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Non-Radiative Processes and Vibrational Pumping in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Galloway, Christopher (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The main focus of this thesis was the physical interpretation of the pumping cross-section. This was achieved by performing a statistical analysis of single molecule vibrational pumping events in which both the SERS and ...
No place like home: The role of place attachment in increasing individual preparedness for natural hazard events

Wallis, Amanda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

New Zealand is exposed to many natural hazards and yet, despite its heightened risk, national rates of individual preparedness remain low. Previous research has shown that place attachment is positively associated with ...
'Not [just] for a name that we plead' : fashioning the ideological origins of early kindergarten in Dunedin and Wellington, New Zealand, 1870 – 1913

Bethell, Kerry Corinne (2008)

This study is about the processes of intellectual transmission of kindergarten pedagogy and its organisational implementation in two geographical sites in colonial New Zealand between 1870 and 1913. It takes as its focus ...
"Nourishing ourselves and helping the planet": WWOOF, Environmentalism and Ecotopia: Alternative Social Practices between Ideal and Reality

Kosnik, Elisabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

A growing number of people around the world are becoming familiar with the phenomenon of ‘World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms’ (WWOOF). This movement originated forty years ago in England, but has since spread around ...
Novel approaches to quantify the emergence of anthropogenic climate change

Harrington, Luke James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Understanding how the climate system will respond to ongoing human interference is a question of profound societal importance. A significant barrier to quantifying the effect of human activity on the climate system is ...
A Novel Framework for Constructing Sport-Based Rating Systems

Patel, Ankit (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This doctoral thesis examines the multivariate nature of sporting performances, expressed as performance on context specific tasks, to develop a novel framework for constructing sport-based rating systems, also referred ...
Novel Hybrid Materials And Their Applications

Small, Aaron Charles (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

The development of novel hybrid materials of cellulose fibres and substrates with nanoparticles, conducting polymers and quantum dots, opens up novel application for new packaging materials and paper based products for the ...
Novel Magnetic Resonance Acquisition and Processing Strategies for Biological Tissue Characterisation

Zong, Fangrong (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Proton magnetic resonance techniques have become indispensable for characterising tissues non-invasively. These methods provide abundant information regarding metabolism, morphology and histology of the sample under study. ...
Novel Methodologies for the Synthesis of Multivalent Glycoconjugates

Munneke, Stefan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Glycoconjugates, such as glycolipids and glycoproteins, play an important role in health and disease. The synthesis and biological evaluation of these glycoconjugates allows for the development of novel carbohydrate-based ...
Novel Multidimensional Inverse Laplace Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Techniques

Washburn, Kathryn Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This thesis presents the new development and application of multidimensional inverse Laplace nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques. We present a new NMR technique which relates the longitudinal relaxation rate ...
Novel Predators and Naïve Prey: How Introduced Mammals Shape Behaviours and Populations of New Zealand Lizards

Hoare, Joanne Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

Biotas that evolved in isolation from mammalian predators are susceptible to degradation due to recent human-mediated introductions of mammals. However, behavioural, morphological and life historical adaptations of prey ...
Novel Secondary Metabolites from New Zealand Marine Sponges

Ryan, John Martin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

The isolation and structure elucidation of 12 new compounds from four different genera of marine sponge is described. Continued work with the marine sponge Raspailia topsenti resulted in the isolation of two clerodane ...
Novice Teachers' Thinking Development from Practicum to Early Career

Hoang, Anna Trang Ngoc (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Teacher education programmes have focused on training student teachers with knowledge of teaching methodologies and good teaching performance. What is going on inside student teachers’ minds in their processes of learning ...
Nuclear Structure Investigations of some Medium-Weight Isotopes

Wallace, Gavin (Victoria University of Wellington, 1971)

This thesis describes the methods and results of investigations made to determine the decay schemes of three short-lived isotopes 112Ag, 114Ag and 116Ag. A total of 76 gamma-rays was observed with a Ge(Li) detector in the ...
The Number of Unanimous Witnesses who Identify a Suspect from a Lineup Influences Mock Jurors

Taylor, Robbie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

During a criminal proceeding, jurors need to weigh up the presented evidence and determine a verdict. Research has shown that witness identification evidence is compelling to jurors, despite the fact that it can be unreliable. ...
Numerical Simulations of Polymers at the Nanoscale

Dhondi, Srikanth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

In this thesis we study a variety of nanoscale phenomena in certain polymer systems using a combination of numerical simulation methods and mathematical modelling. The problems considered are: (a) the mixing behaviour ...
Nurse practitioners and pharmacist prescribers in primary health care: A realist evaluation of the New Zealand experience

Officer, Tara Nikki (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Internationally, health workforce redesign provides a means to cope with an increasing demand for health services. The development of advanced practitioner professions provides a major change in health service delivery ...
Nursing as an Aesthetic Praxis

Tucakovic, Marina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

This Thesis focuses on the experience of being human as process in order to reveal being. Illness and health are seen as reflections of this process of revelation. This work argues that health and illness are physical ...
The Nutritional Implications of Partner Switching in the Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

Matthews, Jennifer (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Reef-building corals form a symbiosis with phototrophic dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium. Specificity in the host-symbiont partnership is widespread, despite the potential for flexibility in endosymbiont community ...
Nutritional Interactions in the Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis and their Role in Symbiosis Establishment

Sproles, Ashley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Mass bleaching events induced by climate change are threatening coral reef ecosystems worldwide. Elevated seawater temperatures cause breakdown of the coral’s endosymbiotic relationship with dinoflagellate algae from the ...