Browsing by Degree Name "Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)"
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A calibrated Dual-Port Acoustic Vector Network Analyser
(The University of Waikato, 2022)The Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) is a workhorse in electrical engineering, and has been refined over the last fifty years to offer many advantages. This technology is continually expanding and branching into other fields ... -
A Case for an Indigenous Court - a realisation of self-determination?
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis searches for appropriate ways to alter entrenched patterns of highly negative outcomes for Māori in the criminal justice system. The statistics demonstrate that proportionately, Māori are much more likely to ... -
A changing dialogue within health communication in New Zealand: a case study of the Waikato screening mammography programme
(The University of Waikato, 2000)As part of changes in the health sector in New Zealand over the past decade, government has provided a number of community-based health interventions. The purpose of such interventions is to provide information and resources ... -
A detailed characterisation of the wave climate around New Zealand and its variability
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Ocean waves can cause severe social and economic impacts. Therefore, understanding their behaviour is of paramount importance for the effective management of coastal and ocean hazards. This thesis thoroughly investigates ... -
A distributed adaptive debugger server
(The University of Waikato, 2001)A model and corresponding protocol suitable for debugging distributed embedded systems is developed. Protocol design issues and a formal model of the debugger server are defined with the intent of developing an extensible ... -
A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)
(The University of Waikato, 2020)A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu) offers a description of the endangered and previously undocumented Ahamb language spoken by around 950 people. This grammatical description is one of the main outcomes of the Ahamb ... -
A Kind of Magic: Identifying and Analysing Queen's Idiolect, 1973-1980
(The University of Waikato, 2016)‘A Kind of Magic’ is a musicological study of the British band Queen’s output between 1973 and 1980. The research analyses 90 songs across eight studio albums, and covers the era during which Queen emerged as one of the ... -
A life in music: The contribution of John Ritchie (1921-2014) to the Christchurch musical community as a composer, performer, educator and administrator.
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This thesis is a study of the life of New Zealand composer John Ritchie (1921-2014) from his ancestry and early years, and his development throughout formative teenage years to adulthood. Interviews conducted with Ritchie ... -
A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis ... -
A Mana Wahine inquiry into indigenous governance
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This thesis investigates the question “How can indigenous women reinvigorate their role in tribal governance structures when many such structures continue to reinforce gendered colonial constructs within which women are ... -
A mixed-method approach to low energy availability in elite track cyclists
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) is a complex condition that has a range of health consequences involving, but not limited to, metabolic, immune, and reproductive function, and psychological health. Low energy ... -
A Mobile Augmented Memory Aid for people with Traumatic Brain Injury
(University of Waikato, 2017)Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when an external mechanical force traumatically injures the brain. The 2010/2011 population-based study shows that the total incidence of TBI in New Zealand has increased to 790 per ... -
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 nested random effects model analysis of child survival in Malawi
(The University of Waikato, 1998)This thesis investigates child survival in Malawi using a modified Cox proportional hazards model which includes family and community random effects in addition to the fixed effect of the covariates. The parameters of the ... -
A new approach to fitting linear models in high dimensional spaces
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This thesis presents a new approach to fitting linear models, called “pace regression”, which also overcomes the dimensionality determination problem. Its optimality in minimizing the expected prediction loss is theoretically ... -
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 method for determining condensed and uncondensed structures in lignin”
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This thesis describes a new analytical method to determine the levels of uncondensed (protonated C5) and condensed (bonded through C5 to other phenyl propane units) guaiacyl (G) units in lignin. This method is important ... -
A new optical configuration for flow cytometric sorting of bovine spermatozoa by sex
(The University of Waikato, 1997)The orthogonal axes of illumination, flow, and detection in conventional sorting flow cytometers can limit accuracy or throughput when making fluorescence measurements on aspherical cells. We report a new radially symmetric ... -
A new technology for imparting oak character to wine: application to a New Zealand chardonnay wine
(The University of Waikato, 1998)An analytical method using gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry in selected ion mode (GC/MS-SIM) was developed to monitor the levels of aromatic woody compounds present in a New Zealand Chardonnay wine at the ... -
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 ...
