• Health Infographics to Communicate Dietary Information for Colorectal Cancer Prevention 

  Chin, Garrett William

  Currently, Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is the world's third most common cancer. By 2030 the incidence of CRC is expected to increase by an additional 2.2 million new cases and 1.1 million deaths yearly. This increase is partly ...

• The Effect of Order of Presentation of Child Abuse Allegations on Mock Jurors' Decision-Making 

  Tian, Wulin

  New Zealand, like other countries, makes special provisions for child witnesses in cases of suspected sexual abuse. For example, during a trial, portions of a child’s pre-recorded evidence can be shown to the jury without ...

• Asymptotics of solutions in evolutionary formulations of the Einstein constraint equations. 

  Ritchie, Joshua

  Performing a 2+1 split of an initial data set allows one to formulate the Einstein constraint equations as an initial value problem. There are two possible sets of equations that can arise here, the parabolic-hyperbolic ...

• Understanding the Impact of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) Processing on Onions 

  Nandakumar, Rajkumar

  This thesis aimed to obtain an extensive understanding of the mechanism by which pulsed electric fields (PEF) at low electric field strengths (E ≤ 2 kV/cm) affect the structure and functionality of intact onions. A few ...

• Partitioning of plate boundary deformation in South Westland, New Zealand : controls from reactivated structures 

  Campbell, Heather Gail

  The Australian-Pacific plate boundary is an uncomplicated structure along most of its length in the South Island, New Zealand. In South Westland, south of the Arawata River, however, several terranes converge onto the ...

• Auditory and Visual Illusions as Predictors of Positive Thought Disorder in an Undergraduate Sample 

  Kaack, Imogen Hanna

  Although there is a wealth of research surrounding schizophrenia and its symptoms, what is still unknown is how these individual symptoms arise, and in what way they relate to one another. One way of investigating these ...

• Accessing Natural Product Scaffolds; A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach 

  Swaney, Brooke

  Natural products, and natural product derivatives, have applications in both total synthesis and synthetic methodology, as well as having medical applications. Whilst many natural products possess suitable activity against ...

• Fast versus slow: differing life history strategies of two New Zealand damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera) species 

  Dann, Tanya Jayne

  Life history strategies are important for all organisms and are studied in large part to understand how an individual, population or species reacts to/lives in/survives in its environment and how it/they adapt to changes ...

• Can an apple a day keep the psychologist away? The role of fruit and vegetable intake in mental well-being. 

  Brookie, Kate

  ‘You are what you eat’ is a well-known adage that is supported by evidence linking healthy diets to greater physical well-being. The cornerstone of a healthy diet is a high intake fruit and vegetables, containing a variety ...

• The lek breeding system of the Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus): the role of vocalisations in female mate choice and kin clustering on leks 

  Kelman, Emma

  For a species to succeed, individuals must be able to attract a mate. The method in which they do this is known as a breeding system and it involves a diverse array of social behaviours. A lek breeding system is employed ...

• Hydrogen Isotopes in New Zealand Soil: A method comparison 

  Huang, Po-Ju

  The spatial characteristic of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of global precipitation has been widely investigated. This study extends that investigation to tracing the flow of hydrogen isotope ratio patterns ...

• De novo transcriptome generation and transcript analysis of apomictic and sexual seed development from Hieracium subgenus Pilosella 

  Brauning, Sophia

  Apomixis is able to fix traits through the formation of maternal clonal seeds. Apomixis has been observed in diverse plant families, however rarely in crop plants. Transferring apomixis into crops to retain heterosis is ...

• Conditions, Style and Paragenesis of Mineralisation in the Cascade Creek Mo-Porphyry Deposit, Westland 

  Shand, Fraser

  A km-­‐scale zone of enriched molybdenum (Mo) occurs where Cretaceous felsic-­‐intermediate granitoids of Rahu Suite Berlins Porphyry intrude greenschist facies Greenland Group metasedimentary rocks in Cascade Creek, ...

• Does Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness Mediate the Relationship between Schizotypy and Suicidal Ideation? 

  Parker, Theresa

  Background. There is evidence to suggest that risk of death by suicide is increased among individuals living with schizotypy. However, currently there is no theoretical framework for understanding the high rates of suicide ...

• Determination of Trace Metal Contaminants in the Whau and Pakuranga Catchments Using the DGT Method 

  Russell, Cameron Peter

  Metal contaminants have become a major issue in today’s environment, and increasing research is being done on methods to monitor and determine point sources of these contaminants. Passive sampling devices are one such ...

• Is The Hearing of Whales and Dolphins Fully Developed at Birth?: An investigation of the odontocete inner ear 

  Plencner, Tiffany

  Sound is an essential component of toothed whale and dolphin (odontocete) biology. The advanced hearing-dependent activities of precocial calves lead us to believe that hearing is fully functional by birth. Nevertheless, ...

• Estimating mark rate and its effect on the precision of estimates of survival rate for a long-term study of Hector’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori) at Banks Peninsula, NZ 

  Wickman, Lindsay Marie

  An accurate and precise estimate of mark rate (the proportion of individuals with marks suitable for photo-ID) is essential for adjusting estimates of abundance from capture-recapture models to include the unmarked portion ...

• Geophysical characterisation of the Alpine Fault at Haast, Turnbull and Whataroa, New Zealand 

  Lukacs, Adrienn

  The geometry of the upper-crustal portion of the Alpine Fault, the Australian-Pacific plate boundary on the South Island of New Zealand, is poorly constrained by geophysical studies where it cuts through the young sedimentary ...

• Asymmetric sub-wavelength Fabry-Perot resonators for gas sensing applications. 

  Kumari, Madhuri

  This thesis is a report of investigation on resonance-enhanced absorption of light in ultra-thin optically lossy films on metal substrates for gas sensing applications. Planar thin-film structures comprising lossy coatings ...

• The Delayed Matching-to-Sample Task - Are Pigeons Too Smart To Remember? 

  Lord, Jessica

  The delayed matching-to-sample (DMS) task is a commonly used task to assess memory in animals. The current study assesses the possibility of an alternative method to solve the task, using simple strategies. A new tracking ...

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