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Habitat Structure, Resources and Natural Enemies: Their Influence on Population Fluctuations of the Kowhai Moth Uresiphita Polygonalis Maorialis (Felder)

Mundaca, Enrique Arturo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The importance of habitat structure has been historically discussed in terms of its influence on diversity, distribution and abundance of living organisms. In this regard, the population fluctuations of any particular ...
Haemangioma: A Study of the Biology

Itinteang, Tinte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Infantile haemangioma (IH), considered a primary tumour of the microvasculature, is the most common tumour of infancy affecting about 10% of Caucasian infants. IH predominantly affects white, female and premature infants. ...
Hands-on learning: The influence of hand gestures on children's recall of scientific information

McLay, Lynley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

When people speak they typically also gesture. Gesture and speech form an integrated communication system, with speech conveying information in a rule-bound and sequential manner (i.e. one word follows the other in accordance ...
Harmony, associativity, and metaphor in the film scores of Alexandre Desplat

Clark, Ewan Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The objective of this doctoral study is to develop and demonstrate a theoretical framework to guide both the analysis and composition of twenty-first-century film music. The compositional portfolio submitted as part of ...
Harnessing iNKT cells to improve in situ vaccination for cancer therapy

Prasit, Kef (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonism in combination with the activation of type I NKT (iNKT) cells through systemic administration of their respective agonists has been shown to have a cooperative effect on activating ...
Hashtag NZPol: New Zealand Women Twitter Users and Political Participation Construction

Bickerton, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This dissertation addresses the research question of “How do women Twitter users in New Zealand construct political participation?” On the issue of the potential of the online spaces as political spaces, historical research ...
Hazardous geomorphic processes in the extratropical Andes with a focus on glacial lake outburst floods

Iribarren Anacona, Pablo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This study examines hazardous processes and events originating from glacier and permafrost areas in the extratropical Andes (Andes of Chile and Argentina) in order to document their frequency, magnitude, dynamics and their ...
Healthcare-seeking behaviour for sexually transmitted infection testing in New Zealand: A mixed methods study

Denison, Hayley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a global public health problem. Sequelae for infected individuals can be serious and STIs impose a substantial financial burden on healthcare systems. Duration of infection is one ...
Health Needs Assessment: Impact on Planning and Purchasing in the Public Health Sector in New Zealand

Coster, Gregor David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

Health needs assessment (HNA) is one of the features of the New Zealand health system established by the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. District Health Boards (DHBs) are to conduct HNAs, and planning ...
Health Promotion in One New Zealand Primary School: a Case Study

Pearson, Janet Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

This research investigated the way in which one low decile New Zealand primary school in the greater Wellington region practised health promotion, as defined by the World Health Organisation when specifying a health-promoting ...
Health Services Coverage Regulation: an Evaluation of Policy Options for New Zealand

Cumming, Jacqueline Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

An important feature of New Zealand's 1993 health reforms was the promise to define an explicit list of 'core' services - i.e. the health services to which all New Zealanders would have access. This thesis examines public ...
Heavy Metal Pollutants in Snow and Ice from Roosevelt Island, Antarctica

Tuohy, Andrea Jean (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Global industrialization has led to emissions of heavy metal pollutants that are transported to the most remote areas of the planet. Elevated concentrations of heavy metals are ecological toxins in soils, water, and air. ...
Hedonism and Happiness in Theory and Practice

Weijers, Daniel Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In this thesis, I investigate several different questions about happiness and hedonism in theory and practice and offer several arguments and theories. In addition to making progress in these happiness-related areas of ...
Heke Mai Ki Ahau Nei E! Roka Paora's Contributions To Tukunga Iho A Te Whānau-a-Apanui And Te Reo O Te Whānau-a-Apanui

Richards, Parehau (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Throughout the twentieth century Te Whānau-a-Apanui scholars continued to assert distinctive features of Te Whānau-a-Apanui identity through both literary and non-literary texts. Roka Pahewa Paora contributed to this ...
He kete hauora taiao: A Bicultural Ecological Assessment Framework

Belcher, Sara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

Ka mau tonu ngā taonga tapu o ngā matua tupuna Koinei ngā taonga i tuku iho, na te ātua Hold fast to the treasures of the ancestors For they are the treasures that have been handed down to us by God’ (Dymond, 2013, p. ...
He kōpara e kō nei i te ata / Māori language socialisation and acquisition by two bilingual children: A case-study approach

Hunia, Tessa Maraea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis investigates natural Māori language socialisation and acquisition by two under-three-year-old children within bilingual settings in Aotearoa New Zealand, in which they were learning two languages simultaneously ...
He mana taonga, he mana tangata: Māori taonga and the politics of Māori tribal identity and development

Hakiwai, Arapata Tamati (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

In museum studies, museums have been examined in terms of their historical role in collecting and exhibiting the culture of colonized peoples, and their contemporary participation in identity politics, repatriation and ...
Henry Playford: a Bibliographical Study

Harvey, Douglas Ross (Victoria University of Wellington, 1985)

Henry Playford (1657-1709) was one of the most important London music publishers in the period 1680 to 1710. He was the son of the music publisher John Playford and a member of the Company of Stationers, and his business ...
He Rawe Tona Kakahu/She Wore a Becoming Dress: Performing the Hyphen

Seifert, Miki (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

In the British settler nations of the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, there continues to be debate about how to conduct research across the coloniser-indigene hyphen. Various indigenous scholars have ...
“Here there be dragons”: Using systems thinking to explore constitutional issues

Kerkin, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Too often the constitutional dimension of a policy problem is overlooked or under-valued in a process of developing governmental responses to difficult situations. Constitutional issues can be subtle and interlinked, ...