When the first settlers departed for Otago from Britain in 1847, the leaders of the settlement envisioned a class based society populated by law abiding, Scottish Presbyterians. The founders had proposed that the settlement ...

This Master's Thesis examines why there are fewer recorded pa (fortification) sites in Murihiku, the southern-most region of New Zealand. Previous research on pa sites has primarily focused on areas with high distributions ...

Philip Ross May stated in 1980 that well-informed studies of the technology of gold rushes and gold mining were long overdue but very little has been added to the historiography since then. As a result, various misconceptions ...

Central insulin signaling plays a key role in regulating the neuroendocrine reproductive axis. Mice exhibiting brain-specific insulin receptor gene (Insr) deletion (NIRKO mice) or diabetic insulin insufficiency display ...

Many species occur in naturally subdivided populations due to spatial heterogeneity of the landscape. Such a pattern is especially evident in alpine species, where naturally fragmented habitat forms an ‘alpine archipelago’. ...

This study is about the relationship between body, landscape, and dance through the researcher’s experiences of learning a Japanese movement approach known as Body Weather (BW) in rural Japan in 2007, and her current dance ...

Objectives: To date, no nationally-representative epidemiological survey of xerostomia has been undertaken. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence, associations and impacts of xerostomia in a nationally ...

Shallow coastal aquifers are dynamic groundwater systems. They can display considerable variability in groundwater levels over time. Complications arise when urban areas exist above such aquifers as groundwater can interact ...

This research project develops a mathematical and numerical framework for representing static fluid interfaces as embedded manifolds. A variational principle is developed for the embedding function of a smooth manifold, ...

Background: Gout is a common form of inflammatory arthritis caused by the precipitation of monosodium urate crystals in the joints. The prevalence of gout in New Zealand is 9.62% in Māori men and 5.12% in European men. ...