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Do Consumers Trust Mobile Service Advertising?

Davis, Robert; Sajtos, Laszlo; Chaudhri, Ahsan Ali (Contemporary Management Research, 2011)

Mobile services have rapidly become an important way for consumers to communicate, encounter services and exchange information. Marketers are increasingly using this channel for brand related advertising communications. ...
Legislation as a Tool for Reform: The Case of New Zealand

Davis, Robert (2013)

In November 2009, The New Zealand Government introduced the Real Estate Agents Act 2008. This new act replaced the Real Estate Agents Act 1976. The main purpose of the new act “is to promote and protect the interests of ...
Modeling Consumer Interactivity in Campaigns Coupling Simultaneous Media

Davis, Robert (2013)

Based on the responses of 506 consumers, this research models the consumers’ experience of interactivity when interacting with campaigns simultaneously coupling the ubiquitous mobile channel with other channels of response. ...
Do Consumers Experience a Reversal State When Encountering Mobile Commerce Services

Davis, Robert (2009)

Mobile commerce services (MCS) have become an important way in which consumers communicate and marketers have started to use MCS to interact with them. Previous research found that when consumers encounter MCS, they are ...
Streaming the City: The Lucas Creek Park, Albany City, New Zealand

Bradbury, Matthew (2008)

This paper investigates the making of a new public space on the edge of the contemporary city. The first part of the paper starts with a discussion of contemporary thinking about the urban conditions that are found on ...
Auckland WaterPark

Bradbury, Matthew (2006)

Like many waterfront cities in the world, Auckland is experiencing the slow but sure transformation of a heavily industrialised and polluted harbour into a lifestyle zone of apartments and marinas. This paper discusses and ...
Screening for left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the community

Whalley, Gillian; Somaratne, Jithendra B; Poppe, Katrina K; M ter Bals, Mariska; Wadams, Gina; Pearl, Ann; Bagg, Warwick; Doughty, Robert N. (2011)

Background: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease and is common among patients with type 2 diabetes. However, no systematic screening for LVH is currently recommended for patients ...
Experiences of advocacy : situating experiences of contemporary women’s advocates within the feminist movement to end violence against women

Neville, Diane Woolson (Master of Social Practice, 2013)

This research examines how contemporary women’s advocates working with women experiencing intimate partner violence regard their work, the analysis they hold and language they use about the phenomenon of violence against ...
Role of echocardiographic left ventricular mass and carotid intima-media thickness in the cardiovascular risk assessment of asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Poppe, K. K.; Whalley, Gillian; Somaratne, J. B.; Keelan, S.; Bagg, W.; Triggs, C. M.; Doughty, R. N. (2011)

Background: Standard cardiovascular (CV) risk assessment may underestimate risk in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Cardiac and vascular imaging to detect subclinical disease may augment risk prediction. This ...
A Kaupapa Māori approach to a community cohort study of heart disease in New Zealand

Whalley Torckler, Gillian; Pitama, Suzanne; J. Elisabeth Wells; Faatoese, Allamanda; Tikao-Mason Karen , Robertson Paul, Huria Tania , Gillies Tawhirimatea; Troughton, Richard; Sheerin, Ian; Richards, Mark; A. Cameron, Vicky (2011)

Objective: To report the processes and protocols that were developed in the design and implementation of the Hauora Manawa Project, a cohort study of heart disease in New Zealand and to report the participation at ...
The survival of patients with heart failure with preserved or reduced left ventricular ejection fraction: an individual patient data meta-analysis

Whalley Torckler, Gillian; Doughty, Robert N (2011)

Heart failure is a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and arises as a consequence of many cardiovascular conditions, including coronary artery disease (CAD), valve disease, and hypertension. Heart ...
Adjusting protocols in clinical research: finding the point of cultural/clinical fusion

Pitama, Suzanne; Cameron, Vicky; Huria, Tania; Tikao-Mason, Karen; Faatoese, Allamanda; Whalley Torckler, Gillian (2011)

The Hauora Manawa/Heart Health: Community Heart Study is a research project currently being undertaken at the University of Otago, Christchurch. The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence of cardiovascular ...
Community screening for cardiovascular risk factors and levels of treatment in a rural Māori cohort

Whalley Torckler, Gillian; Faatoese, Allamanda F.; Pitama, Suzanne G. , Gillies, Tawhirimatea W. ,Robertson, Paul J. ,Huria Tania M. , Tikao-Mason, Karen N.; Doughty, Rob N.; Richards, Mark, Troughton, Richard W.; Sheerin, Ian G. , Wells, J. Elisabeth; Cameron, Vicky A. (2011)

Objectives: To document levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD), diagnosed and undiagnosed risk factors and clinical management of CVD risk in rural Māori. Methods: Participants (aged 20-64 years), of Māori descent and ...
Genomic Risk Variants at 1p13.3, 1q41, and 3q22.3 Are Associated With Subsequent Cardiovascular Outcomes in Healthy Controls and in Established Coronary Artery Genomic Risk Variants at 1p13.3, 1q41, and 3q22.3 Are Associated With Subsequent Cardiovascular Outcomes in Healthy Controls and in Established Coronary Artery Disease

Whalley Torckler, Gillian; Ellis, Katrina L.; Frampton, Chris M.; Pilbrow, Anna P.; Troughton, Richard W.; Doughty, Robert N.; Ellis, Chris J.; Skelton, Lorraine; Thomson, Judith; Yandle, Tim G; Richards, Mark; Cameron, Vicky A. (2011)

Coronary artery disease (CAD) has multifactorial origins, and although some families are particularly affected, no precise mode of inheritance has been identified. It is likely that this reflects the contribution of ...
Understanding the needs of adult literacy and numeracy learners with very low skills: current provision and provider perspectives

Benseman, John; Sutton, Alison (2012)

This article looks at how literacy, language and numeracy providers have responded to low-level learners. Using data from a national survey of literacy, this article first looks at broad categories of learners within ...
The unusual symmetry of musicians: Musicians have equilateral interhemispheric transfer for visual information

Patston, Lucy; Kirk, Ian J; Rolfe, Mei Hsin S.; C. Corballis, Michael; Tippett, Lynette J. (2007)

Previous behavioural research has shown that spatial attention is bilaterally represented in musicians, possibly reflecting more equal neural development between the hemispheres. We investigated this theory electrophysiologically ...
Redefining normal reference ranges for echocardiography: a major new individual person data meta-analysis

Poppe, Katrina K.; Doughty, Robert N.; Whalley Torckler, Gillian (2013)

Current recommended reference ranges for echocardiographic measurements may not be relevant to the diverse world population they are applied to. A new study, the echocardiographic normal reference ranges of the left heart ...
Genetic variation in the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system is associated with cardiovascular risk factors and early mortality in established coronary heart disease

Whalley Torckler, Gillian; Ellis, KL; Palmer, BR; Frampton, CM; Troughton, RW; Doughty, RN; Ellis, CJ; Pilbrow, AP; Skelton, L; Yandle, TG; Richards, AM; Cameron, VA (2012)

This study examined renin–angiotensin–aldosterone (RAAS) system gene variants for associations with cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in coronary heart disease. Coronary disease patients (n¼1186) were genotyped for ...
Prognostic Implications of Left Ventricular Dilation in Patients With Nonischemic Heart Failure: Interactions With Restrictive Filling Pattern and Mitral Regurgitation

Whalley Torckler, Gillian; Ghio, Stefano; Temporelli, Pier L.; Marsan, Nina A.; Poppe, Katrina; Giannuzz, Pantaleo; Dini, Frank L.; Rossi, Andrea; Doughty, Robert N. (2012)

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether small left ventricular (LV) volumes increase the negative prognostic impact of a restrictive filling pattern (RFP) and that of mitral regurgitation (MR) in patients with ...
Relationship of serum sodium concentration to mortality in a wide spectrum of heart failure patients with preserved and with reduced ejection fraction: an individual patient data meta-analysis

Whalley Torckler, Gillian; Rusinaru, Dan; Tribouilloy, Christophe; Berry, Colin; Richards, A. Mark; Earle, Nikki; K. Poppe, Katrina; Guazzi, Marco; Macin, Steller M.; Komajda, Michael; Doughty, Robert N. (2012)

Hyponatraemia (usually defined as a serum sodium concentration,135 mmol/L)1 is observed in 20% of patients admitted to hospital for heart failure (HF).2 – 4 Studies conducted in various patient populations of chronic ...

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