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Mapping Perspectives on an Ethically Challenging Paediatric Case
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This project aims to identify and examine in detail some of the ethically challenging aspects of the care of infants who have serious medical conditions, by looking at a multidisciplinary team (MDT) and whãnau ...
Lapita Plants, People and Pigs
The Lapita cultural complex is associated with the Austronesian expansion out of Island Southeast Asia beginning approximately 3,500 BP. Sites associated with this archaeological culture have been found from the coast of ...
Biomarkers of Kidney Function; Validity of Estimates in Clinical Practice
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI) are two common conditions that are encountered by clinicians, yet unlike the cardiac troponins, there is currently no gold-standard biomarker that can accurately ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Tourism: Meaning, motivations and barriers in the Tanzanian tourism industry
This thesis explores how the notion of responsible business practice unfolds in a developing country context, Tanzania. The research provides important insights into how the socio-cultural environment shapes the uptake and ...
Narrative as Identity: Postmodernism, Multiple Ethnicities, and Narrative Practice Approaches in Social Work
This paper uses the experiences of those who claim more than one ethnic identity to highlight the shortcomings of cultural competence models that presume neat, bounded cultural translation from one generation to the next. ...
beta1- and beta2-adrenoceptor cardiovascular responsiveness in the type II Zucker Diabetic Fatty rat model
Sympathetic nervous system dysfunction is prevalent in diabetes. It is characterised by increased sympathetic nerve activity and elevated circulating catecholamine levels and altered β-adrenoceptor (β-AR) responsiveness. ...
Reflections on Designing and Teaching a Social Work Research Course for Distance and On-Campus Students
Social work educators are increasingly challenged to train future social workers who can both value research and believe in themselves as capable researchers. One way to achieve this is the teaching of a specific social ...
An exploration of kaupapa Maori research, its principles, processes and applications
Kaupapa Maori research developed as part of a broader movement by Maori to question westernized notions of knowledge, culture, and research. Kaupapa Maori research has been used as both a form of resistance and a methodological ...
The Sociological Construction of Gender and Sexuality
This essay considers how we might come to understand social constructionism sociologically. It examines a number of related approaches to gender and sexuality that speak to sociological concerns and might be termed social ...
Sex Education, Homosexuality and Social Contestation in 1970s New Zealand
This essay examines the relationships between homosexuality and sex education in New Zealand during the 1970s. It argues that reading sex education debates and resources provides a useful way of exploring connections between ...