Thesis - Doctoral
Recent Deposits
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Cold and Crowded - The Early Childhood Education Environments Study
Background In recent decades New Zealand has seen a growth in the use of childcare as a weekday living environment for children under five years old, with an increasing proportion of children attending, and children ... -
Clinical and Surgical Anatomy of the Ligament of the Head of Femur
The ligament of the head of femur (LHF), or ligamentum teres, is an intra-articular ligament of the hip joint, running between the transverse acetabular ligament (TAL) of the hip and the fovea capitis femoris (FCF) on the ... -
Examining fatigue and performance in critical care clinicians
Background: Fatigue related to sleep deprivation has a degrading effect on human performance. In critical care health settings this represents a potential hazard to the safety of patients. This thesis aimed to identify and ... -
The effects of New Zealand sheep milk on mineral absorption and bone health
In recent times, there has been increasing interest in, and development of dairying involving other lactating species in New Zealand, as well as elsewhere in the World, as alternatives to cow milk (CM). In particular, the ... -
Antecedents of Employee Guardianship Behaviour within the Retail Context
Retail crime has a significant financial impact on the supermarket retail sector which results in economic, social and psychological loss. In New Zealand alone, in 2017 the financial losses were estimated to be at $1.1 ... -
Karl Barth's Doctrine of Sanctification: An Exploration of Church Dogmatics §66
This thesis is an investigation of Karl Barth’s doctrine of sanctification as found in §66 of the Church Dogmatics. The work involves two main tasks. First, it is an exercise in close and attentive interpretation of this ... -
Toll like receptor signalling in human colonic organoids
Three-dimensional primary cultures of colonic epithelium, or colonic organoids, are thought to be a suitable culture system to investigate the properties of human intestinal epithelium and its interaction with commensal ... -
Assessment of central pain mechanisms: generating knowledge and resources for translation into clinical practice
Background: Musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders are the second most common cause of disability. Persistent MSK pain has been associated with altered central pain mechanisms (CPMs), particularly somatosensory abnormalities. In ... -
Hilary of Poitiers and the Concept of Divine Personhood
The primary focus of this dissertation is the development of the notion of divine personhood in the writings of Hilary of Poitiers, doctor and bishop of the Church. The impetus for this study was my Licence thesis, where ... -
Instrumentation and Calibration of the Transient Array Radio Telescope
The Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) is a 24-element aperture synthesis array radio telescope. It is designed as a low-cost test bench for hardware, calibration, and imaging algorithm development, as well as a ... -
Flavones from Cyclopropanes: Development of Methodology and the Total Synthesis of Integrin and (±)-Oxyisocyclointegrin
Cyclopropanes are important substrates in organic chemistry able to participate in many different classes of reactions which can be broadly classified as ring opening, cycloaddition and rearrangement reactions. The unique ... -
Exploring the Applications of Subwavelength Nanostructures Fabricated by Solid Immersion Lloyd's Mirror Interference Lithography
Nanofabrication is a powerful tool in modern scientific and technological advancement and plays a key role in the production of consumer electronics, sensors and actuators, and nanophotonic applications. Developed originally ... -
An Ecological Dynamics Approach for Movement Assessment
Ecological dynamics has gained increasing acceptance as a theoretical framework in the field of motor development. This framework underpins this research programme, which postulates that humans are open, complex systems ... -
Eruptions and deposition of volcaniclastic rocks in the Dunedin volcanic complex, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
The Otago Peninsula is part of the Dunedin Volcanic Complex and the Dunedin Volcanic Group, of Miocene age. Tephra and a suite of alkali basalt magma began erupting in the Sandfly Bay area. The Dunedin Volcanic Complex ... -
Marine anoxia during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2: Constraints from the southern palaeo-Pacific and Tethys Oceans using carbon- and uranium-isotope systems
The Cenomanian–Turonian anoxic event or ‘Oceanic Anoxic Event 2’ (OAE 2), occurring c. 94 million years ago, marks one of the most severe climatic disturbances in Earth’s history and is associated with widespread ocean ... -
A Defence of Biodiversity as the Goal of Conservation Biology
Biodiversity has been the goal of conservation for thirty years but recent work by biodiversity eliminativists has raised serious challenges to its suitability as the primary goal of conservation. This project groups those ... -
Exergaming to improve balance and decrease the risk of falling in individuals with knee osteoarthritis
Background: The benefits of exercise to improve balance and reduce the risk of falls is well-recognised in the older-adult literature. However, little attention is paid to people with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. While ... -
Mt. Morning, Antarctica : geochemistry, geochronology, petrology, volcanology, and oxygen fugacity of the rifted Antarctic lithosphere
Mt. Morning is a 2,732 m high, Cenozoic, alkaline eruptive centre situated in the south-west corner of McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Mt. Morning is approximately 100 km south-west of Mt. Erebus, the world's ... -
European women's dresses in nineteenth-century New Zealand
Dress encodes complex cultural information and operates as an aesthetic sign system, indicating ideas about status, wealth, and taste. Fashionable women's day dresses of the mid to late nineteenth century in Western culture ... -
The Community Funding Agency and the voluntary sector : a study in purchase of service contracting in the Otago/Southland region
The research is focused on purchase of service contracting in the Otago/Southland region - from 1992 to 1998. For the purpose of this research, purchase of service contracting is defined as purchase of social services by ...