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Enrichment planting of late-successional plant species within restored urban forests
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Successful ecological restoration of early-successional forests should result in highly biodiverse, stable, self-perpetuating ecosystems. This often requires active intervention to transition them to a late-successional ... -
Understanding the role and impact of introduced honey bees in a submontane indigenous forest ecosystem
(The University of Waikato, 2020)New Zealand’s apiculture industry is the fastest growing in the world, expanding in agricultural landscapes, as well as in native ecosystems. While this has obvious benefits for economy and industry, the impacts on ... -
Supercapacitor assisted LED (SCALED) converter technique for solar powered DC-microgrids
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Designing electronic products and systems with high energy efficiency is a major challenge for electronic power circuit designers. Almost all residential and industrial buildings are presently AC powered. However, they ... -
Ko Te Kawa Tūpanapana i ngā Hau Tūpua a Tāwhiri-mātea : The validation, revitalisation and enhancement of Māori environment knowledge of weather and climate
(The University of Waikato, 2020)KO TE KAWA TŪPANAPANA I NGĀ HAU TŪPUA A TĀWHIRI-MĀTEA – THE RITUALISTIC FORMS GOVERNING THE SUPERNATURAL WINDS OF TĀWHIRI-MĀTEA Mankind has always gazed skyward observing the im immense power generated by forked lightning ... -
Gonad examination reveals diandry and baseline DNA methylation in the three sexual phenotypes of the New Zealand spotty wrasse, Notolabrus celidotus
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Understanding reproductive plasticity and how sexual phenotypes arise is of great interest to biology, particularly the form and function of sex changing fish. However, there are gaps regarding detailed descriptions of ... -
The use of social networking technologies for home-based online businesses: The case of Saudi Arabian female entrepreneurs
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Over the years, many Saudi Arabian female entrepreneurs have adopted social networking technologies, also called social networking sites, to overcome certain cultural challenges and to manage their home-based online ... -
New Zealand seagrass (Zostera muelleri) response to acute sedimentation: Linking non-structural carbohydrate reserves to resilience
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Seagrass meadows form healthy near-coastal marine environments that provide a wide range of ecosystem services in New Zealand and Australia. However, seagrass habitats are declining regionally and globally. It is therefore ... -
Complexity and fragility: an assessment of New Zealand trade relations
(The University of Waikato, 2020)In the decade 2010-2019, international trade relationships started to show some new patterns with complex and fragile features. These patterns are attributed to various factors, including globally slower demand, greater ... -
The spatial variability of elemental and isotopic compositions of carbon and nitrogen within sediments in a subtropical mangrove forest
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Mangrove forests are coastal habitats, which provide numerous ecosystem services in tropical and temperate regions, including burial and storage of Carbon and Nitrogen in the sediments. In New Zealand mangrove coverage is ... -
L-invariants and congruences for Galois representations of dimension 3, 4, and 8
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The arithmetic of Galois representations plays a central role in modern number theory. In this thesis we consider representations arising from tensor products of the two-dimensional representations attached to modular forms ... -
Depression in autobiographical sports writing: A backstage pass into the dark locker room
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Autobiographical sports writing (ASW) enables authors to provide the general public an insight into their world as an elite athlete. Access to the lives of these athletes is otherwise left to sports media and journalism, ... -
Faith, politics and reconciliation: the Roman Catholic Church, New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australians
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The Roman Catholic Church claims from Jesus Christ a mission to teach consistently religious ideals in accordance with its understanding of God’s constant truth. These ideals include the belief that human creation in the ... -
Morphosyntax of Sare
(The University of Waikato, 1999)This thesis provides a descriptive account of the previously undescribed Sare language, a Papuan language spoken by about 2,000 people in the middle Sepik River area of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. This ... -
The interaction between copyright, neighbouring rights and international rights management in the digital age: Past, present and future of music licensing
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The rapidly progressing digital transformation of the music market and an ever more complicated music licensing process is frustrating the user's demand for faster, easier and unlimited access to the entire world music ... -
Can te ao Māori worldviews exist within a western institute’s online teaching and learning environment?
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Tertiary institutions in Aotearoa (New Zealand) offer students online teaching and learning papers across a variety of disciplines. The purpose of this research was to examine whether online teaching and learning environments ... -
Ethical issues in organizational practices: individuals, organizations and partnerships
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis examines issues regarding ethics in organizational practices. It explores ethics-related inquiries from the influences of an individual’s moral character and conduct, to an organization’s pursuit of a higher ... -
A little birdie told me: People will consider ambiguous utterances from parrots when making judgements of guilt.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)How much would you trust a parrot as an eyewitness? The question is not hypothetical: lawyers have tried to use “testimony” from animals. We asked two questions: First, had a court allowed a parrot’s utterance to be entered ... -
Investigating children's participation in decision-making in New Zealand primary schools: Participation, pathways and potential.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The notion of children and young people participating in a school’s decision-making processes has been the topic of much research and writing throughout the Western world since the 1980s. Existing research has included ... -
What does it take to make us listen? The experiences of those leading whole school reform to improve outcomes for indigenous minority students
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis examines how the Kia Eke Panuku: Building on Success school reform initiative shaped the experiences of groups of educators within mainstream New Zealand secondary schools. These experiences are analysed against ... -
The potters of Espiritu Santo : A socio-historical study of survival and loss of tradition
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This dissertation looks at the traditional pottery of the Cumberland Peninsula on the island of Espiritu Santo in the context of its relationships with its makers, their history, traditional institutions and contact ...
