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        The absent elephant in the 2016 : Modernising Child Youth and Family Expert Panel Report 

        Kenkel, David (Re-Imagining Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2016-04)
        Sometimes the most interesting thing about a new policy document or report is not what is present in the document but what is absent. On receiving the report Investing in New Zealand’s Children and Their Families I used ...
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        The academic identity of students in early childhood field-based initial teacher education 

        Dunham, Nicola (2016)
        Student academic identity is defined as the appropriation of academic values and practices within a sense of self, reflecting the willingness and commitment to the practices of the academic community (White & Lowenthal, ...
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        An academic managing an IT project using construction knowledge 

        Boon, John (2001-10)
        The author is a construction project manager with considerable experience who became an academic, teaching in the area of construction management about nine years ago. Since then he has widened his academic interests to ...
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        Accounting for social services outcomes : extending the balanced scorecard to NGOs in New Zealand 

        Prescott, James (2016-11)
        The application of accounting has already been extended to include aspects of customer services, employee satisfaction and innovation. These applications have however continued to focus on efficiencies and sustainability ...
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        Accuracy of estimating techniques for predicting residential construction costs – A case study of an Auckland residential construction company 

        Barzandeh, Mohammad (2011)
        Estimating is one of the most important functions of a successful project. Accurate estimates optimise good contracting as well as the process of calculating and analysing all the costs that will enter into a particular ...
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        Achieving gender equality in diasaster management : a case study of integrating women into community groups in Indonesia 

        Carvalhol, Ashley (Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)
        The recent international commitment to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) continues to recognise the need for the international development community to focus on achieving gender equality on a ...
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        Acoustic analysis and computerized reconstruction of speech in laryngectomised individuals 

        Sharifzadeh, Hamid; Allen, J .E.; Mcloughlin, I.; Sarrafzadeh, Hossein; Ardekani, Iman (2016-05)
        In laryngectomised individuals, rehabilitation options include esophageal speech, tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP), and electrolarynx devices enabling patients to communicate. These do not generate natural sounding speech; ...
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        The acquisition and maintenance of dogs’ aversion responses to kiwi (Apteryx spp.) training stimuli across time and locations 

        Dale, Arnja; Statham, Shivaun; Podlesnik, Christopher A.; Elliffe, Douglas (Elsevier BV, 2013)
        Dogs (Canis familiaris) pose a significant threat to kiwi (Apteryx spp.) through predation. In an attempt to balance kiwi conservation and the need for dogs to be used for hunting purposes in kiwi habitat, the New Zealand ...
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        Action and Re action: home grown timber and imported prefabricated housing. 

        Murphy, Chris (2009)
        One thousand prefabricated buildings were imported in a systematic manner by the New Zealand Government from Europe and erected in the Titahi Bay area of Wellington and the Tamaki area of Auckland NZ. These kitset buildings, ...
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        Active living architecture 

        Weavers, William (2011)
        This thesis project is an architectural response to the global obesity epidemic. Obesity prevalence rates are increasing around the world at such an alarming rate, that a problem which was not a pressing issue two generations ...
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        Active objects, passive dramas: How may design re-appropriate tools from the art of dramaturgy in the service of developing more meaningful products? 

        Gargiulo, David (2008)
        Looking to develop my professional design practice in the field of product design, I pursued this research project in order to further my product development skills and gain further understanding of design theories and ...
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        Activity-based teaching for Unitec New Zealand construction students 

        Harfield, Toby; Davies, Kathryn; Hede, Joseph; Panko, Mary; Kenley, Russell (2007)
        In 1993, Betts and Liow called for a shift from traditional ‘chalk and talk’ teaching methods to ‘active learning’ for construction students. However, this study appears to be the first to provide an active learning classroom ...
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        The acute effects of a standardised osteopathic manual therapy protocol on the vertical jump and reach performance in healthy basketball players : a cross-over design 

        Hall, Jonathan (2016)
        The purposes of the study were to determine the acute effects of upper body manual therapy when performing vertical jump and reach in basketball players, and to quantify the contribution of arm swing to ground reaction ...
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        ADA MESH CITIES: Network, Space and Memory in the transitional city 

        Joyce, Zita; Ballard, Su; McCaw, Caroline; Smith, Vicki; Lane, Trudy; Clothier, Ian; Randerson, Janine; Butt, Danny; Joyce, Zita (ISEA International, 2013)
        In the aftermath of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, Christchurch, New Zealand is framed as a ‘transitional’ city, moving from its demolished past to a speculative future. The ADA Mesh Cities project asks what role media art ...
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        Adapation, accretion and architecture : a proposal for the island of Funafuti 

        Pearce, Jordan (2013)
        The climate is shifting and this shift brings with it a number of effects. Perhaps the most devastating of these effects is sea level rise and its impact on low-lying island nations. One of these nations: Tuvalu, may have ...
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        The adaptation and implementation of lean production in the New Zealand construction industry 

        Sadler, Luke (2011)
        Japanese manufacturers and in particular Toyota in the 1990s have had large amounts of success in the car manufacturing industry. This success has been directly attributed to a set of management tools and methods put in ...
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        The adaptation of intentional immigrant entrepreneurs : a case study 

        Cruickshank, Prue; Dupuis, Ann (Centre for Strategic and International Entrepreneurship (Krakow, Poland), 2015-09-15)
        Objective: This paper describes the experiences of a group of intentional immigrant entrepreneurs (IIEs) who have successfully set up a business within three years of arrival in a new country. It shows how various forms ...
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        The adaptation of Islamic culture in a western society: “Building a contemporary mosque in Auckland” 

        Rashid, Maysum (2011)
        Though it is from the East that the sun rises, showing itself bold and bright without a veil, it burns and blazes with inward fire only when it escapes from the shackles of east and west..."(3) - Muhammad Iqbal The ...
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        Adaptive active control of free space acoustic noise 

        Ardekani, Iman; Abdulla, Waleed H. (Published by the Acoustical Society of America through the American Institute of Physics, 2013)
        This paper concerns adaptive active control of acoustic noise in free space. Conventional adaptive active noise control algorithms are efficient in acoustic ducts or headphones; however, they are very sensitive when being ...
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        Adaptive background modeling for land and water composition scenes 

        Zhao, Jing; Pang, Shaoning; Hartill, Bruce; Sarrafzadeh, Hossein (International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), 2015-09)
        In the context of maritime boat ramps surveillance, this paper proposes an Adaptive Background Modeling method for Land and Water composition scenes (ABM-lw) to interpret the traffic of boats passing across boat ramps. We ...

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