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T cell signalling in patients with colorectal cancer
T lymphocytes (T cells) are essential for mediating an effector response against tumours. High infiltrates of T cells in the tumour from colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are associated with positive patient outcomes, ... -
T. H. Potts and the origins of conservation in New Zealand (1850-1890)
In nineteenth century New Zealand, the process of colonisation included destruction of the native environment and so conflicted with conservation. By about 1870 a few men were urging that the native flora and fauna were ... -
T. S. Eliot, 'Four quartets' and the mediaeval mind
The subject of this study is the tradition which gives meaning to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Eliot insisted that the significance of a literary work is determined by its relationship with the works which have preceded it. ... -
Tackling Freshwater Decision Making Through a Catchment Wide Collaborative Approach : An Evaluation of the Manuherikia Catchment Decision Making Process
Balancing the demands and values attributed to complex and integrated freshwater systems can often be contentious and challenging. Collaborative planning has gained international support as a potential solution for balancing ... -
Tackling Māori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport
The primary aim of this paper, then, is to deconstruct one of the dominant discourses surrounding Māori men—a discourse that was constructed to limit, homogenize, and reproduce an acceptable and imagined Māori masculinity, ... -
Tag based model for knowledge sharing in agent society
In this paper we discuss a tag-based model that facilitates knowledge sharing in the context of agents playing the knowledge sharing game. Sharing the knowledge incurs a cost for the sharing agent, and thus non-sharing is ... -
Tahuri Atu Mentoring Programme
The term mentor has a long history dating back to 800 b.c. it was derived from the character "Mentor" in Homer's epic tale the Odyssey. Menotr was a trusted firend of Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. When Odysseus wento ... -
Takapourewa titiwainui (fairy prion; Pachyptila turtur). How nest site selection affects breeding success, with applications for translocation.
Translocation of seabirds is used as a component of habitat restoration. This is often a complicated and expensive process, so maximising the likelihood that the translocation will succeed is important. Takapourewa is an ... -
Take that, you dirty commie! : the rise of a Cold War consciousness in New Zealand, 1944-1949.
Between 1944 and 1949 a Cold War consciousness emerged in New Zealand in response to the ideological struggle which gripped the international world. During this period the New Zealand press came to visualise the world in ... -
Taking a trip : A critical analysis of the discourse of workplace drug testing
The argument at the centre of this dissertation is that dominant discourses inform the practice of workplace drug testing. These discourses produce drug-testing knowledge in specific ways that impose restraints on the way ... -
“Taking Māori Tikanga into the Pākehā Paddock”: Understanding the Return of Kōiwi Tangata/Human Remains in New Zealand
The debate surrounding the return of human remains to indigenous communities has morphed from a contentious and hotly debated issue to an acknowledged part of many museums and institutions policies. The acceptance of an ... -
Taking the oath: investor response to SEC certification
This study investigates the market response to the requirement that the principal executive and financial officer of an SEC registrant each state under oath that the firm’s annual and quarterly financial reports are ... -
A tale of autobiographical memory development: New Zealand style
Autobiographical memories are for specific, personal past events that are of significance to an individual (Nelson, 1993). The social interaction model of autobiographical memory proposes that children begin learning about ... -
Talent Identification and Development: An Investigation into the Policies and Practices of One New Zealand Rugby Provincial Union
Increasingly countries are coming under pressure to succeed on the world sporting stage. As a result, athlete talent identification and development have become central concerns and challenges to sporting organisations ... -
Talking About 'My Place'/My Place: Feminism, Criticism and the Other's Autobiography
A few years ago I edited an autobiography written in 1936 by a working- class New Zealand woman, Mary Lee's The Not So Poor. Setting out on a project of "restoring a voice," allowing the as yet unpublished speech of a ... -
Talking about 1080: risk, trust and protecting our place
The use of 1080 for pest control by the Department of Conservation (DoC) and the Animal Health Board (AHB) is officially considered the only viable means of preventing environmental damage from possums and protecting farming ... -
Talking About Sexual Consent: Heterosexual women and BDSM
Sexual consent is an increasingly important concept for sexual violence prevention. Practitioners of bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadomasochism (hereafter BDSM) advocate strong community standards of active ... -
Tandem repeats as sources of variation
Tandem repeats make up a small fraction of the human genome, but due to their high rates of expansion and contraction, they are predicted to be highly polymorphic. When tandem repeats are found within functional regions ... -
Taphonomic alteration to juvenile porcine bone after exposure to a marine environment
Research into the effects of different aquatic environments, particularly marine environments, on the taphonomic alteration of the skeleton, is an under-studied area of forensic research. Taphonomic alteration is ...