Thesis - Doctoral
Recent Deposits
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Wireless Channel Modeling and Reconstruction in Massive MIMO Systems
The past few years have witnessed dramatic growth in the number of wirelessly connected devices, which will continue to increase in the future. Following this trend, the capacity of the wireless networks has been enhanced ... -
Socio-ecological resilience and parental mental illness: Child and parent perspectives of service delivery
Service delivery for children of parents with mental illness (COPMI) and their families is considered essential in many countries for the prevention of mental illness and addiction in children, and their future resilience. ... -
Lipid physiology in beluga (Huso huso L.) - the relationship between developmental stages, 11-ketotestosterone levels and ovarian lipid uptake
In egg-laying fish, survival of the embryonic and initial larval stages depends on accumulation of substantial reserves of yolk and lipid within the egg during oocyte growth. In sturgeon, a non-teleost basal ray-finned ... -
Anglo-Indian lives in Pakistan through the lens of oral histories
Anglo-Indians are the legacy of European colonialism in South Asia. They are of mixed Indian and European descent. Since the late 20th century Anglo-Indians have been the focus of much ethnological research that generally ... -
Impact of Dietary Fatty Acids on Neuronal and Metabolic Health
In the past decades, the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly trebled. This trend is mainly caused by the permanent availability of food, the consumption of a Western-style diet, and the sedentary lifestyle of our ... -
'Reddish eddying waters' : a study of work, gender and class consciousness in a working class town
The work and workers in the industrial town of Mataura, Eastern Southland, New Zealand provide the focus for this ethnographic study. Drawing on extensive fieldwork involving both participant observation and quantitative ... -
The involvement of the multiple drug resistance family in facial eczema resistance
Facial Eczema (FE) is a disease of ruminants that was first reported in New Zealand at the beginning of this century. Today this disease is considered the most important mycotoxin affecting the sheep industry, causing an ... -
Children's perspectives of their everyday lives with a focus on the transition from early childhood centre to school
The aim of this ethnographic study was to explore New Zealand children's perspectives on their everyday lives with a focus on the transition from early childhood centre to school. Sixteen children, whose average age was ... -
Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Meaning in Life for Adults with Advanced Cancer
Introduction When cancer is advanced and life-threatening, it has both physical and psychological effects, and for many people creates existential concerns. Mindfulness as a therapeutic endeavour is widely used in ... -
Suffering, Solidarity and Spirituality: The Lived Experiences of Internally Displaced Women in Northern Nigeria
Since 2009, the Nigerian state, has been under intense attack by an Islamic extremist group popularly known as Boko Haram. As a result of the insurgency, over two million persons have been internally displaced, 53% of whom ... -
Ghrelin and peripheral artery disease
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is the most common cardiovascular disease associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). PAD is characterised by the narrowing or occlusion of systemic arteries impeding blood supply to ... -
The PvdF enzyme of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterium which requires iron for growth and survival. Under iron limiting conditions, P.aeruginosa secrete iron scavenging compounds called pyoverdines. Pyoverdines consist of a ... -
A Synthetic Methodology for Accessing Ceramide Based iNKT Cell Agonists
It is well established that immunological surveillance is an important method by which cancer is controlled in healthy people. Cancer immunotherapy aims to exploit the power of the host immune system for the targeted ... -
'Liking' working with suicidal patients: A mixed methods research investigation of clinicians' positive inclination to patients at risk for suicide and the effect of this on the therapeutic encounter
Background: A strong therapeutic relationship is associated with better outcome in therapy/treatment, including with patients at risk for suicide (PRS). However, to build a strong therapeutic relationship with PRS, clinicians’ ... -
Reconstructing Free-Energy Landscapes For Cyclic Motor Proteins
Cyclic motor proteins are responsible for energy conversion processes inside the cell. Their dynamical behaviour can be described theoretically in terms of over-damped Brownian motion on a tilted periodic free-energy ... -
Fuel Poverty in New Zealand — Implications for Policy
Fuel poverty, or the inability to access or afford energy, impacts on the capabilities of households to attain a socially and materially needed level of energy services to participate in society. Fuel poverty is a significant ... -
Individual, Institutional and Environmental Factors Influencing Online Distance Tertiary Teaching in New Zealand
Online and distance teaching requires careful negotiation between the goals, beliefs and philosophy of the teacher and the inherent pedagogy of the technologies and system they are working within. While the relationships ... -
Serotonin and the eating disorders : the effects of dieting, acute plasma tryptophan depletion and mCPP administration on brain 5-HT function
The past two decades have seen an upturn in interest in the psychiatric disorders anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Although this renewed interest has been reflected in the amount of research being undertaken, little is ... -
Tertiary student hazardous drinking : epidemiology and development of a brief intervention trial
The misuse of alcohol is one of New Zealand's major social and health concerns. The cost of alcohol misuse, after adjustment for the economic benefits of consumption, was estimated at $16.1 billion in 1990,4% of gross ... -
Making it ordinary : an unexceptional history of the early olympic movement in New Zealand
Making it ordinary presents an alternative history of the olympic movement in New Zealand. The crux of my argument is that the history of the local olympic movement is unexceptional given the contexts of international sport ...