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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 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, ...
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 ...
Quantum Entanglement in Time

Rajan, Del (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis is in the field of quantum information science, which is an area that reconceptualizes quantum physics in terms of information. Central to this area is the quantum effect of entanglement in space. It is an ...
Quantum Many-Body Theory

Henderson, James Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 1977)

This thesis is a collection of theoretical investigations into different aspects of the broad subject of quantum many-body theory. The results are grouped into three main parts, which in turn are divided into separate ...
A Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise Lost? The Role of Preferences and Planning in Achieving Urban Sustainability in Wellington, New Zealand

Dodge, Nadine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis investigates the scope for compact development to accommodate population growth in Wellington, New Zealand. The topic is particularly significant for New Zealand as the great majority of the population lives ...
Quaternary Geometry, Kinematics and Paleoearthquake History at the Intersection of the Strike-Slip North Island Fault System and Taupo Rift, New Zealand

Mouslopoulou, Vasiliki (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

The North Island of New Zealand sits astride the Hikurangi margin along which the oceanic Pacific Plate is being obliquely subducted beneath the continental Australian Plate. The North Island Fault System1 (NIFS), in the ...
Questioning in English as a Foreign Language University Classes

Phan, Thi Van Anh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Vietnam has experienced many changes in education and in teaching and learning English as a foreign language since 1986 (Hoang, 2010). There are ongoing concerns about how to best develop English proficiency in EFL classes, ...
Questioning policy-making as problem-solving. A Bacchian examination of how paid parental leave was problematized in New Zealand and Norway

Morrissey, Susan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis adopts Carol Bacchi’s Foucault-influenced poststructuralist perspective to investigate how the concept of gender equality was conceptualized in the paid parental leave (PPL) policies in New Zealand and Norway. ...
Radiation Imaging with Caesium Bromide Storage Phosphors

Winch, Nicola Maree (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis is centred on the development of a new method to prepare semitransparent CsBr:Eu²⁺ imaging plates for high resolution X-ray radiography. Methods of characterising the performance of these plates, and their ...
Ragged Fortunes and Swashbuckling Thrillers; Or, Recreating the Victorian in Young Adult Fiction 1985-2011

Herrera, Maria Lujan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The Victorian era has become a fashionable setting for contemporary young adult fiction. Studies of the contemporary pseudo-Victorian novel have focussed almost entirely upon fiction for adults. Scarcely any attention has ...
Rainbow experiences of accessing mental health support in Aotearoa New Zealand: A community-based mixed methods study

Fraser, Gloria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

While we know that rainbow people in Aotearoa New Zealand (that is, people of diverse sexualities, genders, and sex characteristics) experience high rates of adverse mental health outcomes, we know much less about the ...
Rainfall in Vietnam

Nguyen, Quang Dang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The thesis is a comprehensive analysis of the climate of Vietnam, concentrating on rainfall. Vietnam lies in the tropical northern hemisphere in a region that is influenced by the South Asian, East Asian and Australian ...