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A link-based visual search engine for Wikipedia
(ACM, 2011)This paper introduces Hopara, a new search engine that aims to make Wikipedia easier to explore. It works on top of the encyclopedia's existing link structure, abstracting away from document content and allowing users to ... -
Linked Democracy 3.0 - Global machine translated legislation and compliance in the age of artificial intelligence
(2017)This paper outlines the efforts made by Global-Regulation, a world legislation search engine, to engage artificial intelligence in two ways: (i) employing machine translation to translate the world’s legislation to English ... -
LinkedIn for Personnel Recruitment and Selection: A New Zealand perspective
(University of Waikato, 2015)This study explored how the professional networking site LinkedIn is being used and perceived by recruitment and selection practitioners within New Zealand organisations. In recent times LinkedIn has seen large increases ... -
Linking multimetric and multivariate approaches to assess the ecological condition of streams
(Springer, 2009)Few attempts have been made to combine multimetric and multivariate analyses for bioassessment despite recognition that an integrated method could yield powerful tools for bioassessment. An approach is described that ... -
Linking proximal ignimbrites and coeval distal tephra deposits to establish a record of voluminous Early Quaternary (2.4–1.9 Ma) volcanism of the Tauranga Volcanic Centre, New Zealand
(Elsevier, 2022)The Tauranga Volcanic Centre (TgaVC) of the North Island, New Zealand, was active from 2.95 to 1.9 Ma. It lies temporally and spatially between the currently active Taupō Volcanic Zone, one of the most productive regions ... -
The links between poverty and the environment in Malawi
(Waikato Management School, 2009-11)Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. Cultivation of subsistence and cash crops is often cited as a major cause of this problem. This paper applies the von ... -
Listen to tipple: Creating a mobile digital library with location-triggered audio books
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)This paper explores the role of audio as a means to access ebooks while the user is at the locations that are referred to in the books. The books are sourced from a digital library and can either be accompanied by pre-recorded ... -
Listening and Learning from Rangatahi Māori: the Voices of Māori Youth
(Academy For Educational Studies (AES), 2017)This paper presents three stories-over-time of the secondary schooling experiences of New Zealand’s rangatahi Māori–or Māori youth. The stories span fifteen years of New Zealand schooling and are told from three perspectives: ... -
Listening at dawn: Trans* storywork for all my relations
(The University of Waikato, 2023)This is a love letter to trans* people: a reminder of our place and legacy of trans*formation. In the form of collaborative and ceremonial research, this PhD with creative practice component is an affirmation of embodied, ... -
Listening to micro-business operators: what are their social and educational needs?
(Centre for Social Change Research, Queensland University of Technology, 2004-10-29)This paper discusses issues that had been revealed during 15 in-depth interviews and a subsequent questionnaire survey of 91 micro-business (five or fewer employees) operators in Hamilton, New Zealand. ‘How to support ... -
Listening to the voices of Year 13 Māori students: A case study in a New Zealand secondary school
(The University of Waikato, 2008)This research focuses on listening to the voices of Year 13 academically successful Māori students in a large, urban, mainstream, co-educational, decile 4, New Zealand secondary school. Traditionally, researchers have ... -
Listening to the Winds of Change: Assessing culturally responsive and relational pedagogy
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis examines how the Rongohia te Hau tools were used to capture a snapshot of the extent that culturally responsive and relational pedagogies were occurring within classrooms in two English-medium secondary schools ... -
Literacy and Thinking Tools for Science Teachers
(Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc, 2007)Literacy and thinking tools, such as Venn diagrams, are construction tools for the mind. Just as carpenters use tools to construct a piece of furniture, literate thinkers learning science can use tools to construct new ... -
Literacy assessment practices: Moving from standardised to ecologically valid assessments in secondary schools
(Multilingual Matters, 2007)SSLI test protocol data revealed the dominance of 'central' literacy measures and 'local' subject-specific measures aligned to institutional requirements, curriculum and national examination content. These measures initiate ... -
“Literacy is not a Māori thing": Debunking the deficit discourse
(2022-03-22)Literacy has been entrenched in Māori society for more than 200 years, meeting needs that range from serving a political purpose to reading purely for pleasure. Literacy is not solely a Western competency, and Māoristriving ... -
Literacy research methodology that is up to the challenge
(Multilingual Matters, 2007)This paper outlines the methodological dimensions of the secondary literacy research evaluation that is the focus of this special issue-the New Zealand-based Secondary Schools' Literacy Initiative (SSLI). We argue that ... -
A literature review exploring a meaning for the term 'curriculum leadership'.
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2000)Research on leadership in education often focuses on school management, educational change or curriculum development. There is little research however, in the area of curriculum leadership. With the introduction of seven ... -
Literature review on motor skill and physical activity in preschool children in New Zealand
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2017)Children’s physical activity levels have decreased significantly over the past 20 - 30 years, coinciding with obesity rates reaching epidemic levels. There is little research into typically developing preschool (birth to ... -
Literature review: Transition from early childhood education to school
(The Ministry of Education, 2010-07)The review’s purpose was to deepen understanding of transition to school by critically analysing research literature. The focus was on what successful transitions to school look like, the factors that play a role in how ... -
The literature study programme trial: Challenging constructions of English in the Seychelles
(2005)This paper provides an outline of the development and trialling during 2004 of the Literature Study Programme (LSP), a literature programme designed for use in the junior secondary classes of Seychelles. The programme was ...
