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Building bridges: Treating a new transport link as a real option
(Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust, 2011)A transportation investment that materially improves links between centres opens up previously unavailable options for new activities. Traditional cost-benefit analysis does not adequately take account of the value of this ... -
Building computational thinking through programming in K-6 education: A New Zealand experience
(IATED Academy, 2015)The recent inclusion of computational skills in core curriculum by governments in the UK and Australia, has been linked to industry calls for schools to better equip young people with capabilities and dispositions aligned ... -
Building Connections: Professional online presence and learning networks.
(2015)The focus of this paper is on social media in teacher education in relation to the use of social media for building a professional online presence and learning network. This paper relates experience and insights drawn from ... -
Building digital library collections with greenstone
(ACM, 2005)This tutorial will demonstrate how to build a variety of different kinds of digital library collections with the Greenstone digital library software, a comprehensive, open-source system for constructing, presenting, and ... -
Building diverse, inclusive and resilient communities to increase well-being and quality of life
(2020)Building diverse, inclusive and resilient communities to increase well-being and quality of life Exploring the relationship between migrants, existing residents and cities and understanding the dynamics and complexity of ... -
Building ensembles of adaptive nested dichotomies with random-pair selection
(Springer, 2016)A system of nested dichotomies is a method of decomposing a multi-class problem into a collection of binary problems. Such a system recursively applies binary splits to divide the set of classes into two subsets, and trains ... -
Building ethnic, refugee and gender relations : ethnic refugee women in the Waikato : improving their socio-economic status through community organisations?
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the role of community organisations in the resettlement of refugee¹ ethnic women in the Waikato. Do community organisations (women organisations, ethnic organisations, religious ... -
Building Inclusive Cities—Women’s Safety and the Right to the City [Book review]
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-12)This article reviews the book "Building Inclusive Cities—Women’s Safety and the Right to the City", edited by Carolyn Whitzman, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky, Margaret Shaw & Kalpana Viswanath. -
Building literacy communities of practice across subject disciplines in secondary schools
(Multilingual Matters, 2007)This paper examines the relationship between communities of practice and literacy as a pedagogical focus in secondary schools in New Zealand in the light of Corson's arguments about critical conditions for effective language ... -
Building organisational commitment to counteract brain drain from southern hemisphere accountancy firms
(Singapore Human Resources Institute, 2007)With countries increasingly thinking like organisations as they recruit and retain global talent, it is posited that High Commitment Management (HCM) Human Resource Management (HRM) systems could be applied to help stem ... -
Building script-based tacit knowledge in call centre trainees
(Palgrave Publishers, 2010)An exploratory case study on a technical support call centre in China is presented, which investigates a new paradigm that script-based tacit knowledge for action is built in the brains of learners, rather than transferred. ... -
Buildings as dangerous spaces: mobilities of emotion and affect in disaster relocation
(2016)Disasters are something Mimi Sheller has been recently working with, e.g. her keynote at the last Mobilities Symposium was entitled mobility in a disconnected world, moving people, information and aid after disasters. Disasters ... -
The built environment, Hamilton City Council policies and child driveway safety: a balancing act
(Department of Societies and Cultures, University of Waikato, 2014)Driveway run-overs continue to bring tragedy to New Zealand families at a higher rate than any other Western nation. Meanwhile, little progress appears to have been made in regard to the recommendations of previous research. ... -
Bundle-driven metadiscourse analysis: Sentence initial bundles in Chinese and New Zealand postgraduates' thesis writing
(Peter Lang, 2017)Metadiscourse and lexical bundles are two closely related concepts and both operate as overlapping functional units in texts. Metadiscourse analysis always takes a top-down approach, in which discourse analysts begin from ... -
Bundle-driven move analysis: Sentence initial lexical bundles in PhD abstracts
(Elsevier, 2020)Rhetorical moves are discoursal units that perform communicative functions in a given genre. They have been manually identified in many previous studies taking a corpus-based approach, and these studies have provided ... -
Burial and degradation of Rena oil within coastal sediments of the Bay of Plenty
(Royal Society of New Zealand, 2016)During the Rena oil spill, no data existed for New Zealand conditions on the likely depth of burial and the expected degradation of oil deposited on sandy beaches. Sediment cores were taken from 12 locations along the Bay ... -
Burial duration and frequency influences resilience of differing propagule types in a subtidal seagrass, Posidonia australis
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Sedimentation that leads to periodic, and often prolonged, burial events is becoming more common on the world’s coastlines as human populations expand and create urbanised marine environments. Different seagrass species ... -
Buried Alive or Washed Away The Challenging Life of Mangroves in the Mekong Delta
(The Oceanography Society, 2017)Mangroves colonize tropical shorelines, protecting coastal communities and providing valuable ecosystem services. Mangroves associated with deltas cope with a very dynamic environment characterized by strong gradients in ... -
The Buried Village, New Zealand - an example of dark tourism?
(Routledge, 2006)In 1886, the explosion of Mount Tarawera resulted in the loss of 150 lives and the burial of the village of Te Wairoa, the base from which tourists had visited the Pink and White Terraces, a silicone-stained natural formation ... -
A Burkean inquiry into leader-follower identification motives
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)The primary goal of this paper is to develop a rhetorically based understanding of the dynamics of the identification process between transformational or charismatic leaders and their followers. We bring to bear Burke's ...
