University of Waikato Theses: Recently added
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The role of mindfulness and life satisfaction in psychological distress during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A quasi-experimental study
(The University of Waikato, 2022)By November 2021, almost every country and territory in the world had been affected by COVID-19. The virus has caused over 5 million deaths and more than 248 million cases worldwide. Fear of infection, grief, social isolation ... -
An evaluation of GPS technology as a tool to aid pasture management
(The University of Waikato, 2022)In countries with temperate climates such as New Zealand and Ireland, grazing pasture plays an essential role in dairy production and farm profitability. In these climates, pasture growth occurs year-round in a seasonal ... -
Postnatal depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: The needs and experiences of New Zealand mothers and health care providers
(The University of Waikato, 2022)The postnatal period is a vulnerable time for women’s mental health, particularly within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, there have been no studies based in New Zealand that have asked mothers who gave birth ... -
Household net wealth in Indonesia: Inequality measurements and the determinants
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis is a collection of seven chapters on household net wealth in Indonesia, focusing on the measurement of inequality and the determinants of household net wealth. Chapter 1 provides an Introduction and Motivation ... -
Corporate environmental transparency in China
(The University of Waikato, 2022)The intensification of the environmental crisis has led stakeholders to pay increasing attention to corporate environmental transparency (CET). One obvious manifestation of this interest is that they require companies to ... -
Real time analysis of cataract surgery videos using deep learning
(The University of Waikato, 2022)A deep learning framework is proposed that classifies surgical instruments within cataract surgery videos and generates clinical summary reports, proving objective reporting and analysis. This framework is run in real time ... -
Physical activity experiences of mothers with young children: Barriers, practices, and the influence on children’s behaviours and attitudes
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Feminist research has long explored the various factors that shape women’s experiences of motherhood, including the multiple and competing discourse of ‘good’ motherhood. Increasingly. mothers are expected to quickly resume ... -
Investigation of the heat transfer enhancement effects of nanofluids in process heating and cooling
(The University of Waikato, 2022)The global energy system faces a dual challenge; the need for more energy and less carbon emission. Out of the 50 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases emitted each year, 24.2 % comes from energy use in industries such as ... -
Transport of turbulence in the solar wind
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Charged particles are ejected from the sun and transported radially outward to the edge of the solar system, this plasma is called the solar wind. In the solar wind, turbulent fluctuations and waves form, and their transport ... -
The effects of ocean acidification on microbial nutrient cycling and productivity in coastal marine sediments
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Ocean Acidification (OA), commonly referred to as the “other CO₂ problem,” illustrates the current rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels, precipitated in large by human-related activity (e.g., fossil fuel combustion ... -
The informal sector’s contribution to the economic wellbeing of people in Timor-Leste
(The University of Waikato, 2019)It is widely believed that the informal sector is growing in the modern global economy. When studying who occupies this informal sector and the nature of their business, the universal tendency is to describe the informal ... -
Fictions and the scope of the artist in the novels of Janet Frame
(The University of Waikato, 1986)Art and the initiation of the artist into the skills of her craft, along with the fiction making habits of all human beings, are identified in this study as major concerns in Janet Frame’s novels. Time and change, rituals, ... -
A capabilities approach to freedom of employment: Hierarchical capabilities
(The University of Waikato, 2021)When people in New Zealand are unhappy with their current employment, they are often advised to find a new job. Implicit here is the assumption that a new job will be better, but it is not entirely clear that this is always ... -
Power, participation and everyday politics within state-led urban renewal in Hong Kong
(The University of Waikato, 2022)This thesis identifies and examines the ways power, participation, and everyday politics shape urban renewal outcomes in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a long history of state-led urban renewal, which continues to lead to ... -
Synthesis and characterisation of low-cost biopolymeric/mineral composite systems and evaluation of their potential application for heavy metal removal
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Heavy metal pollution and waste management are two major environmental problems faced in the world today. Anthropogenic sources of heavy metals, especially effluent from industries, are serious environmental and health ... -
Erased: Representations of women's bodies in chronic invisible pain
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Stories of pain stretch metaphors and similes. They infuse verbs into the narrative—it stabs, it burns, it aches—in a desperate attempt to describe what the pain is doing in the body. There is a critical need for accurate ... -
Abundance, behaviour and habitat requirements of the banded kokopu Galaxias fasciatus Gray (Pisces: Galaxiidae).
(The University of Waikato, 1998)The native freshwater banded kokopu (Galaxias fasciatus Gray) is generally regarded as a nocturnal predator of small native forest streams. Current methods for determining absolute abundances of this species in these ... -
Evidence for individual variation and the role of personality in the assessment strategies of Teleogryllus commodus contests
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Evolutionary game theory and assessment strategy models have been used to try to understand animal decision making processes during male-male contests. However, this has often led to mixed or inconclusive results. This may ... -
The role of mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium) riparian plantings in the mitigation of diffuse agricultural nitrogen
(The University of Waikato, 2021)The disruption of nutrient cycles in agricultural settings, particularly pastoral farming, is responsible for up to 70% of the nitrogen (N) loads entering streams in New Zealand (NZ) — resulting in the widespread degradation ... -
Long-term zooplankton dynamics in Lake Taupō: 2000-2020
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Long-term monitoring is essential for distinguishing between natural and anthropogenically induced changes within ecosystems, particularly those with high degrees of natural fluctuation. In order to gain further understanding ...
