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Lessons from literature: How to manage staff turnover in hotels?
(Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology, 2013)The aim of this study is to review research and discusses the phenomenon of staff turnover generally, its impact and how it has been managed in the hotel industry specifically? As stated by Step Business Builders (2010) ... -
Lessons from stochastic small-area population projections: the case of Waikato subregions in New Zealand
(Springer Science & Business Media B.V., 2011)Subnational population projections in New Zealand by means of the conventional deterministic cohort-component method have had a tendency to be conservative: underprojecting fast-growing populations and overprojecting ... -
Lessons learned from adapting a remote area health placement from physical to virtual: a COVID-19-driven innovation.
(2021)OBJECTIVES: To investigate the acceptability and the effectiveness of a virtual adaptation of a well-established, mandatory, community-based pre-clinical remote area health placement in which medical students learn about ... -
Let me be understood: A behavioural investigation of effective functional communication skills within a New Zealand special education high school.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Effective functional communication skills are socially significant behaviours that afford individuals the ability to self-advocate and realise their full range of human rights. The aim of this study was to describe ... -
Let the Real Scheherazade Stand: Literary Representations of Middle Eastern Women
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis considers the multiple and complex ways in which Arab and Middle Eastern women have been conceived in literature written by both Western and Arab male and female authors. It covers almost a millennium of ... -
"Let's all hold hands and cross the line together!" Competition and gifted learners
(New Zealand Council of Educational Research, 2015)Competition appears to have become increasingly discouraged in educational settings in New Zealand in recent years, with a push towards ‘protecting’ our children from being constantly compared with others or experiencing ... -
Let's get connected: A new graph theory-based approach and toolbox for understanding braided river morphodynamics
(Wiley, 2018)Our understanding of braided river morphodynamics has improved significantly in recent years, however, there are still large knowledge gaps relating to both long‐term and event‐based change in braided river morphologies. ... -
“Let's go round the circle:” How verbal facilitation can function as a means of direct instruction
(Association for Experiential Education, 2008)In this chapter, the term facilitation refers to the act of conducting a verbal discussion prior to, or after an activity, with the aim of encouraging students to reflect on what will, or has been, learned from experiences. ... -
Letter from the Waikato
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Because 2016 is the 20th anniversary of Te Whāriki and 12 years since the publication of the first 10 books of Kei Tua o te Pae (Ministry of Education, 1996; 2004), we have been reflecting on developments in teaching, ... -
A letter to the editor
(IEEE, 2011)The goal of this letter is to point out that the fastest way to weaken any society and its business model, including the IEEE and its reader-pays stance, is to lose your professional integrity. -
Letter to the Editor Re “Fractional Modeling and SOC Estimation of Lithium-ion Battery”
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018)Presents letters to the editor for this issue of the publication. -
[Letter to the Editor] Sugar-sweetened beverages: still cause for concern in New Zealand and Australia
(2018)We would like to respond to the letter submitted to Public Health Nutrition by Ms Rich of the Food and Grocery Council of New Zealand(1) in response to our article ‘The nutritional content of supermarket beverages: a cross ... -
Letters to the Security Council by Two Prisoners of War, Israel and Palestine (I)
(University of Waikato Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, 2018)Yarom was the name of a student from Israel whom the present author had at the University of Ottawa. His roommate in the distant Canadian capital was a Palestinian, and while the Israeli flag hung on one side of the wall ... -
Letting reality bite
(Indiana University Press, 2008)Describes an experiment in teaching undergraduate epistemology, guided by Peirce’s pragmatic maxim. -
‘Let’s Get Wild’: Sensuous Geographies of Kāwhia Kai and Hokitika Wildfoods Festivals in Aōtearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2015)Food Festivals allow communities to celebrate local food and drink. This original thesis examines the mutual relationship between food festival organisers, festival attendees and festival spaces. Two unique New Zealand ... -
Level 2 Māori medium programmes: What are the perceptions of parents and students on this form of education?
(Springer, 2017)Māori medium education provides a range of options for families wishing to educate their children through the indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand. Level 2 programmes with 51–80% Māori language instruction, can play ... -
Leveling the playing field: Exploiting technology to enhance tertiary learning
(ASCILITE Auckland, 2009)This paper reports on an on-going case study project to explore ICT/ eLearning across several disciplines and with students from diverse backgrounds at tertiary level in New Zealand. The project has been designed to address ... -
Leveraging bagging for evolving data streams
(Springer-Verlag, 2010)Bagging, boosting and Random Forests are classical ensemble methods used to improve the performance of single classifiers. They obtain superior performance by increasing the accuracy and diversity of the single classifiers. ... -
Lexical attraction for text compression
(Computer Science, University of Waikato, 1999-01)New methods of acquiring structural information in text documents may support better compression by identifying an appropriate prediction context for each symbol. The method of “lexical attraction” infers syntactic dependency ... -
Léonce de Saint-Martin: Organist and composer
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This study examines the life and work of the largely forgotten organist Léonce de Saint-Martin and the role he played in the life of Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris. The Study consists of two parts: A) Performance The ...
