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Sites of power: Documentary ethics and representation of child abuse
(The University of Waikato, 2021)New Zealand has one of the highest child abuse rates in the developed world. Discourses about child abuse are stigmatised, and this stigma thrives in silence. Documentary films provide a unique site of power in which child ... -
Graph Convolutional LSTM model for traffic delay prediction with uncertainty
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Traffic flow in an urban environment exhibits a complex spatio-temporal in- teraction. The propogation of traffic flow through a transportation network depends on a number of factors, including the structure of the network ... -
Understanding the potential exposure of coastal marae and urupā in Aotearoa New Zealand to sea level rise
(The University of Waikato, 2021)In Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori are Indigenous and have inhabited these islands for the past 700 years. They have an intricate physical and spiritual connection to places and the environment. This is reflected in the Māori ... -
A mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy - Is there a place in New Zealand?
(The University of Waikato, 2021)It has been nearly a year and a half since COVID-19 emerged in New Zealand. Although New Zealand has been fortunate enough to have little to no active community cases, it is still enduring the effects of COVID-19. The ... -
Goat’s vs cow’s milk consumption: Analysis of feeding behaviour, brain activation and gene expression in laboratory animals
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Milk is a complex and highly nutritive food. In Western societies, cow’s milk (CM) is most commonly consumed, but recent years have generated interest in milk from other species, especially in goat’s milk (GM). Importantly, ... -
Succession of subalpine vegetation to Libocedrus bidwillii forest on a landslide-initiated soil chronosequence, Mount Taranaki, New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 1988)Aspects of succession of subalpine vegetation on Mt Taranaki were examined in a vegetation chronosequence, initiated by four landslides on the same sideslope in 1333-1343 A.D., 1625 A.D., 1811-1817 A.D. and 1968-1971 A.D ... -
Fabric, fitness, and femininity: A new materialist analysis of the activewear phenomenon
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Activewear refers to casual clothing designed specifically for both function (enables and supports movement) and fashion. Since the early 2000s (and arguably earlier), activewear has seen a dramatic increase in popularity ... -
Effect of exposure on the erodibility of intertidal mudflats
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Sediments on intertidal flats are exposed during low tides. Under the effect of exposure, the water content of sediments decreases because of the evaporation process, which alters the erosive behaviour of cohesive sediments, ... -
Kotahi anō te tupuna o te tangata Māori, ko Ranginui e tū nei, ko Papatūānuku e takato nei. Colonisation through Christianity
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis will look at the role that Christianity and the missionaries played in the colonisation of Māori during the 1800s. With discussion about the colonisation of Aotearoa, it is generally felt within the Christian ... -
Investigating stable and dynamic aspects of psychological needs using generalisability theory
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Satisfaction of psychological needs has been linked to human flourishing and improved wellbeing and basic psychological needs are central to self-determination theory (SDT) and include autonomy, relatedness, and competence. ... -
Scratching the Hinuera Surface: Cryptic faulting in the late Quaternary alluvial plain, Te Tātua o Wairere Fault Zone
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Between c. 20,000 and 15,000 years BP, precursors to the modern Waikato River deposited alluvium of the Hinuera Formation throughout the Hamilton Basin – a c. 1,600 km2 terrestrial sedimentary basin in the centre-north of ... -
Tensions of the self and discourses of being: Californian medicine, embodiment, metaphysics, and the absence of love
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Primarily, contemporary understandings of embodied praxis concerned with the reconfiguration and reinvention of the body and one’s identity are guided by biomedical and mechanical (the body/mind is as a biological organism ... -
Partitioning along reproductive niche dimensions in sympatric New Zealand freshwater bivalve species
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Sympatric species of freshwater mussels in the order Unionida may need to partition resources to enable coexistence due to their relatively sedentary life-style and complex symbiotic life-phase dependent on host-fish. ... -
Investigation of in vitro diabetic inflammation and treatment with Piper excelsum tea extract
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Induction of inflammation through hyperglycaemia and adiposity has been shown to contribute to the pathogenicity of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The pro-inflammatory cytokine, tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α) was the first ... -
Elucidating the origin and transmission of tetrodotoxin in New Zealand bivalves
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin that acts by selectively targeting sodium channels, blocking propagation of action potentials and causing paralysis. It has been responsible for countless human intoxications and ... -
DNA repair during bacterial competence? A potential role for the periplasmic ligase, Lig E
(The University of Waikato, 2021)The rapid rise in antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria calls for better understanding of drivers of resistance and pathways by which it occurs. Identification of such mechanisms could identify novel pathways ... -
European identity in the Aotearoa New Zealand census
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Although the literature on ethnicity is vast, studies have typically focused on minority groups, with white majorities, including Europeans in Aotearoa New Zealand, surprisingly absent. Demographic changes, however, and ... -
Sediment-effects on seagrass Zostera muelleri in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Seagrasses are ecosystem engineers that provide important ecological functions and societal economic values. Examples of the services that seagrasses provide are: sediment and coastal stability; maintenance of water quality; ... -
How a game sense coaching approach impacts on the learning experience for teenage rugby players
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Rugby is the national game in New Zealand and has played a significant part in the lives of many New Zealanders. More recently there has been a steady decline in the number of youths engaging with rugby (and organised sport ... -
The role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) in US grand strategy
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This Ph.D. thesis examines the role of drones in US grand strategy based on their use by successive US administrations post 9/11 in 'targeted states' (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya) in pursuant of different ...
