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0.9% saline versus Plasma-Lyte 148 for intravenous fluid therapy

Reddy, Sumeet Kumar (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

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 ...
3D printed bone-like biopolymer composites inspired by nacre

Kurian, Mima (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Bone tissue engineering and synthetic biomineralization are two widely researched areas, the principles of which have been combined from time to time in efforts to develop replacement materials for natural bone grafts. ...
3D Seismic Traveltime Tomography of the Central South Island, New Zealand

Brikke, Nicolas Eduard Alype (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The three-dimensional (3D) evolution of the Australian-Pacifi c late boundary in the central South Island of New Zealand is investigated by analysing seismic data from the South Island GeopHysical Transect (SIGHT) project ...
3-D Velocity Structure of the Northern Hikurangi Margin: Implications for Crustal Growth

Bassett, Daniel Graham (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Onshore-offshore wide-angle seismic reflection and refraction data are combined with multi-channel seismic reflection profiles to model crustal structure within a 32,000 km2 block of the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, ...
Absolutely Positively Ageing: Positive ageing and volunteering in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

Clowes, Alice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Population ageing is a key development issue worldwide, and governments around the world are working to address the changing needs that accompany this demographic shift (Vos, Ocampo & Cortez, 2008). In New Zealand, the ...
Abyssal Archives: Unravelling the Late Neogene evolution of the Pacific Deep Western Boundary Current from the New Zealand sector of the Southern Ocean

Plant, Amy Alexandra (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Abyssal ocean currents develop unique physical and chemical properties, based on their geographic location of formation, circulation pathways, and the biogeochemical cycling of elements and their isotopes between different ...
Accessibility and development in rural Sarawak. A case study of the Baleh river basin, Kapit District, Sarawak, Malaysia

Abdullah, Regina Garai (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

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-agrarianis ...
Accessibility in Aotearoa: A Mixed-Methods Study of Low-Emissions Transport Demand in the Greater Wellington Region

Petredean, Han Ling (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Like many nations, Aotearoa New Zealand’s land-use and transport development has prioritised planning for mobility, movement, over accessibility, access. This has contributed to an auto-centric transportation system and a ...
Accessing nature: The battle of the Hurunui River

Thomas, Amanda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

People understand their relationship, and that of broader society, with nature in a diverse range of ways. Yet the expression of such diversity is often constrained in decision making processes, and in western contexts, ...
Accommodating ~9 m of dextral slip on the Kekerengu Fault through ground deformation during the Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, November 2016

Morris, Philippa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake of November 14th 2016 provided unprecedented opportunities to understand how the ground deforms during large magnitude strike-slip earthquakes. The re-excavation and extension of both halves ...
The Accountability of Cambodian NGOs in Climate Change Projects: The impacts on local communities

Toch, Sothiary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The accountability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is important to development work. Judging the performance of an NGO in providing social services and whether it has fulfilled its responsibilities with a set of ...
Acculturation within New Zealand Pacific communities: how does this influence diet and health?

Skudder, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The aim of this qualitative study was to examine eating related values, principles and practices of individuals of Pacific ethnicity who are living in New Zealand and how this influenced their diet and health. The study ...
Acculturative stress, religious coping and wellbeing amongst New Zealand Muslims

Adam, Zeenah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Situated within a wider context of Islamophobia, this study explored the role of religious coping in influencing the relationship between acculturative stress and wellbeing amongst 167 New Zealand Muslims. A Muslim Religious ...
Achieving Urban Sustainability: The consideration of sustainable transport in strategic spatial planning

Reid, Pattern (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

In recent decades there has been growing recognition of the adverse effects that dispersed urban form has on the environment and wellbeing of urban residents. In response to growing urban populations and a global call for ...
Acquisition of a Learned Operant and Critical Flicker-Fusion Rate in the Tuatara (Sphenodon spp.)

Woo, Kevin Lawrence (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

Scientific investigation of the sensory world and behavior of the tuatara is limited. This study incorporates both ecological and psychological perspectives to test learning and visual perception using a novel operant ...
Adapting a Hyper-heuristic to Respond to Scalability Issues in Combinatorial Optimisation

Marshall, Richard J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The development of a heuristic to solve an optimisation problem in a new domain, or a specific variation of an existing problem domain, is often beyond the means of many smaller businesses. This is largely due to the task ...
Adapting CRISPR/Cas9 Lentivirus Technology for Functional Studies of GATA6 & GATA4 during Bovine Preimplantation Embryogenesis

Ni, Shicheng (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In recent times, cattle embryology has been under the spotlight of investigation due to its apparent economic values. This is especially relevant in the case of New Zealand, owing to its high percentage of livestock export. ...
Addressing the dual role identity problem in foster parenting

Cuthbert, Wendy J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis argues that the foster parent dual role identity problem is due to value conflict between two implicit models that currently inform contemporary understandings of the role. Both implicit models are outlined; ...
Adsorption of dye molecules on metallic nanoparticles: Unraveling the origins of the modified spectral absorption

Chen, Xiaohan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

The enhanced optical response of molecules in the vicinity of metallic nanoparticle is the basis for many surface enhanced spectroscopies and of interest to the field of plasmonics. However, the mechanisms behind the ...
The Adsorption of Phosphate on Mica Surfaces

Hoare, Raymond Alan (Victoria University of Wellington, 1967)

The surface chemistry of the 001 face of cleaved mica sheets was studied with a view to understanding some of the fundamental processes underlying the phenomenon of fixation of phosphate by soils. Radiochemical techniques ...