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The 21st century workplace: How personal technologies can make a difference

Simpson, Ken; Byrski, Marta (Asia Pacific Journal of Business and Management, 2010)

The concept of “workplace” has a fixed image as a bricks and mortar home for the production of goods and/or services, though this image is threatened by growth in 21st century globalisation and personal workplace technologies ...
An academic managing an IT project using construction knowledge

Boon, John (Project Management Institute of New Zealand Annual Conference, 2001)

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 ...
Accuracy of estimating techniques for predicting residential construction costs – A case study of an Auckland residential construction company

Barzandeh, Mohammad (Bachelor of Construction, 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 ...
Active living architecture

Weavers, William (Master of Architecture (Professional), 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 ...
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 (Master of Design, 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 ...
The adaptation and implementation of lean production in the New Zealand construction industry

Sadler, Luke (Bachelor of Construction, 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 ...
The adaptation of Islamic culture in a western society: “Building a contemporary mosque in Auckland”

Rashid, Maysum (Master of Architecture (Professional), 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 ...
Addressing the communication needs of a developing nation: A journalism education case study from Divine Word University

McManus, Michael; Papoutsaki, Evangelia (Media Literacy in the Pacific and Asia, 2004)

This paper discusses how journalism education can best address the information needs of a developing nation in Asia Pacific. It takes as a case study the review of the Communication Arts Department Curriculum at Divine ...
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 ...
Administrators' professional development in a higher education organisation

Richardson, Laurie (Master of Educational Leadership and Management, 2008)

This thesis investigates administrators’ engagement in professional development in a higher education organisation where academia is the organisation’s raison d’être. Using literature from management and non-academic higher ...
Adult literacy provision within New Zealand private training establishments

Dolan, Belinda-Jane (Master of Education, 2010)

The aim of this research was to investigate the current adult literacy provision taking place within New Zealand Private Tertiary Establishments. The first objective was to identify a baseline on the type and amount of ...
Adult refugee learners with limited literacy: needs and effective responses

Benseman, John (New Zealand English Language Partners Annual Conference, Conversations about diversity: inclusion in practice, 2012)

The purpose of this study was to document and analyse the learning needs and issues of adult refugees with low language and literacy skills by looking at how their prior experiences and current contexts affect their ...
The aesthetics of topology optimisation and non-standard analysis

O'Sullivan, John (Master of Architecture (Professional), 2011)

Over the last few years, architects have been given access to a myriad of new generative tools that are unprecedented in both number and capacity. Some design professionals are describing the ability they provide to generate ...
After the rot: Improving the durability of building envelopes in domestic housing, New Zealand

Murphy, Chris (Design, Technology, Refurbishment and Management of Buildings: 37th IAHS World Congress on Housing Science, 2010)

The issue of weathertightness of the external building envelope in domestic scaled timber frames continues to be an issue in New Zealand, some ten years after the results of a major cladding survey into the durability and ...
Ahakoa he iti: Early childhood pedagogies affirming of Māori children's rights to their culture

Ritchie, Jenny; Rau, Cheryl (Early Education and Development, 2011)

This paper considers the position of tamariki Māori, the indigenous children of Aotearoa (a Māori name for New Zealand), in relation to the impact of colonization on their rights, including a focus on the United Nations ...
Aiming high: Can the New Zealand Diploma in Business create the graduates it desires?

Ayling, Diana (New Zealand Applied Business Education 2007 Conference, 2007)

The new NZDipBus is an interesting national qualification. Owned by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), it is not a unit standard based qualification, such as the National Diploma in Business nor is it grounded ...
Analogic architecture: A bionmetic speculation

Magan, Jayshree (Master of Architecture (Professional), 2009)

There is a beauty to science, and a science to the beauty that is intrinsic in art. The exploration of art and science in architecture are intertwining studies in the pursuit of new inspiration and ideas. Art and science ...
Analysis of the Australian data from the Cartoon Network's New GenerAsians survey: Presentation made in conjunction with the Sydney release of data from the 12 Asian nation study of youth attitudes, perceptions and behaviours at the Regent Hotel, Sydney, 4th August, 1998

Bridgman, Geoff (1998)

Are Australian children unique or are they similar to other children in Asia? In my short review of the truly massive amount of data collected in the Cartoon Networks New GenerAsians survey, I can only touch upon, in a ...
Analysis of the Hong Kong data from the Cartoon Network's New GenerAsians Survey: Presentation made in conjunction with the Hong Kong release of data from the 12 Asian nation study of youth attitudes, perceptions and behaviours at the New World Harbourview Hotel, Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1998

Bridgman, Geoff (1998)

As a researcher on the impact of television on children, I'm interested in the relationship between watching TV and other activities.
Ancient imagery: Digital visualisations of the Auckland isthmus

Egginton, Zane (2009)

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