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Recognising Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse: Responses from Sodalicio Survivors in Peru
This report identifies a number of publicationsTombs (1999), Heath (2011), Gafney (2013), Trainor (2014)which have independently and explicitly identified Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse in published work. It also ... -
A new tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets, including valuing ‘dead’
A new online tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets was recently developed and trialled in New Zealand (NZ). Health state values for each participant are determined using the PAPRIKA method – in the ... -
Assessment of soil properties and earthworms in organic and conventional farming systems after seven years of dairy farm conversions in New Zealand
Environmental degradation and consumer awareness are raising concerns about the sustainability of conventional farming while increasing interest in organic farming as an alternative food and fiber production. Well-replicated ... -
Developing a first principles approach to educating water skills for life to children
In New Zealand, despite the fact that the majority of drownings occur in open water, most swimming teaching occurs in public swimming pools. It is possible that learning to swim in a public swimming pool does not sufficiently ... -
Taxing capital income in New Zealand: an international perspective
In the 1980s and 1990s New Zealand undertook a large number of tax reforms designed to improve the performance of the economy. Top marginal income-tax rates were reduced, a value-added tax (GST) was introduced, a system ... -
The knowledge-capital model: The case of intra-Asian foreign direct investment
Employing a panel dataset of bilateral inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for 31 Asian countries and territories over the period 2001-2012, we estimate the knowledge-capital (KK) model to find the dominant ... -
Health and wellbeing of under-five year olds in New Zealand 2017
In this report the New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service (NZCYES) provides data and information to contribute to the effective planning and funding of services to improve, promote and protect the health and ... -
Household factors and electrical peak demand : a review for further assessment.
At least one-third of the total electricity generation of a country is consumed by the residential sector, which is one of the most unpredictable consumer groups with respect to electricity usage and thus risks network ... -
Polymer Monolayers for Chromium(III) (Hydr)oxide, with Antifouling Applications for Stainless Steel Surfaces
The intended purpose of this work is to form a more complete understanding of how to maintain pristine, foulant-resistant stainless steel surfaces in aqueous proteinaceous or microbial environments such as those found on ... -
Relativistic Electron Microbursts: Properties and Possible Plasma Wave Drivers
Relativistic (>1 MeV) electron microbursts (<1 s duration) are particle precipitation events, thought to be significant contributors to radiation belt losses. Although these events are known to be intense, the exact ... -
Surtseyan volcanism: case studies from Pahvant Butte and Black Point, Western USA
Shallow to emergent basaltic subaqueous explosive eruptions, here referred as Surtseyan, are a source of pyroclastic material expelled from subaqueous vents and transferred to the water column and atmosphere. They can ... -
Effects of Social Capital on Start-up Outcomes
This thesis explores the effects of social capital on start-up outcomes. Entrepreneurs’ ability to access and utilise social capital, through bonding and bridging relationships of various types, facilitated by trust, is ... -
Investigating the Interaction between Motivation and Cognition in the Maternal Immune Activation Model of Schizophrenia Risk
Finding an animal model of schizophrenia that displays both reliability and validity is a difficult task. The Maternal Immune Activation (MIA) model is an animal model that mimics an epidemiological risk factor of ... -
Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheke 17.1-61: A Translation & Historical Commentary
Book 17 of Diodorus' Bibliotheke covers the campaigns of Alexander the Great, from his accession in 336 BC to his death in 323 BC. This thesis provides a fresh translation and commentary for the first half of Book 17, up ... -
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) physiotherapy management: a cohort, observational, prospective, longitudinal study across the South Island of New Zealand
Physiotherapy management for CRPS is considered to be essential. However, there is a lack of validated evidence-based treatments. There is controversy between what treatment methods are safe or effective. Physiotherapy ... -
The role of PsbX and PsbY in Photosystem II of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Photosystem II (PS II) is the water-plastoquinone oxido-reductase responsible for splitting water in photosynthesis. The core of the enzyme is surrounded by 13 low-molecular-weight (LMW) proteins (<10 kDa). In this study, ... -
Aspects of Self in Schizotypy: Basic and Narrative Sense of Self among Individuals at Psychometric Risk for Schizophrenia
The contemporary approach to detecting and studying schizophrenia, known as operational psychiatry, reduces the disease to a list of perceived and inferred signs and symptoms. Advocates of the phenomenological approach to ... -
‘Troy’ and ‘Trouthe’ in the Troilus and Criseyde stories of Chaucer, Henryson, and Shakespeare
The story of Troilus and Criseyde constitutes a metanarrative. This thesis is concerned with versions of the story written by Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Henryson, and William Shakespeare. In these three tellings, characters ... -
Acceptability of HPV self-sampling tests: Talanoa with women and health workers in Samoa
Cervical cancer is recognised as a leading cause of mortality amongst women in the Pacific Region. Samoa does not have a national cervical cancer screening programme and currently performs any screening opportunistically. ... -
The role of exocyst members sec6 and sec8 in the anterograde trafficking of KCa3.1 to the basolateral membrane of polarised epithelial cells
In epithelia, ion channels play an essential role in maintaining the required electrochemical gradients for the tissue to function. This function can translate to electrolyte and fluid homeostasis which in turn, relies on ...