the Emergence of the Nominalist Ethic

Phillips, Holly Louise (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

In this thesis, I argue that Samuel Beckett’s 1932 encounter with late-medieval Nominalism in Wilhelm Windelband’s History of Philosophy (1901) was a decisive factor in the emergence of his mature aesthetic. Beckett’s early ...
Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: A Study of his Printing Based on Ornament Use and Business Accounts

Maslen, K. I. D. (Keith Ian Desmond) (Book, 2001)
Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: Further Extending the Canon

Maslen, Keith (Journal Article, Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2012)
Samurai Lear? : the cross-cultural intertexuality of Akira Kurosawa's Ran

Gorringe, Karl (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)

Much of the critical literature on Akira Kurosawa's film Ran has focused, whether in part or in whole, on its intertextuality. In particular, critical analysis of the film has largely focused on the intertextual relationship ...
sAPPα Over-Expression as a Preventative Measure Against Alzheimer’s Disease in a Mouse Model

Tan, Valerie Tze Yeen (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is neurodegenerative disease that mainly occurs in the aging population. It manifests itself as dementia, which is a term that describes a range of behavioural changes such as memory loss, cognitive ...
Satellite tracking of sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) during their pre-laying “exodus” and incubation

Sohle, I; Robertson, C; Nicholls, D; Mouritson, H; Frost, B; Moller, Henrik (Journal Article, Notornis, 2007)

Platform terminal transmitters (PTTs) using the CLS:Argos System were attached to adult sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) at Taiaroa Head, South I, New Zealand. Three PTTs were attached to adults during the pre-breeding ...
Satiating effects of a rice-mix in Asian people with type II diabetes

Kane, Jessica (Thesis, Master of Dietetics, 2013)

Although for many Asian diabetics white rice is a staple, it may not be the most appropriate choice. An acceptable alternative to white rice could be useful in terms of lowering glycaemia and inducing satiety. Using a ...
Satire and Dickens

White, Richard (Thesis, Master of Arts, 1997)

People have a fundamental need to feel good about themselves, and sometimes we can achieve this at the expense of others. If I can laugh at someone who does something stupid, or feel superior to someone who does something ...
Scalability of techniques for online geographic visualization of Web site hits

Stanger, Nigel (Chapter in Book, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and CartographyGeospatial Vision: New Dimensions in Cartography, 2008)

Extremely large data sets are now commonplace, and they are often visualized through the World Wide Web. Scalability of web-based visualization techniques is thus a key issue. This paper investigates the scalability of ...
Scale and pure efficiencies of New Zealand secondary schools

Alexander, W Robert J; Jaforullah, Mohammad (Discussion Paper, 2005)

The scale efficiency of schools is a controversial matter. Government quite naturally wants to capture such scale efficiencies as are available, while parents and educators often favour smaller schools because of their ...