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The potential and the limits of mindfulness: When and for whom is it beneficial?
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Mindfulness is an inherent human capacity that is characterised as present moment awareness while maintaining an accepting and nonjudgmental stance. Mindfulness is related to better self-regulation and it enables individuals ... -
The role of law in climate change mitigation in oil and gas production
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Scientific evidence and ideas about climate change suggest the need for a global energy shift from oil and fossil fuels to renewables and other forms of clean energy. This transition will not be possible without understanding ... -
"But I still love him": Women talk about love and violence, and counsellors respond
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This feminist research enacts a new materialist performance of theory/practice that investigates love-entangled-with-violence in intimate heterosexual partner relationship. The study investigates the double dilemma of a ... -
Epidemiological evidence that can help to improve timely diagnosis of colorectal cancer in New Zealand.
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Incidence rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) in New Zealand (NZ) are among the highest in the world. The long-term survival rates in NZ are poor, which has partially been attributed to late diagnosis. Considering that CRC ... -
Remote sensing of dynamics and aboveground biomass of seagrass in Tauranga Harbor (Bay of Plenty), New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Seagrasses are angiosperm plants that are completely adapted to life in seawater. They are distributed widely across the climatic regions, ranging from the tropics to temperate regions, in both inter-tidal and sub-tidal ... -
Complex uncertainty: Long-term risk management decision making in New Zealand local government
(The University of Waikato, 2021)New Zealand’s natural hazardscape has long posed risks for government owned water infrastructure and its stakeholder communities. In the context of climate change, there are predictions that the frequency and intensity of ... -
Resilience in the context of learning English as a foreign language in Vietnam: An exploratory study using complex dynamic systems theory
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Learning a second/foreign language can be an arduous process during which the language learner may encounter many challenges both from the context and from within. To maintain the learning process and to succeed, it seems ... -
The nature, value and paradoxes of pleasure
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis addresses some of the most important objections to Prudential Hedonism. Prudential Hedonism is a theory of wellbeing⎯the good life for the one living it. Substantively, Prudential Hedonism consists in the claim ... -
Speaking Through Sacrifice: Rhetorical and Social Functions of Sacrifice within Long-Form Contemporary Fantasy Literature
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Long-form contemporary fantasy narratives present the opportunity for readers to immerse themselves in worlds both different from and resonant with our own. These narratives are fundamentally invested in questions of how ... -
Design of SCALDO based high-current DC power supply
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Supercapacitor assisted (SCA) techniques are primarily based on supercapacitors having in the order of one million times more capacitance, together with one to two orders of magnitude smaller equivalent series resistance ... -
Women’s equality—stalled or achieved? An intersectional analysis of New Zealand women’s experiences of (in)equality and perceptions of feminism
(The University of Waikato, 2021)A statement made in 2013 by Professor Judy McGregor, the former Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, suggested that equality for women in New Zealand had stalled, and that ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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; ... -
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 ...
