• 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 ...

• Structural insights into oncolytic Seneca Valley Virus capsid and receptor interactions 

  Jayawardena, Gimshan Nadishka

  Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are replication competent agents that selectively target cancer cells. Seneca Valley Virus (SVV) is a newly-discovered oncolytic picornavirus which is classified as the sole member in the genus ...

• The effects of food rationing on phenotypic plasticity in reproductive resource allocation in female wild-type zebrafish, Danio rerio 

  Holmes, Hazel Anna Carmichael

  Any resources obtained by an organism must be divided between life history components, namely growth, reproduction and survival. Resources are limited, thus creating trade-offs between competing traits. One trade-off is ...

• Intra-individual variability of reaction time and subclinical psychosis 

  Wallace, Simon John

  Clinical and epidemiological studies have indicated that elevated intra-individual variability (IIV) of reaction time (RT) is a trait phenomenon that indexes vulnerability for a number of clinical conditions, including ...

• Conspiracy theory beliefs: measurement and the role of perceived lack of control 

  Stojanov, Ana

  Despite conspiracy theory beliefs’ potential to lead to negative outcomes, psychologists have only relatively recently taken a strong interest in their measurement and underlying mechanisms. In this thesis I test a ...

• Study of bone-metal interface in orthopaedic application using spectral CT 

  Rajeswari Amma, Maya

  This thesis investigates the diagnostic potential of MARS spectral photon counting computed tomography (CT) in assessing musculoskeletal disorders such as bone fractures and crystal arthritis. The hypothesis states that ...

• Going against the flow: Pinning points in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica 

  Still, Holly Rebecca

  The ice shelves surrounding much of the Antarctic continent are supported by pinning points, sites of localised grounding where the floating ice runs aground on the seafloor. Pinning points regulate ice shelf flow and ...

• Knowing (from) me, knowing (from) you: Essays on memory and testimony 

  Wall, Chloe Elizabeth Jeanne

  This thesis is a collection of four related but self-standing chapters about memory and testimony. In Chapter 1, I argue that memory and testimony are analogous because both are reconstructive, incorporating information ...

• SSE 50 ETF options 

  Yue, Tian

  I have four chapters in this thesis, chapter one is the introduction of the paper. The abstract for chapter 2: Using Bakshi, Cao and Chen (2000), and Bakshi and Kapadia’s (2003) methodology, this paper study the Chinese ...

• Finding without searching: A theological engagement with the conversion narratives of young people in Canterbury, New Zealand 

  Bosma, David William

  While academic projects investigating religious conversion are not uncommon, specifically New Zealand-based work on this subject is rare. Moreover, examinations of religious conversion come from a variety of academic ...

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