Browsing Division of Sciences Departments by Date Published
Now showing items 1-20 of 1989
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Developing a first principles approach to educating water skills for life to children
In New Zealand, despite the fact that the majority of drownings occur in open water, most swimming teaching occurs in public swimming pools. It is possible that learning to swim in a public swimming pool does not sufficiently ... -
Polymer Monolayers for Chromium(III) (Hydr)oxide, with Antifouling Applications for Stainless Steel Surfaces
The intended purpose of this work is to form a more complete understanding of how to maintain pristine, foulant-resistant stainless steel surfaces in aqueous proteinaceous or microbial environments such as those found on ... -
Relativistic Electron Microbursts: Properties and Possible Plasma Wave Drivers
Relativistic (>1 MeV) electron microbursts (<1 s duration) are particle precipitation events, thought to be significant contributors to radiation belt losses. Although these events are known to be intense, the exact ... -
Surtseyan volcanism: case studies from Pahvant Butte and Black Point, Western USA
Shallow to emergent basaltic subaqueous explosive eruptions, here referred as Surtseyan, are a source of pyroclastic material expelled from subaqueous vents and transferred to the water column and atmosphere. They can ... -
Investigating the Interaction between Motivation and Cognition in the Maternal Immune Activation Model of Schizophrenia Risk
Finding an animal model of schizophrenia that displays both reliability and validity is a difficult task. The Maternal Immune Activation (MIA) model is an animal model that mimics an epidemiological risk factor of ... -
Aspects of Self in Schizotypy: Basic and Narrative Sense of Self among Individuals at Psychometric Risk for Schizophrenia
The contemporary approach to detecting and studying schizophrenia, known as operational psychiatry, reduces the disease to a list of perceived and inferred signs and symptoms. Advocates of the phenomenological approach to ... -
Rich Reading and Reminiscing: Benefits of Parent-Preschooler Interactions for Children’s Developing Language, Behavioural Regulation, and Socio-Emotional Competencies
Given the importance of the preschool years in the development of children’s language, behavioural regulation and socio-emotional competencies, the purpose of this thesis was to empirically examine relations between ... -
The long and the short of it? An explanation of the spacing effect over long time scales
The spacing effect is the observation that repetitions spaced out in time produce better learning and retention than repetitions massed closer together in time. There has been a long history of research on the spacing ... -
Travelling towards 2050: Climate change, storytelling and the future of travel
Climate change is a serious threat that is expected to have grave consequences for humans and ecosystems. Current travel (both daily commuting and holiday tourism) is a significant contributor to climate change. Therefore, ... -
A Mechanism for Attending to 'Unusual' Object Properties, and its Role in a Model of Object Categorization
Categorization is one of the most fundamental aspects of human cognition. From soon after birth, humans form categories based on most of our sensory inputs. Stevan Harnad (2005) famously said, “To cognize is to categorize: ... -
An investigation into the meat processing waste biorefinery: design, integration and optimisation
In recognition of the possibility of utilising biomass waste streams as sustainable carbon resources and thus reduce society’s dependence on non-renewable carbon sources, the application of the biorefinery concept has been ... -
Ngā tapuwae o te haka - Māori perspectives on haka in sport
The most prominent element of tikanga Māori which is consistently integrated, adopted and adapted into the sporting realm is haka. Haka has a multitude of meanings, as a ritual of encounter, as an expression of identity ... -
Numerical scalar curvature deformation and a gluing construction
In this work a new numerical technique to prepare Cauchy data for the initial value problem (IVP) formulation of Einstein's field equations (EFE) is presented. Our method is directly inspired by the exterior asymptotic ... -
Redox Polymers for Bulk Gel Actuators
The objective of this study is to make an electroactive, relatively fast (moderate speed), durable, and self-contained polymer gel actuator at the centimetre scale using redox polymers. There are many prototype electric ... -
Estimating the Technical Potential of Residential Demand Response in New Zealand: A Summary of Results
This report was prepared by researchers at the University of Otago as part of the GREEN Grid project funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The report summarises our order-of-magnitude estimates of ... -
Valuation as destruction? The social effects of valuation processes in contested marine spaces
Valuation encompasses far more than the practice of estimating the financial value of environmental services and changes. It extends to almost any socio-political process in which local actors seek to shape the development ... -
Pacific university graduates in New Zealand: what helps and hinders completion
Increasing the numbers of Pacific Island students who graduate from New Zealand universities is important for the students’ futures, their families, communities and society in general. In this study, Pacific graduates (N ... -
The role of pelvis-thorax coupling in controlling within-golf club swing speed
Pelvis-thorax coordination has been recognised to be associated with swing speed. Increasing angular separation between the pelvis and thorax has been thought to initiate the stretch shortening cycle and lead to a more ... -
Using performance data to identify styles of play in netball: An alternative to performance indicators
The advent of sports technology has led to large, high-dimensional, performance data sets, which pose decision-making challenges for coaches and performance analysts. If large data sets are managed poorly inaccurate and ...