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(Thesis, Master of Dance Studies, 2009)
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(Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2002)Throughout the world participation in sport and physical activity is considered to be one of the most important leisure time activities among adolescents (e.g. Rees, Brettschneider & Brandl-Bredenbeck, 1998; Eitzen & Sage, ...
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(Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2011)Background: Arterial and central venous blood pressures are reduced following exercise, which contributes to exercise being a key anti-hypertensive therapy and facilitates expansion of blood volume. However, the effects ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies '02, as a case study into the production of global queer citizenship. In the existing body of work around the Gay Games they are analysed as an international gay ...
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(Thesis, Masters of Art, 1998)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Boys Go Bush elucidates the lived experiences of adolescent males encountering a two-day, two-night solitary experience (solo) in the New Zealand bush. A hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry framework (van Manen, 1997) was ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)The climate of sport has been undervalued as a contributing factor in athletes' achievement of quality performances (Strean, 1995). Subsequently, the aim of this study was to generate insight into the climate created by ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)Human movement is mostly multi-articular in nature, involving numerous joint movement possibilities. This complexity in human movement has provided a theoretical challenge for movement scientists to comprehend the underlying ... -
(Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2013)Decision making theory has been applied to many facets of professional and group behaviour. However, in the field of outdoor leadership, it is still an emerging theory. Although there is considerable literature regarding ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004)
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(Conference or Workshop Item (Oral presentation), 19th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter?), 2007)To understand the mechanisms underlying a successful team, one must first understand the circumstances leading to successful performance outcomes (i.e., point/goal scoring events). However, tracking player performance in ... -
(Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2012)Normative discourses of disability, gender and human development inevitably contour a young person’s physical education and sport experience. If schooling is to meet the needs and interests of all, then it would seem ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)The purpose of this study was to investigate what effect the size and location of skeletal muscle mass have on the source of glucose oxidised with a specific emphasis on plasma glucose, and to find out how pre-exercise ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)The maintenance of adequate cerebral blood flow (CBF) is important both acutely and chronically, is highly dependent on mean arterial pressure (MAP) and the partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide (PaCO2), and can be ... -
(Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2012)Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer in New Zealand women. As the number of women surviving breast cancer increases, the resultant implications for the health system make research into the physical and ...
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(Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2010)Research investigating substrate metabolism during exercise with female participants is limited, especially regarding effects of cold stress. The aims of this study were to determine whether exercising in cold ambient ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)Purpose: To compare the effects of aquatic-based and land-based exercise training on fat oxidation in overweight and obese women. Methods: Twenty healthy, overweight and obese women were randomly assigned to, and completed ... -
The environmental beliefs, values and programmes of New Zealand outdoor tertiary education teachers. (Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2011)Throughout the world, there is increasing concern about the effects of climate change and the impact of a growing human population on the earth’s natural resources. In order to understand how these concerns are impacting ... -
(Thesis, Master of Physical Education, 2011)Policies aiming to enhance sport participation and physical activity are prone to change and highly influenced by shifting government priorities. This thesis intended to investigate the effects, consequences and trade-offs ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004)This study contributes to the growing body of knowledge addressing the operations of multinational corporations at the global-local nexus and their commodification of national identity (Miller, Lawrence, McKay, & Rowe, ...
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