Buscador de Tesis y publicaciones académicas

Tesis doctoral 2027

Dwelling in policy: Tourism development, glocalisation, and the remaking of Mosuo Homes at Lugu Lake

Qin, Yuan

This thesis explores how tourism policy becomes part of everyday life within Mosuo households at Lugu Lake, a border region straddling Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in southwest China. Around the lake, policies arrive through a range of tourism-related regulatory measures, including environmental regulations, building r...

Tourism policy Lugu Lake Matrilineal households Ethnography

• University of Otago
• English
• DOI: 10.82348/our-archive.00348

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Rest-activity rhythm, positive affect, and cognitive function in older adults

Zhang, Meina

The third paper examines the associations between positive affect and RAR in older adults. Using data from 308 participants in Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II) study, this paper explores how positive affect correlates with key RAR parameters: mesor (average activity level), amplitude (maximum activit...

social sciences psychology and cognitive sciences

• English
• DOI: 10.25820/etd.007864

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Encapsulating sorptive materials and biodegrading microorganisms in composite alginate bead geomedia to capture and remove stormwater trace organics and nutrients

Tanmoy, Debojit S

Urban areas covered with impervious surfaces generate rapid and intense runoff during rain events and/or after snowmelts. Urban stormwater runoff is known to contain complex mixtures of both dissolved phase and particle-bound pollutants that degrade water quality of receiving waterbodies. The mixture of pollutants freq...

Bioaugmentation Pollutant sorption environmental biotechnology Fungal and bacterial biodegradation

• English
• DOI: 10.25820/etd.008154

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Dental caries management using a bioactive dual-action peptide

Fu, Yipeng

Dental caries remains a global health challenge, driven by bacterial acid production and characterised by a dynamic balance between demineralisation and remineralisation. Root caries presents significant challenges in dental practice due to its complexity and the need for careful restorative management. Current caries...

basic medicine Streptococcus mutans medical and health sciences antimicrobial peptides

• University of Otago
• English
• DOI: 10.82348/our-archive.00068

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Will giant kelp (Macrocystis) establish in Antarctica in the future?

Liu, Xiaoyue Pluto

Contemporary environmental change is reshaping species’ distribution ranges at an unprecedented rate and scale, yet responses in the Southern Hemisphere, and in the ocean, remain far less understood than in the Northern Hemisphere and on land. With the High Seas Treaty coming into force in January 2026, there is an urg...

biological sciences kelp population genomics species distribution model

• University of Otago
• English
• DOI: 10.82348/our-archive.00339

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Break-induced replication as a DNA double-strand break repair pathway

Twarowski, Jerzy Mateusz

Additionally, this research investigated a related and poorly understood error-prone DNA repair pathway called Microhomology-Mediated BIR (MMBIR). MMBIR has been proposed to utilize short regions of microhomology to promote polymerase template switching leading to templated insertions and rearrangements that underly ne...

health sciences medical and health sciences Break-Induced Replication (BIR) Meiosis

• The University of Iowa
• English
• DOI: 10.25820/etd.008158

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Alternations of sensory perception, eating behaviour, and dietary patterns during pregnancy

Agbor Epse Muluh, Elizabeth Tabe

Pregnancy is often described as a period of heightened smell and altered taste, accompanied by food aversions and cravings that are thought to significantly influence dietary changes. However, empirical evidence has been inconsistent, partly because different sensory outcomes (e.g., detection, identification, discrimin...

Chemosensory Perception Food Cravings Pregnancy Eating behaviour

• University of Otago
• English
• DOI: 10.82348/our-archive.00404

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Three Essays on Applied Econometrics

Zhao, Bin

The first chapter investigates the long-term legacy of China’s family planning policies on intergenerational mobility. Drawing on a large-scale intergenerational dataset, it reveals how coercive fertility controls inadvertently reallocated resources across classes, thereby reshaping the landscape of social mobility. Th...

China Family Planning economics and business social sciences

• English
• DOI: 10.7273/000007503

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Impact of integrating response time into item response theory models on educational assessment

Park, Jun Hee

Three comparisons were conducted by using empirical dataset: (1) 2PNO versus hierarchical modeling under the timed condition, (2) 2PNO versus hierarchical modeling under the untimed condition, and (3) comparisons between timed and untimed tests. Results indicate that incorporating response time changed item and person...

Untimed test sociology Item Response Theory social sciences

• The University of Iowa
• English
• DOI: 10.25820/etd.008339

Ver ficha

Tesis doctoral 2027

Evolution: How We Use It, and How It Works Around Us

Patterson, MacKenzie

Natural evolution can be artificially accelerated and fine-tuned in a process called directed evolution (DE) to engineer biocatalysts with desired properties. Diversification, screening, and selection methods are user-defined, and the resultant engineered enzymes have been employed in a broad range of applications, fro...

• English
• DOI: 10.48617/etd.1423

Ver ficha