Thesis - Masters
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Skin Tissue Regeneration: An Investigation of Melt-electrowriting with a Novel Biomaterial from Polycaprolactone and Milk Proteins
In 2017, only 28% of patients awaiting tissue transplants received treatment that same year. Coupled with a growing ageing population, demand for tissue replacements is increasing rapidly. Furthermore, the treatment of ... -
Perspectives on gaps in communication with breast cancer patients in New Zealand
The world of breast cancer is pink, female-centric and aimed at an older, post-menopausal demographic. Whilst it is fitting that health campaigns be aimed at the majority of patients registering with the disease, these ... -
What Factors Are Associated With Guideline Use and Compliance?
Introduction Clinical guidelines are recommendations targeted at medical professionals which aim to optimise patient care. When successfully implemented, clinical guidelines have been shown to improve processes of care ... -
Picking What Persists: Sociocultural Natural Capital and Intergenerational Justice
Attempts to determine the value and intergenerational importance of environmental goods have a difficult time accounting for the non-basic services that ecosystems provide. Discussions of ‘Critical Natural Capital’ deem ... -
Changes to Austrovenus stutchburyi growth rate since early human settlement in New Zealand: an indication of the extent of human impact on estuarine health
When humans first arrived in New Zealand around 1250AD they started making changes to the environment to make it more habitable. Coastal marine ecosystems such as estuaries are an important link between the land and the ... -
Breastfeeding trends in New Zealand from 1997-2002 and implications for policy implementation
This thesis is about breastfeeding trends, examined in the light of national and local breastfeeding policy implementation. It compares the rates of breastfeeding to governmental breastfeeding targets as specified by the ... -
Indigenous Representation in New Patterns of Urban Development: A Ngāi Tahu Case Study
Urban environments in New Zealand have commonly reflected grievances and injustices faced by Māori, especially due to a loss of kaitiakitanga (stewardship) of their land. Consequently, Māori throughout New Zealand have ... -
The role of social structure and kin associations in the mating system of the polygynous New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri)
Mating structure describes the number of mates individuals of each sex are able to acquire, as well as the variance in reproductive success between individuals of the same sex. Such structure has important evolutionary ... -
Better management through measurement: Assessing the conditions of coastal archaeological sites using spatial technologies—applied to Blueskin Bay, New Zealand
The world’s coastlines are becoming increasingly volatile for archaeological sites. This instability can be primarily attributed to climate change and its associated influence on oceanic processes, which are aggravating ... -
To what extent are young people engaged with the Predator Free 2050 goal?
People have a significant role to play when it comes to predator control. The announcement of the Predator Free 2050 goal (PF2050), in June 2016, will require the engagement of thousands of people across New Zealand. Given ... -
Hybrid Assembly of the Chytrid Genome - Insights into the Evolution and Outbreak of a Major Amphibian Pathogen
Devastating amphibian population declines have been observed globally for the last 40 years. These declines have become the interest of several conservationists and researchers, as amphibians form a valuable part of global ... -
The Post-Politics of the 2014 New Zealand General Election: A Symptomatic Discourse Analysis
In this thesis, I submit the 2014 election campaign in Aotearoa to a logics-based discourse analysis in a post-positivist manner tracing the post-political elements of contemporary politics in Aotearoa New Zealand. For ... -
The regulation of ascorbate in apples (Malus domestica)
Ascorbate is an essential biochemical for biological processes in plants and animals. Ascorbate concentrations vary greatly between closely related species of plants, and can even differ across cultivars of the same species. ... -
Effects of Commuter Cycling on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health
Few have utilised a randomised controlled study design to monitor cardiovascular health in adults who replace automotive forms of transport with cycling1,2. Previous commuter cycling (CC) interventions observed ... -
Usability of Online Virtual Geographic Environment for Urban Design
Collaborative Virtual Geographic Environment (CVGE), a technology derived from Virtual Reality (VR), is today becoming widely and freely available. This technology has potential for use in the field of 3D urban planning ... -
Origin of garnet pyroxenites in the Kakanui Mineral Breccia
The southernmost limit that the Hikurangi Plateau subducted beneath New Zealand in the Early Cretaceous has been interpreted from seismic data to be somewhere between Dunedin and Timaru. I test this hypothesis from a ... -
Freshwater Management: State of water quality and options for management in the Waipahi Catchment
The main pressures on water quality are as a consequence of land-based activities. Agriculture is the world’s greatest contributor of non-point source pollution, which needs to be managed. The current international approach ... -
Does host diet govern the structure and diversity of tapeworm assemblages in sharks? Insights from the literature and a model shark species; Cephaloscyllium isabellum
Previous research has shed some light on what phylogenetic and ecological factors may be important determinants of tapeworm parasite diversity in elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays). However, several potentially key ... -
Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Retinal Vessel Calibre. What is the Longitudinal Relationship?
Background: Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Retinal vessel calibre is a non-invasive in vivo marker of cardiovascular disease and is linked to cardiovascular risk factors. However, the ... -
Flood Management in New Zealand: Exploring Management and Practice in Otago and the Manawatu
This research assesses how effective present flood management is in New Zealand, and what it may come to look like in the future. The importance of effective flood management is amplified by both human development in ...