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Readability and quality of online information regarding tinnitus in the Spanish language.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Background: Tinnitus is a common symptom of multiple different audiological impairments which can lead to negative psychological ramifications for some people. Given the link between low health literacy and poor health ... -
Legacy of loss: seed dispersal by kererū and flightless birds in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)The New Zealand avifauna has experienced dramatic losses since human arrival. I investigated how these declines and extinctions have affected seed dispersal. My first aim was to assess the current state of kererū (New ... -
Architectural elements of buried volcanic systems and their impact on geoenergy resources.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This PhD investigates the architecture of volcanic systems buried in New Zealand sedimentary basins. These “fossil” volcanoes occur in great numbers around the globe, typically comprising complex magmatic-sedimentary systems ... -
Tate-Shafarevich groups of constant elliptic curves and isogeny volcanos
(2019)We describe the structure of Tate-Shafarevich groups of a constant elliptic curves over function fields by exploiting the volcano structure of isogeny graphs of elliptic curves over finite fields. -
Electrification in Remote Communities: Assessing the Value of Electricity Using a Community Action Research Approach in Kabakaburi, Guyana
(MDPI AG, 2019)PROBLEM—Provision of electric services in remote communities operating a subsistence economy has been challenging both for policy-makers and engineers. The value of electricity services and the choice structures in remote ... -
Aligning Environmental Engineering Education with National Needs
(2018)Structural, geotechnical, and fire engineers in New Zealand are looking to move towards a registration system based on a competency assessment against a specific Body of Knowledge, and supported by Masters degrees that are ... -
Care-full Community Economies
(Routledge, 2018)In this era of human-induced environmental crisis, it is widely recognized that we need to foster better ways to sustain life for people and planet. For us – and other scholars drawing on the Community Economies tradition ... -
Journeying from “I” to “we”: assembling hybrid caring collectives of geography doctoral scholars
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)Completing a PhD is difficult. Add a major earthquake sequence and general stress levels become much higher. Caring for some of the nonacademic needs of doctoral scholars in this environment becomes critical to their ... -
Learning to be affected: Maternal connection, intuition and "elimination communication"
(Elsevier BV, 2018)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Even when heterosexual couples have relatively egalitarian relationships prior to children, once children are born, mothers tend to take on more and more of the care tasks associated with the home and ... -
In the nude: factors determining the employment status of sex workers
(2018)This article analyses critically the 2018 Christchurch Employment Relations Authority’s (the Authority) decision in Hamilton-Redmond and Clifford v Casino Bar Limited, which found that two strip dancers were independen ... -
Can the commons be temporary? The role of transitional commoning in post-quake Christchurch
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)In recent work on commons and commoning, scholars have argued that we might delink the practice of commoning from property ownership, while paying attention to modes of governance that enable long-term commons to emerge ... -
Prediction of Sphingosine protein-coding regions with a self adaptive spectral rotation method
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)© 2019 Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ... -
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on River Flows in the Tonle Sap Lake Basin, Cambodia
(MDPI AG, 2019)The Tonle Sap is the most fertile and diverse freshwater ecosystem in Southeast Asia, receiving nurturing water flows from the Mekong and its immediate basin. In addition to rapid development in the Tonle Sap basin, climate ... -
Reactive Magnesium Oxide Products: Carbon Neutral Cement for the Future
(https://concretenz.org.nz/page/Conference_2018, 2018)With the large carbon dioxide emission in the Portland cement industry, the need to mitigate the emission and the intention to achieve carbon storage lead the development of alternatives to the conventional Portland cement. ... -
Rearrangements in the monoterpene series
(University of Canterbury, 1968)The stereochemistry of a number of (2,3)-, (2,10)- and (2,3,10)- substituted pinanes has been established. Hydroxylation of α-pinene with permanganate gave 10β-pinane-2,3α-diol, similar treatment of β-pinene gave ... -
A retrospective analysis of curricular accounting
(2018)I explain how and why higher education learning has come to be accounted for using calculative practices, and to examine critically the implications of this curricular accounting. The practices in question, in which credits ... -
Using personal mobile devices to increase flexibility and equity in learning in resource constrained contexts.
(2018)This paper examines how, in a resource-constrained context, access to personal mobile devices for first-year university students increases flexibility of learning and creates an environment of greater inclusivity at ... -
Genetic differentiation, phenotypic plasticity and latitudinal trends in New Zealand populations of erythranthe guttata
(University of Canterbury, 2019)The New Zealand flora comprises proportionately more alien species than anywhere else on Earth. Many of these species elicit a variety of phenotypes across heterogenous environments and along a latitudinal gradient. ... -
The roles of temperature cues and resources in mast flowering
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Masting is where individual plants within a species have highly variable, but synchronised, flowering within their population, a strategy which leads to increased fitness. Two important factors controlling the size of each ...
