RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Permanence as a resilience strategy: Coastal settlement design Otaki 
    Pile, Aliesha (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The imminent threat of natural disaster globally underpins a situation of rapid and unpredictable environmental change. Heightened by the explicit demand for development in environments characterised by flux, the natural ...
  • Staying afloat 
    Bevin, Kate (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    For millions of people around the world, the consequences of climate change will become increasingly evident and increasingly devastating. Climate change requires us to fundamentally reconsider where and how we live as a ...
  • The Urewera Notebook: Scholarly edition 
    Plumridge, Rose Anna O'Rorke (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis is a scholarly edition of Katherine Mansfield’s Urewera Notebook. The General Introduction summarises the purpose to which the notebook has been put by previous editors and biographers, as evidence for Mansfield’s ...
  • Consumer processing of interactive online advertisements 
    McLaren, Lachlan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The internet is a computer mediated environment that facilitates the interaction between firms and consumers. This inherent interactivity gives marketers the opportunity to provide consumers with more engaging advertisements. ...
  • The Edge of Public Amenity 
    Takizawa, Ken (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    We have the techniques to design smaller and more efficient apartments, but those small apartments are often less attractive than their suburban alternatives. Some of the most attractive suburban houses are adjacent to ...
  • Urban Village: A Critique of Personal Space in Medium Density Housing 
    Zhao, Duan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Low density detached houses do not provide a sustainable solution to address future housing needs and exacerbate suburban sprawl. Report shows that New Zealand major cities exhibit a strong central city living trend. Medium ...
  • Deception Island: A drawing project 
    Davies, Alexandra (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This design research thesis primarily uses drawing to understand, interpret and analyse the decaying structures at Whalers Bay on Deception Island in Antarctica. The drawing method and chosen site is used to aid and ...
  • Removing Problematics: A Distinct Element in Dharmakīrti’s Theories of Inference 
    Iseki, Atsushi (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Dharmakīrti is one of the most influential figures in Buddhist epistemological and argumentative tradition. In the past century or so, there has been remarkable progress in the study of Dharmakīrti and his school of Buddhism. ...
  • Memento Mori: A Space of Recollection 
    Lovell, Sigourney (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The main intention for this design research is to develop a programme in central New York City that enables the re establishment of a lost site transcending into a meaningful place, an architectural performance that will ...
  • Job mobility and employee human capital - To what extent can the employee be restrained by post-contractual restrictive covenants? An analysis of the common law principles with special consideration of New Zealand 
    Schwipper, Markus (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In times where employment relationships become increasingly “volatile”, employers try to impede the mobility of their departing employees and capture the human capital they have generated during the former employment. In ...
  • Communicating the stability of steep slope infrastructure through landscape architecture: Re-stabilising and re-occupying the steep slope of Clifton, Canterbury, New Zealand 
    Aldridge, Kristyn (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The 2010-2011 Canterbury New Zealand Earthquake sequence resulted in the unforeseen regression of some major steep slopes in the Port Hill suburbs. The regression of these slopes has resulted in the abandonment of over 600 ...
  • Reconstructed affects: Designing for the affective body 
    Houston-Stevens, Thane (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In contemporary writing the emergence of the affective body is seen as a way to challenge the limits of understanding the body as a text. Through design, this thesis extends the contemporary discourse of an affective body ...
  • Mechanisms of induction of CD8⁺ T cell responses by dendritic cells 
    Osmond, Taryn Louise (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Splenic CD8α⁺ dendritic cells (DCs) have been described as key antigen presenting cells for the induction of CD8⁺ T cell responses to circulating antigen. This is through a heightened capacity to acquire and present the ...
  • Synthesis and characterisation of copper (I) oxide and zinc oxide quantum dots and development of new fluorescent fibre composites 
    Zeller, Andreas Josef (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The use of nanotechnology in the fabrication of everyday products has increased significantly in the last years. Materials prepared in the form of very small particles, at nano-scale, change their physical and chemical ...
  • Privatising the hard part: The New Zealand experience of employing contractors to deliver military logistic support 
    Seed, Jeremy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    There is an increasing trend amongst global military forces to engage private sector contractors to provide a wide range of services. This thesis examines the outsourcing of logistics functions in the military environment, ...
  • Byron’s The Island: Sources and Influences 
    Harris, Jeremy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis examines Byron’s The Island (1823) in relation to its source material – William Bligh’s A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board his Majesty’s Ship Bounty (1790) and William Mariner’s Account of the Natives of the ...
  • Resilience by design: Ecological footprinting for resilient regional planning 
    Richardson, James Matthew (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The objectives of this study were to ascertain the ecological footprint of those living in Wellington, New Zealand in relation to available resources in 2006, determine what changes to urban form and behaviour interested ...
  • Modelling the Generation of the Cochlear Microphonic 
    Ayat, Mohammad (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The human ear is a remarkable sensory organ. A normal healthy human ear is able to process sounds covering a wide range of frequencies and intensities, while distinguishing between different components of complex sounds ...
  • The taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the New Zealand Thomisidae (Arachnida: Araneae) 
    Sirvid, Phil J. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The New Zealand Thomisidae (crab spiders) are represented in New Zealand by two subfamilies (Stephanopinae and Thomisinae) and were used as a model group to test two competing theories on the origins of the New Zealand ...
  • Repatriation of Toi Moko - The national and international legal framework 
    Heimbrodt, Ann (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Māori have experienced an enormous loss of cultural and traditional values through the alienation of Toi Moko during colonial times. They now claim the return of Toi Moko from museums and institutions worldwide. The present ...

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