• Short term impacts of physical instream restoration works on the invertebrate community in Waituna Creek, measured by Surber and kick-net sampling methods. 

  Funnell, Lucian James

  Due to anthropogenic activity, many rivers have been degraded and have lost structural diversity. Rivers restorations are commonly undertaken in order to reinstate the lost habitat heterogeneity. In New Zealand, freshwater ...

• Interaction of Charge Transfer States in Transition Metal Complexes 

  Shillito, Georgina Ellen

  The photophysical properties of a range of transition metal 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) complexes have been investigated. A suite of electronic and vibrational spectroscopic techniques including steady state and transient ...

• Behavioural and ecological factors affecting the trappability of two skink species in Nelson 

  Duncan, Petrina

  The syntopic skink species Oligosoma infrapunctatum and O. lineoocellatum appear to have different trappability estimates at Lake Station, Nelson. Long-term mark-recapture data has shown that O. lineoocellatum has a ...

• Neural Tissue Engineering: An Investigation on Silk Fibroin/PEG/PVA Electrospun Nanofibres for Regenerating Brain Tissue After Stroke 

  Boni, Rossana

  The nervous system is a crucial component of the body and damages to this system, either by injury or disease, can result in serious or potentially lethal consequences. For example, stroke is one of the leading causes of ...

• Wireless Channel Modeling and Reconstruction in Massive MIMO Systems 

  Fedorov, Aleksei

  The past few years have witnessed dramatic growth in the number of wirelessly connected devices, which will continue to increase in the future. Following this trend, the capacity of the wireless networks has been enhanced ...

• Growth, development, and aging methods of the midget octopus, Octopus huttoni 

  Donlon, Erica

  This is the first study to be completed on the growth, developmental rates, and aging methods in the midget octopus, Octopus huttoni. Understanding life histories and population dynamics are important for fisheries management. ...

• Lipid physiology in beluga (Huso huso L.) - the relationship between developmental stages, 11-ketotestosterone levels and ovarian lipid uptake 

  Ranay Ahavan, Sobhan

  In egg-laying fish, survival of the embryonic and initial larval stages depends on accumulation of substantial reserves of yolk and lipid within the egg during oocyte growth. In sturgeon, a non-teleost basal ray-finned ...

• An investigation into the characterisation of seismic traces: optimising shear wave signals with source type, orientation and survey geometry 

  King, Aleasha

  Seismic surveys are used to create visual representations of subsurface geology by detecting the reflections and refractions of seismic waves. In most cases, the seismic wave of interest is the P-wave, the easiest wave to ...

• Shaping practice : the nurse's role in nutrition education : a grounded theory approach 

  Mahood, Judith Ann

  The purpose of this grounded theory study was to identify, describe, and provide a theoretical explanation of nurses' perceptions of their nutrition education role. Fifteen staff nurses from medical and paediatric wards ...

• Sperm whale habitat off Kaikoura, New Zealand : a descriptive study of physical and biological processes influencing sperm whale distribution 

  Larivière, Fanny

  Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are deep-diving marine mammals found in all oceans of the world and occupy a wide range of environmental conditions (Best 1979; Rice 1989). There is no real consensus in describing the ...

• Framing Entertainment and Wild Gorillas: Effects on Public Perception and Endangered Status A Conceptual Review 

  Provis, Elise

  Schroepfer, Rosati, Chartrand, and Hare (2011) found that the use of chimpanzees in entertainment leads people to believe that they are not endangered and that they would make suitable pets. As gorillas have also featured ...

• Petrogenesis, eruption and emplacement of the volcanic rocks at Otapahi, Otago Peninsula. 

  Baxter, Rachael Joy May

  Intraplate volcanism is a globally common phenomenon that remains poorly understood. It formed the Dunedin Volcano at 16-10 Ma, with the oldest known exposures located at Otapahi, on Otago Peninsula. Investigation of the ...

• A Synthetic Methodology for Accessing Ceramide Based iNKT Cell Agonists 

  Robinson, Sage

  It is well established that immunological surveillance is an important method by which cancer is controlled in healthy people. Cancer immunotherapy aims to exploit the power of the host immune system for the targeted ...

• Effects of coralline algal diffusion boundary layers on growth of newly settled sea urchins: implications for ocean acidification conditions 

  Houlihan, Erin

  Macroalgae are able to modify their local environment via biological processes, thereby creating a diffusive boundary layer (DBL) where the chemical and physical environment differs from the overlying bulk seawater. In ...

• Effects of high intensity interval training vs moderate intensity continuous training on fitness and body composition in active breast cancer survivors 

  Bell, Richard

  Background: Breast cancer and its treatment are associated with worsened body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in breast cancer survivors. These negative effects can increase overall, cardiovascular and ...

• Reconstructing Free-Energy Landscapes For Cyclic Motor Proteins 

  Lopez Alamilla, Nazul Jared

  Cyclic motor proteins are responsible for energy conversion processes inside the cell. Their dynamical behaviour can be described theoretically in terms of over-damped Brownian motion on a tilted periodic free-energy ...

• Increasing the level of detail in adult witnesses’ event accounts: Can an example of required detail help? 

  Jalota, Niharika

  Because eyewitness accounts are a critical source of evidence in many police investigations, it is important for this evidence to be both detailed and accurate. Eliciting evidence that fulfills both of these criteria, ...

• Making it ordinary : an unexceptional history of the early olympic movement in New Zealand 

  Kohe, Geoffery Z.

  Making it ordinary presents an alternative history of the olympic movement in New Zealand. The crux of my argument is that the history of the local olympic movement is unexceptional given the contexts of international sport ...

• High resolution remote sensing techniques to assess tall tussock grassland distribution and density 

  West, Samuel E.J.

  The ecological applications of remote sensing have progressed over time, largely as a result of improvements in remote sensing technology. Increases in both the spatial and temporal resolution of available imagery has ...

• Reconceptualizing the Periaqueductal Grey: Fear, Anxiety and Motivational Systems in an Ancient Structure 

  Barroso Silva, Carlos Eduardo

  The periaqueductal grey (PAG) is classically seen as a region responsible for the control of defensive reactions. This thesis provides a detailed review of anatomical and functional data on the different parts of the PAG ...

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