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  • GAF: A General Auction Framework for Secure Combinatorial Auctions 
    Thomson, Wayne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Auctions are an economic mechanism for allocating goods to interested parties. There are many methods, each of which is an Auction Protocol. Some protocols are relatively simple such as English and Dutch auctions, but there ...
  • Game Balance: Designed structure and consumer agency in an online game 
    Haynes, Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) attract millions of people every year and are now a major industry. Using the internet, these games connect players and give them goals to pursue within virtual ...
  • A Game Controller for Stroke Rehabilitation 
    Duncan, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Successful stroke rehabilitation relies on early, long-term, repetitive and intensive treatment. Repetitions conducted during clinical rehabilitation are significantly lower than that suggested by physiotherapeutic literature ...
  • Gaming and Photography: Investigating the Elision of Illusion and the Actual 
    Paterson, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The application of aesthetics and techniques from photography into computer generated images leads audiences to read images of a virtual space similarly to images of a physical space. This phenomenon has allowed for a ...
  • Gappy Propositions and the Nature of Rigidity 
    Skrzynski, Jordan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    During the 1980s, there was much debate as to whether the potential rigidity of names allowed for such terms to refer to their objects in worlds where that object did not exist. Those who supported this idea supported an ...
  • Gardening Assemblages 
    Wright, Victoria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis examines how architecture can encourage sustainable food consumption habits within the city. Urbanisation is continuously increasing the demand for food within cities while separating the users from its source. ...
  • Gardening Mt Vic 
    Pearce, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Since Olmstead envisioned Central Park, New York, the study of gardening has slowly become the Staple of landscape historians. Gardening practices can engage the body with aesthetic experience through plants and materiality; ...
  • The Garden of Machines 
    Jordan, Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Ports are often the origin of many coastal cities. Once simple trading posts, interfaces of land and oceanic connections, have since bloomed to match industrialized global cargo and fishing industries that fuel their growing ...
  • Gastric Residual Volumes in the Adult Intensive Care Patient: a Systematic Review 
    Jarden, Rebecca Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    Background: Enteral nutrition is one method of delivering nutrition to intubated patients. There are several issues that prevent optimal delivery of the prescribed enteral nutrition goal rates. The measurement of the ...
  • The Gateway to the South: Enhancing Connectivity between Port and Town 
    Melville, Angela (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis explores how issues that have arisen from large scale ferry ports and industrial developments have resulted in disrupting the connectivity to neighbouring townships. It proposes a novel architecturally resolved ...
  • Gazing Into the Crystal Ball: Are Majority Groups Threatened by a Minority-Majority Future? 
    Lescelius, Jason (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    By the mid to late 21st century, it is projected that ethnic European majority groups will account for less than half the total populations of many Western countries. As a result of this projected ethnic shift, these ...
  • Gender and Verse: Religion in New Zealand Women's Poetry, 1970-2019 
    Long, Vida (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    This thesis explores the remarkable, surprising and enduring presence of religion within the writings of New Zealand women poets since the 1970s. Analysing a comprehensive range of poems, I argue that religion is a dynamic ...
  • Gender and Workaholism: A Study of New Zealand Academics 
    Smith, Amanda Lea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    The aim of this study was to examine gender's impact on Workaholism and, in particular, the correlates of 'Workaholism' characteristics (Work Involvement, Drive and Work Enjoyment). The Literature review draws attention ...
  • Gender and Workplace Bullying in Lao Organisations 
    Sayaseng, Vanhsana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Workplace bullying has gained more attention in many Western countries and in some Asian countries than in Laos. It is a serious workplace health and safety issue for both individuals and organisations. In order to understand ...
  • Gender-based violence in Bougainville: Stories of change 
    Degerman, Viktoria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Gender-based violence throughout Papua New Guinea is a well documented concern across disciplines. Within the field of development, gender-based violence is not only seen as a human rights breach, but it is widely accepted ...
  • Gender, Bodies and Cyberstalking: Embodying Theory, Developing Methodology 
    Williams, Rachel Elizabeth McKenzie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    The exponential growth of advanced communication technologies has corresponded with diverse opportunities for criminal offending within this arena. New forms of deviance are supported by the unique characteristics of the ...
  • A gendered difference? Female experience of drug and alcohol treatment in New Zealand 
    Conroy, Jaime Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This study examined women’s experiences of drug and alcohol treatment in New Zealand, with a focus on Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT). The qualitative literature on the treatment experiences of substance-using women ...
  • Gender Equality – A Feel Good Norm?: Divergence between Rhetoric and Practice in the EU's Development Policy towards the Pacific Islands 
    Schnellecke, Katia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    As one of the world’s largest donors, the European Union provides development assistance to the Pacific Island Countries. At the same time, the EU actively promotes its own values and principles toward the Island Countries ...
  • Gender identity: Exploring struggles & school support among New Zealand senior secondary students 
    Chandra, Krishn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This research was undertaken with an intention to contribute to the existing literature and research on issues related to struggles and support for gender diverse students in New Zealand secondary schools. Gender diversity ...
  • The General Election of 1943 
    Daniels, John Richard Sinclair (Victoria University of Wellington, 1961)
    This thesis deals with the two most striking aspects of New Zealand's wartime politics; the effect of the war, and particularly the public pressure for political unity that it generated, on party politics and the growth ...

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