The New Zealand population, like many other Western countries, is currently experiencing an ageing phenomenon. Increased life expectancy, declining fertility rates and the ‘baby-boomer’ generation approaching retirement, ...

Many of the actions we perform are defined by the effects they bring about, rather than as stereotypical sequences of motor movements. For instance, to open a door we must perform an action which results in the door opening. ...

The main focus of this research is the unrelenting decline in both membership and attendance that began to affect the church in Inglewood in the 1960s. The central argument is that after a very strong Christian influence ...

Dendritic cell (DC) immunotherapy is a promising treatment for cancer. Despite now being used in the clinic, the role and mechanisms of lymphocyte subsets stimulated by DC immunotherapy are not completely understood. ...

Methylation of DNA molecules is a fundamental mechanism for regulating gene function that is prevalent in all vertebrates. Although, the role of DNA methylation is well recognised in the disease context, the knowledge of ...

This thesis engages with surveillance as a pervasive theme presented in several modes of modern visual culture and is approached with particular reference to Guy Debord’s theory of the spectacle. Through an historically ...

The work of this thesis concerns the properties of a Bose gas of polarised dipoles that have long-range and anisotropic interactions. Our work is divided into two parts. First, the stability of a dipolar Bose gas at finite ...

The linearised general conformal field equations in their first and second order form are used to study the behaviour of the spin-2 zero-rest-mass equation on Minkowski background in the vicinity of space-like infinity.

In the Pacific Island country of Vanuatu, the majority of the population is involved in subsistence agriculture. However, through the processes of globalisation and urbanisation, people are increasingly moving to the ...

In 2007 the bottlenose dolphins of Doubtful Sound were reported to have been in decline for the previous 12 years. To identify and isolate potential causal factors, I began a comparative study of the resident populations ...