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Browsing Thesis - Doctoral by Date Added
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Iatrogenic nerve injury causes distress and disability, often leading to litigation. To date, the scale and profile of these injuries can only be estimated from published case reports or series, and medico-legal claims ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)The pubic symphysis is a fibrocartilaginous joint that unites the two pubic bones at the pelvis anteriorly, and is stabilised by surrounding ligaments. Pain in the region of the pubic symphysis, also known as symphyseal ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Clinical Dentistry, 2010)Background: White spot lesions (WSLs) on dental enamel have been an ongoing dilemma for orthodontists. Patients with fixed orthodontic appliances (braces) appear to have significantly more WSLs. Past research has explored ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)Some lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are capable of growing on stored meat and inhibiting pathogenic and spoilage bacteria of concern to the meat industry using a range of mechanisms including general competition and/or the ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2003)Purpose: The research investigated the effects and costs of two different approaches to pelvic floor muscle training for women with stress urinary incontinence. Background: Although several models of continence have ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Photosystem II is a large protein complex that catalyses the light-driven oxidation of water. The biogenesis of Photosystem II is a regulated process that involves transient interactions between Photosystem II and dedicated ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Phosphorus (P) compounds play a vital rule in living processes and are essential not only for hereditary processes, but for the growth, development, and maintenance of all plants and animals. Current biogeochemical models ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1972)Bacteriophage T5 possesses a double-stranded DNA molecule containing single-strand interruptions and, as a result, denatured T5 DNA consists of a number of single-stranded DNA fragments. The objectives of this investigation ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Juveniles have limited foraging ability compared to adults, due to physiological, morphological and behavioural constraints that ultimately affect their fitness and survival. Therefore, constraints on juvenile foraging ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008)Established in 1880 the Canterbury Society of Arts (CSA) dominated the arts in Canterbury for nearly a century and was the most significant art society in New Zealand. This thesis examines the CSA's history from 1880 to ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1992)Endogenous steroid hormones have long been considered to play a role in the development of breast cancer in women. Thus the introduction and widespread use, by otherwise healthy women, of contraceptive preparations containing ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Science, 1997)The candidate has worked for 27 years in the area of wind energy research. During that time he has been the coordinator of the University of Otago Wind Energy Group. This Thesis collates those items of the Group's published ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1977)The Takitimu Group consists of Lower Permian basaltic, andesitic and rhyodacitic lava flows, primary and redeposited pyroclastic rocks and epiclastic sediments. Two suites of intrusive rocks cut the Takitimu Group strata ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)Elevated low density lipoprotein (LDL) and lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) levels are independent risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease. Lp(a) transgenic mice can be generated by cross-breeding human apolipoprotein ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1994)The object of this thesis is to contribute to a neglected area of musical scholarship, that of music and performance practice in late 16th-century Rome. Annibale Stabile, the composer chosen as the vehicle for this study, ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008)AIMS: HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) in New Zealand increased from the year 2001. The aim of the thesis was to improve understandings of the causes of the increase, in order to inform HIV prevention ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Initially drawing on the field of cultural safety and cultural competency, indigenous health has developed as a subject in its own right, defined from the perspective of indigenous populations. Current Australian and ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1981)Until recently, it was generally assumed that Luigi Boccherini's six published sonatas for the cello were his only works for the medium. The publication, however, of a Thematic, Biographical and Critical Catalogue of the ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)This thesis offers an alternative answer to a purported enigma, the meaning of ἁρπαγμόν in Philippians 2:6. Solutions which are based on the supposed synonymity of that word with ἅρπαγμα (such as those of Lightfoot 1868 ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Obesity discourses are shaping us. Amidst an avowed obesity ‘epidemic’, we are all considered at-risk, hailed to understand ourselves as such, and persuaded that we have the capability to author our bodies in a desired/required ...
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