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An investigation into the persistence-stengthening effects of differential reinforcement of alternative (DRA) behaviour
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Ten experiments used hens to investigate the effects of different disruptive events and ways of introducing differential reinforcement of alternative behaviour (DRA), on the persistence of responding. Of interest was the ... -
Technological practice in early childhood as a dispositional milieu
(The University of Waikato, 1997)This study investigated the learning of a group of four-year-olds as they worked in the construction area of a sessional early childhood setting. The researcher participated and observed as the children constructed with ... -
Collaborative CoRe Design for Year 10 Electricity and Magnetism: Professional Development for Enhancing Practising Science Teachers' PCK
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This study investigated the effectiveness of collaborative content representation (CoRe) design as a professional learning and development (PLD) intervention for enhancing practising science teachers’ pedagogical content ... -
Iwasawa theory over solvable three-dimensional p-adic Lie extensions
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Iwasawa theory is a powerful tool which describes the mysterious relationship between arithmetic objects (motives) and the special values of L-functions. A precise form of this relationship is neatly encoded in the so-called ... -
Sheet extrusion and plasticisation of Novatein thermoplastic protein
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The purpose of this study was to develop a relationship between protein structure, rheological properties and plasticization of Novatein. Novatein is a biomass-based thermoplastic in which the main constituent is blood ... -
Thermophilic Methanotrophy in the Taupō Volcanic Zone
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Methanotrophs are widely distributed in the environment and play an important role in the global methane cycle by oxidising the majority of methane produced each year. Geological sources of methane contribute substantial ... -
Development of novel approaches for industrial fermentation of menaquinone-7
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Vitamin K, an anti-haemorrhagic factor discovered by the Danish nutritional biochemist Henrik Carl Peter Dam in 1929, is capable of correcting dietary-induced bleeding disorders in chickens. It is essential for blood ... -
Ecological effects of turbidity variations in and around dredging areas in the Port of Tauranga
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Turbidity is the scattering of light in water bodies and is an important measurement for assessing water quality in coastal systems. Suspended particles in the water column can greatly impact on light penetration and ... -
Investigation of a 'Field Factory' to Harvest and Grade Tree Stock in a Forestry Nursery
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Primary industries are facing an ever increasing labour problem. Major concerns with labour include lack of staff training, high costs, poor efficiency, non-optimal quality control and health and safety issues. While ... -
Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Humans have a long evolutionary history of violence. The psychological mechanisms underlying aggression can be viewed as “solutions” (albeit undesirable solutions) to any one of a number of adaptive problems that exist in ... -
The application of ICT in the music classroom: Factors that influence technology integration in New Zealand secondary schools.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis investigates how New Zealand secondary school music teachers used ICT in their music programmes between 2008 and 2012. It started from the assumption that the adoption of technology in secondary music classrooms ... -
Rising demand for health care: The sustainability of community general practice in the Waikato
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Community general practice is the cornerstone of New Zealand’s health system, providing first contact health care, care coordination and acting as gatekeeper to expensive hospital services. An ageing population now brings ... -
Hearing their voices : the perceptions of children and adults about learning in health education
(The University of Waikato, 2003)Children were the central focus of this study which was grounded in a belief that children’s voices should be listened to and heard, in particular about their perceptions about their health and health education in schools. ... -
Spatial Hypermedia as a programming environment
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis investigates the possibilities opened to a programmer when their programming environment not only utilises Spatial Hypermedia functionality, but embraces it as a core component. Designed and built to explore ... -
Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Saskatchewan Canada: A comparative study
(The University of Waikato, 2018)For more than two decades, components of Māori knowledges in the form of Māori words and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that engages Māori words and concepts resonates with ... -
Hei oranga mo ngā wāhine hapū (o Hauraki) i roto i te whare ora
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This thesis had four-main objectives. In the first instance, it aimed to improve understanding of psychosocial variables which may mediate the quality of Māori childbirth experience, namely: social support, coping strategies, ... -
Art, the aesthetics, and ethics of tattooing at flax roots tattoo studio
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Flax Roots Tattoo Studio, a tattoo business in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, offers clients different styles of tattooing to choose from, i.e. Moko, Traditional European, Portrait, and Traditional American. Tattoo artists ... -
Street-level bureaucracy and occupational therapy practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. A genealogical critique.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)As a human science that is also part of administering and supporting bureaucracy, occupational therapy functions in multi-layered networks of power that support many different social structures. Occupational therapists’ ... -
Surface tension : place/poverty/policy : from "poverty" to "social exclusion" : implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999
(The University of Waikato, 1999)This dissertation addresses four substantive issues or arguments that are linked in an interdisciplinary discussion informed by contemporary feminist and cultural geographies, feminist political philosophy, policy studies ... -
The effects of common carp on zooplankton communities using morphological and molecular techniques
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Understanding the factors causing a decline of water quality is important to ecologists, but particularly challenging given the complexity of natural systems. New Zealand’s freshwater ecosystems are under threat from ...
