Science: Theses and Dissertations
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Landscape evolution of the southeast Queensland dune fields.
(2022)The sub-tropical coastal dune fields of southeast Queensland, Australia are recognised for their outstanding beauty, cultural importance, and ecological diversity. Their soil and vegetation development have been intensively ... -
New Zealand Secondary School Teachers’ perspectives on supporting students who are hard of hearing or deaf.
(2022)Aims: The study aimed to develop an understanding of New Zealand Secondary school teachers’ perspectives on educating students who are DHH. The current study investigated teachers’ perspectives on the benefits and challenges ... -
Native and exotic plant root traits and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition and function.
(2022)The goal of my thesis was to study the link between plant root traits and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal traits, and how the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of native and exotic plants differ. I began my ... -
Geometry, kinematics and paleoseismology of the humps and leader faults which ruptured during the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, North Canterbury, New Zealand.
(2022)The Eastern Humps and Leader faults, situated in the Mount Stewart Range in North Canterbury, are two of the ≥17 faults which ruptured during the 2016 MW7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake. The earthquake produced complex, intersecting ... -
Assessment of potential suitability of land for town growth - Franz Josef.
(2022)In the face of expanding urban and rural areas and land intensification, hazard events are likely to continue to become more severe and devastating. This situation is no more relevant than in Franz Josef's township, where ... -
Meteorological controls on radiation fog in Christchurch using microscale numerical modelling.
(2022)Fog has long been identified as one of the most difficult weather phenomena to forecast. With the increasing need of air, marine, and land transportation, the significance of the societal impact caused by fog has been ... -
The Transfer Effects of Zero gravity Practice in Virtual Reality
(2000)Five experiments are reported that were designed to examine learning, adaptation, and transfer across the actual 1-g environment, the vi1tual 1-g environment, and the vi1tual 0-g environment. The study aimed to, (1) validate ... -
Pregnancy and drugs : the views and knowledge of pregnant mothers
(1980)Thirty pregnant mothers and four medical doctors were interviewed to determine their views about drug usage during pregnancy and their knowledge of possible harmful intra-uterine effects. In this study drugs include alcohol, ... -
The ecology and early life history of Notolabrus celidotus (Pisces: Labridae) around mussel farms in the Marlborough Sounds
(1993)The early life history of the labrid fish Noto!abrus celidotus (spotties) was studied around mussel farms in the Marlbrough Sounds. In both Kenepuru and Pelorus Sounds, juvenile fish (<120 mm SL) were most abundant among ... -
The reproductive biology and threats to reproductive success of two endemic Carmichaelia species.
(2022)Native ecosystem restoration is a major goal of the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) with a large part of the native ecosystems in the conservation estate being degraded through the introduction of invasive ... -
The theoretical relationship between stress and negative symptoms in first-onset psychosis
(2000)First-onset psychosis offers a unique window in which to observe the longitudinal interaction of the many semi-independent factors associated with the evolution of severe psychopathology. Research into these factors has ... -
Sensitivity to kinematic specification of emotion and emotion-related states
(2000)The purpose of this study was exploratory, from an ecological point of view. The aim was to find out whether and, if so, to what extent, information about the expression of emotion and emotion-related states is detectable ... -
Scopolamine infusions to the anteroventral thalamic nucleus : effects on spatial working memory in rats
(2001)The effects of intracerebral infusions of the non-specific muscarinic receptor antagonist, scopolamine, into the anteroventral (AV) thalamic nucleus on spatial working memory performance in delay and standard 12-arm radial ... -
Comparative effects of perirhinal cortex and anterior thalamic nuclei lesions on radial-maze learning, spontaneous object recognition and configural learning
(2001)The anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN) and the perirhinal cortex (PRC) have been differentially implicated in independent memory systems subserving spatial learning and object recognition systems respectively (Aggleton & Brown, ... -
Surface water and mahinga kai as vectors of antimicrobial resistance.
(2022)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) increases the burden of infectious disease by slowing or preventing treatment, leading to worsened health outcomes. Hospitals and human communities are recognised sources of infections by ... -
The characteristics of parent-child interaction during a problem-solving task : a comparison of children with Down syndrome and typically developing children
(2001)The characteristics of parent-child interaction and the impact it has on children's cognitive development has been an area of interest to developmental psychologists for many years, The seminal work of Vygotsky, which ... -
Efficacy of Python-based models for modelling known beam perturbations in linac components during SABR.
(2022)Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) is a type of treatment modality that is used to treat cancer. SABR uses high dose radiation beams and is delivered in a lower number of treatments compared to conventional ... -
Go with the laminar flow : developing the lamina system for molecular interaction analysis.
(2021)Within the complex milieu of a cell, which comprises a large number of different biomolecules, interactions are critical for function. In this post-reductionist era of biochemical research, the ‘holy grail’ for studying ... -
The role of the object on infant's search in an A-not-B task
(2001)Previous research on infant's development of the object concept has focussed on what environmental factors can influence search on an object permanence task. To date there has been ve1y little focus on the object itself ... -
Dissociation and sex offending : exploratory study on the relationship between dissociative pathology and sex offending
(2001)Dissociation remains a controversial field of psychology with respect to its etiology, prevalence, and symptomatology. In addition, dissociation is also controversial because of its ubiquitous nature in that dissociation ...
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