Shaw-Brown, Helen Stewart(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2013)
Effective professional supervision (PS) offers nurses the opportunity to develop both personally and professionally through formal conversations with a trained supervisor. Perceived benefits, in the situation of efficacious ...
Strategies which raise levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) are attracting increasing interest, based on the well-established inverse relationship between HDL levels and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, recent ...
Keer-Keer, Trudy(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2013)
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a disorder of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) that causes fatigue and fluctuating muscle weakness. The physiology of this disease is well understood and there are numerous medically focused ...
Annear, Michael James(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)
This thesis explores how the physical and social environmental conditions of urban areas potentially influence active ageing among independently living older adults in Christchurch, New Zealand. The research coincided with ...
Kuiper, Caroline(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)
Cancer cells within a solid tumour are often under considerable metabolic stress, which would normally signal cell death. However, cancer cells are able to adapt and survive their inhospitable microenvironment by activating ...