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A Seismic Investigation into the Thermal and Physical Properties of the Hydrate Bearing Pukeroro Ridge, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
Understanding the subsurface dynamics of the world’s oceans has become more important over time due to current climate issues, hazard evaluations and an ever-decreasing abundance of resources. Fluid and heat flow processes ... -
Associations between intuitive eating, food patterns, mindfulness, experiential avoidance, and BMI : a random population study of New Zealand women
Background: Given the high prevalence of obesity and the poor long- term success of traditional weight loss treatments, non-dieting approaches are attracting increasing attention. Recent studies have shown that a number ... -
Studies to improve consumer hedonic measures : a comparison of hedonic measurement techniques and the development of a method to evoke consumption contexts in a laboratory test setting
Studies one through three used a between groups design. However this design did not permit an understanding of how different evoked context influenced the same group of consumers. Hence in the fourth study, a counterbalanced, ... -
Tectonic Geodesy: An Analysis of the Crustal Deformation of the Western Sundaland Plate from Nearly Two Decades of continuous GPS Measurements
The Sundaland plate (hereinafter, Sunda plate) is located in a tectonically active region where the Eurasia, India-Australia, Yangtze, Burma, Molucca Sea, Banda Sea, and Timor plates converge and share common boundaries. ... -
The Effect of Anxiety on Religious Cognition
Religion is a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon that ordinarily involves shared belief in supernatural beings. Psychological perspectives on religion have tended to include either motivational biases (e.g., beliefs mitigate ... -
Task Scheduling in Data Stream Processing Systems
In the era of big data, with streaming applications such as social media, surveillance monitoring and real-time search generating large volumes of data, efficient Data Stream Processing Systems (DSPSs) have become essential. ... -
Frequency Tuning of Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators with Planar Dielectric Substrates
In this work we investigate the proposed relationship between planar dielectric substrates of increasing refractive index, and their effect on the frequency of a resonant mode confined in a whispering gallery mode resonator. ... -
Screening and Phenomic Characterization of Heavy Metal Pollution Resistance in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
Heavy metals are naturally occurring elements originating from the Earth’s crust, but through natural processes and anthropogenic activities they can be released into the soil where they can affect plant life. Some heavy ... -
Interaction between limbic circuits and basal ganglia in behaviour inhibition
Changing behaviour in response to changing internal and external situations is crucial for survival. In particular, we need to inhibit ongoing, unwanted or inappropriate behaviour. Behavioural inhibition includes inhibition ... -
Applications of α-Oxygenated Cyclopropanes in Organic Methodology
Chapter one firstly details the bonding and reactivity of cyclopropanes, and highlights these aspects in prior literature work. Furthermore the literature syntheses for the 1,3-oxazinone heterocycles, and how cyclopropanes ... -
Using Esri Story Map ArcGIS to Support Community-led Natural Resource Managment
This thesis investigates a potential platform for communities and environmental management groups to compile and communicate their environmental data. With natural resource management shifting from government-led to ... -
An alternative intervention for Bulimia
People with bulimia present with a variety of abnormal beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours. With few exceptions, studies to date have focused exclusively on the specific psychopathology of bulimia. This controlled study ... -
National Sport Organisation Responses to Independent Reviews
Sustained government involvement in sport over the past 30 years has modified the sporting landscape, bringing increasing emphasis on accountability and results. Accordingly, National Sport Organisations (NSOs) or central ... -
Kiwifruit Effects on Starch Digestion by Salivary Amylase under Simulated Gastric Conditions
Background Postprandial hyperglycaemia is a risk factor for diabetes and its complications, and it is influenced by the rate of carbohydrate digestion and absorption. Human salivary amylase (HSA) initiates starch digestion ... -
Convolutional Neural Networks for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation
This thesis focuses on the problem of medical image segmentation using convolutional neural networks (CNN) with a particular focus on solving the issues that arise in boundary regions and high-frequency areas using different ... -
The relative importance of pelagic and benthic primary production for Austrovenus stutchburyi in Blueskin Bay in the South Island, New Zealand
Bivalves are commercially and ecologically important in estuarine ecosystem. Austrovenus stutchburyi is a dominant bivalve species in the Blueskin Bay inlet, New Zealand, and has been considered as culturally, commercially ... -
Put Your Smartphone Down: Preliminary Evidence that Reducing Smartphone Use Improves Psychological Well-being in People with Poor Mental Health
Smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives. Although there is evidence that there are positive aspects to smartphone use, overuse has also been shown to lead to poorer mental health. Surprisingly, there ... -
Optical Sensitivities of Three Flow-through Porous Plasmonic Sensors
The research studies presented in this thesis include analysing the sensitivity of three different plasmonic substrates with arrays of open-ended nanometric holes. The first plasmonic nanohole array based sensor consisted ... -
Purification and characterization of β-galactosidase from Lactobacillus leichmannii 313
β-galactosidase (β-D-galactoside galactohydrolase; EC 3.2.1.23) is usually used for producing lactose-free milk, and converting lactose to the prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS). In this study, Lactobacillus leichmannii ... -
Short term impacts of physical instream restoration works on the invertebrate community in Waituna Creek, measured by Surber and kick-net sampling methods.
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 ...