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Taro (Colocasia esculenta) water-soluble non-starch polysaccharide: Extraction, characteristics, properties, and biological activities
Underutilized crops such as taro are known to contain valuable bioactive components. The water-soluble non-starch polysaccharide (WS-NSP) component of taro corm (mucilage) has been reported to have promising uses in food ... -
The Oral Health Status of New Zealand Defence Force recruits and officer cadets.
Aims The aim of this study was to investigate the oral health status of all new recruits and officer cadets entering the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) over a one-year period. The second aim was to investigate differences ... -
The History of New Zealand/ Aotearoa Dolphins Cephalorhynchus hectori: Abundance and Distribution
Hector’s and Māui dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori) are endemic dolphins of Aotearoa New Zealand. This thesis documents how C. hectori have changed from being the most common dolphin species seen in New Zealand waters to ... -
Exploration of the techniques and applications of δ2H, δ18O and δ13C stable isotope analysis for the authentication of raw cotton
As the practices of fraud and use of child labour in the cotton industry become more sophisticated and harder to prevent[1], undermining detection using falsified documentation becomes easy to achieve[2]. Stable isotopes ... -
The Role of Self-Compassion in Influencing First-Year Students' Mental Health
In a recently published report, the New Zealand Student Association reported that 56% of tertiary students across New Zealand had considered dropping out at some point during their time at university. Major triggers for ... -
Investigating Cultural Dimensions via Developers Artefacts: The Utility of Repository Mining
A growing body of research is using artefacts from online development communities to explore the impact of developers’ behaviours on the software development process. Although this research has produced many insights, ... -
Prolific structures in combinatorial classes
Under what circumstances might every extension of a combinatorial structure contain more copies of another one than the original did? This property, which we call prolificity, holds universally in some cases (e.g., finite ... -
Impact of pulsed electric fields treatment on oat flour properties
This thesis aimed to investigate the impact of Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) treatment on oat flour properties. Two types of oat flour, namely raw (ROF) and thermally processed (TPOF), were characterised and subjected to ... -
Cognitive impairment and conversion to dementia in Parkinson's disease: an imaging study of amyloid PET and diffusion MRI
Objective To investigate the association between amyloid deposition or white matter degeneration with cognitive impairment and conversion to dementia in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Background Cognitive decline and ... -
The impacts of marine tourism on the behaviour and movement patterns of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) at Kaikoura, New Zealand
The increase in human activities off the coast of Kaikoura, New Zealand may be altering the behaviour and movement patterns of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus). The primary aim of this research was to assess the ... -
Distribution, population structure, social organisation, and behaviour of sperm whales off the Kaikoura Coast
The distribution, population structure, social organisation, and behaviour ofsperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) was investigated off the Kaikoura coast between spring 1990 and summer 1992. Acoustic surveys of uniform ... -
Abundance estimation of Hector's dolphin
This thesis reports the results of the first boat-based line-transect survey to be carried out in New Zealand waters. The survey was carried out in January and February 1998, successfully adapting conventional line-transect ... -
Click counting : an acoustic censusing method for estimating sperm whale abundance
Present estimates of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) population size are extraordinarily imprecise. This is largely due to sperm whale behaviour and distribution, which compromises the utility of the visual survey ... -
Acoustic censusing of sperm whales at Kaikoura, New Zealand : an inexpensive method to count clicks and whales automatically
Commercial hunting of sperm whales ended in 1988. Today, populations appear to suffer from a shortage of large males, depressing fertilisation rates. Sperm whales spend most of their time underwater, feeding at depths to ... -
Sperm whales at Kaikoura and the effects of whale-watching on their surface and vocal behaviour
Whale-watching has become a globally successful branch of the tourism industry. While there is ample information on its economic importance, there is only scant data on the environmental, social and cultural impact. Kaikoura, ... -
Long-term monitoring of sperm whales in Kaikoura, New Zealand : data-management, abundance and population dynamics
Male sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) can be found year-round within a few nautical miles off the coast of Kaikoura, New Zealand. Systematic sighting surveys were carried out in 2007, contributing to the long-term ... -
Evaluation of intranasal particulate strategies to enhance the delivery of anti-seizure therapeutics to the brain
Epilepsy is a common and serious neurological disorder to which a high proportion of patients continue to be considered “drug-resistant” despite the availability of a host of anti-seizure drugs. Investigation into new ... -
Crohn's disease: an in vitro analysis of T lymphocyte function and response to commensal microbes
Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic, relapsing inflammation of the intestine. Approximately 0.5% of the western world is estimated to suffer from the disease. Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease, ... -
MARS molecular imaging: Potential clinical utility of spectral photon-counting computed tomography integrated with nanoparticle technology
The aim of the research documented in this thesis was to investigate molecular imaging using a MARS spectral scanner. This scanner is a photon-counting computed tomography (CT) system that simultaneously measures 5-8 ... -
Peace Education in Afghanistan: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Post-Conflict School Textbooks
Afghanistan has experienced numerous educational curricula supporting its different governments’ policies regarding the establishment of formal education. Afghanistan’s school textbooks were published in support of alternate ...