Unitec Research Bank: Recent submissions
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The financial regulatory challenges of Lao state-owned commercial banks in joining ASEAN Economic Community : a management perspective
(2020)RESEARCH SUB-QUESTIONS: 1. What are the benefits and disadvantages for Lao banks in joining AEC? 2. What are the financial regulatory challenges management face in joining AEC? 3. What financial regulatory strategies ... -
Analysis of the metrics that influence the performance of SOAP/XML message routing in ESB Applications
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the key performance metrics that influence the performance of SOAP/XML message routing tasks in ESB Applications?\ TASKS: Finding ESB performance evaluation set up and method from existing ... -
He kāinga rua : a home away from home
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can Māori students be better supported through purpose-built housing? SUB-QUESTIONS: How has colonisation impacted Māori education outcomes? What are the barriers and challenges Māori students ... -
Being different as a personality and being design unique requires respect, bravery, and patience vs What learnings from the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team can be gleaned by tertiary Architectural Students in teambuilding and dealing with differences
(The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2020-02)The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) is a voluntary organisation that came into being after the devastating Christchurch earthquakes between September 2010 and February 2011 (the latter claiming the lives of ... -
Designing for dementia : providing public spaces for inclusion, enjoyment and wellbeing
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can public spaces be designed to be friendly for relatively high functioning dementia sufferers? ABSTRACT: Dementia is a syndrome that generally affects people over 65 years of age. Sufferers ... -
Pūtahi a whenua : voices flowing as one
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can an enhanced tangata – whenua relationship strengthen hapū connection and identity? ABSTRACT: The connection of whānau to whenua is made through interactions of memory, story, affection and ... -
How will the children play? A participatory design response to Auckland's intensification & green space provision
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2019-11)This paper discusses the process followed and the design outcomes from applying data gathered from a performance art-based urban design project (‘Lookout’) shared between children and adults, to the design of a small public ... -
‘Here is my space; the nobleness of life is to do thus’: democratizing performance and emboding presence at the Pop-up Globe Theatre in Auckland.
(2020-06)This paper considers elemental, performative, and spatial opportunities available to actors, directors, and audience in the construction of performance on the open-air stage. This stems from reflection and evidence gained ... -
The folly of suburban electrical boxes : re-assessing the suburban footpaths under Covid-19 lock-down L4 (25 March-27 April 2020) Auckland, New Zealand
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Hauora : supporting wellbeing in exceptional times
(2020-04-23)Hauora models to support teachers’ work Te Whare Tapa Whā (Durie, 1982) Break out room activity Tāku Whare Oranga Supporting the philosophical underpinnings of Te Whāriki -
Types and other historical specimens of Allan and Richard Cunningham's taxa of Epilobium and Fuchsia (Onagraceae) from New Zealand in the Turczaninow Herbarium at the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW).
(National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, 2020-08-31)Thirteen historical specimens (including original material, mainly syntypes and isolectotypes) of Allan and Richard Cunningham's taxa of Epilobium and Fuchsia (Onagraceae) from New Zealand recently discovered in the ... -
The need for a national accreditation programme for professionals working in the field of animal training and behavioural modification in New Zealand
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2020-06-29)SIMPLE SUMMARY: Companion animals play an important role in the lives of New Zealanders. Animals’ guardians often engage professional behaviour and training support to ensure their companion animal’s behaviour is compatible ... -
Stoking the flames of the digital fireplace. How can the practice of vlogging contribute to an understanding of the presentation of self in contemporary oral history making?
(2020-08-04)Stoking the Flames of the Digital Fireplace is a creative practice based project with an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic focus in which I experiment with and analyse the medium of video-logging (vlogging) on the Youtube ... -
Countering family harm and improving child well-being : 2017- 2019 Research report on a New Zealand programme delivered by classroom teachers.
(Jade Speaks Up Trust, 2020)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The analysis of questionnaire data from the Jade Speaks Up pilot programme over the period of 2017 to 2019, involved 3277 children aged from eight to thirteen years and 104 teachers from eighteen schools. ... -
Report of the data from the 2018 year of the Jade Speaks Up Pilot
(Violence Free Communities, 2019-11)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Speaks Up, a teacher-led programme that gives Year 4 to 8 school children practical and relational strategies, emotional literacy and self-agency tools to develop trusting relationships, build resilience ... -
Developments in surgical fluid therapy rates in veterinary medicine
(RCVS Knowledge (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons), 2020-07-09)PICO QUESTION: Is there sufficient evidence to show surgical fluid therapy delivered at the recommended 3 mL/kg/hour for cats and 5 mL/kg/hour for dogs leads to a better outcome compared with widely accepted rates of 10 ... -
Stress and compassion fatigue in veterinary nurses in New Zealand
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2020-02)BACKGROUND: Stress and compassion fatigue are widely acknowledged as prevalent in workers in ‘caring’ roles, however this has not been widely documented in New Zealand veterinary nurses. AIM: This project ... -
Uncharted architectural theory of critical regionalism in the work of Aleksandar Deroko between the world wars
(University of Birmingham, England, 2020-06)The paper comprises four parts. Drawing from the definition of critical regionalism presented by Tzonis and Lefaivre in their analysis of Mumford’s work, the first part focuses on Deroko’s interwar writing about architecture. ... -
Assessing the feasibility of a therapy package application on reducing psychological and physiological stress in women : a pilot study
(2020)INTRODUCTION AND AIM: There is mounting evidence regarding the existing relationship between stress and adverse health outcomes. As stress is multidimensional, the need for a multimodal approach to manage stress is ... -
An investigation of test-retest reliability, internal consistency, construct validity, and floor and ceiling effects for the Rowley Self-Efficacy Breathing Scale (RoBE)
(2020)Dysfunctional breathing (DB) is an overarching term used to describe a cluster of chronic breathing disorders that can occur either in excess or in the absence of other cardiopulmonary pathologies (Barker & Everard, 2015). ...
