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Thesis supplementary files Laura van Galen
This deposit contains supplementary files that support my PhD thesis, titled "Nothofagus restoration and mycorrhizal ecology". -
Dunedin Energy Study 2019-20
The Dunedin Energy Study is a joint annual research project between the Dunedin City Council (DCC) and the Centre for Sustainability and the Department of Physics at the University of Otago. This study takes stock of, and ... -
The Impact of Tidal Forcing on the Oceanography of the Northern Continental Shelf of New Zealand
The northern continental shelf is a unique region of the Aotearoa New Zealand shelf seas. The shelf (< 500 m depth) features some of the largest tidal velocities in the country (> 2.0 m s-1) and despite lying adjacent to ... -
When my parents tell their stories: The investigation of vicarious memories in the family context
Stories that have not been personally experienced by children and are only told by their parents are called vicarious family stories (e.g., Pillemer et al., 2015). A burgeoning body of literature has shown that vicarious ... -
Expansion Dynamics of Vortices in Trapped Planar Bose-Einstein Condensates
Bose-Einstein condensates have been probed with expansion imaging since the first experimental realisation in 1995. Expansions of Bose-Einstein condensates have been used extensively, from thermometry, to measuring momentum ... -
Synthesis of Heterometallic Supramolecular Cages
This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 discusses supramolecular chemistry and the three main approaches towards the self-assembly of metallosupramolecular architectures. These include the symmetry interaction, ... -
Temporal Effects of Thwarted Belonging and Perceived Burden on Suicidal Ideation
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The incidence rate of suicide, particularly among young people, is still high in New Zealand. A great amount of research on suicidality has identified some risk ... -
A School-Based Intervention to Promote Positive Youth Development: A pilot experimental study
Introduction: The primary aim of Study 1 was to implement and assess a school-based positive youth development intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand. I developed the Men Fit Programme, based on other positive psychology and ... -
Spectroscopic and computational investigations of charge transfer excited states
The excited state properties of photoactive molecules govern their efficiency for a range of applications. In this thesis the excited states for a variety of compounds bearing different charge-transfer moieties were ... -
Investigating the response of the New Zealand krill Nyctiphanes australis (Euphausiacea) to stress caused by environmental change: A dynamic energy budget approach
Ocean warming and increases in ultraviolet radiation over the past century have resulted in important changes in marine planktonic coastal communities around the world, that include the reductions of primary and secondary ... -
Brain ageing, neuropsychological functioning and a potential intervention
In recent decades, the burden associated with cognitive decline and other neuropsychological changes in healthy ageing has increased significantly due to the rapid increase in population ageing. This has heightened the ... -
Phylogenetics of the D1 protein family in Cyanobacteria and the characterisation of novel D1 variants
Cyanobacteria perform oxygenic photosynthesis using the water:plastoquinone oxidoreductase Photosystem II (PS II), a catalyst responsible for water splitting. A core protein of PS II is D1 which provides the majority of ... -
Quantum simulations in atomic physics
The aim of physics is to provide a mathematical framework that underpins our understanding of the world. In the simplest cases, this provides descriptions of processes that are amenable to analytic (mathematical) investigation. ... -
Forcing Neural Networks to Behave Using Interpretability Methods
Artificial neural networks are excellent machine learning models but are often referred to as “black boxes”, meaning that the reasoning behind their decisions is obscured. The field of neural network interpretability ... -
The potential impacts of microplastic contamination of lettuce plants on human health
Plastic is a persistent pollutant. When plastic “breaks down”, its structure fragments until the plastic particles are eventually no longer visible to the naked eye. Plastic particles < 5 mm are known as microplastics. ... -
Multi-sensory fingerprints and their links to hedonic eating
The modern food environment, providing easy access to an abundant supply, is thought to be one of the key contributors to the current obesity epidemic (e.g., Chaput, Klingenberg, Astrup, & Sjödin, 2011; Ferretti, Mariani, ... -
Characterising picocyanobacterial dynamics, diversity, distribution, and potential drivers in contrasting New Zealand lakes
Picocyanobacteria are among the smallest autotrophs on the planet, forming the base of the microbial foodweb in many aquatic ecosystems, from the poles to the tropics. Freshwater picocyanobacteria play a vital role in ... -
Preliminary comparison of the energy and macronutrient intakes of young children aged 1 to 3.9 years living in areas of high compared to low household deprivation
Background: Families living with fewer resources are vulnerable to suboptimal nutrition status, which places young children, as a vulnerable population group, at considerable risk of adverse health outcomes. There have ... -
University Students’ Attitudes Towards Plant-Based Proteins and Willingness to Replace Meat with Plant-Based Proteins
Background: Research has shown that plant-based diets are associated with decreased risks of many non-communicable diseases and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Promoting plant-based diets would be expected to improve public ... -
How does belonging to a sports team effect mental wellbeing? Utilizing the Social Identity Approach in the context of a male adolescent rugby team.
In Aotearoa New Zealand mental health is a complex issue in many groups within society, perhaps none more so than adolescent males. Given a large number of adolescent males in Aotearoa New Zealand play rugby, in the current ...