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The Weathered Trace: Capturing the Actualisations of Time

Shepherd, Joseph (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

It may be considered that architecture does not as a discipline, acknowledge the changes a building will go through after construction completion. Therefore, weathering of materials occurs without direction forcing a ...
Weathering the Largest Storms in the Universe: Understanding environmental effects on extended radio emission in clusters

Dehghan, Siamak (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis presents an investigation of the habitat of extended radio sources, and the way in which the generation and properties of these radio sources are affected by environmental factors. We begin with a detailed ...
WEATHERING THE STORM: THE IMPLICATIONS OF WAVE EXPOSURE ON THE DISTRIBUTION, PHENOTYPE AND GROWTH OF A TEMPERATE REEF FISH

Focht, Rebeca C. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Disturbance is a fundamental process that affects the structure and dynamics of populations. Wave action is an important agent of disturbance in coastal marine systems, and the frequency and severity of wave-associated ...
Weaving Niche Production into Pacific Economies: The Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts of FIJI Water on Local Communities

Jones, Catherine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research explores the pursuit of 'economies of niche' in the Pacific region and the local social, economic and environmental impacts it entails. In the 1980s, Pacific nations adopted the neoliberal ideology as a means ...
Weaving the Contemporary Position of Maatauranga Maaori Within Nursing Practice

Taiaroa, Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

While the values and beliefs of health care for Maaori are perceived to be consistent with those which Maaori are embedded in, the outcomes developed from a Western worldview, has fallen short of this expectation. This ...
Weaving Words and Drawing Lines: The Bauhaus Masters Endeavours to Establish a Universal Visual Language within Foundation Education

O'Sullivan, Nan Catherine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study investigates the roots of interdisciplinary architectural and design education and methodology in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular this thesis is concerned ...
Web-Based Composition: Removing Barriers to Increase Composition Opportunities in Upper Primary Classrooms

Bolton, Jan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

In recent years there has been a trend towards music curriculum documents giving emphasis to composition in upper primary school levels. This emphasis is consistent across current national documents of Australia, Canada, ...
Web Based Impact Measures for Institutional Repositories

Smith, Alastair G (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This study investigated webometric measures that could be used to evaluate the impact of institutional repositories, using Australasian university repositories as a case study. URL citation inlinks (occurrences of the ...
We Belong to No Soil: Nation and Narration in the Work of Emily Perkins

White, Emily Tehrase (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Emily Perkins' work exemplifies a shift in the way the nation is represented in New Zealand fiction. In place of the cultural nationalist acceptance that the writer should attend faithfully to the New Zealand referent and ...
Webometric Evaluation of Institutional Repositories

Smith, Alastair G. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research project investigated (a) whether there is a relationship between the Web Impact Factor (WIF) of an institutional repository, and conventional measures of research quality of the institution; and (b) whether ...
We Can Be Heroes: A Study of Mythistoric Genealogies in the Roman Republic

Thomas, Steven (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Mythistoric genealogies, the claims of divine or heroic ancestry made by the Roman elite during the Republic, provide an alternative lens through which to understand social constructs and political experiences of Romans. ...
We Do Not Have an Adequate Conception of Art Until We Have One that Accommodates Gardens

Powell, John Francis (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In the first part of this thesis (chapters 1 – 4) I argue that we do not have an adequate conception of art until we have one that accommodates gardens. I argue for this by demonstrating that gardens are sufficiently like ...
The Weeks When Decades Happened: A Theoretical Consideration of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising

Menzies, Rebekah Anna Jónsdottir (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

In 2011, the Middle East was plunged into turmoil with a series of popular uprisings ousting a number of long standing dictators. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year reign was toppled in just over two weeks. ...
"We Had to Cope With What We Had": Agency Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Disasters in New Zealand.

Houghton, Rosalind Margaret Elise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Under an over-arching feminist framework, this thesis utilises disaster sociology and domestic violence theory to examine the complex and multi-faceted relationship between domestic violence and disasters. The applicability ...
Welfare consequences of rising wage risk in the United States: Self-selection into risky jobs and family labor supply adjustments

Park, Seonyoung; Shin, Donggyun (2020)

Wages in the United States have become more volatile since the early 1970s. This paper quantitatively demonstrates that the welfare cost caused by this change is substantially overstated when heterogeneity in individual ...
The Welfare Gain from a New Good: An Introduction

Creedy, John (2015)

This note provides an elementary introduction to the measurement of welfare gains from the introduction of a new good, based on the concept of the ‘virtual price’ and standard expressions for welfare changes arising from ...
Wellington Botanic Garden

Hill, Marguerite (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

The purpose of this Heritage Inventory is to identify, research and assess heritage features in the Wellington Botanic Garden and surrounding area. The resulting heritage inventory will be made available to the Wellington ...
Wellington Pacific Bible College 2006–2016 Teachings, Trials and Talanoa

Ioane Roach, Eseta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This is the first academic study of the Wellington Pacific Bible College (WPBC), a distinctive adult educational institution in New Zealand, focussed on teaching the Bible in the languages of the Pacific. The thesis ...
The Wellington urban motorway : the parts played by the planning authorities and the Bolton Street Preservation Society

Miller, Richard Ogilvy (1969)

The inadequacy of our present planning system to accomodate at the critical stage participation of interested citizens in the control of their environment. A case history showing how the negotiations between the various ...
The Wellington Waterfront and Tourism Development: Planning Process and Legislative Framework

Nguyen, Thi Hong Hanh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Over the last two decades, the redevelopment of the Wellington waterfront has become one of the most contested urban development projects in New Zealand, with the involvement of many varied interests. There have been a ...

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