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Brocard's problem and variations
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis examines the work which has been done on Brocard’s problem which is to study solutions to n! + 1 = x², and related problems of the form n! = f(x) or n! = f(x, y), where f is a polynomial with integer ... -
Brokering practices among international EAL students at a New Zealand university
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The numbers of international students enrolled in higher education in Anglophone countries have increased in the past decade, with the majority of students originating from Asian countries such as China. While it is in the ... -
Brown bodies, white coats: Postcolonialism, Māori women, and science
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This project investigates the historical construction of 'Māori woman' and the constitution of the subjectivities of Maori women scientists today. The central question that is raised by the thesis is 'Do discourses of ... -
Brown bullhead catfish (ameiurus nebulosus) in Lake Taupo
(Department of Conservation, 2003)Brown bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus) were first discovered in Lake Taupo during the early 1980s and are believed to have originated from an illegal liberation into the southern end of the lake. A native of the ... -
Brown seaweed Sargassum siliquosum as an intervention for diet-induced obesity in male Wistar rats
(MDPI AG, 2021)The therapeutic potential of Sargassum siliquosum grown in Australian tropical waters was tested in a rat model of metabolic syndrome. Forty-eight male Wistar rats were divided into four groups of 12 rats and each group ... -
Browsing a digital library: A new approach for the New Zealand digital library
(Springer, 2003)Browsing is part of the information seeking process, used when information needs are ill-defined or unspecific. Browsing and searching are often interleaved during information seeking to accommodate changing awareness of ... -
Browsing and book selection in the physical library shelves
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 2013-02)Library users should be conveniently interact with collections and be able to easily choose books of interest as they explore and browse a physical book collection. While there exists a growing body of naturalistic studies ... -
Browsing around a Digital Library: Today and Tomorrow
(Springer Berlin, 2000)What will it be like to work in tomorrow’s digital library? We begin by browsing around an experimental digital library of the present, glancing at some collections and showing how they are organized. Then we look to the ... -
Browsing in digital libraries: a phrase-based approach
(1997-01)A key question for digital libraries is this: how should one go about becoming familiar with a digital collection, as opposed to a physical one? Digital collections generally present an appearance which is extremely opaque-a ... -
Browsing tree structures
(Computer Science, University of Waikato, 1999-05)Graphic representations of tree structures are notoriously difficult to create, display, and interpret, particularly when the volume of information they contain, and hence the number of nodes, is large. The problem of ... -
The BSD Socket API for Simulator
(The University of Waikato, 2007)BSD Socket API for Simulator is a project to run untouched Real World Application (RWA) binaries on the powerful modern general-purpose network simulators. BSD Socket API for Simulator is designed to eliminate most of ... -
Bubbles and lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand: the language of self-isolation in #Covid19NZ tweets.
(2022-07-27)In March 2020, as cases of COVID-19 were found in Aotearoa New Zealand, the government moved to eliminate community transmission of the virus through self-isolation. During this month, as the population discussed if, when ... -
Bucking the Trends: Increasing retention rates of Māori students enrolled in Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences courses at the University of Waikato
(Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2003)Reports on the success of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato’s monitoring and support for Maori students initiative. The aim of the initative was to implement a support system in the FASS ... -
Buddhism and Tourism at Pu-Tuo-Shan, China
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis is a study of pilgrimage and religious tourism in a Chinese Buddhist context, with a focus on both the host monastic community and visitors. The selected research site is Pu-Tuo-Shan, one of the Four Buddhist ... -
Buddhism and tourism: Perceptions of the monastic community at Pu-Tuo-Shan, China
(Elsevier Masson, 2013)While there exists a considerable body of literature on pilgrimages and religious tourism, research on Buddhist pilgrimage sites remains scant. In particular, little has been published about how tourism is perceived by the ... -
Building a public digital library based on full-text retrieval
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 1995-08)Digital libraries are expensive to create and maintain, and generally restricted to a particular corporation or group of paying subscribers. While many indexes to the World Wide Web are freely available, the quality of ... -
Building a Twitter opinion lexicon from automatically-annotated tweets
(Elsevier, 2016-09-15)Opinion lexicons, which are lists of terms labelled by sentiment, are widely used resources to support automatic sentiment analysis of textual passages. However, existing resources of this type exhibit some limitations ... -
Building an excellent foundation for research: Challenges and current research needs
(2015)The delivery of research-informed education is a fundamental principle held by universities and is a principle that work-integrated education (WIL) should not be exempt from. In the 1980s and 1990s, critical reviews of the ... -
Building brands
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2008)Which marketing strategies are most effective for introducing new brands? This paper sheds light on this question by ascribing growth performance to firms' postlaunch marketing choices. We decompose the success of a new ... -
Building bridges - seeking collaboration with a Maori community
(University of Waikato, 2013)The context for this thesis is the pressing need to help mainstream schools become more proactive and culturally responsive in how they engage with the whānau of their Māori pupils. The thesis examines how the author, a ...
