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The Right of Independent Adult Children to Receive Testamentary Provision: A Statutory Interpretation and Philosophical Analysis of the New Zealand Position

Foley, Mary Jacinta (University of Otago, 2012)
Should independent adult children be entitled to a share of their parent's estate and on what basis? This thesis seeks to answer that question in the New Zealand context by analysing the judicial approach to claims by such ...
Newton's Epistemic Triad

Walsh, Kirsten Elise (University of Otago, 2015)
Isaac Newton condemned the use of hypotheses with his (in)famous methodological statement, Hypotheses non fingo, and yet employed hypotheses explicitly in every edition of the Principia. Some commentators have argued that ...
Sensitivity to reward frequency and reward delay in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

McEachen, Benjamin Timothy George (University of Otago, 2011)
ADHD is a commonly diagnosed disorder of children, and is characterized by difficulties with inattention and/or hyperactivity/impulsivity. Some theories and models of ADHD have noted that children with ADHD respond differently ...
Behaviour and Movement Patterns of Dusky Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) off Kaikoura, New Zealand: Effects of Tourism

Lundquist, David Jeffrey (University of Otago, 2012)
Tourism targeting cetaceans near Kaikoura, New Zealand began in the late 1980s and five commercial operators offer tours to swim with or view pods of dusky dolphins. These dolphins are part of a large, mobile population ...
Design and Implementation of an Efficient and Scalable Software Distributed Shared Memory System

Yu, Byung-Hyun
This thesis presents the design and implementation of our novel hybrid software DSM system. We call our system hybrid home-based EAC (HHEAC) since the system implements our novel exclusive access consistency model (EAC) ...
Deep architectures and classification by intermediary transformations

Szymanski, Lech (University of Otago, 2012)
With the development of deep belief nets, the empirical evidence supporting a link between deep architecture neural networks and generalisation with respect to classification has been mounting. An analytical proof of this ...
Temporal variation of UV-B: photo-protection and photo-damage in intertidal organisms from the New Zealand coast

Cubillos, Victor Mauricio (University of Otago, 2013)
Intertidal ecosystems are characterized by periodic variations in the water column throughout tidal cycles, a situation that can induce changes in the physiological balance of organisms that live there. If low tide occurs ...
The dental workforce in New Zealand

Ayers, Kathryn M S
Each of the seven investigations described in this thesis relate to the dental workforce in New Zealand (NZ). A variety of approaches were used to identify key trends in the NZ dental workforce, with a particular emphasis ...
The school experiences of a learning disabled student

Gaffney, J. Michael D. (University of Otago, 2012)
Within the disciplines of disability studies and childhood studies there has been increasing interest in disabled students’ experiences of school. This thesis builds on that work by drawing on: sociocultural theory, in ...
Gender and the School Formal

Smith, Lee Ann (University of Otago, 2012)
This study investigates whether the school formal in New Zealand, like the prom in the United States, is a space where heteronormativity and normative gender codes are reproduced. I explore the gendered differences in the ...