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A Breathing Stabilization System
(The University of Waikato, 2008)Breathing Stabilization System is a new idea and method. The purpose of this system is to produce a device to control a patient’s breathing for gated radiotherapy. This thesis focuses on building a simple Breathing ... -
Brexit and biobanking: GDPR perspectives
(SpringerCham, Switzerland, 2021)It is almost impossible to write a legal analysis of an event (Brexit) that has not happened and may never happen. This chapter nonetheless contributes to the edited collection in that it reports on the current legal ... -
Bridge lane direction specifications for sustainable traffic management
(World Scientific Publishing, 2006)We present a deterministic model that specifies lane direction in a multi-laned bridge that has a movable barrier that divides the two directions of traffic flow, in order to reduce congestion. A probabilistic dynamic ... -
Bridging adaptive learning and desired natural resource management outcomes: Insights from Australian planners
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)Natural resource management (NRM) has been increasingly guided by governance arrangements seeking less centralized and hierarchical and more integrated and adaptive approaches to achieve desired social-ecological outcomes. ... -
Bridging language barriers in statistics for Year-12 Pasifika students: A collaborative study
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2018)This paper focuses on the use of home languages as a resource for Pasifika students who are learning about statistical methods. It is acknowledged that there are connections between language use and mathematics in mathematics ... -
Bridging the mismatches between the lecturers’ and students’ beliefs about the value of written feedback on their assignments: A Private Malaysian University Case Study
(University of Waikato, 2015)This multi-method, qualitative study seeks to examine issues surrounding the purposes and roles of the written feedback provided by Malaysian lecturers in a private university on assessed student assignments written in ... -
Bridging the transition from Year 6 to Year 7: A New Zealand context
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The purpose of this study was to investigate the processes in place for vulnerable students when transitioning from Year 6 at primary school, to Year 7 at intermediate or middle school. Specifically, it investigates what ... -
A brief history of Whakapapa: Māori approaches to genealogy
(MDPI AG, 2019)Whakapapa is the Māori term for genealogy. It has been described by some as the skeletal structure of Maori epistemology because all things have their own genealogies. In research, whakapapa has been presented in tribal ... -
A brief review of handgrip strength and sport performance
(2017)Cronin, J, Lawton, T, Harris, N, Kilding, A, and McMaster, DT. A brief review of handgrip strength and sport performance. J Strength Cond Res 31(11): 3187-3217, 2017-Tests of handgrip strength (HGS) and handgrip force (HGF) ... -
A brief review of recent cyanobacteria monitoring results in the Waikato River
(2008)Herewith is a report on possible reasons for low concentrations of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) cells in the Waikato River in summer 2007-08 compared with previous records from 2003 to 2007. Because of time constraints, ... -
Bring-Your-Own-Application (BYOA): Optimal stochastic application migration in mobile cloud computing
(IEEE, 2015)The increasing popularity of using mobile devices in a work context, has led to the need to be able to support more powerful computation. Users no longer remain in an office or at home to conduct their activities, preferring ... -
Bringing Antarctica to the lab: a polar desert environmental chamber to study the response of Antarctic microbial communities to climate change
(Springer, 2023-05-01)Polar deserts contain unique and sensitive communities responsive to climate-associated habitat changes. However, unlike temperate desert ecosystems, characterizing and predicting the responses of polar ecosystems to ... -
Bringing ESL students out of their shells: Enhancing participation through online discussion
(Sage Publications, 2007)The Majority of international students at my university are ESL students, mainly from East Asia and Southeast Asia. Although student diversity makes for a more exciting and interesting classroom, teaching a culturally mixed ... -
Bringing home the body: Bi/multi racial Maori women's hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This thesis examines the exclusion of bi/multi racial Maori women from dominant representations of Maori women's identity. As such, it engages with a new articulation of Maori women's difference through a narrative of ... -
"Bringing it home" New Zealand responses to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
(University of Waikato, 1986)This thesis discusses New Zealander's attitudes to and involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 to 1939. Although distance muted the war's impact, three general divisions of opinion developed in New Zealand - pro-Republicanism, ... -
Bringing nature back into cities: urban land environments, indigenous cover and urban restoration
(2007)1. The restoration of urban ecosystems is an increasingly important strategy to maintain and enhance indigenous biodiversity as well as reconnecting people to the environment. High levels of endemism, the sensitivity of ... -
Bringing regulation to the fore of food regime theory: The neoliberal model of development in agriculture and beyond in theory and practice
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis works to bring in a critically revised version of regulation theory in order to address impasses in food regime theory. This theoretical innovation enables me to identify McMichael’s (2005; 2009a; 2009b; 2013) ... -
Bringing the real world into economic analyses of land use value: Incorporating spatial complexity
(Elsevier, 2009)The paper reviews recent developments in the incorporation of real-world spatial issues into the economic appraisal of land use change. The opening discussion introduces non-economists to the concepts underpinning the ... -
British Women Travellers And The Harems: Liberties, Enslavement and Domesticity
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis examines the complex perspective of a woman traveller. Wortley Montagu, Martineau, Burton and their contemporaries, represented the harem through various lenses. The Oriental harem has fascinated Western ... -
Broadening telematic electroacoustic music by affective rendering and embodied real-time data sonification
(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2014)Often played in traditional music performance formats, much recent telematic electroacoustic music focuses on the relationships between people/machines and geographically distributed cultures/spaces/players, and/or it ...
