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On the Primal-Dual Method of Multipliers and its Applications

O'Connor, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

With ever growing sources of digital data and the reductions in cost of small-scale wireless processing nodes, equipped with various sensors, microprocessors, and communication systems, we are seeing an increasing need for ...
On the Resolution of Compositional Datasets into Convex Combinations of Extreme Vectors

Renner, Ross Martyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 1989)

Large compositional datasets of the kind assembled in the geosciences are often of remarkably low approximate rank. That is, within a tolerable error, data points representing the rows of such an array can approximately ...
On the Use of Model Checking for the Bounded and Unbounded Verification of Nonblocking Concurrent Data Structures

Friggens, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Concurrent data structure algorithms have traditionally been designed using locks to regulate the behaviour of interacting threads, thus restricting access to parts of the shared memory to only one thread at a time. Since ...
Oocyte-derived forms of ruminant BMP15 and GDF9 and a theoretical model to explain their synergistic response

Heath, Derek (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Bone morphogenetic factor 15 (BMP15) and growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) are two oocyte-secreted factors with well documented effects on ovarian follicular development and ovulation-rate. The aims of these studies ...
The Opening of the Great Bush, 1869-1881: a Social History of the Bush Settlements of Taranaki, Hawke's Bay and Wellington

Arnold, Rollo D (Victoria University of Wellington, 1971)

In undertaking this study I had the two-fold object of investigating an area of our history which appears to me to have been too long neglected, and, in presenting my results, of grappling with the problems of writing ...
Opioid Receptor Protein Expression During Development of the Rat Brainstem

Kivell, Bronwyn Maree (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

Few satisfactory protocols exist for primary culture of postnatal brainstem neurons, and commonly used procedures often give poor survival rates in older foetal (>E16) and early postnatal brainstem cultures. The present ...
Optical Conductivity of Colossal Magnetoresistance Manganites

Mercier, Ocean Ripeka (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

The colossal magnetoresistance manganites are a group of materials whose unusual physical properties are a symptom of strongly interacting electrons and phonons. In order to elucidate some of these electronic and vibrational ...
Optical probes of free charge generation in organic photovoltaics

Barker, Alexander J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) show considerable promise as a source of low cost solar energy. Improving our understanding of the processes governing free charge photogeneration in OPVs may unlock the improvements in efficiency ...
Optical Properties of Rare Earth Nitrides

Azeem, Muhammad (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This experimental thesis uncovers the fundamental optical features of rare earth nitride compounds and relates them to their electronic structure. Experimental observations for the optical energy gaps for thin films of ...
Optimisation and Scale-up of the Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticle-Wool Fibre Composites

Nilsson, Thomas Wade (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Gold nanoparticles are known for their remarkable optical properties; they exhibit localised surface plasmon resonance bands in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has led to their use as luxury dyes ...
Ordered Questions Bias Eyewitnesses and Jurors

Michael, Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Eyewitnesses play an important role in the justice system. But suggestive questioning can distort eyewitness memory and confidence, and those distorted beliefs influence jurors (Loftus, 2005; Penrod & Cutler, 1995). Recent ...
The order of questions on a test affects how well students believe they performed

Franco, Gregory (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

We know that students are more optimistic about their performance after they take a test that progresses from the easiest to hardest questions than after taking one that progresses in the opposite order¹. In fact, these ...
Ordovician Biostratigraphy of North-West Nelson

Cooper, Roger Alan (Victoria University of Wellington, 1969)

Eleven graptolite zones are recognized in New Zealand and are considered to represent most of the Ordovician Period. The most complete fossiliferous section, at Aorangi Mine in Northwest Nelson, is described in detail. New ...
An Organisational Study of the Free Kindergarten and Playcentre Movements in New Zealand

Meade, Anne Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 1978)

The free kindergarten and playcentre organisations were subjects of case studies for an examination of strategic choice processes in voluntary organisations, using an open-systems theoretical framework. The patterns of ...
Orisa-Shakespeare: A study of Shakespeare Adaptations Inspired by the Yoruba Tradition

Balogun, Olalekan Is’haq (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis combines creative practice with critical analysis to intervene in the field of post-colonial Shakespeare where, for over a generation, the process of adaptation has been presented as one of the main strategies ...
The Oruanui Eruption: Insights into the Generation and Dynamics of the World's Youngest Supereruption

Allan, Aidan S.R. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This work investigates the pre- and syn-eruptive magmatic processes that culminated in the world’s youngest supereruption – the ~25.4 ka, 530 km³ Oruanui eruption from Taupo volcano, New Zealand – from the perspective of ...
Outlet Glacier and Landscape Evolution of Victoria Land, Antarctica

Whitmore, Ross (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Terrestrial cosmogenic exposure studies are an established and rapidly evolving tool for landscapes in both polar and non-polar regions. This thesis takes a multifaceted approach to utilizing and enhancing terrestrial ...
Outside In: Wellington jazz among the discourses

Tipping, Nicholas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The jazz community in Wellington, New Zealand, is vibrant and energetic: this small, geographically isolated city hosts between 90 and 100 jazz performances each month. Yet in terms of both New Zealand music and the ...
Overgeneral autobiographical memory and psychopathology in adolescence

Gutenbrunner, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM)—the tendency to report more general event memories when instructed to report specific past events—has been implicated in the development and maintenance of poor psychological ...
Owner Bound Music: A study of popular sheet music selling and music making in the New Zealand home 1840-1940

Gleeson, Jean (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

From 1840, when New Zealand became part of the British Empire, until 1940 when the nation celebrated its Centennial, the piano was the most dominant instrument in domestic music making and the home pianist an important ...