RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Sustainable Patterns of Living Based on an Investigation of Footprint in Hanoi-Vietnam, Welllington-New Zealand and Oulu-Finland 
    Tran, Thuc Han (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Modern cities are now bigger than the area they physically occupy in the sense of the land they need for their resource consumption (food, water, materials, energy) and waste discharges. However, the Earth is the one planet ...
  • Performance requirements in investment treaty law 
    Li, Hanxiao (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Host states permit foreign investors to access their economies generally because they believe that foreign investment can contribute to their economic development and prosperity. Foreign investments are therefore expected ...
  • Analysing interpersonal relations in call-centre discourse 
    Hui, Sai Y. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In the late twentieth century, call centres began to play what is now perceived as an essential role in the provision of customer services. Their birth and growth owes much to the rapid advancement of telecommunications ...
  • Absolutely Positively Unsafe: Using architecture and urban design to rejuvenate neglected city space 
    Brimmicombe, Alexander James (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Absolutely Positively Unsafe is a project sparked by two aspects of design that have interested me throughout the past five years of my university study. Firstly, I am intrigued by the relationship between architecture, ...
  • Dallah: the death knell for deference? 
    Fraser, Anastasia Lee (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This paper examines the decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Dallah Real Estate and Tourism Holding Company v The Minister of Religious Affairs, Government of Pakistan, a rare case where an English court refused ...
  • Metatextual Print Fiction in the Age of Digital Fiction 
    Sedaghat Payam, Mehdy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis argues that the future envisaged for the novel by the early hypertext theorists, that the digital medium would displace print and open up a variety of new possibilities for novelistic fiction, can now be ...
  • Stable Isotopes of Platinum: Measurement and Application to Constraining the Formation and Differentiation of Earth 
    Creech, John (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    A wide range of novel, non-traditional, stable isotope systems have been developed over the last decade, largely as a result of the advent of multiple-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS), and ...
  • International environmental crimes and the Rome Statute 
    Parnell, John (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    The topic of this paper is the role of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in relation to international crimes against the environment and how it might play an expanded role in prosecuting these. This paper also ...
  • The choice of law contract 
    Hook, Maria (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The party autonomy rule embodies the freedom enjoyed by parties to a cross-border legal relationship to choose the law applicable to that relationship. It is firmly established in the area of contract and is also increasingly ...
  • Language Policy, Language Practices and Language Shift in Tabriz 
    Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis examines how Azeri, a minority language with the largest number of speakers in Iran, is marginalized by de facto monolingual language policies of the state favoring Farsi, the only official language, over Azeri ...
  • Kākāpō reproduction: Identification of steroid receptors and oestrogenic activity in native flora 
    Davis, Catherine Elizabeth Judith (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) are a critically endangered parrot species endemic to New Zealand that exhibit a reproductive strategy linked to “masting” years. Crucial to their survival is increased reproductive success. ...
  • Development and validation of a novel counter-immunoelectrophoresis assay for the detection of antibodies against extractable nuclear antigens 
    Wallis, Reuben (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Abstract will be available once withholding period has ended.
  • Mobility Oriented Development: Integrating New Zealand Suburban Transit Stations Into Town Centres 
    McCardle, Paul (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Vehicle dominated town centres can lack quality for pedestrians. However, many solutions compromise transportation efficiency. The concept of Mobility Oriented Design (MOD) is put forward as a solution to this problem. The ...
  • The Breathing House: Contemporary approaches for traditional house design principles in tropical Malaysia 
    Sunhaji, Firdaus (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In a tropical country such as Malaysia, the outdoor climate is a monotonous fluctuation of hot and humid theme. Architectural forms and programs that do not address the local climate lead to poor thermal performance of ...
  • The characterisation and application of bacterial nitroreductase enzymes 
    Condon, Sarah (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Cancer is an increasing global concern, with the number of people diagnosed growing rapidly each year. Gene directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) is emerging as a front-runner of new technologies that seek to combat the ...
  • Patterns in the coastal landscape of Kaikōura 
    Manson, Cory James (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    ‘Patterns in the coastal landscape of Kaikōura’ proposes a response to ingrained ideas in coastal landscape architecture, of privileging the unmodified environment and focusing on ecological concerns. This response is ...
  • The role of langerin+ CD8+ dendritic cells during systemic bacterial infection 
    Prendergast, Kelly Anne (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Splenic langerin⁺ CD8⁺ dendritic cells (DCs) are a recently identified DC subset found to be superior to langerin⁻ DCs in their ability to cross-prime cytotoxic CD8⁺ T cell responses in mice. Due to their location in the ...
  • Re-thinking the Kiwi dream 
    Elmore, Libby (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    There is a huge demand for new housing in New Zealand and a push to stop urban sprawl through intensification of existing areas. Thus the modernist dream of dense and efficient community living has become something we need, ...
  • End of the road 
    Booth, Oliver (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Our natural landscapes are enormously precious to our national identity, our environment, and our economy. In order to protect those landscapes, successive governments have designated approximately one-third of the New ...
  • Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick 
    Herman, Daniel (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This thesis is a study of the influence of Buddhist thought on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. It is widely known that Melville became interested in Buddhism in the last decades of his life—for example, the collection of ...

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