Abstract
The Pacific Voices: Pacific Postgraduate Symposium showcases and celebrates the research undertaken by Pacific postgraduate students across the University of Otago.
Abstracts may be cited as appearing in Finigan, A., Taumoepeau, M., Richards, R., and Schaaf, M. (Eds.). (2017). Pacific Voices XIV: Abstracts for the Pacific Postgraduate Symposium Pacific Islands Centre, University of Otago.
CONTENTS:
Foreword: Professor Rachel Spronken-Smith
The language and theology of the Samoan Methodist hymnbook: circumscribing hymnal translation from a postcolonial perspective - Olataga Elu
Mendelian randomization reveals a causal relationship between iron and urate metabolism - Tahzeeb Fatima
Kwaimani ana liohaua gia (the heart of us) – Malaitan music and indigenous expression - Irene Hundelby
How does high-intensity interval exercise help to prevent diabetic heart disease? - Jason Lew Kar Sheng
The impact of President Barack Obama’s conception of American exceptionalism on the country’s foreign policy - Sara Lomaloma
Policy versus reality: an evaluation of the Tamaki regeneration process - Eseta Maka
Challenges to implementing ICT in primary education in East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea - Sam D. Mehrtens
The discrepant association of the CREBRF variant RS373863828 with increasing BMI and protection against Type 2 diabetes - Jaye Moors
Prehistoric settlement and exchange systems in the Manning Strait, Western Solomon Islands - Charles Radclyfe
Genetic association of BICC1 genetic variant RS1649053 with gout in New Zealand Polynesian and Europeans - Amara Shaukat
The rationale for mycolic acid as a biomarker for tuberculosis in a point of care test - Charles F. Shaw
Finding your respondents – snowball sampling in online survey-based research: advantages, limitations and practical observations - Vanda Symon
Bicultural audience reception in a New Zealand context - Amie Taua
Re-visioning Christology through a Māori and indigenous lens - Wayne Te Kaawa
The 2010 constitutional reform in Tonga - the devolution of the monarch’s executive power - Mele Tupou
Exploring psychological insulin resistance in Paciic Islands clients with T2DM who are residents in New Zealand - Lupesiliva Tu’ulua
Sleep in Pasifika adolescents - Tevita Vaipuna
Development of a thermochemical heat energy storage system for humidity and temperature control of New Zealand residential buildings - Malia Tive Vehikite
Māori women, Māori marriage customs and the Native Land Court, 1865 – 1908 - Inano Walter
Preventing progression from pre-diabetes to Type 2 diabetes in New Zealanders (the Progress NZ study) - Patricia Whitield
Profiles:
Fara Iati (Te Tumu, The School of Māori, Paciic and Indigenous Studies)
Mary Jane Kivalu (School of Business)
Laulalatoa-Sammy Seau (College of Education)
Faafetai tele lava - Toilau Nina Kirii-Alai
Introduction to Pacific Voices XIII, October 2016 - Professor Vernon Squire, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)