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11 week Beta-Hydroxy beta-Methylbutyric acid (HMB) supplementation: Effects on body composition and exercise performance in trained athletes.
Background: Originally used in the farming industry to ‘bulk up’ cattle, interest in the leucine metabolite, beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate (HMB), has been growing following a clinical trial which demonstrated significant ... -
2-pentylfuran: biosynthesis by Aspergillus fumigatus in-vitro and investigation of confounders of a breath test in-vivo
A. fumigatus is the principle cause of fatal invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in severely immunocompromised hosts and rapid treatment is compromised by the limitations in the current diagnostic tests. 2-pentylfuran ... -
A Discourse Analysis of Self-management for Bipolar Disorder
In line with a movement across all areas of health concerned with chronic illness, self-management practices have become an important part of what it means to provide contemporary mental health care to people with the ... -
A novel strategy to prevent bacterial biofilm formation using methylthioadenosine-nucleosidase inhibitors
Each year there are approximately 2.9 million joint replacement surgeries performed worldwide. Great efforts have been made to reduce infection rates in these replacements in the past and yet these rates have not decreased ... -
A study of practices and attitudes of a local Community Alcohol and Drug Service Workforce in relation to consumers with coexisting mental health and addiction problems
The first comprehensive national study on the opinions and attitudes of the New Zealand addiction workforce in addressing coexisting problems (CEP) was carried out by Gilbert (2010) using a telephone survey. The aim of ... -
A survey of Canterbury nurses' perceptions of the activities, effectiveness and benefits of professional supervision
Effective professional supervision (PS) offers nurses the opportunity to develop both personally and professionally through formal conversations with a trained supervisor. Perceived benefits, in the situation of efficacious ... -
A Validation Study to Detect Markers of Proliferation Adequacy in the Endometrium
Throughout the human female menstrual cycle, the endometrial lining of the uterus transitions from a non-receptive proliferative state to a receptive secretory state. This transition is required to prepare the endometrium ... -
Acute cardiac admissions after natural disasters - Insight from the Christchurch earthquakes
Introduction It is known that acute cardiovascular events can be triggered by external factors among susceptible individuals. Previous studies have shown an increased risk of acute cardiac events following psychosocial ... -
Acute Kidney Injury in the Intensive Care Unit: Prediction of Severity and Outcome
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is common and contributes to high mortality amongst critically ill patients. The overall aim of this project was to investigate functional and structural biomarkers for AKI detection and prediction ... -
Ageing with Spinal Cord Injury in New Zealand
Background Worldwide there is a new demographic phenomenon: an increasing number of people who either are born with or sustained a physical disability when young or in middle-age and who are now ageing with their disability. ... -
Alcohol use & sexually transmitted infections in young people attending a sexual health clinic
Background: Hazardous alcohol use and in particular binge drinking has become a significant problem for New Zealand youth and results in considerable harm. The burden of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) is also ... -
Alcohol-related psychiatric comorbidity
Background Alcohol problems and common mental disorders, particularly depression, contribute greatly to the global burden of disease and they often coexist. However, many aspects of the relationship between these two ... -
Algorithms to process data from the MARS molecular imaging system
The MARS molecular imaging project aims to research, develop, and commercialize a spectral computed tomography (CT) system. My thesis describes the work I performed to reconstruct volumes from the MARS prototypes. The ... -
An Application Of Hierarchical Bayes Models To Estimated Prevalence Of Mental Disorder And Mental Health Service Use Among Cook Islanders In New Zealand
The aims of this thesis are twofold. First is the epidemiological goal of reporting patterns and determinants of mental disorder among people of Cook Island ethnic group descent (Cook Islanders) compared to people from ... -
An Audit of New Zealand's Intellectual Disability Specialty In-Patient Units: Focussing on Antipsychotic Medication Use
Whilst a number of international studies discuss the use of antipsychotic medication for people with intellectual disability, there have been few studies within New Zealand. At the most basic level, we do not know the ... -
Analysis of Volatile Biomarkers of Airway Inflammation in Breath
Breath analysis is non-invasive and acceptable to patients, and is an attractive method for the diagnosis and monitoring of airway inflammation in asthma and COPD. The measurement of the fraction of nitric oxide in exhaled ... -
Androgens and the Female Brain: The Relationship between Testosterone Levels, Depression, Anxiety, Cognitive Function, and Emotion Processing in Females with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Background: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in reproductive-aged females, with the main hormonal abnormality being androgen (testosterone) excess. Although it is well-established ... -
Anthropometric Assessment Tools as Postoperative Risk Indictors in Adult Orthopaedic Patients: A Pilot Study.
Obesity is not only known to contribute to health risks such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type II diabetes mellitus, but can also be associated with post operative complications (Amin, Sales & Brenkel, 2006; Best, ... -
Application of emerging sequencing and genomic technologies to diagnostic molecular genetics.
The advent of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) has provided much broader opportunities in the field of molecular genomics. Previously, sequencing approaches were limited to a small number of single genes or exons. MPS ... -
Are we ready yet?: New graduate nurses' experience of workplace violence and agression and their sense of readiness
Aim: The aim of this study was explore new graduate nurses’ experience of WPVA and their sense of readiness for responding to such events. Background: Considerable evidence exists indicating that workplace violence and ...