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A comparative study of the digital switchover process in Nigeria and New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The Digital Switchover (DSO) process was conceived at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC-06) on June 16, 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland. Digital transmission was viewed ... -
Strategic narratives : exploring the framing of EU policy in crisis : a study of strategic narratives about the European Union and migration policy projected in Hungarian media.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)In response to recent events such as Brexit, and the outcome of the 2016 US election, the European Union (EU) has worked hard to position itself as a global actor in the international system (Novotná 2017, p. 177). In some ... -
Cultural identity, hybridity and minority media : community access radio and migrants in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis analyses three Christchurch-based migrant communities – Filipino, Nepalese and Iranian – and their radio programmes on Access Radio station Plains FM. It argues that these radio programmes are participatory ... -
Coastal depositional environments of the inner Marlborough Sounds
(University of Canterbury, 1971)Increasing utilization of the Marlborough Sounds for leisure time activities has placed considerable recreational demands on a former, relatively uncrowded, coastline. However, little is known about the nature of the ... -
Ritual and transcendence in popular American apocalyptic film.
(University of Canterbury, 2001)This work will concern the treatment of the apocalypse in popular American film since 1970. The films are referred to by the generic classification "apocalyptic film", defined as any film which treats a cataclysmic event, ... -
Exploratory moral code : formalizing normative decisions using non-modal deontic logic and tiered utility.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Machine ethics has two aims. The first is to support practical engineering applications by implementing “moral competence” in robots and artificial intelligence. The second is to better understand ethics (Moor 2009, Guarini ... -
Atwood's animals : triangular identification in The edible woman, Surfacing and The blind assassin
(University of Canterbury, 2005)My principal focus in this thesis is on the role of nonhuman animals in three novels by Margaret Atwood: The Edible Woman, Surfacing and The Blind Assassin. This is a work of literary criticism, but its themes extend to ... -
Rabbit bound.
(University of Canterbury, 1986)This work looks at John Updike's trilogy of Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux and Rabbit is Rich and makes the contention that there is an overall thematic line in these works. The three novels are approached in toto, theme wise, ... -
The "Dunning school" and Reconstruction historiography.
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Ronald Reagan's foreign policy in Central America.
(University of Canterbury, 1988)This thesis aimed to demonstrate that the Reagan administration's Central American policy has shown neither innovation nor initiative, instead it merely continued ideals first expressed by James Monroe; that is a policy ... -
Picton, its site, form and function
(University of Canterbury, 1948)This statement is a description and interpretation of the urban structure and economic importance of Picton, and the outstanding geographic characteristics of Queen Charlotte Sound which may be called the rural region ... -
Music in transition : the life and works of Reinhold Glière and their political and cultural context.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Reinhold Glière is little known outside the states of the former Soviet Union but he fulfilled an important role both in Russia before 1917 and then in the nascent Soviet Union. This composer born in Kyiv Kyiv 1875 had ... -
“Why Shouldn’t a Comrade be Chic?”: constructions of the Soviet woman’s Image in international Soviet propaganda and its reception in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1945-1970.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis explores the construction and reconstruction of the Soviet woman’s image in official Soviet propaganda magazines, Soviet Woman and Soviet Union, in the Stalin and Khrushchev eras, and how successful this ... -
Imperialism in Woodrow Wilson's Latin American policy.
(University of Canterbury, 1980)There is a unique quality about the way the people of the United States have viewed their position in regard to other nations. Whereas many dominant civilisations have sought, through force, to impose their cultures onto ... -
The political and socioeconomic reasons for Sweden’s resistance to join the Eurozone.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)The Eurozone was established in 1999 as a common currency area between 11 member states (European Commission, 2019). This grew to 15 member states, and now exists as 19 member states who use the euro as their currency ... -
Implementing a sleep intervention while supporting mothers’ breastfeeding
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Behavioural infant sleep interventions (BSI’s) have assisted parents in providing strategies to encourage their infants to sleep through the night without parental involvement for many years. However, recent comment in the ... -
Reappraising the object effect: the role of attentional shift across a non-uniform region
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Object-based attention refers to the facilitation in visual processing when stimuli belong to the same object compared with when they belong to different objects. In a typical experiment (e.g., Egly, Driver & Rafal, 1994), ... -
Boundary work : the construction of boundaries between "alternative" and "conventional" cancer treatments in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2000)This thesis examines the multiple and shifting boundaries between alternative and conventional medicine, demonstrating how 'boundary work' is a fundamental process in the (re)shaping of networks of human and nonhuman actors. ... -
A comparison of the policies and methodologies adhered to by drug treatment centres in Christchurch, Aotearoa.
(University of Canterbury, 2000)This thesis examines the current polices and methodologies used and promoted by drug treatment centres in Christchurch. Personal experience and the subsequent awareness of the need for more available literature developed ... -
Terrorism, security, and power in Russia : domestic, regional, and international dimensions
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis examines the securitisation of the terrorism threat in Russia and its relation to regime consolidation and broadening of political influence. It traces and analyses terrorism- related securitisation moves made ...
