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'Water we do about the river?' An Integrated Approach to Understanding Water Quality in the Waikaka Stream, Southland, New Zealand
Water quality causes are a highly contested issue in New Zealand, with rivers and streams struggling with the effects of intensive pastoral agriculture. The Waikaka Stream in Southland is an example of a catchment that ... -
Tracing the lines of race & health online: A mixed-methods exploration of the African-American HIV/AIDS movement on Twitter
Although accounting for 13 percent of the American population, in 2017, African-Americans made up over 42 percent of people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA) in the United States. In addition to the highest prevalence, ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Emotion Recognition: Young Versus Older Adults Across Gender and Cultures
The purpose of this research was to investigate emotion recognition in adults across age, gender and culture. Using the six basic emotions of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise as stimuli, the aim is ... -
Survival, not resilience: Young people's housing instability
Young people’s experiences of housing instability need to be recognised. The extant literature tends to equate young people’s experiences with that of adults and the limited literature that exclusively examines young people ... -
Development and preclinical evaluation of an oral therapeutic colorectal cancer vaccine
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has become the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide, indicating the need for novel therapies to reduce mortality rates and the global burden of this disease. Therapeutic subunit vaccines ... -
Two approaches for fostering self-regulatory competencies in home-based early childhood education and care: exploring benefits for children’s developing self-regulatory and socio-emotional competencies through the transition to school
Home-based early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a unique early childhood environment in which learning can take place to foster skills important for early school adjustment. The present studies examined the impact ... -
Does Size Matter? Using Osteology and Ancient DNA to Reconstruct Extinct Diversity in Duvaucel’s Gecko
The dynamic geology and climate of the New Zealand archipelago has had pronounced effects on the evolution of its endemic flora and fauna. However, contemporary biodiversity is depauperate, with previous studies revealing ... -
Mechanisms of bactericidal action and β-lactam synergy by the zinc ionophore PBT2
The emergence and global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly serious threat to human and veterinary medicine. Driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, resistance to our antibiotic armoury ... -
Nematic spin vortices in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates
Spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates present a wealth of physics, owing to the spin and superfluid order they possess. In this work, we consider spin-1 condensates with antiferromagnetic interactions, which favor the formation ... -
Consumer Acceptance of Novel Technologies Designed to Control Foodborne Bacteria in China and New Zealand
Foodborne bacteria, such as Listeria monocytogenes, are a heavy burden on human health and the world economy. To better protect consumers from foodborne bacteria while improving food quality, several novel technologies ... -
Development of hydrogel-based strategies for tissue vascularisation
The tissue engineering field and regenerative medicine has emerged as a promising strategy to overcome the lack of availability of organs and tissue grafts for transplantation. One of the main challenges in the field is ... -
Micropatterned Aluminium Surfaces for Anti-icing and Anti-frosting Applications
Developing anti-icing and anti-frosting technology is vital for many different energy generation and consumption systems such as wind turbines, aircraft and heat exchangers, where ice and frost formation is a barrier for ... -
Intrinsic reward driven exploration for deep reinforcement learning
Deep reinforcement learning has become one of the hottest research topics in machine learning. In reinforcement learning, agents interact with the environment and try to maximise the expected cumulative reward. The goal ... -
A comparison of site occupancy and morphology between Litoria raniformis in Central Otago, New Zealand and Victoria, Australia
Many amphibian species across the globe are at high risk of extinction. Alien species, overexploitation, land-use change, climate change, chemicals, and infectious diseases are all having devastating effects on amphibians. ... -
Identity construction in online dating
Online dating has emerged as one of the most widely used opportunities provided by the internet, yet only a small number of studies have focused on online daters who have met and developed successful relationships with ... -
Alleviating Death Anxiety in Epicureanism
Eradicating the fear of death is a central concern in Epicurean philosophy. As hedonists, the Epicureans seek to pursue pleasure and avoid pain in order to achieve a life of eudaimonia. The fear of death is viewed as a ... -
Iodine intakes and main food sources in New Zealand adolescent males
Background: The New Zealand population is susceptible to iodine deficiency due to low iodine levels in the soil. In response to this, two fortification strategies exist; iodisation of table salt which began in 1924, and ... -
Envisioning relational reproductive justice in surrogacy: Recognising the invisible experiences of intended parents
India has become notorious as a multibillion-dollar surrogacy industry. This industry flourished when India allowed commercial surrogacy and attracted many international intended parents to engage with widely available ... -
Strategies to enhance CAR T cell function in solid tumours utilising coding and non-coding genes
Cancer immunotherapy has emerged as an effective treatment to provide benefits to cancer patients. One of the main treatment modalities of cancer immunotherapy is the adoptive transfer of T cells with genetically engineered ... -
Policy and planning in urban and peri-urban agriculture: The cases of Uyo and Benin City, Southern Nigeria
In Africa, the practice of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) can be traced back to ancient civilizations. However, in recent times, farming in the developing world more broadly, is promoted for its contribution to ...