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Towards appreciating the importance of windowscapes : evaluation and suggestion for improvement of New Zealand Building Code
(Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2017-08-27)Rapid intensification of Auckland has made our visual awareness of the outdoor environment (windowscapes) more confined and restricted. The recent changes of Auckland’s windowscapes have made the shortcomings of New Zealand ... -
Towards Assessment Transparency: Following on from 'The Crit', can a student's learning be enhanced by allowing them to witness their own formative and summative assessment event?
(The University of South Australia, 2013)The Design school critique: the Crit, remains a unique event, not only in the display and discussion generated by the student responses to the same Brief, but also from the airing of many and varied opinions of all present ... -
Towards implementing a ‘Green’ ICT environment: Attitudes of selected New Zealand small businesses
(2009)The aim of this research was to discover the actual attitudes of the Respondents with regard to ‘Green’ issues and to develop an understanding of the level of knowledge they each have of the current issues, regularly ... -
Towards shared international standards for community development practice
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)This paper provides the basis for shared international standards for community development practice. It presents the key themes and areas common across community development practice wherever that practice might take place ... -
Towards the flourishing of Chinese Protestantism : an architectural enquiry, Shanghai
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can a new church architecture be formed combining Protestant and social service functions to enable a Protestant community to prosper in China? ABSTRACT: Shanghai is a metropolitan city in China ... -
Tracing the stages of senior leadership team development in New Zealand primary schools : insights and issues
(Department of Educational Management, Planning & Policy, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), 2017)Senior Leadership Teams abound as the most common permanent team found in New Zealand schools, yet there is a paucity of research studies on the nature of team leadership and the development of these teams – particularly ... -
Tracking a person’s behaviour in a smart house
(Springer Verlag, 2018-11)This paper proposes to use machine learning techniques with ultrasonic sensors to predict the behavior and status of a person when they live solely inside their house. The proposed system is tested on a single room. A grid ... -
A trade-off in learning: Mobile augmented reality for language learning
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)Mobile learning offers great potential for language teachers to support practice beyond the classroom, to encourage anytime-anywhere learning and to facilitate situated learning (Pegrum, forthcoming). Augmented reality ... -
Train-for-life (T4L): an interactive learning platform for logistics, safety and security professionals
(SpringerOpen (part of Springer Nature), 2018-10-03)The ageing workforce and the changing nature of jobs make it critical for education providers to include life-long learning skills and training provisions for adult learners already in the workforce. Learning a topic online ... -
Train-For-Life : on-line interactive training for industry learners
(2017-12)Learning a topic online via Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has gained a lot of popularity due to their scalability and efficiency of knowledge distribution. However, participating in these courses usually ... -
Transferring literacy skills in the workplace
(2010)Implicit, if not explicit, in most workplace training programmes is the assumption that the knowledge and skills taught are not only internalised by the participants, but also transferred back into the workplace, with a ... -
Transforming the communities of tomorrow
(2010-01-01)The exponential globalisation of the economy warrants the formulation of a pathway that harnesses the human and social capital that can work together collaboratively and proactively to promote the development of sustainable ... -
Transgressing boundaries of private and public : Intercultural funerals.
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013)In this chapter the authors take an auto-ethnographic approach to draw from recent experiences of being integrally involved in the death rituals pertaining to a close family member, ranging across three different ... -
A transient life: Stripping life back to its basic daily rituals to focus on the art of socializing around a portable architecture
(2011)Some proportion of the world’s population has always been committed to a life of nomadism. This transient way of life is, for some, a means of survival, a way to secure their next meal. For others, a nomadic lifestyle ... -
Transition to a low-carbon economy for New Zealand
(Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ), 2016-04)The problem The climate is changing. Average temperatures are increasing due to human activity, which has driven increasingly high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement adopted by ... -
Transitions and thresholds in the urban environment : activating space and identifying place
(2012)Personal transport and communication technology have contributed significantly to the erosion of quality urban space. Together they have weakened the relationships between people within neighbourhoods through their ability ... -
Translating the Okanagan charter for practice in Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary education settings
(Tertiary Wellbeing Aotearoa New Zealand (TWANZ), 2017)This translation guide is designed as a tool for health promoters, policy makers, health and safety staff, cultural and student support staff, student bodies and management in tertiary institutions to assist with understanding ... -
Translating the transcendent : drawing on Hindu spiritual traditions in the making of a therapeutic healing place
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the conceptions of Hindu spirituality be applied in the formation of holistic architectural spaces? ABSTRACT: Mental health is a serious issue among university students. Recent studies provide ... -
Translation : Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand 2014
(SAHANZ and Unitec ePress, 2014-08-07)The 31st conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) has taken ‘Translation’ as its theme. The call for papers invited the contributors to explore translation, understood as the ...
