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  • Japanese language teaching in Malaysia and New Zealand: Recent history, current practice and curriculum

    Abdul Jabbar, Sazlina (University of Waikato, 2012)
    Comparisons of curriculum have been shown to be useful in terms of finding new ideas to raise the standard of education in one country and to enhance global competitiveness (Adamson & Morris, 2007). The purpose of the ...

  • Jean Rhys writing back from 'The Other Side, Always'

    Walford, Amy (The University of Waikato, 2022)
    In her postcolonial masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys declared that ‘There is always the other side, always’. Published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea wrote back to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by rewriting the character ...

  • Jespersen cycles on Malekula

    Barbour, Julie Renee (De Gruyter Mouton, 2015)
    In the indigenous languages of Malekula Island, members of Oceanic, diverse standard negation strategies have been identified, including double negation, simple preverbal negators, and simple postverbal negators. Individual ...

  • Jessica connects: A case study focussing on one child’s use of information and communication technology (ICT) in an early childhood education setting

    Archard, Sara; Archard, Simon (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016)
    Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing an ever increasing role in the lives of people which include young children; The role of ICT in early childhood educational services in Aotearoa New Zealand is still ...

  • Jitter extraction in a noisy signal by fast Fourier transform and time lag correlation

    Anthonys, Gehan; Cree, Michael J.; Streeter, Lee (2018)
    Jitter in an electronic signal is any deviation in, or displacement of, the signal in time. This paper investigates on decomposition of two types of jitter, namely, periodic and random jitter in noisy signals. Generally, ...

  • Jitter measurement in digital signals by using software defined radio technology

    Anthonys, Gehan; Cree, Michael J.; Streeter, Lee (IEEE, 2019)
    Here, we propose a method using software defined radio (SDR) technology to measure periodic and random jitter in a digital signal. Conventional methods to measure jitter required expensive measurement equipment. We use a ...

  • Job demands and work-related psychological responses among Malaysian technical workers: The moderating effects of self-efficacy

    Panatik, Siti A.; O’Driscoll, Michael P.; Anderson, Marc Howard (Routledge, 2011)
    Job design has long been found to affect the work-related psychological responses of employees, such as psychological strain, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions, but scholars have begun to question whether established ...

  • Job Desire and Motivation: Response Distortion in Personality Assessment

    Roess, Michaella Delphine (University of Waikato, 2014)
    This study examined personality response distortion based on an individual‟s job desire within a personnel selection scenario. The aim was to determine the extent to which job desire affected individuals‟ responses to a ...

  • Job desire and response distortion in personality assessments

    Roess, Michaella Delphine; Roche, Maree A. (2017)
    Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess whether individuals engage in response distortion when applying for which they are highly motivated by job desire. Design/Method/Approach: Participants completed questionnaires ...

  • Job vacancy monitoring in New Zealand

    Silverstone, Brian; Wall, Victoria (Waikato Management School, 2009-01)
    The now widespread use of the internet as a source of information on job vacancies may have undermined the usefulness of newspaper advertisements - and possibly surveys - as the traditional sources of timely, cost-effective ...

  • A job, a dream or a trap? Multiple meanings for encore careers

    Simpson, Mary Louisa; Richardson, Margaret Ann; Zorn, Theodore E. (Sage, 2012)
    Governments and activists are interested in the ageing workforce, as both a problem and, potentially, an asset. Terms such as ‘positive ageing’ and ‘successful ageing’ are increasingly used rhetorically to (re)frame the ...

  • Job-related stress and burnout

    O’Driscoll, Michael P.; Cooper, Cary L. (Penguin Group, 2002)
    Occupational stress is a topic of substantial interest to organizational researchers and managers, as well as society at large. Stress arising from work conditions can be pervasive and significant in its impact on individuals, ...

  • John A. Westgate - Global tephrochronologist, stratigrapher, mentor

    Froese, Duane G.; Alloway, Brent V.; Lowe, David J. (Elsevier, 2008)
    The growth of tephra studies and tephrochronology as a field of research in the last four decades owes an enormous debt to the contributions of John Westgate. John has been one of the clear leaders of this field over this ...

  • John Allan Dobson: a Te Aroha mine manager

    Hart, Philip (Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)
    Born in 1830, Dobson was a life-long miner, first in Victoria and then Otago, Coromandel, Te Aroha (notable in the Tui district), and on other Hauraki fields. In 1882 he erected a boarding house in Te Aroha, on temperance ...

  • John Bernard Kilian: a Waiorongomai publican and his family

    Hart, Philip (Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)
    The Kilian family arrived in New Zealand from Capetown in 1864. Although a carpenter, Kilian moved to the new Thames goldfield four years later and was, briefly, a miner and a mining investor. Having returned to Auckland, ...

  • John Dewey’s Epistemological Naturalism and the Prospects for a Normative Scientific Epistemology

    Odebunmi, Jerome Agboola (The University of Waikato, 2017)
    In this thesis, I inquire into the prospects for a normative and scientific epistemology arising from the version of naturalism that dominates Dewey’s later work. I focus on questions such as: Are there peculiar features ...

  • John Mansfield Thomson (1926-99) - Obituary

    Lodge, Martin (1999)
    'The motive of history is at bottom poetic'. Those significant words of Trevelyan were used by John Thomson to introduce a speech acknowledging his receipt of the CANZ Citation for Services to New Zealand Music in February ...

  • John Mansfield Thomson: Selected Writings

    Lodge, Martin (Steele Roberts Ltd, 2003)
    Selected writings compiled by Martin Lodge

  • John Mcsweeney: labourer, miner, farmer, publican

    Hart, Philip (Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)
    John McSweeney was important in the history of Te Aroha mining because he assisted Hone Werahiko in the latter’s initial prospecting of the mountain. During the Te Aroha rush he invested in some claims, and later invested ...

  • John Squirrell: a farmer and storekeeper who mined (briefly) at Te Aroha

    Hart, Philip (Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)
    An English merchant’s clerk, some years after his wife’s death John Squirrell brought his sister and daughters to New Zealand to settle in the new Shaftesbury settlement, upriver from Te Aroha. His letters to English ...