This project explored the experiences of ordinary men and women involved in spiritual practices in order to understand the phenomenon of spiritual heart and any implications for outer peace. The primary question asked of ...

The geometry of the upper-crustal portion of the Alpine Fault, the Australian-Pacific plate boundary on the South Island of New Zealand, is poorly constrained by geophysical studies where it cuts through the young sedimentary ...

Access to HIV care and treatment services, including antiretroviral therapy, was expanded rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 with multi-lateral support from a range of donors. This expansion raised a wide range of ...

Phages are abundant and diverse, outnumbering bacteria ten-fold in most environments. Consequently, bacteria have developed various strategies to prevent phage predation, that act at different stages of the phage infection ...

Male sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) can be found year-round within a few nautical miles off the coast of Kaikoura, New Zealand. Systematic sighting surveys were carried out in 2007, contributing to the long-term ...

A novel strain-promoted 1,3-dipolarcycloaddition between trans-cyclooctene and a masked p-azidobenzyloxycarbonyl (PABC) pro-probe is introduced and its applications in a click-to-release strategy is discussed in Chapter ...

This research investigates music education policies and practices in New Zealand and Catalonia, through the analysis of curriculum documents and interviews with music education practitioners, and expands the analysis of ...

This thesis examines the democratisation progress of Turkey during the period 2002 to 2014, a period in which the Justice and Development Party (the ‘JDP’) held continuous national office, in order to answer its central ...

Do advocates for using evidence make a difference? A case study of public health nutrition policymaking in New Zealand. There is a growing body of evidence supporting interventions that will effectively address nutrition-related ...