Science: Theses and Dissertations
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An ordinary China: reading ‘small-town youth’ for difference in a northwestern county town
(University of Canterbury, 2020)China has witnessed unprecedented changes across all spheres since the 1978 economic reform. As the previous socialist state shifted towards a market- oriented economy, China’s socio-spatial reconfiguration has attracted ... -
In vitro cell line selection for somaclonal variants of grapevine cultivars Malbec and Merlot resistant to aluminium chloride
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Resveratrol is a naturally occurring polyphenol found in red grapes. It is valuable as it can act as an antioxidant, protecting the body against oxidative stress induced damages. Interest for this research was derived from ... -
Reigniting healthy resilience: a trait-based approach to overcoming negative resistance and resilience in stream restoration
(University of Canterbury, 2020)In an ecological sense, ‘resistance’ and ‘resilience’ describe the capacity of ecosystems to withstand and recover from disturbance, respectively. These community characteristics are often associated with good ecological ... -
The coseismicity and morphology of the Acheron rock avalanche deposit in the Red Hill valley, New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2003)The Acheron rock avalanche is located in the Red Hill valley almost 80 km west of Christchurch and is one of 42 greywacke-derived rock avalanches identified in the central Southern Alps. It overlies the Holocene active ... -
Using portable electronic devices as part of a functional behavioural assessment-informed intervention for children on the autism spectrum with sleep disturbance.
(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 ... -
Establishing a baseline : the macroinvertebrate community composition and food web structure of South Island alpine tarns in New Zealand.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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
(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
(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.
(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 ... -
Non-spatial paired-associate memory function and anterior thalamic contribution
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(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 ... -
Hybrid collectives for effective spatial data infrastructure development in the global south : developing a Zambian prototype.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The aim of this thesis was to generate a theoretical framework to help people understand how to better develop spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) in the Global South that could lead to addressing the challenges of access ... -
Comparing remotely sensed observations of clouds and aerosols in the Southern Ocean with climate model simulations.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Southern Ocean (SO) shortwave (SW) radiation biases are a common problem in contemporary general circulation models (GCMs), with most models exhibiting a tendency to absorb too much incoming SW radiation. These biases have ... -
The presentation of self on WeChat Moment : the role of personality traits and network characteristics.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)In this day and age, the rapid development of internet-based communication tools has greatly changed the way we socially interact, especially for social networking sites (SNS) which enable people to develop and maintain ...
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