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A qualitative study investigating the association between social exclusion, stigma and long term problem drug use in a New Zealand town

Wilson, Murray David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Background: The aim of this study is to investigate the association between problematic drug use (PDU) and social exclusion and stigma in a deindustrialised New Zealand town (DNZT). The purpose of this research is to capture ...
A qualitative study to investigate the barriers to adoption of a lifestyle associated with optimal peak bone mass acquisition

Zafar, Sana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Background: Osteoporosis is a major public health problem through its association with fragility fracture. Peak bone mass is attained in the second or third decade and has been shown to be a major determinant of later ...
Quality Assembly: Designing to offsite fabrication for medium density living in New Zealand

Dunn, H. M. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This research portfolio looks at how consciously activating prefabrication into the design process early, and subsequently designing to the onsite assembly stage by using three key design principles, can contribute to a ...
Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Comparative Analysis of Provisions and Practices in Ghana and New Zealand

Utuka, Godwin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research involves a comparative analysis of Ghanaian and New Zealand contexts and provisions of quality assurance in tertiary education. The study examined policies and practices of quality assurance in higher education ...
Quality Assurance in Risk Management

Dykman, Alexis (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis investigated the inherent relationship quality assurance has with risk management processes, specifically focused on the construction industry perception of risk and uncertainty. On the evidence gathered, there ...
Quality of Education offered to Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in the era of Free Primary Education (FPE) in Rural Kenya: Perspectives of Educationists, Teachers and Parents

Omoke, Charles Makori (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

The education of children with special educational needs (SEN) has been a focus of international inquiry. There is a strong advocacy for the inclusion of children with SEN in regular schools although this remains contentious ...
Quality of Life among Dialysis Patients in United Arab Emirates

Ayoub, Abdelbasit Mohamad Abdelhadi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Background: Quality of Life (QOL) has emerged as an important parameter for evaluating the quality of health care for patients with renal failure. The QOL of dialysis patients in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has not ...
The Quandary of Thai Women Prostitutes: Contemporary Situations of Poor and Working Class Thai Women Sex Workers in Thailand and New Zealand

Menasveta, Piamsuk (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

As a Thai feminist scholar, I engaged in a study of the economic and social circumstances of a particular group of women, poor and working class Thai sex workers, over the late 1990s to 2001. In this thesis, Thailand and ...
Quantification of the Enhancement Factor in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Blackie, Evan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis presents a rigorous stepwise methodology towards the accurate measurement and quantification of the SERS enhancement factor (EF), the key parameter in describing the SERS effect. The work represents, we believe, ...
Quantifying ecological effects of sedimentation in streams in differing land use management zones

Mair, Debbie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This ecological and geomorphological assessment of Horokiri Stream and Ration Creek was conducted across four longitudinal zones to explore the effects of sediment delivery, run-off, channel form, riparian and in-stream ...
Quantifying, Predicting and Promoting Edible Gardening in Eastbourne, Aotearoa, New Zealand

Lake, Barbara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Urban edible gardening has potential economic, social, environmental, resiliency and sustainability benefits. Due to these benefits researchers are calling for effective behaviour change measures to increase the uptake of ...
Quantifying Substitutability

Wang, David X. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

In this thesis, we will tackle the problem of how keyphrase extraction systems can be evaluated to reveal their true efficacy. The aim is to develop a new semantically-oriented approximate string matching criteria, one ...
Quantitative analysis of New Zealand-Antarctica plate motions during the Paleogene and Late Cretaceous

Chambord, Amandine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Quantifying past motions of tectonic plates in the southwest Pacific is important because the Pacific-Antarctic ridge is the only non-destructive boundary between the Pacific plate and other major plates. However, formation ...
Quantitative Analysis of Shallow Earthquake Sequences and Regional Earthquake Behavior: Implications for Earthquake Forecasting

Jacobs, Katrina Maureen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This study is a quantitative investigation and characterization of earthquake sequences in the Central Volcanic Region (CVR) of New Zealand, and several regions in New Zealand and Southern California. We introduce CURATE, ...
Quantitative Aspects of Computed Tomography

Mitchell, Alexander William (Victoria University of Wellington, 1991)

Computed tomographic (C.T.) images are stored digitally as arrays of C.T. numbers, the elements of which are strongly related to the linear X-ray attenuation coefficients of the corresponding tissue volumes in the patient. ...
A Quantitative Assessment of Ra'ui (a Traditional Approach to Marine Protected Areas) on the Fishes and Invertebrates of Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Miller, Sonja Lee (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Ra'ui (traditional marine managed areas) in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, are a form of marine protected area re-implemented in the late 1990s when communities became concerned about declining fish and invertebrate stocks in ...
Quantitative Ecological Impact Assessments using Natural Abundance Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Signatures

Dudley, Bruce David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

The use of delta15N and delta13C signatures to infer sources of enrichment in ecological systems relies on predictability in the transfer of delta15N and delta13C ratios. This thesis examines patterns of delta15N and ...
Quantitative PCR Analysis of the Bartonella henselae carD Gene during Bacterial Stress

Simmonds, Jacob (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The Bartonella genus is comprised of arthropod-borne, intracellular bacterial pathogens that colonise the mammalian bloodstream. A large number of mammalian species are hosts for one or more Bartonella species, as either ...
A Quantitative Ultrastructural Study of Oocytes During the Early Stages of Ovarian Follicular Development in Booroola and Wild-Type Sheep

Reader, Karen Lee (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

In the sheep ovary, primordial follicles are formed as an oocyte surrounded by either a single layer of flattened granulosa cells (type 1) or a mixture of flattened and cuboidal granulosa cells (type 1a). Booroola sheep ...
Quantum Confinement of Chiral Charge Carriers in Ring Conductors

Yang, Lei (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

We theoretically study the quantum confinement effects and transport prop- erties of quantum ring (QR) systems. In particular, we investigate QRs made out of the following materials: single-layer graphene (SLG), single- ...