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Overcoming Challenges: Pacific students’ experiences of being resilient through tertiary education

Perrot, Arden Raymond Dujon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The issue of raising Pasifika achievement levels in New Zealand has been at the forefront of Pasifika research as early as 1996 in the AIMHI report from the Ministry of Education. Nearly, 20 years on and the goal remains ...

Overcoming the problem with solving business problems: Using theory differently to rejuvenate the case method for turbulent times

Bridgman, T. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

A questioning of the neoliberal consensus in the global economic order is creating turbulence in Western democracies. Long regarded as the only viable capitalist model, neoliberalism is now subjected to increasing scrutiny. ...

Overdue: The stories of rural Otago & Southland librarians and volunteers

Sanderson, Lara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Research Problem: Rural librarians and library volunteers may be viewed as isolated and almost on the geographical fringes of the knowledge information profession. In New Zealand, rural librarians’ stories have not been ...

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 ...

Overlapping Perspectives

Wong, Chun (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

All urban sites around the world have their own unique, evolving historical identity. However, this identity can often become obscured, or even lost, over time due to the progressive changes that occur to the transforming ...

Overlapping Realities: Exploring How the Culture and Management of an Early Childhood Education Centre Provides Teachers with Opportunities for Professional Dialogue

Healy, Christine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research project investigated teachers' use of professional dialogue in one EC education centre in New Zealand. The qualitative case study highlighted the teachers' understanding of professional dialogue, the ...

Overseas Investment: is New Zealand 'Open for Business'?

Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn (2010)

The economic purpose of an Overseas Investment Act (OIA) should be to enable foreign investment that has a positive (or at least non-negative) impact on a country's economic performance and to prevent investments which ...

Over the Great Wall: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of the Experiences and Preferences of Chinese Immigrant Families when Receiving Hospice Services in New Zealand

Hathaway, Joanna Clare (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis discusses the background, processes, findings and recommendations of a qualitative descriptive study to explore and describe the experiences and preferences of Chinese immigrant families when receiving hospice ...

Over-valued or over-looked? A theoretical and empirical investigation of agricultural land values against profitability in Aotearoa New Zealand

Allan, Corey; Kerr, Suzi; Owen, Sally (2020)

We investigate whether New Zealand’s rural land is over-valued when compared to its agricultural profitability. First, we develop a theoretical time-series framework showing that a positive profit shock in one agricultural ...

Overview of CSR and BHR debates - Towards a Legally Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights

Nguyen, Thi Huyen Nga (2017)

We are living in a globalized economy, in which companies operate everywhere in the world. The transnational operations of business actors have been proved to often give rise to adverse human rights impacts. However, the ...

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 ...

Ownership and Immutability in Coq

Mackay, Julian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

A significant issue in modern programming languages is unsafe aliasing. Modern type systems have attempted to address this in two prominent ways; immutability and ownership, and often a combination of the two [4][17]. The ...

Ownership and management of rivers in New Zealand : whither now for Maori interests?

Morel, Benjamin Thomas. (2002)

Ownership and Sense of Belonging for the Displaced: Integrating Somali Refugees into Wellington City

Ibrahim, Ida (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Having a sense of belonging to a place is important for everyone adapting to a new environment but especially more so for displaced refugees. This is important for raising confidence and self worth which gives refugees ...

Ownership, Control, Agency and Residual Claims: New Insights on Co-operatives and Non-profit Organisations

Cordery, Carolyn; Howell, Bronwyn (2012)

Carolyn Cordery presented this paper (co-authored with Bronwyn Howell) at the NZ Association for the study of Cooperatives & Mutuals conference held in Wellington 21-22 June 2012.

Ownership vs Regulation in Electricity Reform: The Role of Governance

Meade, Richard (2005)

ISCR Research Principal Richard Meade presented Ownership vs Regulation in Electricity Reform: The Role of Governance at The European Electricity Market 2005 conference held in Lodz, Poland in May.

Ownership vs. Regulation in Electricity Reform: The Role of Governance

Meade, Richard (2005)

Electricity reform typically involves little regard to the possibility that customerownership might substitute for the "protections" of state ownership or for investor ownership under regulatory safeguards where market ...

OwnKit: Ownership Inference for Java

Dymnikov, Constantine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Object ownership allows us to statically control run-time aliasing in order to provide a strong notion of object encapsulation. Unfortunately in order to use ownership, code must first be annotated with extra type ...

Oxyamine Linkers for the Protecting Group Free Synthesis of Glycoconjugates

Hill, Jaimé Caitlin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Glycoconjugates, such as glycolipids and glycoproteins, are involved in a variety of cellular functions including cell-to-cell signalling and carbohydrate-protein recognition. Accordingly, glycoconjugates play important ...

Oxygen Consumption Rates of Sponges and the Effect of UV-B Radiation and Sediment

Murray, Heather Joanne Rose (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Sponges are an important part of many benthic ecosystems, but little is known of their physiology and ecology, which is alarming given the predicted rise in global environmental stress and observed increases in mortality ...

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