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Aminophosphine Reduction Mechanisms and the Synthesis of Indium Phosphide Nanomaterials
Authors:   , Laufersky Geoffry 
Published: December 2021

<p>Indium phosphide (InP) nanomaterials are attractive for countless technological applications due to their well-placed band gap energies. The quantum confinement of these semiconductors can give rise to size-dependent absorption and emission features throughout the entire visible spectrum. Therefore, InP materials can be employed as low-toxicity fluorophores that can be implemented in high value avenues such as biological probes, lighting applications, and lasing technologies. However, large scale development of these quantum dots (QDs) has been stymied by the lack of affordable and safe phosphorus precursors. Syntheses have largely been restricted to the use of dangerous chemicals such as tris(trimethylsilyl)phosphine ((TMS)₃P), which is costly and highly sensitive to oxygen and water. Recently, less-hazardous tris(dialkylamino)phosphines have been introduced to produce InP QDs on par with those utilizing (TMS)₃P. However, a poor understanding of the reaction mechanics has resulted in difficulties tuning and optimizing this method. In this work, density functional theory (DFT) is used to identify the mechanism of this aminophosphine precursor conversion. This understanding is then implemented to design an improved InP QD synthesis, allowing for the production of high-quality materials outside of glovebox conditions. Time is spent understanding the impact of different precursor salts on the reaction mechanisms and discerning their subsequent effects on nanoparticle size and quality. The motivation of this work is to formulate safer and less technical indium phosphide quantum dot syntheses to foster non-specialist and industrial implementation of these materials.</p>
The role of using technology within music therapy sessions with pre-school children who have physical disabilities at a conductive education centre in New Zealand
Authors:   , Gao Yutong 
Published: December 2021

<p>The objective of this thesis was to explore the role of using technology within music therapy sessions for children who have physical disabilities. This research used secondary secondary analysis of clinical data to find the role of technology within mu clinical practice. Data included clinical notes, and my own reflective journal from February to September in 2018. I used thematic analysis to uncover themes from my data. Five themes were found that indicate that technology can positively contribute to music therapy sessions. In particular, the research has identified that technologies can be used to support cognitive development, communication efforts, emotional reactions, motor skills, and sensory stimulation for children. The research will contribute to current debates around the role of technology in music therapy sessions to further support children with physical disabilities.</p>
The Illustrated Chicano: Chicano Border Methodology in Practice
Authors:   , Franco William 
Published: December 2021

<p>What is Chicano Border Methodology? In my thesis I am answering this question by showing that this is a key part of my practice, and revisiting my past work and experiences to re-construct the development of this methodology. Chicano Border Methodology is a living methodology based on lived experience that is constantly in praxis, and not just theoretical. It is rooted in a knowledge space that is specific to a locality, La Frontera/US-Mexico border. I began to assemble the methodology using epistemological pluralism as the framework and modified this framework to produce a decolonising epistemological pluralism. Using the colonial matrix of power, this position questions the assumption of epistemic privilege of western knowledge production. Using a personal narrative structure, I start the re-construction process by describing the beginnings of my decolonising process with the re-discovery of my Chicano identity. I then describe the knowledge space developed along La Frontera/US-Mexico Border and how it shows up in my art practice. Looking at the concepts of decolonisation process, practice-led research, performative research and Kaupapa Māori, I contrast and analyse the position of my Chicano Border Methodology, highlighting the differences that make my Chicano Border Methodology unique. I go on to describe and analyse how I applied this methodology to the production of The Illustrated Chicano, an art installation that looks at issues of place, home and immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Illustrated Chicano, as a practical application of the Chicano Border Methodology, revealed that this methodology is robust and can be modified by Chicanos to match the specific needs of research areas, where a decolonising approach is required or beneficial to the outcome. I also explore how the community reacted to my installation built through the Chicano Border Methodology lens by documenting and analysing the community’s reaction to this work. I conclude with a discussion of the significance of local knowledge spaces, the value of different methodological models, and the flexibility of a decolonising epistemological pluralism framework, such as the Chicano Border Methodology.</p>
“Our dance is a celebration of the fabric of modern New Zealand”: Identity, Community, Solidarity and Citizenship at Youth Polyfests in Aotearoa New Zealand
Authors:   , Homolja Milica 
Published: December 2021

<p>One feature of the growing levels of cultural diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand has been the growth of cultural festivals. These originated primarily for Pacific groups to maintain and sustain cultural performance and traditions, but increasingly such festivals reflect the growing ethnic minority groups present in most of New Zealand’s large urban centres. Specific cultural festivals for school-aged young people are attended by thousands of young New Zealanders annually, yet to date have rarely been a feature of research. This study aimed to explore the role that cultural festivals may play in contributing to the identity, belonging and citizenship experiences of ethnic minority youth growing up in Aotearoa New Zealand. The thesis draws on ethnographic data obtained at three cultural festivals (Polyfests) for school-aged young people in 2018 (ASB Auckland Polyfest, Tu Tagata, Wellington and Northern Regional Polyfest, Porirua). Employing ethnographic participant observation, coupled with approaches drawn from ethnomusicology and dance ethnography, data collection included observation of speeches, public announcements and performances, dance moves and music, as well as on-the-fly discussions with festival performers and analysis of associated media (brochures, media reports, online articles). The festivals performances and their potential to enable spaces of possibility for identity-formation were analysed through Bhabha’s (1996) notion of ‘third-space’. The study drew attention to the way young performers strategically employed fusions of traditional and contemporary music and dance genres within their performances to articulate new ways of seeing themselves. These performances also served to maintain and validate ethnic and school-based identities, as well as to gain status and recognition by creating symbolic representations of the way that performers wished their cultural group to be viewed by audiences. Festival spaces also allowed cultural groups to consolidate homogenous (ethnic) solidarities as well as articulate new ways of seeing themselves as belonging through heterogenous (inter-ethnic) and school-based solidarities. The study underscores the significance of festival spaces as ‘counter-spaces’ in New Zealand society in which ethnic minority youth could experience (and create) identity-affirming, counter-hegemonic experiences outside of the dominant discourses frequently projected on them by White New Zealand.</p>
Three Essays on Corporate Governance in China
Authors:   , Chen Zonghao 
Published: December 2021

<p>This thesis consists of three empirical papers on corporate governance in Chinese listed firms. The first essay examines the influence of director characteristics and ownership structure on director compensation. Over the period 2005 through 2015, we find that director compensation in Chinese listed firms is influenced by both director characteristics and ownership structure. We measure director compensation by both the propensity to be paid and the level of compensation. For independent directors, we find that director busyness, tenure, and ownership concentration positively influence and state-ownership negatively influences director compensation. For non-independent directors, we find that tenure positively influences and that both state-ownership and related directors negatively influence director compensation. Lastly, our evidence suggests that women directors in China are not underpaid. The second essay examines the influence of rookie independent directors on board functions and firm performance in Chinese public companies from 2008 to 2014. We find that rookie independent directors attend more board meetings than seasoned independent directors. Independent directors with higher board meeting attendance are more likely to remain in the firm in the following year (lower turnover rate). This influence of board attendance on re-appointment is stronger for rookie independent directors. Further, we find that boards with more rookie independent directors tunnel less to controlling shareholders, suggesting that rookie independent directors are efficient monitors. Lastly, we find that firms with more rookie independent directors are associated with higher accounting returns. In the third essay, we investigate the influence of board networks on directors’ career outcomes in Chinese public firms from 2005 to 2014. We find that board connections increase compensation for independent directors. We find that board connections are positively associated with director turnover for non-related directors, but negatively associated with director turnover for related directors. Further, we find that board connections lead to additional future directorships. Overall, we find that board connections both directly lead to higher compensation and indirectly through labor mobility and additional board seats.</p>
Investigation of Mitochondrial Transfer between Human Erythroblasts
Authors:   , Lewer Brittany 
Published: December 2021

<p>The increasingly studied phenomenon of mitochondria transferring between cells contrasts the popular belief that mitochondria reside permanently within their cells of origin. Research has identified this process occurring in many tissues such as brain, lung and more recently within the bone marrow. This project aimed to investigate if mitochondria could be transferred between human erythroblasts, a context not previously studied. Tissue microenvironments can be modelled using co-culture systems. Fluorescence activated cell sorting and a highly sensitive Allele-Specific-Blocker qPCR assay were used to leverage mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms between co-cultured populations. Firstly, HL-60ρ₀ bone marrow cells, without mitochondrial DNA, deprived of essential nutrients pyruvate and uridine were co-cultured in vitro with HEL cells, a human erythroleukemia. Secondly, HEL cells treated with deferoxamine or cisplatin, were cocultured with parental HL-60 cells in vitro. Lastly, ex vivo co-cultures between erythroblasts differentiated from mononuclear cells in peripheral blood were conducted, where one population was treated with deferoxamine. Co-culture was able to improve recovery when HL-60ρ₀ cells were deprived of pyruvate and uridine. Improved recovery was similarly detected for HEL cells treated with deferoxamine after co-culture with HL-60 cells. Transfer of mitochondrial DNA did not occur at a detectable level in any co-culture condition tested. The high sensitivity of the allele-specific-blocker qPCR assay required completely pure populations to analyse, however this was not achieved using FACS techniques. In conclusion, results have not demonstrated but cannot exclude the possibility that erythroid cells transfer mitochondria to each other.</p>
Humanising Te Papa: Transforming what Te Papa does to the public life of the city
Authors:   , Boyd Paige 
Published: December 2021

<p>When a large public building is constructed within any landscape it is often found to create adverse affects on the public life surrounding it. This investigation focuses on Te Papa in Wellington, New Zealand. It employs design strategies that emerge from site observation, analysis and exploration of design and behaviour literature. Site observations are undertaken at various scales to determine the behaviours that occur in and around the site, and analysis of this provides an understanding of why such actions can happen and why others cannot. Exploration of the literature is employed to understand past approaches to this design problem and to inform the analysis process. Design testing allows ideas to be played out in hypothetical scenarios and the outcomes of which will be compared to past approaches. There is a strong focus on pedestrian movement as a catalyst of public life, in relation to the movement itself and the interactions people have with the surrounding environment when influenced by the movement flow. The overall goal of this thesis is to observe and analyse a large building in the public realm that, although is surrounded by movement, limits engagement in ways that results in a decrease of public life. The research leads to the exploration of how flows can be coordinated to generate eddies of interaction and pause and ways to activate and open up particular edges of this building in order to create new opportunities for the public to engage with the landscape. It finally attempts to find ways to not only create new public life, but also intensify the public life in this challenging situation.</p>
Tech-noiR: An Exploration of Interior Spaces in an Urban context generated by Emergent Technology
Authors:   , Jacob Daniel Sebastian 
Published: December 2021

<p>Poor pedestrian and transportation circulation, overpopulation, expensive cost of living—these are some of the issues inherent to any urban metropolis around the world. As cities develop and grow, more job opportunities open up for people, which leads to the increase in city population. This growth affects the city’s lifestyle, leading to overpopulation, poor circulation and expensive cost of living within the urban centre. Influenced by the concept ‘time is of the essence’, urban living has become synonymous to an autonomous service stuck within a loophole. This lifestyle, now further propelled by the presence of technology, can prove to be detrimental to the inhabitants’ comfort and well-being. In order to adapt to an impending future of the urban areas, an alternative to future urban living using technology with a minimal yet comfortable dwelling must be provided. The thesis proposes that emergent technology as a design-generating tool along with ergonomic design and depictions of visionary architecture are capable of producing an alternative to urban minimal dwellings in the future. It contends that these future urban minimal dwellings can be developed by: mapping and understanding emergent technologies potentially usable in interior architecture that can be developed into tools; collecting and analysing ergonomic principles and techniques appropriate to interior architecture; collecting and analysing literature about minimal dwelling in modern history; and analysing components and technologies used in depicted living spaces within selected filmography.</p>
Impact of Protean Career Attitudes on Career Outcomes via Job Crafting Behavior: A Serial Mediation Model
Authors: Ahmad Muhammad Bilal , Khan Mubbsher Munawar , Aamir Muhammad 
Published: December 2021

Purpose: The study proposes that the individuals with protean career attitudes employ best work practices through job crafting behaviors and attain desired career outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of protean career attitudes on career outcomes, i.e., Perceived Employability (PE) and Subjective Career Success (SCS) through job crafting behavior.
Methodology: The study has a quantitative, deductive research design that mainly focuses on the testation of the hypotheses. This study has been conducted on full-time faculty members of public and private sector Universities of Pakistan
Findings: The data from the employees working in the universities of Pakistan revealed that PCA has a positive impact on individual career outcomes. It was also found that there exists a pathway of serial mediation from job crafting towards perceived employability to achieve career success. The individuals who craft their jobs are more likely to enhance their employability, ultimately leading to career success. The study highlights the importance of PCA and Job Crafting behaviors, yet un-explored phenomena, for the employees for career development.
Implications: Employees who want to progress and develop their careers should actively engage in task crafting behavior in task crafting, relational crafting, or cognitive crafting.
Poverty Human Capital and Economic Development Nexus: A Case Study of Multan Division
Authors: Shah Salyha Zulfiqar Ali , Chaudhry Imran Sharif , Farooq Fatima 
Published: December 2021

Purpose: Countries across the world have acknowledged that poverty alleviation has to be of critical importance among the objectives of economic development. This paper sheds light on the Multan division, as one of the important divisions of Southern Punjab, Pakistan.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The primary data was collected through a household survey during the year 2019, using the Binomial Logit and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression techniques.
Findings: The study concluded that the occupation of the household head in the primary sector and large household size are significant and positively related to household poverty. However, the human capital of the household is found to be significant and negatively related to household poverty in the Multan division. Economic development or per capita income of the households are found to be significant and positively related to the human capital of the households.
Implications/Originality/Value: The provision of job opportunities by the government would be helpful in poverty alleviation and the development of this region.
Diagnostic models of non-small cell lung cancer based on determination of blood cytokines and their receptors
Authors: Tahanovich A. D. , Kauhanka N. N. , Prokhorova V. I. , Derzhavets L. A. , Kolb A. V. , Murashkа D. I. 
Published: December 2021

Cytokine biomarkers have been suggested to be a promising tool for detecting lung cancer at the initial stage of its development. However, they have not found wide application in practice due to the low diagnostic sensitivity and specificity. The aim of the work was to develop an original combination of the blood level of proteins that could increase the efficiency of their use in the diagnosis of I and II stages of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).152 patients (93 men and 59 women) with newly diagnosed NSCLC were examined: 91 had adenocarcinoma (AC) and 61 had squamous cell lung cancer (SCLC). As a control, 36 healthy patients and 13 patients with hamartoma were examined. The serum level of CYFRA 21-1, SCC, CXCL5 by the immunoassay procedure, of the C-reactive protein (CRP) by the turbidimetric method, and the fluorescence intensity of CXCR2 (MFI CXCR2) receptors on blood lymphocytes by flow cytometry were evaluated.The diagnostic efficacy of the individually analyzed results of measuring CYFRA 21-1, CXCL5, MFI CXCR2, and CRP in AK patients and the level of SCC, CXCL5, MFI CXCR2, and CRP in SCLC was less than 75 %.Two regression equations were developed using a combination of the values of each 4 markers for the diagnosis of the initial disease phase. The ROC-analysis revealed the optimal values of thresholds. In the range 0.307–0.483, the probability of AC on I and II stages was 97.9 %. In SCLC, the threshold range was 0.321–0.529. The predictive value of a positive result was 96.7 %.The examination groups included 17 patients with AK, 14 patients with SCLC, 9 patients with hamartoma, and 12 healthy people. Checking the model performance on an example sample of patients with AC showed that the diagnostic sensitivity was 76.3 %, and the diagnostic specificity was 82.8 %, in SCLC – 76.3 and 81.5 %, respectively
Hubungan Disposisi Matematika dengan Kemampuan Komunikasi Matematis
Authors: Khoirunnisa Asyifa , Saputra Nisvu Nanda , Yenni  
Published: December 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan dari disposisi matematis dengan kemampuan komunikasi matematis siswa. dari hasil penelitian diketahui bahwa terdapat hubungan antara disposisi matematis dengan kemampuan komunikasi matematis siswa yaitu ditunjukkan dengan nilai korelasi yang diperoleh sebesar 0,425 yang artinya terdapat hubungan antara disposisi matematis dengan kemampuan komunikasi matematis siswa sebesar 18,1%. Besaran hubungan antara disposisi matematis dengan kemampuan komunikasi matematis bernilai positif pada interpretasi tingkat keeratan hubungannya termasuk dalam kategori sedang dengan nilai signifikan sebesar 0,002 yang berarti diterima dan ditolak.
Pengembangan E-Modul Matematika Terintegrasi Nilai-Nilai Islam Berbasis Pendekatan Saintifik pada Materi Bentuk Aljabar
Authors: Hikmah Nailil , Haqiqi Arghob Khofya 
Published: December 2021

Bahan ajar matematika yang diintegrasikan dengan nilai keislaman akan lebih menarik bagi siswa. Pasalnya dengan pengintegrasian tersebut, siswa akan mengetahui bahwa matematika berkaitan dengan nilai-nilai agama dan kehidupan sehari-hari. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan e-modul (electornic module) matematika terintegrasi nilai-nilai Islam berbasis pendekatan saintifik pada materi bentuk aljabar yang valid dan menarik. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan merupakan penelitian pengembangan (Research and Development) menggunakan model ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, dan Evaluation). Instrumen dalam penelitian ini terdiri dari lembar angket validasi dan angket respon kemenarikan peserta didik terhadap produk. E-modul matematika ini divalidasi oleh para ahli yaitu ahli materi dengan perolehan (nilai rata-rata) akhir 3,8 , ahli agama 3,9 dan ahli media 3,5. Ketiga hasil validasi tersebut masuk pada kriteria “Valid”. Sedangkan uji respon terdapat dua kali pengujian yaitu uji kelompok kecil dengan perolehan rata-rata 3,27 dan uji kelompok lapangan 3,30. Kedua hasil uji respon tersebut masuk pada kriteria “Sangat Menarik”. Dari hasil tersebut, dapat dikatakan bahwa produk e-modul matematika ini valid, menarik dan dapat digunakan untuk pembelajaran matematika.