Dean's List of Exceptional Theses

Nurudeen Adedayo Adegoke
2019, Doctor of Philosophy
Contributions to improve the power, efficiency and scope of control-chart methods
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Susanne Bauer
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Arts)
The Quarry
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Andrew Drain
2019, Doctor of Philosophy
Creative Capacity Building: Enhancing Participatory Design with Rural Cambodian Farmers
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Johnrev Guilaran
2019, Doctor of Philosophy
The effects of received social support on posttraumatic stress symptoms and social adjustment of New Zealand and Philippine emergency responders
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Rhiannon Handcock
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Animal Science)
Live weight and growth of dairy heifers are important for subsequent milk production and reproductive performance
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Berit Hassing
2019, Doctor of Philosophy
Genetic analysis of candidate genes that regulate the Epichloë festucae-Lolium perenne mutualistic symbiotic interaction
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Peter Jeszenszki
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Physics)
Accurate calculation of ultracold quantum gases with Full Configurational Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo method
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Miriam Ketu-McKenzie
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology)
Adverse childhood experiences, HPA axis functioning and culturally enhanced mindfulness therapy among Māori women in New Zealand
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Monica Koia
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Public Health)
He Pito Ora: Exploring the Role of Māori Cancer Navigators
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Daniel Konings
2019, Doctor of Philosophy
Indoor Localization Utilizing Existing Infrastructure in Smart Homes

Rhonda McKelvie
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing)
Where we are and how we got here: An institutional ethnography of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project in New Zealand
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Diane Muller
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Public Health)
Social Determinants of Preschoolers' Sleep Health in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Mixed Methods Study
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Arup Nag
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Food Technology)
Studies on the stability of probiotic bacteria during long term storage
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~ Naren
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Microbiology & Genetics)
Regulation of histidine catabolism in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25
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Natalie Slade
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Development Studies)
(De)constructing 'refugeeness': Exploring mediated discourses of hospitality, welcome and refugee (self)representation in New Zealand
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Odile Rosette Smits
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Physics)
Melting temperatures of the noble gases from ab-initio monte carlo simulations
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Omid Taheri Qazvini
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Chemistry)
Metal-Organic Frameworks for Selective Gas Separation
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Lukas Trombach
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Chemistry)
From Mathematical Models to Quantum Chemistry in Cluster Science
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Tiffany Vague
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Social Work)
The sexual stories of adults who have lived in out-of-home care as young people
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Shuyan Wu
2019, Doctor of Philosophy (Food Science)
Persistence of Listeria monocytogenes in response to a natural antimicrobial, nisin
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Jessica Bignell
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Social Anthropology)
Political Messaging, Parliament, and People Or, Why Politicians Say What They Do: The Parliamentary Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in 2013
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Majela Gonzalez Miro
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Microbiology)
Polyhydroxyalkanoate beads as a particulate vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis
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David Jaud
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Marketing)
What Makes a Good Label? The Effect of Wine Label Design on Product Evaluation and Purchasing Behaviour
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Amie Lennox Townsend
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Social Anthropology)
Human trafficking in Mindanao: personal narratives and local perspectives
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Murray MacRae
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Marketing)
Forecasting the Decline of Superseded Technologies: A comparison of alternative methods to forecast the decline phase of technologies
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Jessica Reedy
2018, Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Psychology)
Women's Refuge clients' experience of social responses to domestic violence and interventions informed by Response-Based Practice
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Karen Seccombe
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Arts)
the clarity of light. Self-representation through art making: a personal response to the social justice work of WAI the Women's Art Initiative collect
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Sam Trubridge
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Arts)
Pelagic States: beyond nomadic and oceanic practices
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Daniel Wildy
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (History)
Reeling Them In: Printed New Zealand Army Recruiting Material 1899-1999
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Muhammad Anwar
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
Measurement of True Ileal Calcium Digestibility of Feed Ingredients for Broiler Chickens
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Mallory Crookenden
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
A study of circulating neutrophils and exosomes associated with innate immune function in the periparturient grazing dairy cow
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Elizabeth Daly
2017, Doctor of Philosophy (Ecology)
Fine scale population structure through space and time.
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Lisanne Fermin
2017, Doctor of Philosophy (Animal Science)
Pre-implantation maternal uterine effects on embryo growth and development: An investigation using models of maternal constraint in sheep
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Tahlia Fisher
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
Cleared to Disconnect? A Study of the Interaction between Airline Pilots and Line Maintenance Engineers
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Jane Hurst
2017, Doctor of Philosophy (Management)
It's all about relationships: Women managing women and the impact on their careers
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Nicola Kells
2017, Doctor of Philosophy (Veterinary Science)
Acute nociception in neonatal pigs undergoing tail docking: Influence of docking method and age, evaluation of pain mitigation strategies, and assessment of the potential for longer-term pain
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Pauline Knuckey
2017, Doctor of Philosophy (History)
Movie-going in New Zealand, 1950-1980
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Lai Yin Leong
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
Exploring the effects of outdoor activities and connectedness with nature on cognitive styles and creativity
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Ariadne Menzel
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
Making Meaning through Movement: Hiking the Cathar Trail in the South of France
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Heather Nunns
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
The practice of evaluative reasoning in the Aotearoa New Zealand public sector
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Nirosha Pitakande Gedara
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
Wavelet-Based Birdsong Recognition for Conservation
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Marta Rychert
2017, Doctor of Philosophy (Public Health)
A critical analysis of New Zealand's Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 and its implementation process
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Silvia Schwartz
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
Investigating the role of Histone Deacetylase HDAC4 in long-term memory formation
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Aaron Stafford
2017, Doctor of Philosophy
Distribution of cadmium in long-term dairy soils, its accumulation in selected plant species, and the implications for management and mitigation
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Paul Beumelburg
2016, PhD (Arts)
Apiianga no te oraanga akapuapinga e te taporoporo i te ipukarea: Education as Sustainable Development: Mangaia, Cook Islands.
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Eric Breard
2016, PhD (Earth Sciences)
Dynamics of Pyroclastic Density Currents
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Antoinette Danso
2016, PhD (Science)
Nutrient utilisation, growth and chemical body composition of pre-weaned lambs reared artificially: Effects of feeding milk replacer and pellets
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Sarah Dodds
2016, PhD (Marketing)
Consumer Value and Value Co-creation in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Health Services
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Hemant Ghayvat
2016, PhD (Science)
Wellness Protocol: An Integrated Framework for Ambient Assisted Living
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Eva McVitty
2016, PhD (Arts)
Treason, Manhood, and the English State. Shaping constitutional ideas and political subjects through the laws of treason, 1397-1424
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Elizabeth Norman
2016, Doctor of Education
Judging competency: A study of in-training evaluation of veterinary students
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Siwen Pan
2016, PhD (Economics)
Frontiers in Decision Theory
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Devastotra Poddar
2016, PhD (Food Technology)
Stability of the probiotic Lactobacillus paracasei CRL 431 under different environmental conditions
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Kate Richardson
2016, PhD (Conservation Biology)
Dispersal: The effects of phenotype and habitat selection in reintroduced populations
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Hwee Ming Teo
2016, PhD (Food Technology)
Development of novel nanoemulsions as delivery systems
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Matthew Wilkins
2016, PhD (Mathematics)
Symplectic Integrations for Vakonomic Equations and For Multi-Hamiltonian Equations
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Kate Blackwood
2015, PhD (Human resource Management)
Workplace bullying in the New Zealand Nursing Profession: The case for a tailored approach to intervention
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Johanna Emeney
2015, PhD (English)
Biomedical Discourse and the Discourse of the Lifeworld in Contemporary New Zealand Poetry on a Medical Theme
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Bevan Erueti
2015, PhD (Management)
NGA KAIPARA MAORI: NGA PUMAHARA O TE TUAKIRI MAORI ME TE AO HAKINAKINA Maori Athletes: Perceptions of Maori Identity and Elite Sport Participation
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Hossein Ghani Zadeh
2015, PhD (Plant Science)
Aspects of Herbicide Resistance in Three New Zealand Weed Species
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Rosemary Gibson
2015, PhD (Psychology)
Understanding and Managing Dementia-Related Sleep Problems: Community-Based Research with Older New Zealanders
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Elizabeth Grant
2015, PhD (Fine Arts)
Bronze as a non-customary intervention in the interpretation of insects from the natural world of Maori
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Elsa Guillot
2015, PhD (Statistics)
Modelling the role of social structures in population genetics
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Karen Khayat
2015, Doctor of Education ( )
Inclusive Education Policy, Practice and Progress: A Transformative Analysis of Three Middle East Countries
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David Littlewood
2015, PhD (History)
The Tool and Instrument of the Military?: The Operations of the Military Service Tribunals in the East Central Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire and those of the Military Service Boards in New Zealand, 1916-1918
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Lujia Liu
2015, PhD (Chemistry)
Multi-Component Metal-Organic Frameworks
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Bernard Phiri
2015, PhD (Agri-Horticulture)
Estimating the public health risk associated with drinking water in New Zealand
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Hinurewa Poutu
2015, PhD (Education)
Kia Tiori nga Pipi: Ma te aha e korero Maori ai nga taitamariki o nga wharekura o Te Aho Matua?
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Suresh Rajput
2015, PhD (Finance)
Pattern Recognition Techniques and Financial Analysis
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Robert Taylor
2015, PhD (Psychology)
Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of Criterion Variance in Probabilistic Categorisation as an Analogue to Signal Detection
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Matthew Williams
2015, PhD (Psychology)
How well do psychologists' research methods equip them to identify the impacts of climate change on behaviour? A methodological investigation with particular reference to the effects of temperature on violent behaviour
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Melle Wietze De Boer
2014, PhD (Animal science)
Aetiology and consequences of reproductive tract diseases in dairy cows
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Mark Farnworth
2014, PhD (Veterinary science)
Pain assessment and alleviation in the domestic cat (Felis catus)
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Jane Hardcastle
2014, Doctor of Education (Doctor of Education)
Understanding Preparedness: The Influence of Teaching and Learning Experience on Bioscience Integration by Nursing Lecturers
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Ali Intezari Harsini
2014, PhD (Management)
Wisdom and decision making: Grounding theory in management practice
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Victoria Johnson
2014, PhD (Psychology)
Evaluating Disaster Education Programs for Children
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Eleanor Kahu
2014, PhD (Psychology)
Inviting study in: The engagement of mature-aged distance students in the transition to university
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Van Long Nguyen
2014, PhD (Veterinary Epidemiology)
The Epidemiology of Avian Influenza in the Mekong River Delta of Viet Nam.
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Acushla O'Carroll
2014, PhD (Health)
Kanoi ki te kanohi - a thing of the past? An examination of Maori use of social networking sites and the implication for Maori culture and society
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Sally Potter
2014, PhD (Emergency Management)
Communicating the Status of Volcanic Activity in New Zealand, With Specific Application to Caldera Unrest
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Ann Rogerson
2014, PhD (Psychology)
Transforming feminist care ethics: Tracing (un)memorable mother-daughter relations through psychoanalytic inquiry
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Brielle Rosa
2014, PhD (Veterinary science)
Maternal Exercise During Pregnancy Affects the Rat Musculoskeletal System and Indicies of Energy Metabolism
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Nagender Suryadevara
2014, PhD (Computer Science and Engineering)
Real-Time Fusion of Wireless Sensor Network Data for Wellness Determination of the Elderly in a Smart Home
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Stacey Wilson
2014, PhD (Nursing)
Mental health crisis intervention: A discourse analysis involving service users, families, nurses and the police
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Bojian Zhong
2014, PhD (Genetics)
Phylogenomics and Plant Evolution
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Denise Blake
2013, PhD (Psychology)
Wade in the Water: Storying Adoptees Experiences through the Adoption Act 1955
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Rebecca Bloomer
2013, PhD (Plant Biology)
The molecular genetic basis of natural variation in trichome density in Arabidopsis Thaliana
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Ann Boston
2013, Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Doctor of Clinical Psychology)
Health anxiety and older adults: A cross sectional study comparing predictors of health anxiety between an older and younger cohort
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Lauren Callow
2013, Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults and its Relationship to Quality of Life

Gemma Cartwright
2013, PhD (Genetics)
Redox regulation of an AP-1-like transcription factor, YapA, in the fungal symbiont Epichloe festucae
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Herath Herath
2013, PhD (Soil and Enviromental Sciences)
The Water Footprint of Agricultural Products in New Zealand: The Impacts of Primary Production on Water Resources
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Saman Herath Mudiyanselage
2013, PhD (Soil science)
Stability of Biochar and its Influence on the Dynamics of Soil Properties
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Amy Van Wey Lovatt
2013, PhD (Nutrition )
Mathematical models of biofilm growth and food particle degradation in the gastrointestinal tract
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Elizabeth Yan
2013, Doctor of Clinical Psychology ( )
Children's Emotion Regulation in Unfair Situations: Using Regulatory Focus Theory
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Mohd Syaifudin Abdul Rahman
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
Novel planar interdigital sensors for the detection of bacterial endotoxins

Shailesh Agrawal
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
Evaporative Crystallization of Alpha-Lactose Monohydrate

Francis Amagloh
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
Sweetpotato-based complementary food for infants in Ghana

Jesse Conklin
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
Extreme migration and the annual cycle: Individual strategies in New Zealand Bar-tailed Godwits

Andrew Dickson
2012, PhD
The Other Side of Weight Loss: A Lacanian Autoethonography of Weight-anxiety
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Muhammad Khurram
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
VLSI Design, Fabrication and Testing of An Ultra Wideband Low Noise Amplifier Microchip using Nanometric CMOS Technology

Natalia Pardo Villaveces
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
Andesitic Plinian Eruptions at Mt. Ruapehu (New Zealand): from Lithofacies to Eruption Dynamics

Wooi Chee Soo
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
Enzyme promiscuity and the origins of cellular innovations

Teo Susnjak
2012, Doctor of Philosophy
Efficient boosted ensemble-based machine learning in the context of cascaded frameworks

Catherine Campbell
2011, PhD (Social Work and Social Policy)
A Study of the Career Pathways of Canadian Young Adults During the Decade After Secondary School Graduation
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John Di Stefano
2011, PhD (Fine Arts)
Moving images of home
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Scott Hutchings
2011, PhD (Food Science)
Oral processing of heterogeneous foods
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Arno Leist
2011, Doctor of Philosophy
Data-Parallel Simulation and Analysis of Complex Systems With Irregular Graph Structures

Ninya Maubach
2011, PhD (Marketing)
The effects of front-of-pack nutrition information and product claims on consumers' product evaluations and choice behaviour
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Sarah McWha
2011, PhD (Psychology)
What's in a Name? Job categorisation, relationship-building, and work motivation in aid organisations.
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Daniel Playne
2011, PhD (Computer Science)
Generative Programming Methods for Parallel Partial Differential Field Equation Solvers
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Zachary Schlader
2011, PhD (Sport and Exercise)
Human Behavioral Temperature Regulation: An Exercise Approach
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Adi Vudiniabola
2011, PhD (Nursing)
The Fijian Diploma of Nursing curriculum: An indigenous case study of a curriculum change
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Nicholas Albert
2010, PhD (Plant Molecular Biology)
Two novel MYB transcriptional activators regulate floral and vegetative anthocyanin pigmentation patterns in petuna
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Darryl Cochrane
2010, PhD (Sport & Exercise Science)
The effect of vibration exercise on aspects of muscle physiology and muscular performance
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Michael Easden
2010, PhD (Psychology)
The relationship between case conceptualization and homework in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression.
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Kimberly Falconer
2010, Doctor of Clinical Psychology
"Is the Black Dog Really a Dalmation?"
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Petrina Hargrave
2010, PhD (Psychology)
Sudden death: The impact of the immediate aftermath on police officers, victim support workers and bereaved survivors
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Margaret Hartnett
2010, PhD (Education)
Motivation to learn in online environments: An exploration of two tertiary education contexts
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Christine Kenney
2010, PhD (Midwifery)
Me aro ki te ha o hineahuone: Women, miscarriage stories and midwifery: Towards a contextually relevant research methodology
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John Noone
2010, PhD (Psychology)
Psychological and socioeconomic factors influencing men and women's planning for retirement
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Mieke Sachsenweger
2010, Doctor of Clinical Psychology
The impact of attributional style and homework experiences in cognitive behaviour therapy for depression: A longitudinal investigation employing multilevel analysis
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Anwesha Sarkar
2010, PhD (Food Technology)
Behaviour of milk protein-stabilized oil-in-water emulsions in simulated physiological fluids
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Carlene Starck
2010, PhD (Biochemistry)
The human myostatin precursor protein: Structure, function and amyloid formation: Implications for the muscle wastage disease sporadic inclusion body myositis
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Kawtar Tani
2010, Doctor of Philosophy
Under-reporting in aviation: An investigation of factors that affect reporting of safety concerns

Ting Wang
2010, PhD (Statistics)
Statistical models for earthquakes incorporating ancillary data
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Trisia Farrelly
2009, PhD (Social Anthropology)
Business Va'avanua: Cultural Hybridisation and Indigenous Entrepreneurship in the Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji
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Sharleen Harper
2009, PhD (Mathematics)
Mathematical models for dispersal of aerosol droplets in an agricultural setting
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Andreas Hermann
2009, PhD (Physics)
Ab initio calculations of water and ice: Structural, electronic, and optical properties
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Alison Kearney
2009, PhD (Education)
Barriers to school inclusion: An investigation into the exclusion of disabled students from and within New Zealand schools
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Bambang Kusumo
2009, PhD (Soil Sciences)
Development of field techniques to predict soil carbon, soil nitrogen and root density from soil spectral reflectance
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Song Shi
2009, PhD (Business)
Monthly house price indicies and their applications in New Zealand
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