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A Model In Vitro System to Study Heat Shock Protein 60 (HSP60) Expression in Response to Mitochondrial Impairment in Human Cells
(University of Waikato, 2013)Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) are a class of ubiquitously expressed and functionally related proteins found in all living organisms from humans to bacteria. Their expression is increased in response to various cellular stressors ... -
A Multi-level Technology Acceptance, Adoption and Implementation Model for Achieving Government-Citizen Dialogue: An Omani Case Study
(University of Waikato, 2014)The number of commercial applications that exploit Web 2.0 social media is increasing rapidly. However, little is known about the challenges that public sector organizations face when they decide to adopt Web or other ... -
A Needs Assessment of Conservation Educators within the Department of Conservation
(University of Waikato, 2016)The Department of Conservation (DOC) is the government body that is responsible for conserving Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural and historic heritage. Although education has not been a primary part of what DOC does, the ... -
A New Form of Authoritarianism? Rethinking Military Politics in Post-1999 Nigeria
(University of Waikato, 2015)Despite the vast research that has been done on the Nigerian military, virtually all of these studies have failed to critically examine the accepted role of the military in the democratising phase. This is important because ... -
A New Way to Look at Homomorphisms
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis is about arbitrary functions between groups. We look at two way to measure how close an arbitrary function is to being a homomorphism. We first look at an action of the group on functions in which homomorphisms ... -
A Personality study of university students beginning transcendental meditation
(University of Waikato, 1972)Transcendental meditation (TM), as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is now being practised by hundreds1 of New Zealand University students. This meditation form, which is defined as "a simple, natural process which involves ... -
A Pilot investigation into the assessment of changes in the psycholinguistic abilities of new-entrant Māori school children using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities
(University of Waikato, 1969)The role of language as the principal medium of instruction within the New Zealand (N .Z.) educational system has recently received increasing attention both from researchers and those responsible for the formulation of ... -
A Pilot survey of the attitudes towards industrial psychology of managers, personal officers and management consultants in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 1971)The application of psychological principles and techniques to the work situation has been well documented (Dunnette & Kirchner (1965), Tiffin & McCormack (1966), Blum & Naylor (1968), Kolasa (1969), Korman (1971). There ... -
A Population Model of the Thalamus and its Wave Interactions with the Cortex
(University of Waikato, 2014)In this thesis we construct a population model of the thalamus based on the mean-field cortex developed by Steyn-Ross et al. and Liley et al. We allow interactions between the thalamus and cortex via damped wave equations ... -
A Positive behavioural Intervention on Prospective Memory of Children with Autism
(University of Waikato, 2016)Prospective memory is remembering to carry out a behaviour on a particular occasion or at a specific point in time in the future. This form of memory is particularly critical for the daily functioning of children with ... -
A Poststructural Autoethnography: Self as event
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis takes the form of a poststructural autoethnography. It explores self as event in order to illustrate the fluid nature of self identities, and is informed by the writings of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, ... -
A Predictive Model for the Parallel Processing of Digital Libraries
(University of Waikato, 2015)The computing world is facing the problem of a seemingly exponential increase in the amount of raw digital data, and the speed at which it is being collected, is eclipsing our ability to manage it manually. Combine this ... -
A preliminary evaluation of tectonic geomorphological signals within the Hamilton Basin
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Over the past year several fault traces have been discovered within the Hamilton Basin, prompting a need for further investigation for tectonic evidence in the basin in order to re asses seismic hazards of the basin. ... -
A reflective account of successful leadership: Māori special character secondary boarding schools.
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis explores the leadership and Māori student achievement in Māori boarding schools taking into account cultural contexts, environments and the leadership ideologies around educational leadership. What are the ... -
A Relationships Framework for Organisational Responsiveness to Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi in the Work of Groups and Organisations in the Community and the Public Sector of Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis is focussed on the development and implementation of a Relationships Framework based on Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi. The Framework has been designed to enable working together between Tangata Whenua and Tangata ... -
A Replication and Extension of Hughes and Barnes-Holmes's (2011) Study of Induced Implicit Attitudes
(University of Waikato, 2016)In order to replicate Hughes and Barnes-Holmes’s (2011) study, 12 undergraduate students were presented with two novel stimuli (the words “Cug” and “Vek”) in one of three attitude-induction conditions. In the first condition, ... -
A Replication of the St. Louis Test for New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 1973)Monetary theory is less abstract than some economic theory in the sense that it cannot avoid a relation to reality. Its development has been to a considerable extent prompted by the experiences encountered by the writers ... -
A Scalable and Fault Tolerant OpenFlow Controller
(University of Waikato, 2015)OpenFlow provides a protocol for updating flow tables in switches. Most current OpenFlow deployments rely on a single controller to control all switches. However, as the number and size of production networks deploying ... -
A Scale to measure motivation and behaviour in psychological experiments
(University of Waikato, 1972)The aim in this study was to develop and validate a set of scales to measure subject motivation and behaviour in psychological experiments. This was achieved by factor analysing the responses by 140 subjects to 60 statements ... -
A secret ingredient for SMEs performance: Human resource management in cafés and restaurants in Auckland and Waikato, New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2016)Though entrepreneurship theory has developed extensively over the last few decades, the drivers behind small business performance are underdeveloped in terms of human resource management (HRM) practices, particularly in ...
