Faculty of Science | Te Kaupeka Pūtaiao: Recent submissions
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Commercial wildlife viewing tourism in the South Island : a comparative analysis
(1993)This thesis explores the planning and management of commercial wildlife viewing tourism. A conceptual framework was developed to aid the understanding of both the supply and demand perspectives of wildlife viewing. The ... -
From the umu to the oven : emancipation for the women of the Cook Islands?
(1993)This thesis is based on the life histories of forty women from the Cook Islands. The aim is to make the experiences of these women visible. It recognises the concerns of feminist geography and therefore challenges the ... -
Tourism "off the beaten track" : alternative tourism as an appropriate form of tourism in Fiji
(1992)Mass tourism has become an integral component within the economies of most countries as nations realise the earning potential of this worldwide industry. In countries of the Third World, however, tourism has not proved ... -
An exploration of naturalistic psychedelic use
(2022)Aims: To better understand the long-term effects of naturalistic psychedelic use and the factors that influence them. Method: A mixed methods study consisting of an online survey (N = 603) and follow-up semi- structured ... -
Negative priming of novel shapes in younger and older adults : effects of time lags, stimulus repetition and stimulus luminosity
(2000)Three experiments explored the effects of age, stimulus salience, stimulus luminosity, time lags, and stimulus repetition on negative priming (NP) using unfamiliar novel shapes. No differences in NP were observed between ... -
Tectonics, sedimentary facies development and maturity modelling in the Great South and Taranaki Basins, New Zealand
(2022)This thesis primarily investigates the regional evolution of rift faulting, sedimentary facies development and petroleum systems in the Great South Basin (GSB), together with a detailed study of coaly source rocks in the ... -
Mind(sets) over machine? The influence of implicit self-theories in human-robot interaction.
(2022)Implicit self-theory asserts that an individual’s underlying beliefs about whether self-attributes (e.g., personality and intelligence) are fixed (entity theory) or mutable (incremental theory) causally affect motivation ... -
The role of the government in the development of the New Zealand tourist industry, 1901-1979
(1979)This thesis examines the role of the Government in the development of the New Zealand tourist industry since 1901. It examines the tourist policies of successive New Zealand Governments and accounts for the factors which ... -
Diffusion tensor imaging and resting-state functional MRI-scanning in 5- and 6-year-old children: Training protocol and motion assessment
(PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2014)Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and resting-state functional MRI (rfMRI) are widely used to study structural and functional neural connectivity. However, as these ... -
Brain activation during non-habitual speech production: Revisiting the effects of simulated disfluencies in fluent speakers
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)Over the past decades, brain imaging studies in fluently speaking participants have greatly advanced our knowledge of the brain areas involved in speech production. In addition, complementary information has been provided ... -
Chiton pelliserpentis (Mollusca : Amphineura) : a study in the taxonomy of a species in relation to its breeding, biology and ecology.
(1960)The topic of this thesis was originally to be a comparison between the ecology of three species of chitons. As the study progressed, however, it became increasingly evident that it could be profitably confined to one ... -
Effects of urban shade on plant-pollinator interactions of several common vegetables and flowers
(2022)Introduction. The use of small spaces in cities for the planting of crops is called "urban agriculture". In urban areas far from farms, using urban leftover areas, crops or vegetables may be a complementary option to ... -
Differences and ratios in free and learned non-symbolic perceptual comparisons
(2022)How are comparisons of magnitude achieved by the perceptual system? The most common approach to answering this question has typically centred on explicit numeric estimation of differences or ratios of various continuous ... -
Tourist development at Mount Cook : patterns and processes since 1884
(1972)To elucidate some of the principles of tourism, the patterns and processes of tourist development at Mount Cook since 1884 are examined. The history of tourist development at Mount Cook falls into five distinct periods. ... -
Part-time farming in the Christchurch rural-urban fringe
(1974)This thesis examines the structure and development of part-time farming in part of the Christchurch rural-urban fringe. Due to a lack of published data, information was obtained from a questionnaire survey of 95 randomly ... -
'Boy racer', an ambiguous label : working towards a better understanding and a new managerial strategy
(2003)In New Zealand, so-called 'boy racers' and their associated activities have been subject to much media coverage and the focus of much discussion within public fora over recent years. Many community groups consider 'boy ... -
'We run the ice' : a critical geopolitical gaze on New Zealand's relationship with the Ross Sea region, Antarctica
(2003)From a past supporting British exploration and the eventual annexation of the Ross Dependency in 1923 (with claim issues set aside by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty), New Zealand's governmental interests in the Antarctic are ... -
Understanding creativity through a qualitative appraisal of post-modern art making
(1994)Creativity is a pervasive and somewhat revered activity that continues to evade adequate psychological explanation. It is argued here that the failure to adequately account for creativity is due to two things. Firstly, ... -
The development of the voluntary sector in Canterbury, New Zealand
(2000)This thesis examines the development of the voluntary sector in Canterbury, New Zealand over the last few decades and the way in which the location and types of voluntary welfare organisations in this region have changed ... -
A comparative study of time-series forecasting applied to stock market price
(2000)This thesis is a comparative study on forecasting New Zealand stock market daily closing prices by treating them as a time series. The methods used here are Box and Jenkins autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) ...