• Taro (Colocasia esculenta) water-soluble non-starch polysaccharide: Extraction, characteristics, properties, and biological activities 

  Anwar, Mylene Ayod

  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 History of New Zealand/ Aotearoa Dolphins Cephalorhynchus hectori: Abundance and Distribution 

  McGrath, Gemma

  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 

  Tohi, Melenaite

  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 

  Canggra, Bob Brian

  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 ...

• Prolific structures in combinatorial classes 

  Tannock, Murray

  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 

  Duque, Sheba Mae Magbanua

  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 ...

• The impacts of marine tourism on the behaviour and movement patterns of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) at Kaikoura, New Zealand 

  Barr, Kirsty

  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 

  Chessum, Carron

  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 

  Du Fresne, Samuel Patrick

  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 

  Douglas, Lesley Anne

  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 

  Jaeke, Olaf

  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 

  Richter, Christoph Friedrich

  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 

  Van der Linde, Miranda

  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 ...

• Characterising the internal structure of major fault zones, using samples from outcrops and boreholes from the Alpine Fault Zone, New Zealand 

  Matsumura, Risa

  It is important to characterize the internal structure of major fault zones to understand their gross physical attributes, including their mechanical, seismic, and hydraulic properties. Using the Deep Fault Drilling Project ...

• (Re)Presenting 1981: Narrating the Springbok tour 

  Potgieter, Sebastian Johann Shore

  The extent to which historians impose themselves on the past through their narratives remains contentious. While historians of sport have engaged these debates (e.g. Phillips, 2002; Nathan, 2003; Booth, 2005; Liberti and ...

• Predicting the past: Mathematical models and numerical methods in molecular phylogenetics 

  Stoltz, Stephanus Marnus

  Molecular phylogenetics is the study of phylogenies and processes of evolution by the analyses of DNA or amino acid sequence data. In this thesis we describe a computationally efficient Bayesian methodology for ...

• Towards the synthesis of hydrogen bonded frameworks 

  Lippitt, Elizabeth Marion Louise

  Hydrogen-Organic frameworks (HOFs) are supramolecular materials constructed by linking organic molecules through intermolecular hydrogen bonds. HOFs are a lightweight alternative to MOFs and have been shown to be effective ...

• New Zealand marine zooplankton dynamics through the lens of climate change 

  Meyers, Morgan Teal

  Marine mesozooplankton (zooplankton >0.2 mm in size) play critical roles in ocean food webs and biogeochemical cycles. Because mesozooplankton are taxonomically and functionally diverse, community composition is an important ...

• Microhabitat use by the nocturnal, cool-climate gecko Woodworthia “Otago/Southland” in the context of global climate change 

  Chukwuka, Christian Onyeka

  Ectotherms, especially terrestrial squamates, rely on suitable microclimatic conditions to maintain critical physiological processes. Selection of appropriate microhabitat determines how well squamates will function in ...

• Characterisation and manipulation of aroma compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in kānuka smoke 

  Zhang, Yuanyang

  As a food processing method, smoking has been used for the purpose of preserving, browning and flavouring food since ancient times. Derived from the thermal decomposition of biomass, normally wood, smoke contains hundreds ...

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