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The Dimensional Landscape Model: Exploring Differences in Expressing and Locating Landscape Qualities
Landscape quality assessments provide information for developers, decision-makers and designers as to what is significant about a given landscape. However, assessment methods that rely on disciplinary expertise can fail ...
Algal communities and their response to ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the lowering of oceanic pH that has resulted from the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. pH is a dominant factor driving the dissociation of inorganic carbon in the ocean and because the pH is lowering, ...
Authenticating Māori Physicality: Translations of ‘Games’ and ‘Pastimes’ by Early Travellers and Missionaries to New Zealand
This paper theorizes how knowledge of indigenous tribal epistemologies was made ‘knowable’ through Enlightenment rationalism in an early colonial context. Specifically, the paper determines how and what knowledge of Māori ...
Rugby culture, ethnicity and concussion
This paper provides the socio-historical background to a research project which includes the investigation of the relationship between school rugby culture, ethnicity and attitudes towards the reporting of a concussion. ...
The breeding ecology of the South Island Fernbird in Otago wetlands
The fernbird is a small inconspicuous passerine with relatively poor flying capabilities. It is found occupying areas with a generally dense cover of low vegetation from sea level to over 1000 m elevation. With the drainage ...
The role of large, isolated trees in supporting urban biodiversity
Large, isolated ‘specimen’ trees are a significant part of urban landscapes, yet their role in supporting wider biodiversity remains largely unexamined. The aims of this thesis were to examine how urban, isolated trees ...
The effect of alginate lyase on the antibiotic sensitivity of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
Bacteria are single celled organisms that can live together in communities called biofilms. These biofilms consist of a structural matrix consisting of polysaccharide gel secreted by the bacteria, with the bacteria living ...
Functional Analysis of Disease-Associated 3’ UTR Variants: the CXCL12β 3’ UTR G801A Polymorphism
In recent years, the previously neglected 3’ untranslated region (UTR) has gained recognition as a critical region in the regulation of gene expression. Numerous studies have been conducted on disease-associated 3’ UTR ...
Generation Y mobilities through the lens of energy cultures: a preliminary exploration of mobility cultures
The generation Y mobility changes could present an opportunity to facilitate a transition towards a more sustainable mobility paradigm (Banister, 2008). This cohort recently overtook the Baby Boomer generation as the largest ...
The structure of the mucosal folds within the pancreaticobiliary junction
BACKGROUND: This investigation concerns a structure within the pancreaticoduodenal region of the body, known as the pancreaticobiliary junction (PBJ), which is formed from the convergence of the terminal common bile and ...