This article examines how contemporary legal discourse perpetuates and reproduces colonial structures and some less risky alternatives. It does so through an inquiry into how First Peoples enter into legal relationships ...

The aims of this study were to find endophytic brown algae in marine macroalgae from New Zealand, isolate them into culture and identify them using morphological as well as molecular markers, to study the prevalence of ...

Background: Sustainable transport (ST) offers significant public health benefit. Increasing ST-use, as an alternative to motor-vehicle transport, is a significant strategy for reducing/mitigating environmental damage. ...

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is a non-destructive and powerful imaging technique allowing scanned objects to be three-dimensionally inspected and characterized across a wide range of sample sizes (from meters to micrometres) ...

As interest in the virgin Pacific Islands grew in the 1860s, it was inevitable that those New Zealanders closely involved in the peculiar difficulties of cotton plantations should see the recruitment of labour with the ...

Since the days of the discoverers, island people had been kidnapped. Occasionally, they served as interpreters, but principally, they provided cheap labour, and during the early years of the nineteenth century, bêche-demer ...

Background: Magnesium is an essential mineral to the human body. During adolescence, rapid rates of growth are accompanied with an increase in nutritional demand for magnesium. Despite its abundance, intakes among adolescent ...

Stabilization of optical sources are becoming more important in high precision measurements. Whispering gallery mode resonators are an ideal candidate for a cavity to stabilize laser diodes. Imperfections in the resonator ...

Background: Physical activity and energy intake are the two most variable components of energy balance and their association with obesity has been studied separately throughout literature. Despite their important role in ...

This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of metallosupramolecular chemistry, detailing the three main approaches to self-assembled metallosupramolecular architectures: the ligand direct ...