• The Role of Fundamentals and Policy in New Zealand’s Carbon Prices 

  Liao, Ling

  New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment (MfE) explicitly recognizes that the New Zealand Units (NZUs) price is set by a flexible unlimited supply of units, as well as demand for units. This thesis explores NZU pricing ...

• Chinese consumers’ perceptions of food safety cues and maximising the effectiveness of food safety communications 

  Mirosa, Miranda; Liu, Yang; Bremer, Phil

  Food safety is an issue of key concern for Chinese consumers. This study identifies intrinsic and extrinsic cues on product labels or websites that Chinese consumers use to assess a product’s perceived safety. Five structured ...

• Vietnamese Consumers’ Preferences for Functional Milk Powder Attributes: A Segmentation-Based Conjoint Study with Educated Consumers 

  Phan, Trong; Bremer, Phil; Mirosa, Miranda

  This paper investigated Vietnamese consumers’ preferences for functional milk powder products to determine if there were differences in market segments. A Qualtrics survey and a 1000minds choice-based conjoint survey were ...

• Retail Potential for Upcycled Foods: Evidence from New Zealand 

  Goodman-Smith, Francesca; Bhatt, Siddharth; Moore, Robyn; Mirosa, Miranda; Ye, Hongjun; Deutsch, Jonathan; Suri, Rajneesh

  Food waste is a problem that manifests throughout the food supply chain. A promising solution that can mitigate the food waste problem across various stages of the food supply chain is upcycling food ingredients that would ...

• The fluoride intake from diet, water and toothpaste of New Zealand adolescents 

  Shahin, Aysu

  Background: Fluoride plays an essential role in the prevention of dental caries, the most common chronic disease for New Zealanders of all ages. Despite public controversy, community water fluoridation (CWF) is considered ...

• Vitamin B12 Intakes and Contributing Food Groups of Adolescent Males in New Zealand 

  Carville, Claire

  Background: Vitamin B12 is an essential co-factor in the one-carbon pathway, with inadequate intake eventually leading to impaired B12 function characterized by megaloblastic anaemia and neurological dysfunction. Adolescent ...

• Determining How Chinese Consumers that Purchase Western Food Products Prioritize Food Safety Cues: A Conjoint Study on Adult Milk Powder 

  Mirosa, Miranda; Liu, Yang; Bremer, Phil

  This study investigated how Chinese consumers prioritize cues when assessing the safety of imported milk powder. A choice-based conjoint survey was completed by 307 participants in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Nanjing, ...

• Role of langerin+ cells in skin pathologies 

  Rajesh, Aarthi

  Langerhans cells (LCs) are epidermal immune cells that express C-type lectin receptor langerin along with a subset of dermal dendritic cells. Langerin+ cells play a pivotal role in skin immunity. Previous research has ...

• Optimising medicine information for patients in New Zealand 

  Young, Amber Faye

  Background Patients must receive sufficient information about their medicines to be able to take them safely, to make informed choices, and to understand the benefits of adherence. Providing written information alongside ...

• Sex workers challenging stereotypes: a case study in Dunedin, New Zealand 

  Mead, Keith

  This thesis examines the nature of social stigmatization surrounding prostitution in New Zealand, and the ways in which the public reacts to perceived problems of prostitution. It is important to recognise that prostitution ...

• Evaluation of the tuberculosis control programme in prisons and the post-release continuation of tuberculosis treatment in Malaysia 

  Al-Darraji, Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed

  Background: Poorly managed tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in prisons have detrimental health consequences, placing prisoners at an increased risk for TB morbidity and mortality. This situation could further fuel the ...

• The study on Chinese SMEs' internationalization speed 

  Zhao, Guoyu

  Enterprise internationalization, as one of the key strategies for companies to increase business opportunities and expand their business territory, is not only the core driving factor of economic globalization, but also a ...

• Effects of Secreted Amyloid Precursor Protein-Alpha Peptide Fragments on Glutamate Receptor Subunit Trafficking in the Rat Hippocampus 

  Whelan, Jai

  Glutamate receptors play a key role in synaptic plasticity mechanisms and are critical for learning and memory function. Deficits in synaptic plasticity and glutamate receptor functioning are observed in disease states ...

• Doing death differently? A digital ethnography of Aotearoa New Zealand death talking communities 

  Blanch, Shannon

  For many people, talking about death may seem unnatural. However, for the death talking community, death is a normal topic of conversation. Death talking is part of a growing global movement of ‘ordinary’ people using ...

• Dietary intake, adequacy and food sources of zinc in New Zealand adolescent males and females 

  Forshaw, Demi

  Background: Zinc is an essential trace mineral and plays a role in immune function, wound healing, and normal growth and development. Evidence suggests that the risk of inadequate zinc intakes during adolescence – a period ...

• The evolution of deformation mechanisms during the mechanical weakening of polycrystalline ice: a quantitative microstructural study 

  Fan, Sheng

  Flowing glaciers and ice sheets play key roles in shaping planetary surfaces, and form important feedbacks with climate, both on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. Ice becomes mechanically weaker during the deformation, ...

• Spin crossover in iron(II) dinuclear helicates and tetranuclear cages 

  Singh, Sandhya

  Amongst the 151 discrete di- to poly-nuclear spin crossover (SCO) active assemblies of Fe(II) published before July 2020, only 19 are Fe(II) triply bridged dinuclear helicates (Fe2L3) and only 6 are edge bridged tetranuclear ...

• A Quantitative Survey of Consumer Perceptions of Smart Food Packaging in China 

  Li, Ting; Lloyd, Kayna; Brich, John; Wu, Xiaomeng; Mirosa, Miranda

  This study quantified the acceptability of smart food packaging technologies and determined their associations with sociodemographic, attitudinal, and behavioral characteristics of consumers in China. Two quantitative ...

• Review of Online Food Delivery Platforms and their Impacts on Sustainability 

  Li, Charlene; Mirosa, Miranda; Bremer, Phil

  During the global 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, the advantages of online food delivery (FD) were obvious, as it facilitated consumer access to prepared meals and enabled food providers to keep operating. However, online FD is ...

• Understanding the Effect of Dining and Motivational Factors on Out-Of-Home Consumer Food Waste 

  Goodman-Smith, Francesca; Mirosa, Romain; Mirosa, Miranda

  Approximately 12% of total food waste is generated at the hospitality and food service level. Previous research has focused on kitchen and storeroom operations; however, 34% of food waste in the sector is uneaten food on ...

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