Children and young persons who have been removed from their families and who will not be returned to their families of birth following intervention by the State are amongst the most damaged and vulnerable children in ...

The demand for increased food production has led to enhanced use of “external inputs” like chemicals, fertilizers, irrigation and effluent to boost yields. This has often been accompanied by unintended negative impacts on ...

OBJECTIVES This thesis examined three types of childhood adversity, low parental care, overprotection and abuse, as predictors of response to two types of depression treatment: antidepressant medication and psychotherapy. ...

Worldwide biodiversity faces a variety of anthropogenic threats, including habitat loss and predation by introduced species. Reintroduction has been increasingly successful as a conservation tool to address these threats, ...

Flower colour throughout the world is generally linked to various functional purposes, pollinator attraction in particular. Current knowledge regarding the functional significance of flower colour is, however, mainly based ...

The consequences related to the loss of the worlds indigenous languages are not fully understood–the warnings as to the urgency of this issue largely unheeded, due in part to the enormity and challenges of regaining lost ...

Cluster actors have the advantage of face-to-face interaction due to geographical proximity, which allows knowledge exchange with universities within clusters. The co-location of cluster actors provides an environment that ...

Reaching to grasp is a fundamental human action. In this thesis, I present a new computational platform for simulating reach-to-grasp actions and exploring how they are learned and performed. There are three innovations ...

Coastal erosion is a planning issue of great and ever growing significance in New Zealand. Considering the long and short term advantages of mitigating this hazard through managed retreat rather than hard engineering ...

When the first settlers departed for Otago from Britain in 1847, the leaders of the settlement envisioned a class based society populated by law abiding, Scottish Presbyterians. The founders had proposed that the settlement ...