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Retail Potential for Upcycled Foods: Evidence from New Zealand
Food waste is a problem that manifests throughout the food supply chain. A promising solution that can mitigate the food waste problem across various stages of the food supply chain is upcycling food ingredients that would ... -
Tracing the lines of race & health online: A mixed-methods exploration of the African-American HIV/AIDS movement on Twitter
Although accounting for 13 percent of the American population, in 2017, African-Americans made up over 42 percent of people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA) in the United States. In addition to the highest prevalence, ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Emotion Recognition: Young Versus Older Adults Across Gender and Cultures
The purpose of this research was to investigate emotion recognition in adults across age, gender and culture. Using the six basic emotions of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise as stimuli, the aim is ... -
Two approaches for fostering self-regulatory competencies in home-based early childhood education and care: exploring benefits for children’s developing self-regulatory and socio-emotional competencies through the transition to school
Home-based early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a unique early childhood environment in which learning can take place to foster skills important for early school adjustment. The present studies examined the impact ... -
Does Size Matter? Using Osteology and Ancient DNA to Reconstruct Extinct Diversity in Duvaucel’s Gecko
The dynamic geology and climate of the New Zealand archipelago has had pronounced effects on the evolution of its endemic flora and fauna. However, contemporary biodiversity is depauperate, with previous studies revealing ... -
Nematic spin vortices in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates
Spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates present a wealth of physics, owing to the spin and superfluid order they possess. In this work, we consider spin-1 condensates with antiferromagnetic interactions, which favor the formation ... -
Consumer Acceptance of Novel Technologies Designed to Control Foodborne Bacteria in China and New Zealand
Foodborne bacteria, such as Listeria monocytogenes, are a heavy burden on human health and the world economy. To better protect consumers from foodborne bacteria while improving food quality, several novel technologies ... -
Micropatterned Aluminium Surfaces for Anti-icing and Anti-frosting Applications
Developing anti-icing and anti-frosting technology is vital for many different energy generation and consumption systems such as wind turbines, aircraft and heat exchangers, where ice and frost formation is a barrier for ... -
Intrinsic reward driven exploration for deep reinforcement learning
Deep reinforcement learning has become one of the hottest research topics in machine learning. In reinforcement learning, agents interact with the environment and try to maximise the expected cumulative reward. The goal ... -
A comparison of site occupancy and morphology between Litoria raniformis in Central Otago, New Zealand and Victoria, Australia
Many amphibian species across the globe are at high risk of extinction. Alien species, overexploitation, land-use change, climate change, chemicals, and infectious diseases are all having devastating effects on amphibians. ... -
Iodine intakes and main food sources in New Zealand adolescent males
Background: The New Zealand population is susceptible to iodine deficiency due to low iodine levels in the soil. In response to this, two fortification strategies exist; iodisation of table salt which began in 1924, and ... -
Data Selection Strategies for Bayesian Analysis with Filtering of Genetic Data
The aim of this thesis is to look into data selection strategies for selecting data to be used for Bayesian analysis of genotyping by sequencing (GBS) data. Each selection of data leads to a different distribution on the ... -
Calcium intakes of New Zealand male and female adolescents
Background: Calcium requirements during adolescence are high due to rapid skeletal growth throughout this key life stage. Increased peak bone mass has been found to decrease risk of osteoporosis in later life. Peak bone ... -
Under Surveillance: Does Global Positioning System (GPS) Monitoring of Offenders Really Work and What Does the Dynamic Risk Assessment Offender Re-Entry (DRAOR) Really Tell Us?
Appropriate supervision and risk assessments are critical in offender management, but require effective tools and accurate risk assessments to guide decisions and interventions appropriately. This research sought to ... -
Dietary Fat Intake and Contributing Food Sources of New Zealand Adolescents: Summarising a Decade
Background: Dietary fat is an essential macronutrient to support rapid growth and development during adolescence, in addition to maintaining numerous metabolic and physiological roles. However, adolescents are vulnerable ... -
Dietary calcium intakes and major contributing food sources of adolescent males in New Zealand
Background: Calcium plays an important role in optimising bone health. Sufficient intakes are especially important during periods of growth and development, to ensure the attainment of peak bone mass- a strong predictor ... -
The Cascade Rock Avalanche: Structure and deformation in a catastrophic rock avalanche
Catastrophic rock avalanches involving large volumes of bedrock are primary drivers of surface erosion in mountainous landscapes and pose a considerable threat to both human life and infrastructure. These events typically ... -
Associations Between Physical Activity and Fruit and Vegetable consumption in Female Adolescents in New Zealand
Background: Inadequate physical activity and low fruit and vegetable consumption are arguably the greatest modifiable risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in adolescents. Physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable ... -
Dietary habits between New Zealand adolescent males and females
Background: Dietary habits develop in adolescence, and these can continue into adulthood, as does obesity, increasing the risk of non-communicable disease. The dietary habits of fruit, vegetable, breakfast and sugar-sweetened ... -
Dietary habits in relation to breakfast consumption among adolescent males in New Zealand
Background: Adolescence is a vulnerable period of life whereby dietary habits are still being formed. These habits include regular breakfast consumption, which has been linked to several health benefits, including a lower ...