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Recent Submissions
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Ephemeral Crossroads: seven lamps, six years, seven lux-pavilions
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2018)Building materials in the modern era have assumed significance in architectural theory which they had not possessed in the past. The change was no doubt due to the multiplicity of materials, newly minted due to the innovative ... -
Onehunga new waterfront reconnecting Onehunga suburb to their foreshore
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: How did people in Onehunga get access to their waterfront? How might a new waterfront project integrate existing projects? The waterfront of each city is unique. The waterfront may become a tourist ... -
Urbanize
(2018)Painter Tira Walsh remembers the introduction to technology in the school’s curriculum in the late 90’s. The intrigue in this manipulative tool for creating hybrid images combined with an engagement in a discussion of ... -
Erysichthon
(2018)I have always been attracted to the asymmetrical, the uncanny, the mutated, the deviation, and the odd. These preoccupations were made manifest through my drawing practice. Friends, family, and acquaintances would often ... -
The appraisal of commitment to biculturalism
(2018)Teaching Standards have been an integral part of appraisal in New Zealand for nearly 20 years, however, there is a paucity of literature on teachers’ perspectives on professional standards and the nature of their use in ... -
Experiences of a Learning Advisory Initiative : a practitioner research project in a South Auckland college
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: What are student and teacher experiences of the learning advisory model? What recommendations can be made for the ongoing improvement of the college learning advisory model? This study set out ... -
Women in fabrication : a platform for inclusive and diverse design
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2018-11)In New Zealand, over half of our architectural graduates are female but this number significantly drops within professional practice. The fact remains that industry is a male citadel whether in the realm of design or ... -
From the external : landscape transformation
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can external objects based on the combination of eastern and western aesthetics be utilised in landscape design by photomontage? Art and landscape architecture have a historical and close ... -
Osteopaths’ attitudes, knowledge and practice approaches regarding obesity
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: Is there a relationship between the knowledge of and attitudes towards obesity in New Zealand and Australian osteopaths? BACKGROUND. Obesity is a serious condition that is considered a precursor ... -
Living roofs + living urbanism
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How could the development of a Living Roof Design Manual increase the effectiveness of living roof design? Living roofs are becoming increasingly common in cities throughout the world for their ... -
Evaluation of WEP, WPA and WPA2 security protocols on 802.11ac client to server WLAN performance
(2016)RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The key objective of the research is to find out the impact of enabling security protocols on the WLAN performance in a real test bed environment. The research has measured the 802.11ac WLAN performance ... -
Brand identity and brand image of tourism destinations in Lao PDR
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: Main research question: How is the brand image of Lao tourism destinations perceived by tourist different from the ideal brand identity projected by the government? Sub-research questions: 1. ... -
The relationship between health literacy and health outcomes in Australian, Canadian and New Zealand adults : a scoping review of interventions within the literature
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: This scoping review was conducted to answer two questions: 1.How do interventions designed to improve health literacy affect health outcomes? 2.How have these interventions been implemented in adult ... -
Detecting Sybil attack in mobile wireless sensor networks using observer nodes
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: What lightweight, scalable algorithm can be developed to detect the Sybil nodes in MWSNs? Then, I broke it to more detailed questions as follows: How many observer nodes would be enough for a ... -
Using exemplars for the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) external assessments : perceptions of secondary school teachers
(2018)The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) publishes exemplars of student work following the external National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) examinations each year. These are provided as a resource to ... -
Albany as a future node : improving social wellbeing in a car-centric environment
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: What would Albany’s Centre look like if an urban design paradigm promoting wellbeing and reducing social isolation was employed for future development? It is evident that Auckland is growing ... -
Osteopathy and patients who have experienced sexual violence : management, treatment and self-care
(2018)This thesis is a preliminary inquiry into the knowledge, skills, attitudes and confidence held by New Zealand registered osteopaths when managing and treating patients who have experienced sexual violence. The overall ... -
The effect of embodied historical trauma on long-term musculoskeletal pain in a group of urban Māori adults
(2018)Māori people experience higher rates of long-term musculoskeletal pain compared with European New Zealanders, despite being a demographically younger population. Like other indigenous colonized peoples Māori people also ... -
Evaluating spammer detection systems for Twitter
(2017)Twitter is a popular Social Network Service. It is a web application with dual roles of online social network and microblogging. Users use Twitter to find new friends, update their activities or communicate with each other ... -
Lifting the game
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the experience of movement drive the design of a vertical sports facility? AIM: Design a vertical recreational facility that focuses on sensory, and the visual experience of body and space, ...
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