• Evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 

  Rehman, Attika

  Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes a wide range of infections. Ciprofloxacin is one of the most widely used antibiotics for the treatment of these infections. Antibiotic resistance in P. aeruginosa has made its eradication ...

• Impacts of Research 

  Larcombe, Maria; Coleman, Michele; Stokes, Tim; Cannon, Richard; Lübke, Antje; Smith, Shiobhan

  High quality research that changes the world is what we strive for at the University of Otago Division of Health Sciences. It’s also what governments around the world are asking for. They want greater accountability from ...

• Dunedin Household Energy Study 

  Stephenson, Janet; Brown, Casey; McDonald, Hannah

  The study, undertaken for the Dunedin City Council, interviewed 19 Dunedin households about their household behavior, decision-making and aspirations with regards their heating and transport choices. The households represented ...

• Cellular bioassays as a clinical tool for monitoring sex steroids 

  Lund, Rachel Allison

  Sex steroid production needs to be maintained within the physiological set point range, deviations outside of the normal range can be a symptom of- and risk factor for endocrine-related diseases (such as polycystic ovarian ...

• An exploration of appearance-driven fruit and vegetable waste through the eyes of children: A consumer socialisation perspective 

  Makhal, Annesha Bernadette

  “We need to find the beauty inside these vegetables, and not only on the outside.” ―Dana Cowin, Food & Wine Editor-In-Chief Food waste is a global issue with negative social, economic, and environmental consequences. ...

• Community assembly drivers shift from bottom-up to top-down in a maturing in situ marine biofilm model 

  Tobias-Hunefeldt, Sven

  Technological advances have promoted the identification of microbial community compositions, but the underlying assembly mechanisms and rules governing successions remain poorly studied and understood. Previous studies ...

• doctor Ovid: teaching what to whom in Tristia 2? 

  Matthews, John Charles

  This study undertakes a close reading of Ovid’s poem Tristia 2, which was composed in AD 9 when the poet was in exile. I argue that although the poem, explicitly addressed to Augustus, takes the form of an earnest plea for ...

• Predicting Possums: Modelling reinvasion of the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) within a New Zealand urban centre 

  Patterson, Charlotte

  Invasive mammalian pests threaten biodiversity globally across a diverse range of habitats. Recent interest in urban biodiversity enhancement has increased the need for effective urban pest control, however efforts are ...

• Biosorption of heavy metals from drinking water using fruit and vegetable peels 

  Nathan, Risha Jasmine

  Heavy metals in drinking water are a serious global concern and efforts are underway to develop sustainable decontamination techniques. The present project was developed with an aim to prepare biosorbents for treating ...

• Improving pain assessment, management, and research in low-income countries: An example of Nepal 

  Sharma, Saurab

  Pain is a global public health problem resulting from complex interactions of multiple biopsychosocial factors. Most published pain research comes from developed countries using samples from western countries; developing ...

• Annotation and evolution of bacterial ncRNA genes 

  Jose, Bethany Rebecca

  Successful pathogenic bacteria must alter gene expression in response to changing and hostile environments. Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) contribute to adaptability and pathogenicity by forming complex regulatory networks, and ...

• What influences people who have experienced a major depressive episode to take part in therapy? 

  Wells, Hayley

  Major depression is a common and serious mood disorder which has a high rate of relapse and impacts significantly on individuals, their families and society. Depression is one of the highest contributors to the worlds ...

• Towards Greater Diversity in Biodiversity Conservation Action 

  Falloon, Alice

  Young adults have been identified as an under-researched group in terms of their engagement in environmental management initiatives, but an important group to understand given their future role as environmental leaders. ...

• Addressed by the word: The practical, pastoral, and eschatological anthropology of Eduard Thurneysen 

  Redding, Jordan Howard Knight

  Eduard Thurneysen (1888-1974) was a Swiss Reformed minister and theologian. He is known both for his foundational work in dialectical theology alongside Karl Barth and for his kerymatic pastoral theology as outlined in his ...

• Exploration and discovery: Learning at a science centre 

  Solis Recendez, Daniel Humberto

  Free-choice learning provides the majority of human learning over the course of a lifetime. Since interactivity developed in science centres fifty years ago, hands-on learning has been spreading itself all around the world, ...

• Local and systemic effects of adipocyte-secreted factors in breast cancer 

  Crake, Rebekah Lee Isla

  Breast cancer is a complex disease that, once developed, progresses in response to multiple environmental factors, including local microenvironmental factors within the breast and systemic markers in circulation. Obesity ...

• Young people (re)conceptualising digital citizenship: Constructing ways of being and doing citizen(ship) 'online' 

  Blanch, Keely Francyne

  This thesis explores how meaningful the concept of digital citizenship is to young people in Aotearoa New Zealand. In an increasingly digitally-mediated society, the way young people learn what it means to be a citizen ...

• The Effect of rs77275268 on Gene Expression at the Transcriptional Hub at 6q25.1 

  Mackie, Sarah

  Breast cancer is a prevalent and harmful disease that is divided into subtypes based on tumour characteristics. The main subtype is oestrogen receptor positive (ER+), accounting for approximately 80% of all breast carcinomas. ...

• A Last Glacial Maximum to Present Paleoenvironmental Investigation of Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, New Zealand 

  Schenck, Rowena

  Almost all modern-day estuaries evolved during the Holocene and contain sedimentary sequences that preserve the evolution of these coastal environments. Incised-valley fill sequences in estuaries often contain facies that ...

• Same same, but different? Cycling and e-scootering in a rapidly changing urban transport landscape 

  Curl, Angela; Fitt, Helen

  This paper explores whether e-scooters can be considered similar to cycling in terms of their demographic appeal and skills required. Building on a social practices approach, we hypothesise that e-scootering and urban ...

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