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The Determinants of Health for Children and Young People in Counties Manukau (2009)
The early years of life provide a crucial foundation for future health and wellbeing. The Determinants of Child and Youth Health in this DHB is the second report in a three part series on the health of children and young ...
Cancer in the Context of Severe Mental Illness in New Zealand: An Epidemiological Study
Background
Experience of severe mental illness is associated with poor physical health and premature death. This issue has received little research attention in New Zealand. This thesis explores the burden of cancer amongst ...
Flat Embeddings of Genetic and Distance Data
The idea of displaying data in the plane is very attractive in many different fields of research. This thesis will focus on distance-based phylogenetics and multidimensional scaling (MDS). Both types of method can be viewed ...
On the Case of Youth: Case Files, Case Studies, and the Social Construction of Adolescence
Case files and case studies occupy a significant place in histories of mental illness, sexuality, and "delinquency," and historians have considered the ways case files and case studies construct subjective categories and ...
Understanding the energy consumption choices and coping mechanisms of fuel poor households in New Zealand
One in four households in New Zealand are fuel poor. A growing body of evidence links the technical and economic aspects of this phenomenon, however comparatively little research has focused on the wider social impacts. ...
Vestibular Function in Vestibular Schwannoma
Abstract
Introduction: Traditionally vestibular function has been assessed using caloric irrigations; new methods have failed to reach the same level of accuracy. Vestibular nerve dysfunction occurs with ‘acoustic neuroma’ ...
Does ADHD derive from dysfunction of Gray's behavioural inhibition system?
ADHD is a common childhood disorder that has been classified into three subtypes (ADHDI,ADHD-H and ADHD-C) but may involve a spectrum of symptoms. Deficits in executivefunctions have been considered to be a major source ...
Maori Cultural Landscapes in Otago: Acknowledgement, Recognition and Preservation
Abstract
The landscapes of Otago are peppered with memorials and meaning. Meaning comes from how people perceive and have perceived their surrounds through time. The passage of time, geographical features, heritage, ...
Assessment of the Dynamic Insulin Secretion and Sensitivity Test (DISST) in a morbidly obese population pre and post gastric bypass surgery
Type two diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is in epidemic proportions world wide (1, 2) with obesity being the main driver over the last 30-40 years. Obesity increases the risk of T2DM through an increase in insulin resistance. ...
Is Zimbabwe More Productive Than the United States? Some Observations From PWT 8.1
In Penn World Table (PWT) 8.1, several developing countries stand out as outliers
with high total factor productivity (TFP) levels relative to the United States (U.S.).
For example, in 2011, Zimbabwe and Trinidad and ...