• Preparing for a sustained volcanic degassing episode in Auckland 

  Stewart C; Smid E; Charlton D; Leonard G; Tomasek I; Wilson T; Talbot N (GNS Science, 2019)

• Using portable electronic devices as part of a functional behavioural assessment-informed intervention for children on the autism spectrum with sleep disturbance. 

  Shepherd, Elizabeth (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Sleep disturbances represent a significant problem for many children on the autism spectrum and their families. Without intervention these sleep problems are unlikely to resolve and have been associated with a wide range ...

• Quasi-random ranked set sampling 

  Robertson BL; Reale M; Price CJ; Brown JA (Elsevier BV, 2021)

  This article presents a quasi-random ranked set sampling approach based on the Halton sequence for natural resource surveys. A design-based variance estimator for the sample mean is also presented.

• Establishing a baseline : the macroinvertebrate community composition and food web structure of South Island alpine tarns in New Zealand. 

  Barclay, Alexandra R. (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Alpine tarns are sentinel ecosystems for global climate change because they are subjected to harsh conditions induced by surrounding ice and snow and are dominated by cold stenotherm communities which are often of unique ...

• The role of negative density dependence in shaping species distributions in Tropical Afromontane Forest. 

  Abiem, Iveren (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Understanding species distributions and coexistence has been a major focus in the study of ecology. Tree species distributions and diversity maintenance is a function of multiple mechanisms, which continue to receive ...

• The Galactic bulge morphology : with applications to the Fermi GeV excess. 

  Coleman, Phaedra (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  The current generation of near-infrared imaging of the Milky Way with photometric catalogues enables us to see further into the structure of the inner galaxy. With recent deep photometric catalogues extracted out of data ...

• Conflict between intergenerational family farmers and environmental planning processes : an “economic versus environment” proposition or different ways of knowing? 

  Weastell, Lynda (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Since European settlement, farming has shaped New Zealand economically, socially and environmentally, often in commodity ‘boom and bust’ cycles with significant environmental impacts. Parliamentary Commissioner for the ...

• Impacts of skill training on swallowing and quality of life in patients with motor neurone disease 

  Thomas, Paige Aliesha Lovett (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Motor neurone disease (MND) is a neurodegenerative disease with reported incidence between 1.68 and 2.08 per 100,000 (A Chio et al., 2013; Marin et al., 2017) and prevalence of 5.40 per 100,000 (A Chio et al., 2013). The ...

• The foods of insectivorous birds at Kowhai Bush, Kaikoura 

  De Hamel, Richard J. B. (University of Canterbury, 1989)

  2 ABSTRACT This study was designed to test a new method for researching the foods of passerine birds. The study site was located at Kowhai Bush, near Kaikoura, and consisted of successional Kanuka forest with little ...

• Temporal drivers of disaster risk and resilience in rural New Zealand. 

  Fraser, Becca (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Aotearoa-New Zealand’s rural communities are an essential part of the nation’s economy, society and culture. They face challenges to their resilience including impacts of hazards like drought and earthquakes, alongside the ...

• Long-term analysis of sea ice drift in the western Ross sea, Antarctica, at high and low spatial resolution 

  Farooq U; Rack W; McDonald A; Howell S (MDPI AG, 2020)

  © 2020 by the authors. The Ross Sea region, including three main polynya areas in McMurdo Sound, Terra Nova Bay, and in front of the Ross Ice Shelf, has experienced a significant increase in sea ice extent in the first ...

• Updated inventory of glacier ice in New Zealand based on 2016 satellite imagery 

  Baumann S; Anderson B; Chinn T; Mackintosh A; Collier C; Lorrey AM; Rack W; Purdie H; Eaves S (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020)

  The only complete inventory of New Zealand glaciers was based on aerial photography starting in 1978. While there have been partial updates using 2002 and 2009 satellite data, most glaciers are still represented by the ...

• A country comparison of place-based activity response to COVID-19 policies 

  McKenzie G; Adams B (2020)

  The emergence of the novel Coronavirus Disease in late 2019 (COVID-19) and subsequent pandemic led to an immense disruption in the daily lives of almost everyone on the planet. Faced with the consequences of inaction, ...

• The impacts of a community-based health education and nutritional support program on birth outcomes among migrant workers in maesot, thailand: A retrospective review 

  Blue WJ; Derrick D; Blue CL (2020)

  Since 2014, The Charis Project and later Shade Tree Foundation have been conducting community-based interventions focusing on nutritional support and education for pregnant and nursing mothers to alleviate immediate human ...

• Selling just preservation 

  Danielson S; Vonasch A (Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy, 2020)

  Treves et al. argue for better representation of voiceless groups in current policy decisions. We agree with the argument but believe it will be challenging to convince enough people of its importance to change policy — ...

• Non-spatial paired-associate memory function and anterior thalamic contribution 

  Hamilton, Jennifer J. (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  The anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN) are a central node in a complex ‘hippocampal-diencephalic-cingulate’ memory system. The integrity of the anterior thalamic nuclei is linked with severe amnesia in the Korsakoff’s syndrome, ...

• Dispersion in natural channels 

  Day, Terry J. (University of Canterbury, 1974)

  This thesis, concerning the longitudinal dispersion of fluid part­ icles in natural river channels, was prompted by the discrepancies associated with the Fickian analogy. Its primary focus is the compre­ hensive definition ...

• Cellulases of Thermoascus aurantiacus 

  Tong, Chow Chin (University of Canterbury, 1979)

  A β-glucosidase and three celulolytic enzymes designated as cellulase I, II and III have been purified from culture filtrates of Thermoascus aurantiacus. The enzymes were homogeneous in disc-gel electrophoresis. Data ...

• Covalent carbon surface modification with iron porphyrin : application to oxygen reduction reaction. 

  Wu, Ting (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This thesis describes the strategies used to covalently immobilize iron porphyrin on carbon surfaces and attempts to improve its oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalytic performance in aqueous acid media. In order to ...

• A commons perspective on urban informal settlements : a study of Kallyanpur slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

  Waliuzzaman, S M (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This research aims to reimagine urban informal settlements beyond the existing hegemonic understanding of slums, currently imagined through the tropes of ‘dysfunction’ and ‘disorder’. Contemporary writing about slums mostly ...

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