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Recognising Scientific Entrepreneurship in New Zealand

Menzies, Malcolm Bruce (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

To increase wealth and well-being, New Zealand needs to both increase the productivity of its traditional economic base and grow new economic sectors in a competitive global marketplace. Innovation underpins both of these ...
Recognition Memory for Pictorial Events: Fusion or Features

Leibrich, Julie (Victoria University of Wellington, 1981)

This research investigated recognition memory for picture stories. Jenkins, Wald and Pittenger (1978) had found that when subjects viewed a slide sequence which depicted an every-day event, in a later recognition memory ...
Reconciling agility and architecture: a theory of agile architecture

Waterman, Michael Grant (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The purpose of agile software development is to enable the software development team to respond to change and learn from change so that it can better deliver value to its customer. If an agile software development team ...
Recovery of Subtidal Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities Following Natural and Experimental Disturbances

Kroger, Kerstin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

The recovery processes of subtidal benthic macroinvertebrate communities following large-scale natural and meso-scale experimental disturbances were studied in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, a temperate semi-enclosed ...
Recreational Drug Using Behaviour and Legal Benzylpiperazine Party Pills

Hammond, Katherine Anne Bryson (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Benzylpiperazine (BZP) is a stimulant drug that produces effects similar to amphetamines (Campbell, Cline, Evans, Lloyd, & Peck, 1973). It has been sold legally in New Zealand in the form of 'party pills' since 2000. The ...
Recruitment of Ostrea chilensis (Philippi, 1844) in Foveaux Strait, Southern New Zealand

Michael, Keith (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This research evaluates fundamental ecological processes to facilitate an understanding of recruitment in Ostrea chilensis from Foveaux Strait, southern New Zealand. Foveaux Strait represents an extreme habitat for oysters ...
Recruitment, settlement and ontogeny of the serpulid 'Spirobranchus cariniferus' (Gray, 1843)

Wolf, Robert Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Serpulids are a globally represented group of polychaetes and can be found in many habitats from the intertidal fringe to the subtidal environment and even in deep-sea ecosystems. These tube-dwelling worms are often described ...
REDD+ Governmentality: Governing Forest, Land, and Forest Peoples in Indonesia

Astuti, Rini Yuni (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Aimed at lowering forest carbon emissions through financing improved forest governance and socially inclusive land and natural resources use, the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus) ...
Redressing the roles of anthocyanin pigments in vegetative and reproductive organs

Cooney, Luke James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Anthocyanin pigments are common in both reproductive and vegetative organs in plants, yet their functional significance is not entirely understood. While communicative functions have received considerable attention in ...
Reduction of New Zealand Titanomagnetite Ironsand by Hydrogen Gas in a Fluidised Bed System

Prabowo, Sigit (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Titanomagnetite (TTM) ironsand has been used to produce steel in New Zealand (NZ) for about 40 years. However, the current steelmaking process in NZ produces high emissions of CO2 because it uses coal as a primary reducing ...
Reflections on Perceived Online Service Quality: Structure, Antecedents, Ontology, Theory and Measurement

Tate, Mary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Online services are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and this growth has been accompanied by increased business interest in measuring and managing online service quality. This interest is also reflected in a large number ...
Reflective Surfaces: the Individual as the Key Social Relationship in New Zealand Society

Wylie, Catherine Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 1980)

The variety of concerns and everyday practices found in the lives of members of Western societies has to some degree deterred their exploration by anthropologists. In this thesis, I hope to demonstrate that a commonality ...
Reflexivity, Internal Conversation and Societal Influences on Higher Education Students’ Consideration of Values and Priorities during their Citizenship Studies

Rowan, Linda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

My thesis examines the reflexive processing of knowledge, beliefs, values and personal priorities in the internal and external conversations of students during a period of university study. In higher education, learners ...
Reggaenomics: The Relationship Between Copyright Law and Development in the Jamaican Music Industry

Taylor, Sharma Latoya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

One argument posits that copyright is necessary for incentivising creative expressions. To what extent does this hold true for individual copyright-based sectors in a developing nation’s economy? Although Jamaica’s Copyright ...
Regional Seismic Attribute Analysis and Tectono-Stratigraphy of Offshore South-Western Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Baur, Jan Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study investigates the nature, origin, and distribution of Cretaceous to Recent sediment fill in the offshore Taranaki Basin, western New Zealand. Seismic attributes and horizon interpretations on 30,000 km of 2D ...
Regional Variation in New Zealand English: the Taranaki Sing-Song Accent

Ainsworth, Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

Although lay people confidently assert the existence of regional varieties of New Zealand English, linguists have produced very little evidence to support such claims. There are vocabulary items special to, or favoured by, ...
Rehabilitation in advanced dementia through computer-assisted exergaming with Able-X: A collective case study

Drury-Ruddlesden, Jeanette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Psychosocial interventions have been found to have similar outcomes as pharmacological interventions for people with dementia (PWD). Cognitive stimulation has been found to benefit cognition and there is evidence of ...
Reinforcer Quality and Self-Control

Peters, Heather L (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

Self-control has been extensively studied using procedures in which subjects chose between two reinforcer alternatives. Traditionally, one of those alternatives delivers a small reinforcer after a short delay (SI), the ...
Reinventing the Squeal: Young New Zealand Women Negotiating Space in the Current Sexual Culture

Wright, Lesley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The sexual behaviour of young emergent adult women in New Zealand has become a target of media attention and commentary. Moralising language is prevalent in the public discourse, describing young women negatively with ...
Relating Neurochemical Changes Associated with THC Use to Learning and Memory in Adolescent Rats

Steel, Ryan William Johnstone (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug. Adolescents may be especially vulnerable to the effects of cannabis, and alarmingly, adolescence is also a period of heavy cannabis use. However, few studies have investigated ...