• Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide 

  Midson, Brenda Rosalie (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Humans have a long evolutionary history of violence. The psychological mechanisms underlying aggression can be viewed as “solutions” (albeit undesirable solutions) to any one of a number of adaptive problems that exist in ...

  

• Southwest Pacific Absolute Plate Kinematic Reconstruction Reveals Major Cenozoic Tonga-Kermadec Slab Dragging 

  van de Lagemaat, Suzanna H.A.; van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J.; Boschman, Lydian M.; Kamp, Peter J.J.; Spakman, Wim (American Geophysical Union, 2018)

  Tectonic plates subducting at trenches having strikes oblique to the absolute subducting plate motion undergo trench‐parallel slab motion through the mantle, recently defined as a form of “slab dragging.” We investigate ...

  

• The application of ICT in the music classroom: Factors that influence technology integration in New Zealand secondary schools. 

  O’Connell, Amanda (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This thesis investigates how New Zealand secondary school music teachers used ICT in their music programmes between 2008 and 2012. It started from the assumption that the adoption of technology in secondary music classrooms ...

  

• Evaluation of land in Wairoa District for potential horticultural development 

  Rau, Johnathon Taukiri (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  The Wairoa District, on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand has less horticultural development than areas to the north and south. The objective of this study was to provide information to help inform landowners ...

  

• Storm Surges in Tauranga Harbour 

  Tyler, Michael Jack (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Understanding the potential elevation of extreme sea-levels at the coast is important for management of hazards, and adaptation to climate change. This poses challenges for coastlines around the globe, with current pressure ...

  

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