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A business model for an accessible adventure hub in Dunedin, New Zealand
Our thirst for outdoor adventure is growing, with participation rates in adventure recreation and sport increasing exponentially across the globe (Brandt & Buckley, 2018; Breivik, 2007, 2010; Brymer & Gray, 2009). There ... -
People and processes during decision-making in open source software communities: A case study of Python
Open Source Software Development (OSSD) communities are often able to produce high quality software comparable to proprietary software. The success of an OSSD community is often attributed to the underlying governance ... -
Low-input transcriptomics of developing pollen in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pollen is the male gametophyte of flowering plants that deliver sperm cells to the female gametophyte during fertilization. Pollen development begins with the reduction division (meiosis) of a single pollen mother cell to ... -
Effect of grain particle size of wholegrain foods on the postprandial glycaemic response
Wholegrain foods vary in the extent of their grain processing, but most use re- constituted wholegrain flour. Grain particle size can affect starch digestibility and therefore the glycaemic response. This thesis primarily ... -
Prioritisation of requests, bugs and enhancements pertaining to apps for remedial actions. Towards solving the problem of which app concerns to address initially for app developers
Useful app reviews contain information related to the bugs reported by the app’s end-users along with the requests or enhancements (i.e., suggestions for improvement) pertaining to the app. App developers expend exhaustive ... -
Network-oriented public transport planning in medium and small New Zealand cities
Transport planning has traditionally used a reactive “predict and provide” model in which the main role of public transport (PT) is to move rush-hour commuters to and from the CBDs of large, dense cities. Beyond this, PT ... -
The Radio Doctor: Broadcasting health into the home. Assessing New Zealand's changing public health needs through the talks of Dr H. B. Turbott, 1943 - 1984
This thesis examines the Department of Health’s most enduring health education series (1943 – 1984), written and presented over the radio by Department of Health official Dr Harold Bertram (H.B.) Turbott. The cultural ... -
The Pigroot scandal; how a phonolite came to bear mantle xenoliths: an experimental analysis of the Pigroot phonolite, Central Otago, New Zealand
Phonolite is a type of nominally evolved alkaline magma, with some occurrences, however, hosting mantle xenoliths. This project aims to characterise the dynamic conditions of magma evolution of the xenolith-hosting Pigroot ... -
Factors affecting young Chinese tourists' use of Airbnb and the impact of personal values: A motivation-based segmentation study.
The rise of the peer-to-peer accommodation service such as Airbnb has represented a transformational innovation in the tourism and accommodation industry. Guttentag and fellow researchers (2017) stated that limited research ... -
Public Participation in Conservation: The Taranaki Mounga Project
This research is focused on critically reviewing and examining the nature of public participation in conservation through the lens of a landscape-scale conservation project; the Taranaki Mounga Project (TMP). TMP’s goal ... -
Effectiveness of exercise in blood pressure management in adults diagnosed with true resistant hypertension and obstructive sleep apnoea
Background Resistant hypertension is a special phenotype within hypertension which may remain uncontrolled despite pharmacological management. Adults with resistant hypertension have increased risk of cardiovascular ... -
Uncertainty, Precaution & Perception: Communicating the Risk of Heading in Football
Concerns regarding the short and long-term effects of sport-related head injury have grown in recent decades. The damage incurred by mild traumatic brain injury in the context of collision sports has thus received significant ... -
‘JacindaBabyMania’: Media Representations of Jacinda Ardern & Women’s Perspectives of the ‘Working Mother’ in Aotearoa New Zealand
In January 2018, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s third female Prime Minister, made history when she announced that she and her partner, Clarke Gayford, were expecting their first child. This child would make Ardern the second ... -
Utilising concept-based instruction in teaching pragmatics: Exploring the development of requesting behaviour of Iraqi Arabic-speaking EFL learners
This thesis explores the effect of concept-based pragmatic instruction (CBPI) in developing Iraqi Arabic-speaking EFL university students’ conceptual knowledge and performance abilities in English requests. Requests have ... -
On Common Ground: How landlords & tenants shape thermal performance of private rental properties.
Much of New Zealand’s private rental housing is energy inefficient, and this is an unnecessary source of greenhouse gas emissions and often unhealthy for the occupants. There have been limited inroads to improve the thermal ... -
The effects of catalytic innovation on the creation of social impact
Social innovation (SI) is increasingly being appraised to possess the potential to provide innovative interventions to confront complex and interdependent social problems in both developing and developed economies. SI has ... -
The effects of hydrothermal processing on legumes: Volatile profile and digestibility aspects
Legumes are cultivated and consumed all over the world as a staple food. Legumes are an economical source of protein, slow-release starch, fibre, (un)saturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. In the face of a growing ... -
Patient perspectives on the causes and prevention of rehospitalisation for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative study
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the umbrella term for a group of lung diseases which are degenerative and marked by progressively worsening symptoms including: breathlessness; fatigue; acute ... -
Exploring the role of the circadian timing system in the control of metabolism and the consequence of lighting disruptions
Throughout history, humans have been constantly driven by the rising and setting of the sun. Being able to anticipate this consistently changing environment is encompassed in our endogenous circadian clock. This system ... -
Clinical anatomy of the subacromial and related shoulder bursae
The shoulder is complex from both functional and biomechanical perspectives, with shoulder disorders affect a large proportion of adults at some stage in their life and are the most common musculoskeletal complaint in ...