• Hepcidin and Iron Deficiency: Novel Findings for Elite Female Rugby Sevens Players 

  Smith, Simone

  Iron deficiency (ID), measured via serum ferritin (SF), is a common issue for female athletes due to inadequate dietary iron intakes, menstruation and exercise-induced iron losses. Elite female rugby sevens players are no ...

• Estimating Overdispersion in Sparse Multinomial Data 

  Afroz, Farzana

  The phenomenon of overdispersion arises when the data are more variable than we expect from the fitted model. This issue often arises when fitting a Poisson or a binomial model. When overdispersion is present, ignoring it ...

• Stepping stones to others' minds : the relation between maternal mental and non-mental state input and social understanding in 15-, 24, and 33 month-old children 

  Taumoepeau, Mele

  Recent research has shown that children under two years demonstrate some early social understanding. Previous research has also demonstrated that mother talk about mental states is a factor in older preschoolers' later ...

• Eocene turtles and whales from New Zealand 

  Kohler, Richard

  This thesis documents eleven specimens of Eocene turtles (Reptilia: Testudines: Dermochelyidae, Cheloniidae) and seven specimens of archaeocete whales (Mammalia: Cetacea: Basilosauridae) from New Zealand. All taxa derive ...

• Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes as Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Natural Product Scaffolds 

  Gai, Sinan

  The first chapter of this thesis provides an introduction to natural products and describes how they are a valuable source of bioactive compounds, which feature heavily in clinically used drugs. The recently reported ...

• Taipōrutu, Taonga Tuku Iho. Articulating a Mātauranga Māori ‘Sense of Place’. 

  Whaanga-Schollum, Desna

  Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) cultural values in relation to resource management within New Zealand, are often co-joined with a preservation framework. The practical implication of this, places identity as ...

• Submarine Eruptive Processes in the Brook St Terrane at Colac Bay, Southland, New Zealand 

  Mawson, Jasmine

  A sequence of volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Brook Street Terrane crops out along the Southland coast from Howells Point, Riverton, into Colac Bay. This sequence provides an along-strike exposure, revealing lateral ...

• Marine Noise Pollution and Cetaceans: Making the Intangible Tangible through Participatory Sci-Art Exhibition 

  Marino, Katharina

  This thesis examines how to communicate the concept of marine noise pollution and its effect on cetaceans to the general public. Tackling a largely unknown and intangible subject, it investigates how to make these effects ...

• Communicating conservation with detection dogs 

  Rykers, Ellen Mae

  Public support and awareness is essential to effectively address conservation issues such as biodiversity decline in New Zealand. There is a need to develop approaches for enhancing public awareness and attracting new ...

• Deception Detection: Where do I look, Upper Face or Lower Face? 

  Hsiao, Li-Fu

  Human’s ability to detect deception has an unsettling result of around chance detection (Depaulo et al., 2003; Bond & DePaulo, 2008). Both Experiment 1 and 2 tracked participant’s eye fixations during the process of detecting ...

• Properties of Gibbs samplers for inference in genetic mark-recapture models 

  Bran, Paula

  The aim of this thesis is to study the convergence properties of specific MCMC algorithms for sampling from a posterior distribution. The model considered incorporates the uncertainty in the assignment of a legitimate ...

• Acute and adaptive responses to endurance swimming in warm water 

  Bradford, Carl

  Human thermoregulation and exercise performance have been investigated extensively in warm terrestrial environments but not warm aquatic environments. Open-water swimming (OWS) is an increasingly popular sport, with more ...

• Taxonomy and genetic management of New Zealand's Leiopelma frogs 

  Easton, Luke

  The taxonomic status of some of New Zealand’s endemic and threatened leiopelmatid frogs has been debated for years. I thus re-examined leiopelmatid diversity by studying the skeletal and external morphology of extinct and ...

• The Effects of Intuitive Movement Re-embodiment on the Well-Being of Older Adults with Dementia: A Pilot Study 

  Choo, Ting

  Background This ethnographic research is a pilot study that explores the effects of ‘Intuitive Movement Re-embodiment’ (IMR), an original community dance and music program on the well-being of older adults with dementia. ...

• Bioactive compounds from Asparagus roots and their biological activities 

  Zhang, Hongxia

  There are more than 200 asparagus species worldwide. Green asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) is the only one commonly consumed commercially as food and it has an important industrial production value. The productive ...

• Responses to climate change of the sea urchin (Pseudechinus sp.) and sea star (Odontaster validus) through hybridisation, local adaptations and transgenerational plasticity 

  Chin, Jennifer Sen Foeng

  Climate change, through ocean warming and ocean acidification, can affect the life cycles and population dynamics of marine species, which react by developing acclimation mechanisms. Sea urchins (Pseudechinus sp.) may ...

• Foraging activity and colony thermoregulation of the honey bee Apis mellifera following exposure to the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos 

  Hayward, Matthew William

  Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are important pollinators and yet, an increasing number of reports suggest honey bee populations worldwide are in decline. Pollinators face many environmental stressors, including exposure ...

• Exploring University Students’ Alcohol Consumption, Consequences, Motives, and Protective Behavioural Strategies during Re-Orientation Week and the Semester 

  Cody, Louise Mary

  Problematic alcohol consumption is an issue for university students around the world and there is growing interest in interventions targeting student drinking. To date, however, these interventions show limited effectiveness ...

• Investigation into the impact of time specific immunological insult on brain and behaviour using a neurodevelopmental rodent model of psychiatric disease 

  Deane, Ashley

  Epidemiological research has identified that exposure to maternal immune activation (MIA) confers substantial risk for later diagnosis of schizophrenia in offspring. As a result, extensive translational research has been ...

• Linking science and management for effective long-term conservation: A case study of black-fronted terns/tarapirohe (Chlidonias albostriatus) 

  Schlesselmann, Ann-Kathrin Verena

  Conservation biologists are facing a huge challenge. Ongoing, human-induced global change is leading to accelerating biodiversity loss, particularly in freshwater ecosystems where many highly mobile and migratory species ...

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