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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?
(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 ... -
Activity-based teaching for Unitec New Zealand construction students
(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 ... -
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
(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 ... -
ADA MESH CITIES: Network, Space and Memory in the transitional city
(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 ... -
Adapation, accretion and architecture : a proposal for the island of Funafuti
(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 ... -
The adaptation and implementation of lean production in the New Zealand construction industry
(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 intentional immigrant entrepreneurs : a case study
(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 ... -
The adaptation of Islamic culture in a western society : building a contemporary mosque in Auckland.
(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 ... -
Adaptive active control of free space acoustic noise
(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 ... -
Adaptive background modeling for land and water composition scenes
(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 ... -
Adaptive document image skew estimation
(International Association of Engineers (IAENG), 2017-03)The skew of the scanned document image is inevitable, and its correction improves the performance of document recognition systems. Skew specifies the text lines deviation from the horizontal or vertical axes. To date, skew ... -
Adaptive reuse and re purposing of industrial buildings to residential dwellings in Auckland City
(State of Australian Cities (SOAC 2017), 2017-11)The conversion of former industrial buildings and identifying heritage as a commodity has become a pervasive trend, especially over the last decade. Adaptive re-use of old industrial buildings is often seen as an alternative ... -
Adaptive reuse of industrial buildings in a new precinct in Auckland’s CBD
(Global Science and Technology Forum, 2015-10-05)The conversion of former industrial buildings and identifying heritage as a commodity has become a pervasive trend, especially over the last decade. Adaptive re-use of old industrial buildings is often seen as an alternative ... -
Additional lichen records from New Zealand 49. Pertusaria puffina A.W.Archer & Elix
(Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), 2015-07)Pertusaria puffina A.W.Archer & Elix is reported for the first time from New Zealand. -
Additional lichen records from New Zealand 50
(Department of the Environment and Energy, Australia, 2017-01)Pertusaria endoxantha Vain. is reported for the first time from New Zealand. Pertusaria endoxantha Vain. was first collected by G.F. Scott-Elliot in 1893–1894 from the Rwenzori mountain range of Uganda, then subsequently ... -
Additions to the liverwort flora of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand Botanical Region
(National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust., 2014-08-25)Five liverwort species are reported for the first time from the New Zealand Botanical Region, all from Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands group: Ceratolejeunea belangeriana, Notoscyphus lutescens ... -
Addressing the communication needs of a developing nation: A journalism education case study from Divine Word University
(2004-01-01)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
(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
(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 ... -
The adoption of modern office workspaces by tertiary education institutes : a case study of Unitec
(UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney), 2016-07)Modern office workspaces, and particularly activity-based workspaces (ABW) are emerging in the education sector. The primary reasons for making changes to workspaces vary from institute to institute. Yet, there is limited ...
