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Laborastories: Creative Assessment for NCEA Science
The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is the main form of assessment used in New Zealand secondary schools. This system promotes fragmentation of knowledge and does not align with the values of the ... -
Direct and Mediated Relationships of Schizotypy with Suicidal Anticipation and Dread
Common and severe mental disorders, including those on the schizophrenia spectrum, are associated with an elevated risk for suicide. There is also strong evidence that suicide is associated with risk for mental disorder. ... -
Meta-ecosystem approach to ecotones. Methods and applications
Ecotones are landscape features that intervene between adjoining ecosystems. They have attracted attention for their potential role in regulating the exchanges between communities, and thus their potential influence on ... -
A Comparative Study of Electricity Demand Forecasting Models for Residential Hot Water at the Individual Household Level
Understanding short term future electricity demand is necessary for maintaining a robust and efficient electricity grid. Research on electricity demand forecasting has traditionally ranged in scale from country-wide ... -
Involvement of the Prelimbic cortex and Nucleus accumbens in the interaction between attention and motivation
Schizophrenia is a major neurodevelopmental disorder that affects approximately 1% of the population. In New Zealand this means that around 30,000-45,000 individuals are affected (Murray, 1996). Individuals diagnosed with ... -
Ecology of community: Exploring principles of socially-based tenure in urban papakāinga and cohousing communities
Social (or communal) tenure refers to systems of rights which are based on social norms, processes and relationships. Social tenures are a feature of many Indigenous cultures, where land and resources are managed from a ... -
Aspects of the ecology of Tupeia antarctica and its conservation management
Mistletoes, a functional group of aerial stem hemiparasites, are considered to be keystone species in many ecosystems worldwide. Unfortunately, they have received little attention relative to their diversity, distribution ... -
Intrinsic contributions to the anomalous Hall conductivity in multiband chiral superconductors
The anomalous Hall conductivity is a material property that can quantify time-reversal symmetry breaking in bulk materials. It is closely related to the polar Kerr effect, which is used as an experimental probe of such ... -
‘Bring me a shrubbery’: Assessing the habitat preference of mammalian predators in the urban green spaces of New Zealand cities
Within cities, areas of green space, such as patches of forest, play a vital role as habitat for wildlife, and can be especially important for supporting native biodiversity. As such, urban restoration efforts often aim ... -
Investigation of the Genes sll1354, sll1165, and sll1520 in Genomic Instability in Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
The model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is used extensively in the studies of oxygenic photosynthesis as well as genetic engineering. The ability to incorporate exogenous DNA into its genome through homologous ... -
Size, Shape, Scope and Strength of skeletons, Evechinus chloroticus, New Zealand
Ocean acidification will affect calcifying organisms as calcium carbonate saturation levels decrease due to climate change. Echinoids are important components of the coastal ecosystem and use magnesium in their skeletal ... -
Learning Gene Interactions and Networks from Perturbation Screens and Expression Data
We investigate a variety of methods to first discover and then understand genetic interactions. Beginning with pairwise interactions, we propose a method for inferring pairwise gene interactions en masse from short- ... -
Theory of Microwave to Optical Photon Upconversion Using Erbium Doped Crystals
The subject of this thesis is coherent conversion from microwave photons to optical photons. This has applications for quantum computing, and would allow interfacing between superconducting qubits and optical fibres. ... -
Arachnid ecology in New Zealand, exploring unknown and poorly understood factors.
Spiders (Araneae) are an important ecological component of most terrestrial ecosystems. Comparatively, New Zealand spider ecology is poorly understood, particularly with regards to how spiders have been affected by the ... -
Memory function in borderline personality disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric condition that involves impairment in multiple areas of psychological functioning including disturbed cognition, impulsivity, and intense unstable relationships. ... -
Biomimetic leg design and passive dynamics of Dolomedes aquaticus
Spiders provide working models for agile, efficient miniature passive-dynamic robots. Joints are extended by haemoplymph (hydraulic) pressure and flexed by muscle-tendon systems. Muscle contraction in the prosoma leads to ... -
Trophic structure through the history of exploitation in New Zealand fish communities
Marine ecosystems have been under a considerable amount of stress due to human activities, especially after industrialization. The abundance and ecological interactions of exploited fishes are influenced by fishing ... -
“The Key for Giving Out Our Life Story”: Explorations of Longitudinal Research Participants’ Constructions of the Data-Sharing Debate
Sharing the data upon which scientific findings are based has been gaining traction in social science research. Current literature suggests that while data-sharing policies should be tailored to suit the populations they ... -
Effect of pulsed electric fields on potato chips processing
This thesis aims to investigate how pulsed electric fields (PEF) at low field strength (E < 1.5 kV/cm) influences potato processing. The impact of PEF and potato cultivars on the colour development during frying of potato ... -
An empirical test of the minimalism theory of theory of mind development
Introduction. The Minimalist account of theory of mind (ToM) development contends that ToM develops through exposure to repeated behaviours and, later, mental state utterances. Patterns in these actions and utterances are ...