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The 'Tragic' Father of Gods and Men: A Study and Comparison of Euripides' Zeus and Seneca's Jupiter

Sleeth, Constance Lorraine (University of Otago, 2014)
This dissertation is a study and comparison of the gods Zeus and Jupiter within various tragedies of Euripides and Seneca. It is concerned above all with the tragic representation of the two gods and the various levels of ...
Relative Validity of a Short Food Frequency Questionnaire to Assess Intake of Non-Essential Energy-Dense Nutritionally-Deficient (NEEDNT) Food Items

Maxwell, Hayley Jane (University of Otago, 2015)
Abstract Background: Obesity is increasing in prevalence around the world, posing a huge burden to society due to associations with non-communicable disease. The energy density of our diet is one factor that contributes ...
Social perceptions of climate change in Queenstown's ski industry: a framework of contextual vulnerability

Hopkins, Debbie
The tourism industry both contributes to – and is affected by climate change. Many tourism sub-sectors rely on the local climate as a key element to their tourism offering, non less that the ski industry. As a result of ...
The Antitumour Properties of Endophytic Fungi from Marine Plants in Malaysia

Ariffin, Siti Alwani (University of Otago, 2013)
Endophytes from marine plants have not been widely explored, and their bioactive compounds have not been well documented. In the present study, 64 endophytic fungi were isolated from 2 Malaysian marine plants (Pandanus ...
Investigation of seafloor depressions east of New Zealand's South Island to explore their potential link to methane transport processes between the seafloor and ocean

Hillman, Jess Irene Tsahai (University of Otago, 2015)
Seafloor depressions are widespread on the present-day continental slope along the south-east coast of New Zealand's South Island. The depressions appear to be bathymetrically constrained to depths below 500 m and above ...
Late Quaternary ice sheet thinning and retreat in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Anderson, Jacob T.H. (University of Otago, 2015)
Retreat of the Antarctic ice sheets since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been associated with sea-level rise and ocean warming on the ice sheet margins, but the significance and relative contribution to eustatic sea-level ...
The construction of entrepreneurship in publicly-owned utilities in New Zealand: local and translocal discourses, 1999-2001

Cardow, Andrew G
This research project examines how managers in local-government-owned business organisations justify their adoption of an entrepreneurial orientation and their interpretation of their role in entrepreneurial terms. To ...
The cultural transmission of cookery knowledge : from seventeenth century Britain to twentieth century New Zealand

Inglis, Raelene (University of Otago, 2007)
Underpinning most anthropological definitions of culture is the concept of the cultural transmission and diffusion of learned behaviour. Anthropological works generally emphasise the outcomes of this transmission rather ...
Towards A Metamodern Literature

Dumitrescu, Alexandra Elena (University of Otago, 2014)
The aims of the thesis are to establish the concept of metamodernism in literature, and to consider its wider applicability within the arts and society generally. The thesis examines the features of metamodernism in light ...
Aqua, aqua, undique : aspects of Roman domestic water use

Harrison-Sim, Michelle (University of Otago, 2007)
This thesis examines the nature of Roman domestic water usage, but unlike many previous studies in this field, does so from a social rather than technical viewpoint. Its aim is to provide a consolidated analysis both of ...