• Unravelling the mysteries of the milk protein β-lactoglobulin 

  Crowther, Jennifer (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  The over-arching aim of this thesis is to characterise and compare the biophysical and physicochemical properties of the bovine and caprine orthologues of β-lactoglobulin (βlg). This knowledge is vital to understand the ...

• Light and shade: modelling the growth of Tradescantia fluminensis 

  Plank M; James A; Kelly D; Lamoureaux S; Bourdôt G (2017)

• Fabrication of polymeric substrates with micro- and nanoscale topography bioimprinted at progressive cell morphologies 

  Murray LM; Nock V; Alkaisi MM; Lee JJM; Woodfield TBF (A V S AMER INST PHYSICS, 2012)

  This work introduces a novel process for the fabrication of polymer cell culture substrates containing physical topography based on timepoint specific cell phenotype replicas. Bioimprinting of human nasal chondrocyte at ...

• Spatial variability of low permeability fault rock and its implications for fault seal, North Taranaki, New Zealand. 

  Winter, Henry (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  A number of factors can influence the hydraulic behaviour of faults including, the rheology and permeability of host and fault rock as well as bulk stress conditions, structural anisotropy, differences in pressure across ...

• Identifying functional adaptations associated with pathogenicity in bacteria. 

  Wheeler, Nicole E. (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Next generation sequencing technologies have provided us with a wealth of information on genetic variation, but predicting the functional significance of this variation is a difficult task. This thesis summarises the ...

• Numerical Study of Flow and Pedestrian Level Wind Comfort Inside Uniform and Non-Uniform Street Canyons with Different Street Width to Building Height Aspect Ratios 

  Pancholy PP; Clemens K; Geoghegan P; Jermy M; Moyers-Gonzalez M; Wilson PL (2017)

  The aim of this study is to provide input into knowledge-based expert systems by providing mean wind speed at the entire pedestrian level street width. The air flow around an individual building is complex. Around two ...

• Marginalization in nonlinear mixed-effects models with an application to dose-response analysis 

  Gerhard D; Ritz C (2017)

  Inference in hierarchical nonlinear models needs careful consideration about targeting parameters that have either a conditional or population-average interpretation. For the special case of mixed-effects nonlinear sigmoidal ...

• Effect of exercising at minimum recommendations of the multiple sclerosis exercise guideline combined with structured education or attention control education - secondary results of the step it up randomised controlled trial 

  Coote S; Uszynski M; Herring MP; Hayes S; Scarrott C; Newell J; Gallagher S; Larkin A; Motl RW (2017)

  Recent exercise guidelines for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) recommend a minimum of 30 min moderate intensity aerobic exercise and resistance exercise twice per week. This trial compared the secondary outcomes of a ...

• Caregiver burden is increased in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) 

  Jones AJ; Kuijer RG; Livingston L; Myall D; Horne K; MacAskill M; Pitcher T; Barrett PT; Anderson TJ; Dalrymple-Alford JC (2017)

  There is limited evidence on caregiver outcomes associated with mild cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD-MCI) and the coping strategies used by these caregivers.To investigate this relationship, ...

• Exploring appropriate approaches for returning research findings to communities in Ndola, Zambia 

  Chitondo, Mando (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Many scientific research projects carried out in developing countries gather data and fail to return any summary of the findings to the community that provided the data. Residents from communities experiencing water issues ...

• Apparent cosmic acceleration from type Ia supernovae 

  Dam LH; Heinesen A; Wiltshire DL (2017)

  Parameters that quantify the acceleration of cosmic expansion are conventionally determined within the standard Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model, which fixes spatial curvature to be homogeneous. ...

• Does a species' extinction-proneness predict its contribution to nestedness? A test using a sunbird-tree visitation network 

  Nsor CA; Chapman HM; Godsoe W (2017)

  Animal pollinators and the plants they pollinate depend on networks of mutualistic partnerships and more broadly on the stability of such networks. Based mainly on insect-plant visitation networks, theory predicts that ...

• Accumulation of trace elements in sediment and biota in the Wouri Estuary, Douala, Cameroon. 

  Gemuh, Hosea Aghogah (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  The Wouri Estuary on Cameroon’s Atlantic Coast is located adjacent to the Douala metropolitan area. Three rivers (Wouri, Dibamba, and Mungo) discharge into the Wouri Estuary. Seventy percent of the industries (soap, brewery, ...

• Long term effects of benzylpiperazine and possible amelioration by environmental enrichment 

  Dixon, Ellen (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Adolescents have a proclivity for risk taking and novelty seeking which can lead to BZP use and this can be damaging to the maturing brain. BZP is commonly consumed within party pills alongside TFMPP for its amphetamine ...

• Effect of open student models on self-assessment, problem selection and learning 

  Ahmadi, Mohammad (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Student modeler, as the central component of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), has been formed to assist in systems’ decision making for students’ learning. The ITS can adapt its pedagogical actions to provide personalized ...

• Establishing Failure Indicators for Conventional On-site Wastewater Treatment Systems 

  Prince, Preston Junior (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Conventional On-site Wastewater Treatment Systems (COWTS) are systems used for the treatment of domestic wastewater. These systems comprise of a septic tank that provides primary and secondary treatment in which solids are ...

• Dimension hopping and families of strictly positive definite zonal basis functions on spheres 

  Beatson RK; zu Castell W (2017)

  Positive definite functions of compact support are widely used for radial basis function approximation as well as for estimation of spatial processes in geostatistics. Several constructions of such functions for Rd ...

• An Earth-mass planet in a 1-au orbit around an ultracool dwarf 

  Shvartzvald Y; Yee JC; Novati SC; Gould A; Lee CU; Beichman C; Bryden G; Carey S; Gaudi BS; Henderson CB; Zhu W; Albrow MD; Cha SM; Chung SJ; Han C; Hwang KH; Jung YK; Kim DJ; Kim HW; Kim SL; Lee Y; Park BG; Pogge RW; Ryu YH; Shin IG (2017)

• Shake and wake: investigating how earthquakes trigger volcanic activity by shaking bubbles in viscoelastic fluids as an analogue for magma chambers during earthquakes 

  Higginbotham, Kaylon (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Shaking bubbles within a viscoelastic magma analogue material provides insight into how seismic shaking affects magma bodies. Volcanic eruptions connected to earthquakes have been recorded since the 19th Century and have ...

• Effects of the Terminal Regions on Rubisco Activase Form and Function 

  Finnis, William (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Rubisco is the sole enzyme responsible for the incorporation of CO2 into sugar molecules useable by all life on earth. In the vast majority of discovered autotrophic organisms their respective rubisco has been accompanied ...

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