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  • Sacred Memories: Creative Art Therapy for Children in Grief 
    Lowson, Shona (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)
    This paper explores the creative opportunities children might have to attend to their emotions and feelings following the death of a parent, grandparent or close friend. It presents the position that often children are ...
  • Sacred Technologies: the Evolution of Religious Cognitive Niche 
    Murphy, David J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    Most cognitive studies of religion adopt a modular theory of cognition. The 'space'that is studied is often the 'space between the ears'. Culture and religion are viewed as by-products of more entrenched features of our ...
  • Sacrosanct & Sound 
    Al-Ali, Mohammed (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    In our age of sensory experience and understanding, iconographic rhetoric is arguably the primary medium used to seduce our perception. We ornament and adorn architecture superfluously to satisfy the eye. What of the ear? ...
  • Saliency in Context: The Effect of Context on the Diagnosticity of Facial Features 
    Reedy, Morgan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    How might faces we have learned be represented in our memory? Researchers believe that our memory for faces is based on building a robust averaged representation comprised of the stable aspects of the face (i.e., eyes, ...
  • The saline Interface of a Shallow Unconfined Aquifer, Rangitikei Delta 
    Craig, Desiree S A (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    The coastal communities of Tangimoana and Scott's Ferry have a long history of using shallow groundwater bores. The cumulative effect of pumping over decades could influence the saline interface given the close proximity ...
  • Same sex relations, state crime and resistance 
    Gledhill, Cara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This thesis explores the criminalisation of same sex relations in a global context, using a framework which centres the state as criminal. It argues that criminalising laws serve as hegemonic dictates, which condone and ...
  • Samoan Educators' Perceptions and Experiences of In-service Training in Implementing Curriculum Reform 
    Petaia, Maimoana Janine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)
    This research study was undertaken in Samoa, a self-governing island nation in the Pacific. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of in-service training in implementing new curriculum reforms ...
  • Sampling the City 
    Evans, Morgan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis developed a speculative design process that sits between two streams of contemporary discourse. On one side lies ‘projective’ architecture—characterised by the elevation of performance and rejection of ...
  • Sand Dune Restoration in New Zealand: Methods, Motives, and Monitoring 
    Jamieson, Samantha Lee (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Sand dunes are critically endangered ecosystems, supporting a wide variety of specialist native flora and fauna. They have declined significantly in the past century, due to coastal development, exotic invasions, and ...
  • Sartre in Space: Rethinking Architecture & Rebuilding Philosophy 
    Mustard, Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This thesis considers spatial and architectural language used in philosophical text to determine the value of a cross-disciplinary relationship between architecture and philosophy. It approaches architectural figure as ...
  • Saudisation and Women’s Empowerment through Employment in the Health Care Sector 
    Alghamdi, Fatemah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The majority of studies concerning Saudisation policy as a solution to decrease the unemployment of nationals and reduce the reliance on expatriate. However, this study looks at Saudisation as a tool to empower Saudi women ...
  • Saved by the Bell: A Feminist Approach to High School Architecture 
    Nathu, Ekta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The years spent as high school students are some of the most formative to the development of confidence in identity, and in preparing young people to be resilient adults. The school environments in which development occurs ...
  • Saxophone Virtuosity: Manifestation and Effect in the Classical Saxophone Repertoire 
    Chin, Reuben (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    To ascribe the word ‘virtuosity’ to a single and absolute definition is an impossible task. It is a term that is multifaceted in its meaning and which is understood differently in a variety of contexts. This thesis ...
  • Scalability and Performance Considerations for Traffic Classification in Software-Defined Networks 
    Hayes, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Scalable network-wide traffic classification, combined with knowledge of endpoint identities, will enable the next wave of innovation in networking, by exposing a valuable layer of network metadata for applications to ...
  • Scavenging amphipods of the Tonga Trench: an analysis of community assemblage and population structure 
    Wilson, James Peter Ashley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The hadal zone is the common name for the deepest section of the ocean (6,000-11,000 m depth). It encompasses 45 % of the ocean’s depth range, and is mostly represented by oceanic trenches. Trench habitats lack sufficient ...
  • A Scenario Analysis of the 2030 German Spa Tourist and Tourism 
    Wolf, Natalie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Tourism is affected by growing transformations of social change, globalisation and wealth creation. Uncertainty surrounding the development of the factors makes it difficult to predict and provide contingency for the future. ...
  • A Scenario Planning of the Sharing Economy in Bali Accommodation 2030 
    Anindita, Arya Galih (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Defined as the economic system that allows ordinary people to share their underused/underutilized residences as tourist accommodation, the sharing economy in the accommodation sector may emerge into one of the most important ...
  • School Staff's Perceptions and Attitudes towards Cyberbullying 
    Mattioni, Loreto (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Parallel with the spread of technology use, cyberbullying has become a serious problem in schools, particularly those in developed countries where most young people have ready access to the Internet and mobile phones. ...
  • The Science of Multiplicities: Post-Structuralism and Ecological Complexities in Design 
    Feast, Luke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    This research investigates the potential contribution of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to design research. Through a comprehensive review of the literature an understanding of the themes of immanence and anti-essentialism ...
  • SciNow: Multimodal Educational Resources 
    Ammundsen, Brontë (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    The necessity for this project was identified as a response to declining levels of science engagement, academic success and literacy observed in New Zealand secondary science education (OECD, 2016). As international ...

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