• Sexual Dignity in Rape Law 

  High, Anna

  Dignity is a famously contested concept, suggesting its deployment as a legal principle should be closely scrutinized. This Article sets out a functional and contextual analysis of dignity as an organizing principle ...

• Quantifying habitat selection and foraging ecology of broadnose sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) in southern New Zealand 

  Edwards, Rosa

  Investigating distribution of apex predators is essential for understanding their habitat requirements and can provide insights into community ecology. The aim of the present study was to quantify the habitat selection and ...

• Investigating the roles of specific amino acid substitutions found in the D1' and far-red forms of the Photosystem II reaction centre D1 protein 

  White, Shannon Faye

  Photosystem II is a highly conserved membrane-protein complex that plays an integral role in oxygenic photosynthesis as a light-driven water-plastoquinone oxidoreductase. One of the most important proteins within Photosystem ...

• An old drug with new tricks; examining the anti-cancer potential of metformin in mouse and cell models of EML4- ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer 

  Bland, Abigail Ruth

  Lung cancer is an aggressive disease producing the highest cancer worldwide. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for the majority of all lung cancer cases. The discovery of oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) ...

• There is always a reason: Cognitive and experiential impacts on reasoned attitudes 

  Thongpaibool, Thanaphat

  While the pervasive notion that reasoning leads to optimal judgments seems commonsensical, some research has shown that reasoning sometimes causes suboptimal outcomes, suggesting that the relationship between reasons and ...

• Scapular dyskinesis and subacromial shoulder pain 

  Jafarian Tangrood, Zohreh

  Abstract Background: Subacromial shoulder pain is a common cause of pain in patients with shoulder complaints. Changes in scapular rotations, termed scapular dyskinesis, have been hypothesized to contribute to the etiology ...

• High and increasing rates of skin infection hospitalisation for Pacific children in Aotearoa 

  Oben, Glenda; Duncanson, Mavis

  Background: Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections are common among children, and are typically bacterial in origin (e.g. impetigo, cellulitis, and skin abscesses which can be caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus ...

• "All you can heat? Welfare implications of high fixed charge tariffs for electricity" 

  Stephenson, John

  This research investigates the implications of residential electricity tariffs with high daily fixed charge or fixed-like components, like ‘all you can eat’ or ‘uncapped’ tariffs which are common for access to internet ...

• "Created equal" - A kaupapa Māori analysis of research and health system perspectives of inequity in chronic kidney disease in Aotearoa 

  Huria, Tania Michelle

  Understanding Indigenous health inequities requires an equity lens to recognise the impact that colonisation and loss of cultural identity have on health and well-being. An equity lens enables a critical examination and ...

• Bats, Bioacoustics, & Bat Lures in Brunei Darussalam 

  Aylen, Oliver

  Bats are the most diverse mammalian order, second to rodents, with 1400+ species found globally across almost every continent. In the tropics, where it is possible to find more than 60 bat species at a single site, they ...

• Working together to improve experiences of teaching and learning Sexual and Gender Minority health at Otago Medical School 

  Grove, Christina; Grainger, Rebecca; Wilkinson, Tim

  This document outlines the justification and processes for a Participatory Action Research (PAR) initiative. The project is aimed at evaluating and improving the educational climate relating to Sexual and Gender Minority ...

• Exploring hot spot mutagenesis as a means of dimer disruption in glutamate racemase from Mycobacterium smegmatis 

  Palmer, Daniel

  The emergence of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains has highlighted the need to develop new drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis. Glutamate racemase (MurI) has been identified as an essential enzyme ...

• The Application of Circulating Tumour DNA to the Management of Gastrointestinal Cancers. 

  Finlayson, Duncan

  Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) are small fragments of DNA released by tumours into the circulation. These fragments contain pathogenic mutations which can be detected and quantified by various next generation sequencing ...

• A firm grip on nature: The economic case for environmental personhood. 

  Kahui, Viktoria; Armstrong, Claire W.; Aanesen, Margrethe

  Nature is declining at unprecedented rates. We posit that the external effects of ecosystem degradation can be understood as a lack of property rights of stakeholders advocating on behalf of future generations and the ...

• Rapid Point-of-Care Testing for Hepatitis C – Assessment of Feasibility, Knowledge of Participants and Outcomes. 

  Khan, Afrasyab

  In New Zealand, approximately 50,000 people or more are infected with hepatitis C(HCV), and only 50% or less are currently diagnosed. HCV infection(and related complications) is presently the single most common diagnosis ...

• The Role of Large Extracellular Vesicles in Human Papillomavirus-Associated Immune Modulation of Langerhans Cells 

  Ticar, Vaughn

  Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) is an oncogenic virus that infects basal keratinocytes of stratified squamous epithelium. Langerhans cells (LCs) reside within the stratified squamous epithelium and initiate immune ...

• Using non-coding RNAs and proteins to predict acute kidney injury in heart failure 

  Templeton, Evelyn Mary

  Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is associated with a high incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI), an abrupt loss of kidney function associated with a near doubling of mortality at one year. In addition to the ...

• Agents of movement: Intelligence in space-time from mapping to causality 

  Rahimi, Saeed

  Representing dynamic spatial phenomena is a long-standing goal within Geospatial Information Science (GIScience). Geometric positions are fundamental elements of any spatiotemporal process, such that a significant body of ...

• A Policymakers’ Handbook for Addressing the Impacts of Ocean Acidification 

  McGraw, Christina M; Currie, Kim I; Law, Cliff S; Vance, Jesse M

• Take off your shoes: How Christian liturgy forms the people of God 

  Evans, Sara Elizabeth

  This thesis offers a renewed vision of Christian liturgy situated in a sacramental ontology in order to address the possibility of liturgical formation. In it I bring together a variety of sources in an attempt to demonstrate ...

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