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Real-Time Image Based Lighting for 360 Degree Panoramic Video

Iorns, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The application of the newly popular content medium of 360 degree panoramic video to the widely used offline lighting technique of image based lighting is explored, and a system solution for real-time image based lighting ...
REASONABLE DISPOSITIONS: A RESPONSE TO THE SITUATIONIST CRITIQUE OF VIRTUE ETHICS

Vandenberg, Tobias (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

In The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle presents a theory of ethics as the development of character, specifically the cultivation of particular character traits lying on the mean between two vices which he calls the virtues. ...
Rebuilding Sustainable Commuting in Christchurch? A mixed-methods study of the effects of workplace relocation on transport choice and emissions

Whitwell, Kate (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Tackling the challenge of climate change will require rapid emissions reductions across all sectors, including transport. This study adds to the literature by investigating factors that may encourage sustainable transport ...
The Recent Carbonate Sediments of Palmyra Atoll, Northern Line Islands, Central Pacific Ocean

Clark, Oscar (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Palmyra Atoll is an isolated carbonate reef system located approximately 1600 km south of Hawaii in the northern Line Islands, central Pacific Ocean. Sediment samples from the lagoons and tidal zones were analyzed for ...
Reciprocal risk: The longitudinal relationship between emotion regulation and non-suicidal self-injury

Robinson, Kealagh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Poor emotion regulation has been highlighted as a potential risk factor for the development and maintenance of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI; Fox et al., 2015). However, longitudinal research tracking the relationship ...
Reclaiming Social Space: Adapting Neighbourhoods to Support an Ageing Population

McClintock, Lisa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The age structure of New Zealand’s population is expected to undergo a dramatic change in the next few decades. By 2050, it is thought that approximately one quarter of the population will be aged 65+. Research indicates ...
Recognising Non-Conjugal Relationships in New Zealand: Should We Extend the Rights and Responsibilities of Marriage and Marriage-Like Relationships to Other Caring Relationships?

Johns, Lorraine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis considers whether the legal recognition of non-conjugal relationships in New Zealand should be improved; particularly by extending them the rights and responsibilities of marital and marriage-like (conjugal) ...
Recognition Problems for Connectivity Functions

Jowett, Susan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

A connectivity function is a symmetric, submodular set function. Connectivity functions arise naturally from graphs, matroids and other structures. This thesis focuses mainly on recognition problems for connectivity ...
"Re-collecting" Caravan: an Architecturalisation of the New Zealand Cultural Relic

Clement, Shelly (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

“Re-collecting” Caravan re-interprets caravaning as the basis of a 21st century New Zealand vernacular architecture. Two themes run through this thesis: the caravan as an article of nostalgia, and the caravan in architecture ...
Reconciling Amenity and Intensification in New Zealand's Coastal Suburbs: An Island Bay Case Study

Raynes, Andrew James Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

With the global and national populations predicted to increase, the location of new residences provides a planning challenge. Intensification of existing areas has been identified as an alternative to urban sprawl (constant ...
Reconnecting Children with Nature: Biophilic Junior Level Learning Environment Design

Woodward, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

More than half of all humanity now live in urban centres. In westerns counties generally at least 80% of people’s time is spent indoors. This means that people are spending less time outside and in places that can be ...
Reconnecting Life of those with dementia back to their families and the wider society

Kusjanto, Grachia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Dementia has become one of the most feared diseases. It is feared more than cancer for those over 50 years of age. The progressive and distressing nature of the symptoms have been widely known to affect both the person ...
Reconstructed Memory

Northcott, Courtenay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

How can the abstract idea of memory be represented through the discipline of landscape architecture? How could this be more specifically achieved within the man-made landscape, using materiality and time as tools within ...
Reconstructing Ecological Change, Catchment Disturbance, and Anthropogenic Impact over the last 3000 years at Lake Pounui, Wairarapa, New Zealand

Cochrane, Leise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Increased eutrophication of freshwater lakes has been attributed to an intensification in agriculture, with global warming projected to further compound the problem. Determining pre-human conditions of a lake has major ...
Reconstructing Neogene Climate and Glacial History of Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Galbraith, Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Understanding the glacial changes that have occurred in southern McMurdo Sound throughout the Neogene makes an important contribution to reconstructing Antarctic ice volume changes during past periods of climatic warmth, ...
Reconstructing urban CO₂ emissions utilising the radiocarbon composition of tree rings from the Wellington Region, New Zealand

Ansell, India (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This study demonstrates the utility of tree ring radiocarbon analysis to quantify a temporal record of recently-added fossil fuel-derived carbon dioxide (CO₂ff) in the urban atmosphere, to retrospectively measure emissions ...
Reconstruction of historic fossil CO₂ emissions using radiocarbon measurements from tree rings

Norris, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This project aims to reconstruct historic fossil fuel derived CO₂ (CO₂ff) emissions from two closely located point sources in Taranaki, New Zealand. The Vector gas processing plant and the Ballance agri-nutrients ammonia ...
Record linkage on Māori land data to find and connect the missing

Chan, Valerie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

We consider probabilistic modelling for accomplishing record linkage across two large scale publicly available data sources: New Zealand Births Deaths and Marriages (BDM), and Māori Land Online (MLO). We undertake this ...
(Re)covered Memory: Memorialisation, Race, and Architecture

Wiles, Max (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The tendency to record only built memory and significant events in architectural practice means that less tangible cultural memory is prone to erasure. This is prevalent in the memories of the other which often diverge ...
Recurring Lexis and Reader-Reception in Horace’s Odes: The Formation of a Lyric Opus

Anderson, Colin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This study investigates perceived patterns of lexical recurrence in consecutive or closely proximate poems in Books 1-3 of the Odes of the Roman poet Horace and considers the significance these may have for the structure ...