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Keeping Up Appearances: Accessing New Zealand's Civil Courts as a Litigant in Person
It is commonly believed that more and more people are going to court without a lawyer, both in New Zealand and in other common law jurisdictions. The right to appear in court in person is essential to the legitimacy of the ...
Building Adaptive Capacity For Natural Resource Management In Akaroa Coastal Environment, New Zealand.
This thesis examines how people in the coastal environment of the Akaroa area of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand are doing at building adaptive capacity for local approaches to natural resource management. Adaptive capacity ...
Large men and New Zealand primary care: the views of practitioners and patients regarding obesity and its management
Background
New Zealand is ranked third in terms of obesity prevalence globally, with male obesity rates equalling those of females. There have been calls for primary care to take a more proactive approach to the diagnosis ...
The Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen as a Product of Modernity
In this thesis I investigate the extent to which the Brother Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM) can be considered as a document of modernity. This gives ground to argue that over the course of more than forty years ...
Developing an energy-related Time-Use Diary for gaining insights into New Zealand households’ electricity consumption
Sustainable development is vital for the future wellbeing of our society. In the energy sector, sustainability involves reforming the energy supply and demand patterns, including using more renewable energy, reducing ...
The claim of loss of self-control: some challenges of the genetic-based defence to criminal responsibility
In this thesis, I will focus on one important piece of genetic evidence, concerning the Monoamine Oxidas Acid A (MAOA) gene, unscientifically known as the ‘warrior’ gene. In 2002, a famous study by Caspi and his colleagues ...
Insights into the nitrogen ecophysiology of Macrocystis pyrifera
Low nitrogen availability is one of the major environmental factors limiting macroalgal growth in temperate marine ecosystems. Macroalgae have overcome the fluctuating nature of nitrogen supply via adjustments to their ...
Mediator’s Culture and the Ability to be Effective in the Process of International Mediation
One of the more effective approaches to resolving conflict is mediation, whereby a third party intervenes to assist the disputing parties in reaching mutually-acceptable resolutions. This thesis examines the mediator’s ...
The relationships between body composition phenotypes, postural instability and strength in people with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
Background and Aim
Postural instability has been identified as one of the main causes for injurious falls in people with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD). Muscle weakness in older adults is one of the identified factors ...
The impact of commensals predominant in the infant gut on signal cascades in epithelial cells
The human colon contains about 20 trillion commensal bacteria belonging to about 160 species per human. The mechanisms by which individual species of these bacteria evade host inflammatory immune responses and instead ...