Thesis - Doctoral
Recent Deposits
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Cardiorenal syndrome in a transgenic hypertensive rat model
Hypertension is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction (MI), and these are strongly associated with renal injury. However, the impact of MI additional to the effect of hypertension on renal ... -
Taphonomic alteration to juvenile porcine bone after exposure to a marine environment
Research into the effects of different aquatic environments, particularly marine environments, on the taphonomic alteration of the skeleton, is an under-studied area of forensic research. Taphonomic alteration is ... -
Seeing is Believing: Revelation, Emotion, and Film Images
One of the most theologically interesting aspects of cinema is its apparent capacity to mediate revelation. While the primary agent of revelation is God, without whom revelation cannot happen, certain films seem to elicit ... -
The impact of heat, pulsed electric fields and pH on the properties of ovomucin-depleted egg white
The thesis aimed to understand the effect of pH combined with either heat or pulsed electric fields (PEF) processing on protein aggregation and subsequent pepsin-pancreatin hydrolysis of ovomucin-depleted egg white (OdEW) ... -
The Role of Analytics in Higher Education
Higher education institutions are increasingly accumulating a significant amount of data on students, teachers, facilities and curricula (Bichsel, 2012; Gantz & Reinsel, 2012, Siemens & Long, 2011). In the last decade, ... -
Creating a Modified Monopoly game for promoting students’ higher-order thinking skills and knowledge retention
While a deep understanding of basic accounting concepts is fundamental for students to fully comprehend the discipline, research has consistently found that students struggle with understanding accounting concepts and tend ... -
Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes and atrial fibrillation
Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), consisting of aspirin and a P2Y12 receptor antagonist, is the standard of care following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) presentation, and oral anticoagulation (OAC) is standard of care ... -
Modelling the New Zealand artist : Rita Angus & Colin McCahon
This thesis examines the problem of modelling, and the problematical models of, two New Zealand artists: Rita Angus and Colin McCahon. The primary concern is not the art but rather the cultural construction of these figures ... -
The life and times of Cakobau : the Bauan state to 1855
This thesis is divided into eleven chapters. The first of these, Sa Cadra Na Matanisiga: the acculturation of a Tui Kaba Chief, traces the major rites of passage which transformed Cakobau from a child to a Tui Kaba chief, ... -
Martial Epigrammata, Book X : a commentary
This thesis represents the first full-scale commentary on Book 10 of Martial's Epigrams. Jenkins' commentary on Book 10, a thesis from Cambridge in 1982, is the other detailed commentary on Book 10, but examines only 23 ... -
Understandings of Social Investment in the Oil and Gas Sector
Every year, Oil and Gas (O&G) companies spend a significant amount of money on social investment programmes in communities that host their activities. Yet the benefits of these programmes are debatable. This thesis reports ... -
Determinants of Child Wellbeing and Human Capital in Ethiopia
Investment in early childhood health and education provide children with the resources necessary to develop the cognitive and social skills that enhance their productivity later in life, but unfortunately, most children ... -
Tumor Necrosis Factor α mediated Heterodendritic Metaplasticity in Rats and Alzheimer’s mice
Long-term potentiation (LTP) is an activity-dependent long-lasting increase in the efficacy of synaptic transmission. LTP is vital for learning and memory and must be regulated to keep synaptic strength within a dynamic ... -
Quantifying Children's Exposure to Outdoor Food Advertising
The marketing of unhealthy food is a key modifiable influence on children’s dietary behaviours and childhood obesity. The WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) has recommended that settings where children gather ... -
Columnar Ice versus Platelet Ice: Differences, Consequences, and Significance
Antarctic land-fast sea ice (fast ice) is sea ice fastened to land or ice shelves. Fast ice is an important component of Antarctic coastal marine ecosystems, providing a prolific habitat for ice algal communities. Columnar ... -
Finding the Achilles Heel in B. cereus spores
Bacillus cereus spores are a concern to the food industry, especially to the producers of heat sensitive food products like egg white that cannot be retorted. The research presented in this thesis investigated the impact ... -
Modelling Urban Social Sustainability
In recent years, sustainable development has increasingly influenced urban policy, housing and planning in cities all over the world. Debates about sustainability no longer consider it solely as an environmental concern, ... -
Health risk assessment and health risk management with special reference to sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) for Possum control in New Zealand
The principal use of sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) in New Zealand is to control brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). Aerial application of baits containing 1080 is the most common method used for large-scale control ... -
A tale of autobiographical memory development: New Zealand style
Autobiographical memories are for specific, personal past events that are of significance to an individual (Nelson, 1993). The social interaction model of autobiographical memory proposes that children begin learning about ... -
Learning from open innovation in a context of a less-open country
Chesbrough first coined the term “open innovation” about 15 years ago. Since then, a growing number of studies have shown that openness to the environment can improve firms’ innovation. However, most of the previous studies ...