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1. Mckinley, James. A Study of University Students in Japan: Learning and Application of Academic English Writing.

Degree: phd, 2012, Victoria University of Wellington

► This study investigated Japanese first and second year undergraduate students learning English academic writing in their compulsory English composition courses in a Japanese university. The… (more)

▼ This study investigated Japanese first and second year undergraduate students learning English academic writing in their compulsory English composition courses in a Japanese university. The thesis takes a social constructivist approach to investigate the aspects of critical argument and writer identity in these students’ classes and their writing. The data for the study include classroom observations and teacher and student interviews, all conducted monthly throughout the academic year-long course. In total there were six courses, four teachers, and sixteen student participants. The observations were analyzed using an adapted version of Ivanič’s (2004) Discourses of Writing framework, which focused on aspects of identity construction in the writing classroom. The linguistic data included a selection of one major piece of writing from each student, analyzed using an adapted Appraisal framework within Systemic Functional Linguistics (Martin, 1997; 2000). In order to maintain a focus on writer identity in the analysis, Clark and Ivanič’s (1997) selves were identified through this analysis. In addition, the texts were analyzed for use of Casanave’s (2002) writing game strategies, in order to further establish the students’ approaches in writing their texts. The objective was not to generalize about how Japanese students learn to write academic English, but rather to provide, from a social constructivist, Western researcher’s perspective, an analysis of what happened in these students’ writing classes and how it affected their writing for those classes. Teachers’ general practices in the observed courses mainly focused on two aspects of writing: 1) as a communicative act (writing for a reader), and 2) as an exercise in critical thinking (developing a thesis). These two aspects emerged from the observation and interview data collection. The four teachers used very different approaches in designing their courses, and the students in the same classes responded in different ways, mostly depending on their ability to understand their teachers’ intentions and to form appropriate academic identities in an attempt to meet their teacher’s expectations. The analysis of the students’ written texts revealed that students often did not meet the teachers’ expectations of writing objectively and using a genre-appropriate voice as students often resorted to the same authorial voice to push their thesis. This investigation was designed to inform pedagogic practices for university teachers of academic English and curriculum designers in Japan to establish effective English writing courses. The rich description of classroom practices and resulting written texts and the focus on differences in cultural expectations between teachers and students provide significant contributions to this area of inquiry. The main pedagogical suggestions are standardizing course objectives and goals, assigning more reading as a part of writing, and teaching students how to write authoritatively.

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Mckinley, J. (2012). A Study of University Students in Japan: Learning and Application of Academic English Writing. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://opus.bath.ac.uk/49169/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mckinley, James. “A Study of University Students in Japan: Learning and Application of Academic English Writing.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://opus.bath.ac.uk/49169/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mckinley, James. “A Study of University Students in Japan: Learning and Application of Academic English Writing.” 2012. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Mckinley J. A Study of University Students in Japan: Learning and Application of Academic English Writing. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2012. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/49169/.

Council of Science Editors:

Mckinley J. A Study of University Students in Japan: Learning and Application of Academic English Writing. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2012. Available from: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/49169/

Victoria University of Wellington

2. Waterhouse, Uta. Tobacco addiction in individuals with schizophrenia: A study in rats.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5477

► Schizophrenia as with most mental disorders develops due to an interaction of multiple genetic and environmental factors. Prenatal exposure to a maternal immuneactivation (MIA) is… (more)

▼ Schizophrenia as with most mental disorders develops due to an interaction of multiple genetic and environmental factors. Prenatal exposure to a maternal immuneactivation (MIA) is an environmental risk factor that can predispose offspring to develop schizophrenia later in life. The neurodevelopmental theory suggests that an immunechallenge during gestation can lead to long-lasting impairments such as in learning, memory,attention, or language (Brown & Patterson, 2012). Based on findings in human studies,prenatal exposure to a MIA has been utilized in preclinical research. Thus, the first aim of this study was to establish an animal model that generates subjects with schizophrenia-like cognitive impairments. To this end, a bacterial endotoxin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was used, which like most infectious agents, cannot cross the blood-placenta-barrier, yet reliably mimics an infection and initiates a MIA. Pregnant rats were subcutaneously (sc) injected with LPS (0.5 mg/kg) at one of three important neurodevelopmental time periods, gestation days (GD) 10/11, 15/16 or 18/19 (Fortier, Luheshi, & Boksa, 2007; Graciarena, Depino, & Pitossi, 2010). As individuals with schizophrenia commonly show deficits in multiple domains, three assessment paradigms were used to examine sensory and cognitive abilities in early and late adulthood. Tasks included prepulse inhibition to assess sensorimotor gating, latent inhibition to measure selective attention, and delayed non-matching to sample to evaluate working memory (WM). Several theories have been suggested to explain high smoking incidence in schizophrenic patients (75-90%) compared to the general population (23%). The self-medication theory suggests high smoking rates amongst patients because nicotine, the primary addictive constituent in tobacco smoke, ameliorates some of the symptoms of the disorder such as cognitive deficits (D'Souza & Markou, 2012). Thus, the second aim of this study was to determine whether repeated experimenter and self-administered nicotine ameliorates or reduces schizophrenia-like cognitive deficits. Finally, the third aim was to investigate the common substrate theory, which suggests that shared underlying biological pathways may lead to increased susceptibility for an individual to develop both schizophrenia and tobacco addiction (Chambers, Krystal, & Self, 2001). In conclusion, the findings of this study were coherently consistent and revealed that firstly, prenatal exposure to MIA early during foetal development led to long-lasting deficits in cognitive domains such as selective attention and WM. Secondly, supporting the self-medication theory, nicotine reversed MIA-induced cognitive impairments independent of the administration paradigm. Thirdly, increased responding rates for nicotine during self-administration acquisition in animals prenatally exposed to MIA were observed, yet there was no effect of prenatal treatment in dose response or progressive ratio testing. Thus, these findings only offer weak support for the common substrate theory. … Advisors/Committee Members: Ellenbroek, Bart, Brennan, Katie.

Subjects/Keywords: Prenatal infection; Cognitive deficits; Nicotine

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APA (6^th Edition):

Waterhouse, U. (2016). Tobacco addiction in individuals with schizophrenia: A study in rats. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5477

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Waterhouse, Uta. “Tobacco addiction in individuals with schizophrenia: A study in rats.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5477.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Waterhouse, Uta. “Tobacco addiction in individuals with schizophrenia: A study in rats.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Waterhouse U. Tobacco addiction in individuals with schizophrenia: A study in rats. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5477.

Council of Science Editors:

Waterhouse U. Tobacco addiction in individuals with schizophrenia: A study in rats. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5477

Victoria University of Wellington

3. Otieno, Milka Venance Musa. The influence of school matrons on girls’ educational experience and social participation in Tanzania.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5480

► A commitment to gender equity is reflected in Tanzania’s educational development policies many of which are geared towards preparing all citizens to participate fully in… (more)

▼ A commitment to gender equity is reflected in Tanzania’s educational development policies many of which are geared towards preparing all citizens to participate fully in the civic and economic life of the nation. Despite these government aspirations, the social, economic and educational status of women remains low. In this study, I seek answers for these ongoing inequalities by investigating girls’ experiences of education, focusing specifically on the influence of school matrons on educational outcomes and social participation for girls. This qualitative case study was informed by a combination of theoretical frameworks associated with African transformative feminism and social justice philosophies. Interview and focus group data were collected from multiple sites in rural and urban areas in the Manyara and Dodoma regions of Tanzania. In the course of the study, the perspectives of key players in the education contexts of these areas were sought. These included secondary school girls and their school matrons as well as School Principals and members of women’s local community groups and national organisations. In addition, data were drawn from key educational policy documents and reports relating to the education of girls. The findings identify school matrons as having a major influence in the education of Tanzanian girls. In particular, these women are responsible for creating safe educational environments for girls and many do this by assuming a nurturing role, known in Kiswahili as ‘Malezi.’ However, the significant structural challenges facing girls and young women combined with a severe and widespread shortage of educational resources and facilities places constraints on the ability of matrons to provide the sort of ongoing care that girls need. The matrons’ role is further complicated by socio-cultural and traditional expectations placed on girls and women in Tanzanian society. In light of these findings, I critique neoliberal approaches to Tanzanian education, arguing that understanding the impact of the psychosocial support systems on the engagement of learners within the nation’s educational institutions cannot be under-estimated, I conclude that it is time to develop a new way of thinking about gender equity and educational quality that departs from current human rights and human capital approaches. Advisors/Committee Members: Kidman, Joanna, Cornforth, Sue.

Subjects/Keywords: Girls' education; Tanzania; Gender equity

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Otieno, M. V. M. (2016). The influence of school matrons on girls’ educational experience and social participation in Tanzania. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5480

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Otieno, Milka Venance Musa. “The influence of school matrons on girls’ educational experience and social participation in Tanzania.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5480.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Otieno, Milka Venance Musa. “The influence of school matrons on girls’ educational experience and social participation in Tanzania.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Otieno MVM. The influence of school matrons on girls’ educational experience and social participation in Tanzania. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5480.

Council of Science Editors:

Otieno MVM. The influence of school matrons on girls’ educational experience and social participation in Tanzania. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5480

Victoria University of Wellington

4. Pilott, Marty. Migrant Pronunciation: What do Employers find Acceptable?.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5481

► Many migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds need to look for unskilled and low-skilled work in a range of industries in New Zealand. A number of… (more)

▼ Many migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds need to look for unskilled and low-skilled work in a range of industries in New Zealand. A number of barriers to employment have been identified, amongst which are numerous reports of migrants’ difficulties with English language. As many of these migrants speak languages which are very different from English they often have accents which native speakers find unfamiliar or hard to understand. The aim of this thesis was to identify which features of migrant pronunciation are more or less acceptable to employers, so that ESOL professionals can assist migrants more effectively when learning English. In my literature review, I begin by placing the need for pronunciation teaching in the context of New Zealand’s rapidly increasing ethnic and language diversity, and the barriers to migrant employment. I then describe how proficiency in pronunciation is measured, and how acceptability fits in to these measurements. In the following chapter I discuss what predictions can be made about the features which are likely to cause pronunciation difficulties for current groups of learners. Finally, I review research on the main levels of pronunciation (segmental, prosody and fluency) and how these can be expected to predict Acceptability. My research questions were: 1. Does pronunciation affect employers’ assessments of the acceptability of migrants for employment? 2. If so, which pronunciation features are the strongest predictors of the assessment? 3. Are there other employer or speaker factors which affect employer ratings of accept-ability? To address these questions, I obtained speech samples from 40 male and female migrants from a range of L1s. These were rated through an online survey by employers or human resource managers (n=95) from industries employing low-skilled workers in the main centres around New Zealand. In addition, ratings of the speakers’ pronunciation features were obtained from Experienced Raters to use as a baseline for analysis. The data from the online survey was then analysed to determine which features predicted the employers’ acceptability ratings. Three factors comprising a wide range of pronunciation features, segmental and suprasegmental (the latter divided into prosodic and fluency), were found to be highly significant in the employers’ ratings of acceptability, while most other factors were not. However, parts of the survey found that acceptability was significantly influenced by the employers’ assessment of whether the speaker was a hard worker, and by employers’ judgements about some of the speakers’ pronunciation features. In addition, judgements of acceptability differed from those of the other global measures of intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness, leading to a re-evaluation of what the ultimate goal of pronunciation teaching should be. While the Intelligibility Principle has been emphasised recently, it does not acknowledge the contextual nature of communication. This thesis concludes that Acceptability is a more useful… Advisors/Committee Members: Warren, Paul, Calhoun, Sasha, Angela, Joe.

Subjects/Keywords: Acceptability; Pronunciation; Employability

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APA (6^th Edition):

Pilott, M. (2016). Migrant Pronunciation: What do Employers find Acceptable?. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5481

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Pilott, Marty. “Migrant Pronunciation: What do Employers find Acceptable?.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5481.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Pilott, Marty. “Migrant Pronunciation: What do Employers find Acceptable?.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Pilott M. Migrant Pronunciation: What do Employers find Acceptable?. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5481.

Council of Science Editors:

Pilott M. Migrant Pronunciation: What do Employers find Acceptable?. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5481

5. Price, Stephanie J. Using conservation translocations to assess the impact of anthropogenic climate change on a cold-adapted reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5482

► Anthropogenic climate change is progressing at a rate unprecedented in the past 65 million years and is a significant conservation concern. The associated biotic and… (more)

▼ Anthropogenic climate change is progressing at a rate unprecedented in the past 65 million years and is a significant conservation concern. The associated biotic and abiotic impacts are expected to have substantial effects on global biodiversity, with some species potentially more vulnerable than others. The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a New Zealand endemic reptile and of particular interest as it is a slowly reproducing, range-restricted, cold-adapted ectotherm with temperature-dependent sex determination. Consequently, tuatara could be particularly vulnerable to rising air temperatures and conservation translocations have been key components of tuatara conservation efforts. Knowledge of how the tuatara might be affected by warmer climates will help inform where future conservation efforts are best directed, practices to avoid and which sites might be most suitable for the establishment of populations. The translocation of 176 adult tuatara in October 2012 from Stephens Island in New Zealand’s Cook Strait to four latitudinally distant North Island sites offered the opportunity to study the responses of tuatara in a range of environments. The comparatively warmer, drier climates of several sites provided surrogates for temporal climate change, enabling an assessment of how a warming climate might impact tuatara, and how they might respond. Using field observations, laboratory analysis and controlled experiments I investigated the short-term success of the translocations, the influence of translocation and climate on tuatara enteric bacterial communities and parasites, as well as how warmer climates might influence nocturnal activity, thermoregulatory opportunities and learning ability. I found several translocated populations to be progressing favourably, and found evidence that tuatara may exhibit enhanced growth at warmer, less densely-populated sites, suggesting that further translocations to lower latitude sites might be a viable conservation strategy. However, high population density at one translocation site was a concern and management recommendations were made to enable the dispersal of individuals. I detected Salmonella Saintpaul for the first time in a live tuatara, Campylobacter spp. was identified as a likely common commensal organism, and no measurable impact of translocation or climate on bacterial prevalence was observed, suggesting no substantial risk of climate warming to the susceptibility of tuatara to these bacteria. Tick populations were negatively impacted by translocation-associated factors following release but subsequently recovered at most sites and mites were not found on any translocated tuatara. Diurnal and nocturnal activities were positively influenced by air temperature, up to an upper threshold, and assessment of the site-specific thermal climates suggested that tuatara at warmer sites may benefit from increased opportunities for emergence and the attainment of preferred body temperatures throughout the year, though a higher frequency of restrictive air temperatures over summer… Advisors/Committee Members: Nelson, Nicola, Grayson, Kristine, Gartrell, Brett.

Subjects/Keywords: Climate change; Translocation; Tuatara; Conservation; Reptile

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APA (6^th Edition):

Price, S. J. (2016). Using conservation translocations to assess the impact of anthropogenic climate change on a cold-adapted reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5482

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Price, Stephanie J. “Using conservation translocations to assess the impact of anthropogenic climate change on a cold-adapted reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5482.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Price, Stephanie J. “Using conservation translocations to assess the impact of anthropogenic climate change on a cold-adapted reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Price SJ. Using conservation translocations to assess the impact of anthropogenic climate change on a cold-adapted reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5482.

Council of Science Editors:

Price SJ. Using conservation translocations to assess the impact of anthropogenic climate change on a cold-adapted reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5482

Victoria University of Wellington

6. Yang, Manshan. The Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin by Eugène Ysaÿe: A study in dedication and interpretation.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5484

► Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931) was one of the most prominent violin virtuosos from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. As a composer, his Six… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Sonata; Violin; Ysaÿe

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Yang, M. (2016). The Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin by Eugène Ysaÿe: A study in dedication and interpretation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5484

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Yang, Manshan. “The Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin by Eugène Ysaÿe: A study in dedication and interpretation.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5484.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Yang, Manshan. “The Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin by Eugène Ysaÿe: A study in dedication and interpretation.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Yang M. The Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin by Eugène Ysaÿe: A study in dedication and interpretation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5484.

Council of Science Editors:

Yang M. The Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin by Eugène Ysaÿe: A study in dedication and interpretation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5484

Victoria University of Wellington

7. Zeng, Cong. Patterns of genetic connectivity in deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems and implications for conservation.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5551

► Knowledge about and understanding of population structure and connectivity of deep-sea fauna decreases with increasing depth, but such information is crucial for the management of… (more)

▼ Knowledge about and understanding of population structure and connectivity of deep-sea fauna decreases with increasing depth, but such information is crucial for the management of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) in particular. As such, research using genetic markers, which does not require knowledge of ecological or environmental processes as a prerequisite for the analysis, is a practical method to investigate population connectivity of VME indicator taxa. However, population genetics studies are yet to be broadly conducted in the deep sea around New Zealand. To provide background information and develop hypothesises for this research, 196 population genetic studies of deep-sea fauna were reviewed and analysed. Based on the collected studies, four different patterns of spatial genetic structure were observed: global homogeneous, oceanic, regional, and fine structure. These different structures were reported that they were related to depth, topography, distance between populations, temperature and other biological factors. Quantification of the relationship between these factors and the detection of barriers to gene flow (barrier detection) showed that depth, currents and topography contributed significantly to barrier detection and depth and topography were acting as a barrier to gene flow in the deep sea. Furthermore, different sampling strategies and different genetic marker types significantly influenced genetic barrier detection. Comparison amongst different habitats suggested that different conservation strategies should be developed for different habitat types (Chapter 2). This study used different genetic markers to assess the genetic connectivity amongst VME indicator taxa Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME). Seven VME indicator taxa were selected: 4 sponges (Neoaulaxinia persicum, Penares sp., Pleroma menoui and Poecillastra laminaris) and 3 corals (Goniocorella dumosa, Madrepora oculata and Solenosmilia variabilis), at different spatial scales. Due to lack of genetic information for these species, genetic markers were developed for Poecillastra laminaris (0) and S. variabilis (Chapter 4). A geographic province (northern-southern province), region (north-central-south), and geomorphic feature hierarchical testing framework was employed to examine species-specific genetic variation in mitochondrial (COI, Cytb and 12S) and nuclear markers (microsatellites) amongst populations of four deep-sea sponges within the New Zealand region. For Poecillastra laminaris, significant mitochondrial and nuclear DNA genetic differences were revealed amongst biogeographic provinces. In contrast, no significant structure was detected across the same area for Penares sp. Both Neoaulaxinia persicum and Pleroma menoui were only available from the northern province, in which Pleroma menoui showed no evidence of genetic structure, but N. persicum exhibited a geographic differentiation in 12S. No depthrelated isolation was observed for any of the four species at the mitochondrial markers, nor at the microsatellite loci for… Advisors/Committee Members: Gardner, Jonathan, Rowden, Ashley, Clark, Malcolm.

Subjects/Keywords: Deep-sea; Vulnerable marine ecosystem; Genetic

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APA (6^th Edition):

Zeng, C. (2016). Patterns of genetic connectivity in deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems and implications for conservation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5551

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Zeng, Cong. “Patterns of genetic connectivity in deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems and implications for conservation.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5551.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Zeng, Cong. “Patterns of genetic connectivity in deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems and implications for conservation.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Zeng C. Patterns of genetic connectivity in deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems and implications for conservation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5551.

Council of Science Editors:

Zeng C. Patterns of genetic connectivity in deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems and implications for conservation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5551

Victoria University of Wellington

8. Bates, Ken. An investigation into customer accounting in customer-focused organisations.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6152

► Management accounting information should aid management in the design and implementation of strategy. Firms adopting a customer-focused strategy need customer accounting (CA) metrics. Yet accounting… (more)

▼ Management accounting information should aid management in the design and implementation of strategy. Firms adopting a customer-focused strategy need customer accounting (CA) metrics. Yet accounting literature provides limited insights into what CA metrics are used, how they are used, or what factors influence CA measure choice or hinder more widespread adoption of CA practices. This thesis enhances knowledge of actual CA practices as they operate in firms with a customer-focused strategy and uses contingency theory to explain the choice of CA practices and their use in three exploratory case studies consisting of two national banks and a global courier company. The two strategic business units in Alphabank employ locally-developed, activity-based costing systems to produce CA information. Personal Banking incorporates a ‘customer needs met’ variable into a customer lifetime value measure used to segment customers based on potential profitability. Business Banking is smaller and currently uses historical customer profitability analysis at the individual customer level. Despite Alphabank’s overall customer-focused strategy, only product profitability is reported at executive level, and tensions between finance and operations potentially hinder more widespread CA usage. Betabank offers excellent customer service, but despite being very customer-focused they do not measure customer profitability. Executives use predominantly aggregate financial figures with a focus on net interest margin. Service excellence is paramount and Betabank do not consider financial CA useful as they do not segment customers. However, they extensively use non-financial customer related measures to monitor excellent customer service provision in order to enhance future profitability. The courier company uses activity-based costing to produce historical customer profitability analysis which reports direct margin, gross margin and earnings before interest and tax. The analysis discloses significant profitability differences between customer segments, and even between individual customers within segments where customer relationship management is employed. They do not measure full customer lifetime value but the next year’s customer profitability can be modelled using historical cost drivers. Financial CA measures drive initiatives to enhance customer profitability and/or trigger price negotiations. Non-financial CA measures are used to drive the customer-focused strategy and enhance profitability. The three cases demonstrate a considerable diversity in their usage of financial CA practices, with Betabank choosing to use no financial CA at all. Competitive intensity and the use of customer relationship management are found to be key drivers of CA usage at the individual customer level. Segmental customer profitability analysis is used when a large number of customers receive standard services at standard prices. No individual customer profitability analysis is needed for such homogenous customers as they can be efficiently managed using… Advisors/Committee Members: Fowler, Carolyn, Eggleton, Ian.

Subjects/Keywords: Customer Accounting; Customer Profitability Analysis; Bank; Courier

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Bates, K. (2016). An investigation into customer accounting in customer-focused organisations. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6152

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bates, Ken. “An investigation into customer accounting in customer-focused organisations.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6152.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bates, Ken. “An investigation into customer accounting in customer-focused organisations.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Bates K. An investigation into customer accounting in customer-focused organisations. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6152.

Council of Science Editors:

Bates K. An investigation into customer accounting in customer-focused organisations. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6152

Victoria University of Wellington

9. Abdullah, Regina Garai. Accessibility and development in rural Sarawak. A case study of the Baleh river basin, Kapit District, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5556

► To what degree does accessibility to markets correlate with levels of development? This is an important question for those living in remote, underdeveloped parts of… (more)

▼ To what degree does accessibility to markets correlate with levels of development? This is an important question for those living in remote, underdeveloped parts of Southeast Asia during the final phases of de-agrarianisation. My study recounts the experience of rural-based Iban households living in the Baleh river basin of the Kapit District (population of 54,200) within a day or less travel by river to the small market town of Kapit (with a population of 18,000). With no connecting roads to the rest of Sarawak and reliant almost entirely on river transport, the local economy remains underdeveloped and is losing population. My field work among 20 villages in three accessibility zones of the Baleh river basin was undertaken over the three month period of May-July 2014. Structured interviews were conducted with 20 village headmen (tuai rumah), 82 heads of household, and 82 individuals within the households. Data was also systematically collected on 153 other individuals, including both residents and non-resident members of these bilik-families. My conceptual framework draws on von Thünen’s model of agricultural land use in order to generate expectations about the possible effects of market accessibility. While the sale of vegetables and other commodities accords with expected patterns, most rural households are in fact dependent on other, largely non-agricultural sources of income. As a result there has emerged a disjuncture between the nominal and actual residence as those working age family members with residential rights to the bilik undertake paid work well beyond the agricultural margin. Unable to achieve desired standards of living by accessing local markets and services in a division with no cities or roads, the working age members of the bilik sustain their families by dividing their residence between two or more locations in what I call multi-local living. The income of nominally rural households is being increasingly determined by the human capital that individuals now apply to non-agricultural labour markets. This, in turn, is leading to a widening distribution of levels of ‘development’, across individuals, their multi-generational families and their rural communities. Multi-local living is unsustainable beyond the transitional phase of de-agrarianisation and as labour shifts out of agriculture and people move to towns, connections with rural residence are likely to diminish, notwithstanding the cultural ties, and disputes over realising market values of largely untitled land will continue to complicate the transition. Advisors/Committee Members: Morrison, Philip, Murray, Warwick.

Subjects/Keywords: Accessibility; Rural development; Sarawak

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Abdullah, R. G. (2016). Accessibility and development in rural Sarawak. A case study of the Baleh river basin, Kapit District, Sarawak, Malaysia. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5556

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Abdullah, Regina Garai. “Accessibility and development in rural Sarawak. A case study of the Baleh river basin, Kapit District, Sarawak, Malaysia.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5556.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Abdullah, Regina Garai. “Accessibility and development in rural Sarawak. A case study of the Baleh river basin, Kapit District, Sarawak, Malaysia.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Abdullah RG. Accessibility and development in rural Sarawak. A case study of the Baleh river basin, Kapit District, Sarawak, Malaysia. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5556.

Council of Science Editors:

Abdullah RG. Accessibility and development in rural Sarawak. A case study of the Baleh river basin, Kapit District, Sarawak, Malaysia. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5556

10. Olsen, Nellie J. The geochemistry of antimony in hydrothermal solutions.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5557

► In this thesis, 30°C stibnite solubility experiments, ambient temperature X-ray absorption spectroscopic measurements of antimony in solution, and high temperature (70 to 400°C) stibnite solubility… (more)

▼ In this thesis, 30°C stibnite solubility experiments, ambient temperature X-ray absorption spectroscopic measurements of antimony in solution, and high temperature (70 to 400°C) stibnite solubility experiments were carried out in order to determine the aqueous antimony species present in equilibrium with stibnite in hydrosulfide solutions from pH = 3.5 to 12 and reduced sulfur concentrations from 0.001 to 0.1 mol kg⁻¹. Both ambient and elevated temperature solubility studies were conducted using a flow-through apparatus containing a column of stibnite grains though which solutions were pumped. Above 100°C, solubility experiments were conducted at slightly above saturated water vapour pressure to pressures of 300 bar. At 30°C, the stibnite solubility curve was best reproduced by a scheme of five species: Sb₂S₄²⁻, HSb₂S₄⁻, H₂Sb₂S₅²⁻, H₃SbS₂O, and Sb(OH)₃. At higher temperatures (≥ 70 °C), stibnite solubility at the conditions of the experiments was due to the following four species: Sb₂S₄²⁻, HSb₂S₄⁻, H₃SbS₂O, and Sb(OH)₃. Equilibrium constants were determined for the following five heterogeneous solubility reactions for the temperature ranges listed: [Please consult the thesis for details.] Stibnite solubility was independent of pressure at ≤ 350°C. At ~ 400°C, the solubility of stibnite was strongly dependent on pressure and decreased from Sbtotal = 0.015 to 0.0003 mol kg⁻¹ (~2000 to 40 ppm) with a pressure decrease from 300 to 160 bars. The Sb K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopic (XAS) measurements of antimony in alkaline (pH = 10. 9 to 12) hydrosulfide solutions gave average first shell coordination environments that were consistent with the speciation model derived from solubility experiments for strongly alkaline solutions (i.e., Sb₂S₄²⁻ and Sb(OH)₃). XAS data enable the elimination of a speciation model involving only monomeric antimony complexes at strongly alkaline pH. Antimony speciation in near neutral to strongly alkaline pH’s is dominated by dimeric antimony-sulfide complexes at 30°C and sulfide concentrations > 0.001 mol kg⁻¹. With increasing temperature, antimony speciation becomes increasingly dominated by Sb(OH)₃. For hydrothermal solutions with sulfide concentrations between 0.0001 and 0.01 mol kg⁻¹, antimony-sulfide complexes are predominant at < 100°C, whereas antimonous acid, Sb(OH)₃, is the main aqueous species at contributing to stibnite solubility at > 200°C with the speciation in the intervening temperature range being dependent on the pH and sulfide concentration of the solution. For higher sulfide concentrations (i.e., ~ 0.1 mol kg⁻¹), HSb₂S₄⁻ and Sb₂S₄²⁻ control stibnite solubility to higher temperatures. Advisors/Committee Members: Seward, Terry, Mountain, Bruce.

Subjects/Keywords: Antimony; Stibnite; Geothermal

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APA (6^th Edition):

Olsen, N. J. (2016). The geochemistry of antimony in hydrothermal solutions. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5557

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Olsen, Nellie J. “The geochemistry of antimony in hydrothermal solutions.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5557.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Olsen, Nellie J. “The geochemistry of antimony in hydrothermal solutions.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Olsen NJ. The geochemistry of antimony in hydrothermal solutions. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5557.

Council of Science Editors:

Olsen NJ. The geochemistry of antimony in hydrothermal solutions. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5557

Victoria University of Wellington

11. Gharibi, Khadijeh. Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition and Maintenance of Heritage Speakers’ Family Language: Iranians in New Zealand.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5561

► This dissertation is composed of a quantitative investigation of Incomplete Heritage Language Acquisition and Attrition in heritage speakers’ vocabulary knowledge. This portion is followed by… (more)

▼ This dissertation is composed of a quantitative investigation of Incomplete Heritage Language Acquisition and Attrition in heritage speakers’ vocabulary knowledge. This portion is followed by a qualitative investigation of Heritage Language Acquisition and Maintenance in which the immigrant parents’ attitudes towards heritage language acquisition and maintenance for their children are explored. Three groups of participants took part in this study. One group consisted of thirty 6-18 year old Persian-English simultaneous and sequential bilinguals in New Zealand. To obtain benchmark data, a control group was recruited, comprised of thirty monolingual speakers of Persian in Iran who were matched with the heritage speakers in terms of age, gender, number of siblings and their family’s socio-economic status. The third group of the participants consisted of twenty-four parents of the heritage speakers. Information about the bilinguals’ demographic and socio-linguistic factors was collected through semi-structured interviews with their parents. The quantitative investigation commences with a study that examines young heritage speakers’, either simultaneous or sequential bilinguals, vocabulary knowledge in their family language compared to the matched monolingual counterparts, and the factors that account for a difference, if there is any, are investigated. These factors include current age, age at emigration, length of emigration, frequency of heritage language use and parents’ attitude towards heritage language acquisition and maintenance. The results of productive and receptive vocabulary knowledge tests showed that the heritage speakers were outperformed by the monolinguals, but the gap was wider in the case of the simultaneous bilinguals. Additionally, the parents’ attitude was found to be a strong predictor of the simultaneous bilinguals’ vocabulary knowledge, while the sequential bilinguals’ vocabulary knowledge was associated mostly with age at emigration. The second study in the quantitative investigation examines whether the simultaneous and sequential bilinguals differ from monolinguals with regard to lexical richness, according to measures of lexical diversity and lexical sophistication, in their family language. It also weighs the influence of the demographic and/or sociolinguistic factors on the difference between these sub-groups, if there is any. A film-retelling task was used to collect free speech samples. As expected, the monolinguals’ narratives tended to manifest greater lexical richness according to both measures, but did most markedly so according to the lexical sophistication measure, suggesting that the latter is a better parameter in detecting the differences between heritage speakers and monolinguals. Of the factors investigated, the simultaneous and sequential bilinguals’ lexical richness was predicted by age, showing that the older the children were when they moved to the second language environment, the better their family language vocabulary tended to be. The sociolinguistic variables (i.e.… Advisors/Committee Members: Boers, Frank, Seals, Corinne.

Subjects/Keywords: Heritage speakers; Incomplete acquisition; Language attritions

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Gharibi, K. (2016). Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition and Maintenance of Heritage Speakers’ Family Language: Iranians in New Zealand. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5561

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Gharibi, Khadijeh. “Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition and Maintenance of Heritage Speakers’ Family Language: Iranians in New Zealand.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5561.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gharibi, Khadijeh. “Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition and Maintenance of Heritage Speakers’ Family Language: Iranians in New Zealand.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Gharibi K. Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition and Maintenance of Heritage Speakers’ Family Language: Iranians in New Zealand. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5561.

Council of Science Editors:

Gharibi K. Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition and Maintenance of Heritage Speakers’ Family Language: Iranians in New Zealand. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5561

Victoria University of Wellington

12. Faegh-Lashgary, Pegah. Modelling geodetic observations of postseismic displacement in the central and southern South Island of New Zealand.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5563

► The last seven years have seen southern New Zealand a ected by several large and damaging earthquakes: the moment magnitude (MW) 7.8 Dusky Sound earthquake… (more)

▼ The last seven years have seen southern New Zealand a ected by several large and damaging earthquakes: the moment magnitude (MW) 7.8 Dusky Sound earthquake on 15 July 2009, the MW 7.1 Dar eld (Canterbury) earthquake on 4 September 2010, and most notably the MW 6.2 Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011 and the protracted aftershock sequence. In this thesis, we address the postseismic displacement produced by these earthquakes using methods of satellite-based geodetic measurement, known as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS), and computational modelling. We observe several ground displacement features in the Canterbury and Fiordland regions during three periods: 1) Following the Dusky Sound earthquake; 2) Following the Dar eld earthquake and prior to the Christchurch earthquake; and 3) Following the Christchurch earthquake until February 2015. The ground displacement associated with postseismic motion following the Dusky Sound earthquake has been measured by continuous and campaign GPS data acquired in August 2009, in conjunction with Di erential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) observations. We use an afterslip model, estimated by temporal inversion of geodetic data, with combined viscoelastic rebound model to account for the observed spatio-temporal patterns of displacement. The two postseismic processes together induce a signi cant displacement corresponding to principal extensional and contractual strain rates of the order of 10⁻⁷ and 10⁻⁸ yr⁻¹ respectively, across most of the southern South Island. We also analyse observed postseismic displacement following the Dusky Sound earthquake using a new inversion approach in order to describe afterslip in an elasticviscoelastic medium. We develop a mathematical framework, namely the "Iterative Decoupling of Afterslip and Viscoelastic rebound (IDAV)" method, with which to invert temporally dense and spatially sparse geodetic observations. We examine the IDAV method using both numerical and analytical simulations of Green's functions. For the post-Dar eld time interval, postseismic signals are measured within approximately one month of the mainshock. The dataset used for the post-Dar eld displacement spans the region surrounding previously unrecognised faults that ruptured during the mainshock. Poroelastic rebound in a multi-layered half-space and dilatancy recovery at shallow depths provide a satisfactory t with the observations. For the post-Christchurch interval, campaign GPS data acquired in February 2012 to February 2015 in four successive epochs and 66 TerraSAR-X (TSX) SAR acquisitions in descending orbits between March 2011 and May 2014 reveal approximately three years of postseismic displacement. We detect movement away from the satellite of ~ 3 mm/yr in Christchurch and a gradient of displacement of ~ 4 mm/yr across a lineament extending from the westernmost end of the Western Christchurch Fault towards the eastern end of the Greendale East Fault. The postseismic signals following the… Advisors/Committee Members: Townend, John, Williams, Charles, Hamling, Ian.

Subjects/Keywords: Satellite geodesy; Postseismic modelling; Inverse problems

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Faegh-Lashgary, P. (2016). Modelling geodetic observations of postseismic displacement in the central and southern South Island of New Zealand. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5563

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Faegh-Lashgary, Pegah. “Modelling geodetic observations of postseismic displacement in the central and southern South Island of New Zealand.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5563.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Faegh-Lashgary, Pegah. “Modelling geodetic observations of postseismic displacement in the central and southern South Island of New Zealand.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Faegh-Lashgary P. Modelling geodetic observations of postseismic displacement in the central and southern South Island of New Zealand. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5563.

Council of Science Editors:

Faegh-Lashgary P. Modelling geodetic observations of postseismic displacement in the central and southern South Island of New Zealand. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5563

Victoria University of Wellington

13. Reddy, Sumeet Kumar. 0.9% saline versus Plasma-Lyte 148 for intravenous fluid therapy.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5564

► BACKGROUND Intravenous fluid therapy is one of the most common interventions used in acute medicine. Worldwide, there are variations in the prescription of intravenous fluids… (more)

▼ BACKGROUND Intravenous fluid therapy is one of the most common interventions used in acute medicine. Worldwide, there are variations in the prescription of intravenous fluids and no consensus on the best intravenous fluid to use. Currently, 0.9% saline is the most frequently prescribed intravenous fluid; however, there is emerging evidence to suggest that 0.9% saline may be associated with an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI), increased blood transfusion requirements and gastrointestinal dysfunction when compared to a buffered crystalloid fluid, such as Plasma-Lyte 148. METHODS Study one: A prospective, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, cluster, double crossover study conducted over 28 weeks in four New Zealand intensive care units (ICU) comparing 0.9% saline to Plasma-Lyte 148. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with either AKI or renal failure according to the RIFLE criteria definitions based on serum creatinine levels. Study two: An exploratory subgroup analysis of cardiac surgical patients enrolled in study one to compare the effects of 0.9% saline vs. Plasma-Lyte 148 on the need for blood transfusions. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients receiving blood or blood products in the ICU. Additionally, an in-depth single-centre nested cohort study comparing the effect of 0.9% saline vs. Plasma-Lyte 148 on blood loss and blood products was also conducted. Study three: A single-centre nested study within study one comparing the effect of 0.9% saline vs. Plasma-Lyte 148 on gastrointestinal dysfunction in patients expected to be mechanically ventilated for >48 hours and receiving enteral nutrition via the nasogastric route. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with gastrointestinal intolerance (high gastric residual volumes (GRV), vomiting, and diarrhoea). RESULTS Study one: 2262 patients were enrolled and analysed, 1152 patients were allocated to receive Plasma-Lyte 148 and 1110 participants were allocated to receive 0.9% saline. In the Plasma-Lyte 148 group, 102 of 1067 patients (9.6%) developed AKI, compared with 94 of 1025 patient (9.2%) in the 0.9% saline group (RR 1.05; 95% CI, 0.78 to 1.41; p=0.76). Overall, 87 of 1152 patients (7.6%) in the Plasma-Lyte 148 group and 95 of 1110 patients (8.6%) in the 0.9% saline group died in hospital (RR, 0.88; 95% CI 0.67 to 1.17; p=0.40). Study two: 954 cardiac surgical patients were included, 475 patients were allocated to receive Plasma-Lyte 148 and 479 were allocated to receive 0.9% saline. 128 of 475 patients (26.9%) in the Plasma-Lyte 148 group received blood or a blood product compared with 94 of 479 (19.6%) patients in the 0.9% saline group (OR [95% CI], 1.51 [1.11-2.05]; p=0.008). Within the nested cohort (n=251, 131 assigned to Plasma-Lyte 148 and 120 assigned to 0.9% saline), there were no differences between groups in chest drain losses at 12 hours. Study three: 69 patients were enrolled and analysed, with 35 allocated to receive Plasma-Lyte 148 and 34 allocated to receive 0.9% saline. In the… Advisors/Committee Members: Miller, John, Beasley, Richard.

Subjects/Keywords: Intravenous; Saline; Plasma-Lyte

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Reddy, S. K. (2016). 0.9% saline versus Plasma-Lyte 148 for intravenous fluid therapy. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5564

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Reddy, Sumeet Kumar. “0.9% saline versus Plasma-Lyte 148 for intravenous fluid therapy.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5564.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Reddy, Sumeet Kumar. “0.9% saline versus Plasma-Lyte 148 for intravenous fluid therapy.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Reddy SK. 0.9% saline versus Plasma-Lyte 148 for intravenous fluid therapy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5564.

Council of Science Editors:

Reddy SK. 0.9% saline versus Plasma-Lyte 148 for intravenous fluid therapy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5564

Victoria University of Wellington

14. Webster, Jeremy. Discriminative Stimulus Properties of MDMA: The Role of Serotonin and Dopamine.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5622

► Rationale: ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, “ecstasy”) produces unique and complex subjective effects which distinguish it from other recreationally used drugs. An understanding of the neurochemical mechanisms that… (more)

▼ Rationale: ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, “ecstasy”) produces unique and complex subjective effects which distinguish it from other recreationally used drugs. An understanding of the neurochemical mechanisms that underlie these effects is important in order to assess the potential for MDMA abuse and to inform researchers exploring of the drug’s therapeutic potential. The present thesis investigated the neurochemical mechanisms underlying the subjective effects of MDMA using drug discrimination procedures in laboratory animals. Despite evidence that training dose can markedly impact the results of drug discrimination studies, the impact of training dose on the discriminative stimulus properties of MDMA has been largely overlooked. The broad aims of these experiments were 1) to test the ability of two different doses of MDMA to support drug discrimination learning, and 2) to determine the role of serotonin (5-HT) and dopamine (DA) neurotransmitter systems in producing the discriminative stimulus effects of each MDMA training dose. Methods: Groups of rats were trained to discriminate MDMA (1.5 or 3.0 mg/kg) from saline or to discriminate MDMA (1.5 or 3.0 mg/kg) from amphetamine (0.5 mg/kg) and saline, using two- or three-lever, food-reinforced drug discrimination procedures. The first experiments determined the impact of training dose on the acquisition of the MDMA discrimination. Reliability of the discrimination was assessed by measuring the impact of changes in acquisition criteria. Once the discrimination had been acquired, generalisation tests were carried out in two-lever experiments with the SSRIs, fluoxetine and clomipramine, the 5-HT2 agonists, mCPP and DOI, and the 5-HT1 agonists, 8-OH-DPAT and RU-24969, to investigate the role of 5-HT in the discriminative stimulus effects of 1.5 mg/kg vs 3.0 mg/kg MDMA. Next, the role of DA was investigated in further generalisation test sessions with the DA releasing stimulant, AMPH, the non-selective D1/D2 agonist, apomorphine, the D1 agonist, SKF38393, and the D2 agonist, quinpirole. Finally, experiments were carried out in which the ability of the 5-HT2A antagonist, ketanserin, the 5-HT1B/1D antagonist, GR-127935, the 5-HT1A antagonist, WAY100635, the D1 antagonist, SCH23390, and the D2 antagonist, eticlopride, to attenuate the discriminative stimulus effects of 1.5 mg/kg vs 3.0 mg/kg MDMA was assessed. Results: A higher training dose of MDMA was associated with a more rapid acquisition of drug discrimination in both the two- and three-lever tasks, and significant differences were observed with respect to the ability of each dose of MDMA to maintain consistently accurate discrimination across both tasks. All of the serotonin agonists that were tested generalised to the discriminative stimulus effects of 1.5 mg/kg MDMA in a two-lever discrimination task. In contrast, only agonists for 5-HT1A or 5-HT2A receptors generalised to the discriminative stimulus effects of 3.0 mg/kg MDMA. Non-selective dopamine agonists generalised to the discriminative stimulus… Advisors/Committee Members: Schenk, Susan, Harper, David.

Subjects/Keywords: MDMA; Drug Discrimination; Serotonin; Dopamine

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Webster, J. (2016). Discriminative Stimulus Properties of MDMA: The Role of Serotonin and Dopamine. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5622

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Webster, Jeremy. “Discriminative Stimulus Properties of MDMA: The Role of Serotonin and Dopamine.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5622.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Webster, Jeremy. “Discriminative Stimulus Properties of MDMA: The Role of Serotonin and Dopamine.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Webster J. Discriminative Stimulus Properties of MDMA: The Role of Serotonin and Dopamine. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5622.

Council of Science Editors:

Webster J. Discriminative Stimulus Properties of MDMA: The Role of Serotonin and Dopamine. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5622

Victoria University of Wellington

15. Schwass, Margot. All the juicy pastures: Greville Texidor, Frank Sargeson and New Zealand literary culture in the 1940s.

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5641

► The cultural nationalist narrative, and the myths of origin and invention associated with it, cast a long shadow over the mid-twentieth century literary landscape. But… (more)

▼ The cultural nationalist narrative, and the myths of origin and invention associated with it, cast a long shadow over the mid-twentieth century literary landscape. But since at least the 1980s, scholars have turned their attention to what was happening at the margins of that dominant narrative, revealing untold stories and evidence of unexpected literary meeting points, disruptions and contradictions. The nationalist frame has thus lost purchase as the only way to understand the era’s literature. The 1940s in particular have emerged as a time of cultural recalibration in which subtle shifts were being nourished by various sources, not least the émigré and exilic artists who came to New Zealand from war-torn Europe. They included not only refugees but also a group of less classifiable wanderers and nomads. Among them was Greville Texidor, the peripatetic Englishwoman who transformed herself into a writer and produced a small body of fiction here, including what Frank Sargeson would call “one of the most beautiful prose works ever achieved in this country” (“Greville Texidor” 135). The Sargeson-Texidor encounter, and the larger exilic-nationalist meeting it signifies, is the focus of this thesis. By the early 1940s, Sargeson was the acknowledged master of the New Zealand short story, feted for his ‘authentic’ vision of local reality and for the vernacular idiom and economical form he had developed to render it. Yet he was at a turning point, increasingly constricted by the very tradition he had created. This thesis proposes that, in Texidor, he found the ideal reader for the writer he wished to become. More than merely a mentor-protégée relationship, this was an exchange that left its imprint on Sargeson’s work as much as Texidor’s. Moreover, their meeting enacted the moment at which international influences and modernist modes of expression collided with the literary nationalist project – refashioning, complicating and enlarging it in the process. Combining literary analysis, cultural and literary history, and biography, this thesis is divided into three parts. The first examines the narrative of invention and indigeneity constructed around the dominant Phoenix-Caxton writers, and the scholarship challenging that narrative and its totalising claims. Turning to the arrival of exilic artists from Europe and elsewhere, it argues that the nationalist and the exilic operated as unexpectedly compatible mentalities in 1940s New Zealand. The second part considers the sources of Sargeson’s literary dilemma in the 1940s, his quest for artistic reinvention, and his problematic role as mentor to a generation of emerging writers. The final part comprises a close reading of Texidor’s published fiction and also (for the first time) her unpublished work. Her fiction is read not only as a record of a writer’s development, but also through the lens of intermodernist theory, suggesting an affinity with writers elsewhere using modernist methods to register the personal and social consequences of political commitment and war. This… Advisors/Committee Members: Ricketts, Harry, Williams, Mark.

Subjects/Keywords: Greville Texidor; Literary nationalism; Frank Sargeson; Exilic artists; Texidor; Sargeson; Cultural nationalism

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Schwass, M. (2017). All the juicy pastures: Greville Texidor, Frank Sargeson and New Zealand literary culture in the 1940s. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5641

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Schwass, Margot. “All the juicy pastures: Greville Texidor, Frank Sargeson and New Zealand literary culture in the 1940s.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5641.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Schwass, Margot. “All the juicy pastures: Greville Texidor, Frank Sargeson and New Zealand literary culture in the 1940s.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Schwass M. All the juicy pastures: Greville Texidor, Frank Sargeson and New Zealand literary culture in the 1940s. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5641.

Council of Science Editors:

Schwass M. All the juicy pastures: Greville Texidor, Frank Sargeson and New Zealand literary culture in the 1940s. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5641

Victoria University of Wellington

16. Gjerde, Morten. Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes.

Degree: 2015, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5647

► City leaders often make reference to their built and natural environments when they compete domestically or internationally for financial investment, tourism spending and high quality… (more)

▼ City leaders often make reference to their built and natural environments when they compete domestically or internationally for financial investment, tourism spending and high quality workers. These leaders are aware that people in the workforce, investors and tourists would prefer to be associated with vibrant and attractive places. Research has confirmed the important role the appearance of the built environment plays in people’s physical, financial and psychological wellbeing, not the least of which is helping to foster a sense of individual and community pride. However, there is also literature critical of the appearance of many individual buildings and urban streetscapes, particularly those that have arisen through the well-intentioned but uncoordinated efforts of those involved in the development of individual sites. Recognising that wider public interests have not always been well-served by private development, governments and local authorities become involved to control development outcomes. One aspect of development control is design review, which aims to improve the quality of urban places by influencing the design of individual buildings. However, given that design review is administered by professional experts and that design guidance is based on normative expressions of what good design should be, what assurances are there that urban transformation meets with public expectations? The research reported in this thesis addresses this question. This research seeks to identify those streetscape design characteristics that are best liked by people and those that they dislike. A methodology based on mixed research methods was developed. An initial study sought people’s preferences for six different urban streetscapes, as depicted photographically. Analysis of nearly 200 responses to the survey questionnaire identified several building and streetscape characteristics that were consistently liked and disliked. To explore these and other responses from another perspective, a second study was designed that would examine people’s preferences in more detail and on the basis of their actual experience of the streetscapes. Study Two was developed around three separate case studies and two focus group discussions. Demographic information about the 156 survey respondents was collected, along with their aesthetic perceptions about individual buildings, relationships between buildings and overall streetscapes. This enabled comparisons to be made on the bases of gender, age and occupational background. Of particular interest was to understand the streetscape preferences of lay members of the public, those whose interests design review aims to ensure, and change professionals, who make the design and planning decisions. Two focus group discussions were convened, one for change professionals and the other for lay people, to explore findings from the survey in more detail. The results indicate that people prefer older buildings whose façade designs are based on more traditional composition patterns, and… Advisors/Committee Members: Vale, Brenda, Bond, Sophie.

Subjects/Keywords: Urban streetscape; Environmental aesthetics; Design control; Aesthetic preferences

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Gjerde, M. (2015). Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5647

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Gjerde, Morten. “Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5647.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gjerde, Morten. “Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes.” 2015. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Gjerde M. Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2015. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5647.

Council of Science Editors:

Gjerde M. Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5647

Victoria University of Wellington

17. Efthymiou, Christina. Investigating the Mesoscale of β-lactoglobulin Fibril Hydrogels.

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5652

► The objective of this doctoral thesis was to investigate the relationship between the architecture of protein fibril networks and their macroscopic properties. This requires investigation… (more)

▼ The objective of this doctoral thesis was to investigate the relationship between the architecture of protein fibril networks and their macroscopic properties. This requires investigation of the mesoscale; the scale between the macroscopic and microscopic scales where fibril self-assembly processes occur resulting in structures organized in different hierarchical levels. The mesoscale of such networks is not extensively studied and this is where I want to add knowledge, in order for physical sciences to contribute to New Zealand agricultural food sectors by changing the way in which soft materials and biopolymer engineering is done and by taking biomaterials from commodities to specialties by adding knowledge. The protein selected for the current study was β-lactoglobulin which forms amyloid-like fibrils when heated at 80 °C under acidic conditions. Specifically, hydrogels were formed under three pH conditions; 1) pH 2.3, 2) pH 2.0, and 3) pH 0.9. These three conditions result in three different types of hydrogels being formed. The β-lactoglobulin hydrogels formed at pH 0.9, which have not previously been reported in the literature, exhibit completely different structure and macroscopic properties compared with the standard and widely reported in the literature β-lactoglobulin hydrogels formed at pH 2.3 and pH 2.0. Cryo-scanning electron microscopy (cryo-SEM) was used to investigate the intact 3D structure of the hydrogels. On the contrary, there are a lot of studies reported in the literature using other microscopy techniques, like atomic force microscopy (AFM) or transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which allow the fibril characteristics and not the intact interior of the hydrogel structure to be investigated. Cryo-SEM showed that β-lactoglobulin fibrils formed at pH 2.3 are the most flexible fibrils with the longest end-to-end fibril lengths, while the fragmented-particles fibrils formed at pH 0.9 are the thickest and least flexible with the shortest end-to-end lengths. Determination of fibril characteristics helps in predicting the macroscopic behaviour of fibril networks. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) was used as a complementary method to cryo-SEM. SAXS allows structural investigation of fibril networks, that cryo-SEM is not able to achieve. Specifically, SAXS showed that fibril hydrogels formed at pH 2.3 exhibit the least compact structure with the least fibril surface roughness, while hydrogels formed at pH 0.9 exhibit the most compact structure and the roughest fibril surfaces. Another crucial point is that SAXS allows the thermodynamics of these systems to be probed. SAXS data confirmed that the more rod-like the network, the more favourable it is for the system to organize into a nematic phase. Rheology was used to investigate the macroscopic properties of the hydrogels. Rheology demonstrated that there are two types of behaviour exhibited by these three types of hydrogels. Although it was assumed at the start of this project that these three types of hydrogels could exhibit different macroscopic… Advisors/Committee Members: McGrath, Kate, Williams, Martin.

Subjects/Keywords: β-lactoglobulin fibrils; Self-assembly systems; Mesoscale; Beta-lactoglobulin fibrils; Cryo-SEM; SAXS; Rheology

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Efthymiou, C. (2017). Investigating the Mesoscale of β-lactoglobulin Fibril Hydrogels. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5652

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Efthymiou, Christina. “Investigating the Mesoscale of β-lactoglobulin Fibril Hydrogels.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5652.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Efthymiou, Christina. “Investigating the Mesoscale of β-lactoglobulin Fibril Hydrogels.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Efthymiou C. Investigating the Mesoscale of β-lactoglobulin Fibril Hydrogels. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5652.

Council of Science Editors:

Efthymiou C. Investigating the Mesoscale of β-lactoglobulin Fibril Hydrogels. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5652

Victoria University of Wellington

18. Nguyen, Ngoc Minh. Towards the Making of User Friendly Public Space in China: An Investigation of the Use and Spatial Patterns of Newly Developed Small and Medium-Sized Urban Public Squares in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5654

► This thesis investigates how new small and medium-sized public squares are designed and used on a daily basis in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, two major cities… (more)

▼ This thesis investigates how new small and medium-sized public squares are designed and used on a daily basis in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, two major cities in the Pearl River Delta, China. Given an extreme lack of open public space in these cities, these newly developed public space are expected to improve the life of millions of Chinese urban citizens; however, many of them are frequently criticised as inconvenient for users. How to improve the performance of these small and medium-sized public squares is therefore a critical issue faced by the city planners and designers. However, to dates, academic studies of public space in China are primarily focused on the architectural expression of the space or the development of the ‘public sphere’ in China. Hence, information about the actual use of small and medium-sized public squares in China is virtually absent. In order to fill this gap in knowledge on how these new public space are designed and used, this thesis examines 13 small and medium-sized public squares that have been (re)developed over the last 15 years in Guangzhou and Shenzhen using primarily the space syntax methodology, including direct (non-participant) observations and space syntax analysis techniques. The thesis focuses on the examination of three aspects: static occupancy and its relation to actual physical settings, transient use of the space and its relation to urban configuration, and the location preferences by Chinese users and the underlying visual logic. The findings from this thesis document a significantly different way of using public squares in China, as compared to their Western counterparts. Specifically, these spaces are used primarily by the elderly and organised activity groups. This collective way of using public space in China in combination with a wide range of cultural specific activities such as “exercising”, “babysitting”, “playing chess/cards” and “group-singing” has resulted in different spatial use patterns. In particular, this thesis has documented a strong preference for visually exposed locations, with much activity occurring at the centre rather than at the edges of public space, which are the most popular locations in public space in the West. Apart from providing valuable insights about the use and design patterns of small and medium-sized public squares, this research also proposes a number of spatial principles that could provide some guidance for designers and policy makers in the making of more user friendly public space in China in the future. Last but not least, findings of this thesis also hope to stimulate further studies of public space in China, especially those using Space Syntax methods. Advisors/Committee Members: Schnabel, Marc Aurel, Brand, Diane.

Subjects/Keywords: Public space; User behaviour; User behavior; Shenzhen City; Guangzhou City; Space syntax

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Nguyen, N. M. (2017). Towards the Making of User Friendly Public Space in China: An Investigation of the Use and Spatial Patterns of Newly Developed Small and Medium-Sized Urban Public Squares in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5654

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Nguyen, Ngoc Minh. “Towards the Making of User Friendly Public Space in China: An Investigation of the Use and Spatial Patterns of Newly Developed Small and Medium-Sized Urban Public Squares in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5654.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Nguyen, Ngoc Minh. “Towards the Making of User Friendly Public Space in China: An Investigation of the Use and Spatial Patterns of Newly Developed Small and Medium-Sized Urban Public Squares in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Nguyen NM. Towards the Making of User Friendly Public Space in China: An Investigation of the Use and Spatial Patterns of Newly Developed Small and Medium-Sized Urban Public Squares in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5654.

Council of Science Editors:

Nguyen NM. Towards the Making of User Friendly Public Space in China: An Investigation of the Use and Spatial Patterns of Newly Developed Small and Medium-Sized Urban Public Squares in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5654

19. Ohaji, Isaac Kenechukwu. Research Data Management: An Exploration of the Data Librarian Role in New Zealand Research Organisations.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5657

► Modern research practice has been affected by disruptive developments involving technological advancements, for example e-Research and Open Access. These developments imply changes both in the… (more)

▼ Modern research practice has been affected by disruptive developments involving technological advancements, for example e-Research and Open Access. These developments imply changes both in the way research is conducted as well as the way research outcomes are communicated. This has huge benefits as well as challenges. The need for researchers to understand how to undertake high quality research in the digital era and how to manage voluminous research data has become critical. To this end, academic librarians, as longstanding custodians of memory institutions and stakeholders to learning and teaching, may play a role in developing this understanding. The study was guided by a model developed from Abbott’s (1988) The System of Professions and the literature. Placed within the constructivist worldview the study adopted a case research approach to explore the dimensions of the data librarian role in four universities and five Crown Research Institutes in New Zealand. The interviewees comprised library managers, library and information professionals, repository managers, researchers and an Information and Technology Services manager. Data from the literature and an exploratory study of five e-Research experts in two Australian universities, and the analysed 43 data librarian position information from relevant websites were triangulated to provide a filter to help interpret the interview data. The Data Librarian Role Blueprint (the Blueprint) emerged from the findings of the study in its three main areas. First, there are factors from national, organisational, research and motivational contexts whose relationships at the level of their components may influence the data librarian role positively or negatively. In terms of performing the role: it was mostly taken to be at the institutional level with subject librarians preferred to be in the role; it has identifiable responsibilities and requirements; and as a specialist individual role, it can exist short-term for purpose of training librarians and in the future when the need or responsibility grows. Finally, training needs for the role were identified in eight areas and the most commonly preferred option to address them was learning on the job through personal and organisational opportunities. There are benefits from the study. For the library and information professionals and those interested in supporting research data management the Blueprint provides a theoretical understanding of the role. The findings are also beneficial to the library and e-Research communities by contributing to the literature in the area and enabling library schools to modernise their curriculum to ensure that graduates relevant to researchers’ needs are produced. However, as the study adopted a single case research design, the findings may not be generalised beyond the case institutions in the study. But, they may provide insight into research data management efforts in places where supporting e-Research and research data management is at infancy or does not yet have any national or… Advisors/Committee Members: Chawner, Brenda, Yoong, Pak.

Subjects/Keywords: Data Librarian; Research data management; Research organisations; E-Research; Research data; Research data services

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Ohaji, I. K. (2016). Research Data Management: An Exploration of the Data Librarian Role in New Zealand Research Organisations. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5657

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ohaji, Isaac Kenechukwu. “Research Data Management: An Exploration of the Data Librarian Role in New Zealand Research Organisations.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5657.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ohaji, Isaac Kenechukwu. “Research Data Management: An Exploration of the Data Librarian Role in New Zealand Research Organisations.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Ohaji IK. Research Data Management: An Exploration of the Data Librarian Role in New Zealand Research Organisations. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5657.

Council of Science Editors:

Ohaji IK. Research Data Management: An Exploration of the Data Librarian Role in New Zealand Research Organisations. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/5657

Victoria University of Wellington

20. Ye, Ruiping. Colonisation and Aboriginal Land Tenure: Taiwan during the Qing Period (1684-1895) and the Japanese Period (1895-1945).

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6182

► This thesis is concerned with the land rights of the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. It explores how under the Qing (1684-1895) and Japanese (1895-1945) regimes,… (more)

▼ This thesis is concerned with the land rights of the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. It explores how under the Qing (1684-1895) and Japanese (1895-1945) regimes, laws and policies regarding aboriginal land in Taiwan resulted in aboriginal land tenure changes and loss of land. The thesis also explores how the respective legal systems and legal cultures of the Qing and Japanese states influenced policy-making concerning aboriginal land. The thesis examines the different effects of the Qing and Japanese administrations on aboriginal land tenure in Taiwan. It analyses Qing policies towards land settlement in Taiwan, the extent of the government’s recognition and protection of aboriginal land rights, the changes that the distinctive Qing property law regime, including the Chinese customary land practice, brought to aboriginal land tenure, and the aborigines’ interaction with the government and settlers regarding their land. To a lesser extent and as a comparison, the thesis then discusses the Japanese government’s attitudes towards the aborigines and aboriginal land tenure, and Japan’s reforms of land tenure in Taiwan. The thesis puts the study of Taiwan aboriginal land policies into the wider framework of the administration of Taiwan by two governments whose legal systems were quite different: the Qing government, which in many respects was a traditional Chinese imperial regime, and Japan, which by the time it colonised Taiwan had reformed its law along European lines and which was considered to be a modern and European-style state. Ultimately, this thesis attempts to find out what role the Qing legal system played in shaping the policies and in the transformation of aboriginal land tenure, and how the Japanese legal system, largely westernised after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, influenced Japanese policies regarding aboriginal land in Taiwan. Thus a central concern of the thesis is the connection between law and colonial policy. This thesis concludes that the Qing colonisation of Taiwan was different from the later Japanese colonisation of Taiwan and from Western styles of colonisation. Shaped by its legal culture, constitutional framework, administrative system and property law regime, the Qing government had very little or no intention and took little action to transform aboriginal land tenure. Rather the Qing legal tradition allowed for or enabled Chinese settlers to manipulate aboriginal land tenure and impose Chinese culture on the aborigines, an effect often unintended by the government. In contrast, Japan colonised Taiwan with a specific intention to exploit the resources of the island and thus the government played a strong role in changing aboriginal land tenure in Taiwan. Advisors/Committee Members: Boast, Richard, Angelo, Tony, Campbell, Duncan.

Subjects/Keywords: Comparative Law; Legal History; Chinese Studies; Taiwan Studies; Japanese Studies; Indigenous Peoples Studies; Taiwan; Aboriginal land tenure; Colonisation; Legal history; Qing; Japan

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Ye, R. (2017). Colonisation and Aboriginal Land Tenure: Taiwan during the Qing Period (1684-1895) and the Japanese Period (1895-1945). (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6182

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ye, Ruiping. “Colonisation and Aboriginal Land Tenure: Taiwan during the Qing Period (1684-1895) and the Japanese Period (1895-1945).” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6182.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ye, Ruiping. “Colonisation and Aboriginal Land Tenure: Taiwan during the Qing Period (1684-1895) and the Japanese Period (1895-1945).” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Ye R. Colonisation and Aboriginal Land Tenure: Taiwan during the Qing Period (1684-1895) and the Japanese Period (1895-1945). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6182.

Council of Science Editors:

Ye R. Colonisation and Aboriginal Land Tenure: Taiwan during the Qing Period (1684-1895) and the Japanese Period (1895-1945). [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6182

21. Pascher, Kristina Michaela. Paleobiogeography of Eocene Radiolarians in the Southwest Pacific.

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6114

► This thesis investigates the effect of climatic and oceanographic changes on the distribution of fossil radiolarian assemblages from the early Eocene to early Oligocene (~56–30… (more)

▼ This thesis investigates the effect of climatic and oceanographic changes on the distribution of fossil radiolarian assemblages from the early Eocene to early Oligocene (~56–30 Ma) in the Southwest Pacific. Radiolarian assemblages have been analysed from a series of archived cores collected by the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). The selected cores form a latitudinal transect designed to investigate the ecological change associated with the transition from the warm ‘greenhouse’ climate of the Eocene into the cooler Oligocene, when continental-scale glaciation is believed to have intiated in Antarctica. High-latitude sites were sampled on the Campbell Plateau (DSDP Site 277), Tasman Rise (DSDP sites 280 and 281) and the Tasman Sea (DSDP Site 283 and ODP Site 1172), while mid-latitude sites were sampled both to the west of New Zealand (DSDP sites 207, 206, 592) and east of New Zealand (ODP Site 1123). New foraminifer oxygen (δ¹⁸O) and carbon (δ¹³C) stable isotope data from DSDP sites 277, 207 and 592 are presented and provide additional age control and insights in the climatic and oceanographic changes in the Southwest Pacific during the early Eocene to early Oligocene. This thesis contributes a comprehensive taxonomic review of Eocene radiolarian taxa with the intention of standardising nomenclature and to resolve synonymies. 213 out of 259 counting groups have been reviewed and assigned to species or subspecies level and 7 new species are yet to be described. All sites have been correlated to the Southern Hemisphere radiolarian zonation, from the upper Paleocene to upper Oligocene (RP6SH to RP17SH). Alternative datums for the base of RP10SH (LO of Artobotrys auriculaleporis) and the base of RP12SH (LO of Lophocyrtis longiventer) are proposed. The early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO, ~53–49 Ma) can be identified by a negative excursion in foraminiferal δ¹⁸O values at Site 207. The radiolarian assemblages at sites 207 (paleolatitude ~46°S) and 277 (paleolatitude ~55°S) during the EECO are dominated by taxa with low-latitude affinities (Amphicraspedum spp. represents up to 89% of total fauna), but many typical low-latitude genera (e.g. Thyrsocyrtis, Podocyrtis, Phormocyrtis) are absent. Following the EECO, low-latitude taxa decrease at Site 207 and disappear at Site 277. Radiolarians are abundant and very diverse at mid-latitude sites 207 and 206 (paleolatitude ~42°S) during the middle Eocene, and low-latitude taxa are common (up to ~15% of the total fauna at Site 207 and ~10% at Site 206). The middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO, ~40 Ma), although truncated by poor drilling recovery at Site 277, is identified by a negative shift in foraminiferal δ18O values at this site and is associated by a small increase in radiolarian taxa with low-latitude affinities (up to ~5% of total fauna). Early in the late Eocene (~37 Ma), a positive shift in δ¹⁸O values at Site 277 is correlated with the Priabonian oxygen isotope maximum (PrOM). Within this cooling event, radiolarian abundance,… Advisors/Committee Members: McKay, Rob, Hollis, Chris, Cortese, Giuseppe.

Subjects/Keywords: Eocene; Radiolaria; Southwest Pacific

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Pascher, K. M. (2017). Paleobiogeography of Eocene Radiolarians in the Southwest Pacific. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6114

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Pascher, Kristina Michaela. “Paleobiogeography of Eocene Radiolarians in the Southwest Pacific.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6114.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Pascher, Kristina Michaela. “Paleobiogeography of Eocene Radiolarians in the Southwest Pacific.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Pascher KM. Paleobiogeography of Eocene Radiolarians in the Southwest Pacific. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6114.

Council of Science Editors:

Pascher KM. Paleobiogeography of Eocene Radiolarians in the Southwest Pacific. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6114

Victoria University of Wellington

22. Ayoubi, Lida. The Interface of Copyright and Human Rights: Access to Copyright Works for the Visually Impaired.

Degree: 2015, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6116

► Reproduction of copyright protected material in formats that are accessible to the blind and visually impaired persons constitutes a copyright infringement unless there are specific… (more)

▼ Reproduction of copyright protected material in formats that are accessible to the blind and visually impaired persons constitutes a copyright infringement unless there are specific limitations and exceptions in place. Most countries do not have copyright limitations and exceptions for the benefit of the visually impaired in their copyright laws. This has contributed to the issue of book famine, meaning the unsatisfactory access to copyright protected material for the blind and visually impaired. This thesis examines the claims of the visually impaired for improved access to copyright protected works in the context of the interface of human rights and intellectual property rights. This research demonstrates that insufficient access to copyright protected material is discriminatory against the visually impaired and negatively affects their human rights such as the right to education, information, health, employment, culture, and science. Moreover, the thesis analyses the international and domestic copyright law’s impact on the needs of the visually impaired. In analysing the international copyright law, the thesis evaluates the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Highlighting the insufficient consideration for the rights of the visually impaired in domestic and international copyright laws including the Marrakesh Treaty, the thesis proposes adoption of a human rights framework for copyright law to the extent that it affects the human rights of the visually impaired. Such framework requires copyright law to accommodate those human rights of the visually impaired that are dependent on access to copyright protected material. The thesis offers two categories of measures for creation of a human rights framework for copyright to the extent that it affects the human rights of the visually impaired. The measures include optimisation of already available options and adoption of new mechanisms. The first category discusses minimum mandatory copyright limitations and exceptions and the possibility to harmonise them. The second category covers extra measures such as clarifying the implications of different human rights and copyrights in the context of the book famine; ensuring compatibility of human rights and copyright when adopting policy and law; and, regular monitoring of the impact of copyright law on human rights. Advisors/Committee Members: Austin, Graeme, Frankel, Susy.

Subjects/Keywords: Human Rights & IP; Copyright; Visually Impaired; IP; Intellectual property; Human rights

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Ayoubi, L. (2015). The Interface of Copyright and Human Rights: Access to Copyright Works for the Visually Impaired. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6116

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ayoubi, Lida. “The Interface of Copyright and Human Rights: Access to Copyright Works for the Visually Impaired.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6116.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ayoubi, Lida. “The Interface of Copyright and Human Rights: Access to Copyright Works for the Visually Impaired.” 2015. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Ayoubi L. The Interface of Copyright and Human Rights: Access to Copyright Works for the Visually Impaired. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2015. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6116.

Council of Science Editors:

Ayoubi L. The Interface of Copyright and Human Rights: Access to Copyright Works for the Visually Impaired. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6116

23. Larson, Myq. Thresholds, Text Coverage, Vocabulary Size, and Reading Comprehension in Applied Linguistics.

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6117

► The inextricable link between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension is incontrovertible. However, questions remain regarding the nature of the interaction. One question which remains unresolved… (more)

▼ The inextricable link between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension is incontrovertible. However, questions remain regarding the nature of the interaction. One question which remains unresolved is whether there is an optimum text coverage, or ratio of known to unknown words in a text, such that any deleterious effects of the unknown words on reading comprehension are minimised. A related question is what vocabulary size would a reader need to have in order to achieve the optimum text coverage for a given text or class of texts. This thesis addresses these questions in three ways. First, a replication and expansion of a key study (Hu & Nation, 2000)1 was performed. In that study, 98% text coverage was found to be optimal for adequate reading comprehension of short fiction texts when reading for pleasure. To replicate that study, equivalent measures of reading comprehension were collected from a more homogeneous group of participants at a university in northern Thailand (n = 138), under stricter conditions and random assignment to one of three text coverage conditions, to verify the generalisability of the results. The original study was also expanded by measuring reader characteristics thought to contribute to reading comprehension, such as vocabulary size, l1 and l2 literacy, and reading attitudes, in an effort to improve the explainable reading comprehension variance. In order to more accurately calculate the text coverage a reader experiences for a particular text, both the vocabulary profile of the text and the vocabulary size of the reader must be known as precisely as possible. Therefore, to contribute to the question of vocabulary size, changes such as measuring item completion time and varying the order of item presentation were made to the VST (P. Nation & Beglar, 2007) to improve its sensitivity and accuracy. This may ultimately lead to increased precision when using text coverage to predict reading comprehension. Finally, l2 English vocabulary size norms were established to supplement the diagnostic usefulness of the VST. Data were collected through an online version of the VST created for this thesis from primarily self-selected participants (n 1:31 105) located in countries (n 100) around the world representing several l1 and age groups. Analysis of the data collected for this thesis suggest that text coverage explains much less reading comprehension variance than previously reported while vocabulary size may be a more powerful predictor. An internal replication of Hu and Nation (2000) found errors in the calculation of optimum text coverage and in the reported size of the effect on reading comprehension. A critical review of the theoretical foundations of the text coverage model of reading comprehension found serious flaws in construct operationalisation and research design. Due to these flaws, most research which has purported to measure the effect of text coverage on reading comprehension actually measured the effect of an intervening variable: readers’ vocabulary size. Vocabulary… Advisors/Committee Members: Nation, Paul.

Subjects/Keywords: Vocabulary; Reading; Threhold

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Larson, M. (2017). Thresholds, Text Coverage, Vocabulary Size, and Reading Comprehension in Applied Linguistics. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6117

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Larson, Myq. “Thresholds, Text Coverage, Vocabulary Size, and Reading Comprehension in Applied Linguistics.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6117.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Larson, Myq. “Thresholds, Text Coverage, Vocabulary Size, and Reading Comprehension in Applied Linguistics.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Larson M. Thresholds, Text Coverage, Vocabulary Size, and Reading Comprehension in Applied Linguistics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6117.

Council of Science Editors:

Larson M. Thresholds, Text Coverage, Vocabulary Size, and Reading Comprehension in Applied Linguistics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6117

Victoria University of Wellington

24. Petty, Margaret Maile. Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121

► Cultures of Light is set within a period that stretches from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in the United States, an era in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Electric light; 20th century; United States

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Petty, M. M. (2016). Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Petty, Margaret Maile. “Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Petty, Margaret Maile. “Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Petty MM. Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121.

Council of Science Editors:

Petty MM. Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121

Victoria University of Wellington

25. Howell, Bronwyn Elizabeth. Funding Populations and Paying Providers: The Role of Financial Risk in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6131

► This thesis examines how funding changes in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy (NZPHCS), introduced in 2002, altered the magnitude, locus and management of… (more)

▼ This thesis examines how funding changes in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy (NZPHCS), introduced in 2002, altered the magnitude, locus and management of financial risk in the New Zealand primary health care sector, and the consequences for cost, equity and care delivery objectives. A simplified model of a primary health care system is developed to explore how the funding changes influenced, and were influenced by, existing institutions and arrangements in the New Zealand sector. Drawing on industrial organisation, transaction cost economics, health economics and health care policy literatures and analysis, financial risk sharing between the government and private entities before and after the NZPHCS implementation is assessed. The effects of the policy on a range of indicators assessing the relative, theoretically-expected changes in costs and equitable allocation of financial and health care resources are identified. The NZPHCS was intended to reduce service user fees, foster an integrated multidisciplinary approach to primary care delivery, reduce health inequalities and encourage the promotion and maintenance of healthy populations. Progress towards thesem objectives was disappointing. The government abrogated responsibility for managing financial risks associated with uncertainty about funded individuals’ future care needs when replacing fee-for-service funding with capitation funding of individuals within a population. Very small, risk-averse care providers became the primary risk pool managers. Via legacy balance-billing arrangements, much higher risk management costs have likely been passed on to service users in either or both of higher-than-expected fees and more variable care quality. Those with the greatest needs for primary care, and those whose fees the government intended to reduce most, have most probably borne a disproportionately higher share of the additional financial risk management costs. If the New Zealand primary health care system is to evolve towards the one envisaged by the NZPHCS, the government should assume a share of responsibility for managing financial risks associated with utilisation uncertainty. A mixed funding model, proposed and evaluated against the NZPHCS and three other policy options, provides risk management arrangements most likely to be conducive to delivering the desired cost and equity objectives. At the same time it provides a more stable path towards a fully government-funded New Zealand primary health care sector than the current arrangements. The findings specifically address the New Zealand context. However, the model and analytical framework developed are applicable to a wide range of primary health care policies, notably where partial private funding is either utilised or contemplated, and changes from service-based to population-based funding are being considered. Advisors/Committee Members: Cumming, Jacqueline, Scott, Claudia.

Subjects/Keywords: Primary Health; Health Funding; Risk

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Howell, B. E. (2016). Funding Populations and Paying Providers: The Role of Financial Risk in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6131

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Howell, Bronwyn Elizabeth. “Funding Populations and Paying Providers: The Role of Financial Risk in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6131.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Howell, Bronwyn Elizabeth. “Funding Populations and Paying Providers: The Role of Financial Risk in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Howell BE. Funding Populations and Paying Providers: The Role of Financial Risk in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6131.

Council of Science Editors:

Howell BE. Funding Populations and Paying Providers: The Role of Financial Risk in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6131

Victoria University of Wellington

26. Shepherd, Claire Louise. Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils of the SW Pacific: Paleobiogeography and paleoclimate.

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6132

► Earth’s climate underwent a long-term warming trend from the late Paleocene to early Eocene (~58–51 Ma), with global temperature reaching a sustained maximum during the… (more)

▼ Earth’s climate underwent a long-term warming trend from the late Paleocene to early Eocene (~58–51 Ma), with global temperature reaching a sustained maximum during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO; 53–50 Ma). Geochemical proxies indicate tropical or warm subtropical sea-surface temperature (SST) conditions in middle and high latitudes in the early Eocene, implying a very low latitudinal temperature gradient. This study investigates whether calcareous nannofossil assemblages in the southwest (SW) Pacific provide evidence of these conditions at middle latitudes in the early to middle Eocene, particularly during the EECO. Specifically, this study documents the biogeographic changes of warm- and cold-water nannofossil species along a paleolatitudinal transect through the EECO to track changes in water masses/ocean circulation at that time. Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossil assemblages were examined from four sites along a latitudinal transect in the SW Pacific, extending from Lord Howe Rise in the north to Campbell Plateau in the south and spanning a paleolatitude of ~46–54°S. All of the sections studied in this project span nannofossil zones NP10–16 (Martini, 1971). The data indicate up to three regional unconformities through the sections: at mid-Waipara, Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 207 and 277, part or all of Zone NP10 (lower Waipawan) is missing; at Sites 207 and 277 a possible hiatus occurs within NP12 (upper Waipawan–lower Mangaorapan); and at all sites part or all of Zone NP15 (lower Bortonian) is missing. Results of this study indicate that nannofossil assemblages in the SW Pacific are more similar to floras at temperate to polar sites rather than those at tropical/subtropical sites. However, variations in the relative abundance of key species in the SW Pacific are broadly consistent with the trends seen in the geochemical proxy records: an increase in warm-water taxa coincided with the EECO, corroborating geochemical evidence for a temperature maximum in the SW Pacific during this interval. The increase in the abundance and diversity of warm-water taxa and decrease in the abundance of cool-water taxa through the EECO supports previous suggestions that a warm-water mass (northward of the proto-Tasman Front) extended to ~55°S paleolatitude during this interval in response to enhanced poleward heat transport and intensification of the proto-East Australian Current. At the southernmost site, DSDP Site 277, a relatively short-lived influx of warm-water taxa at ~51 Ma suggests that warm waters expanded south at this time. However, greater diversity and abundance of warm-water taxa throughout the EECO at DSDP Site 207, suggests that the proto-East Australian Current exerted greater influence at this latitude for a longer duration than at Site 277. An increase in the abundance of cool-water taxa and decrease in diversity and abundance of warm-water taxa at all sites is recorded following the termination of the EECO. This corresponds with the contraction of the proto-Tasman Front due to… Advisors/Committee Members: Hollis, Chris, Kulhanek, Denise, Crampton, James.

Subjects/Keywords: Calcareous nannofossils; Eocene; Paleoclimate

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Shepherd, C. L. (2017). Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils of the SW Pacific: Paleobiogeography and paleoclimate. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6132

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Shepherd, Claire Louise. “Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils of the SW Pacific: Paleobiogeography and paleoclimate.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6132.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Shepherd, Claire Louise. “Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils of the SW Pacific: Paleobiogeography and paleoclimate.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Shepherd CL. Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils of the SW Pacific: Paleobiogeography and paleoclimate. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6132.

Council of Science Editors:

Shepherd CL. Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils of the SW Pacific: Paleobiogeography and paleoclimate. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6132

Victoria University of Wellington

27. Taueetia Su’a, Tuaupua (Tua). Samoan People’s Knowledge and Understanding of Cardiovascular Disease.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6133

► This thesis explores Samoan people’s knowledge and understanding of Cardiovascular Disease and its risks; Cardiovascular Risk Assessments; and their reasons for undertaking or not undertaking… (more)

▼ This thesis explores Samoan people’s knowledge and understanding of Cardiovascular Disease and its risks; Cardiovascular Risk Assessments; and their reasons for undertaking or not undertaking lifestyle changes, if they are found to be at risk of cardiovascular disease. An interpretive phenomenological design, facilitated by the Talanoa narrative approach, incorporating the ‘Leai se tu fa’amauga’ Pacific framework was employed to conduct this research. Participants were recruited from Primary Health Services in Wellington and Porirua. Sixteen Samoan participants aged 45 to 65, and seven practice nurses were interviewed, supported by a literature review of cardiovascular disease as one of the leading causes of premature deaths and health inequalities in New Zealand, affecting mainly Pacific peoples. Samoan people’s voices utilising fa’a-Samoa worldviews and models of care in particular the NZ health policies to improve health literacy for this population have grounded the research and its findings. My interest in this exploration was a result of my own experience working as a practice nurse in health centres with high numbers of Pacific peoples. I often questioned whether they understood the information they were provided with, when they had their cardiovascular risk assessment. Although cardiovascular risk assessment is one of the government’s primary health targets with an emphasis on increasing the number of assessments for Pacific peoples to improve their health outcomes, Pacific peoples’ health remains poor. A number of health policies and strategies have been in place for almost two decades such as; Making a Pacific Difference and Strategic Initiatives for Pacific Peoples (MoH, 1998), the Pacific Health Disabily Action Plan (MoH, 2002), Improving Quality Care for Pacific Peoples (MoH, 2008c), and Ala Mo’ui: Pathways to Pacific Health and Wellbeing 2010-2014 (Minister of Health & Minister of Pacific Island Affairs, 2010). However there is still little or no progress in Pacific peoples’ health outcomes. The results showed that the lack of health literacy and poor command of the English language limited Samoan people’s knowledge and understanding. A number of additional factors such as demographic characteristics, educational levels, the Samoan worldview and the fa’a-Samoa, patient follow up care, length of appointment times, the ambiguity of information and lack of the continuity of community programmes, all affected the uptake of lifestyle changes. The majority of participants felt there was no true value gained from completing cardiovascular risk assessment. A key question thus raised is, ‘Does completing a cardiovascular risk assessment have any health benefits for Pacific peoples?’ The implications of the key themes that emerged from the data form the basis for recommendations on the role of the practice nurse, current and future health policies as well as future research. Advisors/Committee Members: Cumming, Jackie, Faasalele Tanuvasa, Ausaga, Neale, Jenny.

Subjects/Keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Health literacy; Samoan and Pacific health

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Taueetia Su’a, T. (. (2016). Samoan People’s Knowledge and Understanding of Cardiovascular Disease. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6133

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Taueetia Su’a, Tuaupua (Tua). “Samoan People’s Knowledge and Understanding of Cardiovascular Disease.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6133.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Taueetia Su’a, Tuaupua (Tua). “Samoan People’s Knowledge and Understanding of Cardiovascular Disease.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Taueetia Su’a T(. Samoan People’s Knowledge and Understanding of Cardiovascular Disease. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6133.

Council of Science Editors:

Taueetia Su’a T(. Samoan People’s Knowledge and Understanding of Cardiovascular Disease. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6133

Victoria University of Wellington

28. Elmer, Franziska. Factors Affecting Coral Recruitment and Calcium Carbonate Accretion Rates on a Central Pacific Coral Reef.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6148

► Coral recruitment and calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) accretion are fundamental processes that help maintain coral reefs. Many reefs worldwide have experienced degradation, including a decrease in… (more)

▼ Coral recruitment and calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) accretion are fundamental processes that help maintain coral reefs. Many reefs worldwide have experienced degradation, including a decrease in coral cover and biodiversity. Successful coral recruitment helps degraded reefs to recover, while CaCO₃ accretion by early successional benthic organisms maintains the topographic complexity of a coral reef system. It is therefore important to understand the processes that affect coral recruitment and CaCO₃ accretion rates in order to understand how coral reefs recover from disturbances. The aim of this thesis was to determine how biophysical forcing factors affect coral recruitment, calcification and bioerosion on a pristine coral reef. I used artificial settlement tiles to measure coral recruitment and CaCO₃ accretion at ten sites (four on the fore reef, four on the Western Reef Terrace and two at the Entrance Channel) at Palmyra Atoll. Fungia skeletons and pieces of dead coral rock were used to measure bioerosion rates, which were combined with the CaCO₃ accretion rates to obtain a net CaCO₃ budget of the reef substratum. Interactions between coral recruits and other benthic organisms on the settlement tiles were recorded to determine the settlement preferences and competitive strength of coral recruits. The settlement preference of Pocillopora damicornis for divots shaped like steephead and bumphead parrotfish bites marks was determined by adding P. damicornis larvae to a container with a settlement tile with the aforementioned divots. I found that coral recruitment and CaCO₃ accretion are influenced by biophysical forcing factors. Most pocilloporids likely recruit close to their parents while the origin of poritid larvae is much more distant. Pocilloporid recruitment rates were also significantly correlated with the successional stage of the benthic community on the settlement tiles, especially the cover of biofilm and bryozoa. Biofilm and crustose coralline algae (CCA) were preferred as settlement substrata by coral larvae, however both pocilloporids and poritids settled on a large number of different benthic substrata. P. damicornis larvae showed a significant settlement preference for divots shaped like parrotfish bite marks over a flat settlement surface. Coral recruits were good competitors against encrusting algae but were often outcompeted by filamentous and upright algae. Settlement tiles were almost entirely colonised by benthic organisms within three to twelve months of deployment. The mass of CaCO₃ deposited onto the settlement tiles negatively correlated with herbivore grazing pressure on the benthic community. Bioerosion rates within pieces of coral (internal bioerosion) increased over time but overall bioerosion rates (internal and external) rarely exceeded CaCO₃ deposition by CCA. My results show how variability in biophysical forcing factors leads to natural variation in coral recruitment and CaCO₃ accretion. This thesis highlights the importance of measuring herbivore grazing, CCA and turf algae cover to… Advisors/Committee Members: Gardner, Jonathan, Bell, James.

Subjects/Keywords: Coral recruitment; Calcium carbonate budget; Biophysical forcing factors

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Elmer, F. (2016). Factors Affecting Coral Recruitment and Calcium Carbonate Accretion Rates on a Central Pacific Coral Reef. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6148

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Elmer, Franziska. “Factors Affecting Coral Recruitment and Calcium Carbonate Accretion Rates on a Central Pacific Coral Reef.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6148.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Elmer, Franziska. “Factors Affecting Coral Recruitment and Calcium Carbonate Accretion Rates on a Central Pacific Coral Reef.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Elmer F. Factors Affecting Coral Recruitment and Calcium Carbonate Accretion Rates on a Central Pacific Coral Reef. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6148.

Council of Science Editors:

Elmer F. Factors Affecting Coral Recruitment and Calcium Carbonate Accretion Rates on a Central Pacific Coral Reef. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6148

Victoria University of Wellington

29. Ryan, Matthew Thomas. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history reconstructed from palynology of marine cores off southwestern New Zealand.

Degree: 2017, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6143

► Little is known about how mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere terrestrial vegetation responded during glacial terminations and the warmer phases of the Late Quaternary, especially beyond the… (more)

▼ Little is known about how mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere terrestrial vegetation responded during glacial terminations and the warmer phases of the Late Quaternary, especially beyond the last glacial cycle where records are commonly fragmentary and poorly-dated. The timing, magnitude and sequence of environmental changes are investigated here for terminations (T) I, II and V and their subsequent warm interglacials of MIS 1, 5e and 11 by direct correlation of terrestrial palynomorphs (pollen and spores) and marine climate indicators in marine piston cores MD06-2990/2991 recovered from the East Tasman Sea, west of South Island, New Zealand. The climate there is strongly influenced by the prevailing mid-latitude westerly wind belt that generates significant amounts of orographic rainfall and the proximity of the ocean which moderates temperature variability. Chronological constraint for the cores is provided by δ¹⁸O stratigraphy, radiocarbon chronology and the identification of two widespread silicic tephra horizons (25.6 ka Kawakawa/Oruanui Tephra (KOT); ~345 ka Rangitawa Tephra (RtT)) sourced from the central North Island. Similar vegetation changes over the last two glacial cycles at MD06-2991 and in the adjacent nearby on land record of vegetation-climate change from Okarito Bog permit transfer of the well resolved Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) chronology to Okarito for the pre radiocarbon dated interval (~139-28 ka). Placing both sequences on a common age scale nonetheless assumes there is minimal lag between pollen production and final deposition on the seafloor. However, the timing of Late Pleistocene palynomorph events and KOT between independently dated marine and terrestrial sedimentary sequences are found in this study to be indistinguishable, which supports the direct transfer of terrestrially derived ages to the marine realm and vice versa. Vegetation change in southwestern New Zealand is of similar structure during T-I and T-II, despite different amplitudes of forcing (i.e., insolation rise, CO₂ concentrations). In a climate amelioration scenario, shrubland-grassland gave rise to dominantly podocarp-broadleaf forest taxa, with accompanying rises in mean annual air temperature (MAAT) estimated from Okarito pollen typically synchronous with nearby ocean temperatures. The T-II amelioration commenced after ~139 ka in response to increasing boreal summer insolation intensity, with prominent ocean-atmosphere warming over the period from ~133-130 ka. In contrast, northern mid-high latitude paleoclimate records display cooling over Heinrich Stadial 11 (~135-130 ka), and are prominently warm from ~130-128 ka, while southwestern New Zealand and the adjacent ocean displays cooling. Such millennial-scale climate asynchrony between the hemispheres is most likely a result of a systematic, but non-linear re-organisation of the ocean-atmosphere circulation system in response to orbital forcing. The subsequent MIS 5e climatic optimum in Westland was between ~128-123 ka, with maximum temperatures reconstructed in the ocean… Advisors/Committee Members: Newnham, Rewi, Dunbar, Gavin, Vandergoes, Marcus.

Subjects/Keywords: Palynology; Quaternary; Southern hemisphere; Pollen; Paleoclimate

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Ryan, M. T. (2017). Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history reconstructed from palynology of marine cores off southwestern New Zealand. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6143

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ryan, Matthew Thomas. “Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history reconstructed from palynology of marine cores off southwestern New Zealand.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6143.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ryan, Matthew Thomas. “Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history reconstructed from palynology of marine cores off southwestern New Zealand.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Ryan MT. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history reconstructed from palynology of marine cores off southwestern New Zealand. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6143.

Council of Science Editors:

Ryan MT. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history reconstructed from palynology of marine cores off southwestern New Zealand. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6143

30. Nguyen, Thao Kim. Escaping the Exploitation Trap of Power-Disadvantaged Firms in Asymmetric Networks: A Study of Vietnamese Contract Manufacturing Exporters in Buyer-Driven Global Value Chains.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6149

► This study investigates how power-disadvantaged firms in power asymmetric networks can improve their performance. Drawing on theoretical insights from the Resource-Based Theory and the Resource… (more)

▼ This study investigates how power-disadvantaged firms in power asymmetric networks can improve their performance. Drawing on theoretical insights from the Resource-Based Theory and the Resource Dependence Theory, the proposed model suggests that when participating in power asymmetric networks, the exploitation strategy of power-disadvantaged firms affects their exploration strategy. While these two strategies are related, their influences on performance through firm competitive capability are different. Exploitation strategy negatively impacts firm competitive capability whereas exploration strategy positively impacts firm competitive capability. The model further posits that the impact of exploitation and exploration strategies on competitive capability depends on absorptive capacity of the firm. The model is tested on Vietnamese contract manufacturing exporters who participate in buyer-driven global value chains, where the exporting firms are dominated by powerful international buyers. The study employs a mixed-methods approach to test the proposed conceptual model. Survey data was collected from a sample of 154 Vietnamese contract manufacturing exporters following the drop-and-collect method. At the same time, ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants from top management teams of Vietnamese contract manufacturing exporters to seek contextual details for the enhancement and triangulation of the survey findings. The survey data were analysed using the partial least square structural equation modelling technique, whereas the interview data were examined using theoretical thematic analysis. The results broadly support the proposed model for Vietnamese contract manufacturing exporters. The findings of this study indicate that power-disadvantaged firms in power asymmetric inter-organisational networks benefit from the dual practice of exploitation and exploration strategies. The study shows that exploitation strategy motivates exploration strategy in this type of interfirm linkage. This motivation is primarily shaped by the power imbalance structure. This finding confirms the explanation for the behaviour of power-disadvantaged firms in asymmetric relationships advanced by the Resource Dependence Theory. Moreover, the study also contributes to the Resource-Based Theory by emphasising the critical role of competitive capability in explaining firm performance. Competitive capability is found to mediate the relationships between exploitation strategy, exploration strategy and firm performance. Furthermore, the links between exploration strategy and competitive capability act as serial multiple mediators transmitting the influence of exploitation strategy on performance. In addition, the influences of exploitation strategy and exploration strategy on firm competitive capability are found to be intensified by firm absorptive capacity. Thus, an alignment of exploitation strategy, exploration strategy, competitive capability, and absorptive capacity enhances the performance of contract manufacturing…

Subjects/Keywords: Exploitation Strategy; Exploration Strategy; Power-Disadvantaged Firms

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Nguyen, T. K. (2016). Escaping the Exploitation Trap of Power-Disadvantaged Firms in Asymmetric Networks: A Study of Vietnamese Contract Manufacturing Exporters in Buyer-Driven Global Value Chains. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6149

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Nguyen, Thao Kim. “Escaping the Exploitation Trap of Power-Disadvantaged Firms in Asymmetric Networks: A Study of Vietnamese Contract Manufacturing Exporters in Buyer-Driven Global Value Chains.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6149.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Nguyen, Thao Kim. “Escaping the Exploitation Trap of Power-Disadvantaged Firms in Asymmetric Networks: A Study of Vietnamese Contract Manufacturing Exporters in Buyer-Driven Global Value Chains.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Nguyen TK. Escaping the Exploitation Trap of Power-Disadvantaged Firms in Asymmetric Networks: A Study of Vietnamese Contract Manufacturing Exporters in Buyer-Driven Global Value Chains. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6149.

Council of Science Editors:

Nguyen TK. Escaping the Exploitation Trap of Power-Disadvantaged Firms in Asymmetric Networks: A Study of Vietnamese Contract Manufacturing Exporters in Buyer-Driven Global Value Chains. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6149

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