• Vitamin C and mental health in healthy young adults 

  Fletcher, Benjamin Daniel

  Nutritional psychology is a young but rapidly expanding field that has provided evidence that diet influences mental health. For example, fruit and vegetable intake has shown a positive dose-dependent relationship with ...

• Insect Play: Transforming multispecies stories with unloved creatures, comics, and children 

  Claessen, Suzanne Agnes Reinoutje

  In light of extinctions and exclusions of uncharismatic beings from ethical regard and conservation efforts, this study contributes to the challenges of (re)situating humans ecologically and nonhumans ethically (Plumwood ...

• Water level fluctuation and vegetation patterns within an alpine wetland complex 

  Schloots, Cara-Lisa

  Alpine wetlands are one of the most at-risk ecosystems under future climate change scenarios; how these systems function and their biodiversity values have received little research attention in the temperate southern ...

• Collaborative Cultural Mapping and Archaeological Mapping at Whareongaonga 5 Land Block 

  Hagan, Josephine May

  Across the globe and particularly in post-colonial contexts, archaeologists have an increasing awareness of the moral obligation and practical benefit of collaborating with groups outside the profession. Wider inclusivity ...

• Morphology and systematics of the fossil penguin Platydyptes 

  Matts, Katie Anne

  New Zealand has one of the most extensive penguin records in the world, from the oldest known penguin Waimanu (~60-62 Ma) to several extant species such as Eudyptula minor (Little Blue Penguin) and Megadyptes antipodes ...

• Spectroscopic studies of harakeke and other textiles and kiwifruit 

  Garagoda Arachchige, Piumika Samanali

  Vibrational spectroscopy was used in combination with chemometrics to understand the structure and properties of a series of different biological systems. The biological systems examined included artificially light aged, ...

• Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethyl sulfide (DMS) dynamics in the surface ocean 

  Saint-Macary, Alexia Deborah Nadine

  Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is a trace gas produced in the ocean that plays an important role in climate and contributes to the Earths energy balance. DMS is a product of the enzymatic cleavage of dimethyl sulfoniopropionate ...

• Refining an entrepreneurial orientation and its impact on driving markets behaviours 

  Zortea, Elisabeth

  Firms adopting an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) can be described as firms that take risks, are proactive in pursuing opportunities, compete aggressively with their industry rivals, launch products that change market ...

• Holocene stratigraphy and sequence architecture of the Blueskin Bay estuary, East Otago 

  Thomas, David Gregory

  The Holocene stratigraphy of the Blueskin Bay estuary was investigated using percussion cores. The Blueskin Bay estuary Holocene sequence comprises eight lithofacies arranged into a central estuarine basin consisting of ...

• Some aspects of the retail grocery trade in New Zealand 

  Poole, William Arthur

  When l commenced this study l had two major objectives. The first was to find the factors which hold the trade associations together. It is amazing that any large group of retailers can retain its cohesionbeyond the immediate ...

• Thesis on the Austral New Zealand Mining Company Limited's gold dredge at Lowburn, Central Otago 

  Penrose, W. A.

  From various and widely differing accounts it appears that dredging, though probably a veryold industry, has only made rapid advances in designs and types of machines during the last fifty or sixty years. It is almost ...

• Living a 'good' and 'ordinary' life : the views of disabled children, their families and supportive professionals 

  Lyle, Jane

  This qualitative study explores the experiences of disabled children and their families as they access and use disability support services. It seeks to describe participants' perspectives on ideas about 'family' and ...

• Essays on the current state of climate change research, top management’s role and market responses associated with voluntary climate change disclosure 

  Ali, Khurshid

  In this thesis, I first explore whether research related to climate change is finding the right platform in leading accounting and finance journals, since dissemination of scientific findings will help raise awareness and ...

• Prehistoric polynesian stone technology : a study of usage and flaking technique with special reference to assemblages of stone flake debitage of New Zealand archaic cultural provenance. 

  Jones, Kevin Lewis

  [...] ln the present work; it is proposed to investigate a third sphere of evidence which is in a sense related to the two other spheres of information which may be derived from flake tools: first, the question of usage ...

• Aspects of bicultural theatre praxis in Aotearoa/Te Waipounamu 

  Halba, Hilary

  Bicultural theatre praxis in Aotearoa/Te Waipounamu places Maori protocols, rituals, ceremonials and lifeworld behaviours, knowledges and ways of being side by side with western theatre practices in dynamic contiguity. ...

• A study of the lives of six Macedonian queens in the period c.346-270 B.C. 

  Durham, Mary

  Women of any age have tended to be unnoticed, as men usually claim the central role in most affairs. In studying these royal women, Thessalonice (c. 346 to 340 - 295 B.C.), Phila c. 350 - 267 B.C.), Stratonice (c. 317 - ...

• Narrating a female subjectivity in the works of Katherine Mansfield, Robin Hyde, Janet Frame, and Keri Hulme 

  Ash, Susan

  This thesis concerns the narration of female subjectivity in the work of four generations of New Zealand women writers. I look closely at selected excerpts from the work of Katherine Mansfield, Robin Hyde, Janet Frame, and ...

• The impact of foundation pharmacy residency in supporting competency development in leadership, education, and innovation for early-career pharmacists 

  Al-Diery, Tarik

  Background and aim: Foundation pharmacy residency programs have promoted competency development in leadership, education, and innovation for early career pharmacists as a criteria for advancing practice. The process in ...

• Are people in secure dementia care in New Zealand arbitrarily detained? 

  Matthews, Frances Gwenllian

  About 5,800 people with dementia and other neurological disorders are detained in secure residential dementia care in New Zealand. About 37% are detained under one of the provisions of the Protection of Personal and Property ...

• ‘A healthy and prosperous future’ – a histological exploration of childhood stress experiences in early settler communities of Otago 

  Kavale Henderson, Lucy Alexandra

  This thesis investigates the childhood physiological stress experiences of mid-nineteenth century European and Chinese settlers in Otago, New Zealand, through the histological examination of enamel formation disruption. ...

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