Thesis - Masters
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Health Infographics to Communicate Dietary Information for Colorectal Cancer Prevention
Currently, Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is the world's third most common cancer. By 2030 the incidence of CRC is expected to increase by an additional 2.2 million new cases and 1.1 million deaths yearly. This increase is partly ... -
The Effect of Order of Presentation of Child Abuse Allegations on Mock Jurors' Decision-Making
New Zealand, like other countries, makes special provisions for child witnesses in cases of suspected sexual abuse. For example, during a trial, portions of a child’s pre-recorded evidence can be shown to the jury without ... -
Asymptotics of solutions in evolutionary formulations of the Einstein constraint equations.
Performing a 2+1 split of an initial data set allows one to formulate the Einstein constraint equations as an initial value problem. There are two possible sets of equations that can arise here, the parabolic-hyperbolic ... -
Value Creation, Dynamic Capabilities and Slack Resources in Service Firms
This study explores the antecedents of value creation in service firms. Specifically, whilst prior research has acknowledged the critical role of dynamic capabilities, little is known about the roles of different orders ... -
Parental Alienation: The New Zealand Approach
Parental alienation involves a child being influenced by a parent to reject or resist contact with the other parent for no good reason. It can occur in intact families; however, this thesis focuses on its occurrence in ... -
Cities and Economic Development: The Chinese Experience
This thesis investigates the proximate determinants of the observed differences in levels and growth rates of output per worker across the 69 major cities in China during 1994-2010, and asks the following two questions to ... -
Auditory and Visual Illusions as Predictors of Positive Thought Disorder in an Undergraduate Sample
Although there is a wealth of research surrounding schizophrenia and its symptoms, what is still unknown is how these individual symptoms arise, and in what way they relate to one another. One way of investigating these ... -
Accessing Natural Product Scaffolds; A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach
Natural products, and natural product derivatives, have applications in both total synthesis and synthetic methodology, as well as having medical applications. Whilst many natural products possess suitable activity against ... -
Fast versus slow: differing life history strategies of two New Zealand damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera) species
Life history strategies are important for all organisms and are studied in large part to understand how an individual, population or species reacts to/lives in/survives in its environment and how it/they adapt to changes ... -
The National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity: An effective tool to improve housing affordability in New Zealand?
The National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity (NPS-UDC) provides national direction from Government on planning for urban growth in New Zealand. It requires that local authorities and decision-makers ensure ... -
The lek breeding system of the Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus): the role of vocalisations in female mate choice and kin clustering on leks
For a species to succeed, individuals must be able to attract a mate. The method in which they do this is known as a breeding system and it involves a diverse array of social behaviours. A lek breeding system is employed ... -
Anglicanism and the Ephesians 4 Gifts: Towards a Leadership Model that Disciples and Equips the Church for Mission
This research project has two aims; to look for evidence that Hirsch’s proposition that the five ministry gifts of Eph 4:11, the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher are needed to transition an institutional ... -
Hydrogen Isotopes in New Zealand Soil: A method comparison
The spatial characteristic of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of global precipitation has been widely investigated. This study extends that investigation to tracing the flow of hydrogen isotope ratio patterns ... -
The misalignment between the expectations of fashion students, fashion tertiary educators, and the fashion industry
What motivates students to study fashion design? What employment opportunities are there in the fashion design industry for fashion graduates? These are some of the core questions raised in this thesis. Fashion design ... -
Stranger than Fiction: the creation of two short theatre of the real plays about Closed Stranger Adoption in Aotearoa
My MFA explores how a range of theatrical techniques can be used to stage autobiographical and biographical narratives. Using practice-led research I created and staged two theatre of the real plays: Close Stranger and ... -
Conditions, Style and Paragenesis of Mineralisation in the Cascade Creek Mo-Porphyry Deposit, Westland
A km-‐scale zone of enriched molybdenum (Mo) occurs where Cretaceous felsic-‐intermediate granitoids of Rahu Suite Berlins Porphyry intrude greenschist facies Greenland Group metasedimentary rocks in Cascade Creek, ... -
Does Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness Mediate the Relationship between Schizotypy and Suicidal Ideation?
Background. There is evidence to suggest that risk of death by suicide is increased among individuals living with schizotypy. However, currently there is no theoretical framework for understanding the high rates of suicide ... -
Retromer associated sorting nexins SNX1, SNX4, and SNX27 and the trafficking and basolateral membrane population of the intermediate conductance calcium activated potassium channel (KCa3.1) in polarised epithelial cells
The intermediate conductance calcium (Ca 2+)-activated potassium (K+) channel (KCa3.1) is targeted to the basolateral membrane of polarised epithelial cells, and is also found in many nonepithelial cell types. KCa3.1 ... -
Molecular Analysis of Triple Negative Breast cancer
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous and aggressive subtype making up 10-20% of newly diagnosed invasive breast cancers and currently has no targeted agents approved for systemic therapy. However up to ... -
Determination of Trace Metal Contaminants in the Whau and Pakuranga Catchments Using the DGT Method
Metal contaminants have become a major issue in today’s environment, and increasing research is being done on methods to monitor and determine point sources of these contaminants. Passive sampling devices are one such ...