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Breaking down the barrier : collaborating and educating farmers for protecting and cultivating farm land in India
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can an architectural intervention in Chikkaballapur, India, help slow urban migration by supporting collaborative farming, creating a boundary that protects farmland from encroachment and educating ... -
Breaking through
(2016)Prisons have always been a sensitive subject, particularly in terms of legislation and prison design. There has always been a struggle over what should be done with those who commit crime, punishment or rehabilitation. This ... -
Breathing life back into the mundane : the adaptive reuse of Dunedin’s industrial heritage
(2014)“...it is again no question of expediency or feeling whether we shall preserve the buildings of past times or not. We have no right whatever to touch them. They are not ours. They belong partly to those who built them, and ... -
Breeding biology of laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguinea) in New Zealand
(2011)In the last year we have identified six nesting areas from which we have collected nest debris and behavioural observations. From this data we have identified all animal remains within the debris. In addition, we identified ... -
Bridge the border: A border crossing complex across the Johor Strait
(2011)This project started from the author’s dissatisfaction and frustration at crossing the border. In the current climate of global terrorism and security concerns, movement across the Singapore-Malaysia border is increasingly ... -
Bridging the digital divide: Students’ access to digital technologies in a language department
(Southern Institute of Technology, 2010-01-01)In many institutions in New Zealand from primary to tertiary level, the use of technology by both students and teachers to support learning and teaching is assumed. This article reports briefly on research done in a New ... -
Bridging the knowledge gap from technologist to professional engineer
(2018-02)A comparison of course structures is undertaken between the 3-year Management Group’s Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Civil) and the Washington Accord accredited 4-year Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)(Civil) at the ... -
Brightness preserving fuzzy dynamic histogram equalization
(Newswood Ltd., 2013)Abstract—Image enhancement is a fundamental step of image processing and machine vision to improve the quality of an image for a specific application. Histogram equalization is an attractive and commonly-employed image ... -
Bring your own device classroom : issues of digital divides in teaching and learning contexts
(Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2015-12)Technology mediated learning provides potentially valuable resources for learners’ academic and social development. However, according to recent researches, as the adoption stages of ICTs advance there arises further levels ... -
Bring your own device to secondary school : the perceptions of teachers, students and parents
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International (Reading,UK), 2016)This paper reports on the first two years of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative in a New Zealand secondary school, using data derived from a series of surveys of teachers, parents and students, who are the main ... -
Bringing schools to life through a co-design learning approach with children.
(Architectural Science Association (ASA), 2015-12)This paper proposes that incorporating professional expertise (e.g. landscape architects and architects) in school ground greening projects, with a commitment towards engaging in a democratic ... -
Bringing the NZDipBus on-line: A case study
(2000)This paper examines the processes that have been undertaken at UNITEC over the last two years to incorporate quality on-line learning into the NZ Diploma in Business programme. In Semester 2 1998 150 Computer Concepts ... -
Build back better : implementation in Victorian bushfire reconstruction
(2014-04)“Build Back Better” (BBB) is a prominent concept in post-disaster reconstruction and has emerged from identifying the need for the reconstruction phase to be taken as an opportunity to decrease the vulnerability of communities ... -
Building adaption for waste minimisation : impact of policies
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015-12-22)Construction and demolition waste represents a significant wastage of natural resources and energy while also contributing to air pollution. Measures to reduce construction waste include achieving flexibility in design of ... -
Building blocks for a community
(2012)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the high density typology be used in the development of 21st century New Zealand cities to build socially interactive communities? The traditional New Zealand dream of the 'quarter acre ... -
Building empowerment: Ways of working with children and youth to create sustainable buildings.
(World Sustainable Building Conference, 2014)This paper presents preliminary research into community empowerment via children and youth participation towards generating sustainable building outcomes within two low income, predominantly Pacifica and Māori communities ... -
Building for resilience
(2016)As the population, infrastructure and economies around the world are growing, some global issues - like climate change and natural disasters are hindering the social and economic growth in some developing countries, like ... -
Building hope
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can an architectural intervention mediate the adverse effects of political conflicts in South Africa? ABSTRACT: South Africa, a culturally rich country, has encountered much political conflict ... -
Building structural performance. Presentation conducted at the Building Structural Performance, Auckland.
(2015-01)Initial Seismic Assessment ISA is intended to be a coarse evaluation and is recommended as first step in the overall assessment process ISA provide a board indication of the expected performance of a building taking ...
