Thesis - Doctoral
Recent Deposits
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Post-entry speed of internationalization and export performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which, traditionally, have been considered as firms characterized by domestic focus and limited geographic scope, are increasingly extending their focus across national borders ... -
Can an apple a day keep the psychologist away? The role of fruit and vegetable intake in mental well-being.
‘You are what you eat’ is a well-known adage that is supported by evidence linking healthy diets to greater physical well-being. The cornerstone of a healthy diet is a high intake fruit and vegetables, containing a variety ... -
A Poetics of Water: Cross-Cultural Ecopoetics in a Crisis World
This thesis yokes together ecocriticism, avant-garde poetry, and comparative literature to offer a new approach to studying literary responses to environmental crisis on a global scale. It develops this approach by examining ... -
The Science Communication of Whale Watching: A People-Focused Science Communication Approach
In 2014, UN Member States proposed a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including SDG #14 with its focus to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Le Blanc, ... -
Relationships Matter: The Role and Impact of Younger International Development Volunteers
The role of international development volunteering (IDV) has evolved from the 1980’s, both in practice and in theory. A body of literature analyses international volunteering through neoliberal and neo-colonial expressions, ... -
Reflecting on Culture in Medicine: Second-year medical students' online discussions
This thesis reports on a qualitative study of the role of reflection in the development of second year medical students’ intercultural competence. Reflective capacity is an important professional competency and is crucial ... -
A New Understanding of Brand Development through Social-Actor Engagement
Recent years have seen a growing scholarly call for a new conceptualization of brand development as an interactive, co-creative and network-based process, in which customers adopt more active roles. These active roles are ... -
The Hidden Potential of the Palestinian Resistance in Israel: A Grounded Theory Study on Resistance among Palestinian Activists in Israel
After nearly seventy years of adopting the same tools of protest, either by taking part in the Israeli political system through participation in elections or practicing cultural resistance, Palestinian activists feel that ... -
De novo transcriptome generation and transcript analysis of apomictic and sexual seed development from Hieracium subgenus Pilosella
Apomixis is able to fix traits through the formation of maternal clonal seeds. Apomixis has been observed in diverse plant families, however rarely in crop plants. Transferring apomixis into crops to retain heterosis is ... -
Innate Factors in Early Clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Introduction: Early clearance (EC) is the eradication of M. tuberculosis infection by innate immunity, before an adaptive immune response develops. Case contact studies consistently report a group of highly exposed but ... -
YB-1 oncoprotein in cancer and drug resistance
Y-box-binding protein 1 (YB-1) is a biomarker that is predictive of poor prognosis in cancer. Various molecular functions of YB-1 in cancer have been proposed, including the transcriptional regulation of gene expression. ... -
Development of Fluorescent Ligands for CB2 receptor
CB2 receptor plays an important role in inflammation and has been implicated in the pathologies of several diseases, including neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, and atherosclerosis. However, there is a lack of understanding ... -
Peroxiredoxin expression and redox state in human cancers
Peroxiredoxins (Prxs) are a class of ubiquitous peroxidases that degrade hydrogen peroxide. They are found in almost all compartments of the cell: Prxs 1 and 2 in the cytosol, and Prx 3 in the mitochondria. Their role in ... -
Geophysical characterisation of the Alpine Fault at Haast, Turnbull and Whataroa, New Zealand
The geometry of the upper-crustal portion of the Alpine Fault, the Australian-Pacific plate boundary on the South Island of New Zealand, is poorly constrained by geophysical studies where it cuts through the young sedimentary ... -
Asymmetric sub-wavelength Fabry-Perot resonators for gas sensing applications.
This thesis is a report of investigation on resonance-enhanced absorption of light in ultra-thin optically lossy films on metal substrates for gas sensing applications. Planar thin-film structures comprising lossy coatings ... -
Exploring learner-centredness for adults learning te reo Māori: easing the path to language acquisition
Learner-centredness takes learners and their needs, interests, enthusiasms and aspirations as the starting point of the education process, and this thesis explores what a learner-centred approach might contribute to adult ... -
The Communication of Science through Crime Fiction
Background: Science can be communicated informally through fictional media. Crime fiction in print media has contained elements of forensic science since the first detective stories, for example, Sherlock Holmes. Modern ... -
Explaining how students can learn the dispositional components of physical world actions by performing virtual world actions
Virtual worlds are an important educational technology for professional education because they enable students to take actions in a safe, simulated environment while adopting specific professional roles. For example, medical ... -
Synergistic Synthetic Lethal Drug Combinations for E-Cadherin-Deficient Cancers
E-cadherin is a cell-to-cell adhesion protein encoded by the gene CDH1. Germline inactivating mutations in CDH1 underpin hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC), an autosomal dominant disease that strongly ... -
Studies on Bonamia parasites (Haplosporidia) in the New Zealand flat oyster Ostrea chilensis
The haplosporidian parasites Bonamia exitiosa and B. ostreae have caused significant and consequential marine disease epizootics of oysters around the world. Due to the severity of disease that these parasites can cause, ...