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Kā pākihi kā whakatekateka a waitaha The plains where the waitaha strutted proudly Titiro ki muri, kia whakatika ā mua, look to the past to proceed to the future: Why tīpuna used rakimārie peaceful living to claim and maintain ahi kā burning fires of occupation during early colonial contact and does it hold validity and relevance for whānau family today?
This hybrid publications-based thesis explores the concept of rakimārie as a way to sustain and maintain relationships with Papatūānuku and some Indigenous tribes of Aotearoa New Zealand. This thesis focusses on the First ... -
Improving Students’ Assessment and Evaluation Experience in Higher Education: A Formative Peer Review Perspective
This thesis is about student peer review in undergraduate education. The research uses a case study of the Ecology programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand, to gain insight into this phenomenon. Ecology at Otago ... -
Regulation of cardiac ryanodine receptor 2 by protein kinase CK2
The cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor (RyR2) is an intracellular Ca2+ channel responsible for the release of Ca2+ during excitation-contraction coupling. It is also implicated in pathological store-overload-induced Ca2+ ... -
Characterising the relationship between Legionella longbeachae and their amoebal hosts: Implications for Legionnaires' disease prevention
In New Zealand, Legionella longbeachae is the leading cause of Legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia that often results in hospitalisation and an intensive course of treatment. Every year, during spring and ... -
Exploring the perceptions of nursing students and nursing academic lecturers on the use of gallows humour in the clinical setting.
Past research on gallows humour in a healthcare context has generally focused on justifying its use by healthcare professionals during stressful situations as a temporary relief from the tragedy that is occurring. Some ... -
Does Pollution Affect Crime? Evidence from U.S. Cities
In this paper we study the relationship between air pollution and crime. We construct a city-level, hourly data set with 2.4 million crimes and link each crime to data on pollution and controls, e.g. weather variables. ... -
Targeted mutagenesis to investigate the role of low-molecular-weight proteins and a bicarbonate cofactor on the assembly and function of Photosystem II
Photosystem II (PS II) catalyses the oxidation of water at ambient temperatures and the formation of plastoquinol using light. This multisubunit complex functions as a dimer, each monomer is surrounded by 13 low-molecular-weight ... -
An Exploration of University Students’ Lived Experience with Alcohol within the Contexts of Family, Peers, and Orientation
Undergraduate students in New Zealand universities demonstrate high rates of hazardous drinking, as do other undergraduates in many universities around the world. There are a number of factors related to hazardous drinking ... -
Atherogenic Index In Plasma and Risk of Cardiovascular Events
As dyslipidaemia is a prominent CVD risk factor, improvements in its management are crucial, as dyslipidaemia (quantified by hypercholesterolemia and treated with statins), incompletely addresses the residual CVD risk ... -
Arterial Hypertension. Consume Carbon Monoxide?
Epithelial sodium channels (ENaC) are generally responsible for the passive movement of sodium ions through the apical cell membrane of salt absorbing epithelia. Canonical ENaC is composed of three homologous subunits, ... -
Characterisation of Arcuate Nucleus Projections to the Paraventricular Nucleus of Thalamus
The metabolic state (fed or hungry) has been shown to influence varying responses to food-associated cues. Recent studies reveal that the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) may play a critical role as it receives ... -
A Novel Oocyte Cryopreservation Method using High Pressure Freezing
Oocyte cryopreservation (egg freezing) involves freezing a female’s oocytes in order to preserve her fertility. These oocytes can later be thawed and fertilised in vitro when she is ready to begin fertility treatment. Women ... -
Bacterial regulation of early activation of mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells
Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are a population of CD8+ innate-like T cells that play an important role in the immune response to bacterial infections. Being characterised by the expression of a unique ... -
Does the production value of a short science video hosted on YouTube influence how much the desired audience is likely to enjoy and engage with it?
This thesis continues the research of Welbourne and Grant (2016) within the field of science communication on YouTube, by following the study that Figueiredo, Almeida, & Benevenuto designed to evaluate whether content ... -
The α-Adrenergic System and CaMKII in Diabetic Heart Disease
The relationship between diabetes mellitus and heart disease is widely documented, with heart disease being the main cause of mortality in diabetic patients. Diabetes impairs the autonomic nervous system, leading to an ... -
The Role of α-ENaC and δ-ENaC in Breast Cancer Cell Migration
Breast cancer is an important disease worldwide, primarily affecting women, and is the most common and deadliest form of female cancer. This is reflected in New Zealand’s population as breast cancer has high incidence and ... -
Candidate Compounds for the Chemoprevention of Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer
Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) is a cancer syndrome caused by germline mutations in the tumour suppressor gene CDH1, which encodes the cell-cell adhesion protein E-cadherin. Mutations in CDH1 lead to increased ... -
Investigation into the Anticancer Mechanism of Action of Novel 4-Substituted Phenylthiazoles and Antihelminthic Benzimidazoles
Recently, two novel 4-substituted phenylthiazoles, D1 and D2, have been synthesised based upon the marine bacterial secondary metabolite anithiactin A/thiasporine C, and shown to be cytotoxic towards cancer cells below 100 ... -
New macrocycles for polymerisation catalysis
This thesis concerns the synthesis of diphenylamine-based macrocycles for generating new dimetallic polymerisation catalysts. Chapter 1 introduces the target polymerisations we aim to catalyse, and reviews the current ... -
Mediation and Reciprocity: ESL Learner Writing Development through Error Correction
The provision of corrective feedback (CF) on errors in essay writing is a controversial topic. In second language acquisition (SLA), the controversy focuses whether CF contributes to the development of language systems, ...