Thesis - Masters
Recent Deposits
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Analysing components of the Torso-activation module: Do they pattern the end-terminal regions of two Hymenopteran insect species, Apis mellifera and Nasonia vitripennis?
This project sought to determine if components of the Torso-activation module pattern the embryonic anterior and posterior ends of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, and the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia vitripennis via a patterning ... -
Indigenous social work practice development: The contribution of manaakitanga to Mana-enhancing social work practice theory
Manaakitanga is acknowledged as a foundational Te Ao Māori value, construct and tikanga that underpins relationships. This research thesis sought an in-depth understanding of manaakitanga as it is understood and practiced ... -
Seeing iwi Maori, being iwi Maori : constructions of iwi Maori representation
This study's objective was to examine the influence of Maori Television on a sample ofiwi Maori adults living in Otepoti (Dunedin). Given Otepoti (Dunedin's) small iwi Maori population, the research sought to determine how ... -
"Fair, simple, speedy and efficient" : natural justice and the New Zealand health and disability commissioner - the first five years
This thesis is written by a midwife and lawyer who strongly supported the establishment of the Health and Disability Commissioner. With the enactment of the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 ("HDCA") a new ... -
The classification of prehistoric stone implements by factor analysis : a consideration of New Zealand stone adzes.
The application of numerical taxonomic methods to archaeological problems is still very much in its infancy. A number of trial applications of various methods, to a wide range of archaeological data are clearly necessary. The ... -
Taipōrutu, Taonga Tuku Iho. Articulating a Mātauranga Māori ‘Sense of Place’.
Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) cultural values in relation to resource management within New Zealand, are often co-joined with a preservation framework. The practical implication of this, places identity as ... -
Submarine Eruptive Processes in the Brook St Terrane at Colac Bay, Southland, New Zealand
A sequence of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Brook Street Terrane crops out along the Southland coast from Howells Point, Riverton, into Colac Bay. This sequence provides an along-strike exposure, revealing lateral ... -
Marine Noise Pollution and Cetaceans: Making the Intangible Tangible through Participatory Sci-Art Exhibition
This thesis examines how to communicate the concept of marine noise pollution and its effect on cetaceans to the general public. Tackling a largely unknown and intangible subject, it investigates how to make these effects ... -
Communicating conservation with detection dogs
Public support and awareness is essential to effectively address conservation issues such as biodiversity decline in New Zealand. There is a need to develop approaches for enhancing public awareness and attracting new ... -
Deception Detection: Where do I look, Upper Face or Lower Face?
Human’s ability to detect deception has an unsettling result of around chance detection (Depaulo et al., 2003; Bond & DePaulo, 2008). Both Experiment 1 and 2 tracked participant’s eye fixations during the process of detecting ... -
Understanding the proapoptotic role of microRNA532 in the diabetic heart
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterised by high glucose levels and insulin resistance. Molecular alterations in the diabetic heart have been shown to accelerate apoptotic cell death. MicroRNAs (miRs) are a ... -
Methylated Circulating Tumour DNA in Myeloma
Myeloma is an incurable malignancy of plasma cells in the bone marrow. Improvements in myeloma treatment have highlighted the need for more sensitive non-invasive measures of residual disease. Circulating tumour DNA in the ... -
How Not to Respond to Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
Evolutionary debunking arguments [EDAs] in moral epistemology generally aim to show that what we know or what we have good reason to believe about the impact of evolution on the development of human moral psychology threatens ... -
The Effects of Intuitive Movement Re-embodiment on the Well-Being of Older Adults with Dementia: A Pilot Study
Background This ethnographic research is a pilot study that explores the effects of ‘Intuitive Movement Re-embodiment’ (IMR), an original community dance and music program on the well-being of older adults with dementia. ... -
Novel methods for influenza drug research and development: Cloning, expression and purification of influenza neuraminidase for inhibitory assays
Influenza is a highly contagious virus which can cause mild to severe disease. The most effective drugs for treating influenza, are the neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs), but resistance to these inhibitors has emerged. New ... -
Hearing the patient voice: The importance of caring in care
Background: Much has been written about the need to change the design of health services to meet current and future challenges. Challenges include increased health care service costs; difficulty meeting rising demand; ... -
Responses to climate change of the sea urchin (Pseudechinus sp.) and sea star (Odontaster validus) through hybridisation, local adaptations and transgenerational plasticity
Climate change, through ocean warming and ocean acidification, can affect the life cycles and population dynamics of marine species, which react by developing acclimation mechanisms. Sea urchins (Pseudechinus sp.) may ... -
SLC2A9 and Hyperuricemia: A Locus-Wide Association Study To Identify Population-Specific Genetic Variants In New Zealand Māori and Pacific People
Hyperuricemia, pathologically defined as the presence of an elevated level of serum urate, is a prerequisite for gouty arthritis. The solute carrier family 2 member 9 (SLC2A9) gene that encodes a urate transporter tops the ... -
Sacred Katuiran: Decolonial Sensibility in the Katipunan Papers: An ‘indigenist hermeneutic’ of nineteenth-century Tagalog revolutionary texts
Indigenous meanings and renderings tend to be forgotten and buried, and even erased, by non-indigenist interpretations and translations. This is a case study of an ‘indigenist hermeneutic’ approach to a re-translation of ... -
Foraging activity and colony thermoregulation of the honey bee Apis mellifera following exposure to the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos
Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are important pollinators and yet, an increasing number of reports suggest honey bee populations worldwide are in decline. Pollinators face many environmental stressors, including exposure ...