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Exogenous events, economic stimulus and its future trajectory
(The University of Waikato, 2021)The present worldwide COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that our society is continuously faced with exogenous events. Looking at the past shows policy makers use monetary and fiscal policy to respond to these events; however, ... -
Exotic weeds and fluctuating microclimate can constrain native plant regeneration in urban forest restoration
(Wiley, 2017)Restoring forest structure and composition is an important component of urban land management, but we lack clear understanding of the mechanisms driving restoration success. Here we studied two indicators of restoration ... -
Expanding financial communication: Investor relations, crowdfunding, and democracy in the time of fintech
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis studied financial communication in the context of a globalised, technologized, and financialised world. It arose from two seemingly opposite trends in practice and in academia. In practice, not only are technology ... -
Expanding the agenda for research on the physically active aging body
(Human Kinetics Publishers Inc, 2009)In this article, the authors consider the different approaches that can be used to examine the relationship between physical activity and aging. They propose that much is to be gained in our awareness of this dynamic ... -
Expanding the context for student learning of science: The conceptual development of the New Zealand Science Learning Hub
(2009-07)Student engagement in science is an issue of international concern. Research indicates that one way to increase engagement in science is to involve students in authentic and relevant contexts that promote an enquiry-based ... -
Expanding understandings of wellbeing through researching women's experiences of intergenerational somatic dance classes
(Routledge, 2019)Engaging a feminist ethnographic methodology, this article offers a discussion of women’s embodied experiences of wellbeing in intergenerational somatic dance classes. Somatic dance classes aim to develop embodied awareness, ... -
Expansion dynamics of monospecific, temperate mangroves and sedimentation in two embayments of a barrier-enclosed lagoon, Tauranga harbour, New Zealand
(The Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF), 2010)In recent years, mangrove expansion has become a coastal management issue in the North Island of New Zealand. Little is known about the spatial evolution and forest structure of temperate mangrove forests in New Zealand ... -
Experience machine experiments: Testing the importance of relationships and individual differences
(2018)Recent experiments on experience machines reveal that living in reality doesn’t always dominate our prudential preferences. Felipe de Brigard (2010) and others have suggested that our preference for the status quo is a ... -
Experiences from the past inform the journey ahead: ‘a way of being’ - culturally responsive and relational professional learning and development.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis begins by contextualising the current reality for many Māori learners in Aotearoa New Zealand. By reviewing the literature around the role of the provider in professional learning and development (PLD) in ... -
Experiences in deploying metadata analysis tools for institutional repositories
(Routledge, 2009-04)Current institutional repository software provides few tools to help metadata librarians understand and analyze their collections. In this article, we compare and contrast metadata analysis tools that were developed ... -
Experiences of care at the nexus of intellectual disability and leisure travel
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This thesis explores lived experiences of care at the nexus of intellectual disability and leisure travel, notably among a sample of carers and people with intellectual disabilities, whose voices are otherwise absent in ... -
Experiences of Congolese refugee families in New Zealand: Challenges and possibilities for early childhood provision
(2012)Internationaly, there has been a broad commitment to seeking refugee perspectives on resettlement experiences. Recent research has highlighted challenges for refugees in accessing school and tertiary education that is ... -
"Experiences of families and professionals living/interacting with neurodivergent children while navigating the policy contexts of health, education and social services: The fight for accessible and suitable support"
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Families of neurodivergent children often end up interacting with policy contexts of health, education, and social services on a regular basis when they have unmet needs. My research investigates these policy contexts to ... -
Experiences of Matrilineal Solomon Islands Women Leaders in the Formal Sector
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis explores Solomon Islands women leaders working in the formal sector of the Solomon Islands, and how they perceive their matrilineal cultural heritage has influenced their career progression. This study is ... -
Experiences of Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand's public health system: a systematic review of two decades of published qualitative research
(Wiley Open Access, 2020)Objective: This paper aims to synthesise the broader perspectives of Māori patients and their whānau (extended family, family group) of their treatment within the public health system. Our research question was ‘What are ... -
The Experiences of Older Women Participating in the Workforce
(The University of Waikato, 2008)The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of older working nurses and the reason they were still in the workforce while the majority of their cohort had exited from active nursing. New Zealand's legislative ... -
Experiences of Tongan Women Migrants at Paid Work in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2007)The employment experiences of Tongan women migrants have received little attention in the literature. This study therefore, sought to shed light on the dynamics of their social and economic experiences at paid work in New ... -
Experiences of women returning to work after maternity leave
(The University of Waikato, 2017)With an increase in the number of women in the workforce, numerous studies have looked at the importance of parental leave and benefits of cash, predictors of postpartum depression, and how they affect women, handling ... -
Experiences using Z animation tools.
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 2001-05-01)In this paper we describe our experience of using three different animation systems. We searched for and decided to use these tools in the context of a project which involved developing formal versions (in Z) of informal ... -
Experiences with a weighted decision tree learner
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 1998-05)Machine learning algorithms for inferring decision trees typically choose a single “best” tree to describe the training data. Recent research has shown that classification performance can be significantly improved by voting ...
