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Signs of higher life : a cultural history of domestic interiors in New Zealand, c.1814-1914
This thesis represents the most comprehensive analysis of nineteenth century New Zealand domestic interiors produced to date. While anthropologists have acknowledged the special significance of the house in domesticated ... -
The effects of vegetation removal on rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and small mammalian predators in braided riverbeds of the Mackenzie Basin
[Executive Summary] (…) Predation by cats, ferrets and stoats (Mustela erminea) has been identified as a major threat to several species of birds which nest in open riverbed areas of the Mackenzie Basin, South Canterbury, ... -
Ecampaigning
This thesis is an attempt to answer the following question: How can the Internet be used to win political campaigns? Most political campaigns use the Internet, with email lists and web sites, but there appears to be ... -
Negotiating health: perspectives from Pacific women in Dunedin
This thesis explores the relationship between Pacific women, their critiques concerning identity and health and how they manifest these concepts among themselves and their wider Pacific and New Zealand communities. This ... -
Liveability : residents and the built environment in Auckland's intensified CBD
Residential intensification is currently a popular policy in cities around the world and has been the subject of much observation and theorising. Thus far, the more common justification for intensification strategies has ... -
Competing discourses? : constructing rural poverty in New Zealand
This thesis examines how rurality, poverty and the shared notion of rural poverty are discursively constructed in contemporary New Zealand. To do this, an investigation of the different ways in which these concepts are ... -
Diet, distribution, and density of fallow deer (Dama dama) in the Caples Valley, Otago, New Zealand: implications for future management
Fallow deer (Dama dama, L.) were introduced into the Wakatipu area in c.1887 and quickly spread throughout the Greenstone and Caples Valleys. By 1937 periodic culling of animals was undertaken to control numbers. Recreational ... -
Atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in Dunedin
Patterns of cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, zinc, and lead deposition from the atmosphere are measured over a twelve month period in Dunedin. These patterns are related to landuse, topography, and seasonal weather. The ... -
Aspects of mammalian predator ecology co-inhabiting giant skink habitat
The utilisation of habitats and the diet of feral cats and ferrets was studied in an area co-inhabited by giant skinks in the Middlemarch-Macraes Flat region of Central Otago, New Zealand. Home range and habitat utilisation ... -
Experimental addition of Onthophagus binodis and Geotrupes spiniger to pasture ecosystems in New Zealand and an investigation of affected biotic and abiotic soil factors.
New Zealand has a serious environmental pollution problem caused by intensive farming, and a lack of co-evolved dung beetle species to clean up the waste produced by these introduced herbivores. Our endemic dung beetles ... -
Social Networking of the Otago Skink (Oligosoma otagense) at Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary
The social behaviour of New Zealand’s native lizards is poorly understood. This study explores the social behaviour of the Otago skink (Oligosoma otagense), one of New Zealand’s largest-bodied and rarest species of lizards. ... -
Does the mode of heat acclimation affect the kinetics of adaptation?
Background: Heat acclimation can improve exercise performance in the heat, cardiovascular function and longevity in the general population. However, the most effective method of acclimation is unknown. Each method (i.e., ... -
Translocation management of Leiopelma archeyi (Amphibia, Anura: Leiopelmatidae) in the King country
Although conservation translocations are often recommended, they are expensive, require a long-term commitment and half of them fail. Moreover, in New Zealand, translocations have an additional cultural impact due to the ... -
A High-Resolution Chronology of Human Arrival and Environmental Impact in Northland, New Zealand
Our understanding of when Polynesian colonists first arrived in New Zealand, how the landscape was altered, and the pace of anthropogenic modification has been primarily sourced from archaeological evidence and environmental ... -
The Twilight Zone of Nucleotide Homology
Homology search tools are important for inferring homology in the abundance of genomes currently sequenced. These tools utilise sequence similarity in order to assign a score between two sequences from which homology is ... -
From glass plate to album: New Hebrides mission photographs in the album of Reverend William Veitch Milne
Mission photography and missionary photographers have been neglected in histories of the medium in New Zealand, as have photograph albums. The wealth of mission photographs held at the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New ... -
The Photograph Albums of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission to the New Hebrides
While it has been acknowledged that photographs are valuable sources for the historian, photograph albums have yet to receive the same level of critical attention. This thesis traces the social biographies of seven photograph ... -
EEG Biofeedback for Memory
The brain has an ordered structure of functional connections within brain networks, but this order becomes disrupted in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The default mode network (DMN) and its central hub, the Posterior Cingulate ... -
Exosome mRNA localisation: Directing mRNA localisation to exosomes
Exosomes are small vesicles containing proteins, miRNAs and mRNAs. Exosomes are secreted and taken up by neighbouring cells and the contents move into the recipient cell, where they are biologically active (e.g. the mRNA ... -
Behavioural, convergent and ontogenetic evidence for adaptive behavioural manipulation in mermithid infected hosts
Parasite fitness is often tied closely to host behaviour, especially when transition to a definitive host or egression in a particular environment is involved. Thus natural selection has driven many parasites to control ...