• Cognitive reserve, individual alpha frequency in Parkinson’s disease 

  Xie, Tim (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Cognitive reserve (CR) may delay cognitive decline during ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. The idea has been primarily supported by studies in Alzheimer's disease (AD) where CR may maintain the cognitive abilities ...

• Re-envisioning sexuality education in Aotearoa New Zealand: thinking with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s aesthetic education to queer the field 

  Shaw, Charles Gerard (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This study situates itself in relation to on-going conversations about the future of sexuality education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is philosophical and literary in its emphasis, even as it concerns itself with policy ...

• The language, externalising and internalising outcomes of 9.5 year old children born to mothers in the Methadone Maintenance Treatment 

  Sargayoos, Monika (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Opioid dependence is an increasing global health concern, particularly among pregnant women. The Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) is considered a first-class standard treatment for pregnant opioid dependent women, as ...

• Measuring financial reporting quality: an approach based on qualitative characteristics 

  Rathnayake Mudiyanselage, Saman Bandara (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  I have developed a Financial Reporting Quality (FRQ) measurement index within the scope of the 2018 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and I used it to ...

• Multi-scale methods for deconvolution from wavefront sensing 

  Pal, Saloni (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  In this thesis, we use multi-resolutional methods to firstly show how two relatively new transforms can be used to optimise wavefront sensor performance in terms of slope representation, and secondly, we explore how higher ...

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